The cold, damp weather, lingering fog, and the orphans of industrialization are the symbols of London that have now completely disappeared, and the only constant is the enthusiasm of Londoners for football. Walking through the park, you will find goals erected on the lawn and kickers from dawn to sunset, who together with a large number of professional teams of equal calibre make up the football ethos of London.

Compared to the Manchester derby, the Liverpool derby, the "London derby" appears more often in the newspapers. Because there are too many "London derbys" in this city, "Arsenal vs Tottenham Hotspur", "Chelsea vs West Ham United", "Charlton vs Fulham" are actually London derbys. Nowhere else in Europe has as many high-level professional teams as London, and it's a blessing to be born as a London fan, who is either on the pitch or on the way to the pitch every weekend, and who never worries about seeing the fierce competition and the big names.

Although London has the largest number of derbies in the world, the most influential derby at this stage is undoubtedly the derby between Chelsea and Arsenal, in terms of strength, fame, financial resources and influence, the derby between these two teams far surpasses other derbies in the city of London, and is comparable to any famous derby in Europe.

Although the game is getting closer, the old city of London is full of reports, topics and images about the game, and even the mayor of London and the queen of Buckingham Palace are talking about the game. Three months ago, the second round of the League Cup qualifying round was a big fight for thousands of fans outside Upton Park, while Chelsea and Arsenal had more fans.

On the day of the game, the war of words and psychological warfare between Arsenal and Chelsea has died down, and now it is time to compete on the pitch.

The game was played at five o'clock in the afternoon, but until three o'clock, Arsenal's main players were still at the Kearney training base, but they were not training, the team was watching the video edited by assistant coach Rice in the hall, which was all clips of Chelsea's attack and defense this season, Arsenal have been using this way to familiarize themselves with An-style Chelsea in recent times, An-style Chelsea and Muslim Chelsea are very different, Wenger and the coaching staff hope that Arsenal's players can be different, The old mentality affects the players' performance.

At 3:30, Arsenal's bus drove from the Kearney training base to the Emirates Stadium, at this moment all the streets of the Emirates Stadium have been flooded with fans wearing red and white jerseys and blue jerseys, the traffic jam is very serious, Arsenal's bus attracted thousands of Arsenal fans, they waved scarves and gloves, surrounded the bus, sang the team song, and rushed to the Emirates Stadium.

Vermaelen, who experienced the London derby for the first time, was shocked by the scene in front of him, and said to Li Huan excitedly and excitedly: "It's so fanatical, God." Is this the London Derby? If I can score goals, I'll die of happiness. ”

Li Huan forgot the score of this derby, but he seemed to remember that Vermaelen seemed to have scored an own goal in this year's derby, because the imperial court had done an own goal at that time, and he had some impressions, did he forget this one. Still, he decided to warn the Belgian, who was starting to his tail a bit.

"Are own goals happy?" After Li Huan sent the text message to Li Bing, he asked rhetorically.

Vermaelen was a little unhappy and said, "Li Huan, don't talk like this, in your Chinese parlance, this is too unlucky." ”

Li Huan smiled slightly and said, "I'm just giving you a reminder, don't forget that you are facing the Warcraft Drogba, I don't want you to be ravaged by him and become a second Sendros." ”

Several players in the big bus laughed, Vermaelen's face flushed, and said: "What is Drogba, isn't he just relying on his own stupid strength?" I'm definitely going to keep a clean sheet against him today. ”

Cesc Fabregas said cautiously: "Thomas, Drogba is not a stupid big man, his skills are very good, against our game, he has scored goals every time, don't be careless about him." ”

Li Huan laughed and said: "The best way to defend Drogba is not to let him touch the ball." The best way to defend against Frank Lampard is not to give him a chance to shoot. ”

Cesc Fabregas and Li Huan are the captains and vice-captains, both in Arsenal and in world football, the status is far more than him, Vermaelen was not convinced, but he did not say it, if he said anything at this time, it would be a little unclear.

Li Huan also saw that Vermaelen did not fully listen, but he was not willing to say anything, Vermaelen joined Arsenal with himself in the new season, with the team's successive victories, Vermaelen was also highly praised and was known as Arsenal's second knife defender, in this case, self-confidence is inevitable, only after receiving the lessons of reality can he realize his position, pay more attention to himself in the game, and may be able to avoid some possible tragedies. Now Li Huan has realized that the world he is in now is no different from the original world because of his arrival, Li Huan hopes to change history more, help Arsenal break fate, and at the same time let himself have no regrets in this life.

At 4:30 a.m., the weather became cloudy, a rain fight seemed inevitable, at this time the Emirates Stadium was almost full, only a very small number of fans did not enter for special reasons, even the 150 VIP boxes at the Emirates Stadium were basically seated in the guests, everyone was nervously waiting for the start of the game, since Mourinho left, the London derby has never been so exciting as today.

The on-site commentator was giving the fans in front of the stadium and in front of the TV to give background information on the match: "This will be the 174th derby in history, and Arsenal have won 69, drawn 51 and lost 53 in the past meeting. Since the inception of the Premier League, the two sides have met 39 times, with the Gunners holding the advantage with 17 wins, 12 draws and 10 draws, including 10 wins, 5 draws and 3 defeats at home. However, since losing at home to Chelsea in the Champions League semi-finals in the 03/04 season, the Gunners have picked up just one win, two draws and three defeats in their last six home games against the Blues.

Chelsea's number one mascot is, of course, the monster Drogba. Since joining Chelsea, Drogba has scored 106 goals for the Blues, with Arsenal being the favourite rivals of the Monsters, with eight goals netted in eight meetings so far, helping the team to an unbeaten record of seven wins and one draw. Drogba has scored 12 goals in 14 games this season and is in hot form.

