Chapter 573: A New King Is Born
On 4 May, the defending champions of Arsenal won a stunning 4-1 victory at the Parc des Princes in Paris to advance to the final on the second Sunday in June.
Although the Gunners' strength has been recognized by the world of football, they are not invincible after all, especially against other top giants, and there will often be very difficult situations. It's just that most of the time, they are able to defeat their opponents and win with more tenacity and teamwork.
So far this season, Arsenal have lost two games and drawn six times, half of which have happened without affecting the bigger picture. The remaining 3 draws and 1 defeat are the opponents' real reliance on their own strength to deflate this team with a lot of dominance, and Paris Saint-Germain was originally thought to be a big obstacle that could prevent the Gunners from completing the six-legged title.
After hiring Serie A coach Allegri to coach the team, the Ligue 1 giant's performance has also improved steadily this season. Although in terms of results, titles such as league and domestic cups are in their pockets, and they can't be called any breakthroughs if they get them, but the team's temperament is obviously in the tune of the new coach. There has been a change under the teaching. The shortcomings of the previous state of Grand Paris have finally improved under the influence of Uncle Yi, which is a great achievement.
You must know that although the previous Grand Paris could often play games in bursting state, killing gods and killing Buddhas, there would always be a situation where the whole team was sluggish, and they lost in a daze, which was very unstable. What's even more terrifying is that in an important event like the Champions League, the chain is frequently dropped, and it is rare to be able to show all its strength. Past coaches such as Blanco, Thomas Tuchel and even Zinedine Zidane failed to change the team's pseudo-giants until Allegri's arrival.
Uncle Yao's unique cautiousness and stability attributes are just a special medicine for the root cause of Paris Saint-Germain's stubborn disease, which greatly reduces the probability of the onset of the players' ups and downs, and under the premise that the overall strength is maintained at a very high level, the team that can achieve stable output can be imagined.
So in this season, the other teams in Ligue 1 are unlucky, if it weren't for the strange World Cup schedule that has played a lot of negative impacts, maybe many records would have been updated by Paris in one go. But even after inevitably suffering from the big game syndrome, Allegri delivered an impressive palmares in his debut season in France. By the end of April, PSG were just one step away from breaking their previous record for the highest scoring in a single season, and it was likely to be in triple figures.
In addition, they also won the French League Cup with ease, and with a run to the French Cup final next weekend, a domestic treble is almost no surprise. The difficulty is that the team's performance in European competition is also so impressive.
Although Zizou has also broken into the semi-finals of the Champions League under the leadership of Zizou before, this year's Grand Paris has made people see some hope of winning the championship, because after improving the problem of being willing to drop the chain in the dialogue between the strong and strong, the team's ability to play hard battles has immediately increased several times, and it has also fought hard against Torino and Barcelona in the previous two rounds of knockouts, and the performance is also very strong.
It can be said that if Arsenal's performance this season has overshadowed the light of the Ligue 1 giants to a certain extent, the latter will undoubtedly become the focus of the entire football world, but unfortunately due to the constraints of French football level and low attention, it can only become the second best team in the world in the mouth of the outside world.
When the draw for the Champions League semi-finals drew these two teams together, people sighed that it was a pity that they did not meet in the final, and they had infinite excitement about the duel between the two, and thought that this would be a wonderful battle like Mars hitting the earth, because from the analysis of strength, it seems that only Grand Paris has a chance to stop the Gunners from defending their title.
Unfortunately, the result of the game still disappointed the hundreds of millions of neutral fans who set this season's Champions League ratings record, and this day coincided with the day when Rodrygo, Balco and Ndidi and many other Arsenal players collectively exploded. Playing away from home, Arsenal used a series of attacks to beat the ill-prepared home backline into a sieve.
A powerful header from a free-kick, a violent long-range effort from outside the area and a goalmouth outflank after a quick pass from multiple players stunned almost everyone who followed the game with a 3-0 scoreline, and even the illusion that it was Arsenal playing against a relegation side at home home.
Awakened from a dream, Paris finally regained some of their senses thanks to the shouts and cheers of the 50,000 supporters in the field, and pulled one back with a penalty shortly after the rematch, giving the team a glimmer of hope for promotion, but Rodrygo's one-on-one goal in the 67th minute on the counter-attack completely extinguished the flame that had just been ignited.
Although there have been cases of a three-goal defeat in the first leg and a comeback, there is no doubt that it is a game of away and then home, only Juventus in the 2017-18 season almost achieved the feat of reversing the three-goal deficit on the road, but unfortunately it fell short in the end.
In other words, if PSG are to be present at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome in June, they will have to at least equalise the score in the remaining 20 minutes to save a chance of survival.
However, the good form of the opponent's entire team and the psychological blow brought by the huge point difference made the home team really powerless to change this embarrassing situation, even if they mustered up the fighting spirit to launch an unhesitating attack on the Arsenal goal. Due to the excellent performance of several strikers of the away team, Allegri and his disciples still hope that the three-goal gap will not be widened compared to narrowing the score, otherwise they will really be speechless to Jiangdong's father.
Affected by the need to strengthen the defence, several attackers in the front field were unable to take advantage of Arsenal's half, and finally kept the score of 1-4 until the end of the game.
