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The time is a bit tight, during this period of continuous battles in the national team, league, and Champions League, everyone almost does not have time to rest and adjust, which is a great test of physical fitness, and it is also a period of high incidence of injuries.

The bad news is that the team's main full-back Cazorla sprained his ankle during the national team game and is estimated to be out of action for about three weeks. Also injured in the international game was centre-back Mertesacker, who came off the bench for just a few minutes before falling in a scramble and missing at least two games, although not very serious.

In the past few days of training, there are some players who have more or less had some problems, such as veteran Rosicky and fullback Gibbs.

It's a frustrating situation, but it's also something that can't be helped, as the league progresses, the schedule becomes more frequent and intensive, and injuries are an inevitable fact for every team.

Fortunately, for the current Arsenal, the bench depth is quite thick, and the overall framework has not seen much attrition, and the team's combat effectiveness has not decreased too much.

In the league a few days later, Arsenal's performance was not as good as it could have been.

In the twelfth round of the league, Arsenal welcomed the challenge of Southampton at home.

Throughout the game, Arsenal's performance looked a little muddy, and Qin Shou's state could only be said to be decent, without too much shiny. In the midst of a slump in the performance of the whole team, Arsenal have been unable to score despite a number of chances.

Southampton, on the other hand, were much better than Arsenal, but they were limited in quality and were also unable to score.

In the end, the game ended with a score of 0:0, and the two teams exchanged blanks and shook hands.

This is the impact of the "FIFA virus", this period of Arsenal is already a heavy task, the players have to run between club and national team, energy and fitness are a little bit unstable, so this draw is expected.

In order to allow the main players to get more rest and adjustment, Arsenal played almost all substitutes in the fifth round of the Champions League group stage away to Olympiacos in midweek, and even many of the main players did not travel to Greece with the team at all. Including Qin Shou was placed in London by Wenger.

That's the benefit of qualifying from the group early, and they don't have to worry about it when the team needs to make changes to their rotation.

In the end, Arsenal, who came on as a substitute, drew 1-1 away from home. Although they did not win three points, they were just as acceptable for them who had already qualified from the group. With 11 points, they have already secured the top spot in the group.

The result was dispensable for the Arsenal, but the other two teams in the group, Celtic and Lyon, made a lot of complaints after the game. For no other reason, these two teams still have a chance to qualify from the group, and Arsenal's indifferent attitude allowed Olympiacos to successfully snatch a point, which added a lot of variables to their fight for the right to qualify.

Arsenal ignored such voices. Anyway, my goal has been achieved, you can do your own things, who made you not strong enough? My fist is bigger than yours, so it's up to me to be willful!

After two consecutive draws, Arsenal, who have been rested, should theoretically recover a lot, but in reality, their performance in the next league still did not improve much, and the sluggish form continued.

In the thirteenth round of the league, Arsenal played away to challenge promoted Makardiff City.

Arsenal are the traditional giants of the Premier League and sit second in the league table, while Cardiff City are an underdog, not even a lift, and now they are in the relegation zone, so it can be said that the quality of the two teams is not at the same level at all.

This is a contest of unequal strength, even if it is an away game, but public opinion is basically one-sided optimistic about Arsenal.

But when it came to the game, Arsenal continued their poor form, sleepwalking almost the entire game, not even having a few shots on goal, and Sanchez and Giroud were almost invisible.

Qin Shou, who was rested, performed quite well in this game, but when his teammates were not in shape, he was also a little difficult to support.

Cardiff City originally played with the mentality of defending to the end, after all, the shadow of the famous tree, Arsenal's dominant performance during this period of time made it really difficult for a weak team like them to resist. As a result, as time went by, the players of Cardiff City suddenly discovered that Arsenal was not as strong as rumored, or even if it was stronger, it was limited than us, and we were not without opportunities.

Under such a change of mentality, Cardiff City gradually had an offensive, and after a period of testing, it was found that Arsenal was indeed in poor overall form, and Cardiff City was even more unscrupulous, and later, their offensive actually suppressed Arsenal.

Arsenal conceded in the 71st minute when Cardiff City took advantage of a corner and smashed the ball into Szczesny's goal.

The Polish goalkeeper is also unlucky, his main goalkeeper position in the new season was replaced by the transfer of Cech, these games Cech was not included in the squad because of physical discomfort, Szczesny realized that the opportunity to regain the main team came, as a result, the team's overall performance in these games was not good, even if he was strong, he could not prevent it, resulting in him conceding goals in every game.

The same is true for this conceded goal, the teammate obviously missed in the defense, which made the opposing striker easily fight for the first point. Szczesny complained in a depressed whisper, a kind of depression that had been pitted.

Also depressed is the team's manager Arsene Wenger, he didn't expect the team's performance to be so bad, in the first half the team's performance was a bit substandard, at half-time he made some adjustments, but he didn't expect that the effect was not great, and even played worse than the first half.

The professor, who had always been calm and elegant, was rarely angry, and he kicked the mineral water bottle on the sideline away with a fierce kick. What's even more ironic is that this kick was so accurate that it actually hit the leg of the fourth official. Wenger was also warned by the fourth official as a result, asking him to be mindful of his emotions.

Frustrated and angry, Wenger then made substitution adjustments, and he was so disappointed with the players on the field that he used up all three substitutions in one go.

His substitution paid off in the 87th minute, when Walcourt received a pass from Qin Shou on the right side of the box and fired a low shot through the door of Cardiff City.

The score became 1-1, and Wenger's face finally looked better.

Everyone thought the game would end in a draw, but the accident happened again. In stoppage time, young centre-back Jenkinson made an unforgivable mistake in the box, and after being shaken off by a feint by an opposition striker, he was hot-headed and kicked the opposition down with a tackle from behind. The referee did not hesitate to award a penalty.

Szczesny could only shout helplessly again "cheating daddy", he failed to block the opponent's penalty, and the football easily went into the net, and the score became 2:1.

It was the final result, with Arsenal losing 2-1 away from home, their first defeat in all competitions of the new season.

Arsenal, who has staged the final game many times this season, was actually staged on himself by a weak opponent, and the depression in his heart can be imagined.

After the game, the players fled back to the players' tunnel in shame, and there were reporters on the road who wanted to interview them, but they didn't even look at them, and they looked shameless.

Arsene Wenger attended the post-match press conference with a blushing face, and in the face of reporters' questions and difficulties, Wenger was always reluctant to say more except for a few words of congratulations.

The two sides parted unhappily.

And the next day, all sorts of criticism followed.

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