After being rejected, I became Shi Yijiao

Chapter 416 Wenger is out, Kroenke is out
"Oh? How could this be?"

In the grandstand of the Stamford Bridge Stadium, Koswick jumped out of his seat with a look of shock on his face.

Coswick is the current chairman of the Arsenal Club and has a jazz title, so his full name should be Sir Coswick.

The 75-year-old, who has held managerial positions at Hambros, De Beers and the Bank of England, has been on the Arsenal board since 2005 and succeeded Peter Hillwood as club chairman in 2013.

Due to the club's majority shareholder, Stan Kroenke, the actual owner who owns 67.05% of the club's shares, he has his own sports business empire in the United States. owner of several sports clubs including the professional basketball team Denver Nuggets;
This caused him not to be particularly concerned about the Arsenal club in the UK, and he would not come to watch the game even if it was such an important game.

As for spending money to buy people... Isn't Wenger running a good business? You will save money to build a stadium, so you shouldn't need to suck the blood of the boss!
Therefore, the main decision-making executives of the Arsenal club are still Chairman Sir Keswick and CEO Gazidis.

Today, the two of them also came to the scene to watch the game, and they pinned their hopes on Arsenal, hoping that they can beat Chelsea, and while striving for the championship, they can also keep their own team's unbeaten record from being overtaken by their rivals in the same city. break in.

But now, the game has just begun, and Cech is already picking up the ball in the net.

At this time, let alone the players, I am afraid that many fans have not yet entered the state, so why are they suddenly scored by the opponent?

Hearing Sir Coswick's doubts, the CEO Gazidis sitting beside him was also silent.

To be honest, he didn't even see the whole process of the goal. He only knew that Chelsea had scored when he heard the fans chanting Lukaku's name.

I just sat down and took out the information about that crush just now...

Sir Keswick, who got no response, sat back in his seat angrily, obviously quite dissatisfied with the team's start.

What made him even more unacceptable was that after conceding the goal, instead of counterattacking, Arsenal were overwhelmed by Chelsea.

"I don't know how these people play football!" Koswick cursed again, and then began to point at the players on the field:
"Why did you use Gabriel? I feel like I can't prevent Hazard's breakthrough at all. This Koscielny can't do it, neither can the two central defenders!"

"Isn't Sanchez very strong? Why can't the guy on the opposite side stare at him? He can't even hold the ball."

"Didn't Giroud play very well in the previous period? Why did he change him? Can Walcott play a lone striker? He can't play, and he doesn't have the ability to know."

"..."

Gazidis swallowed, hesitated to speak.

He knew that the old Jazz beside him was not like the boss, who always cared about Arsenal and hoped that the team would achieve results.

But the problem is that coach Wenger must have his own ideas about what lineup to choose, and it's not something that laymen can point out casually.

And the Jazz are also a little forgetful, the team's investment in recent years is really average.

These personnel on the Arsenal field have been saved by Wenger's frugality. It is not easy for the professor to bring the team to the current position under limited conditions.

Not long ago, when commenting on Arsenal’s recent financial report, Sir Keswick once said that although the club’s income from tickets and event broadcasting has increased, the club will not change the current player salary structure. Invest rationally in player salaries.

And this sentence was said when some players in the team were already talking about contract extensions.

It is reported that Sanchez hopes to increase his weekly salary from the current 15 pounds to 25 pounds, and many players also expect salary increases.

However, Mr. Chairman's comments imply that the club will not break the salary structure of the team even for a player with such thighs as Sanchez.

In this way, the loss of players in the team is almost inevitable.

In this way, how to compete with the Manchester duo who have been increasing their investment, and how to compete with the powerful Chelsea in front of us?
Even Liverpool executives said that in the winter window and next summer, they will strongly support coach Klopp's signing plan.

If this continues, Arsenal may be reduced to being with Tottenham, or even worse than this North London rival.

Under such a premise, as the chairman, Koswick scolded his players for not being able to play against Chelsea, which is quite ironic.

But Gazidis, as the CEO, of course can't say the Jazz so directly, let alone scold Kroenke for not giving money.

So he just said euphemistically:

"It's only one goal behind now, believe Wenger, take your time, there should be a chance to equalize."

But Koswick shook his head: "Trust Wenger? If he really achieves nothing this season, we really have to think about his future at Arsenal."

Now some Arsenal fans are also calling for "Wenger out", the chairman's words are not very sudden.

Seeing that Gazidis bowed his head and said nothing, Sir Koswick pointed to the field again: "Look, our current main attack points, Sanchez and Walcott, are completely blocked and can't pose any threat at all. Then The defensive line has nothing to do with Chelsea's attacking group, if things go on like this, let alone an equalizer, conceding the ball is almost inevitable."

