Football: Don’t talk about feelings, I’m just an AI

Chapter 147 The rise of the Champions League, 23 things before the battle with the Red Army

PS: My diarrhea is gone, but I feel dizzy and sleepy. What’s wrong with me? ? ?
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In the third round of the Premier League, in addition to the North London Derby being the highlight, the Double Red Club is also very eye-catching.

However, the match between Liverpool and Manchester United was not exciting. Liverpool finally defeated Manchester United with a score of 1:0.

After three rounds, only Arsenal and Liverpool have won three consecutive games and are ranked in the top two of the Premier League standings.

Stoke City, Manchester City, Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester United follow closely behind.

The addition of Stoke City, which had two wins and one draw, into the big 6 team gave this small team a lot of traffic.

It happened that Stoke City was going to face Manchester City at home in the fourth round of the Premier League, and Arsenal was going to face Arsenal away in the fifth round, so they shouted that they wanted the big6 to have a taste of the power of original football.

Many people laughed at this.

However, many at Colney's training ground couldn't help but smile.

The injuries of De Bruyne and Wilshere have made this place lose its laughter.

Wenger stayed up all night and called Xia Qi into the office on Monday morning to talk for two hours and finally decided to let Xia Qi play the midfielder position.

In fact, it doesn't matter which position Xia Qi plays, anyway, he just hangs up with one click.

However, Wenger and others don’t know!
Xia Qi has done such an outstanding job at the winger position that it takes a lot of courage for the coaching staff to move him to a new position.

Wenger plans to restore the back four, so that if Xia Qi makes any mistakes in the midfield, the back line will be more capable of correcting mistakes.

Wenger announced the training content on the training ground.

The whole team changed to a 451 lineup.

Left back: Luke Shaw

Center backs: Mertesacker, Umtiti

Right back: Aurier

Defensive midfielder: Gustavo

Organizing midfielder: Cazorla
Midfielder: Xia Qi

Left Midfielder: Aaron Ramsey

Right midfielder: Theo Walcott
Center: Balotelli

On the defensive end of this lineup, Xia Qi and Gustavo can sweep in tandem to form Arsenal's first line of defense.

On the offensive end, he becomes a free man in the frontcourt.

He will connect the front three, and Balotelli, Gnabry, and Walcott will move around Xia Qi...

After dividing the groups, Wenger conducted confrontation training between Group A and Group B...

Due to the [telepathic] attribute, the cooperation between Walcott and Xia Qi, whose intimacy level is 85, is of course much smoother than that of Aaron Ramsey, whose intimacy level is only 65.

That day's training allowed Wenger and the coaching staff to confirm one thing, that is, Xia Qi is capable of playing the attacking midfielder position.

It's just that the left-sided cooperation between Xia Qi and Aaron Ramsey is unsatisfactory.

Pat Rice suggested giving Gnabry a try.

Wenger promoted Gnabry from the youth training team with the intention of finding a substitute for Walcott.

But Gnabry can also play on the left.

In the second day of training, the cooperation between Gnabry and Xia Qi, whose intimacy value was also 65, was obviously better than that of Aaron Ramsey.

But the age difference between the two is only one year, they share the same language, and their relationship heats up quickly.

When the intimacy value exceeded 80, Wenger was surprised to find out.

Gnabry and Xia Qi had a "spark of love".

The two not only have exquisite cooperation on the left wing, but also interact with Balotelli and Walcott.

Arsenal's frontcourt is fully activated!
In this way, Wenger announced the starting lineup on Friday, and the "King of London" Gnabry replaced the God of Death - Ramsey as the starting team member.

Back in the locker room, Gnabry couldn't wait to call his mother in Germany to announce the good news.

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Arsenal's opponent in the fourth round of the Premier League is Sunderland.

On September 9, at the Stadium of Light, Arsenal defeated Sunderland 14:1.

Training is one thing, racing is another.

In this game, Xia Qi, who hung up with one click, sent four wonderful passes to his teammates, but only Balotelli seized one opportunity.

After the game, many media criticized Wenger for moving Xia Qi, last season's killer, to the attacking midfielder position, which made it so difficult for Sunderland, a relegation team...

Xia Qi also received the worst rating of his career, 7.0 points.

At the post-match press conference, Wenger defended himself and Xia Qi, saying that Arsenal actually played very well in this game. Xia Qi not only controlled the rhythm of the game, but also created four good scoring opportunities for his teammates. , it’s just that the players’ scoring luck is slightly worse…

However, the media and fans did not buy it and believed that Xia Qi's position moving back was a failure.

