After playing for the national team, Descartes was not given the opportunity to stay in Italy with his young girlfriend, because Arsene Wenger had issued a diligent order for all players participating in the national team to return to the team quickly.

Arsene Wenger's anxiety is not unreasonable, as the international team is said to be on April 1 and 2, but the Premier League will kick off on April 4, and Arsenal's opponents in this round are Manchester City, who are new to the season in this round. Not counting Manchester City, they will travel to Spain in the quarter-finals of the Champions League on April 8 to take on the yellow submarine Villarreal. What is even more devastating is that three days after playing Villarreal, that is, on April 11, they will travel to Wigan Athletic, followed by Villarreal on April 16, Chelsea in the FA Cup on April 19, and Liverpool on April 22......

The price of a third-tier battle is a tight schedule and a non-stop rush of players, with a rhythm of almost every three days continuing until the end of the season, or they are eliminated from a competition.

Arsene Wenger had never been exposed to such a dense schedule at the end of the season, and even in the season when Arsenal were unbeaten, they were eliminated early in the Champions League and FA Cup to concentrate on playing well in the league, and ended up unbeaten in 38 games.

Arsene Wenger doesn't have the slightest confidence in such a schedule, and he knows that his players often struggle to stay the course at the end of the season, so he has been trying to change this season, taking Descartes' advice and starting to adjust the team's rotation policy more and more.

But after all, this is only the first year that he has accepted the new rotation policy, many things, Wenger is still feeling the stones to cross the river, he does not know what kind of effect his rotation can achieve, it seems, the only better thing than the past is that the players have fewer injuries, even the old injury Rosicky is only a recurrence of the old injury, just need to raise it, and Van Persie, who has never been full attendance in the past few seasons, is even more healthy this season and has been fighting until now.

Rotation may be effective, but it is still unclear how effective it will be, so he must keep an eye on his players and monitor their form and fitness.

However, Wenger tried his best to prevent the team's injury, and in the French game, the central defender Galla was injured again, this time he strained his thigh muscle, although he only needed to rest for 2 to 3 weeks, but at such a critical moment for Arsenal, the loss of the team's main central defender was still enough to make Wenger furious.

If it weren't for the excellent performance of Vermaelen, who was introduced during the winter break and gradually occupied a position as one of the team's main central defenders, the media could have basically announced that Arsenal's central defenders would have been reimbursed for the season.

With a crippled squad and players desperately lacking in physical strength, Arsenal welcomed a less pleasant opponent, Manchester City......

To say that the relationship between Arsenal and Manchester City is actually nothing special, and even the fans of the two sides were quite harmonious in the past, but since the Abu Dhabi consortium took over Manchester City this season, the relationship between the two sides has deteriorated. The second is that Manchester City poached two generals from Arsenal, among which Adebayo completely tore his face with Arsenal in order to go to Manchester City to get a high salary, hating the house and the black, and it is logical that Arsenal fans can't get used to Manchester City.

And in this game, it was Adebayo and Colo. Toure's "Battle to Go Home".

Toure is okay, although he is personally gloomy, but he and Arsenal at least not turned faces, but the flamboyant Togolese Adebayor is different, he publicly attacked Wenger before the game, saying: "I have had many opportunities to transfer to Barcelona and Milan, they offered me twice as much as I did at Arsenal, but I chose to stay, it was Arsenal who forced me to leave, because Wenger said to me, 'You have to leave, Our finances are terrible', that pained me, Arsene Wenger didn't leave until I wasn't for the money, enjoying football is more important to me than money. ”

His words were obviously a defense of his reasons for leaving Arsenal, and this statement was angrily called by Arsenal fans "shameless to be a bitch and build an archway"!

After learning the reaction of the Arsenal fans, the Togolese were not easy to bully, and he went on to declare to the media: "This is my revenge fight and I want to make Arsene Wenger realise that it was a huge mistake to sell me in the first place!" ”

So Adebayo's revenge battle unfolded under the eyes of Arsenal's nearly 60,000 spectators.

“goallllllllllllllllllllllll!” The passionate cheers shook the entire TV screen, but don't get me wrong, it was not Arsenal who scored the goal, but Adebayor, who vowed to "take revenge" before the game, and it was not the Arsenal commentator who cheered, but the guest commentator of the Manchester City team in front of the TV.

