Chapter 11: FIFA Virus

The draw for the Champions League group stage has ended, and for Arsenal, the opponents in the group stage are really not strong; Arsenal may have to travel more because their group stage opponents are all outside the top five leagues, but the opponents are too weak, and even if they are tired, they are the opponents that the Gunners think can easily win.

The Champions League group stage only started in mid-September, and Arsenal really didn't need to care too much about the Champions League group stage during this time, because only entering the knockout stage can it be regarded as a real Champions League game, and now Arsenal still needs to focus more on the league.

Arsenal won all three league games in August, although the Gunners temporarily trailed Chelsea due to goal difference, although they could not win the league leader for three consecutive rounds, but the Gunners did not care about this, they are very confident that they will continue to win the next games, and they believe that they can continue to win consecutive games with their strong strength. So now Arsenal and Chelsea are stumbling, and they now have to take a good look at who can't resist the winning streak first, and they now have to temporarily drag down their opponents.

Xiao Qing is in a very unhappy mood, although he won the best team in August, but in the whole August the best in the Premier League belongs to Chelsea's Drogba, although Xiao Qing scored five goals in three rounds of goals to lead the scorer list, but Drogba's goal efficiency is also very good, and more importantly, Drogba's assists are two more than Xiao Qing. Maybe it's because Didier Drogba's Chelsea have won all three games and two 6-0 wins are more shocking, and of course maybe it's because fans and media have become numb to Xiao Qing being the best player. Therefore, the best player of the first month of the new Premier League season is not Xiao Qing, which makes Xiao Qing very unhappy. It doesn't look like he's playing well enough. Or Xiao Qing's originally good performance is too common for fans and the media. They need Xiao Qing to perform more, and they need Xiao Qing to show stronger dominance.

Xiao Qing is preparing for the September game, which is very important, because at this time the Champions League group stage starts, which will definitely distract some of the Gunners, and the strength of Arsenal's opponents in the league during this period is not too weak. So the Gunners need to be more serious at this time and take the September game as it could be a game that will open up some gaps in the league for the time being. And the Gunners will want to be even more successful this season. So they don't just need to win the league and the Champions League, but of course the major cup competitions; Although the Carabao Cup may not be a treble requirement in the true sense, the Gunners will not voluntarily give up the Carabao Cup in the new season; The Gunners' first opponent in the Carabao Cup of the new season is Tottenham Hotspur, who also play in mid-to-late September.

Xiao Qing feels very relaxed now, although the new season has started, but now there are not too many game tasks, at least for Xiao Qing. After the end of the third round of the league, after Xiao Qing watched the draw for the group stage with a sneaky smile, he is now enjoying the two shijie with Pixie, and now is the time to relax. It's a break for no games because it's the national team break. This is a very lazy time for Xiao Qing.

However, just when Xiao Qing was still satisfied that he did not need to participate in the national team competition, the FIFA virus that worried clubs began to attack, and for Arsenal, they were depressed, because they were the first to be affected, and Arsenal seemed to continue the bad luck of being plagued by injuries in previous seasons, and Arsenal continued to be in close contact with injuries.

Arsenal's Theo Walcott is injured and looks to be more serious, with the Tiger picking up an injury in England's European qualifiers against Switzerland, where he played just thirteen minutes before being replaced by Adam Johnson with an ankle injury.

Little Tiger's performance this season is still very good, in the first three rounds of the game, Little Tiger scored three goals and is the team's second scorer after Xiao Qing; But his injury is terrible and he will be out for four to six weeks.

Theo Walcott's injury has partly forced manager Arsene Wenger's Jihua to make changes, after the Tigers were in excellent form, but now Arsenal have had to adjust their new squad and tactics; However, there is also good news for Arsenal, as their other midfielder, Nasri, has recovered and is ready to feature in the upcoming games. At the same time, another midfielder, Denilson, has also returned from recovery. So to a certain extent, this allows Wenger's personnel deployment not to become helpless due to Walcott's absence, at least Arsenal will not become embarrassed at the beginning of the new season due to lack of manpower.

