Chapter 136: Young Meets Young
Deegan looked at the little man standing next to him and couldn't help but be a little surprised, the memories of his previous life told him that Cesc Fabregas had indeed captained Arsenal, but Deegan didn't expect it to be so soon.
Deegan and Cesc Fabregas are no strangers to each other, in addition to the previous experience of playing each other in the Champions League final, the original Shijie Cup qualifier, it was Degan's Belgian team, with a guaranteed qualifying place, defeated Spain away, allowing the Matadors to miss the 2006 German Shijie Cup.
In that game, although Cesc Fabregas was selected in the 18-man squad, he did not get the opportunity to play, and could only watch Spain be defeated by Digan on the bench.
"I've been waiting for this game for a long time!" Cesc Fabregas said suddenly, in English, "I remember that game very well, and I've been waiting for this opportunity for revenge for a long time!" ”
Deegan pretended to be surprised and said, "Competition? Which game!? ”
Fabregas frowned: "Don't tell me, you've forgotten!" ”
Deegan smiled, tilted his head, and couldn't look at Bregas: "I haven't forgotten the game, but I don't remember that you were on the court at that time, okay!" I don't want to quarrel with you, if you think you have the right for revenge, just go ahead! I'd love to know how good you are! ”
Speaking from the heart, Arsenal's opponent, Degan really didn't look at it, although it belongs to two different leagues, but what is the situation of Arsenal now, Degan knows very well.
Infighting, internal friction!
The most serious is Wenger, his contract with the team is only until the end of this season, it can be said that the team is now panicking, the current Arsenal players are basically Wenger's single-handed, cultivated, once Wenger leaves the team, what kind of fate will their players be.
Especially after Henry's departure, Arsenal has never been able to find a striker who can take on the responsibility of attacking the city for the team, look at Arsenal's goal distribution this season, you know, although it has excellent strikers like Van Persie and Adebayor, and young talents like Walcott, Arsenal's important attack points are all midfielders.
It can be said that the current Arsenal is no longer the Arsenal that set a 49-game unbeaten record.
Arsenal in the 03/04 season definitely deserved the title of best team, that season, Arsenal won 26 of 38 league games, drew 12 games, scored 73 goals and conceded 26 goals, and finally won the league title with 90 points, while the team's top scorer Thierry Henry won the Golden Boot with 30 goals. Looking back at Arsenal's original lineup, it can be described as a star-studded lineup. Campbell, Ashley. Cole, Vieira, Robert. Pire, Ljungberg, Bergkamp, Henry and many more.
At the time, Arsenal were unrivalled and became the first team to win the league title unbeaten in a single season since Preston North End in 1889.
It was in that summer that Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea, and then brought in stars such as Duff, Veron, and Joe Cole, and many thought the Blues could be successful, and also in the summer, David Beckham left Manchester United for Real Madrid, and United were hit by Rio Ferdinand's ban for failing to take a drug test, and he was unable to play for four months at the beginning of the season, while Manchester United bought Cristiano from Sporting Lisbon. Ronaldo.
But that season was destined to belong to Arsenal, with Thierry Henry's firepower and the Gunners on a stellar run throughout the year before they ascended to the throne at the home of arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur, with four league games still to go.
"Everyone has to admit that we are the most hode team in the country." After winning the championship, Bergkamp, the ice prince, said excitedly, "We played differently and we deserved it. ”
But the original Arsenal has become history, the Ice Prince retired, Pire left La Liga, Vieira left Serie A, Ashley. Cole moved to Chelsea, and even Thierry Henry, the king of Highbury, left the team.
Arsenal are now completely homeless, people say that Fiorentina is the Young Guard, in fact, this title also applies to Arsenal.
If there's one thing Arsenal can feel scrutiny, it's the youth of this team.
Being young is destined to lack experience, but in the same way, being young also means that they are fearless.
When it comes to Arsenal's youthfulness, perhaps Alan Hansen's much-used so-called famous phrase can still be taken out to dry: the so-called child army will not become a big thing, and it will not win the league title.
But back then, he made a big mistake in evaluating Ferguson's Young Guard, and it may not be possible to describe Arsenal now.
Arsene Wenger's Arsenal, if you fight the number of league appearances of the players who are old and pedantic and love to study, it is probably a team outside the bottom eight of the league, but if you fight for youth and strength, physical strength, fighting spirit, offensive determination and efficiency, etc., these are the most important factors in football, Arsenal is of course one of the biggest favorites in the league.
What are the benefits of being young?
As far as Wenger's army is concerned, the biggest advantage is that they have the physical strength to ensure that they play high-speed pressing football for the entire 90 minutes, even if the opponent's iron bucket formation is successful in the first 60 minutes, but the lack of physical strength in the follow-up is enough for Arsenal to find a chance to kill in the next 30 minutes!
