Chapter 9 League Trends
While Descartes was torn between sweetness and struggle on the field of love, he was somewhere between heaven and geography on the court.
Arsenal's performance has gone from strength to strength, and after a narrow 1-0 win over Manchester City in the fourth round of the league, they beat Sparta Prague 3-0 at home in the subsequent Champions League qualifiers to finally catch the last train of this season's Champions League.
In the following rounds, Arsenal scored three goals in two consecutive games, beating Premier League opponents Portsmouth and Tottenham, and defeated Sevilla 3-0 in Europe to win the first Champions League group stage.
But the storm that Arsenal has blown has not stopped, six consecutive wins are not the end of their game, after beating Newcastle 2-0 again with a substitute in the Carabao Cup, Arsenal has won consecutive opponents such as West Ham United, Bucharest Star, Sunderland, Bolton, Slavia Prague, etc., and in the Champions League group stage against Slavia Prague, they have won seven consecutive games in a row, playing a season-best 12 consecutive wins.
Just 10 rounds of the league, Arsenal has climbed to second place in the standings with a record of 9 games, 7 wins and 1 draw, and Manchester United has climbed to second place in the standings after a record of 7 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in 10 games, while Manchester United has temporarily led by one point because of the loss in the city derby at the Etihad Stadium.
It can be said that since the start of the season, these two teams have become the best teams in the Premier League at the moment, which also sets the stage for the big game that will be in the spotlight on November 3.
However, compared with Manchester United, Arsenal, who have been unbeaten since the start of the new Premier League season, has attracted more attention. With Flamini, Sagna and other new players who joined the team this season gradually gaining a foothold, Arsenal's strength has been greatly enhanced, and vaguely, people seem to see the strong undefeated division in the 03-04 season.
It's just that before the decisive battle with Manchester United, Arsenal must first cross another hurdle, that is, Manchester United's sworn enemy, the Red Army Liverpool.
Liverpool are also a tough side to be reckoned with 10 league games to go, and apart from Arsenal, they are the only team unbeaten in the league.
But compared to Arsenal. Liverpool's draw was a bit more of a draw. They have won 6 out of 10 games and drawn 4 percent, with a 40% draw, and if this value is followed, they cannot be a serious contender for the title.
Compared to the traditional top three of the Premier League. Chelsea, who were still in the glory last season, seem to have changed their faces. They were in a good situation with three wins and one draw in the first four rounds of the season at the start of the season. Suddenly, it inexplicably began to slide at the speed of the lift, losing 0:2 to Aston Villa and drawing 0:0 with Blackburn. A 0-2 defeat to Manchester United and a 0-0 draw with Fulham, it wasn't until the ninth round of the league that they stopped the downward trend at the Reebok Stadium and beat Bolton Wanderers 1-0, finally buying Mourinho a little respite.
In addition to Descartes' frustration this season, there is another person who has shared his illness: the "special one", Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho.
This season Mourinho can be described as a bad year, in the summer transfer market, in previous years, Abu who opened his wallet to get what he wanted, suddenly tightened his belt, it is said that it was because Shevchenko was introduced at a high price last season, but Mourinho abandoned him, causing Abu to breathe a sigh of relief, this season simply don't buy people, you toss it yourself.
As a result, Mourinho scraped together and used the transfer funds from the sale of Robben and other players to bring in players such as Belletti, Malouda, Pizarro, and Sidwell.
To be honest, these players are indeed not at the same level as Robben, but in the past few years, Chelsea have been used to spending heavily in the transfer market, and anyone who sees them will feel that they have met a fat sheep, and they will not slaughter for nothing, so the players they want to introduce are all ridiculously expensive, and Mourinho's clever wife is difficult to cook without rice, and in the end only such rotten sweet potatoes and stinky potatoes were introduced.
In fact, at the end of the season, in addition to Malouda, among the new players introduced this season, Belletti has been recovering from injuries all year round, and Sidwell and Pizarro have been on the bench for a year, and there is almost no performance.
But this is not all the evidence of Mourinho's bad luck, the Chelsea league that has little gain in the transfer market has only been played for 5 rounds, and it suddenly suffered a large number of injuries, and for a long time the team can only play with half of the main team, even the iron man Frank Lampard and captain Terry have also entered the injury list.
The successive injuries and poor recruitment not only affected Chelsea's performance in the league, but also made them lose their competitiveness in the European arena, and after three rounds of the Champions League group stage, Chelsea only ranked second in the group with one win and two draws, and was pressed under the little-known Rosenborg.
Faced with such a dilemma for the team, Chelsea's big boss Mr. Abou finally couldn't sit still, and some media sources said that he had given Mourinho an ultimatum to get the team back on track as soon as possible, otherwise, hum, you know......
Mourinho, who has always shown himself with an iron fist, doesn't seem to have any new tricks this time, and the sky is going to kill me, so what can I do? In fact, the injured Chelsea can be brought to this step by him, it is already beyond the limits of self, but it is a pity that the past three seasons are too brilliant results for people to take him to another level, after two consecutive Premier League titles and a Premier League runner-up, manager Abou seems to have forgotten that Chelsea and Manchester United and other old powerhouses are completely different, the media touted him to a whole new level, he now wants the team not only to win, but also to win beautifully.
But for the utilitarian Mourinho, to win the beautiful? No problem! You take the money to buy me Xiao Luo, buy Ronaldo, buy Fat Luo, no matter what Luo, in short, if you want to be beautiful, you have to buy people, if you can't buy people, don't blow with me!