At the beginning of this game, Arsenal's state was extremely bad, as a Premier League giant, more than two-thirds of the players in the Arsenal team are members of various national teams, and they have played in the national team games that have just ended, so Wenger's lineup in this game is quite a headache, many of the main players have been put on the bench, and they don't even appear in the squad at all, Arsenal now appears on the field of players including Diaby, Frimpong, and even Fabianski and other 10,000-year-old substitutes, Not to mention players like 17-year-old Wilshere and 16-year-old Ramsey.

Such a team cannot compete with Manchester City, who have been shaved a lot of money this season, although Manchester City also has a lot of internationals in the team, but their substitutes are obviously stronger than Arsenal, Zabaleta, Johnson, Phillips, Petrov...... These are veterans who have been in the Premier League for many years, but they are not dragged down by the national team, so they are indeed a cut above Arsenal in the squad on the pitch now.

Bam Adebayor's goal was scored by taking advantage of the inexperience of Arsenal's substitutes and a flawed header at the back, and it is worth mentioning that Adebayor's goal was not very impressive, but his post-goal celebration caused great controversy.

After Adebayo scored this header, he actually shook off his teammates who came to celebrate, ran nearly 90 meters along the sideline of the stadium, almost across the entire stadium, and then came to the stands where the Arsenal die-hard fans were, slid on his knees and opened his arms to celebrate, his over-the-top behavior instantly ignited the anger of the Arsenal fans, and the Arsenal fans in the stands were excited, many people stood up and began to throw debris into the stadium, and the stadium security had to come forward to persuade, Even Arsene Wenger walked to the stands and asked the fans to calm down.

Bam Adebayo's action drew him a yellow card, but he didn't take it seriously, and even deliberately raised his head and snorted heavily as he walked past the Arsenal bench.

This suspiciously provocative move made his former teammates frown, especially Walcott, who was most disgusted with Adebayo in the team, turned to Descartes and said, "This guy is still such a stinky fart, I'll go up and fix him later." ”

Descartes raised the corners of his mouth, noncommittal, but there was no kindness in his eyes.

Faced with the backward situation on the field, Wenger shook his head helplessly, if the players who remain on the field now are all the main players, then Wenger will definitely scold them angrily, but now the group on the field is all substitutes, he can't ask these people to do 100,000 pounds with a weekly salary of 5,000 euros, so he can only make adjustments to the existing lineup.

The first to be substituted was Walcott, who was ready to "educate" Adebayo, the little tiger is not the main force of England at the moment, so he did not play in England's game against Ukraine, Wenger asked him to sit on the bench, just because he was afraid that he would travel too much and be too tired, after all, it is not easy to fly from England to Ukraine, which is still icy and snowy.

Walcott's replacement of Frimpong is a Ghanaian youngster, this youngster has shown extraordinary talent in the Arsenal academy, Wenger has high hopes for him, but unfortunately like Pennant and others, the young and famous Ghanaian youngster began to gradually unable to control his younger brother, he is less temperate than Descartes and others, not only lingering in nightclubs, but also infected with the habit of drugs, Wenger originally wanted to give him some more chances, but now it seems that he is hopeless.

Theo Walcott's arrival did not change the general trend on the pitch, although City were afraid of his pace, but Manchester City now controlled the midfield, he got few chances, and Arsenal were still on the back foot throughout the field.

At the beginning of the second half, Wenger couldn't wait to bring on Nasri and Descartes, two players with both possession and breaking ability, Wenger's aim was to use their individual ability to break Manchester City's monopoly in midfield and help Arsenal regain the initiative on the field.

It didn't look like a professor-style substitution but it paid off, as Arsenal had players who could hold the ball up front, and City's defence was forced to drop back again and again, and eventually they surrendered midfield and returned to counter-attacking routines.

Manchester City's current manager is still Mark Murphy. Hughes, a former team-mate from Wales who has the body of an Englishman but also an Italian mind, leads a team with a tough style and a strong defensive focus, Mansour asked him about his thoughts on team-ups, and he proposed a long list of defenders, from Carvalho to Patrice Evra to Carlos, and finally Mansour brought him Toure and Kompany, which is already the best central defensive combination in Manchester City's 100-year history.

So Mark. When Hughes's team encounters difficulties, the first thing they think of is to shrink the defense, first stabilize the defense, and then wait for an opportunity to counterattack.

Of course, there will be a lot of people who will dispute this, the most important of which is the new owner of Manchester City, Mr. Mansour.

