Chapter 356: I, Lin Yaodong, didn't lose

In their last game of March, Arsenal were held to a shock draw away from Watford.

Wu Jie's two goals failed to prevent the loss caused by the absence of most of the main players, especially a fatal mistake by the defensive four in the second half, which finally turned the victory into a draw.

However, such a draw did little for Arsenal, as a draw would have sealed the title nine games earlier, and the Gunners had unwittingly broken the record for the fastest advance title in League One.

Wu Jie's 58 goals are also only two goals short of the single-season scoring record in League One history, and with nine league games still to play, the English media have long turned the question into - can he break the record of 70+ goals in a single season?

This is indeed Wu Jie's ultimate goal, he wants to create a record that later generations dare not dream of challenging it.

In addition, the final stage of the World Cup qualifiers in the major states was rekindled at the end of March.

The Asian tournament is a little bit earlier, and who will make their schedule the most bizarre?

In addition to the Chinese team, the other three teams in the final four in Asia are Iran, Saudi Arabia and South Korea.

This is similar to the original plane, especially this year's South Korea has a good chance of getting the second qualifying place, and their generation has produced a lot of players who are not bad in Asia except for the Chinese team.

The Japanese team suffered a 0:4 defeat against South Korea in the top 10 matches, which has been whipped by the South Korean media until now.

The Chinese team didn't bother to care about the rotten fight between Japan and South Korea, anyway, they were all stinky fish and shrimp, and they were not worth mentioning opponents.

But this may be a bit of a slap in the face, because the Chinese team has finished the away game with Iran, and the score is not satisfactory 2:1.

The most dissatisfying thing for Chinese fans is that they rarely conceded the first goal in this game, and they failed to tie the score until the end of the first half.

Wu Jie can understand the poor performance of the Chinese team in this game, first of all, this is a national Olympic team with an average age of only 21 years old, it is normal to pull a cross occasionally, and football is a sport that is very easy to upset, even if you lose, it is not unacceptable.

What's more, in the second half, the performance of the Chinese team returned to normal, and finally turned the tables and successfully won the first victory.

There is also pressure from players in Europe, many of whom have said they will return home in April.

The little ones in this national team are worried that they will lose their place in the national team when the players return to Europe.

Therefore, in this battle, they wanted to prove themselves too much in the face of Iran, and they were fighting alone throughout the first half, and the teamwork and discipline were naturally discounted, which would give the other party a chance to take advantage of.

But then again, those players who are in Europe are more worried about being replaced, so they will be in a hurry to return home at the end of the season.

The World Cup is not the same as the Asian Cup, and if you can perform well in the World Cup, you will definitely get a new contract in Europe after the game.

This is for both the European players who want bigger contracts and the Chinese team, which is dominated by Olympic players, who want to get precious tickets to the World Cup.

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At the beginning of April, some Chinese players who played in clubs that were worry-free in relegation but had no chance in Europe, such as Zhao Dayu, Jia Xiuquan, Wei Xinghua, and Zhen Aiguo, really returned to China one after another, and soon Gu Guangming, Liu Haiguang, Jiang Wei and others will also return to China to report.

The reason why these people are in a hurry to come back is simple, they all feel that their position in the national team is unstable.

Ren Zhihui is already the status of the third leader in Ajax, and his performance is second only to the three big guys, and he will definitely occupy a main position on the wing.

Although Wang Yuanlin is young, his performance in the top ten is not inferior to Ren Zhihui two years ago, Gu Guangming and Wei Xinghua both feel threatened, so they naturally want to return to the team in advance to perform.

Zhao Dayu and Liu Haiguang are also in the same direction, and the Chinese team has always liked to play 4-5-1 and 4-3-3 formations, but either formation is a single striker or a single center forward configuration.

Now Yang Shuhua's talent has made Liu Haiguang and Zhao Dayu feel a huge crisis, and the starting position they compete for is likely to be snatched away by this little kid, of course, they must go back quickly to prove that "Jiang is still old and spicy".

