For a long time, there has been a saying in world football that the main reason why the England national team cannot achieve good results is because it is dragged down by the difficult and intensive schedule of the Premier League, which makes it difficult to ensure the physical condition of the players.

At first glance, this argument is quite convincing, and with the FA Cup and League Cup in their two domestic cups, the big teams will have more games to play. And for more than two decades, there has never been a winter break in English football, and while other European countries can enjoy a minimum of two weeks of adjustment holidays, English teams will have to usher in the most difficult Christmas-New Year's Day schedule of the year, so the fatigue of the players is still obvious.

But if you do the math, you'll find that the so-called gap isn't that obvious. Although there are two domestic cup competitions to compete with, it is obviously impossible for you to say how much the traditional giants value them. It's hard to generalise the goals of each team in each season, but the FA Cup and League Cup are far less important than the leagues, which is a well-established situation in the UK.

While there have been no upsets in recent years, with titles often being snatched away by some mid-table teams in the Premier League table, there are still few occasions when the final is played by the best of the best. The likes of Crystal Palace, Aston Villa and Sunderland have all reached the final stage with near-relegation on the verge of relegation, while giants such as Liverpool and Chelsea have repeatedly suffered the embarrassment of being eliminated in their first game (the Premier League giants will play in the round of 32).

Even if they reach the final in both competitions, they will only have five more games than the Italian team and three more than the Spanish team, which is not an exaggeration given the standard of more than 60 games a year. At least Li Mudi, who came to the UK in the future, was very unimpressed.

It's just that the moment he saw the 2020-21 schedule distributed by the FA, the Premier League and UEFA, his face became a little ugly, because what was presented in front of him was simply a hellish game arrangement, which made the Arsenal new head in it can't help but have a headache.

In the 16 days of mid-to-late August, the team will have to complete one Europa League qualifier and three Premier League games, which is not a big deal. But then there will be a two-week international break, which will not only interrupt the newly established tacit understanding between club members, but also endure additional physical exertion and even the risk of injury, which is really not good news for the Gunners, who are not yet very strong.

With the European group stage and Carabao Cup coming in from September, and the need to make time for a new winter break, the team will be facing three double-match games a week almost every month for the next two or three months, and the pressure will be far greater than when they were in Italy.

Therefore, Li Mudi had to come up with his best rotation mechanism from the beginning of the season, hoping that the players would not be in a slump or injured due to excessive fatigue. However, due to various reasons, in individual positions, the current strength gap between the main team and the substitutes in the Arsenal team is still relatively large, and it is impossible to achieve the extent that large-scale rotation can be carried out during the Turin period, so this requires the coaching staff to spend more energy to make the most reasonable match of the lineup for each game, and the workload has increased a lot compared with normal.

Fortunately, this time he went to the UK to coach, Li Mudi was finally able to bring a small team of his own, although it was only barely formed, but at least it played a huge role in terms of tacit understanding.

Assistant coach Harvey Platz, strength and conditioning coach Philip Lambert, technical coach Paul Scholes, and Celestial Empire compatriot Zheng Xiaoyang, as well as the scouting team's Longley, Puyol and Paul Mitchell, have provided strong support behind Li Muddy, which is another key factor in Arsenal's ability to get into form so quickly under the new manager's leadership.

However, the first two official games of the season, the Europa League play-offs, are just an appetizer, so no matter how you rotate, you can get the desired results.

But facing the mighty Tottenham Hotspur in the first round of the league, it is clear that he will have to come up with all his skills to deal with it, otherwise at the new 61,000-seat White Hart Lane stadium (currently the largest and most advanced stadium in the city), Li Mudi is likely to make his Premier League debut, which is himself and all

None of his supporters want to see it.

At 13:30 p.m. on August 17, the penultimate game of the first round of the Premier League, which is also the first highlight of the season, the north London derby, kicked off at Tottenham's home stadium. Before the game, Li Mudi and Pochettino, the two coaches who are expected to be the next generation of world-class coaches, had a brief but friendly exchange on the sidelines, murdering countless reporters and filming.

It's just that after returning to the coach's bench, the smile on the face of the away coach quickly faded, because he knew that Pochettino, who looked like a harmless and kind uncle just now, is basically not inferior to Mourinho and Zidane, the top five coaches in the world today, in the ability evaluation of the FM system, and has surpassed it in youth training. It's only because there is still a lack of a championship trophy with a higher gold content that it has not been recognized by the outside world.

Since taking charge of White Hart Lane in the summer of 2014, except for the first season with the team only leading the team to fifth place in the league, Uncle Bo has led the team to the top three of the Premier League table in the next five seasons, including three third places and two runners-up. Especially last season, when core players such as Harry Kane, Eriksen, Dier and the young and mature Alli entered the golden age of their careers, Tottenham finally broke out with the top quality that the outside world had been expecting.

They have been entangled with the deep-pocketed Manchester City in the Premier League until the last minute, but it is a shame that they missed out on the third top-flight title in the club's history by just one point difference. However, given the Champions League semi-finals, FA Cup and League Cup winners, one could still rate last season as the most successful season in Tottenham's history since winning the UEFA Cup in 1984.

This summer, this team resisted the poaching of foreign giants such as Real Madrid and Barcelona, and retained the main squad that has been maintained for four or five seasons. However, the team has changed the "stinginess" of the previous two years in terms of recruitment, and has won Brazilian winger Felipe Anderson and Serbian central defender Nastasic in succession, and the strength on paper has improved compared with the same period last year, and is considered the favorite to win the title this season, and the odds are almost on par with the top seed Manchester City.

