Volume 3: The Myth of the Gunslinger, Chapter 287, Decisive Battle at Wembley

Earth's Puzzles: What It Takes to Beat Arsenal

"This line-up is absolutely the end of Arsenal"

"The sages tell you how to fight against Arsenal's all-out attack and defense"

Who else can take down Arsenal but time? 》……

Arsenal only used one game to secure a place in the Champions League, and at the same time forced the Roma coach to resign after the game, QUANbEn, "The Times", "Milan Sport", "Bild", "Reuters", "Roadside", "AFP", "France", ...... The whole of Europe is talking about who can beat Arsenal and who can bring back to Earth a team that is rapidly rising to Mars.

Because Arsenal have become the most invincible team in the world, they have become the public enemy of the whole people. When you are strong to a certain extent, everyone will regard you as an enemy, which is your success, and it is also the inevitable after success.

Of course Arsenal enjoy the feeling of being on top and being envied by being envied, and they haven't enjoyed it for a long time. And this feeling is like sucking that or something, I can't stop this feeling makes Arsenal's players forget fatigue, forget about injuries, and are in surprisingly good shape, and in the next two rounds of the league, Arsenal swept Stoke City with a record 10:0, and in the north London derby with Tottenham Hotspur, Li Huan scored a hat trick to help the Gunners beat Tottenham Hotspur again, and beat Tottenham, who had just found confidence in the Champions League, like a relegation team.

However, the biggest misfortune for Arsenal was that Theo Walcott and Cesc Fabregas were injured again and were unable to play in the Carabao Cup final against Birmingham.

The League Cup, the full name of the English League Cup, as it should be called the English Football League Cup, is a competition between all 92 clubs in England regardless of division. The tournament was founded by the Football League in 1962 to allow clubs to have a knockout-based competition outside of the league to challenge the FA Cup, which at the time was much higher in the minds of fans than the league.

The first League Cup was won by Aston Villa. Arsenal reached their first league final in 1968 but lost 1-0 to Leeds United in the final to finish runners-up, and just one year later, the Gunners reached the Carabao Cup final again in 1969 against Swindon City, who drew in 90 minutes, and the Gunners lost 3-1 to Swindon City in extra-time to defeat the Carabao Cup final for the second year in a row.

Reaching the Carabao Cup final for the third time against a mighty Liverpool team, Liverpool at the time had a rule: as long as Ian? Rush scored, Liverpool never lost. And Rush broke through the Gunners in the 23rd minute of the first half of the game against the Reds, when Rush scored in 150 games for Liverpool, the English football giants have never tasted defeat, but this law has been ruled by Charlie? Nikolaas' two goals in 10 minutes came to an end as the Gunners finally claimed their first Carabao Cup title after reaching the Carabao Cup final for the third time.

This time it was just a year after the Gunners reached the league final again in 1988, this time failing to continue the previous year's good fortune when they lost 3-2 to Luton City in the final. It wasn't until '93 that the Gunners beat Sheffield Wednesday United under Graham to kiss the Carabao Cup trophy for the second time and the last time so far. Reaching the Carabao Cup final for the sixth time against local side Chelsea, the Gunners eventually missed out on the Carabao Cup trophy for the fourth time, and there was a scuffle between the two sides.

Looking at Arsenal's performance in the League Cup final, they have only won two titles in the six finals, and the winning rate is only 33%, it can be said that the League Cup final is not the most appetizing dish for Arsenal, and they need to guard against arrogance and go all out if they want to become the first European champions this season.

Although Arsenal's opponent Birmingham has only reached the League Cup final twice, they have won the championship once, and the winning rate has reached 50%, although Arsenal beat Birmingham in the league, but in the history of the League Cup, Arsenal has only won Birmingham once, and Arsenal is not sure to win this encounter.

The League Cup final is played at Wembley Stadium, a professional football stadium located in Wembley, London, England. The stadium is the second largest, with the largest canopy in the world at Wembley Stadium, with a view of Wembley Arena across the stands.

Wembley Stadium is also known as the "Empire Stadium", in 1966 British fans witnessed the England team to the top of the world, so Wembley Stadium is also known as the temple of English football, the "holy land" of fans wearing the captain's armband, leading the team into the English football hall Wembley, such a supreme glory, Henry Bergkamp, the two contemporary Arsenal superstars have not experienced, after all, the last time the team reached the final of the event held by Wembley, it was in 1998.