Even Jia Xiuquan felt threatened, Cui Yonghua was nothing to take on his responsibility, but that Zheng Guohong looked better than Cui Yonghua's talent, which made him have to worry about being replaced.

The sports department and the Football Association naturally support their quick return to the team, because the qualifiers have reached this stage, and they really have to be cautious.

In addition, let some European players return to the team early to help speed up the run-in, although this group of people have been playing together for several years, but because of a large number of people to play in Europe, in fact, since the Olympic Games have rarely been trained together, now whether the tacit understanding can maintain the level of the original Olympic Games, this can be a question mark?

Wu Jie and others naturally don't need to worry, their teams are not without European qualifications, or like La Liga, Serie A, and Bundesliga, there are only 16 or 18 teams, and they can finish the league by the end of April at the latest.

Arsenal have seven league games to play in April, two FA Cup games and two Champions League games, adding up to a full 11 games.

This kind of devilish schedule that makes players tremble when they think about it, manager Graham has to use Laudrup and Gullit apart in the league, otherwise the average is less than three days a game, and they have no corresponding rotation strategy for fear that half of the players will be exhausted.

On April 2, Arsenal's first game was at home to Manchester City, but a 3-2 match showed the lethality of the schedule for Arsenal.

If it weren't for Wu Jie's direct goal with a free kick at the end of the game, Arsenal would have been forced to draw again.

But on the 5th, they will go away to Liverpool, on the 7th they will play an FA Cup sixth round game, and on the 9th they will have to play the Champions League semi-finals.

With such a brutal schedule, Arsenal had to abandon the league against Liverpool, who had already won the league title anyway.

This game was also the first time Wu Jie missed the league this season, Arsenal completely changed a set of full substitute lineup, and even the goalkeeper sent the butter player Bloom, and finally lost 1:3 to Liverpool.

Liverpool fans were naturally excited to set off firecrackers to celebrate, but many people suddenly thought of a key question in the middle of it!

They have never won against Wu Jie, but they have never won against Arsenal?

Not only did Wu Jie not play in this game, but they didn't even come to the away game, so what was the point of them winning Arsenal with an all-substitute lineup?

Aren't they still having a 0 win rate against Wu Jie now?

This is indeed embarrassing, but Wu Jie is still very unhappy in front of the TV at this moment, because this loss made their undefeated championship come to naught!

Although if you think about it, this team is far from being at its peak, as neither Laudrup nor Ruud Gullit are yet to reach their true prime.

If we bring in a top midfielder in the summer, such as Rijkaard and Mateus, it will be much easier to go on a season unbeaten streak.

Especially Matthaus, without his constraints, the "obnoxious" attribute is doubling and exploding, becoming even more hateful than the original plane.

Bayern's worse and worse play this season is actually related to this product.

Every time he loses, Matthaus not only complains in the dressing room, but most hated is that he likes to criticize his teammates and coaches directly in front of the media, which is not annoying, and it is strange that he is not hated.

But that's exactly what Mateus's pathological trait is, he probably has something psychologically wrong and likes nothing more than to say it to the media publicly, so you can imagine what it's like to be teammates with him.

At the end of last month, after Bayern fell all the way to 7th in the rankings, Mateus publicly mocked his teammates and coaches in front of the media, and threw the blame on the team for their winless streak.

But you scold, scold, he spends all day drinking outside but doesn't know how to hide it, even the photos of hugging left and right in the nightclub have been published in the media in the newspaper, and he was complained by anonymous teammates afterwards that he is always absent from training, which makes Bayern fans hate this new core.

This kind of internal and external troubles + double infighting Bayern basically can't be saved by the gods, and the core of Mateus is even more determined to escape the city.

He also does not hide this, anyway, he is not a Bayern academy product, and he is not obliged to accompany Bayern to sink together.

This is also the reason why Bayern fans resent him, and Matthaus's departure is almost a foregone conclusion.

Wu Jie naturally has an idea about this, Mateus is in the same agency as him, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is his subordinate, after all, half of this guy's income is obtained through MSM.

