After the victory over Manchester United, Arsenal are on a nineteen-game winning streak! It is only one game away from Real Madrid's record of 20 consecutive wins. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

And who will be next? It's Southampton!

Southampton Football Club (Southampton Football Club), formerly known as St Mary's YMA (St Mary's YMA), is a professional football club in Southampton, a port city in Hampshire, southeast England, nicknamed "The Saints" (The Saints), founded in November 1885, and currently participates in the English Premier League.

In 1898 it moved to the Valley Stadium as its home stadium and moved to St Mary's Stadium in 2001 after more than 100 years of use.

Southampton FC were relegated from the English Championship to the English First Division after the 2008/09 season.

In the 2010/11 season, the team finished runners-up in League One and were promoted to the Championship. In 2011/12, they finished runners-up in the Championship and were promoted to the English Premier League. 14th place in 2012/13.

Southampton's performance this season has also been eye-catching, and in the past 11 rounds of the league, Southampton has unexpectedly accumulated 22 points and stood on the third place in the league!

Although there is still a lot of gap compared with Arsenal's 11 consecutive wins and 33 points, this can also show that Southampton is still in very good shape! At least, it's a lot better than giants like Manchester United.

For this game, all Arsenal people do not feel that it is difficult to win, one is that this game is a home game, Arsenal has a natural home advantage, and the other is because the team has won Manchester United away, and it seems that it is not difficult to win a Southampton that is not very strong!

However, after the match against Manchester United, the Premier League has ushered in a temporary break as the national break is back in place.

Zhang Xu also received a call-up order from the national team. Domestically, there is an Asian Cup qualifier against Indonesia and a match against the Saudi Arabian national team.

For these two games, Zhang Xu really has no interest.

Especially the game against Indonesia, if this game is held in Indonesia, Zhang Xu may still have the idea of revenge in front of everyone in Indonesia, but now that it is held in China, Zhang Xu feels that it is not interesting.

On the one hand, printing Ni's face in front of the Chinese people is cool for the Chinese people, but the Indonesians can't see it, which makes Zhang Xu feel a little empty; Second, Zhang Xu believes that the current national team has played with momentum and self-confidence, and even if he does not go back, the national team can easily defeat Indonesia; Third, Zhang Xu also wants to see if the national team is really bad if he leaves him!

In addition, the game against Saudi Arabia is also a home game, and Zhang Xu feels that there should be no problem in winning Saudi Arabia.

So, he dialed directly to the head coach of the national team, Camacho, and explained his thoughts. Camacho is still very laissez-faire towards Zhang Xu, and at the same time, Camacho also thinks that there should be no problem in defeating Indonesia and Saudi Arabia on his home turf, so he agreed to Zhang Xu's request not to return to China to participate in the game.

And the fact is just as Zhang Xu expected, the national team in the game on November 15, although there was no Zhang Xu, but the national team's self-confidence was fully revealed in this game.

The confident national team, although the skills are a little worse than the European and American players, are still slightly higher than the Indonesian players.

Therefore, the game was played without shock, the national team always took the initiative in the game, and in the end, the national team won Indonesia smoothly with a score of 2-0.

After winning Indonesia, the national team has reached 12 points in Group C, topping the group table, and qualification has become a foregone conclusion.

Such a record is indeed rare in international competitions in recent years.

All Chinese fans know very well that the national team can achieve such a record, which must be inseparable from Zhang Xu's contributions! When the national team determined Zhang Xu's core position, the national team basically never lost a game!

However, the second game against Saudi Arabia made Zhang Xu feel incomprehensible.

It is also a home game, but in this game, the national team seems a little passive in front of Saudi Arabia, and wants to fight for technology, but finds that the technology is a cut worse than Saudi Arabia, but fortunately, the body is stronger than the opponent, and the height is also a cut higher, which finally makes up for a little technical deficiency.

Coupled with the home game, it can also compete with Saudi Arabia.

The final score of this game was 0-0!

One win and one draw in the two games, which is okay. The Chinese national team has 13 points in the group and is certain to qualify.

After seeing the national team win Indonesia and draw with Saudi Arabia, Zhang Xu no longer cared about the situation of the national team, and he focused on the upcoming 12th round of the English Premier League.

At 3pm on 23 November 2013, Arsenal hosted Southampton in the 12th round of the 2013/14 English Premier League at the Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal have won five and drawn three of their last eight games against Southampton, and have won 14 and drawn five of their last 19 home games against Southampton, whose last away win was in the 1987 First Division.

The two sides have met 28 Premier League games, with Arsenal holding the upper hand with 16 wins, 8 draws and 4 defeats, including 10 wins and 4 draws at home. The two sides have met 82 times in history, with Arsenal having the upper hand with 43 wins, 23 draws and 16 defeats.

Wilshere rotated and Mertesacker recovered from the flu.

