Arsenal's clash with Galla has been in the spotlight since the tussle broke out, as Arsenal are unbeaten in the league with a good record this season, and everyone is interested to know when their first defeat will come.

The two main central defenders in the team are involved in the brawl, which is likely to be the catalyst for this failure to come, the central defender position can be said to be the top priority on the field, and suddenly there are two main central defenders missing, how long can the team toss?

The facts soon gave the answer, in the 23rd round of the league, Arsenal challenged Fulham away, and in the 24th round of the league, Arsenal faced Newcastle at home, two 3:0, drenched in joy, the Gunners not only did not collapse as the media imagined, but became more and more courageous, and there was a great momentum.

Now the media are stupid, they look at each other, I don't know why after such a serious infighting, Arsenal will become even more crazy, is there something that they don't know?

Something did happen.

After the brawl between Galla and Toure, Wenger was so angry that he not only punished the two players who participated in the brawl, but also issued an ultimatum to the whole team: if anyone doesn't give me a good kick and focus on other irrelevant things all day, let me stay in the reserves!

The professor's threat is definitely effective, the team's arrogance that emerged some time ago because of consecutive wins suddenly came to naught, and the players deeply felt the professor's anger, at this time, no one dared to touch the boss's mold.

So they worked harder on the training ground and on the pitch, trying to prove to the professor that they were not the next Gala and Toure, and we were all desperate.

With the right attitude and the strength of Arsenal, it is natural that they can win the games they deserve.

But winning these two games does it mean that internal problems do not exist?

That, of course, is impossible.

On February 2, Arsenal challenged Manchester City away in the 26th round of the league.

Arsenal in Manchester has been to Manchester for I don't know how many times, and they are naturally very familiar with their biggest rivals, Manchester United.

As the saying goes, "the enemy of an enemy is a friend", and with the relationship between Arsenal and Manchester United, Manchester City is certainly their friend.

When friends come, there will naturally be a good reception, the fans of the two teams seem to be in harmony before the game, and the reporter even photographed them drinking and partying in the same bar, it seems that this game Arsenal came to Manchester, just a passing scene.

With City's current strength, they are not enough to stop Arsenal's two vehicles from rumbling past them.

In fact, Manchester City is also in a precarious state now, and this season Thaksin has taken over the Etihad, Manchester City fans thought that the team had ushered in a god of wealth, and from then on, Manchester City could also make a big splash in the Premier League like Chelsea.

Manchester City's performance did live up to the expectations of the fans at the beginning, and they brought in stars such as Elano, Petrov, Mwaruvari and Bol at the beginning of the season, and at one point they were in the top three in the league, giving fans the hope of winning the Premier League again after 36 years.

However, as Thaksin was entangled in corruption cases and even had to go into exile for a while, Manchester City's performance also declined, and their performance after the league was beaten down by the Devils, especially after the Devil's schedule, can only be described as miserable.

At this time, head coach Hughes's coaching ability was also unanimously questioned.

It is also rumored that due to his current political and economic environment, Thaksin has already had the idea of giving up Manchester City.

This rumor has made the fans of Blue Moon uneasy, just half a year later, is the team about to fall into the dark nightmare abyss of the past 36 years?

Fortunately, at this time, another big financier made a move, the Abu Dhabi consortium of the United Arab Emirates is interested in buying Manchester City, and their chairman Mansour is said to be the Minister of Presidential Affairs of the UAE, and one of the sons of the former president, the younger brother of the current President Khalifa - as one of the richest and most powerful people in the world, the young Emirati billionaire is ready to inject 1 billion pounds to become the new owner of the Etihad Stadium!

Although this news has not yet been implemented, but in order to stabilize the morale of the military and protect his reputation, Thaksin's spokesman can't wait to announce it, originally thought that the UAE consortium would be a little unhappy, but I didn't expect that the UAE like a local tyrant has no secret of this matter at all, because their acquisition of Manchester City itself is to make their own fame - Lao Tzu is so poor that there is money left, and there is a kind of you who will come to raise the price with me!

As a result, this matter has almost become an open secret, and now Manchester City fans are happily waiting for the new owner to take over the blue moon, waiting for Manchester City to become an upstart like Chelsea in the Premier League.

