To illustrate how impressive the winning streak is with Lee's current winning streak, the best reference is undoubtedly the legendary Arsenal team that completed the myth of unbeaten Premier League in 2003-04, with 26 wins, 12 draws and 90 points, becoming the only team in the Premier League to achieve a single season without losing since the 1992 restructuring, which even Manchester City, which set a new league record in terms of points and total wins in 2017-18.

It's just that the team that has become the best team in history in the minds of fans, especially Gunners fans, started the season with a defeat, and they lost to old rivals Manchester United on penalties in the Community Shield that year. Not counting the warm-up game, the Arsenal of seventeen years ago did not have a very good start.

After four consecutive league wins, they suffered two draws in a row, and then although their form was relatively stable throughout the season, they did not play a long-term burst of form until 2004, when they suddenly ushered in a burst of nine consecutive wins in team history, and completely locked up the top spot in the table.

And if you count the winning streak in all competitions, the figure hasn't changed, with the Arsenal side winning nine consecutive league games, an FA Cup and two Europa League games from 7 February 2004 to 20 March 2004.

It's just that the above two overlapping state peaks both appeared in the middle and late stages of the season, and only from the state of the opening stage, Li Mudi has indeed left the old-timers far away. There are even a few people who are optimistic that they are looking forward to the unbeaten drama of the league again.

Officially, the Premier League's opening winning streak goes to Chelsea in 2005-06 at nine. Arsenal's current achievements this season can already be ranked second in this list, which means that they are the second Premier League team to accomplish this feat.

However, the difficulties are extremely difficult, and they are far from being as easy as the various hypes in the media.

In the seventh round, they faced Crystal Palace, who were 14th in the table, and the Gunners, who did not hide their main team, encountered stubborn resistance from their opponents, and were in a passive situation throughout the first half. Had it not been for Serbia international Milivojevic who missed Benteke's penalty in the 27th minute, Li's side would have had to go into the break with a goal deficit.

However, the backline, which has always been considered a little unreliable by the outside world, still made a lot of mistakes in the following time, and less than three minutes after Torreira gave the team the lead with a long-range shot, there was a communication error between the two central defenders, Koscielny and Holding, and the Ivorian winger Zaha seized the opportunity to form a single knife, and humiliated the German goalkeeper Leno with a low shot through the crotch to make the score 1-1.

This conceded goal made Li Mudi on the sidelines very annoyed, originally the opponent's attack was not threatening, Ndidi and others have blocked Crystal Palace's short pass penetration intention in the middle, forcing the opponent to take the risk of a high error rate of direct passes. However, the team's two centre-backs disagreed over the idea of whether or not to create an offside position, which led to Holding not pressing forward in time, making Zaha's forward a classic case of anti-offside success.

But that wasn't the end of the story, as the visitors' defenders were once again in a brain short-circuit when Welbeck doubled in the 74th minute with a diving overhead. A reckless Papastathopoulos put home striker Conor Wickham in his own penalty area to give the home side a penalty for the second time today.

This time, the home team's first penalty taker, Milivojevic, did not give up and pulled the score back to the same running line in one fell swoop.

This time, Li Mudi was not just annoyed, his brows were squeezed, and he wanted to rush into the field and raise the ears of the Greeks and curse loudly, but unfortunately this idea could not be realized at that time. So he immediately used the remaining substitutions at hand, and Mustafi replaced Papastathopoulos, who didn't know what was going on in his head.

Although Li Mudi politely patted the opponent's back to comfort the veteran when he left the game, in the heart of the Arsenal manager, he has basically made up his mind to make a major adjustment to the team's backline as soon as the winter transfer window opens.

With ten minutes or so remaining, the away Gunners laid siege to the Crystal Palace penalty area, and although their strikers were both pace and technical and not very good at playing to their strengths in positional attack, there was no need to worry about that much, and a win was the only purpose they came to Selhurst Park.

Thankfully, at this crucial moment, someone bravely stepped up again, and Bosnian left wing-back Kolasinac, under the cover of his teammates, headed Mkhitaryan from the left into the top left corner of the home goal, and scored the winning goal with just two minutes of normal time remaining.

3-2, Arsenal struggled to get three points in this trumpet London derby, extending the winning streak while showing the team tenacious style to the world. However, the defensive weaknesses exposed in this game have also received a lot of attention. Many pundits have begun to come out and sing the praises of the Gunners' future performance, and there are many followers, because without a solid defensive line, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to want to win the championship in the long season.

However, the storm of criticism did not last long, and in the third round of the Carabao Cup on the last day of September, Arsenal faced Aston Villa, who were playing in full force, and once again resorted to a wide range of rotations, but qualified for the round of 16 with a clean 3-0 victory.

In this matchup, Li Mudi's team still performed very well on the defensive end, and only allowed Villa, who can rank in the top eight in the Championship in attack power, to obtain six shots in the whole game, including a pitiful one, which made the outside world feel somewhat impressed.

However, the next big test is the final big test of the Premier League's leaders who will face Liverpool, who are fourth in the table but tied for first place in the league in attacking firepower, on the first weekend of October. This strong dialogue is the touchstone that can really test what kind of level the Gunners' current defensive strength is.

If Tottenham Hotspur is widely expected to be a strong contender for the Premier League title this season because of the stability of the squad in the first two or three seasons, and almost all the core players have entered the golden age, then Liverpool's form is not inferior to the former.