Mansour spent 210 million pounds to buy Manchester City, and then invested close to 110 million to buy players, what he wants is not the kind of conservative tactics shown by Mark Hughes, to put it bluntly, Mansour invested in Manchester City not for money at all, but for fame, in order to make a name for the Abu Dhabi consortium, so what he needs is as much eye-catching as possible, as shocking as possible, and what does the team led by Mark Hughes look like? If you want to have a record or no record, you want to have no scene, and finally lead Arsenal by one goal away, but as soon as people come out to attack, they immediately retract their heads, and they don't have the slightest courage at all, how can such a team attract the idea of the media? Mark. Hughes may not know that from this moment on, Mansour has already sentenced him to death in his heart.

Mr. Mansour, who was in front of the television, snuffed out the cigar in his hand and asked the secretary beside him, "Go and check if there are any famous teachers who have been idle at home recently, and give me a list." ”

His secretary immediately understood what the boss meant, nodded quickly, and then asked cautiously: "If the boss wants to change the coach, we just received a self-recommendation form from the agent, boss, do you want to take a look?" ”

"Oh?" Mansur raised an eyebrow: "Who is it?" ”

"Mancini."

"Mancini?" Mansour was taken aback, wondering if it was because both of them had the word "Man" in their names, and he suddenly became interested in this self-recommendation form.

"Show it to me, by the way, let the marketing department do an evaluation, and send someone to contact them, I heard that he won two titles in Serie A, he should be a good candidate, right?"

His secretary understood very well that the boss was simply asking himself and answering, and he was by no means trying to ask for his opinion, so he nodded respectfully and returned: "Okay, I'll go and inform the marketing department." ”

"That's right." Mansour stopped him again, and at the same time pointed at the two Arsenal players on the TV: "Let the marketing department evaluate Arsenal's No. 18 and No. 8 at the same time, and then ask the Athletic Department to send a fax to Arsenal to ask for the price, and if the price is right, buy them." ”

He was referring to Descartes and Nasri, who Arsenal played in the second half.

Although Mansour is not a famous fan, but with his years of experience in business, his eyes are extremely vicious, at least he can see at a glance that Arsenal's change comes from the appearance of these two players, with a group of substitutes, they can actually suppress the team that they have invested heavily in this season, and the level of these two players is very unusual.

It has been said before, for Mansour, money is not the same thing at all, many people laugh at Manchester City like an upstart, waving checks everywhere and being slaughtered as pigs, but Mansour is privately laughing at these people's eyes, Manchester City's behavior looks stupid in football, but in the mall, this is an extremely dazzling way to show itself, once a successful person in the business world said: "At the beginning, I only had $100,000 in start-up capital, But I didn't use all the money to invest in business, but used it to buy a BMW, and then bought myself a high-end suit, and then I wore this suit and drove a BMW to negotiate business with people, and people believed that I had the strength to do a million business, so my first business was negotiated. ”

This is the code of conduct in the mall, spend 100,000 yuan of money, do 1 million business, Mansour leads Manchester City with a business mindset, but others look at him with the mentality of setting up a stall, this is simply a summer worm can not speak, Mansour is too lazy to argue with them.

In his opinion, as long as it is worth investing, it doesn't matter how much money you spend, the reputation brought by a champion is not comparable to hundreds or even tens of millions, even if you lose money on the field, but back in the mall, when people hear about the Abu Dhabi consortium, they will think of their spending in the Premier League, and from the bottom of their hearts, they will agree that this is a company with deep pockets, and they will not lose money when they cooperate.

How much money does Mansour earn back at the mall than ten, hundred, or even a thousand times what he spends on the court?

There are many people who always think that others are stupid, only they know how to calculate, and hide under the stage and secretly laugh uncontrollably, but they don't expect that in the eyes of others, they are also the stupid one.

Let's turn our attention to the arena again.

Arsenal's situation on the pitch changed dramatically when Descartes and Nasri came on, with Nasri replacing Ramsey as the team's midfield commander and Descartes replacing Eduardo and Bendtner as partners.

This line-up is not common in Arsenal games, but fortunately, everyone is teammates, and they usually practice together, and there is no shortage of tacit understanding, all they need is to suppress Manchester City with a more fierce attack and not let them have the opportunity to do whatever they want.

After squeezing City's formation into half-time, Arsenal soon had an equaliser. (To be continued.) )