Chapter 466: Time is a pig-killing knife

After the absence of a few cores, Arsenal, who are fighting in the second team, appear very passive on the field. They are even under pressure from the visitors, with Spaniard Michu and England's homegrown slick Shelvey at the heart of their midfield, while Ivory Drogba's hometown striker Bony is also a leading scorer.

The final score was 2-2 as Swansea City held Arsenal to a draw at the Emirates Stadium. In fact, it was said that it was a draw or to give Arsenal face, but in fact, Arsenal saved a draw at home.

As soon as the game started, Arsenal fell into passivity, and finally scored a goal by opposing striker Bony in the 25th minute. The goal came from a mistake by Szczesny, whose rash strike gave the Ivorian a chance, and of course Michu, who passed the ball for him, also managed to time it very well.

Swansea City, like many mid-table teams in the Premier League, are completely open once they play well. They started to attack aggressively and the goal gave them hope of winning all three points.

This kind of situation is very common in the Premier League, when you watch a Premier League game, if the weak team scores the first goal to play the momentum, it is difficult to distinguish who is the weak team and who is the strong team from the shape of the field. For example, Swansea, pseudo-fans who only look at the jersey may think that they are Real Madrid.

This is also the excitement of the Premier League, the so-called Premier League has no weak brigade is not just talking!

So with their own "three-board axe", Swansea played like a fish in water away from home. If it weren't for the fact that Flamini and Arteta, who started as defensive midfielders, they might have scored a second goal.

Arsenal, who are missing a few cores, are quite aggrieved in their home stadium, but there is no way to do it, who calls their benches not thick enough. And until now, it is still a three-line battle, and they can only choose to give up other less important events for the sake of some necessary important events.

Some fans and bricks said that it would be unwise for Arsenal to show such a thing, and that they should voluntarily abandon the Champions League, which is more competitive and least likely. By concentrating all your efforts in the league, you may be able to win the league title you have been away from for a long time and end the embarrassing nine-year title without a title.

Although every extra game in the Champions League will increase the bonus income and improve the reputation and prestige, but for a team like Arsenal, there is really no need to give up on holding a bigger league title for one or two million games, which is a typical behavior of losing watermelons and picking sesame seeds.

Wenger did not adopt such a suggestion for everyone, and did not even explain it. What he thought when he fell to the ground, even the Arsenal players themselves didn't know.

And it's a big game for Swansea, who are now eighth in the league table, level on points with seventh-placed Manchester United – the first time they've played 30 league games and are still in the table with Manchester United

They are six points behind fifth- and sixth-placed Everton and Tottenham, and if they can take all three points away from home to Arsenal and then try to grab points in the next seven games, they may not be eligible for next season's UEFA Cup.

It's a little exciting to think about!

Therefore, Swansea's desire to attack is very strong, and Swansea, who have no desire this season, suddenly found a glimmer of hope to participate in European competition after scoring this goal. Although it is a second-tier Europa League Cup, the dawn is very small, but it is still worth fighting!

There's no loss anyway, the rest of this season's trophies have nothing to do with Swansea, so they don't have to be distracted, and their international quality is not high, no one is an indispensable core of their national team, so there is no need to worry about not having the opportunity to play in next year's World Cup - in fact, the international players of teams like Swansea are just benches and squad additions for the national team

To sum up, Swansea is more desperate than Arsenal! Arsenal only came to an end last weekend, and this is a time of physical and mental exhaustion.

From the outset, Arsenal were in a passive situation and there was not much they could do in the face of Swansea's wave-like attack.

Li Zihan in the stands looked at the court intently, imagining what he should do on the court at this time.

It's very simple, since they are so high-profile to press the attack, then hit them with a quick counterattack behind them! Use speed to break directly through their defensive strength that has reached the halfway line, and in the end, even if they don't score, they can also put some pressure on the opponent, at least two of the opponent's defenders will get a yellow card!

It's just that he's not on the pitch at this time.

It's not just him, Arsenal's speed players aren't in the starting line-up. Lee is rested, Oxlade-Chamberlain is suspended, Cazorla is still from injury, and Theo Walcott may not be on the pitch until next season.

