Chapter 336: It's Too Fast
On 16 March, Arsenal host Leicester.
Head coach Graham had intended to rest Wu Jie with his squad as the FA Cup tie against West Bromwich Albion was two days away.
It will also be Arsenal's most difficult week of the season, with a league game against Leicester on the 16th, the sixth round of the FA Cup on the 18th and a return to the league against Ipswich Town on the 19th.
It's not three games a week, it's three games in four days.
Such a tight schedule is not to say that Chinese fans have never seen it, even British fans are rare, usually 5 days and 3 games are even the most extreme schedule, this kind of 4 days and 3 games is indeed rare.
Wu Jie dared to rest at this time, now he can't lose the league and the FA Cup, in case they are forced to draw by Leicester, they and Everton are three points apart.
If they do drop points in this kind of game, they are likely to miss out on the title even if they win the head-to-head meeting with Everton at the end of the month.
Therefore, this battle cannot be lost, and he took the initiative to ask Ying to lead Arsenal's rotation lineup.
At this time, Gunners fans also discovered a phenomenon, that is, Wu Jie's absence from Arsenal is completely two teams.
In other words, as long as he is available, even if the rest are made up of substitutes and echelon players, they will still be able to compete with any League One team.
Leicester are now ranked fifteenth, which shows that they are not a team with outstanding strength, even if the will to fight is online under the relegation task, it is still dominated by Wu Jie's personal ability.
At the end of the match, the score stayed at 3:2.
Leicester played bloody today and were even expected to draw at one point away from home to Arsenal.
However, with Wu Jie providing two assists in the first 80 minutes and a stunner in the final 10 minutes, Leicester still had to swallow a defeat at Highbury Stadium.
At the end of the game, Wu Jie's dominance even brought tears to the eyes of some Gunners fans in the stadium.
This is a taste of happiness, Wu Jie is like an optimus prime that holds up the whole world for Arsenal, as long as this man is still on the field, they are confident that no matter how desperate the situation is, no matter how rough the road ahead, they can finally reach the finish line safely.
At the same time, they also understand why Bayern fans cried during the previous few days' games, because the taste of getting first and then losing is always more desperate than never getting it.
However, the Gunners fans have not had time to praise Wu Jie's outstanding performance, and they will be ready to face West Bromwich Albion the next day.
At this time, Arsenal can only rejoice that the only good news is that this game is their home stadium.
If you want to play away, then even Wu Jie will vomit blood.
In the English media's coverage on the day of the game, it mainly reported on Arsenal, especially Wu Jie's fitness problems.
Everyone knows that Wu Jie's physical fitness is one of the best in the world, and even if he is the most physical player among the active players, there will not be many people who question it.
But no matter how good the physical fitness is, it shouldn't be able to bear this devilish schedule, right?
In this game, will Wu Jie pull his hips because of physical problems?
The English media would love to see this picture, and it would have been better if it had been injured due to physical strength or had been seriously injured.
But they didn't know that Wu Jie used a diamond-level recovery card for himself after the match with Leicester.
Coupled with the fact that he refused milk and Black Forest cake for two days in a row, today his physical strength has recovered ninety percent.
West Bromwich Albion are slightly stronger than Leicester, but they don't score as many goals, and a closer look at West Bromwich Albion's stats at both ends of the pitch shows that this is a team that is relatively good defensively, but weak in attack.
This is very much in line with their higher ranking than Leicester, who are weak in attack and defense, but Arsenal can even penetrate Liverpool, who have the strongest defensive ability this season, and West Bromwich Albion's defense is really not enough in front of the gunner's firepower.
The most important thing is that West Bromwich Albion actually thought that Wu Jie's physical fitness would definitely be affected today, so he did not take special measures in defense, and even temporarily moved some troops to deal with others.
It took only 2 minutes for Wu Jie to start the game, and after breaking the ball at the back, he launched a 50-meter-long run, and used a shocking speed along the way to break through the West Bromwich Albion goal.
This blow made the West Bromwich Albion players unable to recover for a long time, they never thought that Wu Jie, who had played the whole game and ran nearly 10,000 meters before yesterday, would be able to stage such an amazing long-distance run like a chicken blood today.
But that was just the beginning of the magic, as just as the West Bromwich Albion players were blitzed at the start and before they could recover their senses, Wu Jie scored again less than a minute later.
This time, he first pulled sideways in the penalty area, and then suddenly made a feint to meet outside the penalty area, successfully tricking the two defenders next to him to follow the footsteps.
