Originally from the small South American country of Chile, Pellegrini first made his debut with his parent club Universidad de Chile, but his coaching record here was not good, and he later moved to River Plate in Argentina, where Pellegrini finally made a name for himself and was spotted by the yellow submarine Villarreal in 2004 as the new helmsman of the lower middle and lower reaches of La Liga.

The coach is not a manager, but he has been a good coach, and in 2005-2006 he led Villarreal to the last four of the Champions League, the best European result in the club's history.

It is worth mentioning that it was Arsenal who knocked them out of the Champions League final that season.

Manuel Pellegrini was born with a very peaceful surname, rarely heard him speak in the media, and he was very loose in his discipline of the players under him, on the one hand, he seems to have a very strong affinity with the players, but on the other hand, it also shows that he lacks enough control over the dressing room, such a coach often has a very good record when he coaches some lesser-known small teams, but when he has a large number of superstars under his control, he is often not able to be mellow.

In the 2009-2010 season, Manuel Pellegrini took charge of Real Madrid and led the team to a runner-up finish with the highest score in La Liga history, which shows his weak ability to control the big teams.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with Barcelona's strength at that time, and it is estimated that no one will do better than him at that time.

But in fact, the reason for Pellegrini's dismissal was not because his coaching performance was not good enough, but precisely because he was not strong enough and too soft on the dressing room, which caused Real Madrid's dressing room to not buy him very much, and the club also thought that he could not lead the team to play his own temperament, for a team like Real Madrid, victory is important, but temperament is more important, Eto'o was abandoned by Calderón because of lack of temperament?

So it's no surprise that Manuel Pellegrini can't avoid sacking after 96 league points.

However, that was a year later, in the 08-09 season, Pellegrini was still living well in Villarreal, the team that has not yet had a superstar, and is experiencing the best moment of the club under his hands, they reached the Champions League semi-finals in the 05-06 season, finished runners-up in La Liga last season, and also reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League this season, which is already the best result in Villarreal's 86-year history.

So in the current team, Pellegrini still has the power to say everything, and the team he has built with his own hands is obedient, united and quite strong.

At present, after 31 rounds of La Liga, Villarreal and Atletico Madrid share the fifth place in the league standings with 13 wins, 10 draws and 8 losses, but they are only behind because they have less goal difference.

The biggest problem plaguing Villarreal at the moment is their forward line, with Riquelme and Diego in the field. After Forlan left one after another, Pellegrini recruited the Turkish "Viper" Nihat, and introduced the new striker Rossi from Manchester United, plus the original high school striker Llorente, it stands to reason that this should be a very strong striker, but they have only scored 45 goals in the league so far, 43 less than the first-ranked Barcelona, 25 less than the second-ranked Real Madrid, among the top five, only Sevilla scored fewer goals than them, but only one less.

The forward line is not strong, and the defensive performance is not outstanding, 31 rounds of the league, Villarreal scored 45 goals, but conceded 42 goals, this data is certainly not a disaster, because in La Liga, which is more open to attack, except for Real Madrid, Barcelona and other teams have conceded more than one goal, and other teams have conceded almost all of these goals, but as a strong team with the goal of the Champions League, such defensive data is a bit ugly.

You must know that Sevilla, who have also performed well this season, have only scored 44 goals, but they have only conceded a total of 30 goals, and the number of goals conceded is even lower than Real Madrid.

So Sevilla FC were able to finish third in the league, while Villarreal fell to sixth place.

The current core of this team is 24-year-old Spaniard San Diego. Cazorla, Cazorla arrived at Villarreal in 03, and after a season as a substitute, he quickly developed into a regular in the Chilean Engineers, where he excelled in the UEFA Cup in 04-05, scoring four goals to help the team reach the last four of the UEFA Cup, and the following year he made great progress with the team, and they became the last four of the Champions League.

However, in the 07-08 season, Cazorla was suddenly loaned to Huelva by Villarreal for a low price of 600,000 euros, and no one could say what happened in it.

