After Arsenal's home game against Wolves, Li Mudi, who had just walked into the tunnel after shaking hands with opposing coach Sean Dycher, had to go to the side interview area for an interview with Sky Sports reporters.

Not surprisingly, the controversy over the winning penalty became the first and most difficult question he faced.

After years of experience, the Gunners coach, who knows that there is more to say more wrong, less wrong and less wrong, and not to say the good saying, did not immediately state his position, but first used the sentence "I haven't seen the slow-motion replay of that moment, so I can't judge whether the referee's decision is completely correct for the time being, but I did see Boehly's left hand pull on Iwobi, so as everyone can see, the penalty came." ”

At the official press conference after the game, when questioned by reporters again, Li Mudi firmly stood on the side of his disciple and defended him: "Before taking the stage, I roughly browsed the discussion about this game on the Internet, and found that in the short 40 minutes after the birth of the penalty, so many people were accusing Alex of fake falling, which is unfair. ”

"As soon as I got back to the dressing room, I retrieved the footage from the incident and it was clear that from the moment he took a step outside the box, Willy Boehly's left hand had been encroaching on Alex's body, trying to affect the latter's balance as he accelerated forward. Even if the force he used didn't seem to be very large, wasn't that a foul play? I don't agree with the argument that Alex's right hand was also an offending move on the defender, and it was just his natural physical reaction when he was unfairly assaulted. ”

Alex's final fall seems to be a bit deliberate, but in fact, the main reason is that the core strength of his body is far inferior to that of the opposing player, and in the process of dribbling the ball, he suddenly suffered an impact contrary to the direction of his original force, and the loss of center of gravity occurred, which is not a fake fall. Those who know him well know that Alex is a player with a great work ethic and has never had a flaw in that since joining the Academy, so I trust my players 100 per cent. ”

Not wanting unnecessary clashes with the referee's committee, who had always been on the same page, Li did not take the opponent's offside goal as a response to the perception that they had won immorally, as some had expected. However, Gunners fans had no such concerns, and engaged in a fierce verbal collision with the so-called Wolves fans (most of whom are probably supporters of title rivals who are deliberately trying to discredit Arsenal).

However, this debate will not produce any results after all, because the misjudgment of the referee team is the most critical problem, and until the FA and the Premier League make a decision to introduce VAR or other more advanced equipment, similar incidents will only continue to repeat themselves without a reasonable result.

Therefore, after trying to eliminate the interference of the outside world in this regard, Li Mudi began to lead the team to continue to usher in various challenges in the future, hoping to continue the terrifying winning streak they have achieved.

On October 22, in the third round of the group stage of the European League, the home team Arsenal used a set of semi-main players and rotations to defeat last season's Norwegian Premier League champion Rosenborg 2-0, leading Group D with three wins. It was also their 15th consecutive win streak in all competitions since the start of the season, including nine league games, three European games, two European play-offs and one League Cup.

And while Gunners fans are starting to compare Arsenal more and more to some of the greatest legends in history, the British and European media have turned their attention to the Premier League three days later, as the 234th Gunners clash is due to take place on the following Sunday.

When it comes to English professional football, even though the current Premier League only started in 1992 and has a distant history of more than 100 years before that, in the minds of fans around the world, there are still two phases that will leave the deepest impression. One is the era of the two great rivalries between Lord Ferguson and the Professor, and the second is the combination of Mourinho's landing in the British Isles and the retirement of the Lord. The former, in particular, is still the talk of many old fans, used to divide the difference between them and the new generation of bird fans and melon fans.

But in fact, from the point of view of honor and record, the arsenal under Wenger's management is not the opponent of the Red Devils during the old lord period, which can also be regarded as a major illusion of the Premier League.

From the 1996-97 season, when the professor took over Arsenal, to the retirement of Alex Ferguson after the 2012-13 season, United won 26 titles in all competitions, both large and small, compared to 11 for the Gunners. In the Premier League title alone, the Red Devils won 10 to 3.

The huge gap in relative honours is slightly smaller in the history of direct confrontation between the two teams. Of the 49 duels between the two sides, Lord Ferguson won 23 of them, while the professor won 15 of them, and the gap was still acceptable.

But if the playing field is limited to Old Trafford, then the head-to-head record between the two teams is a bit one-sided, with the Red Devils holding a clear advantage with 14 wins, five draws and three defeats.

In the seven seasons since the Jazz retired, Arsenal have also failed to make a difference on this field, with only one win, three draws and six defeats, with their only victory coming in the FA Cup quarter-finals in early 2015, when United were managed by Louis van Gaal, who seemed to have lost his attacking package.

Although this season's Red Devils have encountered a lot of trouble again after the 2018-19 season, although the first nine rounds of 4 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses with 15 points can not be said to be too bad, after all, this year's Premier League is somewhat evil, and basically most of the favored strong teams have a sluggish start, so the ranking of the fifth place in the points is not so unsightly.

But there is no harm without comparison, and while the history of Gunners has been buried in the memory of the two masters in recent years, for Red Devils fans, the Gunners remain their number one rivals, almost as hostile to their city-rivals Blue Moon.

So after seeing that Arsenal, which had been pressed under him for many years, suddenly completed the salted fish turnover, not only far ahead of him in points, but also played a super streak, how can this make Manchester United supporters give up.

Mourinho's life began to be difficult, compared to the brief dismissal crisis he faced two years ago, this time it can be said that the danger level is several times greater, because many fan groups have begun to plan various protests, and if the team cannot win against this old rival at home, I am afraid that the famous aircraft banner project will be staged again.