But Wu Jie's real intention was to step forward into the small penalty area, only to see that he just ran a step outside the penalty area, and then suddenly turned around and ran in the direction of the small penalty area.
This continuous start, stop, and turn almost shook the two defenders who were following him to the ground, and naturally he couldn't keep up with his footsteps.
Laudrup also showed masterful vision and passing ability at this time, Wu Jie had just escaped the defense and inserted into the small penalty area, and the football fell right on his head.
At this time, in the face of the goalkeeper who was caught off guard, Wu Jie only needed to take advantage of the momentum to push forward, and then hoisted the football through the goalkeeper's defensive range and completed the goal again.
At this moment, West Bromwich Albion's defenders, especially the goalkeepers, felt their heads explode with a "boom"!
But then there was a burst of electric shock, they couldn't understand how Wu Jie could inexplicably form a single knife, was their defense just an ornament?
"How did this one-on-one ball come out?"
"It's too easy, isn't it?"
"In the first three minutes, we scored two goals, will we play?"
"It's not a nightmare, is it?"
“……”
These are the thoughts of all West Bromwich Albion players and fans, and even the Gunners fans at the scene felt that the second goal was too freehand and too easy!
But if you think about it carefully, Wu Jie's running this time is strictly speaking, there are no new tricks, and all the movements are just running techniques that every striker has repeatedly practiced.
However, the same technique is used by different people, and the effect is very different, but this is related to the individual ability of each striker, especially the athletic ability.
The 50,000 Gunners fans at Highbury Stadium were amazed and soon cheered with earth-shattering cheers, making the West Bromwich Albion players on the pitch even more depressed.
And it is this state of losing the soul that indirectly created the birth of a new record.
After West Bromwich Albion restarted, Wu Jie launched a charge with the ball in less than a minute, single-handedly breaking through the backline that had not yet recovered from his senses, and then completed a hat-trick with a cold shot from outside the penalty area.
This really caused an earthquake of magnitude 5 or higher at Highbury Stadium, and everyone looked at Wu Jie, who was possessed by God, with an expression of disbelief.
Head coach George Graham was also full of disbelief, looking at Wu Jie who was celebrating on the field in amazement.
Such a player makes him feel that he doesn't have to bother to arrange the lineup at all, and basically he can win a game after a good night's sleep, and this coach is too non-existent.
As for West Bromwich Albion's players, at this moment, it was as if the three souls were missing and the seven spirits were gone, and everyone stood in place like a chicken, unable to even make the frustrated action of holding their heads in their hands.
At this time, Wu Jie had already made the "machine gun fire" celebration for the third time, and he made the same celebration three times in a row within three minutes.
At this time, looking at the time recorded by the referee, everyone was even more shocked by what happened, because it was less than three minutes, but it was not even two minutes?
Wu Jie's first goal was at 2:16 in the first half, the second goal was 3:11, and the third goal was in 4:07.
Isn't that just three goals in two minutes!
If it is accurate to the second, it is three goals in a row in 1 minute and 51 seconds!
England's commentators were already scratching their heads with their hands, and they couldn't remember how long it took for the fastest hat-trick in the history of England's top flight.
But one thing is almost certain, there should be no human being who can surpass the time that Wu Jie created today.
Wu Jie didn't think so, because in Europe, including many countries in South America, the history of football leagues is approaching a hundred years.
With so many leagues, so many seasons, so many stars who have dominated the game, any record can be set.
But whether or not there is anyone who has been scoring a hat-trick for less than him, West Bromwich Albion today has lost the will to fight in front of him.
They will be in a state of real brain short-circuit, and the unprecedented huge blow has slowed down the brains of many players. The whole book
The third goal scored by Wu Jie was related to the collapse of the opponent's mentality, because the whole breakthrough process was the simplest change of direction and smash the ball to stop, but it was so simple to pull and dunk together, and the four stupid West Bromwich Albion players who were sent in line were passed one by one in a row.
Wu Jie can feel that he has the opportunity to create a faster senior record today, and the players of West Bromwich Albion at this time are almost in a state of vain for him.
But the problem is that in the sixth round of the FA Cup, or facing an England team in the middle and lower reaches, although Wu Jie is sure to set a more amazing goal record, he is reluctant and unwilling in his heart.
It may hurt to say this idea, Wu Jie felt that West Bromwich Albion did not deserve to be the background of his record-setting at all, and it was about the same for Manchester United and Liverpool, at least Tottenham and Chelsea would have to make do.