Therefore, before this north London derby, the outside world is still generally optimistic that the home team can win easily, and some people even predict that the final score difference will be more than three goals, which is already contemptuous. However, when people see Tottenham's starting line-up worth close to 700 million euros, even the most neutral fans have to admit that they are indeed entitled to defy all opponents.

But Li Mudi and his team gave the fiercest response to those who were not optimistic about themselves in this game. The same 3-4-1-2 formation from the Torino era, but when applied to the Arsenal players, there was a huge contrast in tactical thinking.

The Gunners did not opt for a rebound and look for an opportunity to counter-attack in the opening stages, as everyone might expect, but instead carried out high-intensity scrambling in central midfield to secure more possession. And this style of play is actually the magic weapon that the home team has been able to achieve good results in the past few years, Li Mudi can be said to have played a trick of using the other way and returning the other, but this trick has achieved amazing results in the first 20 minutes of the game.

Mauricio Pochettino's usual 4-2-3-1 formation features England international Dier and Kenya's new-generation beast Victor Wanyama, who serve as a link between the front and back and provide a solid defensive barrier to the backline. However, both of them have their own shortcomings, and as a result, Li Muddy has been effectively targeted, resulting in frequent miscommunication and even some disjointed signs in Tottenham's midfield.

Although they are both considered to be a rare all-round attacking and defensive midfielder in world football, the emphasis of the two men is actually very different.

As a black African player with explosive physical fitness, although Wan Yama has iron man-like endurance and super backcourt sweeping ability, he actually has the soul of an attacker deep down. After landing in the English league, he scored twice as many goals in almost the same amount of minutes as N'Golo Kante, and before that, he scored 10 goals and provided seven assists in 61 games in the Scottish league.

It's just that he used his passing skills and willingness to rush forward to make Arsenal players take advantage of it many times, so that the visitors more than once had a good opportunity to face the central defender at the edge of the opponent's penalty area, and directly led to the first goal.

In the 17th minute, Mkhitaryan's pass was intercepted by Belgium international centre-back Alderweireld, but the Kenyan international, who got the ball, chose to dribble himself through the half, only to miss the return pass under pressure from Lucas Torreira, allowing Lacazette to pick up the advantage. The latter, in almost 50% of the team's 50% duels, withstood the impact of Dale with his body and knocked the ball diagonally to Mkhitaryan, who was about to retreat.

In the scramble just now, Dell, who showed a crushing level advantage in both height and weight, failed to stabilize his center of gravity in time in the physical confrontation with the opponent because of his balance ability (10 in the FM system) that did not match his body type, resulting in missing the best opportunity to steal and let the ball enter the danger zone of his own team.

Armenia's number one star in the midfield/central midfield position in this game kept sending the ball straight through, helping Aubameyang, who has the world's top attacking sense, to get rid of the defenders who marked him immediately. As soon as the long legs stepped away, he rushed to the Tottenham defense in two steps, forming a single knife.

Although Mei Yangyang's shooting skills have always been complained about by everyone, in the pre-season training, according to the proposal of the team's new head coach, he focused on practicing the characteristic of passing the goalkeeper and then shooting, and it showed its power at this moment. With his pace, which can still be ranked in the top 10 of world football, he shook off the forced veteran goalkeeper Lloris and easily pushed the ball into the home team's completely undefended goal.

Well...... Considering the performance of Meiyang Yang who has missed many empty opportunities before, it seems that it can't be said to be easy, anyway, this time it was a goal. At 0-1, the visiting Arsenal unexpectedly took the lead, leaving the entire New White Hart Lane stadium in silence before erupting into deafening boos.

The relationship between the two clubs is the number one rival, which everyone must know very well, but what the specific reason is, it is estimated that not everyone is clear.

First of all, there is a reason why they are in the same London and so close to each other, before 1913, Arsenal's predecessor, Woolwich Royal Arsenal, moved its headquarters to Highbury, which was originally Tottenham's most important radiation area - because Highbury was closer to the city centre and had a tube station. Where Arsenal settled just blocked Tottenham's "doorstep", so that their influence was limited to the northernmost part of the city, which is undoubtedly a "cutting off people's money like killing parents" type of hatred.

But it was the 1919 vote after the First World War that led to Tottenham's unquenchable feud with Arsenal over who would be the last team to play in England's first tier next season. The squad was expected to increase from 20 to 22 that year as a result of the expansion, and the Gunners ended up receiving more votes as sixth place in the second division last season, beating Tottenham Hotspur, the vice-president of the first division.

However, Tottenham fans will obviously be extremely unhappy with the result, and some ill-intentioned people have provoked them to claim that Arsenal were selected because of clandestine dealings in the vote, and that Gunners' then-chairman Henry Norris bribed officials at other clubs with money.

Since then, this statement has become an unforgettable hatred for Tottenhams, and at the same time provided every club fan with a reason to hate that "bad neighbor" for the rest of their lives, and then the relationship between the two sides became irretrievable.

However, whether the vote at that time was as bad as the Tottenham people claimed it was, and for nearly 100 years, no one has been able to find even the slightest evidence of it. So in essence, in this incident, Tottenham seems to have some paranoia of victimization.

But those don't matter anymore, because Li Mudi has deeply felt how strong the British fans' "welcome" for him is at the moment, but he thinks he still enjoys this feeling. Of course if there are no ones for those alleged species. Words of racial discrimination and personal attacks are even better.