Chapter 598: Welcome to "Hell"!

The final score was set at 5-1 before Christian Eriksen set up Soldado for Tottenham's face-saving goal in the end.

Arsenal ended the first north London derby of the season with a big win at their home stadium, while Tottenham struggled.

Pochettino is in crisis, Tottenham's poor results this season, and then a big defeat against a sworn enemy, leaving him with few opportunities, and Tottenham can sack Pochettino if they were able to sack Villas-Boas.

After bidding farewell to the north London derby with Tottenham, Arsenal will face another Champions League test in midweek.

This round of Champions League opponents is the Turkish Super League giants Galasattare, referred to as "local tyrants"!

Turktelem Stadium is a professional football stadium located in the heart of Istanbul, Turkey, which is the home of Galasataray and can accommodate around 25,000 spectators.

Although the stadium does not have a large fan capacity for a European club, his popularity is very famous throughout Europe.

The "Devil's Home Field" is simply tailor-made for them this time, and there are countless European giants who have lost their halberds here.

Turkish fans are adept at using lights, smoke, torches, drums, flags, less civilized slogans, giant posters to set the mood and put a lot of mental pressure on the visiting players.

And Galasataré fans call this stadium "Hell", which translates to "hell", and in previous years this stadium was indeed the hell of many teams!

And today, the Arsenal players will play in such a stadium, which is also the first time that the new Gunners led by Li Zihan will face the test of the real "devil's home"!

Before the game, Arsene Wenger gave Arsenal a starting XI for this away game against Galassatare!

Li Zihan, Sanchez, Ozil and others all came on, the only difference is that Arsenal did not set up three very good interceptors in the midfield, only Pogba and Ramsey played, and Lars Bender was given the opportunity to rest and sit on the bench.

This is not to say that Lars Bender is not good, on the contrary, it is precisely because Wenger values the German midfielder that he cares more about his physical condition.

Although Pogba and Ramsey both have strong midfield interception and tackling skills, they are not full-time defensive midfielders after all, and the two have more thoughts on attack in addition to defense. Against some particularly attacking fronts, Arsenal will have to come on with Lars Bender.

It is worth mentioning that it was Colombian goalkeeper Ospina who continued to play in goal, not Poland international Szczesny, while it was Bellerin who played at right wing-back.

It seems that Szczesny and Chambers are ready to try to regain their place in the main line.

The centre-backs are paired with a combination of Hevedes and Koscielny, and Arsenal's four centre-backs have often played in different combinations this season, which is to train the combination between the four centre-backs.

On the Turkish side, big generals such as Muslera, Melo, Sneijder, and Burak Yilmaz also appeared.

Li Zihan led his teammates out of the players' tunnel, and he had just come out when he heard boos and some not-so-friendly scolding.

And in the stands directly opposite them, there are many slogans satirizing Arsenal and Li Zihan himself, and the content is unsightly.

Among them is Mesut Ozil, who, although of Turkish descent and Turkish citizenship, is destined to be scolded by the Turks after he chose to play for the German team.

"It seems that we are not popular," Li Zihan said with a smile to the players behind him.

"Hey, Captain, don't worry. They are not welcome to anyone but their own players! Ramsey said.

Galasatare's captain Inan glanced at Li Zihan and didn't speak.

After Li Zihan walked out, he saw a sign in a very eye-catching stand, which read: "Welcome to 'Hell'!" ”

Li Zihan muttered to himself with some puzzlement: "Turkish fans are still very smart, and they don't write in Turkish, otherwise many players don't know the meaning of these slogans, so they are naturally not afraid of this home stadium, does this indirectly improve the English level of Turks?!" ”

Galasatare Captain Inan: ""

"Anyway, am I a bit of a Jizo King Bodhisattva? Well, hell is not empty for a day, and this Bodhisattva will not become a Buddha for a day! I'm here to transcend evil spirits."

Inan didn't know who Jizo King Bodhisattva was, and he didn't understand the meaning of transcendence. But he could feel that what this kid said must not be a good thing, and the other party had a kind of unexplained temperament.

Inan tilted his head, thought about it, and finally thought about it.

That's a kind of under-beaten temperament!!

The players of both sides were led by the referee to the vicinity of the center circle, and after playing the Champions League theme song and going through the necessary ceremonies, the players of both sides began to prepare for the game, and Li Zihan also exchanged team flags with captain Inan as a souvenir.

