Having won the match against Wigan Athletic, the New Year is getting closer and closer.

While the general public was celebrating the arrival of the New Year, on January 1, 2011, Professor Arsene Wenger also gave the team a half-day off because on the second day of the new year, Arsenal were going to Birmingham City to take on Birmingham City away. The team can only take a half-day off, because in the afternoon, the team bus will depart for its destination.

This is the second race in three days, and the horrors of the Devil's schedule are already starting to show.

In this game, the professor is still playing as much as he can, and now even every point is precious to Arsenal, if he wants to stay behind this winter and bite the opponent for the title, then he can't have the slightest carelessness and relaxation.

Travelling between three cities in three days was undoubtedly a huge test of the players' physical and mental strength. At the beginning of the game, the Arsenal players were a little out of shape, and there were frequent mistakes, either passing the ball to find the target, or inexplicably conceding the ball in the attack.

This state of affairs made Professor Arsene Wenger frown as he watched from the sidelines. He didn't expect the aftermath of the tournament to come so quickly, and this was the second game of the Devil's schedule, and the Arsenal players were a little overwhelmed.

Arsenal's anomaly has given Birmingham, the home team that has been waiting for work, a lot of opportunities. After the initial stage of the game, they returned to Arsenal, who have performed extremely well in recent times, but this game is like a soft-footed shrimp, and the combat effectiveness is not as good as before, which gives them the confidence to win the game.

Originally, Birmingham had the mentality that a draw was a victory, but after confirming that Arsenal was not in shape, the home team quickly made adjustments, swept away the defensive counterattack, dared to invest more troops in the attack, and even started an offensive battle with Arsenal.

Birmingham played smartly and the weakened Arsenal quickly fell short on the pitch. The home team's attack played so well that it completely suppressed Arsenal for a long time.

The only normal performance in the Arsenal team is Qin Shou and Lehmann, Qin Shou has the nickname of "physical maniac" in the New York Red Bulls, even if he runs back and forth between the three cities for two days without feeling the slightest fatigue, it is his tireless running and scrambling in the midfield, causing huge interference to Birmingham's attack, so that the home team's offensive has not been smooth enough, and no substantial progress has been made.

And Lehmann is the hero of the team's goal line. The German veteran goalkeeper in his forties played extremely bravely in this game, and officially because of his high acceptance, he kept the goal in the first half, so that Arsenal was not in the predicament of falling behind.

The first half was 0-0, but the situation was extremely unfavourable for the visiting team Arsenal. At half-time, Arsene Wenger made changes to his squad. He replaced Thierry Henry, who had been sleepwalking in the first half, and he was replaced by Chamark. After all, Henry is old, although he has maintained a good competitive state, but the age is there, and the running around for days is a great load on his body, and he has hardly been seen in the first half, which is almost the same as transparent.

In midfield, Qin Shou's performance made Arsene Wenger feel very satisfied. He knew very well that it was precisely because Qin Shou provoked the team's midfield backbone that the opponent could not take a step beyond Lei Chi. Similarly, he also knows that Qin Shou is a human being or not, even if his defensive area covers a large area, but he can't do everything, he replaced Rosicky with Walcott, and told Wilshere and Gibbs to take on more defensive tasks, cooperate with Qin Shou, and stabilize the defense in the midfield.

In the second half, Arsenal's performance improved slightly, with the cooperation of Qin Shou and Wilshere and Gibbs, the Arsenal midfield defense was guarded solidly, and Birmingham soon found that their attack could only stop at half the court, and the opponent paid attention to protecting the backline, which made them feel that they had no way to speak.

Having stabilized the midfield defence, it is time to blow the horn of a counterattack. Arsenal quickly launched several attacks, but the threat was average, after all, Arsenal's overall performance in this game was very weak, and now they put more energy into defense, and they can't give too much support to the front line in attack, Van Persie and Chamark are good at individual combat, but it is extremely difficult to score goals under the heavy defense of the home team's players.

The game was at a stalemate.

The two sides fought fiercely in the midfield, not giving an inch, but both were a mess in attack. Arsenal is weak and in poor form, while the home team Birmingham City is trapped by their own lack of strength, and for a while, neither team can take the other.

The turning point of the game came in the 79th minute, after a break, Qin Shou did not pass the ball as before, and handed the football to his teammates. He glanced at the situation on the field, and then ...... The old problem is repeated.

Seeing that no one was coming to force him, Qin Shou took the ball forward and rushed straight forward.

"Damn bastard, he's dribbling forward again!"

Coach Alder, who was outside the field, couldn't help but burst into a foul language, and he secretly glanced at the head coach, who was also looking bad at the moment. Although he didn't speak, his gloomy face showed that the owner of this face was in a very unhappy mood at the moment.

