Arsenal has their own King of Gun Kings! Messi and Ronaldo's Pressure and Abnormality! 58 Unbeaten Games Imminent! This match concluded with Arsenal's dominant 6-2 victory over Reading, securing another Premier League win and extending their unbeaten streak to 56 games! Just 2 more games! They will tie the Milan Dynasty's record and stand first in the history of the top five leagues!
The current Arsenal has unknowingly reached the best form in their entire history. The players are in high spirits, with unprecedented ambition.
They no longer consider any other issues, just holding their breath and making a final sprint towards ultimate success, everyone is ready for the final battle.
"Let the Red and White flag fly at the highest point, the Arsenal Dynasty will become eternal!" - Arsenal Official released a poster photo.
"First: Arsenal, 50 points; Second: Manchester City, 41 points; Third: Chelsea, 40 points; Fourth: Manchester United, 40 points." - Premier League Round 18 standings. "Premier League Round 18 concludes, Arsenal completely widens the gap with other teams, becoming the fastest team in Premier League history to reach 50 points, with 16 wins and 2 draws in 18 rounds, conceding only 4 goals!" - L'Équipe.
"North London raises '58' themed posters and banners in many places, Arsenal fans are preparing and praying in advance for the important moment, they will dedicate all their passion!" - London Evening Standard with a picture.
Overnight, the entire London, and even the entire England, seemed to have only Arsenal left as a team.
Tottenham and Chelsea no longer had any news coming out, no one was speaking out, and teams in other places were silently preparing for their own matches, no longer vying for any headlines, everything seemed to be giving way to Arsenal.
Top tier!
Arsenal is now the undisputed absolute top tier in world football, they occupy at least eighty percent of the attention of football fans! Even major league powerhouses such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern, and Juventus have had a sense of disappearing during this time.
Except for their own fans who still pay attention to them, other neutral fans rarely find reports about them, and even if they see them, they don't think they are important news and are not very interested.
And with Arsenal's momentum so strong, the team's young captain, the absolute core Maël, is naturally the focus of everyone's attention.
Fans not only pinned their hopes on him to surpass the 58-game unbeaten record, but also took care of his own personal honor, the Ballon d'Or, which once again became the focus of discussion.
"Maël and Arsenal have reached the forefront of history, they will definitely have the most beautiful ending, one breaking the team record, one breaking the personal record." - Henry posted.
"A Messi like him is hard to come by in 600 years, his brilliance is like a dream." - Guardiola posted at the same time. "Although I am a Real Madrid supporter, Messi is obviously the strongest, he deserves to win the Ballon d'Or." - Real Madrid legend Guti.
"Those who support Messi like to say that he has prestige and influence, and he also played his best form this year, and should win the Ballon d'Or, completing a 4-peat, but I want to say that he lacks valuable championships this year." - Gareth Speed. "Maël has also played the best form of his career, and has shown a thriving, rapidly growing momentum and potential. If Messi has prestige and influence, then he is the one with more potential and future. I think these two offset each other." - Wenger.
"Maël has won the Premier League, EFL Cup, Community Shield Cup and... well, in fact, I think with his performance this year, one European Cup is enough to surpass Messi, 80 annual goals won't be much worse than 90." - Arsenal former legend Pires.
"This year's Barcelona is not strong enough, but Arsenal has ushered in the best period in their history. With this and other advantages, I think Maël's Ballon d'Or is undisputed." - L'Équipe editor-in-chief.
From the direction of public opinion on this day, it can be clearly seen that Maël is gradually gaining the upper hand, which has never happened before.
More people are starting to support him, and the evidence listed by those who speak for him is also more powerful.
In comparison, what those who speak for Messi say is slightly far-fetched, without any very based facts, only some more 'empty' praises.
As the editor-in-chief of L'Équipe said, this is of course related to Arsenal's recent strength. In the football world or anywhere, a person's success is closely related to the team platform he is in.
And once this successful person is not only the one who promotes his own success, but also the one who leads his team platform to achieve outstanding success, then the praise and appreciation he receives will be multiplied!
Maël is such a person, this is something that no one can question, Arsenal and the Premier League have become better because of him, even the French Team, everyone around him.
"Ma-ehl!! Ma-ehl!!"
These days, the Arsenal fans in North London are extremely excited, their faces are filled with happy smiles, everyone has the feeling of being the center of football for the first time.
