All kinds of reports in the media news are talking about Arsenal's home game against Newcastle United, and the game has attracted attention, not only because of Newcastle United's good results, but also because of the big focus is-

The battle for the top spot!

Newcastle United defeated Manchester United and Chelsea in a row, breaking out a wave of seven consecutive wins, surpassing Arsenal to rise to the top of the league table.

Arsenal have dropped to second, two points less than Newcastle United.

At the same time, Manchester United have been in excellent form, winning since losing to Newcastle United, with just three points behind Newcastle United and one point behind second-placed Arsenal.

That's the competition for the top of the league.

Arsenal's match against Newcastle United could have a direct decision on the standings, with a win for Arsenal enough to regain their rise to the top of the league table, or they could fall to third place, further down than Manchester United.

The importance of the game is clear.

Arsenal naturally take the game very seriously, they started preparing early and did a lot of preparation for the game, and the tactical decision of manager Arsene Wenger became very important.

In the last leg, Arsenal lost the game due to the outburst with Zhen Shaolong.

After the game, Wenger thought about it carefully and felt that Arsenal's targeting was still not enough, but after watching the confrontation between Manchester United and Newcastle United, he felt that 'just targeting' was not enough, and Manchester United paid enough attention to the defense of Zhen Shaolong, but he still lost the game.

Against?

This kind of world-class goalscorer, it is impossible to completely block, and once in a while, he may be able to score a goal.

Arsene Wenger is caught in a contradiction.

The Chelsea and Newcastle United games, especially in the second half, inspired Arsene Wenger: "If you can score more goals, you can win!" ”

That's what Wenger thinks now.

Therefore, in the process of arranging tactics, Wenger is also constantly emphasizing attack, he has absolute confidence in Arsenal, and believes that the team's offensive ability is no worse than Newcastle United as a whole, and Newcastle United's defense is enough to be described as 'weak', and it is impossible to defend Arsenal's attack.

"Win with offense......"

"Grant is still level!" Arsene Wenger sighed.

The match between Chelsea and Newcastle United showed Grant's ability to cope with the game.

Most of the outside media are critical, but they just watch and talk coolly, standing in the position of the head coach, when the opponent has a high-efficiency scorer like Zhen Shaolong, it is too difficult to lead the team to beat Newcastle United, Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, all folded in the game with Newcastle United, Chelsea also lost the game, but they lost with dignity, almost turned the game around, in fact, it is much better than other losing teams.

Therefore, Grant's level of handling the game is still worthy of recognition.

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Newcastle United are also preparing for the game.

The day before the game.

Sam Allardyce and Cavro explained the tactics to the players together, in fact, the tactics were formulated a few days ago, the core is to defend and counterattack, and the purpose of repeating it again is to let everyone consolidate their memories and not to go to the game, stuffy and kick their own balls, forgetting the concept of the overall style of play.

The general tactical explanation will give people a boring feeling, and it has nothing to do with most players.

For example, Given.

As an athlete guarding the goal, it doesn't matter how others kick, the only thing he has to do is to guard the goal, that is, when he occasionally touches the ball, he will consider coming with a big kick, or passing the ball to the defender at close range, tactical play or something, it has nothing to do with him at all.

Another example, Zhen Shaolong.

Sam Allardyce never assigned defensive tasks to Zhen Shaolong, his job was to help the team complete the goal, and the overall tactics were offensive or defensive, which had nothing to do with him.

So......

Zhen Shaolong took the opportunity to desert, and he was also explaining tactics, but the target was Michael Owen.

"Attention!"

"When you get to the game and you see that I have a chance to shoot, you have to rush over and get as close to goal as possible......

"Why?" Owen was a little confused.

"It's for your own good!"

"Huh?"

Zhen Shaolong shook his head and sighed in annoyance, "Michael, your skills are good, do you know why there are fewer goals?" ”

Owen's face darkened.

Zhen Shaolong continued, "There are no plug-ins...... Wrong! He suddenly realized that "Privilege" was not activated, and changed his statement depressedly, which directly turned into a declarative expression, "You have too many questions, listen to me, okay, I'll be honest with you, I don't think there will be any foot feeling tomorrow, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to score goals." ”

“……”

Owen still didn't get it, but he didn't want to hear the phrase 'fewer goals' and so he nodded his head and agreed to end the unfriendly conversation with him.

At noon the next day, the Newcastle United team took a private jet and quickly arrived in London, and then transferred to a bus to enter the Emirates Stadium.

The Emirates Stadium, also known as the Emir Stadium or Emirates Stadium, is Arsenal's new home stadium and costs £470 million and seats 60,000 in the stands alone.

