i am gun king

Chapter 278 Super Bowl

After the draw ceremony this time, the head coaches and players of other clubs went home one after another. However, the two teams of Arsenal and Porto will not just leave, because at 45:[-] tomorrow night, they will participate in this season's European Super Cup.

The Stade Louis II can only hold 1 fans, so there are only [-] tickets for fans of both sides, and there are definitely more than [-] fans from both sides who come to Monaco. Therefore, in addition to the fans entering the stadium, fans from Arsenal and Manchester United occupy both sides of the square around the stadium. They will watch the live action of the game on the big screen!
And England fans are known to be extremely fanatical, and the 450 security police in Monaco are really not enough...

However, every time the European Super Cup is held, according to the usual practice, the French police will come to support. Otherwise, just maintaining the law and order of the Louis II Stadium is enough to make the local police overwhelmed, not to mention that they have to maintain the law and order of casinos and residential areas.

When Arsenal’s bus drove into the Louis II Stadium, the onlookers gave out loud cheers from the Arsenal fans. This was the third time in the history of their club to participate in the UEFA Super Cup, except that they lost to AC Milan and Sevilla in the previous two Super Cups. This time, the Arsenal fans firmly believed that under the leadership of Arsene Wenger and Li Yuxin, they would definitely be able to win the first UEFA Super Cup in history!
Arsenal are now only one European Super Cup and Club World Cup away from the current Grand Slam. Of course, they have no chance to win the Toyota Cup.

For this team that has been established for more than 80 years, their brilliance started intermittently. They began to truly feel the glory after Chapman took office, and the emergence of Wenger made them enjoy everything they had never enjoyed before!
The same is true in the history of Li Yuxin's rebirth. After the glory of the first Wen period, many Arsenal fans quickly returned to the calm mentality of watching football.

But now, it is different from history. Because of the appearance of Li Yuxin, Arsenal has maintained the good momentum of the late 90s and played better and better. Sometimes the difference between ordinary teams and strong teams is here. If they hold on, they will be reborn.

The current Arsenal is currently moving towards a best situation.

After explaining the basic situation of the opponent in detail, Wenger waved his hand: "To put it bluntly, our style of play in this game is to be careful of their direct passes and hit behind them when defending, and pay attention to the opponent's long shots from the front of the penalty area. We don't need to worry too much from the side. Crosses will not cause us too much problem. When attacking, we focus on their left. We use speed to deal with their central defenders... Our strength is definitely not inferior to theirs. As long as we can perform, then the victory in this game will definitely belong to us! Don't worry, Manchester United's offense is mainly based on the side. Mainly, so we can't rush to attack, we must be fast when we counterattack, and we must also be quick when we return to defense. When they besiege us, be patient, they must be anxious... That's it, now, let's go, to win our first European Super Cup championship!"

"Let's go, guys, don't forget that we won everything last season!" Li Yuxin raised his arms and shouted, and then walked out of the locker room door first.

When the players from both sides were waiting in the player tunnel, Wenger had already walked out of the player tunnel first. When he appeared in everyone's sight, the Arsenal fans gave out huge cheers!

Then he saw Ferguson.

Ferguson came up to shake his hand, gave him a meaningful look, and returned to his seat.

Wenger smiled slightly, and walked to his place in the same way.

"Ferguson's Manchester United and Wenger's Arsenal! Two representatives of European football veterans, two godfather-level coaches, will compete in this match! Let us wait and see who will win the UEFA Super Cup this time!"

At this time Li Yuxin also looked at Ferguson, and he remembered Ferguson's autobiography: people are completely different on the battlefield and in church.Off the pitch, Arsene Wenger is a cool guy.He can be a good friend, and we both know everything and talk about it.We would chat about red wine and all kinds of trivial things in life.At UEFA meetings, he goes out of his way to help other coaches.In the football circle, everyone recognizes that Wenger is a diligent, conscientious, meticulous and good person.But when it comes to his team, for example on game day, that's not the case at all, and he becomes a whole other creature.I think I can also understand Arsene, after all, I am such a person.If there's one thing we share in character, it's an extreme aversion to failure.

But then Arsene and I became very good friends. We have persisted in the Premier League together for many years and appreciate each other's pursuit of beautiful football.However, we did have our hostile years over the years.The conflict started when he slandered me for expressing dissatisfaction with the schedule, which was a complaint about complaints.I immediately fired back, carefully teasing: "What can a person who has just returned from Japan know?" It was true, and it was Arsene's turn to complain about the tight schedule for the next two years.It is a joke for a foreign coach to come to the Premier League and think that he can lead the team through 55 league games without rotation.So modern football requires you to rotate players frequently to spread the pressure and reduce the burden.It wasn't long before Arsene understood the culture of the Premier League, and he overcame the shock of his first arrival: playing on Saturday, then Wednesday, next Saturday...

