Before the game, when the players of the two teams shook hands, the Liverpool players strained their faces one by one, and they knew at a glance that they were not in a good mood.

This is because they feel that Wu Jie, who is smiling, seems to reveal a malicious mockery under his smile, as if he is ridiculing them: Hey, meet again, my defeated generals!

This is really wronged Wu Jie, what he will think in his heart is: Liverpool, Liverpool, can your stadium not collapse this year? As long as it doesn't collapse within four years, it will collapse twice a year after four years, and it really won't work to let Manchester United help pay it back once as interest!

If Liverpool continue to collapse in this year's Champions League, his League One journey will soon come to an end.

He's not going to share the woes in a league where he can't play in European competitions, so he's been thinking about whether to use cards to help Liverpool for a few more years?

There are such cards in the system, such as the "appeasement card", which can have the effect of delaying negative events, that is, there will be side effects after use, and the final loss will inevitably be greater.

Wu Jie felt that this was more in his interests, so he was ready to use a silver-level "appeasement card" for Liverpool every day after the start of the Champions League.

If you use a diamond-level or even a legendary-level "appeasement card", the effect will be countless times better, and the side effects will be much lower.

But what he wants is to make the side effects as big as possible, do you really think he wants to help the British? He wished English football was dead!

Wu Jie is also speculating, I don't know if the whole stadium will collapse when it finally breaks out after helping Liverpool continue for four years?

The life of the British, that is also the life!

As soon as Wu Jie thought of this, his mind immediately turned to the game, which was directly not to think about it.

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Arsenal's starting lineup today, first of all, is much younger than last season in terms of age, and secondly, it is staggeringly high!

Frontcourt: Wu Jie (21 years old, 190cm), Gary Lineker (177cm, 24 years old)

Midfielders: Bale Brooke (25cm, 185cm), Michel Laudrup (183cm, 20), Felix Magath (174cm, 31), Laurie Cunningham (173cm, 28)

Backcourt: Brigel (187cm, 29), Terry Butcher (192cm, 26), Steve Boulder (22cm, 185cm), Vic Anderson (28cm, 184cm)

Goalkeeper: David Bloom (192cm, 26 years old).

English football has always been known for its physicality, especially in terms of height and speed.

These are the two magic weapons they use to crush their opponents, and you can find plenty of tall and fast players in any League One team, and even the average height in League Two is still surpassed.

But a starting lineup like Arsenal with an average height of 183.8cm, the average height of the whole team reached 184.6cm, even if it is placed in the top few in League One, they have a daunting oppressive force in height.

However, Arsenal do not play the traditional long ball rush in English football, they prefer to walk on the ground and play in a style that is definitely considered technical in League One.

If Falcao and Elkjer were also in the starting line-up, the Arsenal would be even less like an English team and could even play South American football.

These two are also long-established stars, especially Falcao, who is already a superstar as a pivotal figure in the Brazilian midfield.

Both of them were on the bench today because they had started three games in a row and were in the rotation today.

Unlike other European leagues, League One has 22 teams and 42 league games are played each season.

Counting the "FA Cup", "League Cup", and "European Competitions", the strong teams in the English League will inevitably play more than 50 games in a season, and Liverpool often has to play 60+ games a season in previous years, so it is common to have two games a week, but the physical fitness of the players is limited, so it is natural to keep rotating to avoid players from being injured due to physical problems.

Before the start of the game, Arsenal lost the coin guessing session, and Liverpool chose to kick off first.

But Liverpool, who are also known for their technical flow in League One, were blocked as soon as they pushed the football into the middle.

Magath, the hateful German iron waist, rushed forward like a madman at the beginning, biting the Liverpool player with the ball.

Wu Jie, the center forward, did not do his job and returned to the middle to help defend, and the two sides started a midfield fight from the beginning.

Liverpool's midfield star John Walker hurriedly shifted the ball to the left, and there was Paul Walsh, who had a knack for solo breaking, and his style was somewhat similar to Cunningham's, with excellent explosiveness and sheer speed, and his foot technique was fine in League One.

