In the fifth round of the league, Arsenal's opponent is Stoke City. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Stoke City have never been a strong team in the Premier League, and they are nicknamed "Sky City" as the league's famous "lift", constantly going back and forth between the top and second divisions.

However, in the case of former Manchester City manager Mark Murphy. After Hughes took over, he overhauled the team, and now the team has a number of good players, such as Bojan, Arnautovic, Afelai, Van Kingkel, Glenn. Johnson...... The arrival of these high-calibre players has greatly strengthened Stoke City's strength, and they are starting to become competitive in the league - not in the race for the league title, but in the fight against relegation, and they are going smoothly. And as the results get better and better, their goal is no longer to avoid relegation, but to look at the longer term in Europe.

Although this has not been achieved so far, they have been in the middle of the league and have been in excellent form at the start of the season, winning three and losing one of their last four league games and currently sit fourth in the league table, behind Arsenal and Chelsea, who have won all of their games, and Manchester City, who have taken 10 points.

Being able to press on the heads of old Premier League giants such as Manchester United and Liverpool is enough to prove how good this team is at the moment. Although it is only temporary, it also shows that they do have something extraordinary.

And this game, Arsenal is indeed extremely difficult.

The game started at half past five on Saturday evening, and Arsenal, who were playing at home, showed their momentum for victory as soon as they started, surging attacks continuously towards the opponent's half, trying to take the lead as soon as possible, so as to control the rhythm of the game early in their own hands.

In this game, Qin Shou finally returned to the starting lineup, and he won cheers and applause from tens of thousands of fans at home when he put on the captain's armband again.

And Qin Shou did not live up to everyone's expectations, in the nineteenth minute of the first half, Arsenal, which had been actively attacking, finally scored a goal. Qin Shou's continuous breakthroughs in the front court attracted the attention of many defenders, but he suddenly hit the ball to the side, and Cazorla, who was quickly inserted, rushed all the way to the bottom line, and then made a deep cross, Giroud pressed the opponent's central defender to grab the first point, and a lion shook his head and blasted the ball into the door of Stoke City.

The birth of this goal was very smooth, Qin Shou planned, Cazorla inserted, and the middle side grabbed the point to break the goal, like a cloud of peers, completely pulling the opponent's defense away, and Stoke City's defense collapsed in an instant.

"We can see a change for Arsenal, with the Gunners attacking more fluidly and more threatening after Qin returned to the starting line-up. This kind of non-stop continuous passing, rapid attack, is often unguardable! Beautiful goal! Arsenal take the lead by one goal! ”

The home commentator did not hesitate to praise Qin Shou and Arsenal.

The fans also raised their arms and chanted, celebrating the team's lead.

In the next game, Arsenal still took the initiative, but Stoke City was not without the ability to fight back, they were on the defensive as a whole, but because of the presence of players with good individual abilities such as Bojan and Arnautovic, they still had some threats on the counter-attack from time to time.

Arsenal continued to attack but were unable to extend their lead.

Towards the end of the first half, Mark. Hughes's tailor-made counter-attacking tactics for Stoke City eventually paid off, with former Barcelona prodigy Bojan receiving a long ball from a team-mate at the back, using his individual ability to get rid of Flamini's defence, and playing a wall-to-wall link with Arnautovic up front, before bursting into the box and volleying home.

The score was tied at 1:1, and the two teams were back on the same page.

This conceded goal undoubtedly poured a basin of ice water on the players and fans in Xingtou, in their opinion, the team is fighting at home, and occupies the initiative of the game, how can they suddenly let the opponent score a goal? It's kind of incredible.

Arsene Wenger frowned on the sidelines, not the first time this has happened, with Arsenal either trailing first or scoring and then being quickly equalised in recent games. This is a sign that there is a hole in the line of defense.

In fact, this loophole has always existed, Arsenal's midfield barrier is very weak, although Qin Shou has good defensive ability, but he is not a full-time midfielder, it is really a tyrannical thing to let such a sky-high player go full-time to do defensive work.

The others, whether it is Ramsey or Flamini, although they play as central midfielders, are still stronger in attack than in defense. In this way, the barrier in front of the Arsenal back line is actually very fragile, and when the game is going well, Arsenal can suppress it with strong offensive ability and can't raise its head, such a weakness is almost none, and when it is in a stalemate, it is easy for the opponent to seize this point to kill Arsenal.

