Green Journey

Chapter 424 Those who didn't know thought Gundogan was dead!

On December 12, the 18th round of the Premier League hit, and the Etihad Stadium ushered in another focus battle.

This round Manchester City will face Arsenal at home.

Although there were some financial difficulties at the beginning of the season, the top management of the Arsenal club still supported Wenger and squeezed out about [-] million euros in transfer funds, allowing the professor to strengthen the team's lineup in the transfer market.

After being rejected by Chu Zheng, Wenger returned to England and spent the transfer budget originally prepared for Chu Zheng.

Xhaka was poached from Borussia Borussia for 4500 million euros, Lucas Perez from La Liga Deportivo 2000 million, Mustafi from Valencia 4000 million, Holding 250 million from Bolton, Asano from Hiroshima Sanfrecce Takumi 400 million.

And the [-] million euros was spent, and the results in exchange were quite good.

除了本赛季第一轮3-4输给利物浦，和前几天周中2-1被埃弗顿反杀的英超16轮赛事，阿森纳连续取得了14场不败的优秀战绩。

Gunners fans are also quite satisfied with this result.

And this season Arsenal can be said to be the season with the most abundant lineup in recent seasons.

The performance of the new aids Xhaka, Perez, and Mustafi is also remarkable.

Although Xhaka, who is at the top of the Premier League's yellow card list, is frizzy and rough on the defensive end, he is either getting a card or on the way to get a card, but he has repeatedly scored wonderful long-range shots.

Now as the season progresses, the Swiss midfielder has also adapted to the game rhythm of the Premier League and Arsenal, and his performance has improved. Xhaka, who is both offensive and defensive, can be said to be one of Arsenal's future core midfielder reserves.

Although Lucas Perez has not yet scored a Premier League goal, he has scored in both the League Cup and the Champions League.

It's just that Giroud's recent extremely hot state has compressed Perez's playing time in the Premier League.

The central defender partner of Mustafi and Koscielny is also considered stable, filling the vacancy left by Mertesacker and others.

Arsenal are now the team with the third fewest conceded goals in the Premier League. So far in the new season, they have zero opponents in 6 games.

At 18:23 BJ time on the 45th, the live broadcast signal was connected to the LeTV Sports live broadcast room.

As soon as the camera appeared, Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu laughed out loud.

They were amused by Chu Zheng.

In the camera, today's Manchester City players are exceptionally different. Everyone is wearing Gundogan's No. 8 jersey.

And it was worn backwards, wearing the number and name side on the chest, and the expressions on everyone's faces were quite dignified, making the whole appearance ceremony full of a tragic atmosphere, making people subconsciously think that some famous man in Manchester City died.

After coming on stage, Chu Zheng stood in the middle of the queue, holding a chubby caddy in his hand, looking left and right, saw Yaya Toure, Sane, De Bruyne and others lower their heads, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he lowered his head Nods in silence... bah... prayer.

But this scene happened to be captured by the camera.

Finally stopped laughing, Zhan Jun held back a smile and said: "Let me explain to everyone, this is not a ceremony of silence, but a pre-match prayer ceremony for Gundogan performed by Manchester City players."

"Manchester City won 2-0 against Watford in the last round, but the price was quite heavy."

"In the 35th minute of the first half of the game against Watford, Gundogan fell to the ground in a not-so-serious collision with Amrabat and was subsequently replaced by Guardiola."

"According to the official news released by "Sports Bild" and Manchester City, Gundogan's injury was initially diagnosed as a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, and he is expected to rest for 6 to 8 months, which means that he will miss Manchester City this season All remaining games."

"The season is reimbursed!" Zhang Lu shook her head with regret.

Among all Manchester City's new players this season, except for Chu Zheng, who is as stable as an old dog and tops the Premier League, Gundogan can be said to have kicked out his transfer value, which is worth the money.

Since joining Manchester City, Gundogan has 5 goals and 3 assists, repaying Guardiola's kindness with his excellent state.

Guardiola is also relying more and more on him, but it is a pity that Gundogan's glass body is really incomprehensible.

The position where Gundogan was injured this time is the position where he was injured in Dortmund in May this year.

Zhan Jun said with a smile: "In an interview with the media before, Gua Shuai said that he wanted to cry."

