Chapter 587: The final game at Arsenal

After this season's Champions League campaign, Arsenal returned to London and immediately prepared for the Christmas game.

In mid-December, the prelude to the Christmas war has officially begun, and Arsenal has been back in London for less than three days before the first game of the Christmas war begins.

In the midweek league, they will face the Magpies from the harbour city, Newcastle United!

On the evening of 13 December, the 16th round of the English Premier League began, and the highlight of this round was Manchester United's double red meeting against Liverpool, which was brought down at the end of the round.

In the face of Newcastle United, Arsene Wenger made a slight rotation, Li Zihan and Ozil, who are not the top cores of the team, were given the opportunity to rest, while Sanchez was the starter.

Arsenal are playing at home and have been ferocious so far this season, scoring five more goals than second-placed Chelsea!! Newcastle United, on the other hand, have had a very poor season, with 15 league games now played, and they are only 13th out of 20 teams

For a Premier League powerhouse like Newcastle United, this result is unconvincing. So the British head coach Alain Pardue is also on the cusp, and the calls for him to leave the class have come and gone.

And if Newcastle loses this game and his rivals win, then the thirteenth place in the league will not be able to hold, and it will drop directly to the quagmire of the relegation zone.

So this match can also be said to be a key battle for Alain Pardu.

And for Arsenal, there was little pressure in this game.

The tone was set from the start of the first half, with goals from Alexis Sanchez and Wilshere making it 2-0 straight into the first half.

At the start of the second half, Wenger simply used two of the three substitutions. Theo Walcott replaces Alexis Sanchez and Chambers replaces Bellerin.

When most of the main players were rested, Arsenal did not slack off, scoring another goal twenty minutes into the second half, which was scored by Theo Walcott's long-rested tiger.

HelloKitty is now a tiger

In the 78th minute, Newcastle United's Senegalese striker Papis Cisse scored a goal for his side. However, before the magpie could raise his eyebrows, he was shot down by Arsenal.

Less than two minutes after Cisse's goal, Arsenal extended the score to four to one, with French striker Olivier Giroud answering Cazorla's pass and slotting home straight into the net!

The final result of this game was 4-1, with Arsenal unbeaten and Newcastle United continuing to lose points.

However, Newcastle United's rivals did not win either, with Queens Park Rangers losing 3-1 to their rivals Toffee Everton. Hull City lost to Chelsea, Crystal Palace drew and Sunderland and West Ham United also drew hand

Fans once again lamented that Alain Pardu's life was really hard, and he was not fired this time. And Newcastle United has been performing poorly since the third round this season, so the rumors that Alain Pardo was fired have been fired for half a season, but this guy is still in charge of the Magpie's handsome seal, which can be said to be extremely hard, so the nickname of "Life Maniac" has spread far and wide.

The biggest attraction of this round is of course not the "life maniac" Alan Pardue and his Magpies Newcastle United, but the famous double red club of the Premier League!

It was the first double red match in the Premier League this season, with Manchester United hosting Liverpool.

However, the result of the double red match once again surprised the fans, thanks to goals from Juan Mata, Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie, the Red Devils beat Liverpool 3-0 at Old Trafford.

Originally, Manchester United was still in the rebuilding period this season, and although Liverpool was not as strong as last season, the two sides should be on par in terms of the current situation and the team's current ranking, but I didn't expect the Reds to be beaten without a fight!

Alain Pardu's position was held for the time being, but Rodgers' position was once again in jeopardy. Failed to qualify for the Champions League group stage, losing to arch-rivals Manchester United and dropping from fifth to seventh in the league table

By all indications, Rodgers' position is gone. However, the Liverpool club hierarchy stood up for Rodgers at this time

Surprisingly, many Premier League managers have also supported Rodgers, believing that Brenders should not leave the class, Liverpool may not be better off if he changes the manager, or Rodgers, who knows the roots, is more suitable for Liverpool's current situation.

