Chapter 652: Ni Tu Dependence
Arsenal really don't know whether to thank God for giving them the opportunity to win against the current, or to fight with his old man why they can't get along with themselves like this, in the first half of the season they met Liverpool, Dortmund and Manchester United in 10 days in a row, and then met Liverpool, Bayern Munich and Manchester United in a row in this warm and cold February.
Ahead of back-to-back fixtures against these games, the Arsenal man's nerves were tense again.
But they seemed to have a bad start, and February started with dark clouds.
In the 2-0 win over Crystal Palace on 2 February, Arsenal unfortunately lost big man Aaron Ramsey, which really doesn't bode well.
With a week to go until the no.8 clash with Liverpool, Arsenal will have to consider the absence of the midfielder.
However, for Wilshere, his spring can be regarded as coming, and Wenger will definitely give him a chance when the time comes, and he believes it must be so.
This season, with the rise of Ni Tu and the arrival of Mesut Ozil, the entire Arsenal midfield has undergone a large-scale reshuffle.
First, because of various concerns, they sent Podolski, who has only been in the team for one season, to Inter Milan, and Walcott and Wilshere, although still in the team, have also been affected to a certain extent, the most direct manifestation is that their appearances and time are decreasing.
Theo Walcott's recent comeback will undoubtedly be a huge challenge for Arsenal's former prince and he will have to prepare well.
During this time, he was a little anxious and smoked more frequently, and in order to relieve his nervousness, he went to nightclubs more frequently.
With Ramsey's injury, he knew it was time to take his chances, and he was even already reflecting on how he felt when Boulder called out his starting line-up.
During this time, Ni Tu played a lot of games, and it stands to reason that he should rest, but maybe he feels that he is too useful, maybe because he is really not worried about the team's offensive line, Arsenal's midfield rarely let him rest in the relatively dense game days in December and January, and now Ni Tu is a little tired.
Arsene Wenger has also spotted this situation, and he has therefore decided how to put Ni Tu on the pitch more effectively and safely in the face of such a busy schedule and the expected high intensity of the game.
Ramsey's injury has been a wake-up call to the professor, Arsenal's painful lesson in injury has long been deep, why the team is in a good situation will suddenly collapse in the second half of the season, and the injury of the tiger is definitely one of the culprits!
Arsene Wenger knows very well now that he can't afford to be injured by too many games.
The Chinese player has already achieved incredible results at Arsenal, and Arsenal's expectations for him have risen exponentially.
The reason why I am worried is precisely because of the importance of Ni Tu in the current Arsenal squad, he is now the core of the team, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the pillar of the team!
Wenger's inner thinking is that even if he gives up one or two games, he must not let Ni Tu suffer injuries due to too many games and miss more key matchups.
Because this account is very easy to calculate, maybe letting Ni Tu rest for a game will make Arsenal's entire right side form a relatively large strength collapse, and maybe it will support the team's defeat, but a defeat is better than a sluggish record in several consecutive rounds, right?
Such an assumption is not alarmist, perhaps people will think that the role of Ni Tu is not so great, always think that Arsenal even without Ni Tu will have someone to stand up, but at the critical moment who can stand up very steadily to save the team in danger?
There's a player who is always so unobtrusive that the fans don't feel anything special when he's there, but when he's gone, people miss him very specially.
And Ni Tu is still a little different, when he was there, whether it was the team's teammates or the fans, they all had great expectations for him, which was really killed with one game after another.
Maybe the whole Arsenal is changing to a kind of "Ni Tu dependence", when he has him, the performance will be normal or even abnormal, but if he has a cold, the whole team will sneeze.
So it's hard for Arsene Wenger to imagine if Ni Tu had suffered any serious injuries due to too many games, and whether Arsenal would have suffered Waterloo as well.
Maybe the imaginary ordeal is not so serious, maybe without Ni Tu, the whole Arsenal can still run smoothly under Wenger's superb coaching art, but isn't it safer that Ni Tu has been all the time?
It's been another time, and there are still 2 days left until the game.
Arsene Wenger has also been watching the team run during this time, and with his Gallic nose, the Arsenal family is like a falcon, using their keen eyes to observe and analyse every player on the training ground.
The person he focused on was still Ni Tu, just when he was training in groups, Wilshire made a dangerous steal and directly hooked Ni Tu, who was inserting at high speed.
When Ni Tu fell to the ground, Wenger, who was observing the disciples around him, suddenly felt a few sudden swells in his heart, he was really worried that he was afraid that such a bad luck would befall his team again!
Assistant coach Boulder directly blew off the game, and Wenger didn't care so much and stepped on the pitch quickly, he wanted to see with his own eyes Ni Tu who was falling to the ground and hadn't gotten up immediately!
Mesut Ozil was furious, and it was hard for him to comprehend how he could threaten his team-mates with such dangerous moves in an intra-team match.
The German midfielder wanted to scold Wilshere, but perhaps because he was worried that the two were under the same roof after all, and there was no need to do too many things that would make the other party unable to touch them, Ozil still did not open his mouth and curse the dirty words.
But he complained to Wilshire anyway: "How can you be so out of line?" He's your teammate! He is not your enemy! What if he gets hurt? In the end, isn't it our team that suffers? ”
Wilshere pouted, he knew that his action just now was indeed dangerous, and he knew very well in his heart that if someone did such a move to himself, even if it was a teammate in the team training match, he would not tolerate it, but if he changed positions, then his psychology would have changed.
He has no opinion on Ni Tu, purely in terms of ball skills, the former prince of Arsenal still admires and even admires Ni Tu very much, but it is indeed not so easy for a person to adapt to a position of oneself being occupied by others in a short period of time.
Wilshere did know that he was doing something wrong, so he wanted to sneak aside at this time to keep his teammates from noticing.
Ozil wanted to go up to theorize, but he was stopped by Ni Tu, who had already sat up:
"It's nothing, Mansut, it's just an intra-team match, Wilshere didn't mean it, let's continue to prepare for the next game!"