And Arsenal's killer is Li Huan, since joining Arsenal, Chinese has scored 19 goals in the league, 6 goals in the Champions League, 2 goals in the League Cup, in the games he has played, Arsenal has won all, the momentum is unparalleled in the world, he is the decision to reinvent Arsenal this season, although Arsenal spent nearly 100 million for him, but no one thinks that this expenditure is not worth ......"

At this time, the camera camera focused on the face of the bearded man in the VIP box, and the fans at the scene let out a burst of cheers, and the on-site commentator said excitedly: "Kroenke, American Kroenke, it was he who brought Li Huan to Arsenal, he is now the owner of Arsenal, but as rumored by the outside world, he is an invisible person, he will never participate in the specific work of the club, and the fans and players have even forgotten that Arsenal has become his team." ”

Following Kroenke's appearance, Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich, Chelsea chairman Barry and Arsenal chairman Hillwood were also present in the VIP box, although the two Chelsea bigwigs were booed by Arsenal fans.

Ten minutes before the game began, most of the foreign fans at the scene picked up their cameras and mobile phones to take pictures, and the local fans kept singing and shouting slogans. Some sing "Arsenal, EDO; arsenal,!” Some shouted the names of popular stars such as Cesc Fabregas and Li Huan. And the on-site narrator is still chattering about the scene and some new situations that happened today.

At 4:55, there were already sporadic raindrops, at this time, the players of the home team entered first, the big screen began to release the number of the starters and the player's avatar, the on-site commentator shouted the surname of each player, the fans followed to complete the name, and then there was a round of warm applause.

Arsenal's starting lineup for this game is 442 solid formation, 11 people are 1-Almunia/13-Li Huan, 10-Gala, 5-Vermaelen, 30-Traore/15-Denilson, 4-Fabregas, 17-Alexander Song, 8-Nasri/14-Walcott, 9-Eduardo.

Because Diaby and Klich were injured when they played in the national team, Brazilian Denilson and Ivorian Traore replaced the two of them, while Bendtner's injury on the front line did not heal, Van Persie was injured again, and the main striker on the forward line was only Eduardo, and Walcott, who started the line, was actually more of a winger.

Then the Chelsea players came out of the dressing room, but they were greeted with earth-shattering boos, especially Ashley. Cole, when the narrator called his name, the boos were so loud that no one could hear them on the other side.

Chelsea's starting XI for this game is also a 442 formation: 1-Cech/2-Ivanovic, 26-Terry, 6-Carvalho, 3-Ashley Cole/12-Mikel, 5-Essien, 8-Lampard, 10-Joe Cole/11-Drogba, 39-Anelka Chelsea's starting lineup is not much different from what the media and Wenger predicted.

At 5 o'clock, with the referee's whistle, the 174th London derby began, and almost at the same time, the hazy sky finally rained, and the fans in the stands took out the umbrellas they had prepared long ago and blocked their heads, continuing to cheer for their teams.

After the start of the game, Arsenal, which has been hot recently, launched a fierce attack on Chelsea, with Theo Walcott, Cesc Fabregas, Eduardo, Nasri, and Li Huan all quickly pressing the midfield and putting pressure on Chelsea's backline, hoping to recover the humiliation they have suffered from Chelsea over the years when they are at their strongest and strongest.

Carlo Ancelotti has always been a master of tactics, his line-up is very flexible, he played in a Christmas tree formation when he was at AC Milan, and when he arrived at Chelsea, he deployed a diamond-shaped midfielder according to the characteristics of Chelsea's world-class midfielders.

Joe Cole is active on the sideline, Lampard and Mikel are one after the other, Lampard needless to say, this is the world's famous iron man, he can't die; Although slightly inferior to Ballack and Deco in terms of experience and technique, Mikel is aggressive and powerful, and can effectively use his physical advantage against technical midfielders such as Cesc Fabregas. Nicknamed "Bison", Ghana midfielder Essien is nominally a right-sided midfielder, but in fact he has an astonishing range of runs that cover almost the entire Emirates Stadium. Not only did he hold tight on the right flank, but he also extended the defensive zone to the middle to help Mikel control the midfield. The two of them put up another fence in front of the already impregnable line of guards.

There are Lampard, Mikel and Essien in the midfield, Arsenal wants to enter Chelsea's 30-meter area in the middle is very difficult, although Walcott on the left side is amazingly fast, but in the case of Chelsea's solid backfield, he and Essien fight for the body is definitely not playable, the middle is the middle and encounters many obstacles, the focus of the game is on the left side of Chelsea, Li Huan and Nasri against Joe Cole and Ashley. Cole.

If it weren't for the heavy rain, maybe Arsenal could use their smooth and fast combination to gain the upper hand, suppress Chelsea near their penalty area, so that they can only run behind their butts, and then create set-pieces, so that Xiao Li can fly the knife to cannon Chelsea's iron bucket formation, but this sudden heavy rain has disrupted Arsenal's plan, in the rain, Arsenal's passing accuracy has declined, errors have increased, and the speed of passing with the ball has decreased, which has brought great convenience to Chelsea's active running defense, after the openingAlthough Arsenal still has a slight advantage in possession time overall, there are too many horizontal passes and return passes, and except for Li Huan's assist cross on the left side, there are few threatening straight attacks. Chelsea's simple and brutal deep strikes were effective in the rain, smashing the home side's defence to pieces in a matter of rounds.

(To be continued)