Chapter 278: The "Canary" that crashes into the "muzzle".

After a week of intense training, Arsenal came to test the results at the weekend. In the eighth round of the English Premier League, Arsenal sat at home against the "Canary" Norwich City team.

With the Champions League coming up next week, Arsene Wenger is still playing with a mixed squad of main players and substitutes for this game.

Captain Vermaelen of central defender Merderssat and the Gunners captain have not been good so far this season, often making mistakes to send goals. The German centre-back is trusted by Arsene Wenger, and Koscielny made a lot of mistakes when he first arrived at Arsenal, but he has been a regular player over the past few seasons. However, the captain Vermaelen is becoming more and more marginalized, and there are media rumors that Arsenal may be selling the captain again this time.

Arsene Wenger's scouts are rumoured to be scouting Vermaelen's Belgian national team-mate, centre-back Toby Alderweireld, who currently plays for Atletico Madrid in La Liga. The deal is intended to be made next summer, perhaps in the winter transfer period in two months' time.

Media reports have never been credible enough. In fact, according to Li Zihan's understanding, Arsenal is currently inspecting Benedict Hodes, the captain of the Bundesliga powerhouse Schalke 04 and one of the central defenders of the German national team. And Arsene Wenger meant that he intended to pack Schalke 04's talented winger Julian Draxler in '93 and captain Bennedikt Hodes.

After a period of improvement, Germany's youth training is now in the harvest season. In addition to Bayern Munich, the youth training of Shakhtar brothers Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund Prussia are the most dazzling.

Schalke is not only talented Draxler and Hodes, but also 17-year-old attacking midfielder Max Meier and Greek centre-back K'Papadopoulos. In fact, Ozil is also a youth product of Schalke 04, but later went to Werder Bremen, and then was introduced by the giant Real Madrid. And Dortmund has shone brightest in recent years with the twin stars Reus and Gotze, and then there are Gundogan and wing-back Schmelzer in midfield, as well as half-academy centre-back partners Hummels and Subotic and defensive midfielder Sven Bender.

So Arsene Wenger plans to go to Germany to find a reliable central defender, and now Arsenal has only three main central defenders. Even if Vermaelen's form is not a problem, it will be difficult for Arsenal, who are fighting on multiple fronts. For the Premier League team's first-team central defenders, there must be at least four people, and if the wing-backs can play as central defenders, three are also so-so.

In fact, Wenger also looked at Dortmund's defensive core Hummels and Subotic, but their turn was slow and did not suit Arsenal's tactical requirements. And Bayern's Bad Stuber is also slow to turn, of course, the reason why Bayern will not release occupies the main one.

So Arsene Wenger set his sights on the Schalke captain, and Hodes has good technical ability. Defence is a good player, but there are also excellent bounces and headers, and the key is that a club like Schalke has never said that it is not for sale, unless of course your price is too low.

Even the well-informed media don't know about this, and some well-informed media only know that Wenger is interested in Schalke talented winger Draxler and intends to build Draxler into a second Podolski. To succeed the 28-year-old Porti, Podolski may still play for Arsenal for about three seasons, and Draxler, who was born in 93, is only 20 years old.

And now that Li Zihan has joined Arsenal, and Arsene Wenger has transformed him into a center forward and winger all-rounder, so Arsenal's demand for Draxler is not very strong. Wenger instructed the scouting team to conduct a full investigation of Draxler, and there was time anyway.

For the time being, Vermaelen will only be able to play in a few less important games.

And in this game, the two wing-backs are also young players, Gibbs on the left and Jenkinson on the right. It can be seen that Wenger wants to save for the Champions League in midweek, and Li Zihan is also on the bench.

Everyone has to sigh, how long has Li Zihan been at Arsenal, and now he is already a striker who "picks the beam". Arsene Wenger has scheduled him to start in important games, and in time there will be a "Highbury" King.

can't blame the outside world's expectations for being too high, but Li Zihan's appearance is really a bit "demonic". Look at his number jù last season and the table of the court, and look at the number jù this season, where does this look like an eighteen or nineteen-year-old young player. This number is the same as the hot Falcao in this summer's transfer market, Cavani, Neymar, and Bale may not be able to get much of a disadvantage, and they are not as good as Li Zihan, that is, many of them are "personal heroism", and Li Zihan can help his teammates score goals in addition to scoring goals, and the key is that he can give his teammates a lot of opportunities. The most important point is that this kid is only nineteen years old this year.

So Li Zihan is actually quite happy at Arsenal, the teammates here are easier to get along with, and the atmosphere in the dressing room is very friendly. Manager Arsene Wenger is also very attentive to his training, and the professor has also fulfilled Li Zihan's expectations - to play more and play more in important games.

And the rest of the Arsenal team members are also holding their breath after a week of "hard work". At this time, the poor canary Norwich tragically bumped into him and became the object of the Arsenal flag.

The entire first half was in Arsenal's rhythm and the ball barely left the feet of the Arsenal players. Arsenal are also a team that focuses on team-up and possession, but their possession is efficiency, not just possession for the sake of possession.