Before guessing the coin in the middle circle, the referee specially greeted Inan, telling him to be optimistic about his players not to cause trouble, and by the way, to stop the fans' out-of-the-ordinary reactions.

You can see how terrifying Istanbul's stadiums are!

The referee turned around and greeted Li Zihan, and he signaled Li Zihan to control his players and not to make unnecessary provocations to cause extraneous branches!

In the end, the match between the two sides began after the referee's whistle.

This time Arsenal didn't score in the opening minute, but were called out in the first minute.

Because there were some Galassatare fans who were throwing smoke into the stadium to burn. The referee had to temporarily suspend the game one minute into the game.

In the end, the riot police were dispatched, but instead of suppressing the Galasatare fans at home, they surrounded the Arsenal fans who had not come to the stadium - the riot police were clearly worried that Arsenal fans were being hurt by the home fans, after all, the number of people who die every year in Turkey because of fan violence is not small.

Eventually, the stadium caretaker came out to clean the field, and then the club's staff came up to communicate with the fans.

Li Zihan pouted: "I've seen the fans irrational and impulsive, but I've never seen such irrational, people do this after losing, and they did it at the beginning of the game." ”

Inan beside him blushed with shame.

Li Zihan said again: "UEFA should come out. Taiwan's policy, if you encounter such a fan incident in the future, it will directly determine that the team supported by the fans loses, and the score is still 3-0. That should make the fans more sensible, and the fines and bans on the home fans will be weakened. ”

Inami: ""

"Well, last night, these fans also ran outside our hotel to hold various parties and set off firecrackers, I don't understand, how can there be so many tourists in such a poor city every year."

Inami: ""

Five minutes later, the game resumed.

It was Arsenal who kicked off first.

Arsenal, who were in possession of the ball first, began to attack tentatively, after all, they were not familiar with Galasattaray, unlike Tottenham and Chelsea, who knew both sides well.

Galasatare is also more conservative and does not press the attack aggressively just because he is playing at home.

For Arsenal's terrifying attacking line, they are still very jealous.

Arsenal's attack is still the same, Harry Kane is in front of the opposition to suppress the opposing central defender, creating space and opportunities for the two attacking scorers Li Zihan and Sanchez in the back. Mesut Ozil, on the other hand, was in charge of organising in midfield, with Paul Pogba and Aaron Ramsey intercepting the defence in midfield and linking the attacking line between the back and front, and the two also took turns to attack.

Of course, if the opportunity is good, the two will also rush up to attack together!

The game between the two sides was relatively boring, and at this time, the director was also very user-friendly, and often gave the broadcast footage to the Turkish fans in the audience.

"Well, I have to admit it. Galassataré's fan performances are much better than the current matches on the pitch of both teams," Sky Sports commentator Herhouse couldn't help but complain.

"It's not scientific, it's not in line with Arsenal's principle of bullying weak teams, and it's not in line with Galassataré's style of playing at home," Zhan Jun also said.

Galasataré is definitely not a weak team, but they are really just average compared to the current Arsenal team and the top European giants that Arsenal often face, such as Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.

The first half of the final 45 minutes ended with a 0-0 draw.

As the players came off the pitch in midfield, Galassatare fans booed and cursed from the stands, and it is not known whether they booed Arsenal or their own team to show their dissatisfaction with the team's first-half performance.

Li Zihan smiled and picked up a bottle of mineral water from the ground and handed it to the court staff near the player's tunnel, he knew that at least the owner of this bottle of mineral water didn't like him.

Because this bottle of mineral water came for him, the fan wanted to attack Li Zihan with this bottle of water, but the other party did not succeed and was dodged by the witty Li Zihan.

"Someone dropped a bottle of water, it hasn't been opened yet, it's a pity that it's wasted, please return this bottle of water to his owner, thank you!" Li Zihan smiled and handed the water to the staff, and then entered the players' tunnel with his teammates.

Those in green vests: ""

The other party really can't figure out this strange thing

And this scene was once again recorded by the camera on the sidelines, many years later, when people recalled the young famous, high-spirited, and top of football Knight, this photo was put down with many wonderful photos of Li Zihan, these photos gradually formed a great legendary story!