On September 9th, the national team competition tasks of this cycle were all over, and all the international players who played for the country began to take various means of transportation, mainly airplanes, and began to return to the city where the club they signed for began to return quickly.

Although European players will be less physically exerted than their players in Asia, Africa and Latin America due to their participation in the biennial UEFA Nations League, when they report to their clubs, they are still in a state of exhaustion, which brings a lot of trouble to the league and European competitions that are about to be rekindled.

This is inevitable even for the Arsenal team, which has a relatively small number of international players, because several of their cores, such as Leno, Mkhitaryan, Ramsey, Torreira, Golovin and Aubameyang, all play an irreplaceable role in their respective national teams, almost all of them played the full 180 minutes of two games, which is obviously extremely bad.

However, Li Mudi's luck seems to have been very good, and the Gunners' fourth round of the league is not only playing at home, but also enjoying the blessing of the geographical advantage, and facing relatively weak opponents. The promoted Manovic team, who have finished second from the bottom of the standings after three games, have no ability to fight the league leaders at both offensive and defensive ends, so this will be a rare opportunity to train the newcomers.

As mentioned earlier, more than seventy percent of England's local seedlings are almost monopolized by the Premier League's biggest giants, but there is no Arsenal name among them. The A.T. Kearney training base, which once stood at the top of the youth training pyramid in world football, is now only a name that exists in people's memory, and there is no recognized talent embryo on its field that can grow into the world's top stars.

Although after so many years of accumulation, there are still some talented and good-looking lads in Arsenal's academy, but through a recent scouting tool, Li Mudi clearly knows that none of them can reach 170 potential, and there are only three in the 160-169 area. It is hard to imagine that at least a quarter of the more than 60 young players in the three echelons together (which can be roughly divided into U23, U18 and U16) have a potential of less than 120.

However, when you think about it, it seems easy to understand why this situation has arisen, and the root cause of this is still due to the construction of the Emirates Stadium.

In order to ensure the team's competitive performance as much as possible in the face of a drastic budget cut, the professor has been gradually reducing the promotion of his own academy to the first team since Cesc Fabregas in 2003, and Wilshere, Coquelin and Szczesny are almost the only Gunners academy players who have played some famous games in the last sixteen or seventeen years. It's just that all three of them have now left the place where their dreams began, making the Arsenal after the Bernabeu another place where few ideals can be realized.

But fortunately, Li Mudi became the successor of the professor in the real sense at this time, and he has an incomprehensible obsession with the development of his own youth training, which naturally became the gospel of the majority of Arsenal youth team players.

On September 11, the Gunners boss announced the 18-man squad for the next day's game against Norwich, of which players who have just reached or under the age of 21 occupy five of the seats, and center forward Nketiah, winger Les Nelson, central midfielder Joseph Verlock and other young players who are already a little known in English football are on the bench for this league game. If you add 23-year-old American midfielder Zelarum and 22-year-old homegrown defender Ben Shef, the list includes seven Academy graduates who have not established themselves in the first team before, which has been extremely rare in recent years.

In addition, Li Mudi's boldness is also reflected in the arrangement of the main lineup, local central defender Robert Holding, who has just recovered from a thigh muscle strain, Egyptian midfielder Elneny, who has not played a minute since the beginning of the season, and Heibei, who was in extremely bad form before-Welbeck, all appeared in the starting eleven list announced later.

However, after 24 hours, all the melon-eating crowd, especially Norwich supporters, can no longer use this excuse to attack the arrogance of the home manager, because with this rotation of the line-up, Arsenal still dominated the game, and finally easily won a 3-0, completing the opening four consecutive wins, and also kicked the opponent to the position of vice-captain of the league.

With Manchester City and Liverpool finishing 1-1 at Anfield the following day, the Gunners became the only team to have a winning record in the Premier League so far this season, which became the talk of the British media in the following week.

However, when the time came to September 20, this popular event, which was originally limited to the British Isles, evolved into the focus of attention in the entire European and even world football circles. After winning 3-1 away at Stoke City in the fifth round, Arsenal completed a five-game winning streak to start the league campaign, equalling the record of their predecessors who had set the record for the best start to the Premier League in franchise history during their unbeaten season in 2003-04, which surprised most people.

And if you count the two Europa League play-offs that have ended and the first round of the group stage played on the evening of the 17th (defeated the Czech team Slavia Prague 4-1 at home), Li Mudi actually completed an eight-game winning streak after he took over the Premier League giant, and was touted by countless media and fans as the best football coach today, at least one of them.

Of course, the above evaluation has not been widely recognized because of the gold content of this wave of winning streaks. But at least the current Gunners boss has further improved his reputation and status in football, and he can already see a way up the ladder to join Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho and Zizou in the top managerial positions.

On September 26, Arsenal returned to their home stadium to welcome their sixth opponent in the league and a fierce rival Leicester City, which also became one of the key events of this round, and was selected by the BBC as the object of global live broadcast.

As for the reason, in addition to the recent high attention of Li Mudi and his team, the Foxes have also played an amazing unbeaten record of 3 wins and 2 draws since the start of the season, which is naturally the focus of many experts who have been slapped in the face. Rumours of Leicester City narrowly missing out on a handshake with the Arsenal boss last summer have also made for the game, and one wonders how missing out at the time will affect the current and future development of both teams.