In the fifteenth minute of the first half, Flamini passed the ball to Walcott on the touchline after a back and forth. The little tiger did not dribble the ball directly on the sideline, but knocked it to Ramsey next to him. The talented Welsh midfielder dodged the opposition and then sent the ball to the feet of veteran Rosicky in front.

Rosicky immediately split the side to Oxlade-Chamberlain, who directly used his speed to eat the opposing wing-back, and then when the opposing full-back thought he was going to go down. The young Oxlade-Chamberlain made a feint and crossed the ball directly from the sideline at a 45-degree angle.

High striker Olivier Giroud immediately followed up in the middle and grabbed the point in front of him to outflank him. But it was a flop that Giroud didn't run for the ball, his movement took away the centre-back in the middle, leaving a gap.

Ramsey cut back with a great deal and got the ball in the gap. At this time, the opposing Cameroon central defender Basson knew that he had been fooled, and he didn't believe that Giroud made a mistake in his running position and didn't see Oxlade-Chamberlain's pass clearly.

Seeing this gap, Ramsey felt that there could be one. Then he hit a long-range shot directly at the edge of the penalty area, and the ball did not whistle past, but quietly rolled the ball towards the far corner of the goal.

Norwich's main goalkeeper, England's John Rudy, is not a fool, and when he sees this empty position, he knows that the opponent is very likely to come to kick him. And the young Welsh midfielder Ramsey, who has a good long-range shooting ability, still has the ball, so he is ready for it.

Sure enough, the opponent hit a long-range shot. It's just that to Rudy's surprise, the ball is not a high ball hitting the top corner of the goal, nor is it a half-high ball.

It was a boccia ball that hit the far corner, but to his surprise he made the first save.

Sideways, stretch your limbs, and then block the angle with your body.

The ball was almost flicked with the tip of his hand, and then the deflection track hit the post. Rudy, who is 1.93 meters tall, couldn't save the ball, so you can imagine how high the quality of Ramsey's long-range shot was.

As a goalkeeper, he has a natural sense of crisis and tells him that as long as the ball is not in his arms, it is when his defender is in possession near his own penalty area.

So he instinctively looked up and tried to find the position of the ball to make a second save. However, someone is one step ahead of him, and as a veteran in his early thirties, he may not be able to keep up with young people in terms of reflexes. But in terms of experience, it is by no means comparable to those young people.

So when Ramsey slashed his foot, he focused on the six-yard box, and then saw goalkeeper Rudy make a save, so he immediately stepped in and slanted his body at the rolling ball.

The ball went into the net on the other side of the goal, and it was clear that Rudy's feet couldn't make a two-handed save.

"The ball went in!! After 15 minutes of passing and receiving performances, Arsenal finally won the first goal to temporarily lead Norwich City 1-0 at home. This is the Arsenal that everyone is familiar with, and it has the feeling that whether you defend or attack, I just play my football and send the ball into your net."

The host at the Emirates Stadium shouted: "It was To-Ma-S-" who scored for us."

"Rosicky !!" The fans in the stadium responded loudly to the host's chanting.

"Thank you for your cooperation, lovely gunslingers. Thanks to the veteran Rosicky for the goal and of course to Professor Arsene Wenger. The moderator also expressed his support for manager Arsene Wenger at the end.

'Norwich's centre-backs protested like the referee that they thought Rosicky was offside when he made the stoppage. Let's take a look at the slow motion, the ball bounces into the box, and then Rosicky plugs in this position and you can clearly see that Rosicky is inserted at the back, and there is a full-back in front of him. There was no problem with the goal and the referee also thought it was a brilliant goal. The Canary's centre-backs can think about how to play their football well, rather than doing some unconvincing nonsense. ”

After the goal, Rosicky shook off a large circle of teammates who wanted to celebrate the goal with him, and then ran straight to the bench, and then Wenger, who was standing in the coach's command area, hugged him hard, and his face was full of smiles.

"Oh, and the scorers Rosicky and Arsene Wenger came to hug and seemed to thank the professor for believing in him. Although the Czech veteran is thirty-three years old, it has to be said that Arsenal has his main position. It's just that the veteran's physical condition may not allow him to get so much playing time, but for Rosicky at this age, it is impossible to want to play every game, and play the full 90 minutes in every game.

After hugging Wenger, Rosicky hugged Li Zihan who came to the side.

"Well done Thomas!"

"Haha, I scored in this game, and when you play the Champions League next time, you must also score!" Rosicky said jokingly.

"No problem, if I score in the Champions League, I'll increase the amount of training to a higher level!" Li Zihan replied very firmly.

"Hahaha, that's what you said"

"Well, it seems that our Han Niang is also doing well at Arsenal, and has a good relationship with Rosicky's veterans, and he often sees photos with Wilshere, Ozil and Walcoat on his Weibo. I have to say that Han Niang has done a better job than many Chinese players who stayed abroad. Whether it's Juventus' before, or Arsenal in the Premier League for the first time! ”