Chapter 39: Midfield Strangulation

Christmas is approaching, and the major European seasons have also reached the half-season break. Google search reading

Of course, the Premier League does not have a winter break, and they still need to continue fighting.

In the Premier League, Liverpool still shows a terrifying state, with a record of 11-3-1 to dominate the entire league.

This state has attracted special attention compared to the half-dead Red Army last season.

Following closely is Arsenal.

Arsenal's state this season is in a relatively stable trend.

Biting the points gap tightly, not giving Liverpool any breathing time at all.

This attitude of chasing behind is the most unrelaxing.

However, in terms of lineup, Arsenal is experiencing a large batch of rotations.

Walcott's state is ups and downs, Vermaelen has a tendency to get injured, and the team is studying new tactics. Therefore, although it seems stable, it continues to take out new things and try to invest in them.

Of course, Arsenal fans are supportive of such changes.

For Arsenal fans, what they fear most is to remain unchanged and always maintain the state of competing for the top four.

Although Arsenal is constantly ups and downs and constantly changing.

But this also shows that Arsenal is constantly making changes and finding the best posture.

Especially in the midfield.

Arteta began to rotate in the tenth round of the league, and the organization of the team was more undertaken by Cazorla and Lucky.

The two new and young core players injected vitality into the Gunners and increased their competitiveness.

Arsenal under the dual core showed a very high competitive state in the 15th round.

They slaughtered Cardiff 7-1.

Ushering in the biggest climax of the entire league.

And this game completely made those who criticized Arsenal for "abandoning" Arteta disappear. After all, the current state of Arsenal is much better.

The new Arsenal tactics give them a sense of stability!

Solid defense, before the opponent enters their own half, they can immediately form a multi-person defense network under Lucky's deployment to intercept.

Even if the opponent passes, there is still Lucky's single defense line and the double protection of the back line.

This makes it difficult for the opponent to break through Arsenal's defense.

On the other hand, when attacking, Arsenal's posture is much more bold, rushing towards the opponent's penalty area like a hungry wolf.

When attacking, Lucky will no longer go too deep, but will protect and support more in the back, which also provides a layer of insurance for Arsenal's attack.

But the most exciting thing is the rhythm difference when the offense and defense change!

This is Lucky's strength!

Using the ability to foresee to act as a metronome, many times, Lucky's sudden pass can directly change the rhythm.

From fast to slow, from slow to fast!

This rhythm difference gives the opponent a great sense of discomfort, but they can't do anything about it. After all, Lucky is in the backcourt, and the pass covers a wide range, and they can't limit it at all.

In the era when high-pressure pressing has not yet become rampant in the Premier League, Arsenal's style of play makes the entire Premier League extremely uncomfortable.

Faced with this change, many media have said that 'Arsenal and Wenger have found the right path, and the Gunners are gradually waking up! '

In the Champions League, after six rounds of group matches, the top 16 places have been locked.

Group A: Manchester United, Bayer Leverkusen.

Group B: Real Madrid, Galatasaray.

Group C: Paris Saint-Germain, Olympiacos.

Group D: Bayern Munich, Manchester City.

Group E: Chelsea, Schalke 04.

Group F: Dortmund, Arsenal.

Group G: Atletico Madrid, Zenit.

Group H: Barcelona, ​​AC Milan.

In the entire Champions League group stage, Group B was upset.

Juventus lost to the Turkish Super League team Galatasaray and missed the Champions League knockout stage.

Home and away, one draw and one loss, Juventus, who has Chiellini, Bonucci, Pirlo, Pogba, Vidal, Tevez, has produced extremely poor results.

In the two games, veteran Drogba and Sneijder played amazingly, which also made many people look at Galatasaray differently.

In addition, the competition in Group F is even more intense.

Group F is known as the death group, but their matches showed the situation of "two" teams standing out.

Dortmund and Arsenal all handed in a record of 5-0-1 in six rounds of games.

They only lost one game each at the opponent's home court, and won all other games!

In terms of goal difference, Dortmund led Arsenal by 1 goal to win the group first place.

This also made Arsenal feel very sorry.

If they scored two more goals in the last game, they would have appeared in the first place of the group.

But there is no regret medicine in the world!

The second place in the group also appeared, but it was more difficult to play!

Among the second places in the entire group, Arsenal became the hardest bone to chew.

