Heroes of the Restricted Zone

Chapter 1462 Two Battles Against Arsenal
After the game against Tottenham, only two days later, Liverpool ushered in a league game again.

The intensive schedule can be imagined.

Playing two games in two days, let alone professional players, even amateur players may not be able to bear it.Moreover, their game intensity is far from being comparable to that of professional leagues.

The intensity of a professional game is definitely not something amateur players can bear, let alone a high-level game like the Premier League.It’s just that when Chinese professional players come, they will yell that they can’t stand it after playing a few games, and their physical fitness can’t keep up.Because the intensity and level of domestic leagues are far from what Chinese leagues can match.

How about playing more high-level games to improve your level quickly?Even if Chen Yingxiong has cheats, if he always hangs out in the domestic league, it is estimated that he will be a first-rate domestic player, a second-rate player in Asia, and a third-rate player in Europe and the world.

Playing two games in a row, Martin O'Neill took the rotation system to the extreme - he even replaced the goalkeeper.Reina sat on the bench.Goalkeeper Alex Smithis, who was transferred from Huddersfield Town last season, started the game.

Everyone has been replaced except for Chen Yingxiong.

More than half of them are substitute players, and there are also several main players.This guarantees the team's combat effectiveness, which is far worse than the main lineup and the substitute lineup.

The rotation adopted by Martin O'Neill is not a simple and blunt set of main lineup and a set of substitute lineup, but more than 20 players are broken up, there is no fixed main lineup, and there is no absolute substitute lineup.There is always a part of the main force plus a part of the substitute.

The advantage of doing this is that the strength of the two lineups will not be too different, and the results will fluctuate.The disadvantage is that the main lineup is not fixed for a long time, and the tacit understanding is affected.

But with the current situation, Martin O'Neill has no other choice. If there is any problem, at least wait until the schedule is over.

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Even with such a rotation lineup, when facing Bolton at home, it is not something Bolton can resist.

They lost 0:3 away to Liverpool.

Chen Yingxiong shines in the audience.Because he completed a hat-trick.

There were only three goals in this game, and he scored all three goals.

After the game, Bolton's coach said helplessly at the press conference: "I know that Liverpool have a big rotation, they even replaced Reina... But what's the point? They don't rotate heroes. For me, as long as With the heroes on the pitch, Liverpool doesn't count as a rotation at all!"

Some reporters in the audience even began to sympathize with Bolton who lost the game.That's right, if you switch to another team, with such a rotation, the team's strength has long been affected, and the opponents can take advantage of it.

But this rule does not apply to Liverpool.Martin O'Neill claims to be a believer in rotation, but everyone will spit on him—you have the ability to replace Chen Yingxiong!What does it mean to rotate everyone and you leave a hero Chen on the court?Just like this, you still have the face to say that you advocate rotation?
Who doesn't know that Chen Yingxiong is Liverpool's biggest guarantee of victory?If Chen Yingxiong plays well, Liverpool will win, if Chen Yingxiong does not perform well, Liverpool will lose.

If you have the guts, you can rotate Chen Yingxiong!
Martin O'Neill is not that stupid.

Isn't it stupid to keep the big killer and wait for others to beat you?He is not Saddam Hussein, if there is a big killer, he would have thrown it at the United States long ago.

Chen Yingxiong is Liverpool's big killer, not only must be used, but must be used to the extreme!
He has let go of it now, and doesn't care what other media say that Liverpool's results are only related to Chen Yingxiong, and have nothing to do with him as the head coach.No matter what the outside world says, in the history of Liverpool, in the history of English football, in the history of European and even world football, when recording these glorious years, the head coach of Liverpool at that time, Martin O'Neill, will be mentioned instead of someone else.

Chen Yingxiong is so easy to use, why not use it?
In the 22 rounds of the league, Chen Yingxiong scored an astonishing 39 league goals.

Such a crazy performance is just commonplace for Chen Yingxiong, and the media even began to worry-they don't know what kind of praise to give this player.They have used those words over and over again many times, and now they have no new ideas.

"Great", "Legendary", "Great", "Miracle", "Unbelievable", "Unbelievable"... They have used these words countless times, and they still use these words over and over again.

But what can they do?Who made Chen Yingxiong's performance always so good?Even if they want to pick some problems out, it won't work.

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After the game against Bolton, Liverpool's first-team role is over.They will have a rest period of up to ten days.This really makes other Premier League teams envious.

Because the next two games are domestic cup games, according to Liverpool's habits, these two games have nothing to do with the first team.

