Chapter 415: Wenger out, Kroenke out

"Huh? How so? ”

In the chairman's stand at Stamford Bridge, Koswick jumped from his seat in shock.

Koswick is the current president of the Arsenal club and holds the title of knight, so the full name should be Sir Koswick.

The 75-year-old, who has held management positions at Hambroabank, De Beers Bank and Bank of England, has been a member of the Arsenal board since 2005 before succeeding Peter Hillwood as chairman in 2013.

Stan Kroenke, the majority shareholder of the club and the de facto owner of 67.05% of the club, has his own sports business empire in the United States and is the owner of several sports clubs, including the Los Angeles Rams, the Colorado Rapids and the Denver Nuggets, a major NFL team;

As a result, he is not particularly interested in the Arsenal club in the UK, and he will not come to watch such an important game.

As for paying for people or something...... Isn't Wenger running a good business, you will save money to build the stadium, you shouldn't need to suck the blood of the boss!

Therefore, the main decision-making leaders of the Arsenal club are still the chairman Sir Koswick, and the CEO Gazidis.

Today, the two of them also came to watch the game and hope that Arsenal can beat Chelsea and try to win the title while keeping their team's unbeaten record from being broken by their city rivals.

But now, the game has only just begun, and Cech is already picking up the ball in the net.

At this time, let alone the players, I'm afraid that many fans haven't entered the state yet, why are they suddenly scored by the opponent?

Hearing Sir Coswick's questioning, the CEO Gazidis, who was sitting next to him, was also silent.

Truth be told, he didn't even see the whole process of the goal, only to hear the crowd chanting Lukaku's name before he knew Chelsea had scored.

The person just sat down and took out the information that was ready to reply to the cutie just now......

Sir Coswick, who did not receive a response, angrily sat back in his seat, clearly unhappy with his team's start.

What made him even more unacceptable was that after conceding the goal, Arsenal not only did not fight back, but was pressed and beaten by Chelsea.

"I don't even know how these people play!" Kosvik cursed again, then began to point fingers at the players on the field:

"Why do you want to get on this Gabriel? I feel like I can't prevent Hazard's breakthrough at all. This Koscielny is not good either, neither of the two central defenders! ”

"Isn't Sanchez strong? Why can't the guy on the other side of the house stare at him? I can't hold the ball. ”

"Didn't Giroud play well in the previous period? Why did you just change him. Can Walcoat play as a single striker? He can't play, he doesn't have the ability, you know. ”

“……”

Gazidis swallowed, and stopped talking.

He knows that the Jazz, who is already quite old next to him, is not like the owner, who has always cared about Arsenal and hopes that the team will produce results.

But the problem is that Coach Wenger must have his own ideas about what lineup he will put out, and it is not for a layman to point fingers at him.

And the Jazz are also a little forgetful, the team's investment in recent years has been really average.

These personnel on the Arsenal field have been saved by Wenger's frugality, and it is not easy for the professor to bring the team to the current position under limited conditions.

Not long ago, commenting on Arsenal's recent financial report, Sir Coswick said that although the club's revenue from tickets and match broadcasts has increased, the club will not change the current player salary structure, and they will continue to make rational investments in player salaries.

And this sentence came at a time when some of the players in the team were already talking about contract extensions.

There have been reports that Alexis Sanchez wants his weekly salary to be increased from the current £150,000 to £250,000, with many players also looking forward to a pay rise.

However, Mr. Chairman's comments hinted that the club would not break the salary structure of the team for even a player of Sanchez's thigh.

As a result, the loss of players in the team is almost inevitable.

In this way, how to compete with the Manchester duo who have been increasing their investment, and how to compete with the powerful Chelsea team in front of them?

Even the Liverpool hierarchy has said that they will strongly support the recruitment plans of new coach Jurgen Klopp in the winter window and next summer.

If this continues, Arsenal may be reduced to being in the company of Tottenham, or even worse than the north London rivals.

In this context, it is ironic that Koswick, as chairman, has scolded his players for not being able to play at Chelsea.

But Gazidis, as the CEO, of course, can't say Sir so directly, let alone scold Kroenke for not giving money.

So he just said euphemistically:

'It's just a goal down now, believe in Arsene Wenger, take your time, there should be a chance to equalise.'

Koswick shook his head: "Believe in Arsene Wenger? If he really doesn't get anything this season, we really have to think about his future at Arsenal. ”

Now some Arsenal fans are also calling for "Wenger out", and the chairman's words are not very sudden.

