Jagged Wings

Chapter 60 Chelsea is afraid of us!
There are many things worthy of hype in this game. The verbal battle between the two sides before the game is one aspect, and the comparison of key players between the two sides is another aspect.

Reyes has indeed received a lot of media attention recently, but he is not the only one who is concerned by the media. Henry is always mentioned when he is mentioned.Because the two of them, as the two best performers in the team this season, have attracted much attention before this game.Among them, Henry leads the Premier League scorer list because he scored 15 goals in [-] rounds. In addition, Chelsea also has a very characteristic striker Drogba corresponding to Henry-so it has attracted more attention.

Even Chelsea attaches great importance to Henry.

Henry is in good form this season, and his goals alone are even more than the four teams of Birmingham, West Brom, Portsmouth and Sunderland.It is impossible not to attract Chelsea's attention to such a brave striker.Mourinho's coaching staff began to make full preparations, collecting as many Henry's game videos as possible and showing them to the players, so that the players are familiar with Henry's way of playing.

When Chelsea players were interviewed, when they were asked who is the most threatening person in the Arsenal team, most of them would say: "Of course Henry, with him in Arsenal, there will always be a threat to the championship." .”

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In order to show the importance attached to this game, the Chelsea team arrived in London the day before the game for pre-match adaptive training.

Before the war, both teams were in a tense atmosphere.The day before the game, Wenger announced the start of the game.Because Van Persie suffered a groin injury in the previous game, so this game is still Bergkamp's starting partner Henry, with midfielders Fabio and Jenas, and Reyes on the left.

Both men on the right were changed, right forward Hleb replaced Ljungberg and Eboue replaced Lauren as right back.Lauren has always been a little transparent role at Arsenal, not brilliant and rarely making mistakes.You don't see how good he is on the offensive end, and you don't see too many turnovers.Such a player is unknown in a star-studded team like Arsenal, but he also spent most of his professional time for Arsenal.But now the teenager Eboue's performance has become more and more stable, gradually pushing him to the bench.

On the day of the game, some players even went to breakfast with dark circles.

When Reyes saw Eboue's two big eye circles, he was also a little surprised. He didn't expect him to be so nervous about this game.However, poor rest will obviously affect the state. Reyes asked Eboue to go back and catch up at noon.

This tense atmosphere started from waking up and continued until the team boarded the bus to Highbury Stadium.When we arrived at the stadium, many media blocked the place where the players got off their cars to do the final interview.

However, no one was interviewed, only coach Wenger and captain Henry stayed and said some innocuous words.It's time for the game, so it's better to put more energy on the court.

During the warm-up before the game, Reyes showed a very good state. Several breakthroughs on the wing made Eboue exhausted. This also shows from the side that Eboue did not rest very well the day before. .

Mourinho also squinted his eyes, looking at the situation on Arsenal's side.His eyes are not only focused on Henry, Reyes and Bergkamp and others, but also from time to time, they will scan Senderos, Eboue and Xiaofa.

There is still one week before Christmas, and it is almost the coldest time of the year. Except for the warm-up players, everyone else put on thick down jackets.Although there were layers of dark clouds in the sky, fortunately there was no snow.

With a cold wind blowing in Highbury at night, Reyes deliberately stepped up the intensity of his warm-up until he felt a layer of sweat forming on his back and forehead.

Ten minutes later, after warming up, the players on both sides shrank their necks and ran quickly to the aisle. They hurried back to the warm locker room.

Reyes ran into Chelsea right-winger Duff over the opening.

Duff was Chelsea's main right winger last season, and the terrifying wings formed by him and Robben are Chelsea's best attacking weapon.But this season, with the increase of age and the influence of injuries, Duff's state has inevitably declined.Originally, Mourinho planned to introduce Wright Jr. to succeed him, but Wright Jr. did not even perform as well as Duff. As a result, Duff still occupies the main position now.Even so, Duff has received a lot of criticism, which makes him seem preoccupied.

When the two met, Reyes had already seen Duff, but Duff was not in a good mood, and walked forward with his head down, and he didn't see Reyes walking towards him.Reyes stared at Duff for a moment, then suddenly smiled.

When the two passed shoulder to shoulder, Reyes suddenly stretched his right leg and blocked Duff.Duff, who lowered his head in thought, didn't expect a leg to appear suddenly in front of him. Caught off guard, he raised his left foot and hung on Reyes' leg, suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground.

"Who?" Duff stood up from the ground and glared back.This fall was not heavy, but it was very embarrassing.The moment he fell just now, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a section of maroon trouser leg, which was the color of the home team's jersey.

If it was a teammate of his own, it might be a prank; but once the opponent's player is changed, there is no doubt that it must be a deliberate provocation.

Dare to provoke?I'm afraid of you!

Duff shouted in his heart. Duff was born in the Blackburn youth training camp nicknamed "Violent Ben".Duff, who came out of a violent book, has never lacked violent factors.

Reyes didn't wait for a reply, got up, ran down the steps quickly, and then ran back to the locker room.

So Duff turned around, only to find that there was no one behind him.

no one?Ran?Or fly to the sky?

Duff looked up subconsciously, and was almost hit in the face by the stinky tofu thrown from the stands, and hurried into the aisle.

At this time, he saw Reyes' back and the huge "Number 9" behind him.

It was the Spaniard!

Duff felt a little aggrieved: What is this?prank?
Reyes, who ran back to the locker room, couldn't help laughing. He wasn't worried that Duff would find out that he did it. The reason why he ran was because the head coach had to make some arrangements when the game started.

"Antonio, what are you laughing at?" Cole looked at Reyes strangely.

"It's nothing, nothing!" Reyes smiled and waved his hands, and when he remembered Duff's reaction, he laughed even harder.

At this time Wenger also opened the door and walked into the locker room. He coughed.

Everyone fell silent and looked up at him.

"This game is very important to us. They kept provoking before the game just to irritate us and make us lose our composure. I believe you must be looking forward to the start of the game at this time, and then go up for revenge, right?"

"That's right, brother's big knife is already hungry and thirsty!" the impatient Cole roared.

"But you must keep calm, you must know that Chelsea are afraid, they are afraid of us!"

"Afraid of us?" Everyone was a little surprised, Chelsea is obviously leading now.Chelsea still leads by 4 points. Even if they lose this game, they are still number one.

Everyone looked at Wenger, wanting to hear what he had to say.Chelsea afraid of them?They didn't think about it that way. In their view, Chelsea is an invincible team now, and they have never heard of anyone they are afraid of.

"Yes, Mourinho has a habit, whenever he faces a difficult opponent, they will go crazy and launch psychological warfare. Why rely on psychological warfare? Because they feel that they can't beat us on the pitch! You see, that's why they're afraid of us, they're afraid of losing to us! That's what scares them the most!"

Some people opened their mouths in surprise.They have never thought about this, Chelsea, who is ranked number one, is afraid of their chasers?
But thinking about what Wenger said carefully, it seems to be true-Chelsea is afraid of us...

(End of this chapter)