In addition, he is the only awe-inspiring existence of this bastard, at this time, as long as he poachs people with a big contract, Mateus can even use the boycott to force Bayern to force the palace.

In fact, during the winter transfer period, Mateus was using a strike to force Bayern to trade him, and following Wu Jie to Arsenal was his most desired goal.

But I have to say that Mateus really can only come to Arsenal to play.

Even if this guy leaves Bayern, he has also declared that he wants to go to a top team, otherwise Bayern will send him away in the winter transfer window.

Mateus's vision is very high, after all, he is the second leader who has walked to the peak of his life with Wu Jie and won the five crowns, even if it is a team like Manchester United, he clearly looks down on it.

In addition, under this experience, he himself was reluctant to be the second leader of anyone except Wu Jie, because he believed that no one except Wu Jie was worthy of being his deputy, not even Platini and Maradona.

These people are at the same level as him at most, how can he give these people assistance, and the reverse is about the same.

But the problem is that these top teams are also unwilling to let a locker room bomb be the boss, which will form an unsolvable contradiction, and in the end it can only be solved by returning to play under Wu Jie.

This means that Mateus is actually difficult to be traded by Bayern, and Arsenal can take advantage of the fire and do not need to pay too high a transfer fee.

Whoever makes Mateus look at the team, people don't dare to buy him to blow up their locker room; And the team that is willing to bring in Mateus, he is above the top and looks down on others.

But the deal won't be done until next season, and now Arsenal have lost their unbeaten title, but as long as they win the five-time title, no one will care about it.

In the sixth round of this season's FA Cup, Arsenal faced West Ham United, who are currently in fourth place.

The team has been between League One and League Two since the 70s, and has been nicknamed the 'lift', but this season West Ham have had a good run and are hopeful of qualifying for the UEFA Cup.

But a win against Arsenal meant their FA Cup journey came to an end, and although the Gunners still had half of the game rested, Wu Jie single-handedly ended the suspense with two goals in the first half.

In the end, the gunmen were left with four bullet holes in the lift, but they themselves passed the test unscathed.

Arsenal's coaching staff breathed a sigh of relief as they feared nothing more than being held to a draw away from home, which meant another replay to be played, the last thing Arsenal wanted.

Now that the FA Cup has been passed safely, it's time to go all out and meet Barcelona's challenge.

After Real Madrid's semi-final grouping was released, it was said that the sound of "Wuhu" could be heard everywhere in the city, which was what they wanted to see the grouping situation the most.

Barcelona is naturally full of sighs, and what they hope most is to meet their arch-rivals Real Madrid in the semi-finals, and then win a place in the final, and then fight Arsenal again!

But now to fight Arsenal to the death in advance, Barcelona has a little lack of confidence in their hearts, both from the players to the fans.

This is an invincible and invincible alien!

The most painful thing is that they also have the number one brain-dead fan of aliens, and this brain-dead fan is the soul of the team, the super goalkeeper Lin Yaodong, who is the most goalless in history.

Of course, Lin Yaodong won't come up and become a Martian, so how will he gain a foothold in the future?

At least put on the red underwear first, and then find a chance to pick melons and run away, this is a smart person.

So after the grouping was released, Lin Yaodong said: "Do I have the confidence to beat my idol? If you had asked me three years ago, I had no confidence then. But faith is not innate, and it can only blossom if it is cultivated continuously. Now I am confident that I will fight to the death against a team led by aliens, and I am confident that I will defeat my idol and defend my team! ”

In the end, he also said: "Idol, you chose me at the beginning, and now you are going to be in trouble!" ”

However, not all of these words were reported in the newspaper, and many media took him out of context, only intercepting the sentence "no confidence" and the revised "idol, what do you choose" to bring rhythm.

