No. 391: Ups and downs in the standings
There is no winter break in the Premier League, which is sad enough. But because of Dongfangchen's incident, the players of the Arsenal team did not even have a good Christmas, and they all wilted.
The day after Christmas, Arsenal welcomed Wolves on their home turf.
Recently, because of Dongfang Chen's incident, the Arsenal team has been greatly affected, and the Wolves team came with a tiger's mouth and a three-point posture.
Now, Arsenal are the reservoir dogs in the eyes of Wolves, and now that they have a chance to beat the reservoir dogs, they will naturally not give up. They also have to take advantage of this great opportunity and get what they want.
On this day, many Wolves fans came to the Emirates Stadium, and they put up banners in the stadium to humiliate Dongfang Chen and criticize the Arsenal team.
The Wolves are humiliating Dongfang Chen with the matter between Dongfang Chen and Anna Cochlin.
At the beginning of the game, Wolves took out the posture of vowing to win three points, attacking frantically, and besieging the Arsenal team.
The players of the Arsenal team have also been very affected recently, and they have been tortured very much in training, and they are all weak.
The main thing is that it's just over Christmas, and the Arsenal players are not in much shape at this time.
So, after the start of the game, Arsenal were at a disadvantage, not at all like playing at home.
On the sidelines, Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger was very angry when he saw this, jumping and jumping on the sidelines, venting his dissatisfaction.
However, it was the away side who scored first, as striker Kevin Doyle received a pass from a wide team-mate directly in the box and a downed tackle slotted the ball into the Arsenal goal.
Kevin Doyle's strength is still good, and he once competed with Dongfang Chen for the top scorer in the Championship.
Kevin Doyle was a brilliant performer in this game, and if it weren't for Arsenal's luck, Wolves would have been 3-0 up at the end of the first half.
At half-time, Arsène Wenger vented his anger in the dressing room and gave a hard lesson to his Arsenal players.
After the start of the second half, the Arsenal players were obviously more serious, but they were still very passive on the field, which made Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger even more angry.
Time is getting less and less, but there are more and more opportunities for Wolves, at this time, Arsène Wenger couldn't stand it, turned around directly, returned to his position, sat blankly, and didn't pay attention to the Arsenal players at all.
Wolves are getting better and better, and they are about to score a second goal.
However, the Arsenal team suddenly leveled the Wolves goal with a counterattack opportunity that was not good, and it was Dongfang Chen who scored.
Dongfang Chen's long-range goal helped Arsenal get a valuable point.
However, Arsène Wenger was very dissatisfied with this game, and after the game, Arsène Wenger was crazy about training, and the players of the Arsenal team could not raise their heads.
Arsène Wenger's anger was justified, they should have won 100 per cent of the game for Arsenal, but they didn't take their chances and drew with Wolves on their home turf, which was a laugh.
Arsenal's recent momentum has come to an end. Without this momentum, Arsenal will not be able to make a mistake next.
At the end of this round, Manchester United are still at the top of the Premier League table with 45 points. Manchester City were also held to a draw in this round of fixtures, and now they are on 42 points, three points behind Manchester United.
Arsenal draw this game with 41 points, still one point behind Manchester City and third in the Premier League. However, fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur have reached 41 points with the same number of points.
The situation is very bad for Arsenal, and if they are not careful in the next league game, they will be overtaken by Tottenham Hotspur.
And the situation of the Arsenal team is very bad now, no wonder Arsène Wenger has been very angry recently, and the training intensity of the Arsenal players is also very high.
At this time, the impact of Dongfang Chen's scandal on the Arsenal team is still continuing, and now the players of the Arsenal team are in a bad mood.
In the 19th round of the Premier League, Arsenal continued to sit on their home turf against Queens Park Rangers. Queens Park Rangers also know what is going on with Arsenal at the moment, they see hope and they feel they can get points from Arsenal.
Once the game started, Queens Park Rangers attacked like Wolves, and they did take the initiative on the pitch and get more chances. However, they were a little less lucky and did not score in the first half.
After the start of the second half, the Arsenal players wanted to fight back, but the players of Queens Park Rangers played very toughly, and the tackles were endless, making it difficult for the Arsenal team to organize.