Seeing that Gazidis bowed his head and was silent, Sir Coswick pointed to the field again: "You see, our current main attack points Sanchez and Walcott are completely blocked, and they can't pose any threat at all." And the backline has nothing to do with Chelsea's attacking group, and if it goes on like this, let alone an equaliser, conceding another goal is almost a thing. ”

Gazidis nodded in acknowledgment that Sir Coswick was right.

The chairman is forgetful, but he still understands the ball.

Pan Yi sent Goretzka to stare at Sanchez, which was like cutting off one of Arsenal's thighs.

On the other hand, the right flank of Willian and Bellein, who had to keep attacking Hazard and Marcos Alonso, looked extremely embarrassed.

In the case of full passivity, Walcott, the little tiger at the front, has no chance to get the ball at all, and naturally cannot play his fast characteristics.

'Maybe Arsene Wenger's strategy has his ideas, but one thing is for sure. Gazidis muttered, "Pan Yi strangled our seven inches steadily!" ”

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As the Arsenal hierarchy has said, Pan Yi has a clear understanding of Arsene Wenger's thinking and has made all possible arrangements.

After scoring a goal, he has also been keeping an eye on Arsene Wenger.

If Wenger makes adjustments right away, he'll have to follow suit.

This is because Pan Yi let Goretzka keep an eye on Sanchez all over the field, and if Wenger has any special use of Sanchez, such as a large retreat to the backfield, then Pan Yi is bound to make changes.

Otherwise, Goretzka will lose his position because he faithfully follows the coach's instructions, resulting in one less player in his midfield.

But it's clear that Arsene Wenger seems to be hesitant to make adjustments as the game has just begun.

Making a major tactical change in the first few minutes is a big risk in itself, because it means that the preparation of the last few days, or even a week or two, can be wasted.

And since Wenger didn't move, Pan Yi didn't move either.

Of course, there are still fine-tunings.

That's what he's asking his players to keep attacking and trying to score again!

Now he's got a ball in hand, the advantage is mine, it's not a big problem.

And Pan Yi is very sure that as long as the two sides continue to play like this, Chelsea will definitely win, at least not let the other side score.

And so it is.

In addition to Sanchez being targeted and the unstable back line, Arsenal's back two today, Cazorla and Coquelin are also far inferior to N'Golo Kante and Eden Hazard.

Or to put it another way, Cazorla is more technical, and he can be sidelined with Chelsea's attacking midfielder Eden Hazard.

The remaining so-called "beast waist" Coquelin can be said to be suppressed by Kante in almost all aspects.

Not to mention that although Goretzka stared at Sanchez the whole time, if the ball really came, he would still control it.

As a result, in the midfield scramble, Arsenal is also completely inferior, and the Blues can play calmly in both the front and back courts, with a lot of room for movement.

Soon, Chelsea had a number of chances.

Eden Hazard was unguarded after receiving a short pass from N'Golo Kante in midfield.

The ball grazed the top right corner of the Arsenal goal and almost hit the corner.

This goal caused the entire Stamford Bridge stadium to burst into an exclamation, and although it didn't go in, it startled everyone.

Just a minute later, Hazard suddenly pulled up to the flank, latched on to David Luiz's pass and headed in a low cross down the left.

Lukaku, who was in the middle, stopped the ball on his chest and hit the goal with his left foot in front of the goal, but unfortunately this time his left-footed shot missed the target and missed.

Lukaku was unhappy with the failure to score this time, and after slapping his head twice hard, he gave Hazard a thumbs up.

Despite not scoring, the successive attacks still made Arsenal have a lot of noise in front of the goal.

In just 10 minutes, Chelsea had six dangerous shots on goal and scored a goal, while Arsenal had a consistently zero shot.

But even so, Wenger seems to be hesitant to adjust.

Perhaps, he is also betting that the team can quickly stabilize their position and play Chelsea's counter-attack.

At that time, it is not clear who will kill the deer.

But in the 15th minute, a patient organisation by Chelsea finally paid off.

The first is that the entire midfield is pressed to the front of Arsenal's 30-metre zone, where N'Golo Kante, Eden Hazard and Goretzka are back and forth, constantly looking for holes for Arsenal.

Suddenly, Azpilicueta on the right was rushing forward along the right touchline, and Hazard had the nerve to pass the ball in the direction he was heading, allowing Azpilicueta to receive the ball, avoid Coquelin's defence, and cross directly.

The landing point of this cross was very clever and precise.

In the penalty area, Romelu Lukaku dominated the middle and attracted the attention of Koscielny and Gabriel, but Harry Kane suddenly stepped in from the back and shook off Monreal to get up front.

As a result, Azpilicueta's cross landed on the spot.

Harry Kane jumped high on the edge of the six-yard box almost unmarked, flicked his head at the pass from the right, and the ball slammed into the goal!

