Chapter 367: A Strong Premier League
Kodic didn't buy much, and although it was a bit regrettable, he was not dissatisfied, and he managed to buy three good enough players before the winter transfer.
Ross Barkley and Emerson have both been able to strengthen the team's defence, while Koudioc has also added another option in the selection of centre-forwards, and Giroud, for some time, Oliver Giroud has been Wenger's designated striker to deliver the fatal blow, but by last season he was often on the bench at the start of the game.
But he never complained in public or had any negative body language, and the French striker embraced the role of a super-substitute and saw his predicament as a new challenge.
Olivier Giroud has always scored crucial goals from the bench, but regardless of his performances, it was clear with the signings of Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who broke the previous transfer record and ended Giroud's future at Arsenal.
The World Cup is just around the corner, Giroud also wants to have a place in the national team, so it is important to change the way of life, for the sake of his family, he wants to stay in London, and Chelsea next door is just short of a striker, so joining Arsenal's main rival has become the only option, although to Chelsea is also to earn a substitute position.
Kodic also took a fancy to Giroud's characteristics, so he wanted to buy him, Giroud was the French Golden Boot for 12 years before going to Arsenal, in fact, Giroud is not a top striker at all.
If you just look at his stats, it's not bad, but it's definitely not the stats of a top striker, Arsenal's midfield has always been very strong, and the ability to feed cakes is strong, but just like that, Giroud has not scored 20 goals in his best season in the Premier League, and his ability to take chances is not very good.
But Giroud is an alternative striker, he can often kick the empty goal and fly the single knife, but he can often kick into the world wave, watching Giroud play, you often feel like this, this goal is not scored! This goal can be scored!
He can score N games in a row, or he can not score in N games in a row, explode when the fans hack him, and languish when the fans praise him, anyway, he is the opposite of the public, often sleepwalking most of the time before a game, and then he suddenly has two world waves.
Giroud's skills are just qualified, it's not that you can't see him break through, anyway, there are not many opportunities you can see, Giroud is more of a point-grabbing striker, Giroud has poor grasp ability, and secondly, the state is not very stable.
However, Kodic bought Giroud over, not to let him play the main team, but to like him to play as a substitute, so that he can choose the players according to his state, and the most important thing is the addition of Giroud, Kodic can try to liberate Jones, let Jones drag behind, Hazard and Costa's position is not fixed, the two can swap positions, Jones can even retreat to the middle to play the role of a forward midfielder, playing a flexible attack.
Of course, all this is still on paper, and it is hard to say whether it will work out or not, but on January 31, Chelsea officially held a press conference for Giroud.
Chelsea paid Arsenal £15.3 million for Giroud's transfer, including a £2.2 million add-on, and Chelsea offered Giroud a £100,000 per week, an increase from his previous £90,000 a week at Arsenal.
Giroud expressed his admiration for Chelsea after joining Chelsea: 'Chelsea are one of the best clubs in the Premier League, they are probably the team that has won the most titles in the last six or seven seasons, this is a big club, I am very proud to sign for Chelsea and I am looking forward to playing for Chelsea. ”
Chelsea's Phillips praised Olivier Giroud: 'Olivier has proven his talent at the top level and we are very happy to call him a Chelsea player now, he has been scoring goals throughout his career, he has adapted well to English football and the Premier League, and we are confident that he will be a fantastic new signing. ”
Several whistle transfers on the last day of the Premier League team successfully detonated European football, and no one could have imagined that the Premier League teams would be so bold on the last day of the winter transfer!
The Premier League is also destined to be the most high-profile part of football this winter.
Leicester City boss Claude Poole has his opinion: "Transfers should not be open until the summer season, players must be in the team for at least one season, just one summer transfer window is enough. ”
Indeed, the just-concluded winter transfer made people feel the madness of the Premier League, and the top value of the European winter transfer history has been refreshed.