Wenger visited me in my office after the game when he took the team to Old Trafford for the first time.At first our relationship was fine.The problem came after his Arsenal lost to them once.He has a hard time admitting that his team made mistakes and often lashes out at his opponents.He has a hard time accepting physical collisions and can't understand how rough tactics are used by opponents on his players.His definition of rough even extended to tackling, where in his mind no one should be tackling his lads.

But I also get a lot of excitement when I watch Arsenal's great games, and I've always loved watching Arsene's teams play.I spend hours thinking about what to do before I play them, they always present a special challenge.I always felt like I needed to look at every aspect of Arsenal: they were a threat from every angle on the pitch.Chelsea's troubles are another matter, we are dealing with seasoned veterans who can pull off every trick imaginable.Arsenal are different, they play the right way.

From the end of the 90s to the beginning of the 21st century, Arsenal was our main opponent, and it was difficult for others to match it: Liverpool and Newcastle United once broke through the siege briefly, and Blackburn also had the experience of winning the championship. At that time, Chelsea was the king of the cup, but it was difficult to do anything in the Premier League.Before Jose Mourinho came to Chelsea, there was no one other than Arsenal who could consistently challenge our dominance.

Although there have been local tyrants in the Premier League for more than 20 years, experience tells me that I only need to deal with those traditional giants who have repeatedly won the cup.The reason why Arsenal and Manchester United have fought against each other for so long is because of the strong characteristics of the Gunners on the one hand, and on the other hand, this is also the continuation of the team's history.

So, I've never stopped being wary of the fierce competition that Arsenal brings.We have a history, and so do they.They also have the right manager, Arsene Wenger, who has never tried to leave since taking charge of Arsenal.Sometimes there are indeed rumors that he will go to Real Madrid one day.I never thought Arsene would leave Arsenal, never!I often say to myself: "We need to keep dealing with this opponent!"

Then Pizzagate happened at Old Trafford, and my memory of this legendary story is this: Ruud van Nistelrooy had just walked back into the dressing room and complained to me that Wenger had scolded him when he left the pitch.I immediately rushed out to Arsene and said: "You stay away from my players!" He was provocative because we ended his team's 49-match unbeaten streak.This defeat probably made Arsene's brain wired in the wrong way.When I told him to take care of his players, he was livid and clenched his fists.I know that Arsene had a problem with Van Nistelrooy, he had the opportunity to sign Van Nistelrooy, but at the time they thought Van Nistelrooy was not good enough to play for Arsenal.I admit Ruud van Nistelrooy is not a great player, but he is a great shooter.But after I finished speaking with Wenger, I found that I was covered with pizza.Usually we serve food in the visiting team's locker room after the game, pizza, chicken nuggets, etc.Some say Cesc Fabregas did it, but to this day, I don't know who the culprit was.The corridor outside the locker room suddenly fell into gang fights.

What happened that day undoubtedly made us feel like strangers. This friction did not ease until the 2009 Champions League semi-final. Arsene invited us to his office after the game and congratulated us.We played at Old Trafford a fortnight later and Arsene came over after the game with his assistant Pat.These stories that happened on the court are like trivial matters in life.Sometimes your daughter-in-law decides to break up with you because of a trivial matter, "Fuck, what did I do today?" But you will ask her politely: "How is your day?"Afterwards, the unhappiness between the two of you may dissipate and return to normal.It's the same with football. I really hate Arsene for this matter. He has been silent for so long and ignored me. It almost made our relationship irreparable.

In my final years, the players Arsene bought for the club reflected his inherent weakness: Nasri wanted to leave, and Arsene sold him straight away.Rosicky wanted to join, so he bought it without hesitation, indeed Rosicky was his favorite type.When Arshavin can come in the future, he will accept all the orders.But you buy such a bunch of complete players, they're just clones of each other.Arsene and I are both looking and developing young players under our influence, but in different ways.One time before we played Arsenal, Aaron Ramsey said he chose to join Arsenal instead of Manchester United because the former produced more players than Manchester United. "Is he mentally disabled?" I think someone must be forcing him to say such words.If it was him who rejected Manchester United, I have no problem at all.It is true that he came to us, he has to face greater competition to squeeze into the first team, but I still have to say, I think his choice is wrong.Arsenal didn't develop too many of their own players, they just developed players, which are two different things.The only player I can think of who has gone through their own academy is Jack Wilshere.

Look at us again, Giggs, Neville brothers, Scholes, Fletcher, O'Shea, Brown, Welbeck, these are all cultivated by me.Hey, my old problem happened again, but I just couldn't help myself to compete with him everywhere, and I insisted on a showdown. This stupid big guy has been my opponent for 17 years.

But at this moment, Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo also walked up to Li Yuxin to shake hands. Li Yuxin regained his senses and smiled and said, "Guys, whoever loses will be invited to eat!"
(End of this chapter)