legendary midfielder

Chapter 286 Fan Meeting Ceremony
5: 0!

When the first half ended, the score became five to zero!

Zhang Xu scored a super long shot and had two assists!In other words, during the period from his appearance to the intermission, the three goals scored by Arsenal are inseparable from him!

In fact, this is the result of Zhang Xu's release of water. If he really broke out in an all-round way, the score will increase by one or two!

Even so, the players of Guangzhou Hengda were quite convinced. When the first half ended, as long as the players who were familiar with Zhang Xu ran over and greeted Zhang Xu affectionately.

The fans in the stands were also excited by Zhang Xu's wonderful performance. All kinds of screams and shouts, as well as applause, turned Tianhe Stadium into a sea of ​​joy.

Now that the first half has been fully performed, Zhang Xu feels that he has given a good explanation to the fans, so he is naturally unwilling to continue playing the second half, so he finds Wenger and asks for a substitution.

Wenger was naturally happy to see the result, and quickly agreed, for fear that Zhang Xu would make him feel uncomfortable if something happened again.

In the end, the score of this game was fixed at 7:1!

Arsenal scored two more goals in the second half, while Guangzhou Hengda also scored a face-saving goal.Such a result is also a happy one.

After the game, Zhang Xu and Wenger took a leave of absence, together with Zheng Zhi, Gao Lin and others, Walcott and Ramsay, found a remote bar with a more romantic atmosphere, and had a small gathering together.

After the trip to Guangzhou, Arsenal's 2013 Asian tour came to a successful conclusion.

The Arsenal club has gained a lot of money and a lot of fans!

However, this has nothing to do with Zhang Xu and other Arsenal players. The team hurriedly boarded the passenger plane to London the next day.

The reason is simple --- on August [-], the annual Emirates Cup is about to begin!
The Emirates Cup (Emirates Cup) is the name of a football competition. The correct translation is the Emirates Cup, named after its main sponsor, Emirates Airlines.The game was held at the Emirates Stadium, home of the Premier League Arsenal.

Arsenal hosts a pre-season warm-up match every year for 2 days, and the first session was held in July 2007.The venue is Arsenal's home stadium in London, the Emirates Stadium, in the form of the Ajax Four Corners held by Ajax.

The chief is its literal translation, and its full name is Emirates Stadium (Emirates Stadium) or Emirates Stadium.Amir is the transliteration of Emirates (Emirates Airlines), the advertiser on Arsenal's chest.

The Emirates Cup is the most important unofficial warm-up event in European football.About 12 people watch it every year.Its popularity far surpasses the "Audi Cup", another major warm-up match in European football.

Signed a sponsorship contract worth 1 million pounds (about 10 billion yuan) with Emirates, and the contract period for the stadium naming rights is 15 years.In addition, starting from the first season (2006/07) when the new stadium was opened, Emirates became Arsenal's main jersey sponsor for a period of 8 years.

Because the Emirates Cup is a warm-up event, the competition system is obviously different from the official competition system.The Emirates Cup adopts a league-style competition system, and the team with the most points after two games can take the Emirates Cup home.A team gets 3 points for a win and 1 point for a tie.In addition, the team gets 1 point for each goal scored.

If the two teams are tied, the goal difference is compared, followed by the number of goals scored. If they still cannot be compared, the two teams will share the trophy.The game is divided into two halves of 45 minutes each, with a 15-minute break in between.No overtime.Each team can report 11 substitutes per game, and can use up to 6 of them.Players who receive a red card directly in a game or are sent off with two yellow cards in total will be suspended for the next game.Whether the suspension extends to the domestic league will depend on the report of the referee on duty and arbitration by FIFA.

Winners of the Emirates Cup keep the trophy until the next tournament.The Emirates Cup will be presented by Chapman and the Chairman of Emirates Airline, with an awards ceremony following the final.In order to reflect the spirit of fair play, players will line up to greet each other before the game.The starting lineup will be announced approximately one hour before kickoff.

Arsenal have won the Emirates Cup three times since 2007.

For this year's Emirates Cup, Arsenal has invited Galatasaray from the Turkish Super League, Porto from the Portuguese Super League and Naples from the Italian Serie A. The competition will officially start on August [-].

At four o'clock in the afternoon local time on this day, the focus of the first round of the 2013 Emirates Cup was held at the Emirates Stadium. Arsenal played against Naples at home.

This is also Zhang Xu's first official appearance in front of Arsenal fans, so before the game, Wenger held a grand fan meeting ceremony for Zhang Xu.

First of all, on the big screen at the Emirates Stadium, the wonderful videos or pictures of Zhang Xu in La Liga were played in rotation, especially the scene of the final of the King's Cup final, which was played throughout the whole process.Then the related news about Zhang Xu joining Arsenal and the related videos and pictures of the press conference were played.

In the end, amidst the shouts of the fans, Zhang Xu hugged a football and wore the NO.18 jersey. While waving to the fans in the stands, he ran to the center of the stadium.

