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Chapter 587: The Last Game at Arsenal
After finishing the Champions League journey this season, Arsenal will prepare for the Christmas game immediately after returning to London.

In mid-December, the prelude to the Christmas War had officially kicked off, and within three days of Arsenal returning to London, the first game of the Christmas War started.

In the midweek league, they will face the Magpies from the harbor city, Newcastle United!
On the night of December 16th, the No.[-] round of the Premier League began. The focus of this round was Manchester United vs. Liverpool.

Facing Newcastle United, Arsene Wenger made some rotations. Li Zihan and Ozil, the two core players who are not considered top in physical fitness in the team, got a chance to rest, while Sanchez started.

Arsenal is playing at home, and their firepower has been very fierce so far this season. They have scored five more goals than No.2 Chelsea! !And Newcastle United's performance this season is very unsatisfactory. They have played fifteen rounds in the league. They only rank No.13 in the league among the twenty teams.
For a Premier League team like Newcastle United, this result is not convincing.So British head coach Alan Pardue also came to the forefront, and calls for him to dismiss get out of class one after another.

And if Newcastle loses in this game and his competitors all win, then the No. 13 in the league will not be able to keep, and they will drop directly to the quagmire of the relegation zone.

So this game can also be said to be a key battle for Alan Pardue.

For Arsenal, there was little pressure in this game.

The game set the tone from the start of the first half, with goals from Sanchez and Wilshere making it [-]-[-] straight away in the first half.

After the start of the second half, Wenger simply used two of the three substitutions.Walcott replaced Sanchez and Chambers replaced Bellerin.

When most of the main players rested, Arsenal did not slack off and scored another goal 10 minutes after the start of the second half. This goal was scored by Walcott, the little tiger who had been resting for a long time.

HelloKitty is now a tiger
In the No.708 minute of the game, Newcastle United's Senegalese forward Papis Cisse scored a goal for the team.However, the Magpie was shot down by Arsenal before he raised his eyebrows.

Less than 2 minutes after Cisse's goal, Arsenal extended the score to [-]-[-]. French striker Olivier Giroud responded to Cazorla's pass and scored directly!

The final result of this game was four to one. While Arsenal remained unbeaten for the season, Newcastle United continued to fail to score points.

However, those competitors of Newcastle United did not win, and the Queens Park Rangers also lost [-] to [-] to their opponent Toffee Everton.Hull City lost to Chelsea, Crystal Palace drew, and Sunderland and West Ham also shook hands.
The fans once again lamented that Alan Pardue's life is 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 of Alan Pardue being fired have been fired for half a season, but this guy is still in charge of the Magpies, it can be said that his fate is hard It has reached the extreme, so the alias of "life-sustaining madman" has spread like wildfire.

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

This is the first double-red game in the Premier League this season. Manchester United will play against Liverpool at home.

It's just that the result of this double red meeting once again surprised the fans. Relying on the goals of Juan Mata, Rooney and Van Persie, the Red Devils Manchester United beat Liverpool [-]-[-] at Old Trafford.

Originally, Manchester United was still in the rebuilding period this season, and although Liverpool was not as strong as last season, judging from the current situation and the current ranking of the team, the two sides should be evenly matched, but they did not expect the Red Army to be defeated. Hit one with no power to fight back!
Alan Pardue's position was temporarily held, but Rogers' position was once again in jeopardy.The UEFA Champions League group stage failed to qualify, the league lost to rival Manchester United, and at the same time fell from fifth in the league to seventh in the league.
From all indications, it seems that Rogers' handsome position is not guaranteed.But Liverpool club executives stood up to support Rodgers at this time
Surprisingly, many Premier League coaches also supported Rodgers, thinking that Rodgers should not dismiss get out of class. Liverpool may not be better if they change their coaches. Rodgers, who knows the basics, is more suitable for Liverpool's current situation.

