Chapter 351: Naming is a problem
Arsenal had six games to play in November, but this month they have just won four and drawn two, with Laudrup and Magath suffering injuries in quick succession.
Wu Jie doesn't know if he is lucky or unlucky, because since he came to play in Europe, except for the last season at Bayern, he and his teammates have been very resilient.
But it's easy to find the common ground, and teams with frequent injuries tend to have a higher average age, although it's not absolute.
This time Magath and Laudrup's injuries were mainly due to World Cup qualifying.
This will not only be the World Cup qualifiers in Asia, but also in Europe in the second stage of the group stage.
In the World Preliminary Tournament in Asia, there will basically be competition for another place outside the Chinese team, and the competition is very fierce, but the level of competition is very low.
When the European World Preliminary Tournament reaches the second stage, it is really a bayonet, and every game has to be dark.
England and France even have a chance of being eliminated from the group stage.
The Netherlands is on the verge of going out of the group, and the Netherlands, which has the three musketeers, is likely not to be able to play in the World Cup?
Arsenal's two injured players are the main players of their respective national teams, Magath is the main midfielder of West Germany, and Laudrup is the core of Denmark's midfield.
Laudrup's injuries are not serious and will heal in two months at most.
Magath was not so lucky, his injury was diagnosed with a "ruptured Achilles tendon", and he was directly reimbursed for the season.
If you take into account his age, even if this injury is healed, it will be difficult to maintain his athletic ability, and he will basically retire early.
Wu Jie is a pity for this, Magath is a player who pays great attention to maintenance and usually trains actively, so he can play until he is 32 years old in this era, and he can still maintain a very high physical condition and competitive level, coupled with his incomparable experience, many England midfielders were deflated last season.
Now Arsenal has lost such a reserved industry, a full-time midfielder who can fully help the team wipe their butts clean, the loss is not small, plus Laudrup is also injured, and the entire midfield immediately collapsed in half.
At this time, fortunately, there was an all-round Gullit, and Wu Jie moved back in the following games and returned to the position of the forward midfield.
Ruud Ruud Gullit dropped back to a central midfield position and Arsenal began to play in a more standard two-man midfield configuration.
The attack power of this lineup is not low, and when Magath and Laudrup are there, these two and Gullit are the first two and the last one in the inverted triangle position.
Now Wu Jie and Ruud Gullitt are in front of each other, and the two wings are naturally replaced by John Barnes and Gordon Cowans, and then Elkjer and Lineker are paired up front.
John Barnes should be the happiest man to be, Arsenal bought him for a lot of money, but this season he has struggled to start in important games, and can only play the attacking heart of the second team, which is certainly not the role he wants, and now he finally has the opportunity to show his talent.
Arsenal had just four league games in December, and although many players had to go back to play for their national team, such a relaxed schedule gave them plenty of time to develop the chemistry of their new squad and adapt to a new style of play.
This is actually not that complicated, Graham is a coach who is not good at attacking, and Arsenal's attack originally relied on the individual performance of the players.
Now Arsenal have switched to a 4-4-2 parallel position, mainly to expand the lateral width of the attacking end, add two wings to attack, and make full use of the width of the pitch to attack, which can allow the individual ability of the two top wingers Barnes and Cowans to play out.
In particular, the role of Barnes, the knife on the left side, was played to the extreme by Wu Jie, although his average goals per game also decreased because of this, but the number of assists rose unconsciously, and the team's record also slowed down slightly in November, and then sprinted forward at full speed again!
There aren't many League One teams left to catch up with them, and even if Arsenal suffered two draws in November, no one felt it was an opportunity to catch up, and who gave Arsenal a big lead.
After the first half of the game, Arsenal's league record reached a terrifying 21 wins and 2 draws, not only scored 44 points at the halfway, breaking the halfway points record in League One, but also leading the second-place Liverpool by 9 points.
Such a terrifying half-way lead has long made everyone extinguish their desire to win the championship.
