Strong Waist

"How are the arrangements for the opponents in the training match?"

Patrice asked.

In order to prepare for the competition, Patrice found a total of four warm-up match opponents.

They are Roma in Serie A, Barcelona in Spain, Wolves in the English Championship and Porto in the Portuguese Super League.

"It didn't go particularly well. Barcelona clearly rejected our warm-up match invitation, while Porto and Wolves said they had completed their schedules and had no free time."

What about the liar?

Patrice looked angry.

That's it for Barcelona. Porto and Wolves definitely do this intentionally, and most likely they don't want to have a warm-up match with Arsenal without Wenger.

Patrice's face looked uncertain.

"Who are the warm-up match opponents who invited us?"

Martin Hughes said helplessly; "There are many teams inviting us, but they are mainly concentrated in the second-tier league."

Patrice's face became even more ugly.

This is isolating Arsenal!

As last season's Champions League champion, Arsenal has become the research target of many teams in the new season.

After Wenger fell ill and Patrice took over the team, no team wanted to have a warm-up match with this opponent who was competitive with them in the European war.

They wanted to study Arsenal without exposing themselves.

But the Wolves refused to play the warm-up match, which is just disgusting!

After a moment of silence, Patrice sighed and said: "Find three teams to fill the vacancies. We will go to Italy first tomorrow, and the remaining three warm-up matches will be held in London."

Anyway, it’s the invited party who decides where to kick.

In fact, after Arsenal won the championship, some comments began to appear from the outside world questioning Arsenal's championship.

The problem arises with the intensity of Arsenal's games.

Arsenal have only faced one traditional strong team in the entire Champions League, Bayern Munich.

Paris Saint-Germain is also a rising star in recent times.

Despite their resurgence, Juventus is still not among the top teams in Europe.

Therefore, many people feel that Arsenal took the bonus of the draw and did not win the Champions League from teams such as Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Strong teams were beaten by other teams, but Arsenal just took advantage of the opponent's weakness to defeat the opponent.

To put it simply, they are questioning the value of Arsenal's Champions League.

In this regard, Arsenal did not make any defense.

A champion is a champion, how can there be any stolen championship?

They reached the Champions League final with dignity and defeated their opponents, so why are they not the champions?

But fans outside don't recognize this.

Anyway, there is no gold content.

Arsenal can't do anything about it.

It can be said that the current Arsenal has become a lost cause.

Under the aura of Champions League champions, Arsenal was everyone's research target at the beginning of the season.

While detracting from Arsenal, I’m studying them at the same time.

Moreover, the current Arsenal has just undergone a major change. Under the influence of the departure of many main players, how many points of fighting strength are left is also a question worth considering.

The next day, the Arsenal team, led by Patrice, went to Rome, Italy to prepare for a warm-up match.

Here, Lucky saw many familiar faces.

The first is Arsenal’s old player Gervinho.

This Arsenal player who was at the same time as Lucky was eventually abandoned by Wenger and transferred to Roma. The situation in Roma is not particularly good now.

However, Gervinho seemed to be avoiding them intentionally and did not want to communicate too much with them.

Obviously for Gervinho, the memory at Arsenal was not particularly good.

On the contrary, Szczesny seemed particularly enthusiastic.

He even invited Lucky and other Arsenal players to have a party at their house after the warm-up match.

But Patrice rejected it directly.

Szczesny had nothing to do about this.

In addition, Dzeko also moved from Manchester City to Roma.

Obviously there is no place for Dzeko in Guardiola's lineup, so he has sought a transfer.

Dzeko looked at his former opponent, Arsenal, the current Champions League champion team, and felt very uncomfortable.

They are already Champions League champions!

But he started to go downhill.

Although Serie A is also one of the five major leagues, compared to the Premier League, neither salary nor game intensity can be compared.

The two sides quickly got into the warm-up match.

Arsenal still uses the same tactics as last season!

Arsenal (4-3-3):

Goalkeeper: Cech!

Defenders: Chambers, Mustafi, Koscielny, Gibbs.

Midfielder: Kante, Wilshere. Lucky.

Forwards: Aubameyang, Suarez, Sanchez.

Roma (4-3-3):

Goalkeeper: Szczesny

Defenders: Florenzi, Manolas, Rudiger, Digne.

Midfielder: Pjanic, De Rossi, Falke.

Forwards: Dzeko, Perotti, Shaarawy.

Lucky stood in the arena, jumping lightly.

Throughout the season, Lucky has completed his weight loss goal, his entire body has become lighter, and he has also undergone effective foot frequency training.

Lucky actually doesn't know how it goes. He needs to be certified during the game.

But the light body makes Lucky feel great.

Moreover, Patrice also told Lucky to position to the left and front, and he needs to connect with Sanchez and Suarez.

Obviously, compared to Aubameyang who just joined, Patrice prefers a chemical reaction between Lucky and Sanchez.

Does it look familiar at first glance?

This is how Arsenal played last season!

It's just a personnel change.

Patrice was copying homework.

However, Di Maria and Cazorla in key positions were injured and walked away. This also made Patrice anxious. He didn't know whether he could play effectively.

In this case, the warm-up match begins,

Arsenal took the lead.

Suarez passed the ball back and ran forward.

Lucky received the ball, continued to pass back, and made a protective response.

After confirming that no one was around, Lucky asked for the ball.

The ball came to Lucky's feet again.

Lucky stepped forward to play the ball.

But he was pulling the ball sideways, with his whole body along the left side, facing the right, and pulling the ball with his right foot while turning sideways.

In the past, Lucai would not pull the ball like this, but after training during the holidays, the frequency of his feet has increased, allowing him to choose more ways to play.

Just like now, Lucky's position can better observe the front. At the same time, when facing the defense, he suddenly accelerates laterally and has more selectivity.

After Lucky pulled the ball sideways for a distance, he couldn't help but frown when he saw the Roma players retreating.

Last season, many teams would choose to press forward, but this time they looked for retreat.

Obviously this has been researched.

They are worried about Lucky's passing ability.

After looking around and finding that there was no good passing position, Lucky could only pass the ball to Wilshere, and then retreated somewhat depressed.

Wilshere is very motivated and runs extremely aggressively.

He and Suarez have completed many passes and receptions.

But Aubameyang is obviously not very adaptable to Arsenal's passing system, so every time the ball comes to Aubameyang's feet, there is a feeling of dragging the rhythm.

Aubameyang doesn't dribble, he also passes.

But the speed of passing and thinking is too slow, which also leads to a decrease in the overall rhythm.

Lucky sighed, there was nothing he could do about it, he could only gradually adapt to it.

The game continued little by little, and the offenses of both sides began to open up.

Both sides had many offensive collaborations and shots.

But they failed to score a goal.

The defense on both sides is extremely good.

Roma head coach Spalletti nodded with relief. They were here to test their defensive capabilities.

Being able to complete the defense under Arsenal's offense is already excellent.

On the other hand, Patrice frowned.

There is something wrong with Arsenal's offense!

Speaking of Arsenal, they are definitely a team with explosive offensive power.

The same was true for Arsenal last season. When it comes to attacking power, they are definitely the top team in the Champions League.

But in this warm-up match, Arsenal's offensive power was greatly reduced.

There is the impact of personnel changes!

There is the impact of new players not adapting!

There is also the impact of insufficient overall running-in!

Anyway, for now, Arsenal’s best performance is actually the defense?

Damn it!

Arsenal's defense turned out to be tough!