There is a dream called football

Chapter 397 The Opening of the Premier League

Emirates Stadium.

There have been many friendly matches in the summer, and the UAE team was invited, but the first game of the league will come today, and the opponent is a tough bone-Aston Villa.

Villa has always been a mid-range team in the Premier League. It is impossible to compete for the championship, and it is impossible to enter the Champions League, but this team often plays the role of spoiler, which is a headache for many strong teams.

So Arsenal drew Villa in the first game, which is not a good sign.

Look at their lineup again, the defense is Sweden's main central defender Mellberg, yes!It was the one who defended Li Qiao in the World Cup.

In the midfield are young Davies and Barry, and these are also players who later moved to strong teams.

What is more famous is their head coach, Martin O'Neill, who was very strong when he played football. He played for the famous Nottingham Forest when he played football. Remember, that was Nottingham Forest who was once able to play in the Champions League.

So Martin O'Neill said before the game-"I know that the Arsenal people want to have a party in the new stadium, but I will never let the Arsenal people get what they want."

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Today is good weather, the Emirates Stadium is full of 6 people, and the team's goal is a victory to celebrate the opening of the new season at the Emirates Stadium, but this game was not easy to play from the first second.

Villa completely played the style of the Championship for Arsenal. Fast, strong, rough football made Arsenal very uncomfortable.

Especially Rosicky, who just transferred from the Bundesliga, is still not used to this kind of game rhythm.

Because a lot of fighting is a foul in the Bundesliga, but in the Premier League, it is just a reasonable confrontation. This makes a technical player like Rosicky very uncomfortable and difficult to control the ball. This is also a common problem for many players who come to the Premier League.

The game lasted for 10 minutes, and the game was intermittent. The smooth pass Arsenal expected was not played out. Wenger was furious. The opponent obviously took special care of Rosicky, and what he got in exchange was only a few verbal warnings from the referee.

"You bastards, this is a midfielder I bought for tens of millions of pounds."

But Wenger's anger was useless, because the opponent was within the rules, at least the rules of the Premier League. There was no flying shovel or elbow, but the movement was very bad, kicking the calf.

The more this is the case, the more Rosicky hits the ball with one kick, and the more one kicks the ball, the higher the turnover rate, so it is reasonable for Arsenal's offense to be embarrassing.

In this case, the running support of teammates is very important. You can't be greedy, but you have to respond by yourself. For Li Qiao at this time, this aspect has made rapid progress.

In the past, when Li Qiao was a teammate holding the ball, he ran quickly, but if the ball was not passed, he would curse in his heart-idiot.

But at this time, Li Qiao won't be able to. He has also played the core in the national team and understands the difficulties. Therefore, when Rosicky gets the ball, when the opponent pushes up, what Li Qiao does is to retreat immediately to form a support point.

In this way, Rosicky can also relax a lot. After all, the ball will not be lost, and Li Qiao's passing point is always there.

These things cannot be seen in the broadcast footage, but these are the real skills of a player, and Wenger saw it in his eyes and was happy in his heart.

If he can only go forward, then Li Qiao's worth of 4000 million will come to an end. A pure winger, but a Li Qiao who can respond, organize, and break through, then there is no upper limit to his worth.

It's just that Li Qiao's organizational ability is in the Premier League, but he can't rank in Arsenal. His organizational ability is still limited to the Chinese team. This is a point that he needs to continue to improve significantly.

But Arsenal's brand-new combination, which has only been running in for a few weeks, is indeed not smooth. Coupled with the strength of the opponent, Arsenal can be described in one word in the first half - embarrassment.

In the second half, the score was still 0-0, and the big party at the Emirates Stadium seemed to be hopeless for a long time.

Of course, even if the result of the game is not good, the party can still continue, but that would be too low, and it is self-indulgent. Of course Wenger would not let this happen, but at 54 minutes, it was Villa who scored first.

Taking advantage of a corner kick, the ball drove into the middle, and the Swedish tycoon Mellberg jumped up and smashed the ball into the goal.

1 to 0.
After the goal, Villa was extremely excited, as if they had already won the Premier League championship. This is the Premier League, this is European football, and the feeling of fighting for one breath is better than winning the championship.

And O'Neill is here to spoil the situation today. He wants to let the first Premier League victory at the Emirates Stadium belong to Villa.

In this case, Wenger was also very decisive. He replaced Song with Adebayor and played double forwards. The midfield became 442, and Xiaofa retreated to play the midfielder.

But Villa was more ruthless. After they scored a goal, they began to shrink back, and then played defensive counterattacks. Several counterattacks were crisp.

If it weren't for the striker Abanglaho to be too frizzy, then Villa would have killed the game, so how could the Arsenal players not be anxious about watching this game, but even if they were anxious, there was nothing they could do about it. Arsenal's offense has not started for a long time.

In the end, Wenger chose to replace Rosicky. It is obviously impossible for him to adapt to the rhythm of the game in one game, and he cannot be forced.

Van Persie came on.

This result is more or less disappointing for Rosicky. What he hopes is to secure his position in the first game, just like he did in Dortmund, because his transfer is also Arsenal's biggest investment this summer.

After Van Persie played, Arsenal played a lot more smoothly in the frontcourt. After all, Van Persie is very comfortable with the rough rhythm of the Premier League.

Li Qiao won't lose the ball, so Li Qiao can run forward in the first time, and his foot is stuffed into the sidewalk. Li Qiao curved the ball in to find Adebayor's head.

It was Villa's head coach O'Neill who was the first to rush the ball, because he found that the traditional Arsenal was back, and that's how Arsenal played fast and efficient offensively. This is of course not good.

And more importantly, Van Persie doesn't stick the ball in the midfielder position, which is different from Rosicky, so Villa can't find a chance to kick anyone.

However, Villa's Davis still kicked in the frontcourt, which gave the opponent a free kick.

This time Van Persie did his part. He took the free kick alone. This may be the confidence brought by the World Cup. In the World Cup, Van Persie scored directly from a free kick.

(End of this chapter)