Wenger did not make a big rotation against Tottenham, although Arsenal will face the fourth round of the FA Cup in three days, but Bolton and Tottenham are obviously not heavyweight opponents, and Wenger has been clumsy in rotation, so this game still uses most of the players who played against Manchester United.

The only thing worth mentioning is that due to the wonderful performance in the last game, Descartes partnered Van Persie as a striker in this game, Adebayor was substituted, and Henry was not in the squad for rotation.

Arsenal's midfield was Hleb, Ljungberg, Diaby and Gilberto, with Galla on the right in defence, Senderos continuing to lead the middle with Toure, and the left wing-back replaced by Clichy and Eboue.

In the goalkeeper position, Lehmann continued to play to stabilize the morale of the army.

And Tottenham's squad is also quite strong.

The goalkeeper is the national Paul. Robinson, backline Lee Wing-pyo, Zim Bonda, Ledley. Kim, Mitchell. Dawson has the strength of the national team, midfielders Davies, Jokola, Malbranck, Lennon, all of them are fierce generals, and the forward line is full of talents, Beba, who is known as "chic brother", and Robbie, an Irish star. Keane, a member of the national team, Defoe, can be in the top five even in the Premier League.

In fact, if you were to choose the best club president in the first decade of the 21st century, I don't think either Abu or Mansour, who came first, would be the winner, because the title they spent money on was never convincing. Levy, at the very least, should be at the top of this rating.

At the beginning of the 2004 season, Santini led the team to draw away from Chelsea in a 901 formation, and was ridiculed by Mourinho as "keeping a team bus in front of the goal to defend", and became the laughing stock of the Premier League teams for a while.

After Levy took office, although he changed five coaches, he successively brought Berbatov, Lennon, Luka to the team. Modric, Davies, Bale and other famous players have made Tottenham the "sixth" giants of the Premier League, and his vision and skills are outstanding.

Bale, in particular, in the summer of 2013, brought Tottenham a transfer fee of 100 million euros - an unbelievable price that made Tottenham a big financier, directly renovated the entire team, in the words of the media, Levy is "a monkey in exchange for a Ferrari", which is simply a classic case of envy and jealousy of small and medium-sized clubs.

Tottenham Hotspur was able to rely on itself without huge financial investment and without the support of big funders, so that the team could go up one step at a time every year. Levy's vision definitely contributed to it.

And even in the 06-07 season without Bale, Tottenham's squad is enough to qualify for a top-four finish in the league.

In fact, Tottenham Hotspur had already beaten Arsenal last season, they were fourth in the league before the final round of league games, just one point ahead of Arsenal, but in the last game they challenged Arsenal away, but six main players were infected with Norwalk virus and caused gastrointestinal inflammation, and finally lost to Arsenal away from home, and will give up their qualification for the Champions League.

New hatred plus old hatred, Tottenham will of course go all out in this game and will never leave any chance for Arsenal.

And Arsenal's performance in this game was indeed as the media had speculated before the game, showing very fatigue, because most of the players on the field participated in the fierce battle four days ago, so they did not seem excited after the opening, whether it was running or scrambling, they were easily suppressed by Tottenham.

In the Arsenal squad, the only one left Descartes who was still running at the expense of physical strength was Descartes.

With only 45 minutes on the pitch in the last game, Descartes was physically fit for a decent time, and with his relentless style and the weakness of his other team-mates, he was very active in this game, and almost all of Arsenal's threatening attacks in the first half were initiated by his side.

However, even with Descartes' best efforts, Arsenal still trailed 1-0 at home in the first half. The one goal leading for Tottenham was the dashing Gobertitar who "had a broken head and a hairstyle that couldn't be messed up".

To say that Berbatov is a player, he is simply a wonder, he can definitely be called the laziest player on the court, there is no one.

He set the record for the lowest run of just 2,200 meters in a race in world football.

But it's a miracle that he's a talented player who can always be the team's top scorer even in such a short distance.

In a way, Beba and Descartes are two extreme examples, one is not good at running but desperately running, and the other is not good but always too lazy to run.

Beba's strength lies in his ability to always find the right moment and be in the right place, as well as his ability to distribute football on the pitch. In this respect, he has some similarities with Descartes.

It was because of his outstanding talent that when he first moved to Manchester United, he even drove to meet him himself - a treatment that even Manchester United's king Cantona did not enjoy, which also shows the importance he attaches to him.

However, Beba's performances in his time at Manchester United were hardly the best, with 56 goals in his four seasons at United, which is not a small amount, but his goalscoring games were too concentrated, he scored a hat-trick in five games, and his form was always up and down, coupled with his lazy style on the pitch, he quickly fell out of favour at Old Trafford.

In August 2012, just two months after he received a new contract from Manchester United, he was forcibly sold to Fulham by Lord Fru.

And this player, who wasted his talent, has also become one of the typical cases of talent not as hard work on the court.

However, in this Carabao Cup match against Arsenal, Beba's form was clearly very hot, and his first-half goal was to use his excellent stopping skills to shake Toure and then fired a powerful shot from 25 yards out to beat Lehmann's ten fingers.