At the pre-game press conference, reporters who didn't think it was a big deal began to use words to try to provoke the confrontation between the coaches of the two sides, but unfortunately Li Mudi still looked like he was going to die, and he was a set of Tai Chi kung fu for all the questions he didn't want to answer. The away coach David Moyes is even more of an old man, and he is naturally very handy at dealing with such pediatric problems, and it is not easy to succeed in setting him up.

So before the start of the game, the two head coaches not only did not spray each other with sabre-rattling, but praised each other well with a sympathetic tone.

However, when the opening whistle sounded, the two of them instantly entered a state of life and death, and both came to the sidelines to supervise the game, urging their respective players to increase their investment in the offensive end.

The reason why Li Mudi agreed to take over Leicester City 15 months ago was because the team at that time also had several old and strong players such as Vardy and Schmeichel Jr., as well as new stars such as England international Harry Maguire and Nigerian defender Ndidi, who now plays for Arsenal, and the club's management also promised to provide him with a transfer fee of no less than 50 million pounds.

It's a pity that this rare good contract was finally abandoned because of Lin Yun'er's pregnancy at that time, although it was far from regretting it afterwards, but after all, Moyes still picked up a big bargain, so if you analyze it, the latter should really say "thank you" to the Gunners coach.

Last season, after the introduction of a number of good players, Leicester City once rushed to fifth place in the standings at the beginning of December, but unfortunately in the end it gradually declined for various reasons, only finishing ninth in the league and failing to achieve the goal of qualifying for Europe.

However, the club's hierarchy showed a rare amount of patience, and while ensuring that Moyes's position was secure, they continued to provide a net investment of around £30 million, which helped the team to improve to some extent.

After a season of running-in, the 2015-16 Premier League champions, who have a perfect combination of three generations in the squad, finally broke out in amazing form at the beginning of the new season, which is worthy of the long-term support and waiting of the club's management and fans.

However, Leicester City, who had won at home to Manchester United two weeks ago, failed to show their previous strength against Lee Moody and his Arsenal. The 3-4-2-1 formation that Moyes is best at using has struggled to play to the advantages of central and backfield organisation under the deliberate targeting of Li Mudi, and it has been difficult for the forward line to get the support of his teammates, resulting in very obvious problems in the attacking team of the visiting team.

After Riyad Mahrez's move to Manchester City, Leicester City's organisational responsibility fell to Portugal international Adrien Silva, even after the 1995-born John Swift was brought in from Reading in the winter transfer window last season, making the Chelsea Academy-born homegrown midfielder another engine for the team up front, but it is clear that Moyes still relies more on Silva's experience and world-class mental attributes, allowing the latter to play Xavi's role in Barcelona. String the whole team.

However, the midfielder, who is in the prime of his 31-year-old age, has a physical defect (175cm tall and weighs 72kg), and his speed is also slow, coupled with the dribbling technique that has just reached the passing line, it is difficult to show his original strength in the face of the opponent's close marking with a lot of physical confrontation.

In the 3-4-1-2 position released by Li Mudi today, Ndidi still left Ndidi at the back as a sweeper, and the other central midfielder Torreira, who was liberated, became the shadow of the core of the opponent's midfield.

John Swift, meanwhile, was also miserably limited in the course of the game, with the new England international having a decent technical ability, liking to lurk behind the striker and waiting for opportunities to cut in the back row, as well as an excellent through ball and a standard modern midfielder. However, his mental attributes are a bit bad, and the concentration, willpower, and tournament performance attributes given by the F system are all less than 10 points, so he can be said to be a player who can't play against the wind and can't expect too much from him.

No, when Silva was locked down and the team desperately needed him to step up and solve the crisis, Swift was unsurprisingly instigated. He also wanted to help the team open up the situation through his own play at first, but after being taught a few times by his former team-mate "Black and Hard" Ndidi, he became a headless fly, completely losing his square inch on the field, unable to hold the ball or pass the ball, and completely paralyzed Leicester City in attack.

Seeing this situation, Moyes was anxious to curse the street on the sidelines, but apart from loudly reminding his players to be patient, it seemed that there was no good way to do it for a while. Even with the one-time substitutions of Nigerian striker Isinacho and homegrown winger Demalai Gray before the rematch, they were unable to create a threatening attack.

On the contrary, Arsenal, who played at home, adopted a steady strategy, through a positional battle and a corner opportunity, Ramsey and Papastathopoulos scored a goal each, and a small but solid victory to improve the team's season opening streak to six games, breaking the history of Arsenal in the Premier League.

Over the next 10 days, Lee led his new group of disciples to victory over Greece's Panathinachs (in the group stage of the Europa League), their seventh league opponent of the season, Crystal Palace, and Championship side Aston Villa (League Cup third round), bringing the winning streak to seven (Premier League) and eleven (all official competitions), a feat that the professor failed to achieve in that great 2003-04 season.

For a while, the whole of Britain began to go crazy for this Celestial Empire, and in October 2020, it came in the midst of Arsenal's outbreak of a small universe-like state.

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