Looking at this season's Jishu statistics, Arsenal have scored 70% of the total goals in the league after 60 minutes, ranking first in the Premier League.
What caused Arsenal to rank first in the Premier League for 30 minutes in Zuihou?
Aside from the luck factor that is fair to any team, Arsene Wenger's attacking tactics are the first reason, after he came to England, he has long built Arsenal into a team that completely serves his own southern European style of tactics, the team is the main attack, the formation is more closely connected than before, and the whole team is greatly pressed forward, resulting in the core players no longer running alone in the front, but have multiple points of departure and breakthrough.
The ground penetration is used extremely frequently, although it is not like Barcelona's TiKi-TaKa to pay attention to small-scale cooperation, and the style of the English team is also destined to their jishu thick branches, but due to the small adjustment of personnel every season, the tacit understanding is very high, and there are almost no high penalty kicks in the whole field, but the attack is still devastating, and the strength is outstanding, plus the implementation of the offensive concept to the end, other teams are passive.
There is also a first-class team of young construction, "little adults" with a mature competitive mentality abound, young players around 20 years old, winning in physical strength and losing in psychology and experience, especially psychology, examples of headwind balls are everywhere, but Arsenal is not, taking Cesc Fabregas and Walcourt as examples, although they are very young, they will not have stage fright in front of the big game at all, but according to the coach's deployment, try to play their due level, even in the face of strong opponents, young players will become more and more courageous, It is very haode that reflects the positive position of the young players in the Arsenal team.
Then there is the problem of physical strength, the tactics are opposed, the attack wave is up, in exchange for not necessarily the destruction of the withering, Arsenal's opponents are basically opponents in the same league, and they are also high-level professional teams, knowing that they can't beat, they will adopt a stubborn strategy, but the training at this time, in addition to testing the psychological stability of the players, can also reflect the physical strength of the players.
After 60 minutes, people's physical fitness will inevitably go downhill, the function of coordination in all aspects of the body will also decline significantly, who has good physical reserves who will be superior, whenever the game is about to end, the opponent is exhausted, and Arsenal's little tigers are young and vigorous, the momentum is still there when sprinting, the eyes are still sharp when passing, and the feeling of the foot is still reliable, with their own excellent physical fitness, to meet the fatigue of the opponent, if you want not to lose the ball, the opponent can only rely on luck to stack luck and then stack luck.
Youth is the capital, and the concept of attacking first at the expense of physical strength is also the young Arsenal.
But the concerns of other teams are not applicable in front of Fiorentina, because Fiorentina are just as young, and these young people are just as superb, with tacit understanding and just as full of energy.
As the players of both teams entered the stadium, people could feel a breath of youth blowing into the Fragi Stadium, and some reporters in the stands couldn't help but light up.
Take a look at the line-up of the two teams, Fiorentina goalkeeper Frei, Antonini and Thiago at the back. Silva, Vincent Kompany and Maggio, midfielders Ledesma, Mikel Arteta and Marchena were in parallel positions, with Hamsik playing as a striker and Digan partnering Mutu up front.
Arsenal's starting eleven, goalkeeper Almunia joined Arsenal from Celta de Vigo in Spain in the summer of 2004, and he has been sitting on the bench since then, this season Espanyol finally ushered in his own opportunity, due to the main goalkeeper Lehmann's two low-level mistakes at the beginning of the season, Wenger completely lost confidence in the Germans, Almunia took the opportunity to take the position, he has made 21 appearances in the league this season, and the Champions League is a starter, Lehmann has been forced by him to the point of intending to leave the team.
Left-back Klich, in August 2003, at the age of 18, Klich joined Arsenal, and the French youngster's idol at that time was the English international Ashley, who was both offensive and defensive. Cole, and now he has finally become Arsenal's second "Ashley. Klich, who started every midfield in the league this season and played the whole game in the Champions League, has become Arsenal's new left-sided talent.
Central defender Toure, so far this season, the Ivorians have played all the games for Arsenal, and have become the anchor of the Arsenal backline after Campbell, Toure has outstanding defensive awareness and excellent header ability, the only shortcoming is that it is easy for the opponent to make penalties, but considering that his transfer fee is only 150,000 pounds, the Ivorian is staggering in terms of cost performance.
Centre-back Galla, who was dissatisfied with a cameo at left-back at Chelsea, was so angry that he defected to Arsene Wenger, and under the professor, Galla finally got his preferred centre-back position, and after Thierry Henry's departure, he wore the captain's armband. In addition to being leaky in defense, Galla's header in attack is also a must, Arsenal's home goal against Chelsea this season is Gala's masterpiece, but because the stinky mouth did not press the lock, Galla's captain's armband only changed hands for more than a season, but the stinky mouth does not negate his strength, in the position of central defender, he is definitely Toure's most haode partner.