However, Walsh was cut off by Cunningham when he was forced to eat the ball, and the "Highbury Field" immediately let out deafening cheers, and of course, all kinds of vulgar words that could not be put on the table.

"When Lao Tzu broke the point alone, you were still nursing in the youth training!"

Cunningham was very proud, and although his athleticism has declined, he is still much better than Paul Walsh in terms of experience, even though he doesn't know that this is one of his rare bright performances today.

After successfully cutting off the ball this time, Cunningham, stimulated by the cheers of the home fans, not only did not have a hot brain as before, but quickly found that he could not use his speed to complete a single clearance, and then calmly found Wu Jie, who was beckoning, and quickly passed the ball over.

If it were a different person, he would definitely not be so calm in his judgment, and he would definitely not be so decisive in his shots.

But now, even if Wu Jie doesn't beckon, he has a plan in his heart to pass the ball over.

Don't ask why, this thickest thigh in the world, he Cunningham doesn't plan to let go as long as he hugs it.

Arsenal is where he ends up, and even if he is allowed to play as a substitute, don't want him to leave.

When Arsenal attacked, manager George Graham on the sidelines was stunned to find that they actually played with some discipline?

Wu Jie was also surprised, he thought that this team that had not been formed long ago would be very chaotic if he joined a core like him who had not practiced all this time.

But this was not the case after the opening, although the Arsenal players did not have any tacit understanding with each other, they used a stupid way to deal with it - that is, everyone was staring at Wu Jie, just cooperating with Wu Jie to attack, and everyone revolved around him.

This formed a rhythm in which Wu Jie kept cooperating with various teammates.

He's really playing a role in connecting the whole team, everybody passes the ball to him and then works with him.

But Liverpool is not stupid, since you use one person to connect the whole team, then I will take care of this person, won't it all be done?

This time, after Wu Jie received a pass from Cunningham, he immediately encountered a menacing siege from Liverpool.

In this case, he would not force it, and immediately distributed the ball to Laudrup, who had been receiving from a short distance.

Laudrup can become the best foreign player in La Liga in the second 25 years of the 20th century in the future, and has a large number of future Barcelona superstar fans, how can he not have two brushes.

Most fans born after the 90s have never seen Laudrup play, and his peak was in the late 80s and early 90s, when Laudrup was once hailed as one of the world's top three stars, which is a relatively modest statement.

Laudrup is similar to Zinedine Zidane in many ways, and the talent of the two is between the two, slightly stronger than vision and imagination, and the attack power at the peak is also very good.

However, in terms of leadership ability, resilience in headwinds, and play in key games, Laudrup is slightly inferior to Zidane and Platini, and at the same time, he does not have Maradona's ability to turn the tide by his individual ability.

Coupled with the limited strength of the Danish team, Laudrup is destined to not dominate an era, and the history he left behind is slightly inferior to that of historical stars such as Platini, Zico, and Zidane, and he is only a player of the same level as Mateus.

But this kind of player is most suitable for being Wu Jie's assistant, and it is difficult to be willing to be the second leader if he is half a grade higher.

Wu Jie watched the still young Laudrup receive the pass, and immediately interpreted Liverpool's attack and the position of his teammates, and passed a very subtle through stopper, but after Lineker failed to plug in time and turned into a mistake, he was quite satisfied with the performance of this little brother.

But at the same time, I have to sigh that British players do lack some spirituality, Lineker is already the most spiritual goalscorer in this generation of British players, but it is still difficult to keep up with Laudrup's train of thought.

Liverpool got the ball back and started to attack on the ground again.

This style of play, which is not easy to open a big foot, but penetrates from the ground, is quite appreciated by British fans, and the British commentary on TV is even more boastful of the fact that in addition to the speed and high-altitude bombing of British football, it has now followed the world trend into a gorgeous era!

