In the eyes of Arsenal's players, Li Huan is also a very strange oriental player, he is dominant on the court, he is very quiet off the court, even on the plane from London to Glasgow, Scotland, Li Huan just sits quietly in the tail of the cabin and reads, except for occasionally looking down at the white clouds outside the window.

"What books are you reading?"

Fabregas had just finished chatting with his teammates, and came to the side of Li Huan, who was not very gregarious, as the captain, Fabregas was very conscientious, and played a lubricating role in this multinational force.

"Gallic Wars."

Li Huan closed the book, he has a good impression of the young captain, as a child of a rich family, there are not many gentle and polite people like Fabregas, and Li Huan believes that in order to achieve results at Arsenal, he must have a good relationship with the coach's cronies and the team's bosses.

"You're so interested in history? In fact, the ancestors of the Celtic team we are playing against are Gauls. Descendants of a bunch of barbarians, and in an hour you will have a completely different feeling than you did in England. Fabregas said.

Li Huan smiled and said: "Caesar said that Gauls are impetuous and fragile, light on picking provocations and causing trouble, completely unable to withstand setbacks, capricious, and acting "rashly", I don't know if the current Celts are like this. ”

Fabregas said: "There is a certain truth in what Caesar said, the Celtic are fanatical, extremely frivolous, unashamed, arrogant when they win and depressed when they lose, they think that Celtic are the best team in the world, they can win all the championships in the world. In fact, they only won the European championship once more than 40 years ago. Li Huan took the book and gently tapped his knee, smiled slightly, and said, "They are also qualified to be proud, we haven't won it once." Cesc Fabregas was speechless and said after a while: "The Scots have reached a very blind level of support for their team, you have to be mentally prepared, even if you are the world footballer, you will not be welcomed here." ”

Li Huan shrugged his shoulders and said relaxedly, "I understand." An hour and a half later, the plane landed at Scottish International Airport, where a large number of Arsenal fans and journalists, including many Celtic fans in green shirts, had come to meet the plane.

As soon as the Arsenal players stepped off the plane, they felt the hostility from the Celtic fans, who also heard the threats and provocations from the Celtic fans as they laid flowers and applauded.

"Boys from England, you're done 1"

"Wait, we'll clean you up in the evening."

"You're out, we're going to kill you five to zero." ……

Celtic fans waved their fists at the Arsenal players, stretched out five fingers, and even wanted to rush over to meet the Arsenal fans face to face, but fortunately the airport security stopped them from approaching the Arsenal players, but this scene still cast a shadow on the hearts of the Arsenal players who had never been to play in Scotland. They can imagine how fierce the battle will be at Celtic Park.

Due to the provocation of the radical Celtic fans, Arsenal did not stop at the airport and did not sign a group photo with the fans, but went directly to the hotel with the club staff who arrived early.

The game was played at 7:45 p.m., and the team arrived at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, which was still a long time before the game, although Wenger felt that the Celtic fans were too crazy to ignore the surname, but he did not prohibit the players from going out, because Scotland is one of the top 50 safe tourist cities in the world, and the security is very good, and these Celtic fans will not cause personal harm to the Arsenal players.

Li Huan has been admiring the hometown of the legendary bagpipes, kilts, and whisky for a long time, and because he is going to return to London immediately after the game, he may not have time to come in the future, so he and Fabregas went to the streets of Glasgow with a few people to walk around, and he found that some Celtic fans have no good impression of their teammates, but they are very enthusiastic about him as an Asian, and at first thought it was because he was the World Footballer, and later learned that it was because Shunsuke Nakamura used to play here, It has achieved very good results, and now the Celtics are actively bringing in a Chinese player, and it has almost been confirmed.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Arsenal went to Celtic Park to adapt to the venue, and there were still many Celtic fans in the stadium who booed the Arsenal fans. However, now the Arsenal players have some immunity and have completed the training content in the interference.

Then came the pre-match press conference, where Arsene Wenger felt the pervasive pressure from the opposition fans and brought Li Huan with him at the press conference, hoping that the new recruit would be able to motivate the players with a tough attitude.