But Wu Jie quickly slapped his face, he publicly praised Lin Yaodong in front of the media, saying: "I am very pleased with his progress, people who are truly confident are not afraid to expose their own shortcomings, let alone admit their own shortcomings, those who try to cover up and whitewash are signs of lack of confidence." ”

After singing this double reed, Wu Jie immediately told Lin Yaodong, who had never conceded two goals in a game this season, with a 2:0 at home - you have to continue to improve!

But Lin Yaodong was not criticized by the outside world after the game, because fans are not blind, newspapers can be scribbled, but games cannot be commented on.

If there was no Lin Yaodong's hard work in front of the goal, Barcelona would have conceded more than two goals in the end.

This Barcelona is no different from the original one, although a Lin Yaodong gives them an extra big lock in front of the goal, but whether it is the midfield or the back line, there is a big gap with Real Madrid, which has been strengthened again.

But there is no solution to this for the time being, and the Catalan players, fans, media, including the club's top management are very xenophobic.

The introduction of Maradona was a battle between the two forces at the club's top, but after Maradona was almost expelled, the battle had already come to fruition, and the conservatives were victorious.

At this time, the local players in the Catalan group can only tolerate the presence of Lin Yaodong as a goalkeeper at most, and even Schuster has begun to be excluded, and the Spanish players will not be comfortable here, not to mention foreign aid from Europe and South America, it is difficult to accommodate stars outside Catalonia, which is also highly supported by the club management.

But the problem is that there hasn't been much talent in Catalonia in recent years, and the result of selecting players only locally is that it is difficult to assemble a team that can select stars from a wider range such as Real Madrid, Arsenal and Ajax.

Barcelona was able to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League this year, in addition to the opponents they encountered, they basically relied on Lin Yaodong's airtight defense in front of the goal, and the key free kicks contributed from time to time to score goals.

This is similar in La Liga, this season's Barcelona has been suppressed since the beginning of the season in the face of the reinforced Real Madrid, even with Lin Yaodong's phenomenal performance, they are still the team that concedes the fewest goals in La Liga, but they have been opened a big gap by Real Madrid in points, including the Copa del Rey was also eliminated by Real Madrid in the quarterfinals.

If they are eliminated by Arsenal in the semi-finals of the Champions League, they will not only have to face a season of being completely suppressed by Real Madrid at home, but they will not be able to play in the Champions League next season.

Wu Jie naturally didn't mention the performance of the Barcelona players after the game, so he didn't want to talk too much and cause a commotion, and when he was abused by Real Madrid a lot, people would naturally seek change.

The object of his post-game praise was still Lin Yaodong, this guy was indeed defeated, and Arsenal had at least a dozen shots on goal within the range of the goal frame tonight, but most of them were saved by him.

One of the highlights of this was a one-on-one shot from Lineker in the second half, which he used to fall to the ground with an astonishing quick movement to block the ball on the goal line with his calf.

However, the landing point of the football was grabbed by Wu Jie, he used a fallen tackle to complete the supplementary shot, seeing that the ball was about to fly into the goal, Lin Yaodong had not fully climbed up and pounced like a spring, reaching out to save the ball from the goal line.

That's when the legendary scene happened, the ball was saved and fell to the feet of Lineker, who fired back at close range. At this time, Lin Yaodong, who lost his balance and fell in the goal, kicked the ground with both feet, and the whole person flew backwards, and actually blocked Lineker's must-score opportunity again with his back, and the football was finally kicked out of the penalty area by the Barcelona defender.

Lin Yaodong relied on this series of extreme performances, and he didn't have to carry the pot for losing today.

On the contrary, without his numerous saves throughout the game, Barcelona would probably have been beaten into a sieve today.

As for the two goals scored by Arsenal, one was Wu Jie's free kick outside the penalty area and hung in the corner, and the other was Wu Jie's successful knife goal in the second half against offside.

Such a goal cannot be counted on the goalkeeper, and Arsenal's two goals at home were completely expected, the problem is that Barcelona failed to score even one goal on the road, and this is where the blame needs to be blamed after the game.

In a word, Barcelona lost, but I, Lin Yaodong, didn't lose!