'You want to play the same way you did last time at Stamford Bridge in the second half?' Arsène Wenger said thoughtfully. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"It's going to be a little more radical." Zhang Zhetian nodded and said.

After a little thought, Wenger guessed what Zhang Zhetian meant more radically.

"Palm, you want to control the rhythm?" Wenger asked thoughtfully, and exchanged glances with Steve Boulder, intentionally or not.

On the football field, there is a group of people who control the offensive and defensive rhythm of the whole team, and this group of people is called the metronome of the team, the strongest brain of the team.

Such a player needs to have a clear head, excellent technical ability, strong tactical ability, broad vision and outstanding awareness and big picture.

The metronome is mostly played in midfield, with the majority of players playing in the midfield position, with the most famous active players being Italy's Andrea Pirlo, Spain's Xavi Fernandez and Xavi Alonso, Croatia's Luka Modric and Germany's Toni Kroos.

With the advent of high pressing tactics, coupled with the improvement of the physical fitness of players, the athleticism is getting stronger, the team's defense is under more and more pressure, and it is becoming more and more difficult to play the ball in midfield, forcing the team to play the ball further and further back, which gives birth to the ball central defender.

The emergence of the central defender makes the team have a point of play in the backfield, and with its strong ability to play the ball, it has become the offensive initiation point of the backfield while resolving the high-level pressing tactics.

However, there are very few good central defenders who can play the ball, and it is difficult to replace the midfielders as the team's metronome, let alone the goalkeeper at the back.

Even Manuel Neuer, who is regarded as a representative of the goalkeeper's style of play and even known as the goalkeeper, does not dare to say that he can move outside the box for long periods of time and take over the responsibility of the midfield metronome.

A lot of people say that Arsenal have a problem defendingly, in fact, the biggest problem is in the midfield.

Prior to this season, Arsenal's midfield was considered the strongest of the first rank, as the first-team midfield was overcrowded and had the luxury of loaning out their crown prince, Jack Wilshere.

Looking at Arsenal's midfield configuration at the beginning of the season, Santi Cazorla was the team's metronome, and Xavi, who was regarded as the weakest one; Wales captain Aaron Ramsey can play in multiple positions and his style is a typical all-round midfielder, like former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard; Francis Coquelin formed a golden partnership with Cazorla at the back at the beginning of last season, and his outstanding performance made no longer criticize Arsenal for having no iron waist; Egyptian midfielder Mohammed Elneny, who was brought in last winter, has been a decent substitute and a player who can rotate when playing in the middle and lower tiers; Granit Xhaka, the captain of the Swiss national team and Borussia Mönchengladbach, who was brought in for £35 million last summer, is known for his excellent long balls.

The reserves of the five midfielders are envied throughout the Premier League, and it is believed that their Premier League top midfielders will help the Gunners challenge for the Premier League title.

However, Cazorla had another major injury at the start of the season and the season was scrapped; Ramsey's physical condition has been terrible since the European Cup, and he has been injured and stopped; Elneny's participation in the Africa Cup of Nations at the beginning of the year disrupted his gradually good momentum, and unfortunately suffered an injury; Since last season's serious injury, Ke Quelin has lost the courage that made him famous, and even his sweeping and interception skills have declined seriously, and his performance this season is simply like two people.

This summer's standard king Xhaka, after the honeymoon period at the beginning of the season, his impulsive physique in defense caused him to miss key games repeatedly, affecting the rhythm of the game. Lack of calmness, frequent cards, and weaknesses in poor defensive mobility are also exposed.

Last season, it was Cazorla and Coquelin who were injured one after another, which directly led to Arsenal's slump in the second half and missed out on the Premier League title.

Now Arsenal's midfield, as last season, has become the weakest point, if it were not for the emergence of Zhang Zhetian to the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal would not remain on the three lines until now, but as usual, the four are empty, and once again fight for the fourth.

After the Gunners, who were plagued by injuries and collapsed midfield, lost their control and defensive ability in midfield, Wenger had to sacrifice Alex Sanchez's attacking power in the front court and let him drop back to replace Ozil to deliver shells to the front.

Before this game, Sanchez topped the Premier League goal assist list with 19 goals and 8 assists, and 27 helped the team score 46.55% of the team's goals, worthy of Arsenal's thigh.

But Sanchez's retreat still can't make up for the Gunners' decline in midfield, and the problem of midfield being blown up will always exist until Cazorla returns, even if Mesut Ozil returns.

The existing midfielders, no matter how they are combined, cannot change the problem of not being able to attack and not recover.

Due to the lack of protection at the back, the repeated loss of possession in the transition between attack and defence, coupled with the recent attacking problems, Arsenal can be described as a wake-up call in the third line.

Fortunately, when Petr Cech was in a state of decline, mistakes increased, and he was no longer stable, David Ospina was even more embarrassed, and the talented goalkeeper from the East was like a savior, repeatedly guarding the Gunners' door, helping Arsenal win both against the middle and lower teams and the strong dialogue, and broke the curse of the Champions League 16 Lang to reach the Champions League quarterfinals after 6 years.

All of this is the result of this magical Chinese teenager in front of him.

Thinking of Zhang Zhetian's physical examination report and his understanding of all aspects of him in the past month or so, Wenger actually made up his mind to build a new tactic around Zhang Zhetian as the core.

This idea was known only to the confidant Boulder, and the two finally reached an agreement after arguing, discussing, and studying for more than a month.

If Zhang Zhetian's physical examination report is true and reliable, this game will be used to test our risky idea.

West Bromwich Albion would be a good litmus test, on the one hand, the strength of the bloomers is limited, even if the new tactics will be due to insufficient run-in, there will be mistakes, West Bromwich Albion's attack power will not be enough to pose a sufficient threat to the in-form Zhang Zhetian. Even if you concede a goal and take a point at Hawthorn, it's worth it, as long as you can prove that the new tactics work, even if you don't win the Premier League, there are still FA Cup and Champions League to fight for, especially the latter, which is the trophy that Wenger lacks the most.

On the other hand, considering the mood of the referee, if he still plays like he did in the last ten minutes of the first half, it will make the referee turn in favor of the home team, which is not good for him.

In terms of timing, it is also suitable to launch new tactics at this time, because Zhang Zhetian has won the unanimous trust of his teammates with his strength and record.

Of course, you can't be careless, Arsenal has planted a lot of heels in the middle and lower teams over the years, in the words of the old man Taizu, in strategy, we must despise the enemy, and tactically, we must pay attention to the enemy.

After Arsene Wenger decided to lay out a new tactic, he also took precautions to suggest how to deal with a player who was sent off the field.

Zhang Zhetian even joked that if two people were punished, three people were punished, and so on, what kind of changes should be made, which made everyone speechless for a while.

No way, who told everyone to get a topaz card.

By the way, taking advantage of the intermission, everyone took off their underwear with slogans.

Seeing the slogan on his underwear, Wenger felt a stream of heat flow in his heart.

Arsene Wenger actually knows very well that there will always be fans holding banners in the stands every time they play, shouting for them to leave.

He respects the wishes of the fans to express themselves, and he is really responsible for the team's poor results.

But this kind of behavior is chilling.