King’s Landing in Nottingham

Chapter 231 Decisive Battle at the Arsenal

After the league has been played, Notts County still has ten full days to recover and adjust. Team coach Pep Guardiola and Notts County's top think tank Mr. Kraussen, who have been in retreat for more than ten days, walked out of the video room with thick notebooks and tactical boards that only they could understand.

Many paparazzi and sports reporter cats have waited for a long time near Notts County. Just for this day, as long as they can reveal what secret weapon Guardiola has researched, they will have enough food even if they don’t work in the second half of this year. .

However, the facts disappointed them again.

After leaving the customs, Guardiola did bring the players to make tactical adjustments and practice new routines, but their training venue has also been transferred to the indoor training ground and is not open to the outside world.

Tight walls and airtight cameras have made some paparazzi who are ready to take risks and return without success.

Let alone these people, even Katherine, who is afraid of Notts County Chairman Wei Xun, could not capture the footage of Notts County training. Her exclusive security guard, Parker, was also restricted from being close to the indoor training ground.

Notts County, this time it's really fun!

"Notts County is a great team, but there is only one FA Cup championship trophy. I don't know how they are prepared, but we are ready at Arsenal. The championship belongs to Highbury!"

Sky Sports and "The Sun" and other media reported on Arsenal coach Wenger's views on this game. The league championship is completely hopeless, and the big lead is reversed. It is a huge blow to the hearts and minds of the Arsenal players. The FA Cup champion, Arsenal is bound to win.

The opponent has already made a move, and Wei Xun is naturally not to be outdone. Faced with the joint interviews of the Nottingham Post, Nottingham Evening News and Fans, Wei Xun once again exerted his oratory skills:

"I respect Coach Wenger, just as I respect Coach Ferguson."

"Many people think that our Notts County game is lost. Even the outside dealers are not optimistic about us. We lose 6.9 when we win, and Arsenal lose 3.1 when we win. This is too disrespectful. Are we here? In this case, I don’t hide it. Our Magpie Group directly bet 30 million pounds and bet on Notts County to win. As it was a game between mine and the dealers, we won I made money, and if I lost, they took away 30 million."

In fact, Wei Xun, the gambler, only used this opportunity to pull out a little hair from the iron **** Zhao Tai. Wei Xun really wanted to bet, but Zhao Tai disagreed. Now, facing reporters boasting about Haikou, Zhao Tai is also embarrassed not to pay, right?

Zhao Tai has the most face.

"We struggled for a year just to win the championship; the Nottsshire people persisted for a whole season before winning the league championship, but now there is another championship trophy in front of us, and we want to win it, It only takes one game, and I believe no one will give up such an opportunity."

"Coach Wenger said that the champion belongs to Highbury. I just want to say that the champion may also belong to Notts County. I can't say too much. Wouldn't Arsenal be reversed by Manchester United in the Premier League? Let's use a decisive battle. , Come see you know!"

Wei Xun's words have been spread throughout the English football circle through television, newspapers and countless web pages, and Zhao Tai, who is inexhaustible, had to grant Wei Xun 30 million pounds this time to make him place a bet. After all, Wei Xun's bet tickets need to be seen in the newspapers, and they can't be faked.

"Boy, just when you won the money last time, you lost it all!" Even though there are ten thousand unhappy heart, but the money is given away and can't be collected. Zhao Tai's heart began to expect that Notts County should win the championship, honor and money will kill two birds with one stone.

Wei Xun began to give away the exclusive Cheerleader uniform made by Magpie Sports urgently a week before the game. The design is very simple. The front is thick and black, with a big championship trophy printed in the middle, in gold.

Countless people think it's ugly, even strangely ugly, but Wei Xun doesn't care. Anyway, it was given for nothing, and the cost is not high. It is considered free marketing.

Even though they have been to the Cardiff Millennium Stadium once, the players of Notts County still feel a little excited. After all, the FA Cup champion and the English Championship champion are not a weight class at all.

During this period, Notts County also completed the transformation from the lowest professional club to the top league club.

From the book, Arsenal’s starting lineup is the main force, how many times stronger than Notts County, and more than half of the 90,000 jerseys on the scene are wearing Arsenal’s red and white jerseys, introducing players to the game. At that time, uniform cheers broke out.

The goalkeeper of the arsenal is still the brave Seaman, followed by Ashley Cole, Keown, Campbell, and Lauren on the back line. To describe it in a four-time idiom, it is as solid as a rock. In midfield, we saw Wei Xun and Guardiola drooling, Pires, Vieira, Gilberto Silva, Ljungberg, all-star lineups. On the forward line are two guns from the arsenal, Thierry Henry and "Ice Prince" Bergkamp.

When the host introduced the Arsenal coach, Arsene Wenger's coach waved to the fans in the audience very elegantly. It felt like I would like to have the heroic feeling of "all the talents in the world will be in my sorrow". Right.

Although the number of fans wearing Notts County’s exclusive cheering uniforms was a little more than 30,000, and the volume is certainly not as loud as 60,000, but in terms of momentum, there is still nothing to lose.

Notts County’s starting lineup has changed a lot, especially the staffing in the midfield, and the "Professor" Wenger, who has done countless plans, squeezed his chin.

Notts County’s forward line has not changed much, with Frank Ribery on the left and right, plus Arjan Robben, and veteran Hubner in the middle.

The midfielder Guardiola himself did not play, and neither did Harvey Alonso and Sneijder. Instead, they were replaced by a combination of Warren Doyle, Thiago Motta and Anthony Elt. This is a midfield configuration with more defense than offense.

The back line is the most outsider. The full-backs of Lahm and Lichsteiner are not surprised, but Carvalho’s center-back partner has been replaced by Dutchman Esayas. In the goalkeeper position, it is the Shuguang Youth Academy. Aaron Hopwell is two meters tall.

It can be noticed that the team's goalkeeper coach Colin and veteran Sasha changed into a dark black training uniform, standing behind the goal of Notts County, pretending to warm up, in fact, they are ready to guide the young guy at any time.

Wei Xun admitted that this kid's talent is very good, but this is about choosing goalkeepers, not buying weapons, "one inch long and one inch strong" is not necessarily accurate. Aaron Hopewell is so high, the reaction speed is still weaker, and the shooting speed of Henry and Bergkamp will not give this kid extra reaction time.

Therefore, Wei Xun still doesn't quite understand why Guardiola sent Aaron Hopwell to play. But the reason Guardiola sent Esayas to start, Wei Xun thinks he already understands.

When the players from both sides walked out of the channel, Essayas had been spraying trash talk with Bergkamp. I have to say that the "elegant" ice prince has a good knowledge of "trash talk" than he has a deep understanding of it. This way, Esayas is still a lot worse.

It was at this moment that Wei Xun really understood that the football matchup was not only on the field, but also off the field. The FA Cup final between Arsenal and Notts County was officially started. From the moment he was scheduled to be the starter, the decisive battle had already begun.