The establishment of the Emirates Stadium is an important decision for Arsenal in the past 100 years, the high cost is still on the one hand, on the other hand, they need to abandon the century-old Highbury Stadium, but for the long-term development of Arsenal, the club and the fans still promote the establishment of the new stadium together.

The high investment in the new stadium has made Arsenal have to tighten their belts to live, and they cannot be supported by transfer fees all year round.

Now the harvest time is approaching.

According to some media reports, the Emirates Stadium continues to increase Arsenal's revenue, adding 600,000 to 1 million pounds per match day alone.

A little adds up.

Over the course of a season, Arsenal's financial revenue can increase by tens of millions of pounds in terms of tickets.

In addition, the abandoned Highbury Stadium is also being planned to be converted into residential buildings, and the Arsenal Club will become a 'real estate developer'.

Although Arsenal still have a large loan to repay, they can also look forward to the good times of financial abundance in the future.

Of course.

It has nothing to do with the game.

Arsenal's match against Newcastle United was the highlight of January, and naturally attracted a large number of fans.

Fifteen minutes before the start of the game, the stadium was already crowded, most of them wearing red jerseys, it was the fans who came to support Arsenal, they shouted loud slogans, and some fans incidentally hit the 'arrogance of the enemy', and some banners in the stands read-

"Zhen Shaolong, the Emirates Stadium will make you desperate!"

"Feel the pain!" The accompanying picture of the text is a cartoon image of Zhen Shaolong with a big face and tears.

As the players entered the field and were ready to start playing, Milner spotted an interesting banner and pointed to the west stands and shouted, "Look! Over there! ”

Zhen Shaolong looked over, his face suddenly darkened, and he saw that it was written, "Every goal you score at the Emirates Stadium will cost your life for ten years!" Gift: Zhen Shaolong. ”

"Curse!"

"W-yes!"

Zhen Shaolong really didn't want to explode foul language, but the curse of the Arsenal fans was too much, he simply said, "It's okay if I don't score!" ”

"You're going to surrender?" Milner laughed.

"Surrender? See-! It's time to get to work! Our Super Boy Group ......"

Zhen Shaolong shouted.

Gather!

Zhen Shaolong, Barton, Milner, N'Zogbia and Michael Irving!

Irving was finally able to join in this game, because the day before the game, Smith unfortunately sprained his ankle and had to rest for a week or two, so he could take Smith's place.

Owen felt that he should be excited, but in fact, with so many fans watching, his only feeling was embarrassment, and his movements were twisted and pinched, as if he was a little daughter-in-law who wanted to see his in-laws.

Others are different.

Enzobia and Milner were all looking forward to it, while Barton and Zhen Shaolong's expressions were very flat, and they didn't pay attention to 'shouting slogans' at all, as if they were just performing ordinary rituals.

Milner kept doing ideological work for Owen, "Don't be afraid! Shouting it out loud and shouting a few times is nothing. ”

"The louder, the better!"

"Remember!"

Zhen Shaolong stood in the middle, Barton raised his fists and shouted the first sentence, Enzobia was perfectly connected, and then it came to Owen, Owen remembered Milner's words, and shouted at the top of his voice, "Implement the concept of higher, faster, stronger!" ”

Zhen Shaolong, Enzobia and Barton were shocked by a loud voice, and at the same time, they all looked at Owen.

The same goes for everyone else.

The Arsenal players didn't pay much attention to Newcastle United, they knew they were doing strange rituals, but there was a lot of media coverage, and the more they saw it, it didn't matter.

But Owen's voice was so loud that even the referee couldn't help but look at it.

The 'Super Men's Group' still finished shouting the slogan, but as soon as the slogan ended, Zhen Shaolong, Barton and a few others immediately stayed away from Owen, as if it would be embarrassing to be with him.

“……”

Facing the many strange stares around him, Owen felt very depressed in his heart, and immediately looked at Milner with a sad look, and the meaning in his eyes was to say, "Didn't you make me as loud as possible?" ”

Milner gave him a "I didn't expect you to be so loud" in return.

Owen was very depressed.

The feeling of being embarrassed in front of tens of thousands of people, you can know the physical and mental feelings after experiencing it.

The good thing is that the important thing is the game.

As soon as the game began, most people didn't pay attention to him, even if he was in the arena, Owen knew that the fans, the media, and the camera, and the target of attention was his partner Zhen Shaolong.

This doesn't seem like a good thing.

Owen immediately thought of a question, "Zhen Ke said, he didn't feel good in his feet today, probably because he couldn't score a goal?" ”

"Yes!"

"It's strange what he says, but it's not bad every time!"

"So if the team wants to win the game, it still depends on my Michael Irving's performance!"

Owen was suddenly full of motivation.