Chapter 80 Three Points! Three Points! Only Three Points Left! [Third Update]

Playing against strong teams in two consecutive rounds will put a lot of pressure on any team.

Especially their opponent is Chelsea after the change of coach - Di Matteo was fired because he had not won nine consecutive games in the first half of the schedule.

He was replaced by the former Liverpool assistant coach, Spaniard Benítez.

After Benítez took over, Chelsea's performance stabilized, although they could not close the gap with the championship group.

But at least they are in the upper hand in the competition for the top four.

Especially in the last five rounds of the league, Chelsea has won five consecutive games.

The state is quite good.

However, for Arsenal, the schedule of this game is quite favorable for them.

Because two days after the end of this game.

Chelsea will play the second round of the League Cup semi-finals - their opponent is Swansea, who Arsenal eliminated in the FA Cup three days ago.

In the first round of the League Cup, Swansea defeated Chelsea 1-0 away, which was a big upset.

Chelsea was eliminated from the Champions League group this season. They are now 11 points behind Manchester United and 6 points behind Arsenal in the league. It seems that they have no hope of winning the championship.

Therefore, if they can win a championship in the League Cup, it will be a great consolation for Chelsea this season.

Especially the teams that made it to the semi-finals of the League Cup this season, except Chelsea, the other three teams are not strong teams. Chelsea's opponent Swansea is not to mention. The other two teams are Aston Villa and Brentford.

One is struggling to stay in the Premier League, and the other is simply a Championship team.

And Chelsea's schedule is very awkward: they will play the second round of the League Cup less than 24 hours after playing Arsenal.

So for Benítez, he will fall into a very painful choice: should he play Arsenal with all the main players, strive to beat Arsenal in the league, and avenge the loss to Arsenal at home in the first half of the league.

Or should he be more realistic and play Swansea with all the main players to try to reach the League Cup final?

One is the London derby, and the other is the League Cup semi-finals, which is related to whether the team can win a trophy this season. If Chelsea can reach the League Cup final, the probability of winning the championship is still quite high.

How to choose.

Even experts from all walks of life are troubled by Benítez.

Benítez's choice is to criticize the Premier League schedule in the media.

However, no matter how much fun he has in criticizing.

In the end, you still have to make a choice.

Either rotate Arsenal's game, or let the main players play two games in a row within 48 hours - not to mention the risk of injuries caused by doing so, it is a big question how much physical energy Chelsea's main players can bring out to play in the second game.

No matter what Chelsea chooses.

Arsenal must go all out in this game.

A large rotation was made in the FA Cup, isn't it just for this game?

One hour before the game.

The starting lineups of both sides came out.

Arsenal will play a 442 formation with all the main players, with Vermaelen and Mertesacker, who have returned from injury, as central defenders, and Koscielny suspended due to a red card.

The forwards are still Giroud and Li Mo.

Although Li Mo can also fight and fight.

But Wenger still asked Giroud to share the task of fighting - he was worried that Li Mo would get injured due to frequent confrontation.

And what about Chelsea?

After the starters came out, people knew what Benítez was thinking.

He still focused on the League Cup.

There is a chance to win a trophy, Benítez is still unwilling to miss this opportunity, if he can help Chelsea keep the top four ranking as a fire-fighting coach, and also win a trophy.

Even if Chelsea's owner Abramovich has high requirements for the head coach, he can't say that he will fire Benítez as soon as this season ends, right?

"Benitez chose to focus on the League Cup, which is a very pragmatic choice. Now Chelsea's main task in the league is to maintain the top four, which is not a big pressure for Chelsea, so it is understandable that Benitez chose to hide half of the main players to deal with the second leg of the League Cup semi-final two days later."

After the game started, Andy Gray, the commentator of Sky Sports TV, said so.

Arsenal, who miraculously reversed Manchester City in the last round of the league, was already full of fighting spirit and confidence in this game, and the opponent played with half of the main players.

So there was almost no suspense in this game.

In the 21st minute of the game.

Chelsea's goal was broken.

