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Chapter 373 North London Derby

For London, a city where four or five teams participate in the Premier League every year, the city derby is a difficult place to define. However, England, as the inventor of modern football, will build a team because The surrounding environment, or the opposition of the fans, or even an unexpected misunderstanding caused a century of hostility.

The more famous rivals in the entire London area are Arsenal Club and Tottenham Hotspur Club in North London.

In fact, Arsenal was not located in North London when it was first established, but became a neighbor with Fulham Club, but obviously, Arsenal, backed by Conservative MP Henry Norris at the time, was not a good neighbor. After Arsenal's request to merge the clubs, Arsenal, who were unfortunately relegated at the time, had to leave Woolwich on the south bank of the Thames. They moved to Highbury and became neighbors with Tottenham Hotspur.

The two teams got along well at first, but after the end of the First World War, the situation changed. The then Arsenal chairman Norris used his friendship with the chairman of the English Football League to let Todt, who should not have been relegated, Nam Hotspur were relegated to the second division, while Arsenal, which was No.5 in their own league at the time, was promoted to the first division and stayed in the first division since then without being relegated. It is conceivable that the fans of Tottenham Hotspur at that time And how angry management will be.Since then, the two North London teams have left behind hatred. The two sides disagree with each other and hope to overwhelm each other and become the leader of North London. But it is obvious that Arsenal are doing better now.

The Arsenal team, who came back from Sweden, was preparing for the North London Derby before they had time to rest. Arsenal, who entered the second stage of the Champions League group stage, must now win the next league game, or they will be pulled away by Manchester United.

Liu Han has no idea about the Derby. Before coming to London, he hadn’t paid much attention to football, so he didn’t understand some football vocabulary at all. As for the relationship between the Lakers and the Clippers in Los Angeles, it was more like a big brother and a little brother. Relationship, not a derby at all.

Although Liu Han doesn't quite understand the meaning of the derby, he can see the importance of the next game from the dignified eyes of the old players.

"Kill the traitor" - this is the slogan that Liu Han has seen the most around the training base since he was preparing for the battle these days. Liu Han is a little puzzled by this rather murderous slogan.

"Do you know who the manager was before the boss came here? It's George Graham, the current coach of Tottenham Hotspur. Seriously, the old man is still very good at defense. Our defense is still the same. The lineup he left behind was used." After hearing Bergkamp's explanation, Liu Han understood the significance of the derby.

"So, this is the Derby?"

"Yes, this is the derby. You have to protect yourself and humiliate your opponent as much as possible. When you score in such a game, Arsenal fans will really accept you." Bergkamp now But the darling in the eyes of Arsenal fans.

When Liu Han was still wondering about the Derby, in fact George Graham was also having a headache for Liu Han. As one of the better coaches in the history of Arsenal, George Graham chose to play at an advanced age. We don't know the reason for taking over Tottenham Hotspur, but after George took over Tottenham, his life was still harassed by Arsenal's extreme fans.

As soon as Liu Han returned to the Arsenal team, he showed an amazing state, which made George Graham very headache. He didn't want to be humiliated by this Easterner in such a derby match, but Graham saw Wenger Still using the defensive lineup he left behind, Graham immediately didn't worry about the team's offense because he was well aware of the flaws in this defensive lineup.

It seems that they can only attack the opponent, Graham thought so.

On November 11th, Arsenal will start the No.8 round of the Premier League. Their opponent is North London rival Tottenham Hotspur. As the visiting team, Arsenal will challenge Tottenham at White Hart Lane.

In this game, Wenger uncharacteristically put up a 442 lineup. The customary 433 lineup was not adopted today. On the one hand, Henry sprained his left foot and needed to rest for two weeks. On the other hand, Wenger was worried that the Derby would cause players to be injured. , Now the team has only five forward players, and one has already been injured. If someone is injured, the regular lineup will not be able to be placed.

However, when Wenger was still considering whether to find some suitable substitutes for the team during the winter trading period after the start of the game, Tottenham took advantage of Arsenal's defensive mistakes and scored the first goal.

Just 7 minutes into the game, the Arsenal team, which was still testing the opponent's strength in this game, was suddenly attacked by the Tottenham team.

Tottenham midfielder Sherwood suddenly passed an extremely fast and angled ground ball near the center circle. Adams turned a little slower from the wing, and was seized by Tottenham winger Iverson. The offside was successful, and then cut inside to hit the far corner. Seaman, who had returned from injury, reacted a little slower, and Tottenham first broke through the goal.

First of all, losing the goal did not make Wenger too excited, but the Tottenham fans on the sidelines were very excited. After all, the opponent is now a strong team in the Premier League, and Tottenham was still on the verge of relegation in the first two seasons.

After a goal was scored, Arsenal started to attack. Midfielders Petit and Overmars both attacked each other repeatedly, but Tottenham's defense under Graham's training was quite good, which gave Arsenal a lot. big pressure.

Surrounded by two or three Tottenham players, Liu Han had no chance to catch the ball at all. He wanted to open up space on the side, but he lacked suitable assault personnel.

Just after Arsenal gradually entered the state, Tottenham launched a blitz again.

It was Sherwood again. This time, he first distributed the ball to the wide players, then received a pass from his teammate in the middle, and volleyed the ball without stopping. Seaman was blocked by the defender, and Sherwood added The shot hit Vieira and hit the sideline. Seaman could only look at the ball and sigh. Less than 25 minutes into the game, Tottenham took a two-goal lead, and Arsenal began to get a little impatient.

Wenger finally couldn't sit still on the sidelines. If he didn't realize the first goal, then after the second goal was scored, Wenger clearly discovered the loopholes in his defense. Adams' turning speed It's too slow, his body has already matched the reaction speed of many thoughts.

At this time, Liu Han looked at the huge sign erected by Tottenham fans on the sidelines, because there was a yellow monkey painted on the sign, and the slogan next to it was "yellow monkey, come and eat big bananas". It was the first time for Han to see such blatant racial discrimination in England, but the only thing he wanted to do now was to completely shut up those scumbags above.

(End of this chapter)