This is also one of Harry Kane's most iconic ways of scoring!

“goalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!

The whole Stamford Bridge stadium erupted again.

All the Chelsea fans jumped wildly and shouted Harry Kane's name.

After Harry Kane landed, he was so excited that he turned around and rushed out of the penalty area, and in the midst of the shouts of all the fans in the stadium, he ran wildly, breaking away from his teammates who wanted to stop him along the way, and rushed directly to the front of the home team's coaching box.

He once again hugged Pan Yi to express his gratitude to the head coach!

It was Pan Yi who brought him from Tottenham to Chelsea, so that he could really enjoy football happily, and he could use his goals to bring victory after victory, but also to bring championship after title, and to break record after record!

So every goal he scores is dedicated to Pan Yi!

Behind him, countless Chelsea players rushed over, all of them hugging Pan Yi and Harry Kane in the middle, and surrounded them.

From the interaction between players and players after each Chelsea goal, and the interaction between players and coaches, everyone can see how strong the cohesion of this team is and how united the whole team is!

As the live TV camera swept over the chairman's stand, Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich clapped vigorously, something glittering out of the corner of his eye.

Such a team is really amazing! This is exactly the team that Abu has dreamed of for so many years!

And all this, after he invited Pan Yi, really came true!

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After Chelsea's second goal, Arsene Wenger finally made the adjustment.

He had to opt for Sanchez to move back in the middle, with Willian also adducting and Ramsey dropping back to a 4-3-2-1 while tightening up on all three lines.

The adjustment was intended to give Sanchez a chance to break away from Goretzka's inseparable followers and allow him space to sprint from behind.

However, this change basically represents the failure of his initial tactics, and it also announces that Arsenal are starting to give in and avoid confrontation with Chelsea head-on, and instead adopt more pragmatic defensive tactics and wait for the opportunity to counterattack.

As a result, Chelsea have been more in control of the pitch and more one-sided in possession, but there are fewer attacking agents who are truly threatening.

After all, after advancing to the offensive third, there are more defenders to face!

And Arsenal finally played their first threatening attack after Arsene Wenger's adjustment.

In the 25th minute, Sanchez received the ball on the right rib and forced a breakthrough, but was tripped by Azpilicueta and fell to the ground, and the referee showed Azpilicueta a yellow card, which was also the first yellow card of the whole game.

However, Cazorla's free-kick failed to threaten and Courtois comfortably snatched the ball from the Arsenal players to defuse the Gunners' first threatening attack.

After that, Arsenal played another counter-attack, Sanchez retreated to get the ball, got rid of Goretzka and plugged straight behind, Walcott was about to form a single knife, but at the critical moment Terry came with a flying sliding tackle and shoveled the ball out of the sideline before the little tiger.

After two dangerous attacks, Chelsea began to adjust.

Pan Yi realized that such a siege would be detrimental to the team, so he signaled the team to gradually retreat, and the defense line retreated to his own 30-meter area, and no longer carried out high-intensity frontcourt pressing in front.

In this way, he came to play low defense, focusing on the area from the 30-meter area to the middle line, keeping the formation compact at all times, and not paying attention to the control of the ball, but playing Arsenal's counterattack.

It was clear that with a two-goal lead in hand, Chelsea played more calmly.

Do you want to keep? Then I won't attack, you can attack.

You don't attack either? So be it, anyway, I'm two goals ahead, who do I love.

But then Wenger was dumbfounded.

"Didn't this bastard attack fiercely just now? Why did he just take it back as soon as I started to hit a little bit of an attack? ”

Arsene Wenger has a headache.

Because Arsenal are very passive now, not to mention falling behind in the score, in every corner of the pitch, in every one-on-one situation, they do not have the upper hand.

Let's talk about Chelsea's frontcourt players, Lukaku, Harry Kane, and Eden Hazard, all belong to the kind of players who are difficult to defend one-on-one, and once the attack is spread, Arsenal's defensive weakness is exposed.

And how to roll out the offensive?

Just wait for Arsenal to attack and the whole line is torn apart, the defensive space will become larger, and Chelsea's attack will naturally spread from point to surface.

This shows that Pan Yi has long seen Wenger's idea, and uncharacteristically adopted a retreat strategy, tightened three lines, closed the door, no longer adopted a high defense, and played with Arsenal in the midfield.

At this time, Arsenal will not attack, after all, the two-goal advantage is in the opponent's place.

Attack, it feels like you might die miserably?

Including Chelsea's surrender of possession, do Arsenal want it?

This is also a hot potato, it is not good to want, but it is not good.

It can be said that Pan Yi, a young man in his twenties, feels even older than Wenger, and he is simply a cunning fox!