"Am I crazy?"
Under the influence of this idea, Wu Jie did not take the opportunity to create a record of "the fastest big four".
But when the state comes, it is difficult not to score, and in the 16th minute of the first half, Wu Jie once again created a single chance through a bewitching run.
But when he had already shook off the goalkeeper and won the empty goal, he actually crossed the ball to the back of the goal, and turned a goal into an assist with a posture of taking off his pants and farting.
Wu Jie deliberately did not choose to score, which was a humiliation for West Bromwich Albion.
But an even more humiliating scene soon happened, Wu Jie signaled the head coach to replace him after completing this assist,
Graham didn't expect Wu Jie to take the initiative to ask to get off the court, but when he thought that the first half had only played for more than ten minutes and it was 4:0, it seemed that there was really no need to let Wu Jie continue to stay on the court.
The substitution allowed West Bromwich Albion's players to finally regain their fighting spirit after suffering a huge amount of humiliation.
Of course, it may also be because Wu Jie, a guy who looks like a demon in their eyes, is not on the field.
At the end of the first half, the frenzied West Bromwich Albion players finally broke through the Arsenal goal by running at all costs.
But this did not cause concern among the Arsenal players, including Wu Jie, who did not remind his teammates to be cautious because he felt it was unnecessary.
After the start of the second half, the West Bromwich Albion players were probably inspired by the coach in the dressing room, and everyone exploded into a small universe of bodies in the midst of great humiliation, and finally narrowed the score to 2:4 in the 72nd minute.
And then, there is no then......
The West Bromwich Albion players were indeed full of fighting spirit, but their stamina was depleted in Mad Dog mode, and when they did their best to score this goal, most of the players could no longer be dragged by their will.
If you want them to explode again, unless you take a rifle and aim it at their backs from the sidelines.
In the 78th minute, the Danish madman Elkjer, who was substituted in the second half, also successfully grabbed a point in front of the goal and completed the shot through exquisite off-ball running, ruthlessly expanding the score to 5:2.
As for miracles?
It's not that there is nothing in this world, but no miracle can be accomplished with just one blood, you must at least have a certain strength!
But the cruel thing is that Arsenal are clearly more capable of doing so.
In the 83rd minute, 18-year-old Michael Thomas just replaced Laudrup not long after he came on the field, he ran all the way from the midfield with the ball, using his amazing speed to connect several West Bromwich Albion players who could not move their legs, and finally extended the score to 6:2 with a powerful shot.
"This kid isn't as fast as I used to be!"
Cunningham saw Michael Thomas play so amazingly when he first came on the court next to Wu Jie, especially with the completely amazing speed of this ball, he obviously felt a little uncomfortable.
Wu Jie agrees that Michael Thomas is not as fast as Cunningham when he was at his peak, but the former's confrontation ability is obviously better, including passing vision, running ability without the ball, and his choices on the court are stronger than Cunningham's, and these advantages make Michael Thomas's ceiling much higher than Cunningham.
Michael Thomas's goal also officially sealed the score of the game, and Arsenal finally beat West Bromwich Albion 6-2 in the sixth round of the FA Cup.
But it wasn't a surprising result, and Arsenal's win was something that even the spinach group didn't bother to open.
The match really shocked England and put Wu Jie back in the headlines in Europe with what many commentators called the "alien moment".
Wu Jie, of course, refused to use the "alien moment" after the game to record his deeds of scoring three goals in 1 minute and 51 seconds, how can he use such a awesome title in a game that is mediocre for him?
"My life will be made up of stories, some wonderful, some mediocre, this game in my eyes, is a story between the wonderful and the ordinary, I call it a 'small scene', can you sit down and interview?"
Wu Jiesai later interviewed his own "Daily Telegraph" and said this answer that made him make headlines.
The second question, the Daily Mirror, was also his own, and their question was: "The first five minutes of today's game are destined to be an incomparably exciting page in the history of world football." But we all thought you could write this page as epic great, but you were substituted in the 19th minute, don't you think this substitution will make a masterpiece a masterpiece unfinished? ”
After Wu Jie heard this question, he secretly said that it is worthy of Isabella's own media, as the watchman newspaper under the "Mirror Group", the standard of "Daily Mirror" is indeed much higher, but why does this question sound a bit like his taste?