But Villarreal regretted it a season later, buying Cazorla from Huelva for €1.2 million and securing him as the team's main midfielder. As the Spaniard matures, so does his status in the team, and he is the core of the midfield that is certainly not allowed in the current Villarreal team.

In fact, in Wenger's opinion, there are only three Villarreal players that Arsenal need to focus on, Pire, Renlente, and Cazorla.

The love-hate relationship between Pire and Wenger can be written into a book, Wenger's determination to the veteran broke the hearts of the team's heroes, Pire's departure must have been hateful in his heart, a star like him, even if he has entered the twilight of his career, but occasionally explodes in one or two games, it is also quite terrifying, Wenger does not dare to let him go, because he has played under his own hands for 6 seasons, Wenger is very clear about his strength.

Llorente is a rookie striker who has only emerged in Spain in recent years, he is 1.84 meters tall, weighs 72kg, and has excellent heading and foot skills, he first debuted in Athletic Bilbao, scored a hat-trick in the first Copa del Rey game to help Bilbao sweep the third division team Lanzarote 6-0, and then he gradually replaced Bilbao's famous striker Urces in the league and became the team's new striker.

Llorente has just arrived at Villarreal this season, but he has been a regular in the attack, scoring 12 goals in 26 league appearances so far, including four goals in seven games in the Champions League, and is the most dangerous killer in Villarreal's attack.

In Arsene Wenger's pre-match report, the three players were dangerous men that Arsenal needed to focus on, and he handed it to all the players, while also making tactical arrangements for the surname.

However, Pellegrini still has a good strength after all, he is nicknamed "Engineer" by the media because he has a civilian engineer's license, but this nickname also shows that the media recognize his strength, and he has also made careful arrangements for this important game.

Arsene Wenger thought that Villarreal would also use the central axis of Cazorla Llorente as the core of the attack, but Pellegrini did the opposite, and his killer feature for this game was the striker Nihat from Turkey.

In the 2002-2003 season, he and Kovacevic shocked the entire La Liga with the Real Sociedad striker combination, and they even almost overthrew Real Madrid's dominance in La Liga, only to be overturned by Real Madrid in the final round and become the runners-up that season.

Nihat is extremely fast, his style is very similar to that of Real Madrid's Raul, he has a strong imagination and creativity, he can play in any position in the front field, he is highly skilled, flexible and versatile, and it is said that manager Abou and Mourinho were also interested in him, and if it were not for the major knee injury in 06/07, he might have been a member of the Blues by now.

But it was the knee injury that nearly ruined Nihat's career, and when he recovered from the injury, he couldn't be as fast as he used to be, and "The Viper" put away his fangs, leaving him with only his experience and full awareness.

However, in this game, Pellegrini expected early on that Wenger would focus on defending Villarreal's two core figures, Llorente and Cazorla, so the arrangement he made in this game was to let Llorente feint, cover for Nihat, and use Nihat's flexible movement and rich experience to find Arsenal's loopholes and give the Gunners a fatal blow.

Wenger did not expect Pellegrini to make such a row, in fact, the first 20 minutes of the game has been very normal, Villarreal mainly attacked Lunte, Wenger's line-up appeared very calm, coping well, even if he lost the main central defender Galla, but the combination of Vermaelen and Silvester still gave him enough confidence.

However, after 20 minutes, when Nihart figured out the holes in Arsenal's backline, he began to work silently.

Arsenal made a major mistake in the recruitment of defenders at the beginning of this season, and Wenger's favorite Woodgate actually preferred to transfer to their city rival Tottenham Hotspur with a lower salary, which made Wenger, who recklessly let go of Toure at the beginning of the season, very injured, and then the defenders who fancied were cut off one after another, so Arsenal could only start the whole season with a useless "bad defense" criticized by the media.