Many people sing the team's songs on the street, and also sing the Maël's Song of the team's hero, praising them with loud voices and intoxicated expressions.
Look, their team is challenging one of the most difficult records to break in history, their captain is also challenging the youngest Ballon d'Or, and is expected to leave another unprecedented record!
They are walking on such two roads, and attracting the attention of the world, what's wrong with calling this period of time here the center of world football?
In previous years, Arsenal fans experienced rounds of frustration, rounds of shame and disappointment that were bigger than the last.
This year, they never imagined that after experiencing dreams bigger than the last, they would still be living in an even happier and more fulfilling dream! "Lifelong support for Maël!!"
"Lifelong support for Arsenal!!"
All the fan bars hung up these two banners. If Serie A team Roma had the name of the Wolf King Totti engraved at the very top of the steps bearing the names of all the great Roman emperors from ancient Roman times to the present, then the Arsenal fans now had the same idea.
Except, the title before 'Maël' would be changed to King of Gun Kings!
December 14th, after Barcelona's 2-0 victory over Cordoba in the Spanish Copa del Rey 1/8 final.
Messi was in his mansion with his father and members of his marketing and public relations team. Everyone's face was slightly heavy, as if they had something on their minds.
"What about the judges?"
Messi's father turned to ask one of the people in charge, "What is the attitude of the judge who is close to us this year? Is there any definite news?"
The person in charge shook his head slightly, looking like he had something difficult to say, and finally said, "Only a few people have said that they will firmly vote for us, many people have not expressed their opinion.
"The current situation is that there are many people who firmly support Messi and those who support Maël, it depends on who can win over the centrists.
"And most centrists are waiting for Arsenal's position at the end of this month, they want to see if they will still remain undefeated by then. If Arsenal continues to be strong, I estimate..."
He didn't continue, but the meaning was already very clear, if Arsenal was standing at the door of breaking records, then most people would support Maël.
Messi's father's face became extremely serious, he glanced at Messi and lowered his head, his right hand clenched together and constantly kneading.
Messi's face also clearly showed pressure. Since winning his first Ballon d'Or in 2009, he has won three consecutive Ballon d'Or awards.
The three-peat brought him not only honor, but also pressure. After enjoying unprecedented praise in football, he had long been accustomed to winning the Ballon d'Or, accustomed to living under the spotlight and applause.
At this time, if he couldn't win four consecutive championships, it would mean that he would lose everything he had accumulated in previous years.
Moreover, if it was Maël, who is only 19 years old, who broke his record, then all the spotlights on him would mercilessly shift and shine in Maël's direction!
Messi knew very well that people liked young geniuses. Once a young genius ascended the throne, he would definitely attract everyone's attention and not give half a point to others.
That's how he came to be, so he knew very well how much Maël, who was younger and more talented than he was when he succeeded, would get at that time.
"Too fast."
After a long time, someone sighed, "It's too fast. Generally speaking, from the time we notice a player, to the time the player becomes famous, to the time he shows the competition for the top ten, to the time he shows the competition for the top three, and finally to the competition for the best, there is a process.
"Not to mention Xavi and Iniesta in the team, who are an earlier batch of people than Messi, and can be considered to have grown up in a club.
"Let's talk about Atlético Madrid's Falcao, we knew about him in 2009, when he transferred from River Plate back to Porto for 5.4 million euros."
He gave an example and continued: "But he really became famous, that is, he was known by the majority of fans, in August last year, when he transferred from Porto to Atlético Madrid for 40 million euros.
"And this year, with stable performances in multiple clubs for several consecutive seasons, he has the qualifications to compete for the top ten in the world.
"The span of this is more than three years, and that's already very fast."
His shoulders shrugged slightly, and he sighed slightly: "But from the moment we knew Maël, he was already a top ten player in the world, and he quickly climbed to a very high level.
"Even at that time, we didn't think he was Messi's opponent. Who knew that only a year later, he..."
He didn't continue, in front of Messi, he couldn't say that Maël already had a great threat, and even had the upper hand.
The others looked heavy. As this person said, they didn't pay attention at first, or thought that Maël, who still needed to develop for a while, had now come to this position at a speed that no one had expected.
If someone had said a year ago that Maël would be competing with Messi for the Ballon d'Or at the end of 2012, everyone would have scoffed and even burst out laughing.
Who would have thought... "Sigh." Messi's father sighed deeply, racking his brains for a solution.