"Li Mo! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!"

"The 19th league goal!!"

"Goal scored in five consecutive league rounds! This is a new record for Li Mo's consecutive league goals!!"

"Twenty-two league rounds, nineteen league goals!!"

The Emirates Stadium cheered.

At this time.

A banner with Li Mo's head portrait appeared on the west stand of the Emirates Stadium.

Before this game,

There is also news among the Arsenal fans.

That is, the first fan organization dedicated to supporting Li Mo was born.

They shouted Li Mo's name.

In this fan organization.

There are many Chinese people from Longguo or with Longguo ancestry.

They are all Longguo people who study, work and settle in the UK.

Although Li Mo chose to play for the Italian national team, he lost many fans of the Dragon Country.

But there are still a large number of Dragon Country fans who support him.

The flag bearer waving the flag at this time was an international student from the Dragon Kingdom.

Li Mo opened his arms and ran to the stands, smiling and nodding to his fans.

"Come on! Li Mo!"

“We support you!!”

"come on!"

Everyone chanted one after another.

"Li Mo received Ramsey's through ball in the penalty area. He stopped and passed David Luiz, and then relied on his opponent's right foot to sweep the ball into the goal. Just a month or two ago, people They also said that Li Mo is a typical opportunist, but now look, he uses this kind of center skill very skillfully!"

Zhang Jun said with emotion.

"His growth rate is really too fast!"

Zhang Jun was the first Dragon Kingdom commentator to pay attention to Li Mo.

He noticed Li Mo when he first represented AC Milan in the International Champions Cup.

Just half a year.

Li Mo has actually grown from a fledgling unknown.

Became the super star that he is today.

His technical ability seems to be rising as well as his fame.

From an opportunist with problems with his basic skills, he has now become an incredible all-around center.

What a pity.

Such a player.

Actually, because of the greed of some people in the Dragon Kingdom Football Association, he completely stayed away from the Dragon Kingdom football world.

But this is fine

At least.

He probably won't be assimilated into the Dragon Kingdom football world, right?

Zhang Jun thought of some foreign players in the Chinese Super League. After playing in the Chinese Super League for a long time, they have a tendency to become dragons.

Li Mo's goal helped Arsenal open the door to victory.

Chelsea, who played semi-mainly, conceded another goal in the second half - it was a corner kick and Mertesacker scored with a header.

Arsenal finally defeated Chelsea 2-0 at home.

Double beat Chelsea this season.

Counting Manchester City who won the last game.

This season Arsenal have beaten two strong teams, Chelsea and Manchester City, one after another.

In addition, they also defeated Manchester United and Tottenham in the first half of the schedule.

So this season, Arsenal still has the opportunity to double beat Manchester United and Tottenham.

[Strong team killer Arsenal! 】

[Arsenal double beats Manchester City and Chelsea in succession! 】

[The terrifying Arsenal, the terrifying Li Mo! 】

The media are singing praises for Arsenal.

no way.

Who allows them to continuously win against strong teams now?

It is worth mentioning.

Chelsea was unlucky to lose to Swansea at home - Terry received a red card shortly after the game started.

Chelsea, who had one less player to play, tied with Swansea 0-0 at home and were eliminated by Swansea.

This side lost to Arsenal in the rotation, and then they were unexpectedly eliminated from the League Cup that they were determined to win.

Benitez's coaching position was in jeopardy for a while.

But none of this has anything to do with Arsenal.

Five days later, the twenty-third round of the league.

Arsenal played against West Ham United at home. Arsenal played this game very easily, because the team got a penalty kick in the first minute of the game-it was the team's first offense. Li Mo's shot outside the penalty area A shot hit the defender's outstretched arm.

Arteta took the penalty kick and scored it instantly.

Arsenal got off to a fantastic start.

Then the game entered Arsenal's rhythm.

Before the end of the first half, Li Mo made a header, Giroud scored with a header, and the two centers completed an alley-oop to help the team expand the score.

After taking a two-goal lead, Arsenal played more calmly.