Gazidis nodded in acknowledgment that Sir Coswick was right.

Although the chairman is forgetful, he still understands football.

Pan Yi sent Gretzka to stare at Sanchez, which was equivalent to cutting off one of Arsenal's thighs.

On the other side, William and Bellerin's right wing has to repeatedly attack Hazard and Marcos Alonso, which is also extremely embarrassing.

In a fully passive situation, Walcott, the little tiger at the top, has no chance to get the ball at all, and naturally he cannot play his fast speed.

"Perhaps Wenger's strategy has his own ideas, but one thing is certain." Gazidis murmured, "Pan Yi steadily strangled our seven inches!"
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As Arsenal executives said, Pan Yi clearly understands Wenger's thoughts and has made all possible deployments.

After scoring a goal, he has also been paying attention to Wenger's movements.

If Wenger makes adjustments immediately, he will follow up.

This is because Pan Yi asked Gretzka to keep a close eye on Sanchez. If Wenger uses Sanchez in any special way, such as a large retreat to the backcourt, then Pan Yi is bound to make changes .

Otherwise, Gretzka will lose his position because of faithfully implementing the coach's instructions, resulting in one less player in the midfield.

But obviously, Wenger still seems to be hesitating whether to make adjustments quickly, after all, the game has just begun.

Making major tactical adjustments in the opening minutes is a great risk in itself, because it means that the preparations of the past few days, or even a week or two, may be wasted.

And since Wenger didn't move, Pan Yi didn't move either.

Of course, fine-tuning still exists.

That is, he is asking the players to continue to increase their attack and strive for another goal!
Now he has the ball in his hands and I have the advantage, so it's not a big problem.

And Pan Yi is very convinced that as long as the two sides continue to play like this, Chelsea will undoubtedly win, at least they will not let the other side score.

The same is true.

In addition to Sanchez being marked to death and the back line unstable, Arsenal's double defensive midfielders Cazorla and Coquelin today are far inferior to Kanter and Hazard in terms of interception ability.

Or it can be said that Cazorla is more technical, he and Chelsea's attacking midfielder Hazard can be put aside first.

The remaining so-called "beast waist" Coquelin can be said to be suppressed by Kanter in almost all aspects.

Not to mention that although Gretzka stared at Sanchez the whole time, if the ball came, he would still control it.

As a result, in the midfield fight, Arsenal also fell behind in an all-round way, while the Blues can play very calmly in both the frontcourt and the backcourt, with a lot of room for movement.

Soon, Chelsea got another chance.

After receiving a short pass from Kante in midfield, Hazard suddenly kicked up without defense.

The ball barely passed the upper right corner of Arsenal's goal, and it was almost a dead corner.

This goal caused a burst of exclamation from the entire Stamford Bridge Stadium. Although it was not scored, everyone was shocked.

Only 1 minute later, Hazard suddenly pulled to the wing again, received a pass from David Luiz, and made a pass along the left.

Lukaku in the middle stopped the ball with his chest and hit the goal with his left foot in front of the goal. Unfortunately, this time the left foot shot did not hit the right part and went wide.

Lukaku was very dissatisfied with not being able to score this time. After slapping himself on the head twice, he gave Hazard a thumbs up and gave a thumbs up. What a good opportunity, just missed it.

Although they didn't make it, the continuous attacks still caused a flurry of panic in front of Arsenal's goal.

In just 10 minutes, Chelsea made six threatening shots and scored a goal, while Arsenal's shots were always zero.

But even so, Wenger still seems to be hesitating whether to adjust.

Perhaps, he is also betting that the team can quickly stabilize their position and fight Chelsea's counterattack.

At that time, it is still unclear who will win the battle.

But in the 15th minute, Chelsea's patient organization finally paid off.

First of all, the entire midfield is pressed to the front of Arsenal's 30-meter area, where Kanter, Hazard and Gretzka back and forth, constantly looking for Arsenal's loopholes.

Suddenly, Azpilicueta on the right rushed forward along the right line. Hazard passed the ball in the direction he was going, allowing Azpilicueta to avoid the ball after receiving the ball. Overwhelmed Coquelin's defense and made a direct pass.

The placement of this cross was well chosen and precise.

In the penalty area, Lukaku occupied the middle, attracting the attention of Koscielny and Gabriel, but Harry Kane suddenly inserted from the back row, throwing Monreal away to grab the front point.

As a result, Azpilicueta's cross landed on the front spot.

Almost unmarked, Harry Kane jumped high at the front of the small penalty area, shook his head in response to the pass from the right, and the ball crashed into the goal!
This is also one of Harry Kane's most representative scoring methods!

