green waist king

Chapter 587 Changes in Arsenal
On November 11th, the Premier League matches with a one-week truce resumed.

In this round of matches, apart from the focus of the strong dialogue between Liverpool and Arsenal, the other giants, there is not much suspense in the rest of the matches.

Last season was an unforgettable one for Arsenal fans.

Because Professor Arsene Wenger, who worked hard at Arsenal for 26 years, chose to retire.

But rather than retirement, it is more appropriate to say forced resignation. Last year, Arsenal's performance was too poor. A large number of Gunners fans criticized Wenger for being old and outdated in tactical thinking, and even held many protests for this.

After Wenger left, the successor of Arsenal's head coach was not the successor he identified. The top Gunners recruited the famous Spanish coach Emery.

After listening to Emery's opinions, Arsenal's top management invested another 7000 million pounds in this summer's transfer window. They poached several players from Serie A and Bundesliga to make up for the lack of lineup.

"After Wenger left, the Gunners led by Emery drove low and high this season. After losing to Manchester City and Chelsea in the first and second rounds, Arsenal has been unbeaten for eight consecutive rounds so far!"

"Currently 10 rounds of the Premier League have been played. Arsenal have 7 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, with 22 points, ranking fifth in the standings. They are still in the championship queue and have not been left behind." Zhan Jun laughed.

After the words fell, under the leadership of the referee Clattenburg, the players of Liverpool and Arsenal appeared on the stage and performed some pre-match ceremonies.

The live broadcast screen also gave the starting lineups of both sides in due course.

Home team Arsenal: (4231)

Goalkeeper: Leno

Defenders: Bellerin, Mustafi, Holding, Kolasinac

Defenders: Torreira, Xhaka

Front midfielder: Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Aubameyang
Forward: Lacazette

Seeing this starting lineup, Zhan Jun grinned and said: "The legacy Wenger left to Emery can be said to be quite rich. Although Arsenal's legendary head coach is no longer, their players have not been lost."

"Yes." Zhang Lu nodded, "Not only is there no loss of personnel, but the senior management of the Arsenal club has also supplemented the team's shortcomings."

"Arsenal spent 2700 million euros in transfer fees this season to buy iron waist Torreira from Serie A Sampdoria. In recent rounds, Torreira's partner Xhaka has made Arsenal's midfielder hard. few!"

Liverpool away: (433)

Forwards: Mane, Firmino, Salah
Midfielders: Mo Yang, Henderson, Wijnaldum

Defenders: Robertson, Van Dijk, Gomez, Alexander-Arnold

Goalkeeper: Alisson
"After continuous rotation and rest adjustments in this game, Mane, Salah, Henderson and Van Dijk, who have minor injuries, have all come back. The importance of the game."

At 18:30, with the whistle of the referee Clattenburg, the only focus of the 11th round of the Premier League officially started.

Nowadays, Premier League fans know very well that both Liverpool and Arsenal are powerful teams on the upward path.

Although Arsenal have achieved excellent results since the start of the new season, compared with Liverpool, their results are still not convincing.

Liverpool, so far in the new season, has encountered and defeated strong enemies.

Although Arsenal has achieved a continuous unbeaten record, they have not encountered a real strong enemy after all.

Therefore, Liverpool in this game is also regarded by many media and fans as Arsenal's most powerful touchstone.

Coupled with Arsenal's tradition of pulling their hips and collapsing at any time in the league over the years, it is really hard to say whether they can continue their current unbeaten streak.

On the field, Arsenal set the tone for their game at the beginning of the game, that is, the high position in the frontcourt was pressing, playing the momentum of the home court.

After Liverpool kicked off, Mo Yang took the ball in the middle circle and directly made a long pass to Mane on the left side of Arsenal's defense.

The retreat of Arsenal's formation is also very fast. Firmino just moved from the center to the left to meet Mane. Arsenal's two midfielders, Xhaka and Torreira, have already settled down, on the left flank. Cooperating with the two defenders, they established a numerical advantage and successfully won the ball.

On the Liverpool side, seeing the loss of the ball, they immediately launched a counter-grab on the spot.

In less than seven or eight seconds, under the tacit interception of Moyang, Mane, and Firmino Henderson, Arsenal were forced to rush forward in the backcourt and directly passed the ball. .

Van Dyke got the ball on the center line on the left side of the center circle. He wanted to pass it to Mo Yang immediately, but when he saw Mo Yang waved his hand and pointed to his left, Van Dyke immediately turned halfway and pushed the ball to the side line Next to Robertson.

As a result, just as Robertson got the ball, Lacazette, Mkhitaryan, and Ozil immediately formed a three-person encirclement before and after the center line.

Fortunately, Robertson was alert enough to realize the danger at the moment when the encirclement was formed, quickly spiked the ball back and turned around, passed the ball back to Van Dijk who had already retreated, and then the ball returned to the feet of Alisson who ran to the top of the arc.

Alisson stopped the ball and wanted to drive directly to the middle circle, but he didn't see a gap after observing for several seconds, so he had to smash the ball and turn to the right, pushing the ball laterally to Arnold on the wing.

The result is a sudden explosion of danger.

As soon as Arnold stopped the ball with his right foot, Aubameyang rushed in front of him.

Seeing Lacazette cruising near Gomez in the left rib, Van Dijk at the top of the arc and Ozil in front of him, he knew very well that he had no ball to pass.

So he quickly spiked the ball and faced the sideline, ran a few steps and wanted to make a long pass to the frontcourt.

But Aubameyang seemed to have guessed Arnold's intentions. He quickly approached, stretched out his feet to block, just blocked the ball back, and got the ball that rolled back to the baseline.

After Arnold made a mistake, he reacted very quickly, turned around and chased, and stuck Aubameyang on the outside line very neatly, and the two entered the penalty area from the sideline of the penalty area together.

Before the bottom line, after Aubameyang found himself stuck to Arnold, he suddenly made an inverted triangle pass back to Ozil, who was in the middle of the penalty area, while running.

Before the penalty spot, Van Dijk and Ozil started at the same time, but when they came to the rolling line of the ball, Ozil was squeezed away by Van Dijk without even struggling, and the ball was cleared out of the sideline.

On the sidelines, Gunners coach Unai Emery was applauding, smiling, and seemed very satisfied with the team's sudden attack.

Emery is well aware of how dangerous his tight frontcourt defensive strategy set for this game is against a team like Liverpool.

Once Liverpool seizes the opportunity to hit behind them, the speed of Liverpool's counterattack is likely to directly bring them fatal consequences.

But that's the new footballing philosophy he brought to Arsenal.

Although dangerous, the rewards are also very lucrative.

In any field in this world, high risk also means high return.

This kind of counter-grab from the opponent's half can not only form a very dangerous second attack, but also greatly reduce the pressure on the defensive players in the backcourt.

Not far from Emery, Klopp was sitting firmly on the coach's bench, talking and laughing with his assistant Pete, as if he didn't care about what he just discovered.

Before the game, Klopp had already studied Arsenal thoroughly.

Arsenal's wolves-like anti-grabbing and siege cut off their passing lines and intercept the ball from all angles. Although the threat is indeed great, the hidden dangers it brings to them are also not small.

As long as Mo Yang is on the field, Klopp never worries that his team will not be able to catch the opponent's tactical loopholes.

Compared with offensive efficiency, Klopp is not afraid of any team on this planet.

Because he has one of the best all-around midfielders on the planet.

(End of this chapter)