Chapter 156: The Strongest Gunslinger (Part I)

"So, it's up to me to introduce Arsenal's starting line-up for this game...... In my opinion, this is arguably Arsene Wenger's strongest Arsenal in all the years he has been in charge of Arsenal. "Seeing Lineker's bewilderment at George's formation, Alan Hansen smirked smirked.www.biquge.info Clearly, George's "self-defeating" behaviour led the Liverpool legend to believe that his pre-match prediction of Arsenal's title had hopefully come true.

Jens Lehmann, Lauren Ettame, Chloe Toure, Saul Campbell, Ashley Cole, Patrick Vieira, Gilberto Silva, Frédéric Ljungberg, Robert Pire, Denis Bergkamp and Thierry Henry, that's what Wenger started in this Community Shield final!

Compared to last season, Arsenal's main squad has not changed much, but the Gunners have made great strides in the depth of the bench - Arsenal's forward strength has not been weakened much by the departure of Wiltord and Kanu, but has been further improved by the arrival of Robin van Persie!

After all, compared to Wiltord and Kanu, who are no longer in their prime, Van Persie, who reached the final of the UEFA Cup with Feyenoord two years ago and successfully won the trophy, is much more capable and potential than the two who stood up for the year. Coupled with young players such as Cesc Fabregas, Clichy and Senderos, who have matured at breakneck speed, Arsenal's originally thin staffing has now been greatly strengthened!

It is for this reason that although Arsenal's main players are a year older than last season in terms of average age, and Tottenham have the advantage in the head-to-head record between the two sides, George does not take the Gunners lightly. Not to mention, in George's previous life, Arsene Wenger led such an Arsenal team to go hand in hand on all fronts, first easily beating old rival Manchester United 3-1 in the Community Shield final, and then suppressing the latter in the standings under Chelsea's aggressive attack, until the unbeaten golden body broke The player's psychological fluctuations were reversed, and the Blues led by Mourinho came from behind. At the same time, in the FA Cup that season, Arsenal went all the way to the final and defeated Manchester United again to win the championship!

It can be said that compared to the 03-04 season, Arsenal this season is more terrible in terms of strength - but unfortunately, in the previous life, they met a stable Chelsea team in the league, and were dragged down by the Blues' ferocious chasing momentum and strong bench depth, and in the Champions Cup, they met Bayern Munich with the "Balachai" combination as soon as they came out of the group stage, and they fell early in the quarterfinals.

Alan Hansen once quipped Ferguson, "You can't win anything with a bunch of kids". Although the lord soon led Manchester United, with a group of young players such as Ryan Giggs and David Beckham as the main team, to win the league championship trophy many times, and even achieved the treble in the 98-99 season, this does not mean that Hansen's words back then were unreasonable. In fact, when Hansen said this, almost all the media and fans in the UK (including Manchester United fans) agreed with it very much, but it was only then that Manchester United's results were too dazzling, which made everyone shut up, and then Hansen, the initiator, became the laughing stock of the media who saw the wind and steered.

Therefore, Hansen's assessment of Arsenal now, even if George hears it now, will not refute it. Because in his opinion, there is nothing wrong with Hansen's opinion. It's just that in many cases, being strong doesn't mean that you can achieve an ideal result, or that you can get the coveted championship trophy.

This is like AC Milan last season, when the Rossoneri had the best bench depth and the most balanced overall strength in Europe, but the result was that AC Milan won and then lost in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, becoming a stepping stone for Super Laco.

"It's on!" Thierry Henry and Bergkamp in the centre circle quickly opened the ball and it looked like they were planning to take advantage of the early start of the game and Tottenham's unstable footing to build up a lead. Seeing that Webber had already blown the opening whistle, Hansen also took the opportunity to turn the topic to the game, "If the plan can be implemented smoothly, then Tottenham will have to take the initiative in the next time, and will not be able to use the best defensive counterattacks like in the previous meetings." ”

It has to be said that Hansen's judgment was quite accurate. After the start of the game, the Arsenal players really launched an extremely fierce attack. Although the Tottenham players were prepared for this under George's reminder, they had to shrink the defence under the ferocious attack of the Gunners and reduce the pressure on their own defense by compressing the space.

'Tottenham had good luck today and if it hadn't been for Cech playing well, I'm afraid Arsenal would have taken the lead by now. Seeing Petr Cech narrowly deny Henry's curling shot into the corner and then saved Bergkamp's close-range volley, Alan Hansen was a little disappointed, but he still spoke highly of the performance of the Arsenal players after the opening, "If Arsenal can maintain this intensity for more than 10 minutes, then it will only be a matter of time before Tottenham Hotspur is lost." ”

"Yes, Arsene Wenger's arrangement is quite clever indeed. He accurately grasped the loopholes in Tottenham's starting lineup, "Although he is more optimistic about Tottenham winning the championship, Lineker did not favor Tottenham and still chose to tell the truth," You know, Tottenham has made a lot of moves this summer. Xavi Alonso and Patrice Evra may be no worse than Heinze and Carrick, but the chemistry between the players is not something that can be formed in a short period of time. If George can't figure out how to solve this problem, then Tottenham will be in danger of this game. ”

Lineker's words are right, Tottenham's problem now is that Alonso and Evra are both newcomers to Tottenham, and although the pre-season training camp of just over half a month can give them and their teammates around them a little understanding, they are definitely not familiar with Carrick and Heinze. As a result, Tottenham's players will inevitably make mistakes when it comes to defensive coordination, giving Arsenal an opportunity to take advantage of.

Perhaps because Lineker's fears were justified in their own right, or because Lineker himself has the attributes of a crow's mouth, all in all, less than five minutes after Lineker said this, the stands erupted in cheers - in one attack, Ljungberg seized the opportunity of Patrice Evra's lack of marking and Alonso's lack of time to make up the defense, received Bergkamp's through ball into the Tottenham box, and split the ball into the middle after attracting the attention of Cech and Ledley King. Henry, who cut in from the other side, did not stop the ball and pushed it directly into the far corner of the goal with his left foot, and Cech, who had been attracted to the other end, could only watch the ball go into the net, 1-0!

In this way, less than ten minutes before the start of the game, Tottenham Hotspur received a blow from Arsenal and temporarily fell behind by one goal in this Community Shield final!

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