In 2014, the protest, initiated by Manchester United fans, put then-manager David Moyes in the spotlight of football; Three years later, the move was copied by Arsenal fans to call on the club to get rid of the professor; Since then, Manchester United's former CEO Woodward and the American owner Glazer family have enjoyed this treatment, and this time the protagonist may be replaced by the former world No. 1 coach Mu Bird.

So for the 57-year-old Mourinho, the next battle of guns is his ultimate test, and only victory can help him get through the difficulties he is currently facing, otherwise his plan to end up at Old Trafford can only be declared on hold.

On Saturday afternoon, both sides announced their 18-man squad for the game almost at the same time, and that was enough for fans of the media to get excited.

It's just that the mood of the home team's supporters may be relatively poor, because compared to Arsenal's all-main team, Manchester United still suffered a certain amount of injury trouble. Chilean veteran Alexis Sanchez has not been able to return due to a broken phalange at the end of last season; Frenchman Anthony Martial's form this season has been frozen in the air, so bad that he was booed by his own fans, and Mourinho had to put Rashford on the left winger and form a front trident with Romelu Lukaku and Jesse Lingard.

There is also a big player in the midfield who is unavailable, and the Brazilian Fred, who was once favored by Li Mudi, was suspended because of two yellows and one red in the last league game, so the start alongside Pogba and Nemanja Matic became the team's own academy and another Brazilian player, Andreas Pereira.

Both of these changes will look like they will weaken the Reds' attacking strength, so it will be interesting to see if they will take some unusual approach to find an opportunity to break down an opponent's already hardened defence in this crucial matchup.

At 20:30 on the evening of the 25th, the focus of this round of European football started on time at Old Trafford, and Manchester United, who was playing at home, started to use the width of the field from the first minute.

Although the new generation of fans look down on Mourinho, believing that his tactics are nothing more than strangling in midfield, compressing the opponent's movement space, and then attacking the opponent's defensive weaknesses with quick counter-attacks. This tactical idea can barely be regarded as a beta version of the fast-attacking tactics that have become popular in the last two or three years, but it is stuck in a lack of flexibility, and it needs to be a superstar, otherwise it is just a small character who can only play the bus.

There is some truth to this assessment, because the United manager has become one of the most successful coaches in the history of the football team, not mainly because of his strong tactics, but because of his ability to control the whole team.

When he is able to take everything in the dressing room into his own hands, then the stars who are willing to play for him will play at historic levels, such as Chelsea and Inter Milan, who won the treble; And once he loses control of the team, then it's time to say goodbye, and without the mental buff bonus, his team will seem so rigid and boring.

However, if you really think that the former world number one coach is only this three-legged cat kung fu, then you are underestimating football, the world's number one sport. Even if there is still a clear gap between Benitez, Lord Fergus, and Conte, who are recognized as world-recognized tacticians, Mu Bird's tactical literacy is still unquestionable, and he knows exactly what to do to hit the gunner's vital point in the face of opponents with similar tactical ideas to his own.

Arsenal's backline, although it has improved significantly in the last month or so after the early stage of the season, has improved considerably, and apart from the goal scored by Wolves that was clearly offside, the record of conceding only five goals in nine games can be called outstanding.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that the main reason for this situation is that the Nigerian midfielder has grown rapidly this season into a world-class defensive midfielder who is not inferior to N'Golo Kante. It is precisely with Ndidi's large-scale sweep in the midfield and backfield that Li Mudi will resolutely implement the strategy of multi-person counterattack when several defenders have their own shortcomings.

The player, who joined Arsenal from Leicester City in the summer, is a key nucleus of the team's defensive system, and Li Muddy spent nearly £60 million in order to win him, a price that was a serious premium in the eyes of the outside world three and a half months ago. However, by the end of October, no one would have thought the Gunners manager had made a loss-making deal, but instead praised his wisdom given that a defender of this calibre could not be replaced.

Last summer, Real Madrid made an offer to Chelsea to bring N'Golo Kante, who was five and a half years older than Ndidi, to the Bernabeu, but Galeries Lafayette waved a cheque of 100 million euros but failed to win Abu's heart, and the Nigerian international, who still has some potential to be tapped, is naturally not cheap (on 30 June 2020, when using scouting tools, the double values were 163 and 177, and the future is definitely worth looking forward to).

In contrast, Li Mudi's ability to attract reinforcements, which was previously praised by the Italian media as a golden eye, has once again been affirmed by the world football community, which has brought him a certain prestige boost, and at the same time, he has also encountered temporary price increases from the seller many times when he buys players in the future, which makes him feel very helpless.

Back in the game, this player's defensive ability is indeed strong, but after all, he is still a mortal child, and he can't really be everywhere on the field as praised by the outside world. Mourinho's approach was to focus on both flanks, and when one side caught Ndididi's attention, he quickly moved the ball to the other side to avoid the defender. To apply the art of war of the Celestial Empire, that is the strategy of diverting the tiger from the mountain.

Even if Ndidi can get to the home team's new attack direction in time with the help of his teammates, it will still consume a lot of energy, and if he repeats it a few times, even if he is rated 19 in the FM system, he will not be able to hold on to the whole game as before. And once he starts to choose to make strategic adjustments, or is substituted due to physical exhaustion, then Arsenal's defence will be slaughtered like a chick without the protection of a hen, and with the ability of Lukaku and others, it is only a matter of time before he scores.

I have to say that Mu Bird's plan is still commendable, but he still underestimated today's opponent, and the plan he painstakingly made almost failed soon after it was implemented.

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