Alder knew very well why the professor was so unhappy, the two teams were already in a stalemate, and any mistake at this time could lead to unpredictable accidents. It is true that Qin Shou's dribbling is likely to catch the opponent off guard, but on the contrary, if Qin Shou's insertion fails, Arsenal's midfield barrier is not there, and the opponent can face the back line with a quick counterattack, which is tantamount to a catastrophe for Arsenal.

As for Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, he hates accidents and a manager who is not in his control.

Alder can already foresee that after this game, Qin Shou, who has repeatedly taught him, may be criticized by the head coach for being incomplete.

On the field, Qin Shou ran all the way with the ball.

A gap was suddenly opened in Birmingham's defence. By the time they reacted and walked towards Qin Shou, Qin Shou, who was extremely fast, had already taken the ball into the penalty area thirty meters away, raised his foot while running, and made a shooting posture.

As the main force of Arsenal today, it is naturally impossible for Qin Shou not to be studied by his opponents. What's more, in the past few games, Qin Shou's performance has been very good. The Birmingham players knew very well that Qin Shou had the ability to shoot from a distance, so when they saw Qin Shou rushing into the penalty area thirty meters with the ball, they immediately panicked, and two defenders left their marking objects and rushed quickly, and even a Birmingham player jumped high towards Qin Shou's line, wanting to block Qin Shou's shooting route with his body.

The corners of Qin Shou's mouth raised slightly, and his right foot finally kicked the football. The imaginary violent long-range shot did not appear, at the moment when his right foot fell, Qin Shou's ankle trembled, changed the shot to a pick, and the football flew out in the oblique stab, and Walcott happened to appear in the air, he received the football at the front of the penalty area, but there was no pause, the arch of the foot was cushioned, and the football was picked into the penalty area without landing.

Van Persie's clever movement shook off the Birmingham defenders who were close to the defender, and the moment the ball fell, he swept the ball towards the goal with a shot of the arch.

At such close distance, the Birmingham goalkeeper didn't even have time to make a move before the ball rolled into the net from the left side.

1:0。

With Robin van Persie's goal, Arsenal struggled to take the lead on the road.

Van Persie looked excited after the goal, he ran to the sideline with excitement, pointed to his shirt number with both hands, and signaled the fans to remember his number, remember his name, he is Arsenal's Robin, the most outstanding goalscorer.

Walcott, who provided him with an assist, pouted, he did not have a good relationship with Van Persie and others, but he fought for the glory of the team on the field, he was not a person who did not know the general situation, otherwise he would not have passed the ball to the other party. Van Persie took care of himself to show his existence, which made Walket very dissatisfied, but he didn't bother to deal with this guy, turned around and high-fived Qin Shou fiercely, signaling that Qin Shou's pass just now was great.

The coach's bench outside the field was also jubilant, and the haze on the face of coach Wenger was also reduced a little, although Qin Shou's sudden insertion made him a little dissatisfied, but in the end it did not lead to the fact that the opponent played a quick counterattack, on the contrary, Qin Shou's insertion of the assist also caused the team's goal. From this aspect, Qin Shou is the planner and promoter of this attack, even if he is dissatisfied, he can't erase the credit of Qin Shou in this goal.

After conceding the goal, the Birmingham team launched a fierce counter-attack. For them, losing one goal is a loss, losing two goals is still a loss. Since the score is already behind, there is no way out, either a tragic death, or a dead ball.

For the next ten minutes, Birmingham pressed almost all the way like crazy, and launched attack after attack towards Arsenal's half in a desperate manner.

Arsenal also felt the determination of the opponent to fight in a sleepy beast, did not dare to be careless, and began to retreat in an all-round way, and even the striker Chamark ran back to the half to assist in the defense, leaving Van Persie alone in the front to counterattack.

Under Qin Shou's frantic running and pressing, as well as the sincere cooperation of his teammates, Arsenal finally resisted Birmingham's strong attack. And in stoppage time, after Qin Shou made a successful steal, he made a long pass directly to the empty place in the front court, and Van Persie suddenly came out, successfully countered offside, and faced the goalkeeper with a single knife. With the goalkeeper attacking, Van Persie calmly flicked and shook the opponent to the ground and sent the ball into the empty net.

2:0。

Arsenal sealed the win. Robin van Persie also scored twice.

The final score of this game is 2:0, if you only look at the score, you will feel that Arsenal won very easily, but the actual process, is extremely thrilling, if it is not for Qin Shou's sudden frenzy in the second half of the game, an assist at a time, Arsenal wants to win, but it is extremely difficult.

However, the best player in this game was not Qin Shou, but Van Persie, who scored two goals. He followed manager Arsene Wenger to his post-match press conference and enjoyed a lot of media attention, becoming the brightest star in the spotlight for journalists and the spotlight.