Before the game, Li Huan expressed his determination to win the Carabao Cup, and the Arsenal captain said, "Whether the Carabao Cup is a chicken game or not, we are going to win for Cesc Fabregas and Theo Walcott Arsenal fans have not tasted the Carabao Cup for 18 years, and we have to satisfy them." ”

Before this Carabao Cup final, Arsenal's call to win the title was undoubtedly much higher than Birmingham's, but Birmingham boss McLeish didn't believe it: "Arsenal can win us nine times out of 10 duels between the two sides, but there will always be times when God will favor us, I have led the team to all kinds of finals five times before, I believe I am a man of luck." ”

In fact, God has already begun to favor McLeish, not only Cesc Fabregas and Walcourt are injured, but the referee of this Carabao Cup is named Mike Dean, who is now 43 years old and was the referee of the match between Arsenal and Birmingham City on February 24, 2008, and in that game, Eduardo's leg was broken by Birmingham central defender Martin Taylor, although Martin Taylor was then sent off with a red card, but Mike. Dean's lax enforcement of the law is evident.

Professor Arsene Wenger protested to the FA, arguing that Mike. Dean will have bad associations with the Arsenal players and affect the form of the players, but the FA did not listen to Wenger's suggestion to replace the referee, they thought that Wenger was making a fuss.

Arsene Wenger had intended to let Cesc Fabregas play for a few minutes, but after the FA referees rejected his offer, he insisted on letting Cesc Fabregas watch live TV at home or simply go to the stadium to watch the game, despite Fabregas's repeated requests. At the same time, Wenger also said that Arsenal will not play all the main players in this game, the former substitutes and youth team players helped the Gunners reach the final, and it is disrespectful to let them be spectators in the final, and Arsenal will use a combination of main and substitute line-up to play this Carabao Cup final.

The tournament takes place at 4 p.m. local time in London.

This match is the first title to be decided in Europe's top five leagues, and although Arsenal's opponents are not so dazzling, Arsenal's final will attract the attention of media and fans around the world. On the day of the game, Wembley Stadium was packed to 90,000 seats, and about 1,000 journalists from around the world came to the scene to cover the event. The Chinese boss Yang Jiacheng, who was left by Arsenal last time in a bloody Birmingham game, came to the pitch again to reach Birmingham for the second time in 48 years, and the Chinese boss had to pay attention, and he also had a little hope of winning so that he could become the first Chinese to lift the top trophies of the five major leagues.

Also on the scene was Arsenal's American boss Kroenke, although since he took office, Arsenal won the Champions League and the league, but the League Cup trophy is the first impact, and Kroenke is bound to win this trophy.

Since this is an alternative Chinese derby, legend has it that Li Huan is also buying teams from Europe's top five leagues, so that this League Cup final has been given a lot of Chinese elements by Chinese fans and Chinese journalists, so it has also been highly sought after by Chinese fans, and CCTV sports channel host Duan Xuan also came to Wembley Stadium to give a live commentary.

"This is a decisive game, this is a battle between giants and dwarfs, before the game, whether it is the media, fans or **** companies are unanimously optimistic about Arsenal to win their third League Cup, but such a fortuitous game, it is not certain who will die...... The game is about to start, so let's wait and see. ”

There was an earth-shattering cheer and applause from the stands.

"The players from both sides have come out, so let's take a look at the starting line-ups of both sides: Arsenal (4-2-3-1): 53-Szczesny/3-Sagna, 13-Li Huan, 20-Djorou, 22-Klich/No.2 Diaby, 19-Wilshere/7-Rosicky, 8-Nasri, 23-Arshavin/52-Bendtner.

The changes in Arsenal are mainly Li Huan's position and Rosicky's play, Li Huan appears in the position of central defender, and Rosicky plays, which are all details. Whether you can win or not depends on the player's on-the-spot performance.

Birmingham are also (4-2-3-1): Ben Foster/2-Karl, 28-Gilaneke, 5-Rogge Johnson, 6-Ridgewell/8-Gardner, 12-Barry Ferguson/18-Fahi, 4-Bowyer, 7-Larsson/19-Zhikic.

Birmingham play hard, and most of the disciples sent by McLeish are tall and strong, and they can run and fight, among which striker Zikicic is as high as 2.02 meters......"

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