West Ham United Football Club is located in the outer London borough of Newham and was founded in 1895. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info has been dubbed the "Hammers" and "Iron Men" by fans and the media due to the club's strong ties to the working class.

The team has won two English First Division titles, three FA Cups, one Community Shield and one European Cup Winners' Cup.

In order to develop the team and stay on the long side, West Ham sold Upton Park, which had been the team's home stadium since 1904, and moved into the Olympic Stadium in London after last season.

Last season, Arsenal lost their opening league game at home to West Ham and drew away. The Gunners thrashed the Hammers 5-1 away in the first leg this season, and this time at home, Arsenal will be aiming to keep up with Chelsea at the top of the table while beating their local rivals twice.

Before this round of matches, one of the two sides was in good form, and the other was very sluggish.

Arsenal are unbeaten in nine games in all competitions since their win over Chelsea in February, winning five in a row in the league and keeping five clean sheets in a row.

On the other hand, the visiting Hammers, after the winter window, only achieved 1 win, 2 draws and 5 losses in 8 league games, and recently suffered 4 consecutive defeats, and the head coach former Croatia international Slavin Bilic had a very difficult season this season.

If this game is lost again, West Ham will only be five points clear of the relegation zone, which is unbelievable for Hammers fans who finished seventh in the league last season, and their beloved team has slipped to the point of relegation in just one season.

Despite the average form of the opponents, they know that the Premier League relegation team is difficult, Arsenal often overturn in the gutter on them, in order to catch up with Chelsea at the top of the table, although only 3 days apart, Arsenal still sent a full main lineup:

No. 1 Che Jo Tien, No. 20 Schotran Mustafi, No. 5 Gabriel Paulista, No. 24 Héctor Bellerin, No. 18 Nacho Monreal, No. 35 Mohamed Elneny, No. 29 Granit Xhaka, No. 11 Mesut Ozil, No. 14 Theo Walcott (c), No. 7 Alex Sanchez, No. 23 Danny Welbeck.

Compared with the starting line-up in the previous game, Arsenal only made two changes, captain Laurent Koscielny was replaced by Gabriel due to injury, French defender Francis Coquelin had a back injury, and Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger did not select him in the squad for the sake of insurance because of the double game in a week, and sent Walcott, who failed to start in the last game.

Compared with the previous game against Manchester City, Arsenal has not changed except for the midfield of a single midfielder and a double midfield.

"Is this formation 2-1-4-2-1?" Manchester City manager Josep Guardiola, who was visiting Stamford Bridge, was stunned when he saw Arsenal's formation map through his tablet.

Why is it different from the formation we had when we were playing?

After pondering for a moment, Gua Shuai, who has a very high ball quotient, quickly understood.

Arsenal's new tactics have two changes, one is a double back and a single midfielder, and the other is a single back and two midfielders.

If he expects it to be good, the former is used to play a strong team, or when he is stronger than himself, he is more defensive.

The latter is more attacking, although it is only a small change in the manpower of a certain position, but Guardiola believes that in the course of the game, the two formations will definitely have different tactical requirements.

It's a pity that I have to direct the team to play, so I can't go to the Emirates Stadium to watch the game, so I can only go home after the game to watch the replay.

After all, he is a tactical maniac, Guardiola did not expect it badly, Wenger's new tactics have two schemes, mainly in the difference between the number of midfielders and midfielders and the combination of different types of players, forming different technical and tactical styles.

Whether it's 2-1-4-2-1, or 2-2-3-2-1, there are 5 tactical lines, and the distance between each line is closer, whether horizontal or longitudinal, can be more effectively connected by long or short passes, which is beneficial for improving the personnel investment of positional offense and the accuracy of defensive counterattacks.

Of course, no matter how good the tactical design is, the key lies in employing people.

Arsene Wenger selects players, one of the most important criteria is foot skills, veteran Premier League fans know that there is a famous saying that in the increasingly conservative era of modern football, there are only two places to appreciate artistic football, one is Highbury, where there is the Dutch "Ice Prince" Dennis Bergkamp who dances the waltz.

The other, naturally, was the French quasi-football king Zinedine Zidane at that time, he played for Real Madrid of the Galaxy Battleship, and the Bernabeu Stadium was full of superstars at that time, and beautiful football was the pursuit of the first phase of the galaxy.

Even if the comprehensive ability of the current group of players is far inferior to Highbury's creation of countless glory and glory Wen I and Wen II, through the tactical layout and detail design of 5 tactical lines, the formation form of the new tactics integrates the advantages of the ancient tactics of 2-3-5 and the modern tactics of a single striker.

West Ham fielded a 4-1-4-1 formation with the following starting line-up:

No. 1 Darren Randolph, No. 22 Sam Bynum, No. 23 Jose Fonte, No. 19 James Collins, No. 26 Artur Masuaku, No. 8 Sheikh Kouyat, No. 20 Andre Ayew, No. 10 Manuel Lanzini, No. 16 Mark Nobel (captain), No. 30 Mikhail Antonio, No. 9 Andy Carroll.

Arsenal have suffered from Carroll, who scored a hat-trick at Upton Park last season and almost made a double against their city rivals in a single season, and Beast Striker Kouyate were the bitter masters of Arsenal.

The latter opened the scoring at the Emirates Stadium last season, giving Arsenal their first defeat of the season and recovering a face-saving goal for the Hammers at home last season.

At the beginning of this season, as the team's main center forward, Carroll suffered a serious injury, missed a full 12 games, returned in the home game against Arsenal, and pulled a goal back for West Ham after coming off the bench in the second half, scoring four goals in the last two games against the Gunners, and his strong body and high-altitude strikes can be called the Gunners' nemesis, so Bilic let him start because of his threat to the Arsenal defence.

It's a pity that Bilic made a mistake, first of all, he only sent a full-time defender, the Nobel in the midfield has a balance of attack and defense, although it can assist in defense, but the other midfielders lack defensive ability, it seems that there are many offensive players, but it does not mean that the attack is strong.

Secondly, ignoring the determination of Arsenal, who are playing at home, to grab the start.

Since the development of Dongfeng Express, Arsenal has gradually formed the habit of grabbing the start, if the opponent kicks off, as soon as the opening will launch a ferocious high pressure to grab the ball, and after grabbing the ball, he will not immediately counterattack on the spot, but pass back to Zhang Zhetian, paralyzing the opponent at the same time, using the speed of Sanchez and other front-court players to directly hit behind. If it's your own kick-off, it goes without saying, just like the away game against Liverpool, direct goalkeeper connection, early goal, psychologically and tactically the upper hand.

This is Wenger's strategy to grab the opening game, as long as he can score first, he will immediately use his skillful passing and receiving skills to reverse the ball in the backfield, tempting the opponent to attack himself, revealing a large space in the back, and then by the palm of the sky to constantly launch the Dongfeng Express to blow up the opponent.

It's that simple, it's so rough, who calls the arsenal the Dongfeng Express gunner, you don't dare to press the attack to seek an equalizer in order to prevent the front and back from being disjointed, yes, I will reverse the ball in the midfield and the monkey, use the most physical effort to end the battle, and win at the minimum cost, this is the strategy formulated by Arsenal in the case of a thin squad and a full of injured soldiers, in response to the tight schedule of the weekly double game.

Sure enough, as soon as the opening whistle blew, Sanchez, who liked to press all over the pitch, pounced like a mad dog with his teammates on the ball at West Ham and teammates who might catch the ball near him.