After this battle, Arsenal's odds of winning the Premier League and Champions League have increased by 2Pa.

Amid the pessimism, Arsenal faced Stoke City in the fifth round of the Premier League on September 9.

Stoke City is a dark horse in the Premier League this season. After the first four rounds of the Premier League, they have two wins and two draws. Especially in the fourth round, they drew 0:0 at home against the championship team Manchester City, which made them famous...

At this time, Arsenal, which was full of wounded soldiers, was looked down upon by everyone.

The Sun's sports section even predicted before the game that Stoke City would beat Arsenal 2:1.

Stoke City took the opportunity to shout before the game: a must-win slogan.

Even Ferguson was optimistic about Stoke City. The reason was that Stoke City drew with Manchester City with a tidy lineup in the last round.

Manchester City is the team with the best chance of winning this season.

Stoke City can draw with them, and its strength certainly cannot be underestimated.

In this way, a game that should not have been the focus became the focus.

Arsenal is home for this game.

Gnabry's parents were invited to the Emirates Stadium for their son's first home game.

In this game, Stoke City started the game very fiercely and played very rough.

However, it met Xia Qi, who was not afraid of injury and had skills.

With the cooperation of Xia Qi and Cazorla, Arsenal controlled the whole game without giving the dark horse any chance. In the end, Arsenal defeated the visiting Stoke City 1:0.

There were few goals in this game because Xia Qi put more energy into defense.

After the game, fans and the media, who were used to Xia Qi's hat-tricks at every turn, once again criticized Arsenal's new tactics. Some Arsenal fans even held banners outside the base in protest.

But Wenger and Xia Qi know the team is on the right track.

After two rounds of baptism in the Premier League, Xia Qi has become more and more skilled in cooperating with his teammates in the attacking midfielder position.

9月28日和10月6日两场客场背靠背的比赛,阿森纳分别2:0战胜斯旺西,3:0战胜西布罗姆维奇。

Xia Qi scored Arsenal's first goal after changing their formation in the West Bromwich Albion match.

At this moment, the media and fans discovered that Arsenal, which was full of injured soldiers, had maintained a complete victory without any danger in this month.

And firmly occupy the top spot in the Premier League standings.

As a result, the criticism immediately changed.

Xia Qi, who plays the attacking midfielder position, has received high praise, and Wenger is also respected as a "tactical master".

The betting company lowered Arsenal's winning odds by another 2 Pa after the game.

Just when everything was back to square one, Arsenal ushered in the Champions League group stage.

In the 2013-2014 Champions League, Arsenal was assigned to Group F, in the same group as Dortmund, Marseille, and Naples.

On October 10, the Arsenal team set off for Marseille, France. Prepare to face the first match of the Champions League group stage on October 8.

The team arrived in Marseille, France, at noon. After lunch, Wenger asked the coaching staff to arrange for the players to rest.

Depart at 3:30 in the afternoon and go to the Velodomi Stadium for field acclimatization training.

The Vilo Domi Stadium can accommodate more than 6 people, and the facilities in the stadium are not inferior to the home stadiums of the Premier League's big teams.

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The full name of Marseille is Olympique Marseille Football Club. Founded in 1899, the club is a veteran team in French football and the only French team to have won the Champions League.

Marseille is ranked third in Ligue 1 this season, and the head coach is Pope.

October 10, Villodomi Stadium.

Only 12 minutes into the game, Xia Qi received a long pass from Cazorla at the front of the penalty area, shook off the defensive player, and headed towards the near corner of the goal.

Gnabry scored with a shovel shot in front of the near post.

Scored his first Champions League goal.

1: 0!

After scoring, Gnabry ran all the way along the sideline and took off his clothes to celebrate and received a yellow card.

During this period, Xia Qi and Gnabry's tacit understanding in training has become stronger and stronger, and they can often play such "tacit understanding" cooperation.

Compared with Arsenal, the total value of Marseille's team is only half of Arsenal's.

Facing Arsenal, the whole team wanted to maintain a tie and win.

As a result, the goal was conceded after only 12 minutes of defense, and most of the morale that Marseille head coach Pope had finally mobilized before the game suddenly dissipated.

At the end of the first half.

Arsenal scored again.

This time it was the cooperation between Xia Qi, Balotelli and Walcott.

Walcott broke through from the right and passed an inverted triangle to Xia Qi on the right side of the penalty area. Xia Qi kept the ball going straight into the middle of the penalty area.

Balotelli pushed away the defensive defender like a tank and blasted a shot in the penalty area.

Football hits the dead end!

2: 0!