This basically announced that the Gunners would lock up a ticket to the final in advance, much to the disappointment and annoyance of many who did not want to see another team win the Champions League.
Arsenal weren't overjoyed after a win away from home that secured their place in promotion, and they hurried back to London for the night's flight to prepare for the weekend's league fixture. Because if they can win the Premier League this season without beating Wolverhampton Wanderers, regardless of the outcome of other games, they can shift their focus to the Champions League and FA Cup, which will play a huge role in completing the plan of six crowns.
It's just that what everyone didn't expect was that without waiting for Sunday to come, the second team to announce the early championship in the five major leagues this season after Grand Paris was born. Because Liverpool, who was previously in second place in the Premier League standings, was unexpectedly forced to 0-0 by Leeds United at home, the Gunners, who had not yet played in the penultimate round, directly succeeded in reaching the top with a ten-point advantage, which was quite a surprise.
Fortunately, in the spirit of striving to maintain the rhythm of victory and repay the support of the home team's fans, Li Mudi did not change his plan temporarily, and still sent a lineup of main players with rotation players in this week's league, which won the applause of the club's supporters.
In the next two weeks, the Gunners coach always deployed troops according to the original battle plan, and did not let the main team rest more because of the good momentum. The team itself is implementing a strict rotation system, so several cores of the team do not have too much fatigue in terms of physical fitness, and deliberately letting them reduce their playing time will not have much positive effect, but will make their games feel like they are gradually losing due to lack of actual combat, which is the way to lose more than it gains.
In the league, they defeated Everton and Tottenham Hotspur to improve their record to an astonishing 33 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, setting a new record for single-season wins in Premier League history, and also breaking the 100-point scoring record.
At the same time, in the Champions League, the Gunners did not leave any chance for Paris Saint-Germain to fight hard, although a 1-1 draw made the exit of the French giants not so miserable, but Li Mudi also took this opportunity to practice the tactics that are rarely used in the strong dialogue on weekdays, and made the most adequate preparations for the subsequent finals, and the harvest was naturally not small.
On May 28, the last Sunday of the month, the Premier League ushered in the final game of the season. Due to scheduling issues, Arsenal will travel to challenge promoted Ipswich Town away and will not be able to celebrate directly after the game.
Luckily, the game was scheduled for kick-off at 2:30 p.m., and the two cities were not far away, leaving them plenty of time to return to the Emirates Stadium and join the fans to celebrate the anniversary that would drive everyone crazy.
In the end, the Gunners ended the league with an easy 3-0 victory, with a super record of 34 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, they became the team with the highest scoring rate in England's top professional league since its establishment, which can be said to be the pinnacle of the entire English football.
However, the subsequent championship celebration was still more restrained, because as early as the middle of the season, the league championship trophy has basically been determined to be engraved with Arsenal's name, and after a few months, no matter how surprised it was at the beginning, it is now almost vented, and the key is to see if the next two finals can create new excitement for everyone.
A week later, at the new Wembley Stadium, Li Mudi and his disciples did not disappoint the fans, although they encountered Liverpool's stubborn resistance and failed to play their best tactical style throughout the first half, but when the opponent's fitness and 70 minutes inevitably declined, they still took advantage of the overall strength to seize two chances in a row to end the battle with a score of 2-0, bringing Arsenal the 14th FA Cup title in team history.
What makes Gunners fans even more proud is that their head coach Li Mudi has collected all the accolades that an English top flight team can get in three years after receiving this honor. The Premier League, League Cup, Community Shield, FA Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Europa League and Champions League are all seven trophies.
Add to that a host of individual awards such as 11 Premier League Coach of the Month awards, one English League Coaches Association Manager of the Year, one Premier League Manager of the Season (the latter two numbers are bound to become 2 in a few days), and it's remarkable that the Celestial has almost reached a true Grand Slam in such a short period of time.
As a result, it was soon reported that the British royal family intended to add the name of the Gunners manager to the next knighthood list in recognition of the accolades and influence that the latter has brought to the country's football scene over the past three seasons. Of course, the highest knighthood is only the OBE of the same level as the professor, that is, the penultimate rank of the Order of the British Empire, the lowest level of the Order of the Order of the Knighthood, which is one level lower than Ferguson, but it is also a very rare honor for Li Mudi's age.
However, a week later, when Arsenal defeated Juventus 1-0 thanks to Harry Maguire's header, becoming the second team after Real Madrid to successfully defend the Champions League after the restructuring, many English fans signaled that their prime minister could consider raising the level of knighthood awarded to Arsenal's manager.
With six major titles this season, Li Mudi has managed to surpass all football managers of the same era as him, becoming such a young legend that deserves higher official praise and recognition.
However, in the end, this incident, which was hyped up at the time, ended in vain, and Li Mudi failed to obtain the knighthood that most people are very keen on, although because of his status as a non-Commonwealth person, even if he can get it, he can't add a noble "Sir" in front of his name.
Fortunately, the achievement of six championships in a single season is enough for future generations to look up to with reverence, and he led this Arsenal team to create a crazy era and become the new king of the whole world football, which is enough for a manager, and does not need other honors to decorate.
Because the rewards that football has brought him are already incomprehensible.
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