Now the British media and fans are talking about: Arsenal won't be unbeaten to win the title, right?
Even in the English League in ancient times, this kind of thing didn't seem to have happened!?
Serie A's Perugia were unbeaten in 1978-1979 with 11 wins and 19 draws, but they finished second behind AC Milan that season, becoming the first team in the world to win the title without being beaten in a season.
But looking at Arsenal's record, I am afraid that they will not only create a myth of an unbeaten title, but also completely break the single-season points record in League One, and it is the kind of record that makes future generations despair by a large distance ahead of second place.
If they can also achieve good results in the Champions League and domestic cups, such as winning the unprecedented five crowns in the history of League One, coupled with the myth of winning the championship undefeated, such an achievement may make many British fans have the urge to kneel for Wu Jie!
Wu Jie feels that it is not yet time to be optimistic, Arsenal are now in the fifth round of the League Cup, that is, the semi-finals, and only need to win two more games to win the first domestic cup title.
But the Champions League is just around the corner in January, and the FA Cup is also going on in January.
This means that starting next month, Arsenal will have to play on four fronts in the true sense of the word.
If you include the national team games that the core players will play, the prospects are not optimistic at all, and if one is not good, there will be new injuries, and too many clubs in history have fallen on the way to the championship.
What head coach Graham and the coaching staff mean is that they can take advantage of the winter transfer period to find a way to fill Magath's super blue-collar position with signings and strengthen the personnel reserve in some positions.
Wu Jie wanted to complain that Graham didn't know people, so why couldn't he dig from the inside at this time?
Aren't more than half of Europe's stars in this era cultivated step by step from their own youth training?
Of course, Graham's defence-oriented style is inherently distrustful of young players, who are bound to make mistakes, some of which could cost a season's effort.
It's not wrong, it's just that Arsenal now can allow young people to make mistakes, and they have the capital to give newcomers the opportunity to practice and try and make mistakes.
If Arsene Wenger had been in charge of this Arsenal team, it would have been a long time ago to tap into their second squad with golden potential.
But whether it is recruitment or excavation, so far this season, Arsenal has not had any major problems overall, and a Magath cannot affect the pace of Arsenal's history, even if Laudrup is added.
The Chinese side have also had a thrilling journey, and in the home game against Qatar in November, they still did not score four or five goals as they used to.
But a slightly suspenseful, actually secure enough 2:0, can make the scene more tense and exciting, and the viewing is much better than blindly hanging the game.
However, this suspense dissipated completely when it came to the away game against Japan!
The Chinese players don't know what's going on, they are in extra shape as soon as they play the Japanese team, and the opponent is like an actor who is cooperating with them, and even takes the initiative to send the ball to the door. For example, the shot of stopping the ball ten meters away is by no means limited to all kinds of jokes, the Japanese players have really shown it in front of the Chinese team.
The Japanese players don't know what's going on, maybe it's because they have been ridden by the Chinese team for more than half a century and can't turn over, especially in recent years, it's not just as simple as being ridden, in short, they have no confidence when they meet the Chinese team, and the state has dropped to the freezing point, it's like sleepwalking.
The first goal of the game came from a passing mistake by a Japanese backfield player, and finally passed the ball directly to Yang Shuhua's feet.
While Yang Shuhua's physical talent has reached the four-and-a-half-star level, his ball sense has also reached the first-class level, and his shooting skills are naturally very exquisite.
This kind of opportunity for the inner ghost to be sent to his mouth, he really doesn't know how to miss it.
In the end, the two defenders of the Japanese team, together with the goalkeeper, passed it clean, and won 1:0 so easily.
After the Chinese team scored this goal in the first five minutes, the Japanese team seemed to be completely unable to play, not only repeatedly made mistakes in passing, stopping the ball, and dribbling, so as to give the ball to the Chinese team.
The Japanese team, which was defeated in the second half, defended directly with their eyes, and the result was naturally that the Chinese team kept breaking through the defensive line, and it was often two or three passes to create shooting opportunities.