The English are also starting to become more and more sophisticated, which means that English football is no longer the European rough brother who can only play long balls.

However, with Liverpool's ground penetration likely to be intercepted before entering the threat zone, or forced to cross wide, Liverpool's fans began to embarrass again.

It's fine now, but it doesn't seem to be a threat, huh?

Arsenal began to gain the upper hand, although their attack was also thunderous and rainy, and they were often unable to make contributions to key passes due to tacit problems, but they were still more pleasing to the eye than Liverpool in the attacking process.

This is the embodiment of the player's individual ability, Wu Jie frequently retreated after the opening and actively cooperated with Laudrup, which made Arsenal's viewing far greater than Liverpool's.

In the 19th minute of the first half, Wu Jie continued to cooperate with Laudrup's local passing, and Liverpool's defense was good enough, but under Wu Jie's swift and agile interspersing and running, he was still hit by these two foreign aids.

"He shot!"

Liverpool fans watched Wu Jie outside the penalty area, seized a fleeting opportunity, unloaded the pass with a clever stop, and immediately turned around and hit the goal, everyone was terrified!

Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobella focused and immediately flew to save when he saw this, but what people didn't expect was that the football actually drew a beautiful arc to bypass Grobe's save range and flew straight to the right side of the gate during the flight.

"God, how can this ball turn?"

"What the hell is this arc, the Chinese are cheating again!" I love to read

"Do you have the ball?"

Fans of both teams stared at the ball as it flew towards the goal, but unfortunately, the strange curling ball that opened the eyes of the whole of England ended up grazing the post and flew out of bounds.

However, even so, the "Highbury Field" also rose into cheers from the audience!

England fans in front of the TV also sighed: This world's No. 1 person really deserves his name!

Wu Jie's delicate dribbling skills and passing and receiving skills in this offensive exhibition, as well as this instantaneous top-level curve ball, there is no one in England who can replicate it.

The attack also boosted Arsenal's morale, and for a while they actually suppressed Liverpool in midfield.

Although Arsenal has tacit flaws, it relies on the leadership of two aura-like foreign aids, especially everyone around Wu Jie to do multi-person sports, which to a certain extent makes up for the lack of team cooperation.

Liverpool's side is not upright, as soon as they saw that the enemy was strong, and the midfielder seemed to be unable to grab it, they immediately shrank their heads and started a defensive counterattack, completely without the arrogance of the English One hegemon against the ordinary strong team in League One, and even made people feel that this was against the powerful Bayern.

Liverpool's cowardice is easy to understand, in the words of manager Joe Fagan, that is: Wu Jie is here, can An be afraid?

This made Arsenal manager Graham even more stunned, today's tactic is obviously that they are coming to play Liverpool's defensive counterattack, but now why does it seem to be playing around Liverpool?

"It seems that this team is not suitable for defensive counter-attacking?"

Wu Jie also found that his teammates are not suitable for defensive tactics, and most of the players he selected are not good at discipline and defense.

However, the problem also arises, if this lineup has been run-in, it will certainly be able to play mercury, and the attack that is excellent in terms of ornamentation and creativity will definitely shock the whole of Europe.

However, although they can dominate in midfield, it is actually the result of Liverpool's intention to abandon the midfield and strengthen the back.

As long as Arsenal is close to 30 meters in front of the goal, they will have to face Liverpool's watertight iron bucket formation, with their current passing and coordination ability, I am afraid that not only can they not penetrate this dense defensive formation, but also make frequent mistakes and be counterattacked.

"This ...... You won't be beaten back, will you? ”

After Wu Jie took control of the midfield, a not-so-good idea came to him.

Sure enough, after Liverpool strategically gave up control of the middle, not only was they very solid defensively, but they were also able to set up serious illnesses to deal with him, and they could always take advantage of Arsenal's mistakes to counterattack.

In the next ten minutes, Arsenal was counterattacked several times by Liverpool, and the dangers were frequent!

