452 Welcome to Juventus

Wenger used the practice of buying Reyes to tell all the ambitions of the Premier League club Arsenal.

This is the fifth season since Arsenal won the Premier League championship in the 98-99 season. In these four seasons, Wenger's Arsenal has no other championship except the FA Cup. However, after four years of lying on firewood and taste, Wenger finally led his disciples back.

After the start of the second half of the season, Arsenal let the whole Premier League see what strength is.

On January 8, in the 20th round of the Premier League, Arsenal defeated Everton 2-1 away with goals from Kanu and Henry. From then on, it was out of control.

In the 21st round of the Premier League, Arsenal beat Middlesbrough 4-0 at home.

In the 22nd round of the Premier League, Arsenal beat Aston Villa 2-0 away.

In the twenty-third round of the Premier League, Arsenal defeated Manchester City 2-1.

In the 24th round of the Premier League, Arsenal defeated the Wolves 3-1 away.

In the twenty-fifth round of the Premier League, Arsenal defeated Southampton 2-0.

In the 26th round of the Premier League, Arsenal defeated the powerful Chelsea 2-1.

Before the start of the Champions League knockout stage, Arsenal has achieved a nine-game winning streak since the 18th round of the Premier League. In this nine-game winning streak, Henry, the king of guns, scored ten goals. He is currently the hottest striker in the world of football.

And Arsenal also relied on a wave of nine consecutive victories, which opened a long distance between the chase behind.

At the end of the 26 rounds of the league, Arsenal has accumulated 65 points.

Chelsea, which ranked second in the Premier League, showed some instability at this time. In the seven games since the beginning of the New Year, Chelsea only achieved three wins, two draws and two losses. Ten minutes less than Arsenal.

At the end of the first half of the season, Chelsea was only five points behind Arsenal.

I didn't expect that after the 26th round of the Premier League, it was 15 points behind Arsenal.

Manchester United has the same performance as Chelsea.

From 20 rounds to 26 rounds of the league, Manchester United only won three wins, two draws and two losses in seven games. Manchester United's results are even worse now. Arsenal has reached more than 21 points behind.

Blackburn's performance has been slightly better during this period.

Blackburn is four wins, two draws and one loss, at least three points more than Chelsea and Manchester United. In fact, four wins, two draws and one loss in seven games are already quite good results. Unfortunately, compared with the strong Arsenal, you can obviously feel the gap.

Blackburn also reached double digits behind Arsenal. Blackburn lost 14 points for Arsenal.

Blackburn played slightly better than Chelsea during this period. Unexpectedly, he climbed to the second place in the Premier League.

In fact, there is no difference between the second place in the Premier League and the third place in the Premier League. If there is a difference, it is that the third place in the Premier League is going to qualify for the Champions League, while the second place in the Premier League can directly enter the group stage of the Champions League.

According to the current strength of the Premier League, whether it is Blackburn or Chelsea, it is not a good way to qualify for the Champions League.

Therefore, as long as it is not a Premier League champion, the second and third place are indifferent to George.

But by this time, everyone knows that there is no suspense in the Premier League this season. Arsenal's strength continued, while the performance of other Premier League strong teams was as sluggish as ever.

Everyone thought that after Abrasimovic became the master, he spent so much money. Chelsea's results should at least be able to compete with Arsenal. However, Ranieri's performance still disappointed many people.

Especially Abu appears on the Stamford Bridge court every game. He must be very disappointed.

Abramovich invested 150 million pounds, and now he has been pulled 15 points by Arsenal. How could he be satisfied? It should be said that from this time, Abu has been considering changing the head coach.

............ At the end of the 26th round of the Premier League, George sat at home to welcome the Italian giant Juventus.

George has always dealt with Italian football. Although George is in defense, he is also the essence of Italian football. But when it comes to Italian football, it is always full of contempt.

This is not George's look down on Italian football.

In fact, George is full of respect for Italian football. The chain defense of the famous football world has benefited George a lot. But George really despises the current Italian football world, which is full of smoke and miasma.

Not only that, the development of Italian football is too slow.

Or the transformation of Italian football is even slower than the conservative English Football Association. Not to mention anything else, Italy alone does not allow privately owning the stadium, which has made the Italian club much behind the Premier League.

And the Italian Football Association, which has done a bad job in combating football hooliganism and racial discrimination. There are fewer and fewer fans watching Serie A live.