Today's Arsenal has shown an extremely excellent state in constant change.

In this regard, the German media "Kicker" said:

"Arsenal has become the opponent that a team that appears in the first place of a Champions League group is most reluctant to meet. No one wants to be told that their opponent is Arsenal after they have worked hard to get the first place in the group."

"Compared with Manchester City's ups and downs in the group stage, Arsenal has been very stable, especially after February, when the main players have returned from injury. This kind of Arsenal is definitely not one of those teams whose goal is to reach the top of Europe. The opponent the team wants to meet!”

"But Arsenal are there! A team has to face him!"

"This will be an extremely exciting competition. This is a hard bone! Very hard! Very hard! Even if it is bitten into pieces, the opponent will still lose one or two teeth!"

Even "London Sports News" expressed dissatisfaction for Arsenal.

"Arsenal should be in Group A! Manchester United's performance is not outstanding. Although it appears first in the group, it cannot go far in the Champions League. Instead of this, it is better for Arsenal to advance as the top of Group A, which can make They get a better schedule!”

"Among the current Champions League teams in the Premier League, only Chelsea and Arsenal are competitive enough."

"The era of the Manchester City duo is over!"

This is also the view of many Premier League fans!

They do not deny the performance of Manchester City and Manchester United in previous seasons.

But this season, the performance of the Manchester City duo has been extremely poor.

Especially for Manchester United, after the departure of Ferguson, Moyes was unable to control the team, which led to many problems.

Compared with the Manchester City duo, Arsenal and Chelsea led by Wenger and Mourinho are truly tough.

In the past, Arsenal lacked something to be feared about.

But now that Arsenal has ushered in Lucky's explosion on the defensive end, no team can ignore this point.

Many times, when facing Arsenal, we have to worry about how to deal with Lucky.

After all, not being able to get past Lucky means not being able to score.

Arsenal's wall has become a problem for many teams.

And now the problem has come to Manchester City's side.

Round 16 of the Premier League, Manchester City vs Arsenal!

Facing Arsenal, which is now gaining momentum, how will Manchester City respond?

And whether Manchester City will still show a bad game state.

This game has also become the focus within the Premier League.

December 14th, Manchester City, Manchester City Stadium.

Ah~~~~~~~~~!

More than 60,000 Manchester City fans at the scene made sounds of annoyance.

First half, 14 minutes.

Arsenal was intercepted by Manchester City when attacking and launched a quick counterattack.

Yaya Toure passes the ball to David Silva.

In this game, David Silva, who was on the right front, was marked by Lucai before he could complete his turn.

Lucky put so much pressure on David Silva that he couldn't make a turn at all.

In the process of constantly pulling the ball from left to right, Lucky finally became impatient and pushed hard with his body, grabbing the ball from David Silva's feet arrogantly.

This steal did not have many technical components, it was pure strength, but because of this, Manchester City fans felt helpless.

Because when facing Lucky, they seemed to have no good way to break through him.

The only thing to do is to bypass Lucky.

But Lucky's excellent prediction ability can always reach the landing point of the ball, which makes it difficult for them!

"Following last season's FA Cup final, Manchester City once again ushered in the crazy strangulation of Arsenal's midfield!"

Sky Sports commentator Andy Gray shook his head and said: "Obviously so far, Manchester City still can't find a way to break through Kai."

Lucky wanders around the center circle.

The Manchester City fans booed loudly.

And when he got the ball, the boos got even louder.

This affected Lucai to a certain extent, and also made him feel a little unhappy.

Lucky calmly observed the direction of the game.

At the same time, he paid attention to his teammates' movements.

Cazorla passed the ball back to Lucky. As soon as Lucky received the ball, the opponent's center Negredo rushed over and harassed Lucky.

As a rare power center in football, Negredo is confident enough in his ability.

But after he entangled Lucai, he found that he was completely unable to shake him.

Lucky, on the other hand, almost carried Negredo on his shoulders to complete the work of delivering the ball.

Seeing Lucky complete the ball, Negredo shook his head helplessly.

He was in a very depressed mood.

I am a strong man of 85 kilograms but I can't shake Lucai. What kind of physical ability is this?

At the same time, he also somewhat understood Aguero's instructions to him before the game.

‘Don’t fight with that guy! That's just causing trouble for yourself! ’

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