Fortunately, in the winter transfer window, Wenger made a remedy, and transferred the money that was originally intended to be used to introduce Russian foreign aid "Tsar" Arshavin to bring in Belgian defender Vermaelen, and Vermaelen did not disappoint Wenger, and soon settled the team's other main central defender position with excellent performance, Arsenal's consecutive wins in the second half of the season are inseparable from Vermaelen's arrival after the completion of the backline.

But who would have expected that disaster would fall from the sky, Galla strained his thigh in the national team game, although the cultivation time is not long, but Arsenal is fighting on the third line, every game is crucial, Wenger can't afford to wait at this time, and he can't afford to be injured.

So the defensive combination of this game became Vermaelen and Silvestri.

Vermaelen will not talk about it for the time being, just speaking of Silvestri, this is definitely a hidden time bomb.

Silvestri was formerly known as Mikael. Silvestre, however, has two syllables after his surname in French, so some people refer to him as Silvestris, or Silvestre, but to the French, it is more customary to call him Silvestre.

The player also rose to fame at a young age, having moved from Inter Milan to Manchester United in 1999 and was quickly recognised by Ferguson for his speed and awareness of assists, as well as his serious approach to training, and he was part of the Reds' main squad.

It's just that he played on the left side of Manchester United.

Later, Manchester United brought in Patrice Evra, and Silvestri was gradually transplanted to the middle by Ferguson, but when he appeared in the middle, people found a huge problem, that is, his running and positioning were quite problematic, and he was very obsessed with inserting attacks, often involuntarily forgetting the defense behind him, when he and Brown formed Manchester United's central defensive line, Manchester United lost the 04-05 and 05-06 two seasons of the title.

With the entry of Serbian Nemanja Vidic, Silvestri finally lost the trust of Ferguson, he was dumped to Arsenal by Lord Ferguson for 750,000 pounds last season, and I don't know if Wenger is full of love for his French countryman, it seems that as long as he is French, he will not refuse, so Silvestri has become a member of the Gunners again.

However, changing clubs did not improve Silvestri's problems, and his old problems remained, such as reckless attacks at the back, unexplained movement, and even the weapon of inserting assists.

The reason why Wenger is still insisting on using him is because there is really no one else in Arsenal's backline, and the other substitute Joroud is even more unbearable than him.

And what Nihart found was Silvestri's biggest weakness in the Arsenal backline.

In the 29th minute of the first half, Villarreal attacked again, and Arsenal's defense focused on Cazorla with the ball and Llorente in the middle, but no one saw that Nihat was quietly approaching Silvestri, and even stood on the same level as him.

It stands to reason that as long as it is not offside, defenders will usually stand behind the opposing striker, so as to avoid the opponent from taking the ball in an offside position and facing the goalkeeper directly, even if the opponent gets the ball, they can also force the opponent to not turn around through close pressing, creating time for teammates to organize the defensive line.

However, Silvestri made a mistake at this time, he didn't realize what Nihat wanted to do, his eyes were still on Casolai, who was being surrounded by his teammates not far away, and he even wanted to rush up and cut off the ball at Cazorla's feet.

Silvestri was then punished for his carelessness, Cazorla distributed the ball to the wing, and Pire, who was inserted on the side, sent a high ball with a huge arc, and then Silvestri's side Nihat also rushed out like lightning, and the target was the ball that flew in the air.

It was only at this time that Silvestri woke up suddenly, and he hurriedly turned around to chase, but after all, Nyhat was also known for his speed, even if his knee injury reduced his sprinting ability a lot, but the foundation was still there, and he started earlier than Silvestri, and when Silvestri turned to chase, he had been thrown off at least two or three steps.

In the penalty area, two or three steps away was completely deadly, Cazorla caught up with the ball that flew by, and with a flick of his header, which he was not good at, the ball obediently flew towards the goal, flew past Almunia's ten fingers, and plunged into the Arsenal goal.

The torpedo that Pellegrini laid for Villarreal finally exploded just before the end of the first half. (To be continued.) )