As a result, Sheva, who was stuffed in by the owner, performed sluggishly, and his YY Ballack overlapped with Lampard's functions, and Robben, the only team capable of changing the tide of the game on his own, was also injured and too fond of eating alone. was kicked to Real Madrid by Uncle Bird, who paid attention to tactical discipline, and in the end, when the army was needed to strangle the soldiers, one by one they were either in the injured barracks or did not perform well, which finally led to Uncle Bird, a hero, coming to the end of the road.
Uncle Bird's story tells us a truth, no matter how hard your business level is, don't fight with the boss, the boss wants to kill you, there are more than a thousand and one methods, don't forget it at any time. Your money bag is in the hands of your boss. You are just a little two, and the little two must have the consciousness of the little two.
But I don't know if Uncle Bird is unwilling to lie here, or if which nerve suddenly shortened, when he was about to run out of water. He suddenly asked his boss Abu to make an impromptu acquisition. His target is none other than Descartes, who has been very sluggish at Arsenal this season.
Perhaps it was the first two encounters that Descartes left too much of an impression on Uncle Bird. Coupled with the fact that he is now the fifth choice on the front line at Arsenal, Uncle Bird feels that there is a good opportunity, so he boldly encourages the owner to make an offer to Arsenal.
Boss Abu was stunned when he first heard the idea. You kid, when I wanted to buy someone, you said it was unnecessary, but now that people have been taken away by Arsenal, you want me to rob it again, isn't your ruble a pound when you are Lao Tzu?
But maybe the boss Abu also has a very good impression of Descartes, or maybe Uncle Bird advocated in front of the boss that "Descartes must play beautiful football", in short, the last thing exceeded everyone's expectations, Chelsea actually offered 15 million pounds to Arsenal's Descartes to launch an offensive.
In the face of Chelsea's sudden offer, Professor Arsene Wenger was so angry that he almost slapped the table and shouted: "Erdare!" "How much effort did he spend at the beginning, how much effort did he spend to bring Descartes to his command, although Descartes has been up and down for some unknown reasons recently, and the order of appearance has been ranked after Eduardo and Bendtner, but the professor is convinced that Descartes, who is only 17 years old, is fully capable of growing into a superstar, and 15 million wants to poach my superstar seedlings, do you really think that Grandpa Tai Sui is not angry, do you think I am a sick cat?
So the professor personally called Mourinho and warned him that it was better to die this heart, and not to think that it could be like to Ashley. Cole is like that behind the wall, if Mourinho dares to make a black hand this time, he will dare to fight Chelsea like Lord Fre.
Mourinho pondered for a long time, because with Mikel's case listed last season, he finally dismissed the idea of moving crookedly.
But I never thought that this news was revealed to reporters by somebody, so the reporters began to hype again, if you want to say that in today's English football, in addition to Ronaldo, who is in great shape, which player is the most famous, it is none other than Descartes.
No way! Ronaldo was proud on the court, but Descartes poached his girlfriend outside the court.
So Descartes' news once again made headlines in newspapers and magazines, and this time, he appeared not as Ronaldo's rival, but as Mourinho's prey.
Descartes, who was once again in the headlines for some reason, was really completely inexplicable about the whole thing, and as soon as Chelsea's offer reached Wenger, it was torn to shreds by the angry professor, and he didn't even know that he had become the prey of Uncle Bird, until he saw the media report and found out, oh, it turns out that Chelsea was actually planning to do something to himself.
Descartes, who felt innocent, was then summoned into the office by the professor, and when he saw Descartes with a blank face, the professor began to believe that he had not communicated with Mourinho in private, so it seemed that the matter was just wishful thinking on the part of Uncle Bird.
However, the professor, who already had a sense of crisis, comforted Descartes and told him that he would definitely get a chance to play in the next league game against Liverpool, but he must first withdraw his attention and not be distracted by off-field factors.
Descartes, of course, understood what the professor meant, but now that a beloved woman was far away in Italy, and another loving woman was in his own home, it was impossible to let himself not want to be at all, and Descartes could only take one step at a time.
On October 27, Arsenal finally welcomed Liverpool, the strongest opponent in the league so far.
In fact, Arsenal's unbeaten run so far this season should be attributed to the penultimate round of last season's game against Chelsea. In that game, Arsenal were blown away and awarded a penalty due to the deliberate bias of the Football Association, which allowed Chelsea to narrow out a draw, but left Arsenal fans indignant.
However, with the status of the professor, the Football Association cheated him once, and he had to find a way to return him once, which was a tacit understanding reached between the professor and the Football Association after the game.
So in this season's schedule, Arsenal has taken a big advantage, in the first ten rounds of the league, their opponents are all soft persimmons such as Sunderland, Derby County, and Portsmouth, which is a dream schedule for new teams that have not yet been run-in at the beginning of the season.
In the first ten rounds of the league, Manchester United, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Tottenham and other top six giants last season have been fighting each other, leaving only the Red Army and the Red Devils have not met.
Therefore, Arsenal's current unbeaten record has half of the players' medals and half of the Football Association.
For this kind of secret care, discerning people know what is going on, and Liverpool's head coach Benitez is, of course, one of these discerning people.
Benitez, who has entered the fourth year of the Premier League, has long been accustomed to the climate in England, but his temper has always been very straight, what he hates most is this kind of black-box operation, and the media always compares his vision with Wenger, criticizing the Bellamy and Robbie he introduced. Keane, Babbel and Lucas failed one by one, and instead Arsene Wenger was at the helm of Arsenal for a decade, bringing in countless young talents, but always achieving great success, as a way to mock his vision and Madrid country accent.
All this has long made Bei Bald unbearable, and now facing the proud Arsenal, the same season unbeaten Bei Bald suddenly had a feeling of competition, in his opinion, this game is his best opportunity to respond to the media's doubts about himself, the two unbeaten teams meet in a narrow way, and there can only be one winner.
When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins! (To be continued......)