The lineup sent by Wenger is still the lineup with Zhang Xu as the core: the formation has not changed, and the goalkeeper is No. 1 Szczesny; Defenders No. 3 - Sagna, No. 4 - Mertesacker, No. 6 - Koscielny; The midfielders are No. 18 - Zhang Xu and No. 8 - Arteta; The midfielders are No. 10 Wilshere, No. 16 Ramsey, No. 11 Mesut Ozil; Up front are No.14 Theo Walcott and No.12 Olivier Giroud.

There was a bit of an accident in the game, as the game was delayed by 15 minutes due to a breakdown on the Piccadilly underground line.

At the beginning of the game, Arsenal, under the leadership of Zhang Xu, launched a fierce attack on Southampton.

Although it was an ordinary match, it was given some special meaning - a record of twenty consecutive wins!

Zhang Xu didn't have any special ideas, he followed the tactics formulated by Wenger as always, and implemented them seriously. But his teammates were a little excited, because a win over Southampton would bring Real Madrid's record of 20 consecutive wins equal!

In this way, the names of all Arsenal players will be etched in the history of world football!

It would be even more perfect if Real Madrid could break the record!

The excited Arsenal players brought out their best form and bombarded Southampton.

In the 11th minute, Arsenal almost opened the scoring, Ramsey's through ball was pushed out, Wilshere got rid of the opposing defender Hoyveld on the right side of the penalty area and hit the far corner post from a tight angle, and Southampton goalkeeper Borucci confiscated the ball on the goal line.

Arsenal threatened again in the 18th minute when Mesut Ozil's cross from the right edge of the box was met by an unmarked Zhang Xu with a clever backheel pass from 11 yards, and Ramzi's shot hit the left-hand post again.

In the 22nd minute of the game, Arsenal finally took the lead.

After receiving a pass from Ozil in front, Zhang Xu suddenly tore through the Southampton backline with a direct pass, Southampton's goalkeeper Bowucci failed to attack in time, and Giroud slipped past Bowucci on the left side of the penalty area and fired into the empty net.

1 to 0! Arsenal take the lead by one goal!

With a goal in hand, the Arsenal generals are even more excited, their morale is extremely high, and every minute, you can see that the Arsenal players are completing their tasks at a high level.

Of course, Southampton are not blindly defensive, and their attack is still very threatening.

In the 32nd minute of the game, Arteta made a mistake on the edge of the penalty area, and Lallana's half-volley was saved by Szczesny. Ward-Prowse then headed in a corner and Hojveld's header was denied by Koscielny.

In the 39th minute, Ward Prowse passed the ball, Jay Rodriguez's half-volley from 14 yards was saved by Szczesny, and Lambert's follow-up shot was offside.

In the 48th minute of the game, Wangyama fouled Zhang Xu and was given a yellow card.

In the 52nd minute, Schneiderling passed the ball and Lallana's low shot from 20 yards was confiscated by Szczesny. One minute later, Jay Rodriguez's shot from in front of the box was blocked.

In the 61st minute of the game, Cazorla fell in the penalty area under the defense of Wangyama, and referee Clattenburg refused to award a penalty. Two minutes later, Ramsey passed the ball and Ozil's shot from the right side of the box was confiscated by Borucci.

In the 68th minute, Sagna crossed from the far post, and Wilshere's powerless header did not cause Boruć problems.

Cazorla replaces Walcott.

Osvaldo's shot from the edge of the box was blocked by Sagna and Clattenburg rejected Southampton's appeal to Sagna.

Rosicky replaces the injured Arteta.

In the 75th minute, Osvaldo broke through Mertesacker and fired a powerful shot from 25 yards into the arms of Szczesny.

In the 79th minute, Lambert's powerful shot from the edge of the box was blocked by Wilshere, and then Wangyama's long-range shot went wide.

In the 82nd minute, Zhang Xu passed the ball on the counterattack, and Cazorla's shot from 20 yards was missed.

Arsenal sealed the win in the 86th minute, Fonte pulled Zhang Xu's shirt when defending a corner, Clattenburg sentenced him to death, and Zhang Xu personally took the penalty.

This was the first time he had taken a penalty, and he only had a pitiful 63 penalty points, but he was pushed out by his teammates and asked him to take a penalty, and he couldn't get rid of it, so he had to stand in front of the penalty spot.

Zhang Xu knew his penalty level well, so he simply didn't watch the goalkeeper's movements, and after hearing the whistle, he picked up his right leg and shot directly and vigorously!

His shot was powerful and positive!

The Southampton goalkeeper didn't expect him to shoot right in the middle of the goal, so when he pounced on the right side of the goal, he was disappointed to see the ball fly into the net from the middle of the goal!

Two to zero! Arsenal seal the win!

So far, Arsenal has also tied Real Madrid's record of 20 consecutive wins!

If we can continue to win the next game, then we will set a new record in world football! (To be continued.) )