legendary midfielder

Chapter 322
After defeating Manchester United, Arsenal has won nineteen games in a row!There is only one game away from the [-]-game winning streak created by Real Madrid.

And who is the next opponent?It's Southampton!

Southampton Football Club (Southampton Football Club), formerly known as St Mary's YMA (St Mary's YMA), is a professional football club in Southampton, a port city in Hampshire in southeast England, nicknamed "The Saints".

In 1898, it moved into the small valley stadium as the home stadium. After using it for more than 100 years, it moved to St. Mary's Stadium (St Mary's Stadium) in 2001.

Southampton Football Club was relegated from the Champions League to the First Division after the 2008/09 season.

2010/11赛季球队获得英甲联赛亚军升至英冠联赛。2011/12赛季获得英冠亚军，顺利升入英格兰超级联赛。2012/13赛季获得第14名。

Since the beginning of this season, Southampton has also performed quite eye-catchingly. In the past 11 rounds of the league, Southampton has accumulated 22 points unexpectedly, standing on the third place in the league!
Although there is still a lot of gap compared with Arsenal's 11 consecutive victories and 33 points, it can also show that Southampton is still in a very good state!At least, it is much stronger than giants such as Manchester United.

As for this game, all Arsenal people did not feel how difficult it is to win. First, this game is a home game and Arsenal has a natural home court advantage. Second, because the team has already won Manchester United away, it seems that it is not difficult to win Southampton, which is not very strong!
However, after the game with Manchester United, the Premier League ushered in a temporary truce period, because the national competition day has come again.

Zhang Xu also received a call-up order from the national team.Domestically, there is an Asian Cup qualifier against Indonesia and a game against the Saudi Arabian national team.

For these two games, Zhang Xu really has no interest.

Especially for the game against Indonesia, if the game was held in Indonesia, Zhang Xu might still have the idea of ​​revenge in front of everyone in Indonesia, but now it is held in China, Zhang Xu doesn't think it's interesting.

On the one hand, it is cool for the Chinese to print Ni’s face in front of the Chinese people, but the Indonesians can’t see it, which makes Zhang Xu feel a little empty; second, Zhang Xu believes that the current national team has played with momentum and confidence. Even if he doesn’t go back, the national team can easily defeat Indonesia;

In addition, the game against Saudi Arabia is also a home game. Zhang Xu feels that there should be no problem in winning Saudi Arabia.

Therefore, he directly called the national team coach Camacho and explained his thoughts.Camacho is still very laissez-faire with Zhang Xu. At the same time, Camacho also believes that there should be no problem in defeating Indonesia and Saudi Arabia at his home court, so he agreed to Zhang Xu's request not to return to China to participate in the competition.

And the fact is just as Zhang Xu expected. Although the national team did not have Zhang Xu in the game on November 11, the self-confidence of the national team was fully revealed in this game.

Although the confident national team is inferior to European and American players, it is still slightly higher than Indonesian players.

Therefore, the game was played calmly, and the national team always took the initiative in the game. In the end, the national team successfully won Indonesia with a score of [-]-[-].

After winning against Indonesia, the national team's group points in Group C reached 12 points, ranking first in the group, and qualifying has become a foregone conclusion.

Such a record is indeed rare in international competitions in recent years.

All Chinese fans know very well that the national team can achieve such a record, it must be inseparable from the credit of Zhang Xu!When the national team determined Zhang Xu's core position, the national team basically never lost a game!
But the second game against Saudi Arabia made Zhang Xu feel incomprehensible.

It was also a home game, but in this game, the national team seemed a little passive in front of Saudi Arabia. They wanted to fight for skills, but found that their skills were a bit inferior to Saudi Arabia. Fortunately, they were stronger and taller than the opponent, which finally made up for a little technical deficiency.

Coupled with the home game, it can still compete with Saudi Arabia.

The score of the last game was zero to zero!

One win and one tie in the two games, it's just passable.The Chinese national team's group points have reached 13 points, and they are definitely qualified.

After Zhang Xu saw that the national team successfully won Indonesia and drew with Saudi Arabia, he no longer cared about the situation of the national team. He focused on the upcoming No.12 round of the Premier League.

2013年11月23日下午三点整，2013/14赛季英格兰足球超级联赛第12轮一场焦点战在酋长球场展开争夺，阿森纳主场迎战南安普敦。

阿森纳近8场对阵南安普敦取得5胜3平，近19个主场对阵南安普敦取得14胜5平，南安普敦上次客胜阿森纳还是1987年的甲级联赛。

双方英超交锋28场，阿森纳16胜8平4负占据上风，其中主场10胜4平。双方历史交锋82场，阿森纳43胜23平16负占据上风。

Wilshere played in rotation, and Mertesacker played after recovering from the flu.