These environments are so bad that Serie A is getting worse and worse. If it hadn't been for the hard work of the top three in the north, Serie A would have been dumped by other leagues.

But just like English football, when the Premier League fell in the 1990s, he arrogantly fantasized that he was the originator of modern football and swept the European football world in the 1970s and 1980s.

The same is true of Italian football now.

They are immersed in the glory of the Little World Cup. Serie A is still the center of European football. I'm very proud and look down on other leagues at all.

And George has repeatedly ridiculed Italian football.

Therefore, many Italian media are quite dissatisfied with George.

The last season when Milan eliminated Blackburn, they talked about it every day.

This time, many Italian journalists came to England with Juventus.

Lippisai praised Blackburn's and George fiercely to the reporter in front of him. Blackburn has been doing well in the past few seasons. The Premier League has won three consecutive championships, which can be said to be a dynasty. Blackburn is at the best time now. In the face of such an opponent, we will be very careful.

"Coach Levy? Coach Levy is a famous European coach. It's amazing to achieve such a result at such a young age. When I was his age, I didn't know where my future was. Coach Levy is a genius in the coaching industry. There is a lot of pressure to fight with him this time.

George was inexplicable when he heard Lippi's praise for himself.

Who is Lippi? Even if George wins a few more championships, he can't be more famous than Lippi. Or even if Lippi doesn't work from now on, it will take many years for George to catch up with him.

What does Lippi want to do?

Does Lippi really think that if he praises himself casually, he will be fluttering. I really think I'm a fledgling child.

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But anyway, George has a bad image in front of the media.

So the acceptance of Lippi's praise. And he said arrogantly. It's just Juventus. I don't care about facing any team. As long as it stands in my way, I will defeat him.

In the face of such a high-profile George, not to mention Italian journalists, even English journalists are not used to it. Did George really have a few words of praise from Lippi? He didn't know that the sky was thick.

Although George doesn't have a good relationship with reporters. But there are still some journalist friends in England. A reporter kindly reminded George that George was facing Juventus this time, but the "silver fox" Lippi.

I didn't expect George to curl his lips with disdain. Lippi, is he awesome? Is there more than me in his champion?

That's really a frying pan.

Between Capello and Ancelotti, the representative of Italian football is Lippi.

Lippi has a very high reputation in Italian football. Now he is so despised by a junior. But what George said is not all lies.

Lippi is very good. But in terms of the number of champions, it's not necessarily more than George.

Lippi has five league champions, one UEFA Champions League, one European Super Cup, one Toyota Cup, four Italian Super Cups, and one Italian Cup, a total of 13 championships.

And George started with Burnley and won countless championships. Three Premier League champions, one UEFA Champions Cup, one UEFA Cup, two European Super Cups, one Toyota Cup, one FA Cup, two League Cups, and two Community Shield Cups are also thirteen champions.

Hearing George's words, the English reporter had nothing.

They don't like Italian football anyway. Someone came out to satirize Italian football, and they couldn't wait.

Journalists from other countries don't care about anything.

They only care about the news, and they are eager to come out with more news for them to write.

Only Italian journalists are quite angry with George. You used to satirize Italian football, but now even Lippi, one of the representative coaches of Italian football, is so disdainful. This made them furious.

But they are furious. There is nothing they can do about a thick-skinned coach like George.

The best way is for Juventus to humiliate Blackburn at home. Then these Italian reporters satirize George again, and then it will be the most perfect slap in the face. Therefore, Italian journalists are waiting for the end of the game.

Of course, George's words reached Lippi's ears.

But Lippi smiled and did not fight back as people imagined.

Lippi really attaches great importance to George. But after all, Lippi has experienced a lot of battles and praised George a little. Lippi didn't expect George to be really fluttering. But as long as George is a little proud, Lippi is quite satisfied.

A master's move, as long as a little flaw is revealed, it is fatal.

After all, George is young, and Lippi thinks that George must be a little proud. So it's just a little boost.

Now seeing that George is as arrogant as ever, Lippi is still satisfied. As long as George is proud, Lippi believes that Blackburn will definitely have a flaw.

No matter how you talk before the game, the Champions League knockout match has finally begun.

On February 26, 2004, in Ewood Park, the Champions League one-eighth knockout match began. The two sides are Premier League champion Blackburn and Serie A champion Juventus.

(To be continued)