"Thank you for the compliment, but I think greed and restraint are the real wisdom, and my greed is greed in moderation." When Wu Jie said this, he suddenly felt that his answer was not good, and immediately added, "I have already gained a lot today, so I don't plan to look back, because I believe that the story will be more exciting in the future." ”
This answer is like what he said before, it can only be regarded as a play between wonderful and ordinary, which is very mediocre.
But his performance today seemed to the outside world to be a great moment that must be recorded in the history of football.
The next day, whether European sports fans watched last night's game or not, but today from the newspapers, from the TV news, and from the mouths of friends who have watched the newspapers and TV, almost all learned about Wu Jie's miracle in Highbury yesterday.
That's when they first had a question – was this the fastest hat-trick in the world?
Most Europeans can't seem to recall a more exaggerated record than this time!
However, the memory of the European media is very good, and they checked the relevant information for the first time, hoping to make the magical record created by Wu Jie less magical.
The English media moved the fastest, and they have come up with several examples at the speed of light in an attempt to dilute Wu Jie's magic.
Isabella's other newspaper, the Sunday Mirror, first gave a set of stats - former Scotland international Legart scored three goals in less than four minutes against Ipswich Town in 1963 and helped Fulham beat Ipswich Town 10-1, which is currently the official record for the fastest hat-trick in the English top flight.
If you extend the scope to the whole of the British Isles, St John also excelled in the Scottish League for Moseville, scoring a magical hat-trick in two and a half minutes against Hibernian in the 1959 Scottish Cup, the fastest in Scotland and the fastest in Europe.
Then there is no such exaggerated record, the fastest hat-trick time in the Bundesliga, La Liga, and Ligue 1 is more than five minutes, and in Serie A it is more than eight minutes, including the Eredivisie, the Belgian League, and the Portuguese Liga.
As for whether those small national leagues have a faster record, this is the same as the Scottish league, which is really not a reference due to the limited level.
Moreover, even in the fastest Scottish league, their fastest hat-trick took more than two minutes.
Wu Jie's new record of 1 minute and 54 seconds should have been achieved even in ancient times.
The "Sunday Mirror" report was overtly derogatory and covertly praised, but it confirmed that Wu Jie's record was indeed unique in Europe.
But there are thousands of newspapers and magazines in Britain, and more than ninety percent of them want to reduce the influence caused by Wu Jie.
Therefore, in the face of ironclad evidence, everyone is looking for the key to breaking the game.
The BBC is even planning to make history if it doesn't have one.
On the second day, after Arsenal's 4-0 win over Ipswich, Wu Jie, who had scored a hat in two consecutive games, was asked the first question after the game related to the "fastest hat-trick".
This made him feel very unhappy, especially when a BBC reporter turned out a guy named Tommy Rose out of nowhere, saying that he had scored three times in just 90 seconds in League Two in 1964, which was faster than him!
However, the pain is that Guinness World Records did not include it because the referee was the only timekeeper in the race at the time, there was no second timekeeper, and no video was left as evidence.
But obviously, in order to prevent Wu Jie from creating a new record that crowns English football, the British media actually took out this kind of unverifiable thing.
But the problem is that even if the British think that Tommy Ross is the fastest hat-trick setter in the world, Wu Jie's record is in the top league!
Isn't it far-fetched to compare a 20-year-old second-division record with a well-documented first-division record?
Of course, Wu Jie did not intend to mock the British in person, but smiled and said: "Chinese are the least favorite country to apply for Guinness, and I also don't like to discuss this kind of record, because I think there are people outside the world, there will always be people who are better than you, so be good at learning from people who are better than you." ”
Wu Jie's answer is to give the Chinese people a preventive shot first, and he hopes that in the future, no bullshit will apply for Guinness in China, as if he is afraid that others will not know your inferiority complex and lack of confidence.
As for this when he suddenly became low-key again, it is not a split personality, but when the opponent is more forceful, the more he is messing around, and the more shameless he is, you must be more determined, you can't be easily led astray from the direction, and you can't mess up your rhythm.
There is no one in this world who does not want to be decent, and if anyone suddenly becomes undecent, it must be a dog jumping off the wall.
At this time, as long as you keep the bottom line and maintain strategic concentration, you can wait for the opponent to make more mistakes, have more room for maneuver, and at the same time occupy the moral high ground, so that you can be invincible when you really use force.
Wu Jie is facing the British media out of nothing at the moment, and after a brief period of unhappiness at the beginning, he only has the mentality of watching jokes.