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!"

The entire Stamford Bridge erupted again.

All the Chelsea fans were jumping wildly, chanting Harry Kane's name.

After Harry Kane landed, he turned around and rushed out of the penalty area in excitement. Amidst the shouts of all the fans in the audience, he ran wildly all the way. Front.

He once again expressed his gratitude to the head coach by embracing Pan Yi!

It was Pan Yi who brought him from Tottenham to Chelsea so that he could truly enjoy football and use his own goals to bring victories one after another and champions one after another. Break one record after another!

So every goal he scores is dedicated to Pan Yi!

Behind him, countless Chelsea players rushed over, all hugging Pan Yi and Harry Kane in the middle, forming a group.

From the interaction between players and the coach after each Chelsea goal, anyone can see how strong the cohesion of this team is and how united the whole team is!

When the live TV camera swept across the chairman's stand, Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich also clapped vigorously, and there seemed to be something crystal flickering between the corners of his eyes.

Such a team is really great!This is exactly the team that Abramovich has dreamed of having for so many years!
And all of this really came true after he invited Pan Yi!
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After Chelsea scored the second goal, Wenger finally made adjustments.

He had to choose to let Sanchez come to the back position in the middle, William also retracted, Ramsey retreated to the midfielder, and became a 4-3-2-1, while the three lines tightened the defense.

This adjustment is to give Sanchez the opportunity to get rid of Gretzka's inseparable following of him, and to have space to sprint from the rear.

However, this adjustment basically represented the failure of his initial tactics. At the same time, it also announced that Arsenal began to show weakness, avoid confrontation with Chelsea, and instead adopt more pragmatic defensive tactics, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.

In this way, although Chelsea's control of the scene has become more dominant, and the possession rate has begun to become more one-sided, but there are fewer truly threatening offenses.

After all, after advancing to the third offensive zone, there are more defensive players to face!

And Arsenal finally made their first threatening attack after Wenger adjusted.

In the 25th minute, Sanchez made a breakthrough after receiving the ball on his right rib, and was tripped by Azpilicueta. The referee showed Azpilicueta a yellow card, which was also the first yellow card of the whole game .

But Cazorla's free-kick failed to create a threat, and Courtois easily snatched the ball from the Arsenal players to defuse the Gunners' first threatening attack.

Afterwards, Arsenal counterattacked again. After Sanchez retreated to get the ball, he got rid of Gretzka and went straight behind him. Walcott was about to form a single goal, but at the critical moment Terry came with a flying sliding tackle. The ball was scooped out of the sideline before the little tiger.

After two threatening attacks, Chelsea also began to adjust.

Pan Yi realized that such a siege would be detrimental to the team, so he signaled the team to gradually retreat, the defense line retreated to within 30 meters of their own side, and no high-intensity frontcourt pressing was carried out in front.

This is to play low defense, focusing on the 30-meter area to the center line, keeping the formation compact at all times, and not paying attention to the control of the ball. Instead, it is to fight Arsenal's counterattack.

Obviously, with a two-goal lead in hand, Chelsea played more calmly.

Do you want to keep?Then I won't attack, you come to attack.

You don't attack either?So be it, anyway, I lead by two goals, whoever I love.

But in this way, Wenger was dumbfounded.

"This bastard, didn't he attack very fiercely just now? Why did he just take it back when I started to attack?"

Wenger has a headache.

Because Arsenal is very passive now, not to mention the score behind, in every corner of the pitch, in every one-on-one occasion, they do not have the upper hand.

Let’s just talk about Chelsea’s frontcourt players, Lukaku, Harry Kane, Hazard, all belong to the kind of players who are difficult to defend one-on-one. Defensive weakness is exposed.

And how to spread the offensive?

Just wait for Arsenal to attack and the entire front line is torn apart, the defensive space will become larger, and Chelsea's offense will naturally spread from point to point.

This shows that Pan Yi has already spotted Wenger's idea, uncharacteristically adopts a defensive strategy, tightens the three lines, stays behind closed doors, no longer adopts high defense, and deals with Arsenal in the midfield.

Arsenal should not attack at this time, after all, the two-goal advantage lies with the opponent.

Go ahead, feel like you might die a miserable death?

Including the possession that Chelsea handed over, do Arsenal want it?

This is also a hot potato, if you want it, it's not good, but if you don't, you can't.

It can be said that Pan Yi, a young man in his 20s, feels older than Wenger. He is simply a cunning fox!

Only such a fox can make a veteran like Wenger feel so uncomfortable!
"When you're at Arsenal, it's mostly possession and we're the same. But that doesn't mean we have to be possession."