Li Mo was substituted in the 60th minute of the game. The team's biggest weapon must be used sparingly.

Li Mo's own league scoring record has also stopped at five games.

After this game is over.

No one left the stadium, but were waiting in the locker room to see the result of another game - Manchester United playing Liverpool away from home!

Manchester United is very strong this season, and Liverpool is struggling a bit this season.

Judging from the book strength of both sides, Manchester United has the upper hand.

but.

This is the logic of ordinary games.

It's not the logic of the Double Red Club - as the two most successful teams in the English Professional League, the collision between Manchester United and Liverpool, a pair of mortal enemies, will definitely not follow the logic of this ordinary game.

Every confrontation between them is like Mars hitting the Earth.

Just like this game.

The match time of this double club was half an hour later than the Arsenal match.

So back in the dressing room, the Arsenal players turned on the television.

The game between the Double Red Club and the Red Cross has reached the 63rd minute of the game.

Score on the field

Two to two!

"Well done!"

"Oh oh oh, Liverpool are awesome!"

"Liverpool, kill Manchester United, they are your absolute mortal enemy!"

The Arsenal players were excited.

They all cheered for Liverpool.

The atmosphere in the locker room was very lively.

The climax came in the 93rd minute of the game.

Manchester United received a penalty kick in the 92nd minute of the game!

When the penalty kick was awarded, the Arsenal dressing room burst into mourning.

When they thought Manchester United was going to escape from Anfield with this penalty kick.

Liverpool's veteran goalkeeper Reina made a wonderful save. He saved Van Persie's penalty kick! !

"Oh oh oh! Beautiful!!"

"Ahhhhhhh!!"

"Reiner! Reiner! Oh oh oh oh! Reiner!!!"

Arsenal players sang praises for Reina.

This save is likely to become a key save in the Premier League season! !

This save also successfully allowed Arsenal to shorten the gap between Arsenal and Manchester United - if it ends with this score, the point difference between Arsenal and Manchester United will only be three points!

Considering that the goal difference between the two sides is not large, Arsenal's current goal difference is 27, while Manchester United's is 26.

so.

A three-point difference.

It's basically just a game difference.

final.

This thrilling double-red match ended in a 2-2 draw.

After twenty-three league rounds.

Manchester United tops the league standings with 48 points.

Arsenal are three points behind and ranked second in the league standings with 45 points.

Manchester City scored 43 points and ranked third in the league standings!

The gap between the three teams has shortened again.

Manchester United's lead was shortened from five points to three points, and their pressure suddenly became unprecedentedly high.

This is after the game.

You can see Ferguson's livid face.

He bought a 30-year-old Van Persie just to bet on winning a championship before retiring.

Who would have thought that this season would be anything other than Manchester City.

Arsenal unexpectedly rose up and put so much pressure on Manchester United.

Manchester United is the leader though.

If the lead is huge, that's okay.

But if.

The lead was only within the scope of one game.

This kind of pressure may lead to losing the top spot after one round of the league.

It's just too big.

Even if Manchester United is under such pressure for a long time, Ferguson cannot guarantee that his players can maintain stable performance in every game.

not to mention.

Manchester United's schedule is more difficult than Arsenal's.

Because they will face more strong teams next.

Arsenal has already played Manchester City, and Manchester United has to play Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea.

"Arsenal has indeed seen the hope of winning the championship! Their performance against strong teams this season has been very good. If Manchester United cannot once again widen the gap with Arsenal before the 36th round of the league, then this will They face Arsenal head-on in the first round of the league, which will put huge pressure on them!”

".Manchester United stopped their winning streak, they were tied by Liverpool!"

"Arsenal's opportunity has come! Manchester City's opportunity has come too!!"

".The battle for the Premier League title becomes more complicated!"

The media is happy to see this situation.

The competition for the league title becomes more intense.

The topic also attracts more attention.

Arsenal had a day off after the 23rd round of the league.

When the players return to the Colney training base.

Wenger told his players with a straight face.

"Forget the standings, forget all the previous games. What affects us is always the next game!"