Volume 1 Chapter 501 The Great Gunman

For many, many years, whenever it came to the north London derby, it was always the Tottenham Hotspur fans who were spurring Arsenal with that sour rhetoric because they had the best stars, the best stadiums, the best training grounds, and because they were still pushing for the league title.

But since Ye Qiu came to the team, in the last two seasons, the situation is quietly reversing.

Interestingly, these two seasons also happened to be the two seasons when Arsenal's financial situation was at its lowest, and the team almost had a transfer strategy that only went in and out, so that Arsenal were always left behind by the leaders early in each season.

It's as if they have fallen to fifth place in the league early this season, and that's also given Arsenal's habit over the years that results before the winter break are usually much better than after the winter break.

So a lot of times in the past, Arsenal were either ahead of the winter break or at the top of the pack, but now they are down to fifth, which is definitely a report card that makes all Arsenal fans panic.

Looking at the current Arsenal squad, it can almost be described as miserable.

After sending away stars such as Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Gilberto Silva, and Hleb, Arsenal's current squad is either veterans or youngsters, with almost no core.

Just like the starting line-up for this game, goalkeeper Almunia, Klich, Gallas, Silvestre and Sagna in the back, Nasri, Denilson, Arteta and Theo Walcott in midfield, Adebayor and Bendtner in front, there are almost no popular stars other than Adebayor.

Gallas and Silvestre are both Premier League greats, but sadly, they are both in the twilight of their careers.

Tottenham, on the other hand, look strong.

The goalkeeper is the Czech goalkeeper, Ppetter Cech, who is known as the Premier League No. 1, the back line is Arbeloa, Kompany, Thiago Silva and Alves, the midfield is still the combination of David Silva, Yaya Toure and Cesc Fabregas, and the front trident is Gareth Bale, Van Persie and Messi.

Ribery has returned to participate in the team's joint training, but Ye Qiu has not yet arranged for him to be in the squad for the game, otherwise, Tottenham Hotspur's squad will be even more star-studded.

Long before this game started, almost all professionals were not optimistic about Arsenal, in addition to Tottenham Hotspur's strength advantage, there is also a very important reason that Arsenal's current situation is not ideal.

It has become a consensus that the team's midfield lacks a midfielder like Flamini, and Wenger has recently trusted young players such as Denilson and Diaby, and Alexander's Song is not yet in the main force, but no matter who it is, it is obvious that it will not be able to fill the vacancy of Flamini.

The imbalance in the midfield exposed the problems of the backline, especially the left-back Klich, who almost became the object of dissatisfaction of many players in the team, because he was always the target of the opponent's attack in this position.

In fact, Arsenal did think about bringing in Yaya Toure before, especially before Tottenham Hotspur played the first game of the Champions League, when Wenger wanted to take the Ivorians for about 10 million to 15 million, but the offer was directly rejected by Ye Qiu.

And Arsenal's pursuit was heated again after Ye Qiu and Yaya 'Toure challenged Marseille away from home, and Ye Qiu threatened to sell Yaya 'Toure's news after the news broke the news, and Arsenal was also secretly fueling the flames, hoping to get the Ivorian at a more affordable price.

But Ye Qiu once again refused to release Yaya' Toure, and the player himself did not consider a transfer, so in this rumor, Arsenal hardly gained anything, especially when Yaya' Toure has been more and more stable in recent times, everyone knows that the possibility of Tottenham Hotspur releasing him is very small.

This is why Wenger said before that if the price is 15 million euros, he will consider bringing in, but this is obviously impossible, and he also gave up the idea of getting Yaya Toure and went to other players.

However, the discontent within the Arsenal squad has reached a tipping point, with a number of players including Bam Adebayo, including captain Gallas, clearly unhappy with Arsenal's lack of ambition, and Bam Adebayo even blasted the team after the team's seventh-round draw away at Sunderland, believing that this is definitely not a team that can win the title.

This bombardment incident caused a lot of media hype at the time, but it gradually subsided with Arsenal's two consecutive wins, but everyone knows that Arsenal's dressing room is no longer monolithic.

In terms of days, Tottenham Hotspur's current momentum is almost invincible, although Arsenal has won two in a row, they have played very hard; In terms of geographical advantage, Arsenal is at home, and it is indeed a geographical advantage, but in the case of absolute disadvantage in terms of time and people, can it really turn the situation around by relying on geography alone?

Obviously, everyone is not hopeful, and even Jonathan Wilson, a very famous tactical column writer in England, analyzed in his column before the game, Tottenham Hotspur only needs to seize two points to hit Arsenal, and the Gunners have almost no ability to resist, that is, the front of the penalty area.