And the Queens Park Rangers side is getting better and better, as if the next moment is going to score, the Queens Park Rangers players are getting more and more excited, and they immediately attack wildly.
However, at this time, Arsenal were lucky to be awarded a penalty.
Dongfang Chen took the ball in the penalty area and was pulled to the ground by the defenders of Queens Park Rangers, and the referee decisively awarded a penalty.
Arsenal midfielder Mikel Arteta converted the penalty and Arsenal won with a lucky penalty to get the three points.
Although Arsenal won the three points in this game, Arsène Wenger was still very unhappy with the performance of the Arsenal players. In this game, it was very lucky for Arsenal to win the game.
However, to get the three points, it was a good result. Arsène Wenger still gave the Arsenal players a day off.
Arsène Wenger was so happy because in this round, both of them lost. Manchester United lost 3-2 at home to Blackburn Rovers and Manchester City lost 1-0 away to Sunderland.
In this case, Manchester United are still at the top of the league with 45 points, while Arsenal are ahead of Manchester City with 44 points to move into second place in the Premier League. Although Arsenal are in a bad situation at the moment, the results still look good.
Manchester City are third in the Premier League with 42 points, while Tottenham Hotspur are also fourth in the Premier League with 42 points.
Arsène Wenger is naturally very happy to see such a ranking, and they hope that the team can seize the opportunity to continue to move towards Manchester United, and strive to surpass Manchester United and get the top position in the Premier League.
In the 20th round of the league, Arsenal is away to challenge Fulham, this game, Arsenal should win, continue to put pressure on Manchester United. Manchester United travels to Newcastle United, while Manchester City hosts Liverpool.
Arsenal are the weakest of the top three opponents and are likely to overtake Manchester United in this round to take top spot in the Premier League.
Before the game, Arsène Wenger repeatedly stressed that this game is very important, they must win this game, this game, they must win.
At the beginning of the game, Arsenal dominated the game and launched a ferocious attack on Fulham, hoping to achieve victory.
The Arsenal team's attack was very ferocious, and Dongfang Chen even stirred up Fulham's penalty area in chaos. However, it was Fulham who scored first.
And the Fulham team scored two goals, and Fulham's two goals also had an element of luck.
Fulham's first goal came from an own goal by Arsenal and Vermaelen at the back went straight to the top of the ball. Scoring his own goal, Arsène Wenger was furious.
Fulham's second goal was a long-range shot from the edge of the box, but the ball hit the Arsenal players in succession and rolled into the Arsenal goal, Handanovic couldn't do anything about it.
Conceding two goals in a row was like the end of the Arsenal team. In the second half, Arsenal's crazy attack was to equalize or even overtake the score.
But no matter how hard Arsenal tried, they didn't equalise and only scored a consolation goal in the final moments, with Dongfang Chen setting up Robin van Persie to score.
In the end, Arsenal lost 1-2 away to Fulham, causing an upset.
After losing this game, Arsène Wenger was very angry, very unhappy, and his lungs were about to explode.
Because, in this round of matches, Manchester United, who are at the top of the Premier League, actually lost, they lost 0-3 away to Newcastle United.
What an opportunity! A win for Arsenal in this round would see them leapfrog Manchester United to the top of the Premier League.
Unfortunately, the Arsenal players didn't take their chances and let them slip through their fingertips.
No wonder Arsène Wenger is so angry.
The Manchester City team defeated their opponent Liverpool 3-0 in this game, and this score and result were not expected by everyone, it seems that the Manchester City team is going to fight.
After the 20th round of the Premier League, Manchester City are at the top of the Premier League table, and Manchester City are once again at the top of the Premier League table, with 45 points, the same as Manchester United, but with an advantage in goal difference.
Manchester United, on the other hand, finished second in the Premier League and were once again overtaken by Manchester City.
The third place in the league is not Arsenal, but Tottenham Hotspur, Tottenham Hotspur also surpasses Arsenal in points, they are now also 45 points, the same as the top two, but their goal difference is relatively behind, Soyi is third in the league.
Arsenal sit in the fourth place in the Premier League, with 44 points, just one point off the top three. It's not a huge gap, and although Arsenal are fourth in the Premier League, they still have a chance to change their situation in one game.
Next week, Arsenal have a double game of the week, with the FA Cup third round in midweek and Premier League teams joining the action.