If Arsenal want to go further, this weak link must be changed.

Of course, it's not about making a change now, the priority now is to win the game first, or at least score again.

The drama occurred in the last minute of the first half, when Arsenal, who were equalised, were like enraged lions, led by Qin Shou, launched the last fierce attack before the half-time.

The football passed quickly and smoothly at the feet of several Arsenal players, and finally, the football was passed to Qin Shou's feet. Qin Shou passed the football out again and ran forward by himself. Cazorla, who received the ball, understood it, blocked it with his instep, and sent the football to Qin Shou's running route.

A standard can no longer be a standard wall-to-wall fit.

Qin Shou rushed into the penalty area, and before the opponent's central defender cleared the siege, he jumped up and rubbed the football into the middle, and Flamini arrived just in time, and a sliding shovel shot shoveled the football into the goal of Stoke City.

2:1！

A minute after Stoke equalised, Arsenal scored again and took the lead again!

The Stadium erupted in loud cheers, and Arsene Wenger shook his head and smiled bitterly. Arsenal's midfield defense does have problems, but the team's attacking ability is a little too strong, even if there is a problem, it can be compensated for with goals - but this is never a good phenomenon, no one can score more goals than concede in every game, there is a saying, "attack wins fans, defense wins championship", Arsenal now have attack, they still want to win the title, then they have to change the weak points in the midfield.

The first half ended with a score of 2:1.

The rise and fall of leading to equalising and finally leading again convinced the Arsenal players that their opponent's goal was just an accident and that their morale was still high.

Arsenal scored again early in the second half, and it was Koscielny, the French centre-back who was arguably the 'knife defender' of the football world, with a strong defensive ability and a great ability to score goals, and in a free-kick near midfield, he jumped into the box to extend the lead.

The game seems to be moving in Arsenal's favour. But the reason why it was a tough game was that in the ensuing period, Stoke City seemed to have found the feeling of scoring goals, scoring twice in the 63rd and 72nd minutes of the game to equalize the score.

The goals were scored by Bojan and Van Ginkel.

The game turned into a goal shootout.

The home fans were incredulous that both goals had been levelled by their opponents, and they were beginning to realise that it seemed impossible to win the game easily.

The ensuing game became more intense, with Arsenal looking to regain the lead and Stoke City bent on holding on to the win, with the two teams battling it out on the pitch and increasing their defensive action, with people often falling on their backs.

In the 85th minute of the game, Arsenal finally scored again. Qin Shou pulled to the side, forced a breakthrough and rushed to the side, sweeping the football to the penalty area.

The pass was fast and accurate, almost like the ball finding someone, and Giroud was standing there, just sticking his head forward to touch the football. In the end, Giroud didn't waste his superb cross as he slammed the ball into the net.

4:3。

Arsenal struggled to put the lead back in the final moments.

In the end, Arsenal won the game, and although it was a thrilling process, it was a good thing to get three points.

Arsenal continue to lead the Premier League table with a five-game winning streak.

It's just that no one expected that after this game, Arsenal seemed to be cursed and suffered consecutive draws.

In the next weekend's away game against Swansea, Arsenal were behind by one goal for 80 minutes, and at the last minute, it was Qin Shou's assist to help Sanchez hit a powerful shot to equalise the score.

In the third round of the Champions League group stage against Olympiacos in midweek, Arsenal drew 0-0 at home. Throughout the game, Arsenal took the initiative in an all-round way, but no matter how they attacked, how they shot, they were like they didn't have shooting boots, no matter how they scored.

And that's not all, Arsenal were held to a 2-2 draw away by relegation side West Bromwich Albion in another round of league action at the weekend. It is better to say that they were forced to draw than to say that they forced the opponent to draw. In this game, they were reversed by the opponent chasing two goals in a row when they scored one goal first, and in the 79th minute, Qin Shou's pick and pass assisted Ozil to score a goal, which avoided the team's defeat.

After five consecutive league wins, Arsenal faced their biggest dilemma of the season, drawing three times in a row in the league and Champions League, which has put their form into question by fans and the media.

And Qin Shou's life is not easy, he is the player who has been blamed and criticized the most in the whole team, and he has been completely pushed to the forefront.

PS: Kicking WeChat YX3335665. (To be continued.) )