On the other side, Pan Yi took this opportunity to give a ppt expert, but the rookie assistant Arteta came to give a live lecture.

For Arteta, this is a direct confrontation between the "predecessor" and the "current". He has a better understanding of both sides, and it is still of great teaching significance.

"The ultimate goal of a football game is to win. There are many ways to win, and possession of the ball is just one of them."

"And if once you find that possession of the ball may not necessarily win the game, or even be dangerous to your side, then you should give up decisively and choose other methods."

"For example now, we have actively given up the possession of the ball and retreated to our own half. It seems passive; but although Arsenal have a lot of possession, they can't create a substantial threat. You say, Who is active now? Who is passive? Who controls whom?"

Pan Yi's words made Arteta nod again and again, showing a thoughtful look.

It should be said that there is no absolute existence on the football field, everything is relative, and so is control and anti-control.

Just like the current Arsenal, the entire formation is split into two parts from front to back, and Sanchez is frozen again, causing their offense to be completed more frequently through long passes to the frontcourt.

But whether it is Walcott or William, in front of the three central defenders composed of Van Dijk, Terry and David Luiz, there is no advantage in grabbing the first spot.

In other words, when Arsenal can only launch an offense through long passes, and the front is not Giroud who is good at fighting for the fulcrum, Wenger has already lost.

In fact, Pan Yi said this to Arteta today because in his previous life, the Arsenal team led by Arteta had nothing to do with Manchester City every time.

He's beaten everyone in the Premier League, but just can't beat Manchester City.

To be precise, Arsenal, coached by Arteta, lost all six games against Manchester City coached by Guardiola in the Premier League, and lost four of them.

This is the true portrayal of "the master beats the apprentice".

Because Arteta came out of Guardiola, he will always be deeply influenced by Guardiola in terms of tactical thinking. At this time, whoever has a deeper understanding and his players can better implement this tactical concept, whichever side has a higher winning rate.

Obviously, Arteta is still unable to surpass Guardiola at this time, and the fans also have a joke of "Master saved a hand?"

But if Manchester City meets other teams, they don't need to be strong, such as Brentford, sometimes they can't win. This is the reason for the style.

Teams with the same style, if you don't make some changes, it's really hard for the weak to beat the strong!
Therefore, Pan Yi also told Arteta through this actual battle that the most important thing in the game is to respond flexibly, not stick to a certain tactic! ——
On the field at this time, due to Chelsea's retreat and Arsenal's weak offense, the game fell into a stalemate for a period of time.

But even so, the Blues still created opportunities repeatedly by relying on defensive counterattacks. On the other hand, Arsenal, except for a long-range shot from outside the penalty area, had very few offenses that could create threats.

This stalemate was maintained until the end of the first half before it was finally broken again.

When Arsenal midfielder Ramsey passed the ball forward, he was blocked by Kante who suddenly rushed up.

The ball hit Kanter's leg and flew towards Hazard. Without waiting for the ball to land, he lightly picked up a half-high ball and passed the ball to the front left.

At this time, Lukaku, who came back, was very fast, and he caught up in an instant, but Bellerin was also very fast. He and Koscielny attacked one after the other, making it difficult for Lukaku. Form a quick assault.

After Lukaku took the ball for a short period, he decisively scored the ball to the middle.

At this time, Harry Kane also moved forward quickly in the direction of the ball. After receiving the pass from Lukaku, he stepped forward with his big feet, stopped for a while, and then did not wait for Gabriel to approach. A direct shot!
This time, Cech reacted very quickly and threw the ball away with a side throw.

But at this time, Lukaku also arrived in flattery!
While he was distributing the ball, he didn't stop on his feet, and he was already sprinting towards the goal decisively. At the same time, he used his strong body to block Bellerin behind him.

When Harry Kane's shot was blocked in front of the small penalty area, Lukaku jumped directly at the ball's landing point and shook his head.

Facing this close-in header, Cech was powerless.

The former Chelsea goalkeeper even extended his right hand symbolically, but he couldn't prevent the ball from crashing into the bottom left corner of the goal.

At this moment, the entire Stamford Bridge stadium was completely boiling!
After more than 20 minutes of dullness, Chelsea once again showed their murderous intentions and scored another goal.

Lukaku excitedly rushed under the stands, and kept waving at the Chelsea fans in the stands, signaling their shouts to be louder and more violent.

Three to zero, less than half time, Chelsea has already led by three goals!

Arsenal was completely pushed into the abyss of despair!
At this time, in the Arsenal fans stands, several voices became louder and louder:
"Wenger out!"

"Kroenke out!"

(End of this chapter)