Chapter 40 The Curse Comes True (First Update, Please Subscribe!)

《Arsenal plays a defensive counterattack!》

《Wenger: Only a defensive counterattack can save Arsenal!》

《Wenger uses the most boring way of playing!》

The next day, various reports about Arsenal began to spread all over the British Isles.

Even though they won, there were still media outlets mocking Wenger for using a defensive counterattack tactic.

This tactical system that was once devalued by Wenger as useless.

Now Wenger actually used it himself, and even though the effect was good, he still couldn't escape the fate of being mocked.

Many people followed suit and laughed at this.

But Arsenal did not fight back.

After the 20th round of the league, Arsenal won Newcastle United 2:0 at home and won three points.

This also stabilized them in the fourth place in the league.

Current Premier League standings.

1: Manchester United, 15-1-4, 46 points.

2: Manchester City: 12-6-2, 42 points.

3: Chelsea: 11-6-3, 39 points.

4: Arsenal: 11-4-5, 37 points.

5: Tottenham Hotspur, 11-3-6, 36 points.

Arsenal's position is not safe, and the league has entered a battle for points, and all teams have begun to exert their strength.

Especially for the two teams in the championship echelon, the two Manchester giants still maintain a relatively obvious advantage.

Compared with other teams, Arsenal's situation is not too good.

While other teams are exerting their strength, they have fallen into a wave of injuries and have to use defensive counterattack tactics to consolidate their current points.

Even to a large extent, in order to ensure a place in the Champions League, Arsenal has to give up a lot of things.

For example, the FA Cup and the Champions League!

If it were the case in the past, Arsenal would never give up the FA Cup, but the current situation is not optimistic.

Wenger can't use a bunch of baby midfielders to fight for the championship for Arsenal.

Although Lucky's performance is extremely impressive, he still has many flaws and needs to grow slowly.

In the Champions League, Arsenal finished second in Group B.

This also increased their burden in the knockout stage.

After all, their opponents are the first in other groups.

There are a total of eight group firsts, namely Paris Saint-Germain, Schalke 04, Malaga, Dortmund, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Manchester United.

Avoid the same group and the same division, so Schalke 04 and Manchester United can be excluded.

Arsenal's opponents are reduced to six teams.

Paris Saint-Germain, with the signings in this season's transfer window, has made a huge leap in strength. Although it cannot be called a championship team, it is already very strong.

Malaga is a dark horse team. They won AC Milan 1:0 at home, and then tied the Rossoneri 1:1 away, and entered the knockout stage with an unbeaten record of 3-3-0.

Under the leadership of Klopp, Dortmund blew the horn of the youth storm, and a group of players headed by Reus, Lewandowski and Gotze performed extremely well.

After returning to Serie A, Juventus re-demonstrated its dominance in the league and began to challenge the Champions League.

Needless to say, Bayern Munich is still a strong team.

The recent state of the Barcelona Universe has been somewhat up and down, and the Universe has gradually begun to have some problems, but it is still extremely strong.

For Arsenal, the two opponents they most want to avoid are Bayern Munich and Barcelona.

But when the group draw was over, everyone was silent.

Champions League quarter-finals, Arsenal VS Bayern Munich!

Okay!

Five years of Bayern! Three years of Barcelona!

The curse began to come true!

Another battle to defend the earth!

Perhaps because of the draw of Bayern Munich in the Champions League knockouts, the emotions of the Arsenal players were obviously a little fluctuating.

This emotion was also very obvious in training.

But Wenger had no choice. Although he had basically decided to give up the Champions League, he couldn't say it directly.

Wenger looked at one end of the court, where a heated training was going on.

It was still Patres who led Lekai in training.

Patres threw the ball to Lekai and asked him to shake his head to observe before and after receiving the ball.

This was also the problem Patres found on the court. Lekai's observation times were too few. He obviously had a wide field of vision, but this guy just didn't raise his head.

This was a bad habit developed since childhood, and now he wanted to correct it.

"Shake your head! Observe!"

Patres threw the ball to Lekai and watched him shake his head left and right before receiving the ball, and then continue to shake his head left and right after stopping the ball.

"Remember, as a midfielder, you must keep in mind the positions of your teammates on the field and predict their next direction of movement."

Patres pointed to his eyes and said; "Use your eyes to observe, instead of looking down at the ball, you must change this habit."

Lekai could only smile bitterly after training.

He found that Patres had become more strict recently.

In the past, he only grasped some general training content, but now he began to go deep into the details.

Of course, Lekai's habits are indeed problematic.

He would not move his head to observe. This was a habit he had developed over a long period of time. It was not easy to change, so he could only force him to correct it.

Every time before catching the ball, Lucky would shake his head to observe, but his shaking of the head was not pretending.

Instead, really observe the next movements of other teammates.

This is more conducive to his combined use in the game.

But seriously, it’s so tiring!

After every observation, Lucky will have a slight lag when stopping the ball. Although it is a small lag, in the top league, this is a mistake and is likely to be stolen by the opponent.

Therefore, Lucai must perform this set of movements without any hindrance and smoothly.

Lucky is studying hard, and Patrice is also teaching hard.

Now Patrice is full of energy every day, and he doesn't look like a 64-year-old man at all.

He gets up early every day, drives to the training ground, and starts training Lucky from the first minute.

If we say that his previous expectation for Lucky was to become Vieira.

Well now he wants Lucky to surpass Vieira.

And it's not hopeless.

Lucky has fully proven his talent in previous games.

The incredible key pass during the attack, coupled with the magical arcing slash from the previous game!

These all prove Lucai's ability on the offensive end.

He knew Vieira couldn't make that kind of pass.

In fact, the current entire Premier League cannot be played.

This is talent!

Coupled with Lucky's control of offensive timing and strong defensive ability.

All this told him how exaggerated Lucky's talent was.

Therefore, Patrice must use every minute and every second to let this little sapling fully absorb knowledge and grow.

In his plan, Lucky is not a scavenger who does dirty work, but a super core who can do both offense and defense!

Even a B2B midfielder like Yaya Toure is not impossible!

Every time he thought of this, Patrice's heart became hot.

"Twenty more times! This time, move left and right, don't forget to look up and observe!"

Wenger looked at the two of them with a smile on his lips.

Goalkeeper coach Gerry Payton came over. He followed Wenger's gaze at Patrice and Lucky and said, "His recent performance has been very positive!"

He was talking about Patrice.

In response, Wenger smiled and nodded: "He has a great plan!"

Gripayton turned to look at Wenger in surprise, then smiled and said, "Is it related to Kai?"

Wenger smiled and said nothing.

After a moment, Wenger turned around and asked: "How is Szczesny's injury?"

"It has basically recovered and I will be able to play next week or the week after."

Hearing this, Wenger slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

No one knows how much pressure the professor is under because of his injuries.

Szczesny's return is good news.

At least the real goalkeeper is back, and the defense will be more stable.

"Tell him to quit smoking as soon as possible. Athletes can't touch this thing." Wenger frowned.

Szczesny has a bad habit, that is smoking.

This is not allowed at Arsenal. Although he has made repeated mistakes, he has no intention of changing.

"I will try my best to urge him!" Gripayton nodded. He knew that Szczesny's problem had caused great dissatisfaction among the professor.