The reason is very simple, Arteta is good at organising and passing, Denilson has contributed a lot in attack, but he is not the material for dirty work, and Alexander's Song does not have the strength to play the main force for the time being, and his skills are also a problem, a little rough, and a little slow to turn.

In Jonathan Wilson's words, Tottenham Hotspur doesn't need to think about anything else, they press directly at the beginning, beat Arsenal fat, press and play directly, and make a fuss around the front of the big penalty area.

Just imagine, even Jonathan Wilson knows about the Dao, Ye Qiu will not know about the Dao?

As soon as the game began, Tottenham Hotspur launched a rush against the guest, and now this Arsenal team can't catch up with Tottenham Hotspur, so Tottenham Hotspur's attack quickly suppressed Arsenal.

In the thirteenth minute of the game, Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Yaya Toure passed, Gareth Bale was still more than 30 meters away from the goal, and suddenly fired a powerful volley, which knocked directly on Almunia's goal, the Spanish goalkeeper's position was too high, and Arsenal's midfield was also a little big.

In fact, with the foot strength of today's professional players and the ever-improving speed of the ball, the effective shooting distance has been extended to an area of 30 meters, or even 30 meters away, as long as the goalkeeper is not in good position, there are countless players who can shoot from 30 meters away, not to mention explosive players such as Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo.

This wonderful kick completely shattered the illusions of 60,000 Arsenal fans in the stands, and it used the bloody goal to tell and remind Arsenal fans that at least in the eyes of Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal are no longer on their minds at the moment, because Tottenham Hotspur are aiming for the Premier League title and the Champions League, not the top four

If it was just this goal, maybe no one would notice the problem, but soon, in the 27th minute, Cesc Fabregas split the ball to the right side, Messi cut horizontally from the right side, and hit a curling ball on the right side of the arc of the penalty area, which hung in the upper left corner of the goal, 2:0! It's a big penalty area again, and it's a back position

All the Arsenal players are aware of the problem, and they all know that they can't continue to play like this, otherwise they will suffer a big loss, especially in recent times, Tottenham Hotspur, which has such a hard foot, if it continues like this, it may become the second Bayern Munich

Arsene Wenger made immediate adjustments, but could not turn the situation around, and by the 43rd minute of the first half, Gareth Bale tried to force a breakthrough through Sania and passed back to David Silva, the Spaniard shook off his defender Arteta and went straight into the box, Van Persie easily received the ball and pushed it into the box, 3-0

There was hardly the slightest bit of fancy, no mercy, no sympathy, just one goal after another that made all Gunners fans realise how far away they are from the Premier League's top teams

Arsene Wenger made a change in the second half, replacing Bendtner with Alexander Song and strengthening the midfield defence, especially in the midfield position, but Tottenham Hotspur continued to attack.

In the 69th minute, Klich made a mistake in clearing the siege and passed the ball directly to Messi's feet, and the Argentine did not hesitate at all, and directly dribbled the ball into the penalty area, shook Almunia and pushed the goal, 4:0

In the 79th minute, Yaya Toure suddenly inserted a long shot, the ball hit the crossbar, bounced back into the penalty area, Van Persie's header was ferried, Messi deftly cushioned in front of the goal, broke through Arsenal's goal again, and scored a hat-trick, 5:0

Consecutive goals, consecutive goals, especially Messi's hat-trick, stunned all the Gunners fans, and made the original few Tottenham Hotspur fans become the absolute protagonists in the stands

Messi, who scored a hat-trick, rushed out of the stadium excitedly and rushed to the stands where the Tottenham Hotspur fans were, and there were Tottenham Hotspur players rushing up along the way, hugging Messi and celebrating, and everyone was satisfied that the team could slaughter Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, and they were excited and excited.

Although in the final moments of the game, Arsenal managed Mikel Arteta's pass and Bam Adebayor scored a face-saving goal past Petr Cech, but they could not prevent Tottenham from winning a big win at the Emirates Stadium.

The 5:11 score made almost all the Gunners fans present angry and dissatisfied, and many of them even booed the home team players, feeling that it was an absolute humiliation to play such a score at the Emirates Stadium.

The protests and boos of the fans were overwhelming, and the players and fans of Tottenham Hotspur left the Emirates Stadium with a satisfactory result, and countless Tottenham Hotspur fans came to the Emirates Stadium from the north of Tottenham to welcome the team back in triumph, which caused extreme dissatisfaction among Arsenal fans.

There was even a clash between fans outside the Emirates Stadium, but fortunately the police were prepared and quickly separated the fans, but two fans were still injured in the clashes.

And after the game, Arsene Wenger said in his press conference that it was a disaster, a disaster for everyone at Arsenal.

However, Ye Qiu said that he had a premonition of victory in this game, and he firmly believed before the game that the team would be able to win at the Emirates Stadium, but he also felt that such a big victory was indeed a bit unexpected.