Messi sat in place, head down, drinking Mate Tea shipped from Argentina, lost in thought.
Madrid, at Ronaldo's mansion.
As one of the best players in the world and the most watched and followed Portuguese superstar, his residence is never short of tourists and reporters, and it's always a lively scene.
"Click, click...!"
"Ronaldo!!"
Outside the door, it was noisy, and flashes of light kept going off, a lively scene, but also a bit chaotic.
In earlier years, Ronaldo would often express anger at this situation, and he had repeatedly scolded these people at the door, especially those reporters who wanted to dig up more scandalous news about him.
He remembered that during the time when his first child was born, he was disturbed by this kind of thing all day long, and countless people were asking about the child's biological mother, which made him furious many times.
But today, Ronaldo inside the house felt something special when he heard these sounds.
He opened the window, but closed the curtains, looking down through the curtains, and listening to these sounds, wanting the noise to wash away the anxiety in his brain.
"Ronaldo."
Irina tiptoed off the bed and wrapped her arms around his waist from behind, as if she could understand his troubles, "Isn't Mendes coming over yet? I've rarely seen him this year."
Ronaldo didn't speak, just stared blankly at the fans downstairs who were crazy about him.
"He's not coming?" Irina pointed out what Ronaldo was thinking. She wanted to open Ronaldo's heart and talk about these things in this way, maybe it would make him feel better.
"Yes." Ronaldo's voice was impatient, he didn't want to talk about it.
"How could he do this? Has he forgotten everything from the past?"
Irina let go of Ronaldo's hand and came to Ronaldo's side to stand up for him, "No one can be so ruthless... Ronaldo, you have a clear conscience towards him, I think that's enough, you need to know that you are right.
"As long as your heart is full and strong, it doesn't matter if you lose something for a short time, we will get it back sooner or later."
Ronaldo frowned, even more impatiently, "I don't want to hear these words, you know my character, I have never felt that I would leave something, and I have always firmly believed in my future.
"So, no need to comfort me, no need to think that I am a very fragile person, on the contrary."
Irina lowered her head and didn't know what to say. After a moment of silence, she left Ronaldo and went to the refrigerator to get milk.
"I can't blame Mendes, our cooperation will continue."
Ronaldo glanced downstairs, closed the curtains, and murmured at the same time: "But even knowing that saying this may be wrong, I still have to say, this time, I am a little disappointed in him."
Irina turned her head and looked at the figure by the window, forgetting what she was doing for a moment.
...
On December 18th, the EFL Cup competition was rekindled on the British Isles, and on this day, the biggest upset of the season so far broke out.
Arsenal, who had been in the ascendant recently, went all out with a second-tier lineup, but eventually tied 1-1 with Bradford City, a team in the English Football League Two. In the final Penalty Kick shootout, they lost 2/3.
This was an unexpected failure. No one thought that the current Premier League leader could lose to the second team in the fourth tier of England.
Even with a second-tier lineup, it shouldn't be like this, right? Even if they send out the reserve team and the youth team, it shouldn't be like this, right? In such a way, in a stunned gaze, Arsenal, with collective black faces, withdrew from the EFL Cup battle line this season. Their championship journey this season has three lines left.
Premier League, Champions League, and the English FA Cup.
That afternoon, Maël, having finished his extra training, learned of this news at home and was extremely shocked.
He roughly watched the replay, but only saw the team wasting countless opportunities and Wenger's countless helpless and dark faces.
Maël wasn't too sad, because he had already won the EFL Cup title and all individual awards last season. Being eliminated on this front this season wouldn't affect his completion of the English league grand slam.
He just felt a little sudden, as if a breath was stuck in his throat.
He didn't know how the second-string lineup would get through tonight, or what Wenger would think, only that the Bradford City players were going to have an unforgettable night.
The charm of football?
As the captain of the current Premier League leaders, Champions League group leaders, and the team that was upset, he couldn't say that, but he still felt a bit of emotion in his heart.
"Alright."
Maël didn't think too much about it, but instead looked forward, also comforting himself, "Anyway, there's no chance of winning seven titles in a single season or seven titles in a calendar year this season, so it's good to have one less front to reduce the pressure.
"Hopefully, we can win the quadruple and also get the qualifications for next year's Community Shield Cup, UEFA Super Cup, and FIFA Club World Cup. We'll play a big one then."
He knew that right now, he should focus his attention on the Premier League, because the 58-game unbeaten streak was imminent!
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