And now Arsenal's midfield core Cesc Fabregas is back in good shape, and after missing the first three rounds, Xiaofa is basically guaranteed to participate in the next games. It can be said that Arsenal basically does not need to worry about the midfield now, and they still have a lot of troops in the midfield.

However, although the midfield is adequate, Arsenal are depressed in the forward line; Although Xiao Qing's form in the new season has been very good, Xiao Qing's forward partners have been disappointing. Van Persie, who had high hopes from the Gunners, was injured again, and it was a damn international game.

Robin van Persie only came off the bench in the third round of the new season, but he once again wanted to play for his country on the international break; However, Robinman, whose heart is higher than heaven and life is thinner than paper, collapsed in training, and the team doctor of the Dutch team announced that Van Persie's injury time was two to four weeks, which means that it may take a month to really return to play.

Robin van Persie's injury has become a concern for Arsene Wenger, who missed five months last season with a ligament injury in his right ankle, this time with an ankle injury. In the summer, Wenger introduced Moroccan center forward Chamakh, perhaps because he was worried that Van Persie would still be injured, and he really needed to find a forward partner for Xiao Qing, who was alone on the front line for too long last season.

The French old man's reinforcement this time is really good, because Van Persie's injury again has affected Arsenal's forward line, but at this time Arsenal is really a disaster, after Van Persie's injury may miss four weeks, another striker's injury Bendtner has been repeated. Bendtner had expected to return to competition in late September, but his groin injury has recently worsened and he will unlikely to return until October, which Bendtner himself believes is related to a car accident nearly a year ago, which was exacerbated by fatigue from the Shijie Cup.

For Arsenal, the season has just begun, and the shadow of injuries has loomed again, first Nasri is out for a month, then Robin van Persie is injured, and now Bendtner is getting worse, and the return of Ramsey and others is still far away. During this time, Xiao Qing can only rely on Morocco's new signing Chamak, once he makes any more mistakes, Wenger will have to consider making Xiao Qing a lone striker again.

It stands to reason that with such a powerful striker as Xiao Qing, it is enough to have three more center forwards in the team, but injuries have made their originally thick forward configuration suddenly seem stretched; But now it seems that the Gunners want to make a bigger breakthrough in the new season, not only to deal with problems at the back, injuries have now become the Gunners' number one enemy.

Xiao Qing was really speechless about the series of injuries, but the current gunners still haven't been hit too hard because of the current injuries; For Arsenal, their strongest striker, Xiao Qing, can bring confidence to everyone, as long as Xiao Qing can stand up to the team's forward line, this can ensure that the team's offensive ability is not greatly weakened. Xiao Qing is the absolute core of Arsenal, Xiao Qing can bring more confidence and victory to Arsenal.

Hamper-stricken Arsenal have only suffered injuries in a relatively tough international break, but the Gunners still need to move on, having suffered injuries last season, but Arsenal managed to win despite a serious injury and a lack of manpower. Although no one wants to be injured, it seems that Arsenal are still in a much better situation than before, at least their fighting power has not been weakened too much.

The Gunners prepare for the fourth round of the 2010/11 league season, when they host Bolton. Bolton are also a must-win for the Gunners, who have won three in a row in the league, and it will be difficult for this average opponent to get out of the way at the Emirates Stadium.

Of course, Arsenal's all-out pursuit of victory is also to be able to continue to maintain the strong winning streak since the new season, they have to fight Chelsea to the end to see who can not bite the bullet and fall first, there is only one between them to become the winner, they must grit their teeth and persist under the impact of the other party.

With only Chelsea and Arsenal left to win the new season, it is only natural that they will be fighting harder at this time as they are favourites to get ahead of the league from the start. Chelsea are indeed a very tenacious team, not only are they strong, but more importantly, Chelsea's fighting spirit is also complete; Now Arsenal need to prove their resilience and they won't be defeated at this time. (To be continued......)