Take a look at the current composition of the Reds' main lineup, Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson is 28 years old, Dutch central defender Van Dijk is 29 years old, Scottish left-back Andrew Robertson is 26 years old, Brazilian midfielder Fabinho is 27 years old, captain Jordan Henderson is 30 years old, and the two wingers Salah and Mane are both 28 years old.

23-year-old England centre-back Joe Gomes and 22-year-old right-back Alexander-Arnold were in the main position two years ago, and now 23-year-old Solanke and 21-year-old Ben Woodburn have begun to attack Firmino's main centre-forward position, and Liverpool do have the capital to compete for the league throne on paper alone.

In reality, the Red Army also almost achieved this goal. In the 2018-19 season, Jurgen Klopp led the then talented team to a ferocious assault on Manchester City, who had just set a new scoring record in Premier League history, but ultimately failed to snatch the title from Pep Guardiola, finishing second in the Premier League for the club for the first time in five years by three points, and winning a third place a year later, joining Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur in the top three for two consecutive seasons.

It is precisely because of such a good foundation that Uncle Scum did not make major changes to the squad in the past summer, but only spent 67.5 million pounds to poach French central midfielder/midfielder Rabiot from Paris Saint-Germain to upgrade his team's midfield. Although this move did not improve the star flavor of the Reds, the strength of the main squad is no worse than Manchester City, which has invested huge sums of money to bring in superstars every year, so they are still one of the seeds favored by the outside world to win the championship.

However, when the season really started, the Reds, who had been given high hopes, did not perform very well, with only 1 win, 2 draws and 1 loss in the first four league rounds, and the ranking once slipped to ninth place in the standings. Fortunately, a wave of wins in the last three rounds has allowed Liverpool to quickly return to the Champions League places, but it is already seven points away from the leader Arsenal, which is still a little disappointing for the majority of KOPs and experts who are optimistic about them.

Especially in the just-concluded third round of the League Cup, the Reds, who had hidden most of their main players in preparation for the weekend league, almost overturned at West Bromwich Albion's home stadium, and finally qualified through a penalty shootout, which was somewhat embarrassing.

However, that won't detract from the spotlight on the weekend's battle at Anfield, whether the Reds can close the gap on the top team and keep their title hopes alive, or whether the Gunners can continue what they can call a magical start and return home at a venue that hasn't won for seven years, which is the talk of the town ahead of the weekend.

Supporters on both sides naturally have their own positions on who will emerge victorious, but feedback from neutral fans suggests that Arsenal will end their winning streak with a higher proportion due to Liverpool's home advantage.

Since losing to Crystal Palace in the league on 23 April 2017, the Reds have played 67 games in all competitions at Anfield, losing just one of them, and a whopping 746 win percentage, making it one of the toughest home games in European football today.

It is precisely because of this confidence that the Liverpool players will make all kinds of bold statements before the start of the game, and appear in front of the media in a posture that is sure to end the opponent's winning streak.

And the course of the game also seemed to prove that the home team's confidence did not come out of nowhere, with Klopp fielding the front trident being the oldest version, but extremely targeted. Roberto Firmino's finishing ability may not be great, but his physical and intelligent movement and passing awareness, which is extremely rare among central strikers, allow him to help his teammates draw a lot of attention from the visiting team's defenders, thus helping Salah and Sadio Mane, two wingers with world-class technical speed, to break through with relative ease.

You must know that these two dribbling masters are like stepping on Hot Wheels, once they find their most comfortable breakthrough rhythm, the result is quite terrible. Even if there are people in this world who can defend against them, there will be no more than one pair of hands, and it is naturally impossible to appear in the current Arsenal team.

So Li Mudi's response can only be to recycle it with all his might, and try not to give the other party room to move freely - well, it's just a better way to say that the tactics of crowds are better.

As a result, he had to put Lucas Torreira and Xhaka, who were relatively better defensively, in the starting line-up and build a barrier in midfield with Ndidi, which made the team's playmaking ability in attack instantly drop to the level of the bottom team in the Premier League.

So the result was that throughout the first half, Arsenal didn't hit the target with a single shot, and the three shots off target were obviously very bad, even if Lacazette had dropped back to the midfield position soon after the opening, but he lacked the necessary support at the back, and he and Aubameyang were almost a spectator of the game.

However, the team's tactics paid off in the end, and although Liverpool had more than 70% possession in the first half, they didn't create too many good chances, except for a direct free-kick from Mohamed Salah, which tested Leno's reaction, and the rest of the attacks did not pose any real threat. Therefore, the score of 0-0 was maintained until the rematch, and even after 70 minutes, it did not change.

The home team, which seemed to have a stronger desire to win, chose to increase their attacking investment, and after replacing Oxlade-Chamberlain, who had a more well-rounded technical style, replaced Firmino with Sturridge, who was better at grabbing points, and at the same time put Henderson's position on the premise, and the offensive momentum became more violent.

However, the fence of the visiting team was very tightly tied today, and it was quite a bit stormy, and Li Mudi timely maintained the physical fitness of the midfielders through substitutions, and resolved all the attempts of the Reds one by one. Leno also made two world-class saves, including a one-handed curling shot from Mohamed Salah's inevitable curling ball that had a chance to be named the best save of the week.

However, the score eventually changed before the final whistle, but it was the opposite of everyone's prediction. Veteran Koscielny headed Aaron Ramsey's corner into the home goal in the 84th minute to help Arsenal leave Anfield as winners after seven years.

For a time, the news that Arsenal had won eight consecutive league games attracted the most attention across the continent, but not all of them were positive.

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