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Chapter 383 The "Christmas War" of the Premier League

For the Christian players who play in the Premier League, they do not have a Christmas holiday. While players in several other major leagues have used the winter break to relax their tense muscles in warm tourist destinations, the Premier League players are in a bad mood in England. Struggling in the bleak winter weather.

The rainy weather, the icy rain, and the terrible field filled with mud because of the rain, people who have lived here all their lives may be used to this kind of weather and atmosphere, but for many new players here It's hard to get used to.

However, Liu Han is an exception. Although Arsenal's training ground is not worthy of his status at the top of the league table, and the temperature does not exceed ten degrees, making the rain look extraordinarily cold, but this cannot stop Liu Han from insisting on his training. Yes, even with the rainy winter weather in late December, Arsenal's training is still going on. However, for the English team, this is normal, and many British players who have worked hard from the lower leagues You know, at least here they can take a hot shower after training, when many of them dragged their muddy bodies home before taking a shower.

Ribery, who started the game in the FA Cup and performed well, did not return to the youth team this time, but followed the training with the first team. This young man with gradually resolute character finally won Wenger's approval. Maybe he played in the game His confrontation ability is not that good, but he can give full play to his advantages, and his super fast speed can be regarded as an excellent player even in the first team.

Ribery, who came to the first team, was quickly accepted by other players with the help of Liu Han, and Liu Han also asked Ribery to follow Bergkamp to learn his training methods.

When Ribery was in Lille, he was trained by French coaches. French coaches have high requirements on the technical level of players, so many French players are very good at their feet, and their mastery of some skills is better than that of players from other countries. , but it is precisely because of this that French players are always more sticky to the ball, and they are more hesitant in handling the ball.Franck Ribery, who is now in England, accepts English-style simplification techniques in the first team, which will be very helpful for his future development. The fierce physical confrontation and ultra-fast offensive and defensive transition speed in English games require players to deal with them as quickly as possible. A good shot requires the player's movements to be the most concise. Bergkamp's training method of focusing on basic skills is worth learning from Ribery.

On December 12, Arsenal continued their lead in the standings after a difficult home victory over the "Crazy Gang" Wimbledon, but Manchester United also played well this season. Their lineup won the "Triple Crown" last season. "After that, it officially reached its peak. Although it lost a game to Arsenal at the beginning of the season, it has been clinging to the score since then, and even surpassed Arsenal to the top of the list. With nine consecutive victories on all fronts, such an Arsenal is unstoppable.

Arsenal's next game is an away game against Coventry, which will be held the day after Christmas, but Wenger did not plan to send all the main players in this game, which is why he kept Ribery One of the reasons is that Arsenal paid more attention to the game against Leeds United the day after the game. Although Wenger was extremely disgusted with the FA's arrangement, he still had to face it. Pay more attention to the game against Leeds United. After all, Coventry is a team like an elevator, and Leeds United is known as the "Youth Guard". Many teams covet some young talents in Leeds United. .

Liu Han did not appear in the squad for the game against Coventry. Wenger replaced most of the team's substitute lineup in this game, and Ribery started as a left midfielder.

Wenger originally planned to further temper the team's lineup in this game, and at the same time let some players adapt to the lineup without Liu Han, but the result of the game was not satisfactory.

Grimandy and Pettit in the midfield did not perform well in this game. Grimandy at least took the game seriously, while Pettit seemed a little absent-minded, and Wenger did not arrange Wei Wei in such a game. Ella played, and Arsenal, which lacked a defensive backbone, was scored by the opponent in just 6 minutes. The opponent's forward McAllister scored a long-range shot from outside the penalty area.

Before the end of the first half, Coventry midfielder Haji broke the Arsenal goal himself.

Wenger criticized the players during the intermission. After the start of the second half, the Arsenal team started to gain momentum. Ribery broke through the opponent from the left and then cut in. After the ball was blocked by the opponent's goalkeeper, Henry made a supplementary shot and scored.

However, less than 5 minutes after the Arsenal team scored, Coventry team broke through the Arsenal team again. It was still a mistake in the midfield.

Suker, who came off the bench before the end of the game, pulled back a goal, but this was of no avail. Arsenal lost [-]-[-] away to Coventry.

The poor performance of the players and the loss of the game are enough to make Wenger unhappy, but Manchester United once again surpassed Arsenal to take the lead in the standings. Wenger is even more unhappy.

Back at home, Arsenal are preparing for their last game in December. None of the veterans who started the game in the previous game made it into the squad. This time Wenger put up a 352 formation.

Ribery got the chance to start again, but what made him even happier was that he will fight side by side with Liu Han in this game.

Wenger put Ribéry up front, hoping to use his speed to attack the Leeds United defense, and his partner was Henry, and Bergkamp had to sit out a game because of a bad cold.

Liu Han officially served as a central midfielder for the first time in this game. Although he was also in this position in the previous game, he is still a forward in name, but he will return to the midfield more.

Their opponent Leeds United performed well in the league this year, ranking fifth in the league standings. At the same time, because the average age of this team is less than 26 years old, it is known as the "Youth Guards". For example, goalkeeper Paul Robinson, defender Woodgate, midfielder Lee Bowyer, Harry Kewell, striker Alan Smith, etc. are all outstanding young talents in their 20s, which makes many teams love this team. The team is very bullish, because they have a future that looks very good.

In Wenger's game against Coventry, most of the main force was to prepare for the game against Leeds United. Although it is an ordinary league, it is still very important to win the Young Guards. After all, it seems that now Leeds United are expected to be Arsenal's main rivals in the league in the future.

(End of this chapter)