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Chapter 365: London City Derby ([-])

Generally speaking, Li Zihan had a very fulfilling day. He played around with his lover and her best friend all day, and his mood was also relaxed. Oh, and Susu, that bastard.

It is worth mentioning that when Li Zihan returned to London in the afternoon, he went to the hospital to visit Walcott.The little tiger is still in the hospital and has not been discharged. The doctor said that he will not be released from the hospital until he recovers from the operation.

Without Walcott's training, Li Zihan always felt that something was missing.When I had this guy around before, I would often make some small jokes, do some pranks, and the training was not boring.Now that this guy is lying in the hospital, Li Zihan still misses him a lot.The main reason is that no one stole Wilshere and Ramsey's change of trousers while taking a shower, so it wouldn't be considered a joke.

However, the days of training passed quickly, and the four days of training came to the weekend in a blink of an eye.

When the league reached the No.17 round, Arsenal encountered a London derby, which can be regarded as a red and blue battle.Arsenal ushered in the Blues Chelsea at their home court.

The former Chelsea Arsenal never thought it would be their opponent, and then after the Russian billionaire Abramovich moved in, the situation was different.Since then, the Jagged Blues have become a Premier League giant and a strong contender for the championship. Even in the whole of Europe, not many teams can retreat from their tiger's mouth.

Especially when Mourinho returned to Stamford Bridge, the combination of the Portuguese and the Russian made the Premier League's powerhouses feel unspeakable.

So for Arsenal, this is also a game that cannot be lost.Because once you lose, it means that you have to give up the leader's throne.

Only fought against Manchester City in the last round. For Arsenal, the pressure of this game is relatively high.Because their opponent Chelsea played the newly promoted Crystal Palace team from London City in the last round, so they didn't use much effort, and Arsenal hurt their opponents by a thousand and eight hundred in the last round.

When the time came to nine o'clock in the evening on the 22nd local time in the UK, the same-city contest between Arsenal and Chelsea was fully launched.It's about another collision between the riches of old London and the riches of new London, and it's also a desperate struggle between the passionate red and the tenacious blue, the natural enemy.

This strong dialogue was arranged by the FA in the last game of this round of the league. When Arsenal and Chelsea kicked off, the other nine games had already been declared over.

Liverpool and Manchester United, the two "red brothers" of Arsenal, defeated their opponents at home without surprise. Manchester City was a guest in London City and went to the rancher's house as a guest, and also successfully took away three points.Even Everton beat their opponents, and the only one who lost was Southampton, the saints who lacked stamina. They lost [-]-[-] at home to Tottenham Hotspur in North London.

Before Arsenal played this league game, Liverpool already had 36 wins, three draws and three losses and scored [-] points, which is the same score as Arsenal.So in this game, if Arsenal lose, they will be under double pressure from Liverpool and Chelsea, and the points advantage accumulated in the early stage will no longer exist.

In this game, Li Zihan appeared in the starting position, instead of sitting on the bench and waiting for an opportunity like in the previous round.Apparently Wenger knows that when playing against Mourinho's team, you can't put your effort into grinding and wasting him. Instead, you have to establish your lead in one go, and then slowly play a war of attrition with them, paying attention to their quick counterattack.

First establish your own lead, and Mourinho's team will not make up their minds to stick with you, but will consider pressing it out.

Arsenal are not afraid of their opponents playing against him. Manchester City is known as the most fierce team in the Premier League. Seventeen rounds of the league have passed, and they have scored 51 goals crazily.It is such a crazy team, and now Arsenal dare to play against him at his home court, and even retreated unscathed.

So Arsenal is not afraid that Chelsea will play against him, he is afraid that Chelsea will defend for 10 minutes and then quickly counterattack to create some trouble for himself, and then rely on sneak attacks or set-pieces to give himself a "surprise".Otherwise, it would be embarrassing, because a lot of facts and experience have proved that 80.00% of all the games where Chelsea lead, they won in the end, because few people can equalize or overtake the score under their defense.

So Arsenal made their attitude clear as soon as they came out, that is, to play pass and cut ball possession and cooperate, and then play offense.Keeping your own possession of the ball on the basis of offense can be regarded as defense. After all, the best defense is not to give the opponent a chance to get the ball.

This is also Arsenal's football philosophy. On the basis of possession, they advocate quickness, passing and cutting, and high-quality offensive coordination.This is also the wonderful thing about Arsenal football, he is different from Barcelona who used to play TiKi-taka.He is more efficient and quality than Barcelona, ​​and he doesn't blindly pass the ball backwards.