However, Tottenham Hotspur's big win did not change the current Premier League standings, Liverpool also beat Portsmouth 1-0 in this round to continue to lead the Premier League standings, while Tottenham Hotspur is second because of one less round.

But to be able to beat the sworn enemy 5:1, Tottenham Hotspur's recent crazy goal momentum still surprised everyone, especially in the 4:0 victory over Bayern Munich, 5:1 victory over Arsenal, the opponent's strength is not bad, Tottenham Hotspur played such a crazy attack, so that all fans feel that this team still has a lot to do this season.

It seems that it is not just fans who think Tottenham Hotspur has a lot to offer, even the major awards of the year in European football support this view, with Tottenham Hotspur being the big winner in the annual European Golden Boy award for the Italian newspaper Torino Sport.

This is a selection that began in 2003, and the players who have been selected for the European Golden Boy Award include players such as Van der Vaart, Wayne Rooney, Franck Ribery, Lionel Messi, Cesc Fabregas and Sergio Aguero, and this year's award has once again attracted attention.

The Premier League has the largest number of players, Tottenham Hotspur has contributed four players such as Ramsey, Gareth Bale, Marcelo, Andy Carroll, and Arsenal has three players such as Walcott, Bendtner and Bella, plus young players from Premier League teams such as Manchester United and Chelsea, bringing the total number of players in the Premier League to eleven.

Of all the candidates, Tottenham Hotspur's Gareth Bale, who replaced Franck Ribery this season, was the most vocal, even ahead of AC Milan's Pato and Inter Milan's Balotelli, and Ajax winger Angel Di Maria, who helped Argentina win the Olympic title.

Especially with Tottenham Hotspur's outstanding performance in recent times, Gareth Bale has also kept scoring goals, and his performance is also quite standard, although many professionals still feel that his style of play is too tough, lacks variety, and is a bit too much pursuit of power and explosiveness, but after all, he is still quite young and has a lot of potential.

Ramsey is known as the new Fabregas, the Welshman has delicate skills, passing and organisational skills, and the reason why he and Andy Carroll are shortlisted is because of their outstanding performance in the cup, especially Andy Carroll, the outside world has begun to put pressure on Ye Qiu when the England center forward will play the main team.

In the eyes of many media and English fans, the combination of Andy Carroll and Rooney will be the hope of England's strikers in the next decade, and Andy Carroll's performance in the cup is also amazing, especially the brace against Newcastle, but he can only serve as a substitute in the league, and his performance is relatively average.

Marcelo played left-back, after being sculpted by Ajax, adapted to the technical and tactical style of European football, and after coming to Tottenham Hotspur, he has always been positioned in the left-back position, and has improved greatly, integrating into the tactical system of Tottenham Hotspur, this season after leaving Vargas, he competed with Arbeloa for the position of main left-back, and performed well.

In addition to the European Golden Boy Award, French football has also announced a 30-man shortlist for the European Ballon d'Or, Tottenham Hotspur won the Champions League last year, especially after creating the unprecedented Luzhniki miracle, and many players from the team have been shortlisted for this list.

Among them, Franck Ribery, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka and Messi are the club's most promising players to win this award, among which Ribery should have deserved it if he had not been injured in the Champions League final and missed most of the games in the second half of the year, but the Frenchman who has not yet returned to the field may find it difficult to win this award.

Cristiano Ronaldo's performance last season was indeed very eye-catching, he somewhat deducted points in the final, but also scored, but the performance in the second half of the year was much worse than the first half, but it was Tottenham Hotspur's Messi, in the second half of the year after Ribery's absence, he filled the gap left by Ribery very well, and supported the banner of Tottenham Hotspur's offensive football.

Kaka's performance in the past year is really no match for these three players, and he has not been able to get results, but he is the last European Ballon d'Or winner, so many people believe that Kaka should also be one of the favorites.

There are also several favourites for Spain's Xavi and Iker Casillas, who have been the biggest contributors to Spain's European Championship this summer and are seen as the most likely to cause an upset, especially as Spain's captain, who many feel has a chance to win the award as captain of the tournament-winning team as Cannavaro did.

The date for the announcement of the European Ballon d'Or has not yet arrived, but the French football magazine has begun to publicize and promote it, and the list of candidates for the World Footballer of the Year has also been announced, which is basically the same as the list of candidates announced by the French football magazine.

In the past two years, Tottenham Hotspur has played offensive football, attracting the attention of countless fans, coupled with the club's focus on promotion and publicity, and the media attention is also quite high, which has laid a solid foundation for the player to be included in this list, and Tottenham Hotspur fans are also full of expectations and excitement for the club to produce the first world footballer or European footballer in history.

It was in this anticipation and excitement that Tottenham Hotspur welcomed the league leader, Liverpool