Philippe Coutinho joined Barcelona for €160 million, Virgil van Dijk joined Liverpool for €86 million, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang joined Arsenal for €63 million, Aymeric Laporte joined Manchester City for €65 million, and Sanchez and Mkhitaryan swapped owners......
After losing Coutinho, Liverpool added to their cash-strapped positions, but they only brought in a Southampton player Virgil van Dijk.
Today, when the entire football market is rising, the value of players is not what it used to be, not to mention the endless emergence of Mr. 100 million yuan, Van Dijk alone is close to the value of Torres and Suarez in the winter transfer.
It must be admitted that the transfer market is still extremely unbalanced, with the Bundesliga and Serie A not making any waves in the winter transfer, and the Ligue 1 is relatively calm after last summer's boom.
Compared with the Premier League, La Liga has also delivered a good report card this time, and Coutinho's transfer fee alone is amazing, Coutinho was regarded as a follow-up to last summer's unsuccessful transfer, only because of the club's obstruction, the blockbuster transaction that should have happened in the summer was left in the winter.
Something similar happened in the Premier League, where Sanchez's relationship with Arsenal was no secret as soon as possible, and Sanchez remained at the Emirates Stadium until the summer transfer window closed.
Sanchez and Mkhitaryan are not two players in the same position, considering that the team has already sold Theo Walcott ahead of schedule and lost Sanchez, the thigh of striker Sanchez, in this situation, Aubameyang came to Arsenal before the transfer window closed.
Considering the financial balance and health, a group of players including Giroud, Akpoon, Adelaide, De Busch and Bilek also had to leave Arsenal.
Chelsea, who got Giroud, lost Michy Batshuayi, who was sold to Borussia Dortmund; Borussia Dortmund offered Michy Batshuayi as a replacement for Aubameyang, who gave Arsenal.
Arsenal have Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Mkhitaryan, and Olivier Giroud and Alexis Sanchez can go to Chelsea and Manchester United, but this batch of conversions has not worked very well, Mkhitaryan witnessed Arsenal's 3-1 defeat to relegation favourites Swansea, Sanchez watched the United defence concede the opening 11 seconds and was dumbfounded......
Of course, in addition to the step-by-step team building, the player trade cannot fail to mention the pressure on results, this season the Premier League Chelsea and Manchester City are far away from the other teams, presumably the next half season, the other teams in the first group will have to fight to the death for a position. The tall Rigano was like a tank moving at high speed, knocking Zauri who was defending him straight away.
The TV narrator couldn't help but exclaim when he saw this scene: "People who saw this scene would never have imagined that Rigano is now thirty-two years and eight months old!" He's as strong as an elephant! ”
Rigano came to the edge of the penalty area, did not dribble the ball, did not hesitate at all, and shot directly with a powerful heavy gun.
Lazio goalkeeper Peruzzi had already made a save, but Rigano's kick had no angle to speak of, but the power and speed were the best, and the ball went straight under Peruzzi's crotch and into the goal.
"Ricano! Christian Rigano! The striker, who was abandoned by Fiorentina, used his goal to tell Italian football that he is not old yet! He's still able to play! Look at his shot, the powerful heavy artillery, as if the god of war Batistuta was reborn! ”
The narrator did not hesitate to praise himself at all.
"Of course! At least three of these goals have to be credited to the Frenchman Ribery! No one expected that the rough-looking Frenchman would be so delicate, and even made a stunning backheel pass in the game, penetrating Lazio's defence. ”
"Now with Ricano's shot, Parma is 1-0 Lazio away. It is foreseeable that the rhythm of the next game will definitely be controlled by Parma, and the situation of Lazio will be even more difficult! ”
Levi, who witnessed Ricano's goal, wasn't too excited, he just smiled and waved his fist.
As if everything was under control, this confidence and calmness became a stark contrast to the Lazio coach Rossi next to him.
Rossi is a personality coach who yells at the sidelines with great excitement.
