knife guard

Chapter 696
([-]-word chapter, and one more)
In the afternoon, the players of the first team left the Kearney training base, and Li Huan continued to recover his physical fitness under the leadership of assistant coach Paul, so that his body could return to the game state as soon as possible.Because next year is the year of the World Cup, this year's league starts earlier than before. The first Premier League game will kick off on August 8. Li Huan must hurry up to return to his original game state within these two weeks It takes a second.

After continuous sprints, back-and-forth runs, and strength training, Paul finally gave Li Huan some training with the ball. Li Huan's skillful dribbling skills made a well-informed coach like Paul admire secretly.

After 45 minutes, Paul threw a bottle of sports drink to Li Huan and said, "Take a break, Li, your body can't support nine or ten minutes of high-intensity training."

Li Huan took half of the drink and said, "It will be almost there in a week. I was more intense than this when I was in Hoffenheim."

Paul said: "I see that your ball is really good, which is rare among South American players. I have always been curious, how can there be such an outstanding player in China's football environment."

While slowly relaxing his muscles, Li Huan asked, "Is the coach familiar with China?"

Paul said: "Kekovic and Petkovic are both my friends. They coach in China. You should have heard of their names."

Li Huan said in surprise: "It turns out that the coach is from Serbia. I know Kokovic and Petkovic. The coaching level is very high."

Paul said: "I heard them say that the Chinese league is very chaotic, with rough technology and backward tactics, but I watched your video, and your technical and tactical literacy is very high. Could it be that you honed it all in the Bundesliga?"

Li Huan said: "Yes, Hoffenheim has helped me a lot. I watched the team's training today, and there are many similarities with Hoffenheim. Honing coordination on a small field.”

Paul said: "Yes, Hoffenheim has a tendency to become the Premier League, but Hoffenheim's passing speed and accuracy are not as good as Arsenal's. Although Hoffenheim won the Triple Crown, Rangnick The team still has a long way to go before the technical flow."

Li Huan said: "Coach Rangnick has led the team for a short period of time. Give him the same time as Coach Wenger, and he can also create a Bundesliga-level technical flow."

Paul said: "Coach Wenger's hometown is very close to the two teams you play for. It is in Strasbourg, and it is only an hour away from Stuttgart. Coach Wenger's most respected mentor, Franz, once coached I have been to Karlsruhe, so Coach Wenger knows you very well, this time Mr. Kroenke was able to persuade Coach Wenger to buy you, which has a lot to do with it.”

After all, Li Huan is Chinese, so he knew little about it. He was surprised and said, "It turns out that I am so close to Coach Wenger's hometown. I really didn't expect it. No wonder I think he works hard like a German, is serious and strict, and has a high degree of self-discipline."

Paul smiled and said: "Coach Wenger is the kind of person who is not good at communicating with people. He is taciturn and hardly communicates with others. It is difficult for you to see his enthusiastic and outgoing appearance. Even if he loves football so much, on the surface you will I can’t see it either. In fact, Coach Wenger thinks highly of you. He talked to me in the morning and told me to help you understand British culture and traditions so that you can integrate into the team as soon as possible. Although Arsenal is a A multinational team, but this multinational team speaks one language, plays one kind of football, and possesses one kind of belief. Although Arsenal has many superstars, these superstars must serve the team. Li, you understand what I meant."

Paul patted Li Huan on the shoulder and said: "Of course, you can't be too restrained on the court. Coach Wenger insists on punctuality and tactical discipline, but he never restricts the players to play freely on the court. He appreciates creativity. Players. Okay, let's start training, we have to watch the Emirates Cup match between Arsenal and Atletico Madrid in the evening."

At [-]:[-] in the evening, the annual Emirates Cup is held at the Emirates Stadium. Atletico Madrid from Spain, Paris Saint-Germain from France and Rangers from Scotland come to participate in the competition. Tonight is the match between Arsenal and Atletico Madrid.