The 1-0 scoreline annoyed Professor Arsene Wenger, who reprimanded his players in midfield and then made a series of substitutions, with youngster Theo Walcott replacing Hleb at right midfield, Ljungberg moving to the left, and then replacing Gilberto, who had been exhausted in the first half. Silva, replaced by a young Cesc Fabregas.

Descartes, who should have been replaced in midfield, was left on the pitch by the professor because of his hard work in the first half.

This surprised Descartes himself.

Although he has received physical training at Arsenal for more than half a year, what has been changing is his muscle density, his physical strength has not increased much, this is a congenital defect, the effect of the exercise is not too great, and he has done his best in the first half, at this time even he felt a little out of breath, Wenger did not replace him, it seems that Wenger's resentment of Gilberto and Hleb has far exceeded his protection of Descartes.

But that's fine, Descartes is a man who hates to lose, Arsenal actually fell behind 0-1 in the first half with him present, of course he wants to revenge himself, since Wenger is unwilling to replace him, he is happy to continue to play until he defeats his opponent with his own hands.

After the start of the second half, Tottenham obviously felt the changes in Arsenal, especially Fabregas's appearance made them a little more jealous, so Tottenham unconsciously recycled the formation, wanting to stabilize the formation first and then compete with Arsenal.

Tottenham's formation recycling, so that Arsenal's players have a chance to press out, but also let Descartes have more points in the frontcourt, in the first half due to teammates unfavorable assists, Descartes and Van Persie in the front field alone, plus at this time General Fan is not the later "General Fan", so they did not get too many opportunities.

And when his teammates caught up, Descartes' ability to distribute the ball was on full display.

In the 51st minute of the game, Descartes got the ball on the right side, he made a 45-degree angle strong feint, deceived the opponent's defender to fly and intercept, and then he buckled the ball and passed directly to Fabregas who pressed up in the middle.

Arsenal were in high spirits after the goal and continued to attack the Tottenham goal.

In the 55th minute, Descartes once again made a wonderful combination on the wing and assisted Walcott, who relied on his incredible speed to cross the bottom, but unfortunately the follow-up Van Persie's header was slightly high, causing a cry of regret in the stands.

However, those two attacks became the last two flashes of the game for Descartes, and as his stamina declined, he began to look difficult on the pitch, and the bigger problem was that he and Cesc Fabregas were at odds with each other over the distribution of the ball.

As we all know, Arsene Wenger has always wanted to establish Cesc Fabregas as the heart of the team's attack, and for this reason he even did not hesitate to get rid of Patrick Vieira, who was the only one who could compete with Keane in the Premier League, and forcibly propped him up when he was only 16 years old.

And Xiaofa did not live up to the professor's expectations, he grew very fast at Arsenal, and became the offensive core of the team's heart in just one year, and Arsenal's ball in the attack, almost more than 80% will pass under his feet.

This has resulted in a situation where Cesc Fabregas has a lot of demands in attack, sometimes asking his team-mates to pass the ball even when it doesn't have to be at his feet.

The same is true of Descartes, who was at the heart of the team's attacking core when he was in Pavia's junior team, and with his excellent ability to distribute the ball, he was always the player with the most touches in Pavia, and it was because of his excellent playmaking skills in attack that Mr. Rocca recruited him to the Italian national junior team in the first place.

It can be said that Descartes is a player who needs to have the ball in attack.

It's like in the NBA, where both the point guard and the shooting guard need the ball, then the contradictions within this team are very obvious.

In the last game with Manchester United, because Descartes only came on the field in the second half, Fabregas's physical strength was not abundant at this time, and the desire for the ball was much less, so the contradiction between the two was not revealed, but in this game, Fabregas was ordered to be in danger, and the desire for the ball surpassed everything.

On several occasions, both of them reached out at the same time, and their teammates thought about it, and most of them chose to leave the ball to Xiaofa for the sake of being more familiar with Fabregas and more confident, which caused a haze in Descartes' heart and made his positive name on the court drop a lot.

There was a problem with his own physical strength, and now even the positive surname has declined, and Descartes' performance has immediately dropped a lot, which even the spectators on the sidelines can see.

Wenger also noticed Descartes' problem, but he didn't care, and thought that Descartes' physical strength was exhausted, at this time he finally decided to replace Descartes and replace Adebayo as a substitute in this game.

And Descartes' first start at Arsenal's home stadium also ended with a clean sheet.

However, most of the crowd on the sidelines still gave Descartes a warm applause when he was substituted, because he was one of the few players who were still struggling with Arsenal in the first half, and it was because of his active scrambling and blocking in the front field that Tottenham did not take advantage of the first half to open the score, Arsenal fans can understand football, although Descartes did not assist or score, but his performance can still make the fans satisfied.

In the end, the north London derby also ended in a 2-2 draw, with Arsenal scoring a game-winning goal, but Tottenham stubbornly equalised before the break.

Arsenal will travel to White Hart Lane next and their prospects in the Carabao Cup don't look so good.

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ps: There are still two chapters left, I understand it, and I will make up for it in two days, hehe.;