Wu Jie has more experience than his own head coach, seeing that the situation is not good, he was about to look for an opportunity to signal his teammates to retreat to stabilize the defense, but Laudrup and Cunningham made another mistake in the cooperation on the right side, and the football was directly taken by Liverpool.

This made him secretly scream badly, but when he returned to the defense, he saw that his own back line was quite timely to defend, and just now he was relieved to see Paul Walsh galloping past Arsenal on the right side like a small sports car, and in the blink of an eye, he hit the front threat zone.

As a central defender of Arsenal, Vic Anderson has nothing to fault with in terms of ability.

But in the face of Walsh's sheer speed, his tall and strong figure was restrained. Or this kind of speed player, once he gets the opportunity to show his ability, he is the nemesis of all defensive players, even he has appeared in the scene of not being able to catch up with Cunningham back then.

Walsh drove the ball for 40 metres and then deflected Anderson with a simple deflection to make Vic Anderson lose his defensive position.

Arsenal's backline has also undergone a major change, with two of their main defenders coming in this year and a few games not allowing them to be able to do their best at crunch time, with Terry Butcher and Steve Boulder clearly overlapping in defensive positions this time.

Walsh's passing quality after cutting inside is not very good, but Kenny Dalglish's skills are rare to be able to get a top star in the world who can be called excellent.

Not only did he control the ball, but he also quickly dribbled the ball into the edge of the box and then passed the ball into the box.

Liverpool didn't have any problems with the run-in, as Welsh striker Ian Rush got the ball in and fired a powerful shot at Arsenal goalkeeper David Bloom.

Wu Jie felt that there was still a chance for this goal, Ian Rush had a lot of power in this shot, but the angle was somewhat positive, and the goalkeeper had every chance to save the goal as long as he was in a good position and reacted quickly.

"Grass!"

As soon as Wu Jie's idea fell, he saw that his high gate would make a save like a big fool after the football flew from his side, and the football naturally flew into the goal without any suspense.

The reaction ...... I'm afraid I'm 40 years old, right? ”

Wu Jie was very dissatisfied with this goal, he felt that he had a chance to stop this ball and replace it with Lin Yaodong, and ninety percent of the ball could be saved.

After Liverpool's goal, "Highbury Stadium" has been burning with passion, as if a bucket of cold water has been poured on the head, but then there is an extremely unseemly curse!

The scolding was of course given to the visiting team Liverpool, and England fans were not enough to score a goal before they scolded their own team, which is something that only happens when you lose and lose.

This would give Arsenal fans all the vicious words they can think of, including all kinds of personal threats, to the Liverpool players.

Wu Jie doesn't like this kind of football atmosphere, although German fans in this era are not much better than the British, but at least they have a bottom line than British fans, and there will not be so many death threats!

Naturally, the Arsenal players did not bother to think about these issues, and they were somewhat unacceptable to the blow of conceding the goal first, even though they had the upper hand since the opening kick-off.

The most important thing is that the current backward situation makes them feel that they are dragging Wu Jie down.

This is actually the common mentality of all Arsenal players, they are of course very honored to be able to play with Wu Jie, including the young Laudrup also thinks that it is definitely an honorable thing to be the second leader of Wu Jie, and it is impossible to have any wrong thoughts in a few years.

But these emotions are also a kind of pressure, because Wu Jie has long proven himself to be the strongest player in the current squad at Bayern Munich and the Chinese national team, and he is definitely the core that can sublimate a team alone.

If he can't help a team improve too much, and can't help a team achieve enough honors, then of course the problem is with his younger brother.

This is like most people will agree that Zhuge Liang's five Northern Expeditions failed because there were no generals in Shu, the national strength was weak, Shu and Wu had their own calculations, and Adou was a big fool, so they would never feel that Zhuge Liang had any problems.

At this time, the Arsenal players also had this thought, and they inevitably became impatient, and this emotion came from wanting to prove themselves too much.