And the Dutch coach who just led the Red Devils Manchester United to defeat Liverpool, Van Gaal, who can be regarded as Rogers' ancestor in terms of relationship, also stood up to support his disciple Rogers
The solidarity of the Premier League coaches was interpreted by the Premier League's "Daily Blackout", the most black-bellied and happiest program in the Premier League. Rodgers, in this way, there will be less competition from Liverpool for the Champions League seats in the semi-finals.
"One black day in the Premier League" is not unreasonable, because the coaches who support Rodgers, their teams are all in the top six teams in the league.
The time came to the middle and late December. 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 the Arsenal club does not agree to let him go, because this is the time when the Premier League is in full swing, and Arsenal cannot do without Li Zihan.

Finally, after the negotiation between the national team and the club, it was confirmed that Li Zihan would return to play for the national team after the No.17 round of the Premier League.At that time, it was the morning of December 22, Greenwich Mean Time, and Li Zihan departed from Heathrow Airport by ferry.

At the same time, Li Zihan will not participate in the Chinese team's national team training and friendly matches in the middle and late December. Li Zihan will miss the Chinese team's two games against Kyrgyzstan and Palestine, and the time of these two games is the Christmas game of the Premier League. During the period, in order to reduce the possibility of Li Zihan being injured, the two teams reached a tacit agreement.

On December 21st, this is the last club match that Li Zihan participated in this year. After this match, Li Zihan will go to the national team to compete in the Asian Cup, and his next return will be in January next year It's late and early February.

The African Cup is a national team competition that many teams hate, because many African internationals in the club will fly to Africa to participate in the national team's competition in the middle of January and the end of February for nearly a month. impact is very large.

The African Cup has a great impact on Manchester City and some middle and lower teams, but it has little impact on Arsenal, because in Arsenal's lineup, the main player is only one central defender Nkuru.

But Arsenal is more guilty of the Asian Cup. Although there is only one player in Arsenal's main lineup to participate in the Asian Cup, this player is the absolute core Li Zihan.

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

On December 21, at 17:[-] pm GMT, Arsenal will play the No.[-] league match.The match against Arsenal has also become the focus of this round. First of all, this is Li Zihan's last match representing Arsenal this year, and he will have to wait a month to see Li Zihan next time.The second is that this time Arsenal's opponent is Liverpool, which has just ended the double red meeting, and this game ushered in the double red meeting again.
Rodgers' team sits at home at Anfield Stadium and suffered a defeat at Old Trafford in the last game. Rogers will fight for his life in this game!

The starting lineup he gave is naturally unreserved. The goalkeeper is the main goalkeeper after Reina left, the Belgian Mignolet, and the central defender is the Slovak iron guard. Croatian defender Lovren will come.The full-back partners are Spanish full-back Moreno and England's native full-back Glenn Johnson.

Naturally, the team's captain Steven Gerrard started in the defensive midfielder, and his partner was his future successor Henderson.

On the offensive line, Rogers gave a configuration of four attacking midfielders, Sterling, Lallana, Coutinho and Serbian midfielder Markovic.

This is a typical frontless formation. Without Suarez, Sturridge is also plagued by injuries, so Liverpool has almost no reliable center forwards to use this season.Originally, Rodgers gave Balotelli a lot of opportunities at the beginning of the season, but when the opponent squandered the opportunities, Rodgers simply let him sit on the bench
As for Ricky Lambert, Dangdang is okay as a substitute, but it is very difficult to be the main force.

So this lineup is almost the strongest lineup that Rogers can come up with. It is worth mentioning that this lineup lost [-]-[-] to rival Manchester United in the last round of the double red meeting.

Wenger attaches great importance to this game, and naturally he will fight with all the main players.The goalkeeper is Ospina, and the central defenders are Modesart and Hewedes.Hewedes' injury was not serious in the game against Juventus, so after a few days of rest, it will be fine.

The configuration of the full-backs is naturally Gibbs and Bellerin, the pair of Arsenal youth players. The upper midfielder is Lars Bender as a full-time defensive midfielder. Pogba connects the whole field, and the middle midfielder is Germany. Genius midfielder Ozil.

On top of the two wingers is Li Zihan and Li’s thigh equipped with Sanchez, the other thigh. This 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 people are also interestingly one left and one right.
Harry Kane sat on the bench above the center, and French center Giroud started!