Sure enough, by the end of February, Arsenal's zero in the record book of official matches this season had not changed, and while reigning Premier League champions Manchester City had used their home advantage to end their 21-game winning streak in the league, they were unable to win more than a draw against an opponent who was already widely regarded as dominant.

And when the Gunners defeated the Rossoneri 3-1 at the San Siro in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday in February, Lineker produced a live feature on the BBC's ace sports show "Match of the Day" three days later, creating the highest ratings for the show in the past five years.

In order to be able to evaluate and analyze this team more objectively, the program team specially invited three special guests, Alex Stewart, a well-known British football journalist, Steve Holland, who has been an assistant coach at all levels of England's national teams for ten years, and Roy Keane, a former Manchester United legend who has almost completely experienced the rise of Arsenal when he was a player.

After the host's opening remarks, Stewart, who was the first to speak out, said something that had been talked about until now: the Gunners were too similar to Arsenal, who won the Premier League unbeaten in 2003/04 and were recognised as one of the strongest teams in the history of their home league.

Aside from the strong performances that can be seen by the discerning eye, Stewart has taken a unique approach to building the team by comparing the two different periods of the same team, and found that the success of both sides did not happen by chance, but that the two outstanding managers began to lay a solid foundation for the eventual explosion early on.

Arsene Wenger's unbeaten Gunners began to build up in 2001/02, two years before their peak, when they won the league title unbeaten on the road all season, almost exactly as Muddy Lee had led to the Premier League two years earlier.

The professor added Ivory Coast centre-back Kolo Toure, Brazilian midfielder Gilberto Silva and veteran German goalkeeper Lehmann to a championship team, making Arsenal's already wolf-like team even more competitive.

Similarly, Li Mudi was not carried away by fame and fortune when he won great honors in the UK for the first time, and completed a number of personnel adjustments worthy of praise in the transfer window for two consecutive seasons, building the team into an invincible division. Llorente, Maguire and Belasino, who joined Arsenal through him, have become the main force and even the core of the team, and the Balco and Rodrygo that he personally unearthed have grown rapidly from almost penniless to world-class stars at the Emirates Stadium.

Steve Holland, who spoke next, continued the analogy, as a former Chelsea first-team coach and assistant coach of England's Under-21s and senior national teams, the 52-year-old coach is not well known among the general public, but it is clear to the entire English football community that he is the brains of Gareth Southgate and others, and his ability in tactical knowledge can definitely rank among the top three in England at the moment.

Holland focused on analysing the tactical styles of the two Arsenal teams, giving the audience a glimpse of the key points hidden beneath the surface, arguably completing a tactical lesson that was attended by millions of people.

"Let's take a look back at the unbeaten Gunners in 2003/04, Mr Arsène's usual formation was 4-4-2, but with Bergkamp often dropping back from the front line and even deeper into the midfield to act as a transition point to connect the midfield, while the two wing-backs Ljungberg and Andre Pire plus Patrick Vieira in midfield pressed forward aggressively, the team's formation can sometimes be considered 4-1-2-3, which is strikingly similar to Mr Limdi's current tactical philosophy."

"Let's take the just-concluded Champions League away game against AC Milan as an example, it can be clearly seen from these screenshots that when Arsenal gets the opportunity to counterattack and even in some positional battles, only Ndidi is left in the original four midfielders and can still press the main activity area near the center circle, and Bazol, another central midfielder who starts this game, often pushes forward sharply, and is in charge of ball scheduling with Balco, who plays as a shadow striker or forward midfielder."

At the same time, Iwobi and Belasino on either flank will quickly step up to the wingers, widening the width of the Milan defence and creating space for Rodrygo, the only true striker. Looking at this again, the two full-backs of Bellerin and Kolasinac will position accordingly, just like Lauren and Ashley Cole in the past, helping the players in front of them to fill in the position, but also always keeping an eye on the situation on the field, waiting for opportunities to continue to move forward and assist. ”

"So judging from this set of conventional tactical styles, Coach Li can be said to have copied the style of play of his predecessors 19 years ago very accurately, no wonder there are many people who think that the tactical thinking of these two coaches is almost carved out of a mold, and some people even belittle the tactical ability of the current coach of the Gunners, thinking that he is a copyist."

"Actually, it's all superficial, and from a deeper point of view, the strategies of the two men are very different, and they have completely different football philosophies. Compared with the contempt or strategic abandonment of frontcourt interceptions in the professor's era, Coach Lee's team has always maintained a good habit of pressing high, even Rodrygo, who played as a striker, and Moussa Dembele, who came on as a substitute in the second half, must use a certain amount of energy to interfere with and even chase the opponent's midfielders when defending. From this point of view, he is more of a combination of the tactical styles of Arsene Wenger and Mourinho, which is interesting. ”

"But it's important to note that this strategy is very physically demanding and almost impossible for a normal team to do, but Arsenal have done a great job of doing it, which is impressive for how well they train on a daily basis. It's just that last year's terrifying injury wave seems to be inextricably linked to the high training intensity in the eyes of the outside world, I don't know how they found that perfect balance, but judging from the performance so far this season, it is indeed a level that can be scored. ”

"Defensively, Arsenal's four main defenders were among the best in the Premier League and even in Europe in terms of speed and individual one-on-one, and Lehmann was also a very leading goalkeeper, so their single defense and offside strategy were able to successfully defuse the opponent's attack most of the time."