Because the fight against Manchester City was too strong in the last game, Ozil and Ramsey, who were not physically strong, did not start.Wilshere and Flamini partner in midfield, Podolski is still in the starting position.The veteran Rosicky appeared in the front midfielder, Cazorla was on the other side, and Li Zihan was the striker.

As for Chelsea, they are basically the main players. Hazard occupies the unshakable left, the Brazilian Oscar sits in the front midfielder, the newly joined Brazilian flying wing Willian is on the right, Schurrle and Mata sit on the bench. .The center is the veteran Samuel Eto'o, and Torres sat on the bench.

This year, Torres was a bit depressed. He finally played a little bit, but he was injured immediately, and then Eto'o was out of control when he played. When he recovered from his injury, he continued to sit on the bench.

Chelsea's midfielder is the Brazilian Ramirez, and his partner is his fellow Brazilian David Luiz.

After Mourinho entered the palace for the second time and stayed at Chelsea, everyone knew that he was not satisfied with the Brazilian defender David Luiz.Luiz's desire to attack is too strong, and Mourinho only wants a central defender who is honest and stable.

So David Luiz's future at Stamford Bridge is as unclear as Mata's.But he didn't expect that the "Magic Bird" would actually mention the central defender to the position of the midfielder, and he didn't know if the Portuguese's magic power was still there.
The central defender partner is the old central defender John Terry and the native English central defender Gary Cahill. Cahill is better than Louis in terms of height and weight. Of course, this is not the point. The point is that Mourinho reassured him defend, he can defend with peace of mind
So after a period of exploration and running-in, Chelsea's main central defender partner has taken shape.It is the England central defender partner of Terry and Cahill.And David Luiz occasionally plays rotations. As for the previous central defender Ivanovic, he was brought down by Mourinho to the right back, and the Spanish full-back on the right, the young Azpilicueta, went. On the left. The famous England left back Ashley Cole. Mourinho is not at ease for him now.Because the former England international Cole, who is 33 this year, can no longer keep up with Mourinho's requirements in terms of speed, the future of the top left-back who once dominated the Europa continent is now unclear at the Blue Bridge.

The overall strength of Mourinho's Chelsea is still relatively weak for the Premier League powerhouses.The front is weak, the defense is unstable, the average age is too old, and so on.But now they are ranked third in the league, and they are still biting the tails of the second and first, and may replace them at any time.

I have to say, this is Mourinho's ability!
Today's Arsenal, after Wenger spent huge sums of money in the summer, attracted the German genius technical midfielder Ozil and the new star's high-efficiency striker Li Zihan. After running and cooperating, it is not surprising to have the current results.Of course, this so-called huge amount of money is for Arsenal. For local tycoons like Chelsea and Manchester City, the signing of 7000 million euros is not a huge amount of money for a summer. Even Tottenham spent this summer. More than 1000 million pounds?
After a [-]-[-] draw with Manchester City in the last round of away games, everyone is optimistic about Arsenal in this game.After all, Manchester City's lineup is almost the strongest among the Premier League teams today, whether it is the defense, the backbone of the midfield, and the invincible striker combination.Perhaps their only problem is the unstable England goalkeeper Joe Hart this season, but this is nothing compared to Chelsea.

So I thought, since Arsenal can draw with the mighty Manchester City in the away game, then this match against Chelsea is still a home game, so the chances of winning are still quite large, and even the odds of the bookmakers are optimistic about Arsenal.

However, 10 minutes after the opening, the scene is still quite stalemate.Chelsea's attitude is obvious, I just want to play defensive counterattack away.And Arsenal's offense couldn't start the situation under Chelsea's intensive defense.

Mourinho's defensive counterattack is notorious. The 10-0-1 tactical formation of the bus parked in a line in front of the goal made Arsenal miserable.

Li Zihan's speed can't give full play to his advantages at this time. When Chelsea is defending, they leave the space in front of them and let you run slowly. There is no problem running from the Sahara to the Mediterranean. Anyway, your final goal is Goal, and we just need to put away the goal and wait for you.

And Arsenal's offense can't open the situation, there is no effective way, and they dare not use the most effective long-range shot to break the dense defense.Because the long-range shooting expert Ramsey is not busy with the starting lineup, other long-range shooting abilities are very average, and once the long-range shooting is ineffective and the ball is taken by the opponent, then Chelsea will launch a crazy and fast counterattack.

The speed of Hazard and Willian is a good player for quick counterattacks.

So the game fell into a stalemate!