Football: The Strongest Hexagon Warrior

At the end of the international match in October, Portugal reversed course against Switzerland and qualified for the World Cup. Except for Martin, who was in a calm mood, the other players on the team were overjoyed.

Although the overall strength of the team is very strong, even if it participates in the play-offs, there is a high probability of directly advancing.

But with the opportunity to advance directly, who would play two more play-offs?

After playing two international matches, Martin and Swiss player Xhaka took a flight back to London at Lisbon's Portela Airport to prepare for various club-level events.

League, Champions League group stage and League Cup.

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Just like the European Ballon d'Or announced last year, which was separated from FIFA, each batch has five players, and a total of six batches are announced.

Ronaldo is the first batch, and Hazard, Bonucci, Mbappe and Aubameyang were also announced.

I don’t know if it was intentional, but Messi led the second batch.

Martin leads the third list.

Compared with last year's shortlisted players, Arsenal occupies the largest share this year with seven players, followed by Real Madrid with six players.

The European mainstream media is not very enthusiastic about the newly released European Ballon d'Or list.

In addition to the British media, Portuguese media and Dragon Country media reporting vigorously, most media are focusing on the league that has rekindled the war, or the play-offs of the World Cup of the Fighting Nations starting next month.

The reason is simple. This year's European Ballon d'Or and World Footballer are exactly the same.

There won't be any surprises.

Against this background, the eighth round of the 2017-2018 Premier League season has quietly arrived.

The first game to kick off is the Double Red Club, which has attracted enough attention from all over the world!

Liverpool faces Manchester United at Anfield.

The two teams fought hard for ninety minutes, and the result was very disappointing to the fans who watched the game live.

0:0 throughout the game.

Arsenal's away game against Watford takes place on Saturday evening.

The overall strength of Arsenal, who did not have key players on the international match day, was significantly higher than that of the home team. However, the players were affected by the international match day and their physical fitness was somewhat tight.

Arsenal, led by Martin, played very pragmatically. With the ball at their feet, they focused on control. They involved Watford's defense with constant passes back and forth to see if they could find the opponent's flaws first.

Affected by the overall lack of enthusiasm for running, Martin has a little difficulty being both a father and a mother when being closely monitored.

It wasn't until the second half that the side changed sides and the game started again. Martin took advantage of Watford's lack of concentration at the beginning and suddenly launched a cold arrow about 30 meters away from the goal.

The kicked football was like a cannonball that escaped from the barrel and hit the upper left corner of the goal.

0:1

Gomez, who performed extremely well in the first half, could only declare that he was beyond the reach of Martin's very high-quality long-range shot.

Although Watford, who strengthened their offense, created a certain threat through crosses from two wings, the forward's ability to seize opportunities was a bit poor and did not convert the opportunities that emerged into goals.

In the second half, the game changed sides and Wenger took the lead in making personnel adjustments, injecting new vitality into the rhythm of the game with the fresh blood brought by the substitutions.

Coupled with Martin's grasp of timing, he sent a fatal pass to the offensive line that was gradually recovering.

In the 53rd minute of the game, Arsenal switched from defense to offense. Martin received a pass from Kante and then continued to break through Ducoure and Cleverley. After attracting the attention of center back Bristol's defense, Martin quickly sent a pass. Direct pass.

Welbeck followed up in the middle and understood it clearly. He accelerated at the moment when Martin passed the ball and rushed to full speed before Kabasel, who was dragged behind by Watford, caused an offside.

Kabasel also stopped in place and raised his hand to indicate that Welbeck was offside.

The assistant referee saw it clearly. He followed the forward Welbeck and ran towards the baseline, with the side flag close to his body.

Meaning...not offside!

Welbeck isn't fast, but he's not slow either.

He caught up with Martin and sent a direct pass, stopping and hitting Watford's penalty area.

At this time, when we meet on a narrow road, the brave one wins!

Naturally, Welbeck won. After entering the penalty area, he slowed down and adjusted his shot in one go.

The kicked football passed right under Gomez's crotch, crossed the goal line, and hit the net in the lower left corner of the goal.

This goal was also the last goal of the game.

In the end, Arsenal relied on Martin's pass and shot to defeat Watford 2:0 in the away game, winning the first eight consecutive games.

After the international break and the league play, the team's focus is on the European competition.

Back-to-back group matches with Roma home and away.

Judging from the results of the game, it will seriously affect the qualifying situation of Group C.

Atletico Madrid plays back-to-back group matches with Qarabag, while Arsenal plays back-to-back games with Roma. Obviously, Atletico Madrid's back-to-back games are more difficult.

The only drawback is that the flight to Azerbaijan is a bit far, more than 4,000 kilometers, and the flight time takes more than seven hours, which consumes a lot of players' physical and energy.

Having said this, I have to say that Atletico Madrid is the most miserable team in the Champions League in recent seasons.

In the 2013-2014 season, when they returned to the Champions League after four seasons, they were placed in the same group as Malmo of Sweden. The flight distance was not only long, but also the guest games had to be played on artificial grass in the ice and snow.

In the 2014-2015 season, they were placed in the same group as Astana of Kazakhstan, and the away distance was as high as kilometers.

Last season, we were in the same group as Rostov.

I don’t know if the players were in poor mental condition due to the long flight time. The two sides fought hard for 0 minutes and the score was 0:, which was a big upset.

There were no accidents in the third round of the Champions League group stage in the same group at the Emirates Stadium.

Although Brazil national goalkeeper Alisson defended the goal many times with high defenses, the offensive system led by Martin created continuous opportunities.

Alisson was able to block two or three inevitable goals, but he couldn't stop them forever.

In the 35th minute, Martin launched an attack on the left rib. Sanchez, Xhaka, and Cavani successively played wonderful ball coordination. Just when everyone thought that Sanchez, who entered the penalty area to get the ball from the left rib, would shoot, he unexpectedly passed the ball. An inverted triangle.

Martin, who passed the top circle of the penalty area at high speed, adjusted his steps and hit the middle and upper part of the football hard with the instep of his right foot.

The football running close to the ground came from behind with lightning speed. Nainggolan and Juan Jesus, who had fallen to the ground to block the ball, quickly rushed past and went straight to the lower left corner of the goal.

Goalkeeper Alisson's vision was disturbed, and by the time he realized he should make a save, it was already too late...

“Goooooooooooooooooal——”

The elongated voice that blurted out instantly echoed through the commentary box at the Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal fans throughout the stadium also cheered happily, cheering for captain Martin who opened the scoring.

Head coach Wenger also breathed a sigh of relief.