"The current squad is completely different, and while Bellerin, Kolasinac and Karl Jenkinson and Cohan Brammor in the rotation are all sports car-level full-backs, several centre-backs are not very good at that, so it's hard to see Arsenal under Lee using offside tactics on a regular basis. However, Llorente and Akanji are both excellent team defenders, and the strategy born out of the Italian-style chain defense has formed a good understanding in the team after two and a half seasons of running-in. Based on the axiom that teamwork is often better than going it alone, we can say that the current Gunners are better defensively than their predecessors, as evidenced by the goals conceded per game. ”

"Of course, in general, these two teams are very similar. They all focus on the role of speed on the offensive end, and although they are not the best in the world, they can all be ranked in the top 10 or even the top 5, playing the concept of all soldiers, almost everyone can send key passes or step up and score directly, which is the most important reason why they can play amazing dominance in different eras. ”

"And if I had to pick the stronger and tougher team from among them, I would prefer this year's Arsenal. Although Rodrygo is not a little short of Thierry Henry at his peak, the depth of the bench under Coach Lee is undoubtedly far greater than that of his unbeaten season, and even the weakest looking strikers include the likes of Moussa Dembele, who have proven themselves on English football and the World Cup stage, and George Hirst, a rising local striker who can do wonders in tough battles. ”

"In terms of overall ability, this team can score 90 or even 95 points in all other aspects, except for the only minor flaw that may face a superstar who has the ability to turn the tide in a life-or-death moment – a perfect score of course, and I believe they will be the ones to achieve better results in the long season."

Obviously, Steve Holland exposed the fact that he is actually a fan of Li Moody in this episode, but except for the older generation of fans who still hold the concept of the past and the present, the vast majority of people still agree with the Three Lions assistant coach. In a one-game affair, Arsenal, who had the likes of Thierry Henry, Bergkamp and Patrick Vieira, might still be able to take advantage of their juniors, but if they are in more consistent form over the course of 10 months, there is no doubt that the current Gunners have the advantage.

This can be seen in the performances of the Manchester City giants, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur after the World Cup, with so little time left for the players to recover, which has seriously affected their form after the reopening of the schedule. By the end of the first weekend of March, Arsenal were well at the top of the Premier League table with 22 wins and two draws, and the Reds and Blues, who were not too far away at the end of October, had been thrown off to the point where they could barely muster the will to make a last-ditch pursuit.

After entering 2023, Uncle Scum's team has only achieved 6 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses in 12 games in all competitions, and the number of losses has equaled the previous four months. With 14 rounds left in the league, 11 points behind the leaders, theoretically there is still some chasing, but considering the Gunners' hot form this year, not many people will believe that Li Mudi's team will drop so many points in the following games, so the outside world basically believes that the suspense of this season's Premier League title no longer exists at this time.

Roy Keane, the former captain of Manchester United's dynasty and now the manager of his former club Nottingham Forest in the early days of his playing days, is one of those who holds this view, and he approaches the topic from the perspective of player characteristics, and the way in which he compares the two generations of Arsenal players before and after is also very interesting, attracting more and more viewers to tune the channel to the BBC.

"I've watched almost all of Arsenal's games this season, and even if I can't see it live because of Forest's work, I'll watch the team play in replays as soon as possible. Although the original purpose of this behavior was to study Coach Lee's tactics and see if there was anything that could be incorporated into his system, the more you observed, the more you felt like you were playing football 20 years ago. Because when I saw players like Rodrygo, Richdeli Bazol and George Hirst, my mind was full of Henry, Vieira and Bennet. ”

"Of course, this is not to say that the ability of these young players is already on par with those stars, but their style of play is very similar to that of their predecessors, especially the Dutchman, both in size and temperament, it is like copying the DNA of my old rival Patrick, haha! Do you know how I felt when I saw him sent off for a disappointing revenge for his third appearance for his new club? It's so much fun! ”

'Also, Torreira and Gilberto, Balco and Pire, Leno and Lehmann, you can see the feeling of the Gunners in this group of players, which is amazing. I don't know how Coach Li gathered this group of members of the team that almost restored the unbeaten record of the season 20 years ago, but maybe it was really the arrangement of fate, the old French man played a historic performance with that lineup, and this season Coach Li used a similar lineup to make history again, is this a success code? I wish someone could verify it. ”

This is another well-known figure in the industry who touted Arsenal to the extreme, and in terms of Keane's unpretentious true temperament, everyone believed that he really admired the ability of the Celestial Empire, so the next day there was news in the media that the former Manchester United legend was impressed by the manager of the old rival, setting off another wave of supporters of the two teams of the Gunners on the Internet.

However, judging from the general reaction from the outside world, I basically agree with the views of several guests in this episode, because the Gunners' performance so far this season is so good, it is like an invincible division, so that the opponent will not see a chance to defeat him at all.

After the analysis of Holland and other three, Li Mudi's copy of Wenger's team building method and the introduction of players are all based on the original Arsenal main template to find interesting anecdotes, and it quickly became a hot topic among fans in a ridiculous way, and Keane's little joke about the "success code" also followed closely and was sought after by the keyboard party.

However, less than 24 hours after the episode of "Match of the Day" aired on TV, Arsenal, who played in the 25th round of the Premier League, unexpectedly ended their unbeaten run on the road, which was thought to be a good chance to be maintained, even until the end of the season, when they lost 2-1 to Newcastle at St James' Park.

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