Five days later, Liverpool were at home to their FA Cup third-round opponents... Arsenal!

It stands to reason that the third round is the first game of the Premier League team in the FA Cup, so generally speaking, the Premier League teams will draw those teams from the low-level leagues that have advanced through the first two knockout rounds, such as the British Championship. The team and the League One team, if you are lucky, you will be drawn to the League Two or even an amateur team.

But this time, Liverpool's tone is so bad, they have drawn the Premier League team Arsenal in the FA Cup...

It's not just that simple.

Four days later, Liverpool faced Arsenal in the League Cup quarter-finals.

Fortunately, they played at home in these two games, so they didn't have to go to London, which was their advantage.

For Wenger's Arsenal, perhaps the FA Cup and League Cup are the best and even the last chance to beat Liverpool.

In any case, the reserve team is not as good as the first team.Even if there is a hero Chen.

In any case, Arsenal is also a strong team, even if they are not as good as before, they are still a strong contender for the Champions League places.

For Wenger in two consecutive games, he has enough time to understand and familiarize himself with this reserve team, and at the same time let his team adapt to playing against this team.

Even if Arsenal lost the first FA Cup game, they have accumulated valuable experience.This second game is ready.

In Wenger's view, if you lose the first FA Cup, you lose, and the second game is the final.

It's not that the League Cup is more important to him, nor is it that the League Cup is closer to the final and more likely to win the championship.But the FA Cup is just before the League Cup. If the League Cup comes first and the FA Cup follows, he will also feel that if he loses the League Cup, he will lose, and the FA Cup is the final.

It doesn't matter who is more important, who is more likely to win the championship.

Wenger didn't think that if they beat Liverpool, they could win the League Cup. He hasn't thought that far yet, he just wants to beat Liverpool.

In the past two seasons, not many teams have been able to beat Liverpool, and even fewer teams have been able to beat Liverpool upright.

Wenger hopes his team can accomplish this task.

For him, this may be more important than winning the championship.

Because for a long time, Liverpool has become a nightmare in Arsenal and other Premier League teams. If they can't beat them, they will never get out of this nightmare dream.

Not to mention competing for the championship.

Even a man as strong as Ferguson, after fighting Liverpool for several years, can only end up retiring, which is embarrassing.

What Wenger has to do now is to lead the team to defeat Liverpool in a dignified manner, and then tell the world that Liverpool is not invincible!We Arsenal are not vegetarian either!
This victory may be the turning point of Arsenal's season... no, it may be the turning point of these fruitless seasons.

Being able to beat Liverpool, Arsenal's morale can take advantage of the situation and regain lost ground in one fell swoop, and it may be completely recovered next season.

For other teams, it would be a disaster to touch Liverpool twice in four days.

But Wenger doesn't see it that way.

After all, he is a famous coach and the helm of the giant Arsenal.

He knows very well that the greater the risk, the greater the profit, and wealth is sought in insurance.At this time, maybe you can get an unexpectedly rich return.

Sometimes, you need to take a risk.

In fact, Wenger started preparing for the four-day match as early as last year. After the results of the FA Cup and League Cup matches came out, he began to arrange some special subjects for Liverpool in training.

The main role is to contain Liverpool's quick counterattack and at the same time limit Chen Yingxiong's.

This time his tactic is neither to shrink back and defend, nor to attack Liverpool.Instead, he paid more attention to control, firmly controlled the football at his feet, weakened Liverpool's chances of possession, took the rhythm of the game into his own hands, and let the game enter the field that Arsenal is best at.

And what about Liverpool?You can only be led by the nose by Arsenal.

As for a big man like Chen Yingxiong, Arsenal's defense is not very tight, but he puts more energy on his teammates.

Wenger thinks that Chen Yingxiong is obviously too powerful. Unless he can arrange eleven people to follow him at every step and wrap him in the middle, it will be very difficult to freeze him for nine to ten minutes.

For this reason, he found another way - I can't freeze you Chen Yingxiong, but I can freeze your teammates!
Although his teammates are super players, they are better than Chen Yingxiong, an inhuman monster.His teammates are still on Earth anyway, and Chen Yingxiong has already broken through the sky.

It is still possible for humans to stop the performance of Chen Yingxiong's teammates.To curb Chen Yingxiong's performance... No one wants to try this when the end of the world comes.

But even so, if you want to beat Liverpool, you can't just test this tactic, you have to play some tricks...

(End of this chapter)