The Emirates Cup adopts a league-style format, and the team with the most points after two games wins.A team gets 3 points for a win and 1 point for a tie.In addition, the team can get 1 point for each goal scored. If the two teams score equally, the goal difference is compared, followed by the number of goals scored. If they still cannot compare, the two teams will share the trophy.The game time is the same as in the league, there is no overtime, and there is no penalty shootout.

Although the Emirates Cup is just a friendly match, it was held at the Emirates Stadium. Of course, Arsenal can't let the champion fall aside, otherwise it would be too embarrassing, so even if there are 6 substitutes in the Emirates Cup, Wenger is not prepared to let yesterday Li Huan joined the game. In addition, Wenger was also worried about Li Huan's health. He hadn't trained for two months. Once he played a tense and formal game, he was likely to be injured. No one could afford the price of Li Huan's injury.

Arsenal had an unbeaten record of 3 wins and 1 tie in the previous warm-up match, but their opponents were relatively weak. Atletico Madrid had mixed results in the warm-up match. Today’s game is the test of the true level of the two teams. Chance.

Nearly [-] fans also poured into the stadium for this game, because many fans hope to see the shadow of World Footballer Li Huan in the game, even if Li Huan only comes off the bench for a few minutes.But the list announced before the game showed that Li Huan didn't even make it to the bench.

This disappointed the fans.

When Li Huan and Paul came to the stands, the cameras on the field immediately focused on them. The fans who had been patrolling the stands for a long time also saw Li Huan, and soon started from the north stand where Li Huan was. There was a flood of shouts from near and far, "Li!" "Li!" Some fans who didn't know Li Huan came thought they had scored a goal, but when they looked at the big screen, it was Li Huan's smiling face.Immediately followed by shouting.

Because Arsenal did not perform well in this game, but Atletico Madrid was in a very good state, and the game was delayed, so the director's camera turned to Li Huan in the stands from time to time, and occasionally used montage shots in the movie, Take a free kick from Arsenal, give Wenger a frowning shot, and then turn to Li Huan.

Such a result caused the fans to shout "Change Lee!" "Change Lee!" shortly after the start of the second half.

The on-site commentator joked: "The fans have asked Professor Wenger a difficult problem. He should consider discussing with the head coach of Atletico Madrid now to see if he can call Li Huan from the stands to compete."

Then Wenger replaced Fabregas and Eduardo to strengthen the attack. In the 86th minute, Arsenal first received a pass from Fabregas by Eduardo, who came off the bench. Atletico Madrid's Pacheco equalized 2 minutes later, but in stoppage time, Arsenal won with a difficult pass from Cesc Fabregas to Van Persie.

In the British news and newspapers on the second day, Li Huan, who did not appear on the field, became the protagonist instead. Most of the reports were like this: "Mr. Stealing Xiaofa's thunder", "Arsenal struggled to win, World Footballer Li Huan failed to play", "[-] fans flocked to the Emirates Stadium, but Wenger did not let Li Huan play".

And on the Internet, Arsenal fans are also demanding to see Li Huan in tomorrow's Emirates Cup like a frying pan, thinking that an Emirates Cup champion is not the Champions Cup, is it worth so much attention?Isn't it just a warm-up match?There are only less than two weeks before the start of the league. Why didn't Wenger let Li Huan practice together with the team, even if it is good to feel the atmosphere.

The fan hotline of the Arsenal club was almost overwhelmed by some radical fans, who demanded to see Li Huan play in the next Emirates Cup.

Even the two chairmen of the club knew about this incident. The old chairman Hill Wood, who had never asked about the team's games, pretended to be confused and said to Wenger with a smile: "Did Li Huan play yesterday? It's all about him."

The executive chairman Flair hinted to Wenger intentionally or unintentionally that Li Huan's No. 13 jersey was sold for 4 euros, and [-] pieces were sold in one day. .

Although Wenger hates other people's interference in the team's affairs, he also knows what it means to sell 4 jerseys for 400 euros a day. That's [-] million euros. The Emirates Cup, which is not even comparable to the Cup, he can't make life difficult for the Euro.