Manchester City fans are happy, but it does not mean that Manchester City's players are also happy, as the saying goes, once a son of heaven is a courtier, the new owner will bring what personnel changes to the team? Just from the high nostrils of the spokesperson of the Abu Dhabi consortium when facing the media, it can be seen that the spirit of their new owners is not ordinary!

In the face of such a new owner, if you don't work hard, you will definitely be swept away, and the Manchester City players naturally understand the stakes, so they are now playing with apprehension, on the one hand, worrying about their future, and on the other hand, trying to perform hard to win the favor of the new club and keep their current position.

Therefore, in this game against Arsenal, the mentality of the Manchester City players is very complicated, they are inferior in terms of strength, but the reality forces them to fight the Gunners.

So in the first half of the game, the fans did not see the same peaceful atmosphere as they showed before the game, the Manchester City players fought very fiercely on the field, they received three yellow cards in just 45 minutes, a total of 41 fouls, they almost turned Ittihad into a slaughterhouse, leaving the Arsenal players both worried and angry.

But the difference in strength is not able to stop this mindless fight after all, although Manchester City's players used their strength, but they still failed to keep their city, in the 22nd minute of the game, Xiaofa passed directly, Van Persie was offside, and a lightning counterattack easily cut off the Manchester City team's 22-minute efforts.

After conceding the goal, the Manchester City players were more anxious and their performance was more chaotic, two of their three yellow cards in the first half were eaten within 5 minutes after conceding the goal, if the Brazilian striker tackled Flamini who successfully broke the ball, and Colluca on the back line put down Van Persie who broke through, the referee sentenced him to death, and Xiaofa made it 2:0 in one fell swoop.

The penalty did not calm down the City players, on the contrary, their running became more frenzied.

The game then came to a stalemate, with Arsenal's attack being held up by the City players in midfield, and their defence also faltering under the onslaught of several City players.

The centre-back combination of the match was Alexander. Song and Toure, after the brawl on the field, Toure and Galla have completely turned against each other, perhaps what the professor doesn't know is that his promotion of Galla to the team's third captain has made the relationship between the two impossible to reconcile - Toure thinks that the professor is biased towards his French countryman, so he has already moved the mind to leave the team, and his next place is their opponent in this game, Manchester City.

And the discord between the two also directly affected the professor's tactical arrangement, he understands that even if the dedicated players are, they cannot cooperate with a sworn enemy on the field without flaws, and the position of central defender, if there is no communication, there is no tacit understanding, it is not competent, so he can only break up the combination of the two main central defenders and pair them separately, and make up his mind to let them take turns to play.

What the professor probably never imagined was that it was his kind of approach, trying to curry favor with both sides, but in the end he ended up being beaten up. For Toure, Galla has robbed himself of his position in the team and his playing time, and the coach is so partial to him, if he doesn't leave at this time, when will he stay? As for Gala, although the professor promoted him to become the team's third captain, he has already felt the strange eyes of his teammates around him, and now he even has to share his playing time with others, so what is the point of him staying?

As a result, after the end of the season, Toure left angrily, and Galla was also reborn, although he stayed for two more seasons under the professor's retention, but after all, he seemed absent-minded, and the number of appearances decreased year by year.

Let's not talk about the end of the season, let's take a look at the game in front of us.

The Manchester City players fell behind 0:2 in the first half, and naturally had to launch a counterattack in the second half, Hughes was an iron-blooded captain when he played, and he was also an iron-blooded manager after becoming a manager, he replaced three players in the midfield in one go, Bodinov, Petrov, and Giovanni, three players who were not in form were abandoned, and Vassell, Hamann and Ireland were replaced.

City did improve their performance after the big change, and they equalised at the start of the second half, when Vassell, who had his first touch on the pitch, sent the ball into Almunia's goal before the Arsenal players could react.

And at this time, Descartes, who had just been substituted, had not even touched the ball!

This goal also fully exposed the problems in Arsenal's backline, when Elano got the ball in the midfield, Xiaofa had not returned to the halfway, Flamini was led away by Dabo, and Elano directly faced Arsenal's central defenders!