'Celtic are the ideal opponents, it's so close and it's my happiest thing to be in Scotland when we have two games a week. It's going to be a tough game and the home fans are going to create a very lively atmosphere, but we've had a lot of away experience and I don't think it will affect our performance.

Maroney, Samaras and McGward are very dangerous players for the Celtics and we have to keep an eye on them, Mowbray built a team with a technical surname when he was at West Bromwich Albion, and I believe he will bring a new change to the Celtics, which is something we have to be careful about, they don't just play against physically.

Walcott has a back injury and Denilson has also suffered a minor injury in training, but Abu? Diaby arrived with the team. We have enough men to play and we will play today with the strongest squad and I believe the team has a good chance of winning this game. It's a crucial game for us because we know very well that the result is unpredictable and how difficult it is to play here. ”

In his press conference, Arsene Wenger re-emphasised the difficulty of the game, as well as the importance of the game to Arsenal and their determination to win.

Celtic boss Mowbray said: "We are a 100-year-old club, the team has been improving since I arrived, we believe we have the quality to compete with teams like Arsenal and Manchester United, here, at Celtic Park, we are the masters, we have the ability to beat any opponent, the Champions League is also very important for us, we need to go to Europe and show our goodness. ”

Although Mowbray repeatedly reminded the media and reporters to pay attention to their existence, they are also a century-old giant, but because Li Huan was not interviewed at the airport, in the subsequent reporters' questions, Li Huan still became the focus, and even a great coach like Wenger can only be used as a foil.

"May I ask Mr. Li Huan, what is your impression of Glasgow and Scotland?"

"Verne said that Glasgow 'shows the poetic poverty of an industrial city', but in my eyes, the product of these old industries is poetry itself, and I love it here and hope to have the opportunity to come to Scotland again." ”

"What do you think of Celtic fans? Do they scare you? ”

Li Huan said: "No, they are very friendly to me, they show me the passion for football and tradition. ”

"You're called a defender with a knife, will you score in this game?"

Li Huan said: "I have a lot of respect for the Celtics, but I'm sorry to say that we will definitely win the game, and the Celtics can't stop us from moving forward." As for us personally, it's nothing to score without scoring. ”

"Did you know your opponent is Maroney?"

Li Huan nodded and said, "I know that he is very strong in the left midfield position, but today I will let him calm down." ”

Li Huan's speech at the pre-match press conference once again angered the competitive and aggressive Celtic, and after the press conference, Scottish left-back Maroney vowed to embarrass Li Huan and make him understand that this is Celtic Park.

At 7:30 p.m., the old Celtic Park stadium was packed with 60,000 fans, and the whole stadium was full of greenery, turning into a summer Scottish primeval forest, and the Arsenal fans in red and white jerseys were almost surrounded by small red and white flowers surrounded by heavy green.

At this time, Duan Xuan, the commentator of the imperial court station, has already obtained the starting list of the Champions League qualifiers, and he is introducing to the fans in a usual calm tone:

The starting lineup of Celtic is a 451 lineup: goalkeeper 1 - Boruts, four defenders 11 - Fox, 22 - Luwens, 5 - Cardwell, 2 - Hinkle, five midfielders 13 - Maroney, 18 - Donati, 6 - Engelmer, 8 - S Brown, 46 - McGradis, forward 9 - Samaras.

Mowbray played to the fullest, but they still adopted a more solid and conservative 451 line-up, apparently hoping to play against Arsenal in midfield.

Arsenal's starting lineup is: goalkeeper 1-Almunia, four defenders 13-Li Huan, 10-Gala, 5-Vermaelen, 22-Klich, four midfielders, 4-Cesc Fabregas, 17-Alexander. Song, 20-Diaby, 8-Nasri, two forwards 11-Van Persie, 52-Bendtner.

Professor Wenger also adopted a solid 442 formation instead of the traditional 433., it seems that after Li Huan came to Arsenal, the coach did not think it was necessary to set up a right winger, Li Huan alone can dominate the entire right side of the attack and defense, so that the midfielders of the four can better control the situation.

(To be continued)