In this home game of the Japanese team, in the end, when the Chinese team gave face at the end of the game, they still played a full-court possession rate of 69:31, and the shot ratio reached 25:8.
The result of this performance is predictable, as the scoreboard at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo showed a bloody number at the end of the match - 7:0!
That's it, or the result of the Chinese team's obvious retention.
Wu Jie knew that in addition to the gap in strength, it was the effect of "Sinophobia" that played a role.
And the Japanese team, as the No. 1 "Sinophobic patient" in Tianzi, is much more serious than other patients.
But fear is fear, and not too many Japanese fans left the stadium early, because since they dared to watch the game, they were ready to accept it.
This is the Chinese team!
A terrifying existence they have never defeated!
If it weren't for the fact that it joined FIFA earlier, and if it weren't for the system, the Chinese team would probably have won the World Cup???
So there's no shame in losing to such an opponent!
In addition, they have reached a cooperation intention with the Chinese Football Association, and in the future, they can not only send the national team to participate in the training camp of the Chinese team every year, but also have 50 youth training places for participating in the Chinese provincial team every year, as well as 5 places to study at the "Alien Football School".
Japanese fans don't know how much these collaborations, especially the slots, cost them.
At this moment, they looked at Yang Shuhua, who was only 17 years old, and they were not human, and their hearts were already thinking about it.
As long as Japanese football cooperates and learns from Chinese football for a long time, it will also be able to cultivate such talented teenagers in the future, is it that their football talent of the Yamato nation is so much worse than that of the Chinese?
As for the monster like Wu Jie, it is an alternative that can only come out of the whole of Asia for decades, and it is almost impossible for the Chinese to produce another Wu Jie by themselves!
This is what Japanese fans hope for after losing, but they don't know that Wu Jie's first child has landed in November.
In December, Wu Jie even scored twice.
Of course, these two mixed-race children, Wu Jie really does not plan to let them rise to five stars, which is an honor that only pure-blood Chinese can deserve.
Now I don't know if there is a name in the summer, Han Qing, if you can accurately hit the bull's eye, maybe as soon as 2002 will be able to let the Japanese see another pure-blooded five-star monster.
However, Wu Jie will not underestimate Japan too much, the original plane of the foot basin chicken was also in the early eighties of the football reform, and then it took less than ten years to break the history of nearly a century of not winning the Chinese team, twenty years later, the psychological advantage that Chinese football has accumulated for nearly a century is gone, thirty years later, it is completely inappropriate to look at the Chinese team, and each time they meet, they directly send the second team, or even the third team to deal with it.
That history certainly won't happen on his plane, and the Chinese team also won both games in December, securing a place in the third round of qualifiers two rounds early.
As for Japan, it will be 1 win, 3 losses and 2 draws, and North Korea, which has 4 losses and 2 draws, will be in the bottom two, and will basically be out of the tournament ahead of schedule.
That's right, North Korea was worse than Japan this time, and the only game the latter won was the home game against North Korea.
It is said that after watching that game, Big Fat almost suffered a brain congestion on the spot!
So it is conceivable that these North baseball players who stimulated the leader should not end up better.
If there are no surprises, the last place in this group to qualify is Iraq and Qatar.
Wu Jie has already set his sights on the upcoming Champions League, although this event is almost aesthetically tired for him, but after all, it is the highest honor he can strive for in addition to the World Cup and the Olympic Games.
Chen Haonan and Lin Yaodong want to fight with him, so they have to wait for him to return to his hometown in a few years.
Wu Jie has long decided to play until he is 29 years old in Europe at the latest, so that he can dedicate part of his peak to domestic fans.
As for his pure-blooded descendants, it would be better if they didn't need to go to Europe at all to train and just go to the World Cup to prove who is the best football league in the world.
So the question is, what is his half-breed offspring to be called? What are pure-blooded descendants called?