There was also a bit of a problem with the division of labor between the two Arsenal centre-backs. Song was originally from a midfielder, and he pounced on this kind of ball, ready to keep Toure behind him to fill the position, but Toure was closer to Elano at this time, and he did not hesitate to pounce. Take it for granted that Alexander. Song will fill the gap behind him.

As a result, the astute Vassell drilled through the diagonal stab, left-back Klicy couldn't stop him, and Elano's easy through kick made Almunia a victim of Vassell.

The goal was very irritating for the professor and he certainly saw the problem at the back, especially between the two centre-backs, but what could he do at this time? Putting Galla on the field to replace Toure? What's the difference between that and not making a substitution? Let Senderos come on to replace Alexander. Surname? But Sendros didn't appear in the squad at all for this game - it was his turn to rest for this game.

Let Galla replace Alexander. Surname? The idea only crossed the professor's mind for a fraction of a second before he dismissed it, and now that the two centre-backs are on the same page, things will only get worse with them on the pitch at the same time.

Is there no other way?

Just as the professor was frowning and pondering, there was a sudden burst of earth-shattering cheers in the stadium, and the Manchester City fans were so excited that they almost jumped off the bench and scored again!

This time it was Vassell's cross from the wing, and the Brazilian striker in the middle was caught between two Arsenal defenders, but he was lucky to get the ball, and the ball drilled into the door of Arsenal without hindrance, and Almunia was still stupidly watching the opponent fly up at the front post at this time.

"Shit!" Wenger punched the rain shelter beside him hard, and finally made up his mind, shouting to Diarra on the bench: "Russ, go warm up!" ”

Diarra replaced the captain Cesc Fabregas, I'm afraid even Xiaofa himself didn't expect that he would be replaced at such a moment?

Is Arsene Wenger not going to attack? Is he ready to hold on to this draw? This is not only the idea of Xiaofa, but also the thoughts of all the media commentators on the scene and in front of the TV.

Replacing the core of the playmaker when the team conceded two goals in a row, what kind of trouble is Wenger going to make?

It didn't take long for Arsene Wenger to make the group understand why he was the head coach of Arsenal, and the group could only hide behind the TV screen and chirp at others - after Xiaofa left, Descartes took over the command of the team, and Arsenal consolidated the defence, but did not give up attacking.

The biggest difference between Descartes and Cesc Fabregas is that he is closer to the penalty area and creates more aggressive and direct killings.

In the 61st minute, just four minutes after Manchester City equalized, Diarra broke the ball at the back, Flamini handed a long pass to Adebayor, and the Togolese black big man showed his embroidery needle-like footwork, deceived the Manchester City defenders with a fake factic movement, and then handed the ball to Descartes before the opponent's back line was closed.

Descartes didn't waste Bam Adebayor's kindness, as he skimmed past the slow-turning Dunn and slipped straight into the City penalty area, the only pity was that his final shot was blocked by the brave Schmeichel Jr. and slid straight off the post.

This goal shocked the Manchester City players, and they realized that the two goals in a row just now were just an illusion, and Arsenal's counter-attack was definitely not optional.

Manchester City, who have come to their senses, have strengthened their defense, and the desperate attack can certainly make people watch the blood boiling, but winning the game is not about how many goals you score, but how many goals you score more than the opponent, and it is definitely the golden rule on the football field to stabilize the defense first.

The situation on the pitch once again entered a stalemate, although the two sides also created several chances in the front, but at this time their minds were focused on how to prevent the opponent from scoring, and the frontcourt did not invest many troops, and the scene was naturally not good-looking.

The Sky Sports football commentator, who thought that the game would be more exciting after the draw, also had an urge to yawn at this time, and he commented in front of the TV screen with blank eyes: "It looks like this game has entered a stalemate, although both sides played a good ball for a few minutes each, but we can see that both teams have their own problems, especially Arsenal, after the first two rounds of games we thought that this team has gotten rid of the entanglement of infighting, but now it seems, Their previous performances were more of a flashback, and with their backline exposed too many problems in this game, I personally think the opportunity has come for United. (To be continued.) )