温格派出的阵容还是以张旭为核心的阵容：阵型没变，守门员是1号-斯泽斯尼；后卫3号-萨尼亚，4号-默特萨克，6号-科斯切尔尼；后腰是18号-张旭和8号-阿尔特塔；中场是10号-威尔希尔，16号-拉姆齐，11号-厄齐尔；前锋是14号-沃尔科特和12号-吉鲁。

There was a bit of a surprise in this game, as the start of the game was delayed by 15 minutes due to the safety of fans entering the stadium due to the failure of the Piccadilly subway line.

At the beginning of the game, under the leadership of Zhang Xu, Arsenal launched a fierce attack on Southampton.

Although this is an ordinary game, it has been endowed with some special meaning - a record of winning [-] games in a row!

Zhang Xu didn't have any special ideas. As always, he followed Wenger's tactics and implemented them conscientiously.But his teammates are a little excited, because as long as they beat Southampton, they can tie Real Madrid's record of [-] consecutive victories!
In this way, the names of all Arsenal players will be engraved in the history of world football!
If it can break Real Madrid's record, it will be even more perfect!

The excited Arsenal players showed their best form and bombarded Southampton indiscriminately.

In the 11th minute of the game, Arsenal almost broke the goal. Ramsey's direct pass was pushed out. Wilshere got rid of the opponent's guard Hoyveld on the right side of the penalty area and then picked a pass from a small angle and hit the middle and far corner post. Southampton's goalkeeper Borucci confiscated the ball on the goal line.

Arsenal made another threat in the 18th minute. Ozil made a pass from the right edge of the penalty area. The unguarded Zhang Xu made a wonderful pass from his heel at 11 yards. Ramsey hit the left post again with a shot.

In the 22nd minute of the game, Arsenal finally took the lead.

After Zhang Xu received Ozil's pass in the frontcourt, he suddenly made a direct pass and directly tore through Southampton's defense. Southampton's goalkeeper Boruchi failed to attack in time. Giroud waded through Boruchi on the left side of the penalty area and scored an empty goal.

One to zero!Arsenal lead by one goal!
With the goal in hand, the Arsenal generals became even more excited. Their morale was extremely high. Every minute, they could see the Arsenal players completing their tasks at a high level.

Of course, Southampton is not blindly defending, their offense is still very threatening.

In the 32nd minute of the game, Arteta made a clearance error from the edge of the penalty area, and Lallana's half-volley was saved by Szesny from the bottom line.Then Ward-Prowse took a corner kick, Hoyveld's header was blocked by Koscielny from the bottom line.

In the 39th minute of the game, Ward-Prowse passed the ball, and Jay Rodriguez's half-volley ejection from 14 yards was saved by Szesny. Lambert shot offside first.

In the 48th minute of the game, Wangyama was given a yellow card for a foul on Zhang Xu.

In the 52nd minute of the game, Schneiderlin passed the ball, and Lallana's low shot from 20 yards was confiscated by Szesny. After 1 minute, Jay Rodriguez's shot in front of the penalty area was blocked.

In the 61st minute of the game, Cazorla fell under the defense of Wangyama in the penalty area, and the referee Clattenburg refused to award a penalty. After 2 minutes, Ramsey passed the ball, Ozil cut into the right side of the restricted area and his shot was confiscated by Borucci.

In the 68th minute of the game, Sagna made a pass from far and wide, and Wilshere's lack of strength header did not cause trouble for Borucci.

Cazorla replaced Walcott.

Osvaldo's shot from the edge of the penalty area was blocked by Sagna, and Clattenburg rejected Southampton's handball complaint against Sagna.

Rosicky replaces the injured Arteta.

In the 75th minute of the game, Osvaldo shot from 25 yards after breaking through Mertesacker and hit Szesny in his arms.

In the 79th minute of the game, Lambert's shot from the edge of the penalty area was blocked by Wilshere, and Wangyama's long-range shot missed.

In the 82nd minute, Zhang Xu counterattacked and passed the ball, and Cazorla missed the goal from 20 yards.

Arsenal sealed the victory in the 86th minute. Fonte pulled Zhang Xu's jersey when defending a corner kick. Clattenburg gave the death penalty and Zhang Xu personally took the penalty.

This is the first penalty kick, and his penalty kick attribute point is only a pitiful 63 points. However, he was pushed out by his teammates and asked him to take a penalty kick. He couldn't shirk it, so he had to stand in front of the penalty kick.

Zhang Xu is very clear about his penalty kick level, so he simply ignored the goalkeeper's movements. After hearing the whistle, he swung his right leg and shot directly with a strong kick!
His shot is powerful and positive!

The Southampton keeper never expected him to shoot in the middle of the goal, so when he dived to the right of the goal, he was dismayed to see the ball fly into the goal from the center of the goal!

Two to zero!Arsenal seal the victory!

So far, Arsenal has also tied Real Madrid's record of [-] consecutive victories!
If the next game can continue to win, then it will create a new record in world football!
(End of this chapter)