So the next day, when Li Huan was doing physical exercise under Paul's guidance, Wenger walked over, whispered something to Paul, stopped Li Huan, and said, "What's wrong with your recovery?"

Li Huan said: "It's okay, I think we will be able to play in two days."

Wenger said calmly: "Come and train with the team, you may have a chance to come off the bench tonight."

Li Huan was taken aback. He thought that he would have to wait until the Citrus Cup at least a week later, but it was also a very happy thing to play early. After all, running every day is very boring and lacks the excitement of the game.

The training in the morning is to prepare for the game in the afternoon, but Wenger mentioned that their opponent Glasgow Rangers, only after the training, Wenger brought a specially edited video of the Glasgow Rangers game to everyone Watch, but not everyone is required to watch it, and I don't discuss it with the players. It's very free, which is very different from Rangnick.

However, Li Huan has been to Arsenal in his previous life, and he understands Wenger's habits. He prefers that the players forget who the opponent is and just play according to their own ideas.In the words of Chinese coaches, it is a style of play that focuses on me.

Arsenal's tactics emphasize ground coordination and speed. This speed is not only absolute speed, but more importantly, thinking speed. Think fast, react fast, act fast, pass the ball fast, and the ball is fast. The average player comes to Arsenal. It is very difficult to adapt after being accepted, and the speed of thinking and reaction is indeed the biggest gap between Asian football and European football. This is why Wenger is not ready to let Li Huan play soon. Li Huan's transfer fee is as high as 9999 million Euro, it is conceivable how high the fans' expectations are for him, and his teammates also have very high estimates of his level. If the game fails, doubts will follow immediately. Wenger is very clear, if a game is good, it will be praised to the sky, and if it is a bad game, it will be kicked to hell.

But the training in the morning surprised Wenger. Li Huan was able to keep up with Arsenal's rhythm even though his body had not fully recovered. It was the whole training session. Li Huan's reaction, movement, passing, and stopping were all very fast. I can't see anything uncomfortable. The only problem is that he doesn't cooperate with his teammates tacitly. Just a little more, and as a full-back, Li Huan prefers to pass high balls after hitting the bottom, while Arsenal players like to ground and roll the ball. Many of Li Huan's passes have no effect.But as long as the rhythm adapts, cooperation is only a matter of time, and Wenger is not worried.

Paul told Wenger next to Wenger that Hoffenheim's training method is very similar to Arsenal's. Rangnick also used the method of training pilots to train players' reaction speed, and Wenger was relieved. In fact, they did not know that Li Huan's previous life After a month of trial training at Arsenal, he was impressed by Arsenal's training rhythm.

In the morning, the fans knew from the media that Li Huan would play in the game against the Glasgow Rangers. Although they didn't know if he would start, but the appearance was confirmed. This was revealed by the "News of the World" under the Arsenal board Yes, it is said that Wenger said it himself.

This news caused a bigger sensation. Almost all Arsenal fans in England rushed to the Emirates Stadium from all directions to have a sneak peek. The only Arsenal station on the London Underground named after the club has not stopped people since the morning. In the urban area of ​​North London The traffic in the stadium is so congested that driving is not as good as walking. By one hour before the start of the game, nearly 6 people have flocked near the Emirates Stadium, and fans are still coming.

Arsenal chairman Hill Wood told Wenger, "Fortunately, you included Li Huan in the starting list, otherwise disappointed fans might go to Totridge and smash the door of your house."

As a second-rate professional player, Wenger couldn't figure out how a player could be so attractive. Even Henry, his most famous star, had never made Arsenal fans so crazy.

The game against Glasgow Rangers was held at 16:15 local time in the UK. This was the second and final game. Both Glasgow Rangers and Arsenal had won and scored the same number of goals. To win the championship, a tie depends on the results of the other two teams, and the team with the most points wins the championship.

(End of this chapter)