And Van Gaal, who just led the Red Devils to Manchester United to defeat Liverpool, and Van Gaal, who is also Rodgers's mentor, also stood up to support his apprentice Rodgers

The support of the Premier League manager is interpreted by the Premier League's "Daily Black", the famous Premier League's blackest and most joyful program, considering Liverpool's achievements brought out by Rodgers, the Premier League managers have said that Rodgers should be retained, so that there will be less competition from Liverpool in the Champions League seats in the top four

The "Premier League Black of the Day" is not unreasonable, because the manager who supports Brendan Rodgers has teams that are in the top six in the league

The time came to mid-to-late December, and the Chinese team originally wanted Li Zihan to return to the national team for training in advance in order to compete in the Asian Cup. This will help the Chinese team to better prepare for the game, but Arsenal FC does not agree to release him, because this is the time when the Premier League is in full swing, and Arsenal is indispensable to Li Zihan.

Finally, after negotiations between the national team and the club, it was confirmed that Li Zihan would return to play for the national team after the 17th round of the Premier League. It was the morning of December 22, GMT, and Li Zihan was departing from the ferry Heathrow Airport.

At the same time, Li Zihan will not participate in the Chinese team's national team training and friendly matches in mid-to-late December, Li Zihan will miss the Chinese team's two games against Kyrgyzstan and Palestine, and the time of these two games is during the Christmas game of the English Premier League, in order to reduce the possibility of Li Zihan's injury, so the two teams reached a tacit understanding.

December 21 is the last club game of the year, after which Li Zihan will travel to the national team for the Asian Cup, and his next return will not be until late January and early February next year.

The Africa Cup of Nations is a major national tournament that many teams hate, because many of the African internationals in the club squad have to fly to Africa for almost a month in mid-January and the end of February to play for the national team, which has a very big impact on the team.

The Africa Cup of Nations has a big impact on Manchester City and some teams in the middle and lower tiers, but it has little impact on Arsenal, because there is only one central defender Nkouru in the Arsenal squad.

But Arsenal is more weak in the Asian Cup, although there is only one player in Arsenal's main squad to participate in the Asian Cup, but this player is the absolute core Li Zihan.

Whether Arsenal are reluctant or not, they will all face the pain of temporarily losing Li Zihan.

On December 21, at 2pm GMT, Arsenal will play the seventeenth round of league matches. And Arsenal's game has also become the focus of this round, first of all, this is Li Zihan's last game for Arsenal this year, and the next time I see Li Zihan, I will have to wait for a month. The second is that Arsenal's opponent this time is Liverpool, who have just finished the double red meeting, and this game ushered in the double red meeting

Brendan Rodgers' side sit at Anfield and suffered a defeat at Old Trafford last time out, and Brendan Rodgers is going to fight hard!

Naturally, the starting line-up he gave was not reserved, the goalkeeper was the main goalkeeper after Reina's departure, the Belgian Mignolet, and the center-back combination was Slovak defender Scott's bald Skrtel, who transferred from the Saints Southampton this season. The wing-backs were Spanish full-back Moreno and England full-back Glenn Johnson.

At the back, of course, the captain of the team, Steven Gerrard, started alongside his future successor Jordan Henderson.

In attack, Brendan Rodgers offered a four-attacking midfield configuration, Raheem Sterling, Lallana, Philippe Coutinho and Serbian striker Markovic.

It's a typical strikerless formation, with Suarez left and Sturridge also plagued by injuries, so Liverpool have few reliable centre-forwards to use this season. Rodgers had given the little boy Balotelli a lot of opportunities early in the season, but when the other side squandered them, Rodgers simply let him sit on the bench

As for Ricky Lambert, it's okay to be a substitute, but it's very difficult to be a mainstay.

So this lineup is almost the strongest lineup that Rodgers can come up with, and it is worth mentioning that this lineup lost 3-0 to the bitter rival Manchester United in the last round of the double red meeting.

Wenger attaches great importance to this game, and naturally he is also the main force to face it. The goalkeeper is Ospina and the centre-back pairs are Medsat and Hevedes. Hwedes didn't suffer a serious injury against Juventus, so after a few days of rest, he was fine.

The wing-backs are naturally Arsenal Academy youngsters Gibbs and Bellerin, with Lars Bender as a full-time defensive midfielder at the back, Pogba connecting the whole field, and German genius midfielder Mesut Ozil in the middle.

Above the two wingers is Li Zihan and Sanchez, the other thigh equipped with Li Zihan, and the pair has been ridiculed as Arsenal's left and right thighs

Because many of Arsenal's games are won by the performance of these two people, and these two are also interesting to be a left and a right

Harry Kane sat on the bench above the center forward, and French center Olivier Giroud started!