Only such a fox can make an old Jianghu like Wenger feel so uncomfortable!

'When you were at Arsenal, you mainly played possession and we did the same. But that doesn't mean we have to keep the ball. ”

On the other side, Pan Yi took this opportunity to give PPT talents, but Arteta, a rookie assistant coach, came to give a live lecture.

For Arteta, it's a direct clash between the 'former' and the 'current', and he knows both sides well, which is still very instructive.

"In football, the ultimate goal is to win. There are many ways to win, and possession is just one of them. ”

"And if you find that possession of the ball is not necessarily winning, or even dangerous for your own side, then you should give up decisively and choose another way."

'For example, now, we have given up possession and we have retreated into our own half, which looks passive; But although Arsenal have a lot of possession, they can't create a real threat, you say, who is taking the initiative now? Who is passive? Who controls whom? ”

Pan Yi's words made Arteta nod his head again and again, revealing a thoughtful look.

It should be said that there is no absolute existence on the football field, everything is relative, and the same is true of control and counter-control.

Just like Arsenal now, the whole formation has been split into two parts from front to back, and Sanchez has been frozen, resulting in their attacks being more often completed through long passes to the front.

But neither Walcott nor Willian had the slightest advantage in front of the three centre-backs composed of Van Dijk, John Terry and David Luiz.

In other words, when Arsenal can only attack through long passes, and Giroud is not good at fighting for the top as a fulcrum in front of him, Wenger has already lost.

In fact, Pan Yi said this to Arteta today, also because in his previous life, the Arsenal team led by Arteta had no problem every time he met Manchester City.

He has beaten all his opponents in the Premier League, but he just can't beat Manchester City.

To be precise, Mikel Arteta's Arsenal suffered six defeats in the Premier League against Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, and four of them were clean sheets.

This is the true portrayal of "the master beats the apprentice".

Because Arteta is out of Pep Guardiola, he will always be deeply influenced by Guardiola in terms of tactical thinking, and whoever understands more deeply at this time, and the players under him are more able to implement such a tactical concept, which side has a higher winning rate.

It is clear that Arteta has not been able to surpass Pep Guardiola at this time, and the fans also have the "Master has a hand?" Jokes.

But if Manchester City meets other teams, they don't need to be very strong, like Brentford and the like, sometimes they can't win, that's the reason for the style.

A team of the same style, if you don't make some changes, it's really difficult to beat the strong with the weak!

Therefore, Pan Yi also told Arteta through this actual battle that the most important thing in the game is to be flexible, rather than sticking to a certain tactic!

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On the pitch at this time, due to Chelsea's retreat, Arsenal's attack was weak, and the game fell into a stalemate for a while.

Despite this, the Blues continued to create chances on counter-attacks, while Arsenal, on the other hand, had few attacks that could threaten beyond a long-range shot from outside the box.

The stalemate lasted until just before the end of the first half, when it was finally broken again.

Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey was denied by N'Golo Kante who suddenly stepped up during a forward pass.

The ball hit N'Golo Kante's leg and flew towards Eden Hazard, who didn't wait for the ball to hit the ground and gently picked a half-high ball and passed it to the left front.

At this time, Lukaku was very fast and chased after him in an instant, but Belelin's speed was also very fast, and he and Koscielny flanked one after the other, making it difficult for Lukaku to form a quick assault.

Lukaku took a short piece of the ball and split it decisively into the middle.

At this time, Harry Kane also followed the direction of the ball and quickly stepped forward, and after receiving Lukaku's pass, he stepped forward, stopped for a moment, and then shot directly without waiting for Gabriel to get close!

This time, Cech reacted very quickly and saved the ball with a side pounce.

But at this time, Lukaku even rushed to the horse!

While he was splitting the ball, he didn't stop at all, and he had already sprinted decisively towards the goal, and at the same time used his strong body to block Bellein.

When Harry Kane's shot was blocked in front of the six-yard box, Lukaku jumped straight to the spot where the ball landed and shook his head.

In the face of such a close header, there was nothing Cech could do.

The former Chelsea goalkeeper even made a symbolic right hand but couldn't prevent the ball from crashing into the bottom left corner.

At this moment, the entire Stamford Bridge stadium was completely boiling!

After more than 20 minutes of dreary action, Chelsea were once again on the lookout and scored again.

Lukaku excitedly rushed to the bottom of the stands on the sidelines and waved at the Chelsea fans in the stands, signaling for their shouts to be louder and louder.

3-0, less than half-time, Chelsea are already three goals ahead!

Arsenal have been completely pushed into the abyss of despair!

At this time, in the stands of Arsenal fans, several voices are getting louder and louder:

"Arsene Wenger out!"

"Kroenke out!"