However, Arsenal still has a lot of advantages over Swansea, at least the experience is much better than the opponent. Rosicky, Arteta, Flamini and Medsarth, which one is not experienced. And Swansea's core Bony and Shelvey are both youngsters, so Michu's experience is not bad.

So Arsenal looked thrilling on the pitch, but so far they haven't let Swansea score another one.

Towards the end of the first half, Arsenal were awarded a corner. It was their second corner of the game so far, while Swansea have won six.

Mikel Arteta headed for a corner and the three high posts of Merdessatt, Podolski and Olivier Giroud burst into the box, while Flamini was ready to jump in from the penalty spot.

Arteta's ball was handed to Vermaelen at the edge of the box, and the Gunners captain, who has been very embarrassed in the team this season, held the ball at the edge of the box to attract the opposing players, and then suddenly swept the ball into the box.

Flamini received the ball in the box, he didn't make any feints to shoot, and he didn't even make any extra moves.

The French midfielder made the ball directly out of the penalty area, but instead of giving it to Vermaelen, it was handed to the veteran Rosicky in front.

Rosicky didn't say a word, raised his foot and hit the door directly.

The Swansea players, who were dazzled by Arsenal's three-pass and two-to-back in front of the penalty area, had not yet reacted before the ball flew into their goal.

In the forty-third minute of the game, Rosicky equalized for the team, 1-1!

At this time, all the veterans are singing praises for Rosicky, saying that players like Rosicky still need to stand up at this moment

And netizens said that Arsenal likes to score goals at the end of the game this season, regardless of whether Li Zihan is there or not, Arsenal always likes to score at the end.

However, Arsenal's fans and players were not happy for long, and Swansea soon overtook the score again.

After a fifteen-minute break at halftime, the two sides changed sides in the second half!

Swansea's state and determination are as good as ever, and they caught Arsenal off guard with a cold attack!

In the end, with the back-insertion of the midfield core Shelvey, he shot angrily and took the lead again for the "White Swan"! And the one who provided him with the assist was still Swansea's Spanish core Michu!

At this time, the media and commentators had once again carried forward their spirit of intemperance, and had just been singing praises to Rosicky and Flamini. Immediately turned the mic and began to tout Michu and Shervey!

even ridiculed Shervey, who is obviously a junior in ninety-two, but looking at his appearance, he looks like he was born in eighty-two

After touting and ridiculing Shervey, they immediately . Pointing the finger at Flamini and Arteta. It means that the two are really old, although they have a lot of experience, and can bring some experience to this young Arsenal team, both off the field and on the field. But their competitive form is really declining, and Flamini is no longer able to run, and it is easy to be beaten by other speed players. Arteta, on the other hand, is not very physical, his defensive ability is average, and he is 31 years old

This goal was conceded because the two did not defend the front of the penalty area in place, so they gave the back of the plug-in Xhelvey the opportunity to shoot, so they said that the two of them are also considered for a reason.

However, when I think that they were still singing praises for Flamini in the first half 17 minutes ago, saying that the Frenchman is not old, can attack and defend, and is the backbone of Arsenal's midfield, he is now singing about others

Looking at these egg-sore media, then the problem comes!! On the amount of excavators, no. On the ability of no discipline, no lower limit, which one is stronger?

This goal was like a second shot in the arm to Swansea, and the white swan turned into a giant eagle and attacked Arsenal like crazy.

Arsenal are back in an aggrieved role once again, just like in the first half.

The main task is to defend, and the secondary task is to attack and counterattack

Before the game, it was hard to imagine that Arsenal would be played like this by a mid-table team like Swansea, although many of Arsenal's starting lists for this game were rotations and substitutes this season, but before this season, these players were the main force of Arsenal's "fight for four", such as Arteta, Podolski, Giroud, Gibbs, Merdessaart and even Vermaelen, who was not the main force of Arsenal at that time?

But how is it that you are being bullied so badly by Swansea now?

Looking at Arsenal's performance like this, looking at the table of the young core led by Li Zihan, Ozil and Wilshire in the last game, and looking at the table of Arteta, Flamini and Rosicky and others in this game, netizens have to sigh: "Time is really a pig-killing knife!! ”

In fact, Rosicky's table is definitely not bad, after all, there is still a goal, no matter how bad it is, it will not be bad, but dragged down by Arsenal's overall downturn, his table is also very average.