Chapter 392: The Gunslinger's Winter Target

In the seventy-fifth minute of the game, Li Zihan was replaced, similar to Cazorla in front, also for reasons of protecting him and preserving his physical strength. Because of the reduction in defensive players, in order to effectively defend Arsenal's attack, Aston Villa's players are moving more and more defensively. As the most active in the attack, Li Zihan is undoubtedly the "first bird" under their guns, and Wenger doesn't want to make matters worse by injuring two main generals in this game.

So he replaced Li Zihan in advance to avoid accidents, which was a counterpoint substitution. Li Zihan was replaced by Danish centre-forward Bendtner, who had not played much for a long time, and Bendtner had been completely reduced to a fringe player at Arsenal. Especially after the summer transfer, Arsenal originally wanted to buy him in the Bundesliga or his hometown of the Danish Premier League, Copenhagen. As a result, the two sellers demanded a sky-high contract from the two clubs who made the offer to him, and as a result, Arsenal's transfer deal was ruined.

So Arsenal haven't sold Bendtner until now, and of course, the Nordic kid is not having a good time at Arsenal right now. At his current position, he has only played five games halfway through the season, and his total playing time has not exceeded 150 minutes.

When Li Zihan left the field, the fans gave applause at half time, of course, the half of the fans were wearing Arsenal shirts or standing in the camp of Arsenal fans. As for the Aston Villa fans, although Li Zihan was very unwelcome, they did not send boos to boo him, but just remained silent.

In the last ten minutes, Aston Villa still couldn't change the score, and because the full pressure was more powerful and caused the back to be empty, Arsenal seized the opportunity to launch a sharp counterattack. This time, Wilshere didn't make a mistake and sent a through ball that penetrated the opposition defence. Oxlade-Chamberlain followed up at high speed on the wing and then received the ball to form a quasi-one-on-one.

It's just that the effort on the handling of the last kick was not enough, and the shot in front of the goal flew directly over the crossbar and flew out of the bottom line.

This can be regarded as Chamberlain's biggest weakness, the youngster is excellent at everything. It's just that the kick at the goal is too bad, and even unceremoniously said that the full-back Gibbs's shots are on par with his winger and striker.

In the end, Arsenal left Villa Park in Birmingham City with a score of 1-3, and the big win over Aston Villa was also a revenge in the first round of the season. It's just Podolski's injury that has cast a shadow over Arsenal's victory over Gunners supporters, and there hasn't been much joy in victory.

It is worth mentioning that Sky Sports reporters interviewed several Arsenal fans at random at Villa Park after the game. When asked why so many fans came to the away stadium for this mid-table team, one fan who looked like he was a Chinese student said.

'We wanted to create a home atmosphere and we wanted to win the game, so we supported the team the way we were a fan and we went to the stadium. It's away from home, but that doesn't stop us from watching and cheering on the team, and we want to see the winning goals first. ”

Then he continued: "The above is the official statement, the unofficial statement is that the other side otherwise we are better at home, and of course we will not let the other side have a better time at our own home stadium. They have to thank Wilshere for not being in form, otherwise we would have expected a score of at least four to one! ”

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And when the reporter asked why the home team took the lead in the first half and equalized with Arsenal, why the Arsenal fans were not particularly excited.

An elderly fan said: "We already knew the outcome, so we didn't say much about the opponent scoring first. And when the team equalized and took the lead, we knew the result couldn't change. Isn't it normal for Arsenal to win against Aston Villa? ”

For the fans' final rhetorical question, the reporter was speechless. It is true that compared with Arsenal, Aston Villa has a lot of gaps in strength, especially the current Arsenal. It's just that football can't be compared by strength

Arsenal continue to lead the table after a win over Aston Villa, having been sitting at the top of the league for almost two months now.

It's just a pity that there were no upsets in this round, and Arsenal didn't further extend their lead.

In January, most of Europe was in a cold state. But the opposite of the weather is the transfer market for the major leagues.