Here, there is a microphone and a lot of footballs. After Zhang Xu came here, he picked up the microphone and said loudly: "Fans and friends, good afternoon everyone! I am the Chinese Zhang you saw on the big screen just now. Sorry, I am not a Martian, let alone an interstellar monster!"

"Haha!" Zhang Xu's words made all the fans on the scene burst into laughter.

"Thank you very much to all the Arsenal fans at the scene! You gave me such warm applause, I was flattered! In order to express my gratitude to you, I decided that today, and in the future, I will use all my strength to win more and more important championships for the team and for you!"

"Papa papa!" There was thunderous applause at the scene!

For the fans, there is nothing more exciting than the team winning the championship, so what Zhang Xu said directly touched the hearts of the fans.

With such a player who is determined to win the championship, and such a captain and core who pursue the championship, how can the fans not be happy?

Next, Zhang Xu directly took the football in his arms, and kicked the football towards the stands with a big foot.

At this time, Zhang Xu's foot strength can be seen.

He stood in the center of the field and just kicked the football directly to the stands, which required more than one point or two points of strength.

However, when Zhang Xu played football, he looked very relaxed and freehand, without any feeling of lack of strength.

To the shock of the fans, when Zhang Xu kicked a lot of footballs to the horizontal stands on both sides of the stadium, he turned his target to the vertical fans stands!

This difficulty is even greater!This is the Emirates Stadium, which can accommodate more than 6 people. Every kick of Zhang Xu must exceed 150 meters before he can kick the football into the stands.

And Zhang Xu did it very easily every time!

From this alone, we can see the powerful strength contained in Zhang Xu's legs!

As a result, the fans became even more excited, and the voice calling for Zhang Xu echoed over the Emirates Stadium again and again, resounding through the sky!
After kicking all the footballs, Zhang Xu picked up the microphone again, deliberately kicked and said, "Well, I'm exhausted from these 22 footballs! If you don't give me any more screams, I think I won't be able to get up in the next game!"

"Wow! Ahhh!!" "Hahaha!!".
The laughter of the fans mixed with screams suddenly resounded throughout the stadium.

At [-]:[-] in the afternoon, after Zhang Xu's fan meeting ceremony ended, the match between Arsenal and Naples officially started.

Zhang Xu, as the captain of the team, started the field and played the role of organizing the midfielder.

The team played a 3-2-3-2 formation, and it was Vermaelen, not Arteta, who partnered with Zhang Xu in the midfielder.

The back three are Koscielny, Sagna and Mertesacker; the midfielders are Wilshere, Ramsey and Rosicky; the front is Walcott and Giroud.

Naples new aid Reina and Callejon started, Higuain entered the bench.

In the 3rd minute of the game, Zhang Xu almost broke through the goal of Naples. He pushed a shot from 10 yards in the penalty area and missed the left post.

Arsenal finally took the lead in the 6th minute of the game.The Naples defender made a header error and Walcott pushed and scored.

After leading [-]-[-], Zhang Xu gradually took control of the rhythm of the game in his own hands, and the situation on the court gradually turned towards Arsenal.

In the 14th minute of the game, Zhang Xu made a long shot from 35 yards slightly above the crossbar.

In the 18th minute of the game, Arsenal rewrote the score again.

After receiving a pass from Wilshere in the middle, Zhang Xu saw that Ramsey was left unattended on the right, so he made a diagonal pass over the top and hoisted the football to the feet of Ramsey who was advancing on the right. Ramsey passed the Naples defender on the right side of the penalty area and shot from a small angle! 2:0!

Although the game fell into a passive situation and the score was behind, the Naples team did not lose their fighting spirit, but became more and more frustrated.

In the 301st minute of the game, Almeiro broke into the penalty area and made a cross from the left in a quick counterattack. Cicini's shot from far was blocked and then deflected and popped out of the left post.

In the 304th minute of the game, Ramsey passed the ball. Giroud's strong shot from 18 yards on the left side of the penalty area was blocked by Inle and then missed the far corner post. Then Wilshere took a corner kick. Zhang Xu's header from 10 yards was saved by Naples goalkeeper Reina with his fingertips.

In the second half, they changed sides and fought again.

Because the score fell behind, Higuain of Naples finally came off the bench.

However, even if he played, he failed to change the overall situation of the game, and the initiative was still firmly controlled by Zhang Xu.

In the 408th minute of the game, Ramsey passed the ball, and Zhang Xuqiang made a low shot from 3 yards on the right side of the penalty area and slightly missed the far corner.

In the second minute of the game, Mertesacker passed the ball, Zhang Xu headed the ball, and Podolski, who came off the bench, volleyed wide from the left side of the penalty area.

The score was finally rewritten again in the No.707 minute of the game.

After Zhang Xu cooperated with Wilshere with two consecutive kicks in the middle, suddenly a through ball directly penetrated Naples' defense line, and Podolski, who came on as a substitute, made a low shot to make a contribution!

3: 0!

So far, Arsenal have secured the victory!

　A new book is about to be published, the title of which is "Green Forest Paladin"!
　　
　
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