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Chapter 836 The gunman provoked

Ferguson has coached Manchester United for 24 years and has experienced countless strong enemies. He has not won for three years when facing Mourinho's embarrassing three-year period. He is even more vengeful to Benitez, but the only one who can be called Ferguson's lifelong enemy is the gentle Frenchman Wenger.

When Frenchman Wenger picked up the coaching point for Arsenal in 1996, Ferguson, who was in high spirits, did not take this opponent seriously at first. At that time, even Arsenal's own fans were doubting the coaching level of the head coach who worked in the Japanese league. However, Wenger, who only took one season to be familiar with the Premier League, soon won the FA Cup double championship in the 1997-98 season, and was named the Premier League's coach of the year. Ferguson, who was blocked from his three consecutive championships in the league, finally met his biggest opponent in his career.

Arsenal then rose strongly and won the championship with an unbeaten record in the 20304 season. Since then, the two teams have been regarded as the most important focus of the Premier League. Ferguson and Wenger have tried their best from verbal battles to psychological warfare. When the relationship between the two was the most tense, Ferguson was asked: "If you only have one bullet in your pistol, would you choose to kill Wenger or a hot girl?" As a result, Ferguson's answer was: "Can you give me two bullets?"

With the arrival of Benitez and Mourinho, especially Chelsea's strong rise, Ferguson's attention has temporarily shifted to Mourinho and Benitez. On the other hand, due to the tension in the club's finances and some mistakes in coaching philosophy, Arsenal, coached by Wenger, began to decline, and the conflict between Ferguson and Wenger gradually eased. Although they were still sarcastic, the battle of words was less than before.

In the 17th round of the Premier League, Manchester United faced Arsenal for the 210th time, and Ferguson faced Wenger for the 43rd time. Since Wenger's Arsenal is now tied for second with Chelsea in the standings, it poses a major threat to the leading Manchester United's league championship. In recent years, the Gunners and the Red Devils battles have become particularly eye-catching.

Last season, Arsenal was extremely close to the first championship title in the past five years. It tied up with Manchester United and Chelsea in the first half of the season and even led the Premier League for a time. However, the young Gunners unfortunately fell behind in the final stage. It seemed that they had failed and failed, but the inevitability of the inability to avoid the weakness of the defense, insufficient signings and excessive use of Fabregas led to the regrettable results last season to varying degrees.

According to the tradition of ordinary giants, in this case, summer transfers must be recruited to make a comeback in an attempt to make a comeback. Ferguson decisively spent 80 million euros to buy Inter Milan core Gao Xiaodong, which only set a record of 15 consecutive wins. However, Arsenal, like in previous seasons, has been constantly rumored to transfer throughout the summer, from Bremen's long man Mertesak, to Montpellier's Bosnian captain Spasic, to the recent rumored Rome abandoned player Mex, from Gao Xiaodong to Schwarzer to Adler, there are continuous news about Wenger's buying players. The only newcomer who has implemented the only central defender Koslcheney, who is also the most expensive signing for the Gunners this summer, from Lorient, worth 12.5 million euros; Moroccan striker Shamach, who has been cared for for a long time, finally came to shoot this summer, but he has become a free agent and has not spent a penny on the Gunners.

Obviously Wenger still believes in his young guards. He believes that Ferguson can build a Premier League dynasty with a group of young people from Class 92. As long as he persists, even if he cannot establish a dynasty, he still has the hope of winning the Premier League championship.

In fact, Arsenal started this season with a good performance. In the preseason, Bella's goal against the Celtics won the only Chiefs Cup championship that Arsenal has in recent years. He drew 1:1 with Liverpool in the opening game, and then won the game with a strong score against Chelsea. He lost to Chelsea in a strong dialogue, but then defeated Manchester City 3:0. After defeating Fulham 2:1 in the last round, Arsenal has caught up with Chelsea and only needs to look up to Manchester United in the standings. Although the 11-point gap is a bit big, if he can beat Manchester United away, hope will be ignited.

In the Champions League, Arsenal also went easier. After defeating Belgrade guerrilla 3-1, they also ensured that they qualify in the group one round ahead of schedule, and their record was even better than the same period last season.

Arsenal attaches more importance to this strong dialogue with Manchester United than Manchester United. Since Chelsea wants to have a London derby with Tottenham, in the eyes of Arsenal, this game with Manchester United can almost be compared with a league championship battle.

If Arsenal can win in this game, the gap between Arsenal and Manchester United will narrow to 8 points. In the absence of more than half of the league, the advantage of 8 points is not unattainable. In addition, if Chelsea cannot defeat Tottenham and Arsenal defeats Manchester United, then Arsenal's position will be even more favorable.

Professor Wenger, who has never taken the initiative to provoke, took the initiative to launch a psychological war against Manchester United this time.

In an interview with a reporter from bb before the game, Wenger said: "Now Manchester United is facing difficulties. They tied in the League Cup Blackpool and defeated West Ham United in the League Cup. One ended the record of 15 consecutive wins, and the other ended the longest unbeaten record in 12 years, but the opponents were all weak teams. This is enough to show that Manchester United has reached the end of their strength and 15 consecutive victories have squeezed out their physical strength and energy. Now is the good time for us to defeat them. Manchester United ended our 49 unbeaten record a few years ago. This time it was Arsenal who ended Manchester United's 16 unbeaten record this time. This is the will of heaven."

The coach spoke, and the captain must of course keep up. Arsenal's captain Fabregas is an indispensable existence for Arsenal. Last season, Fabregas was Arsenal's tactical core, the scorer and assists king, and this season is still the key figure of how far Arsenal can go. Faced with such an important battle, Fabregas also publicly declared war on Manchester United.

"Manchester United is a great team, but they are not invincible. Since West Ham United can beat Manchester United by big score, we can of course do it. I think over the years, Arsenal has not been worse than Manchester United and Chelsea. The reason why we failed to win the championship is not only luck, but more because the Premier League referees' law enforcement standards are too loose. Teams that encourage rough football. If the Champions League or La Liga law enforcement standards are used, Arsenal will have at least three more league championships. I think the key to the victory and loss of this game against Manchester United is not me, Al Shawen, Gao Xiaodong and Rooney, but the referee. If the referee can treat the foul on the court fairly, the victory should belong to us."
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