The fourth official at the scene kept his eyes on Rossi, and he had to prevent Rossi from doing something that violated the rules of the game.
Levi hoped that Rossi would be more impulsive, but it was clear that this goal would not make Rossi lose his mind. Rossi was so excited because the team's defense was too fragile and simply didn't put enough pressure on Parma's players. This can be seen from the goal replay on the spot, the whole attack is smooth, in the passing to the goal, Parma only has three passes, and the Lazio players in the middle let alone stop the football, and they don't even rub the football.
How does this kind of defense please Rossi?
The game resumed, and Lazio roared like a wounded beast, baring their hideous teeth.
But they were greeted not by goals, or even by threats to Parma's goal.
Because in front of Lazio are three black and hard midfielders, Yaya Toure and Guerrera used their strong bodies to disrupt Lazio's attack, and Parma academy player Desena, known as Gattuso Jr., is like the real Gattuso, running wildly in the midfield, where there is football, there is his figure.
Parma have literally turned their midfield into a meat grinder.
Due to Italy's focus on defence, their football pitches tend to be more sized, which can limit the opposition's wings and reduce the size of the defenders, strengthening the defence.
This is one of the reasons why there are often three central defenders in Italy, other clubs need four central defenders to cover the football field, but in Italy the three central defenders are barely able to cover the defensive area at the back.
Parma is also the same now, although the number of the back three is not as large as Lazio's four midfielders, but they can still suppress Lazio's attack.
Lazio saw that there was no way to attack in the middle, and began to change their methods and play the tactics of flying on both wings. But this effect is not much better than attacking the mid lane.
Needless to say, Maggio at right-back, he is the main right-back of the Italian national team in the future. The reason why Levi chose Pochetti on the left side instead of the Spanish teenager Alba he reused is because Alba is strong in attack and weak in defense, and Pochetti has three points in Italy's defensive real pass, as long as he focuses on the left side of the defense, even if a player like Ronaldo wants to break through him, it will take a lot of effort.
And let's not forget that the three central midfielders are not static, they only defend the middle. If the opponent attacks on the right side, Yaya Toure and other midfielders will assist the right side of the defense.
Even if a Lazio player occasionally manages to break through from the flank, his long balls are difficult to threaten.
Because at that time the box was already crowded with Parma's defenders.
On the contrary, every counter-attack by Parma poses a huge threat to Lazio.
In the 61st minute of the game, Quagliarella received a through ball from Ribery, successfully countered offside, and scored with a single knife.
The score became 0:2!
Lazio's players are starting to get flustered, and the players in the front court want to step up the attack and salvage the impending defeat with goals.
The backcourt players are strengthening their defense to avoid being attacked by Parma again.
The consequences of this chaos were severe, but at this time Lazio manager Rossi did not notice a change in the mentality of the players.
Levi replaced Quagliarella with Hulk, with Ribery returning to his familiar right and Hulk on the left wing.
The team once again played their familiar front three.
The effect of this substitution was very obvious, in the 64th minute, Ribery burst into the penalty area, faced two Lazio players, did not greed, and passed the football to the edge of the penalty area, where Hulk was already ready, and the left foot volleyed vigorously, and the football was deformed.
"Whoosh!" With a bang, goalkeeper Peruzzi didn't react, he was still stunned in place, just twisted his head, as if asking: Scored?
At this time, Rossi also made a change, he did not choose to defend, but angrily chose to attack.
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He replaced midfielder Mutarelli and replaced striker Simeone Inzaghi.
His older brother is Milan superstar Inzaghi, but Simone Inzaghi's goalscoring ability is not on the same level as his brother, who played for Lazio for nine seasons, but not a single season in which he scored league goals in double figures. The season with the most goals scored in the league goes back to the 19992000 season of the last century.
Simeone Inzaghi made 22 league appearances that season, scoring seven league goals.
To make matters worse, Simeone Inzaghi's last league goal was back in 2004, and it's now 2007