The Marseille fans who were singing in the stands of the Villodomi Stadium silently shut their mouths after falling behind 0:2.

The former hegemon of Ligue 1 has long since declined, and is unable to fight back against the attacks of the upstarts of the Premier League.

after halftime
Marseille head coach Pope even ignored the fact that he was two goals behind and the dignity of the home court.

The bus defense started.

However, this gave Arsenal a free hand.

In the 65th minute, Xia Qi broke into the penalty area to grab the point and headed back.

The unmarked Mertesacker made a world-wide kick from outside the penalty area.

The ball bounced off the defender's leg and into the net.

3: 0!

This is Mertesacker's first goal this season and the first Champions League goal in his career.

Mertesacker scored a total of 15 goals in his nine-year career.

After scoring the goal, Mertesacker was extremely excited. He directly carried Xia Qi on his back and ran all over the field...

Mertesacker's goal also declared that the game had completely lost its suspense.

On the sidelines of the court, Wenger was communicating with Pat Rice with a relaxed expression.

After the game, Xia Qi once again won the best of the match.

At the press conference after the game, Wenger said humbly that it was helpless to let Xia Qi play as an attacking midfielder. The five consecutive victories were the result of the joint efforts of the whole team and a kind of luck.

He also stated that in the next Premier League game, Wilshere will return from injury and Xia Qi will return to the left wing position.

October 10th is another London derby, with Crystal Palace facing Arsenal at home.

The strength of the two teams is not at the same level, and Crystal Palace has never thought of defeating Arsenal.

After the opening, the entire team retreated, and even the lone forward returned to his own half.

But even so, their defense only lasted 20 minutes.

In the 20th minute of the first half, Wilshere took a corner kick from the left. Xia Qi pointed in front of the goal and jumped into the top of the goal, knocking open the turtle shell of Crystal Palace and scoring 0:1.

After taking a one-goal lead, the rest of the game was easy to play.

In the 52nd and 72nd minutes, two 18-year-olds, Gnabry and Luke Shaw, scored one goal each to seal the game.

However, something that worried Arsenal happened in the 82nd minute. Wilshere, who had just returned from injury, was injured and fell to the ground without confrontation.

After the game, it was reported that Wilshere was reimbursed for the season and would not be able to participate in all remaining games.

This 0:3 victory made the Arsenal people feel uncomfortable like flies in the food.

At the post-match press conference, where the game was no longer the focus of the interview, reporters were verbally critical of Arsenal's medical staff for allowing Wilshere to play without being completely clean.

Team doctors have an unshirkable responsibility. This is a job redemption industry and a crime!
Some media even refer to Arsenal's team doctor as "vet".

At the press conference, reporters kept asking about De Bruyne's injury. It was obvious that they no longer believed the diagnosis of Arsenal's team doctor.

Seeing Wilshere's miserable state, De Bruyne was also scared, and after discussing with Wenger, decided to postpone his comeback.

After some storms, October passed quietly.

With Arsenal's winning streak, Xia Qi was named the best player in October by the British media, and Wenger was the best coach.

But the media also have different voices.

They believe that a good head coach should not only have a good record, but also have humanistic care for the players. Wilshere's injury made Wenger's October Best Award full of controversy.

The time soon came to November 11, when Arsenal, the top player in the Premier League, faced Liverpool, the second player in the Premier League.

This is an extremely important battle at Tianwang Mountain.

The heat quickly overshadowed Wilshere's injury.

People started to care and talk about this game.

Klopp's arrival at Liverpool was extremely successful. Under his leadership, Liverpool achieved six wins, two draws and one loss in the first nine rounds of the Premier League, accumulating 20 points, second only to Arsenal, who had nine consecutive wins and accumulated 9 points. Second place in the standings.

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At seven o'clock in the evening local time, Arsenal appeared at the Emirates Stadium on time.

Xia Qi and others went to warm up. After Wenger tidied up his appearance, he quickly went to the press conference hall.

When he walked into the press conference, Klopp was already sitting on the news desk waiting for him.

Wenger quickly walked over and said hello to him and sat down.

There were many reporters in the audience, and they looked at Wenger with admiration.

Arsenal, which was full of injured soldiers, quietly grabbed points amidst the doubts outside.

When this round of Tianwangshan battle started, everyone realized that Arsenal had unknowingly led the second place by seven points.

"Mr. Wenger, Arsenal is the only team in the Premier League with consecutive wins. What is the secret of your success?"

Wenger smiled and pondered for a moment and said: "Don't be disturbed by external things, do what you should do, and then add a little luck, and you will succeed..."

"Mr. Klopp, this game..." (End of chapter)

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