But under the current bad chemistry, this impatience is more difficult to carry out the linkage and cooperation of more than two people, and both offensive and defensive ends seem to be scattered.

Soon, Arsenal players will rarely see a larger range of cooperation except for taking the initiative to cooperate with Wu Jie in a small area, which makes Liverpool can really sit back and relax as long as they arrange heavy troops to watch Wu Jie.

As the first half headed into stoppage time, Liverpool used a not-so-spectacular counter-attack to break through Arsenal's disjointed midfield and backfield once again, with captain Souness slotting home a long-range shot from outside the box.

At this time, Graham not only saw that his team was scattered, but also saw that his goalkeeper had a big problem.

Although David Bloom is 192cm tall and has solid basic skills, he seems to be a little worse in "defensive selection" and "reaction".

Souness's long-range shot is of good quality, but it's not the kind of world wave that can't be saved.

This kind of shot must have at least a save rate of more than 60% for a top goalkeeper, otherwise how can a good goalkeeper top half of the team?

Of course, no goalkeeper can guarantee 100 per cent of the saves, and it's understandable that the goal has been scored.

But the two goals they conceded in the first half, David Bloom didn't save either, so he can't be considered a good goalkeeper at all.

At the end of the first half, Wu Jie was still under Liverpool's key defense and could not help the team narrow the difference, and Arsenal could only return to the dressing room with a 0:2 deficit at home.

"Highbury Field" also plummeted after their own team conceded a second goal!

When the Arsenal players returned to the tunnel, there was only sparse applause and encouragement throughout the stadium.

This will cause half of the fans to fall into self-isolation, on the one hand they are speechless about their own team, and on the other hand, they are scolding Liverpool to vent their negative emotions.

Wu Jie didn't have a good way, although he had a few amazing individual performances in the first half, but basically in the threat zone of continuous passing and flowerwork, once deep into the hinterland, he could only pass the ball and shoot from a distance, in fact, did not create too many deadly threats, including the number of shots on goal was only 4 times, although the quality of the shots was good, but due to the relationship between the shooting distance and the shooting position, all were resolved by the excellent Liverpool goalkeeper.

After all, this Liverpool team is at its peak, and the run-in degree is far beyond Arsenal, if you can't play in the hinterland, then it will be difficult to get lethal shooting opportunities, and naturally it will be difficult to break through the opponent's door.

But this is exactly what Arsenal will not be able to solve in the short term, they will find it difficult to play a multi-player combination under Liverpool's shrinking defence, and at most through the individual ability of Wu Jie and Laudrup, passing a few lethal passes that are difficult for teammates to receive.

Graham was very decisive, and of course he knew that relying on the individual performance of the players was definitely not the right way to win, but there was no other way at the moment.

So he decisively replaced Cunningham, who had been inactive most of the time, in the midfield, and then moved Wu Jie's position back, and finally replaced the Danish demon Preben Elkjer to increase the attacking power in the frontcourt.

Wu Jie was very applauded by the substitution, he was not very happy with Lineker's performance today, he did not play with the fluctuating and agile play of England, and wasted several passes between him and Laudrup in the first half.

But it may have something to do with his position, he played in the center of the first half, and although his range of activity was by no means limited to the forward position, it still overwhelmed Lineker, who wanted to work with him too much, and also limited his agility.

If he returns to midfield, Lineker will not only have more space to move, but will also be more comfortable playing.

Otherwise, if you don't play the characteristics of being diligent and interspersed, good at running, and fluctuating like in the first half, it will lock Lineker's ability.

With such a change, Arsenal's tactics in the second half were even more obvious.

Graham is looking for ways to use the creativity and spirituality of Wu Jie and Laudrup far beyond the English players to find a way to use their individual abilities to score goals.

This season, due to a major blood change, Wu Jie came too late, and they could only practice in this way, slowly polishing the chemistry from the actual battle, and digging out the most suitable playing style and starting lineup for themselves.