Right-back Sagna, who joined Arsenal from Auxerre last summer, and his outstanding performance in this position made Arsene Wenger have to make a painful decision to move Ivory Coast international Eboue forward to the midfield, with his excellent performance at Arsenal, Sagna has been called up to the national team by Domenech, and has performed so well in his first year in the Premier League, no wonder Wenger thinks Sagna is naturally suitable to play in the Premier League.
Midfielder Flamini, the current Flamini is not the scrap material who will be praised by AC Milan fans as an outstanding representative of high salary and low energy in the future, the biggest characteristic of the current Flamini is that he is versatile, he can play multiple positions in the midfield, and this season he is partnered with Cesc Fabregas in the midfield position, and the Frenchman has played very well. It has become an important pawn in the hands of Arsene Wenger, and even Brazil international Gilberto. Silva has already been squeezed into the bench by him.
Midfielder Cesc Fabregas, excellent statistics directly prove Fabregas's central role in the Arsenal team, the Spanish youngster is only 20 years old, but since Henry left, he has grown into the new core of the team, even if you just look at the news of Real Madrid and Barcelona chasing him in the newspapers, it has made people understand how big his role is, and now the young Spaniard wears the captain's armband, which highlights his indispensable importance at Arsenal.
Midfielder Hleb left Stuttgart to join Arsenal in the winter of 2005 and has since become an indispensable part of the Gunners' midfield. This season, Hleb has averaged 7.1 points in the league, which is even higher than Cesc Fabregas, and as the heart of the Belarusian national team, Hleb's role at the Emirates Stadium cannot be underestimated.
Midfielder Rosicky has been an absolute mainstay of the team since he moved to Arsenal from Borussia Dortmund in the summer of 2006. Rosicky's jishu action has improved dramatically this season, and he has now helped the team to seven goals and one assist. Arsenal can have such an excellent performance, Rosicky, as one of the iron triangles of midfield, has contributed a lot.
The departure of striker Bam Adebayor and Thierry Henry has sparked the Togolese to fight, and he has scored 16 league goals for Arsenal this season, making him the team's second-highest scorer behind Cesc Fabregas. However, Bam Adebayor will also have to improve his goal rate in the Champions League, with he not scoring a single goal in Europe so far.
Forward Eduardo, if it weren't for Van Persie's injury, I'm afraid Eduardo would not have been on the top so quickly, and now he has scored 9 goals for Arsenal in all competitions, Van Persie's accidental injury has given Premier League defenders a glimpse of the "Fox of the Penalty Area" super ability to seize opportunities.
In today's shijie football world, especially in the twilight Italian football world, it can definitely be said that there are very few competitions like this that blow the storm of youth.
"The average age of the players on both teams in this game is not more than 25 years old, so the competition between the two youth teams is the first time to appear in the top competition in Europe.
On the pitch, the players of both teams had completed the entrance ceremony, with Digan and Cesc Fabregas standing together to officiate the referee of the match, the same Icelandic referee who had officiated the first leg between Fiorentina and Chelsea.
What happened at that time, he remembered it vividly, for fear that Digan would come again today, so he simply reminded directly: "I hope that in this game, both of you can focus on the field, I don't want anything unpleasant to happen!" ”
When Degan heard this, he couldn't help but be a little depressed, Fabregas didn't steal his sister-in-law, would he be like a mad dog, biting people everywhere?
"Of course, we all want to have a good game today, but how about you? Spaniard! ”
Cesc Fabregas sneered: "I agree too!" ”
Saying that, Fabregas took the initiative to stretch out his hand, and when Deegan saw this, he also smiled and stretched out his hand to shake Fabregas, and then guessed, Deegan regained the title of the God of Gambling and got the ball.
"That kid seems to be staring at you all the time!" Fabregas, who was outside the circle in Mutu, glanced at it.
Degan shrugged: "No way, Adrian!" You know, my attraction has always been gender-neutral! ”
When Mu Tu heard this, he almost didn't spit it out directly, and the nervousness before the competition was swept away, and he scolded with a smile: "Rod! You bastard, watch your ass later, but don't look down and pick up the ball! ”
Degan smiled unscrupulously: "Don't worry! Even if there is such an opportunity, I will give it all to you! ”
"Fuck off!"
"Get out!"
"Beep ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
At the beginning of the game, Digan scolded zuihou and kicked the ball directly to Mutu, who was blocked back when Mutu came to his mouth, his face was flushed, and he almost gave up his martial arts.
"That's it! At the beginning of the game, Fiorentina took the lead in attacking, looking at the formation of the two teams, it is not difficult to see that today's game, there will definitely be a fierce collision, the formation of both sides is very high, Fiorentina's passing and receiving speed is very fast, Arsenal did not retreat, but began to scramble from the midfield, both sides give people the feeling that they are sparing physical strength! ”