Zhang Lu smiled and said: "Now the Premier League is about to usher in the Christmas and New Year's monster schedule. At this time, the loss of a general is indeed very unfavorable to Manchester City, which is about to fight on multiple fronts. If there is a little carelessness, Manchester City will suffer. Might fall out of the championship group."

At this time at the Etihad Stadium, some Gunners fans also looked confused.

Didn't Gundogan just get hurt?
How do you look at the posture of the Manchester City players, it seems that Gundogan has been buried.

Not long after, the starting lineups of the two sides' matches appeared on the camera screen.

Manchester City: (433)

Forwards: Sane, De Bruyne, Sterling
Midfielders: Chu Zheng, Fernandinho, Yaya Toure

Defenders: Clichy, Kolarov, Otamendi, Zabaleta

Goalkeeper: Bravo
"Compared with the last round of the Premier League, Manchester City's defense has not changed, but the midfielder Fernandinho returned, Yaya Toure started, and De Bruyne was placed in the center position again."

After Zhan Jun finished speaking, Zhang Lu answered with a smile: "Guardiola should be in a frontless formation again."

"Actually, I think Chu Zheng can play as a center forward!" Zhan Jun smiled after adjusting his glasses.

Zhang Lu kept shaking her head and said, "No, no, no, if I were Guardiola, I wouldn't let Chu Zheng play as a center forward. It would be a great waste of Chu Zheng's talent to fix him on the front line."

"Chu Zheng can connect front, back, left and right in the midfield, and in most of the game time, as long as he has physical fitness, he will actively return to defense. With Chu Zheng's defensive ability, it has a great impact on Manchester City's current weak defense. of reinforcement."

"Yes!" Zhan Jun nodded, "Chu Zheng is now in Guardiola's offensive system. Although his active area is in the frontcourt most of the time, in fact, his personal interception and steal data are not even better than those in the Premier League. Poor back."

"In the 16 rounds of the Premier League this season, Chu Zheng scored 11 goals and 12 assists in the Premier League. He is not only the assist leader in the Premier League and Manchester City, but also tops the scorer list. On the defensive end, Chu Zheng also averaged 2.6 goals per game. successful tackles and 1.9 interceptions."

"Yes, Chu Zheng can not only run, he can also run. These statistics on his defensive end are based on his active return and running."

After Zhang Lu finished speaking, Arsenal's starting lineup appeared.

Arsenal: (4231)

Forward: Sanchez
Attacking midfielders: Iwobi, Ozil, Walcott

Defenders: Xhaka, Coquelin

Defenders: Monreal, Koscielny, Gabriel, Bellerin

Goalkeeper: Petr Cech

"In this game, Arsenal also had many injuries. Ramsey, Welbeck, Mustafi, Mertesacker and Carrasso still need time to recover from their injuries."

"Although there were many injuries, Wenger still relied on his sophisticated tactics to help the team achieve a good result."

"Currently, Chelsea are still at the top of the standings with 36 points."

"Manchester City with 34 points squeezed out Liverpool with 1 goal difference and ranked second."

"Since Arsenal were defeated by Everton 16-1 in the 2th round, although they currently have 34 points with Manchester City and Liverpool, they can only rank fourth because of their slight disadvantage in goal difference."

"Actually, if you look at the standings, Manchester City's defense is not too bad." After Zhan Jun finished speaking, Zhang Lu immediately opened his mouth, and the topic brought up Manchester City again.

"Look, Tottenham have conceded the fewest goals in the Premier League, with 16 goals conceded in 13 rounds, followed by Southampton with 14 goals and Arsenal with 17 goals."

"As for Manchester City, there are only 19."

Zhan Jun was stunned for a moment, not knowing what Zhang Lu wanted to express, so he could only follow along: "Zhang Zhi's idea is very strange, but if you think about it from another angle, it seems that Manchester City's defense is indeed not that bad."

"Hey!" Zhang Lu laughed, "It's just that there are indeed more low-level mistakes in Manchester City's defense line, but personally speaking, although Manchester City's defense line is indeed unstable, it is not as good as the media said. sucks."

At 16:[-] London time and [-]:[-] BJ time, the game officially started with the whistle of the referee Atkinson.

　Yesterday’s leave note was not sent out, probably because the WiFi signal was cut off. I clicked publish at that time, but I didn’t pay attention to it. I thought it was posted. Sorry, everyone!
　　
　
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