After failing to sell Bendtner in the summer, Arsenal intend to continue selling more than half of the league this winter, not only Arsenal, but also many teams with injury problems. So at this time, some small and medium-sized teams can introduce Bendtner to strengthen their lineup, after Li Zihan came, Arsenal's forwards were Li Zihan and Giroud, and even Giroud was only rotated. Therefore, Bendtner's savings are redundant for Arsenal, not to mention that there are two young players in the reserves, Sanogo and Gnabry.

Of course, apart from selling, Arsenal is now thinking about buying people the most. Because their injuries are so strict, the current position arsenal can't even get a rotation lineup. Mesut Ozil won't be back until next month, Wilshere's form still needs to be adjusted, and Theo Walcoat is even more sad to be out for the season. Just now, Podolsky's injury report has also come out, and he will also have a truce for half a month.

As a result, the only players who can play in these positions are Oxlade-Chamberlain, Rosicky, Cazorla and Wilshere, who has just returned from injury, and Li Zihan, who can play as a winger and midfielder.

Arsenal's main formation is a 4-2-3-1 formation, in which the "3" position is usually at least five players. Now Arsenal can play the main role in the "3" is only three or four people, and once there is an injury, then it will be even more clumsy.

So Wenger's headache now is not the problem of Bendtner's non-cooperation with the transfer, but the problem of recruiting during the winter.

Of course, it's not just Arsene Wenger who has a headache. There are also Manchester United's David Moyes and Chelsea's Jose Mourinho, and perhaps the only ones who don't worry about these issues are the Galaxy Real Madrid, the Cosmos Barcelona and the oil giants Manchester City

The winter transfer is more complicated, and the manager has to think about whether the players he brings in can be integrated into the team quickly and see the results quickly. This is the most important thing because it is the purpose of the vast majority of clubs in the winter transfer window. The second is to wait for the main players to recover from injury and return to their condition, so how to arrange the arrangement between them. To form a healthy competition, it is not possible to be too biased.

After careful consideration, Wenger finally set his sights on Swede Kim Karlström, who currently plays for Spartak Moscow in the Russian Premier League.

Most fans are familiar with this player, but even more so for veteran fans who often play the game of Football Manager. Karlströren is known as the golden boy of Northern Europe and Sweden's biggest discovery after Brolin. In both the 99-00 and 00-01 versions, he was a high-stat demon for the Swedish youth team. In reality, however, his development did not go well and he was not able to make it to the 2002 World Cup, and it was not until the 2006 World Cup that Karlström seized his chance, starting three of Sweden's four games.

Karlström started his career with Heiken BK before moving to Jurgarden and currently plays for six-time Ligue 1 winners Lyon. Compared to the glory of CM games, his career is much more low-key.

The introduction of Karlström Wenger was also the result of deliberate consideration, first of all, as a fast and flexible midfielder, Karlström has a good ability to read the game. With a lot of game experience, he is always able to influence the course of the game and can also integrate quickly into the team to help the team.

Secondly, Colström, who was born in the summer of 1982, is now almost 32 years old, so even if Mesut Ozil and others return from injury, the position problems between the two will not bother him. As an attacking player, the age of the big teams in the top flight is generally not too old.

In the end, Arsene Wenger didn't feel like he was spending money on the veteran. Instead, they are going to spend half a season on loan to spend this time at Arsenal due to the lack of players. Although Karlström's age is no longer able to play in the five major leagues, the salary is not high. But his salary in the Russian league is not low, and the Russian league basically uses generous treatment to attract those players to go to Russia to pan for gold. You must know that before Eto'o returned to Chelsea, Anzhina's annual salary in the Russian Premier League was the first in the world, higher than that of Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi.

And now the economic situation of many Russian teams is not good, mainly because of the current Russian politics. The government is eyeing the financial oligarchic bosses behind these clubs. So at this time, Arsenal gave a little loan fee and took on Karlström's salary for half a season, and Spartak was happy to come.

As soon as the target was finalized, Wenger arranged for his staff to fly to Moscow, the capital of Russia, hoping to bring the experienced veteran to the Emirates Stadium as soon as possible to alleviate Arsenal's "player shortage".

Arsene Wenger had just breathed a sigh of relief, but an incident later in the day left him busy and quite nerve-wracking.