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For Zheng Yaxin, this game will be the first time since the new season that he will play without the assistance of "live deduction", and he is a little apprehensive.

He's not worried about losing.

Norwich, who have lost three in a row to start the season, are not in a position to win against Arsenal at all.

He was apprehensive mainly because he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

It's like a person who is used to being rock-solid with the help of the Blue Xiaoyao Pill, and suddenly without the Xiaoyao Pill, he will be uncontrollably weak.

Of course, it's not that he doesn't have the number of "live deductions", but that there are only 7 "live deductions" left, which will be used in key games.

And to play a weak opponent like Norwich, there is no need to use a big killer weapon like "live deduction".

Just crush them with an attack.

In the players' tunnel, the Arsenal players stood in a long snake formation, walking out in turn, each with a relaxed and confident look on their faces.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, in particular, is particularly scrappy, constantly jumping at the front of the team and full of energy.

Originally, Arteta gave him an ultimatum to leave in this summer transfer window, and even Arsenal and Barcelona agreed on a transfer fee.

However, Barcelona is limited by the La Liga salary cap system, and there is no salary space for Aubameyang this summer, and the previously brought in Manchester City star Ferran Torres has not been registered.

In the end, until the transfer window closed on September 2, Aubameyang could not leave, and could only continue to play at Arsenal.

Although he stayed, he was deprived of his captaincy and did not retain his main position, and Arteta also set a condition for Aubameyang to play according to his form.

Only those who are in good shape can enter the squad.

If Aubameyang wants to move to Barcelona in the winter window or find a good home, he will have to play well in the next three months to try to make Barcelona want to buy him in the winter window.

Otherwise, it will be difficult for him to continue his football career.

In Europe, once a professional player is labeled as "unprofessional", it's basically over.

The last person to be labelled was Tottenham's talented Alli Ali, who has now faded out of the Tottenham squad and is facing the dilemma of having no ball to play, with rumours that Ali is about to move to Besiktas in Turkey.

You must know that Ali is only 25 years old this year, in the golden age of professional players, he was named a "genius player" when he debuted, and he also played the Champions League final the year before (2019) as the main player of Tottenham, but because he was not professional, he was reduced to a situation where he had no ball to play, which is really embarrassing.

Unlike the Arsenal players who are full of confidence, the group of Norwich players opposite who can't be named have a solemn look on their faces and are not smiling.

Arsenal must win!

This was Arteta's declaration at the pre-match press conference.

It is also the determination shown by the Arsenal players and fans.

The Norwich players disagreed, but there is no doubt that Arsenal are the stronger side in this game.

There will be a fierce battle today!

In fact, not only the Norwich players are facing big enemies, but Norwich fans are also prepared for the team to lose.

In the Emirates Stadium, 5,000 Norwich fans from afar, surrounded by tens of thousands of Arsenal fans, made waves of sound to provide support to the team as much as they could.

Arsenal fans are more fanatical than Norwich fans.

They held aloft huge cartoon avatars of Zheng Yaxin and Odegaard, brandished Arsenal jerseys, scarves, team emblems, and sang the Arsenal team song over and over again.

Norwich fans looked at the field worriedly, cheering for the team in their mouths and secretly praying for the team in their hearts.

Arsenal is aiming for the title, Norwich is going to be relegated, the difference in strength between the two sides is indeed very large, but in this game, they don't want to lose to Arsenal.

"Arsenal are so strong,"

"That Chinese goalkeeper is standing in front of the goal like a wall, who can break through this goal?"

"Hey man, I have a bad feeling..."

"I also have a sense of foreboding..."

"We're not going to be slaughtered in this game, are we?"

"Alas......"

"Let's hope to win if you lose less!"

The eyes of Norwich fans fell on Zheng Yaxin, and they were very worried, they felt that Arsenal sent such a goalkeeper on the field was simply not martial arts, and on the other hand, they hoped that the team would not lose so badly.

"Leo, William Hill gave Arsenal a 1.05 odds to win, do you think Arsenal can win?"

In the Sky Sports live broadcast room, Neville smiled: "To be honest, except for Real Madrid and Barcelona 10 years ago, I have never seen a team be offered such exaggerated odds. ”

"When Real Madrid and Barcelona played against the middle and lower reaches of the league, the odds were not so exaggerated, and the odds were at least about 1.15."

'Arsenal are grossly overrated. Ferdinand took over.

'Arsenal are currently top of the table, with three wins in a row like Tottenham, but the two teams are the first and third most shots in the first three rounds of the Premier League.

"Arsenal have been shot 93 times in the first three rounds, an average of 31 shots per game; Tottenham, on the other hand, were shot 57 times in the first three rounds, an average of 19 shots per game, which is definitely not a leader's statistic. ”

"I've said before that the three wins in a row between Arsenal and Tottenham are too lucky, and the fact that they have so many shots on goal shows that both teams are very poor defensively, and the reason why they can occupy the top two places in the table is because of luck."

"Luck can't take care of them all the time!"

"In this round of early games, Tottenham has lost 0-3 to the relegation team Crystal Palace, and it is a complete defeat!"

"At the moment, Arsenal are the only ones left to win all of the Premier League."

"Norwich certainly can't win against Arsenal, but it's not going to be that easy for Arsenal to break Norwich's iron bucket formation, and ......" Ferdinand glanced at the overcast sky above the pitch.

"The weather forecast says it's going to rain today, which will increase the passing requirements of the attacking side and make it more difficult for the attacking team."

Neville nodded, "If it rains, then God is doing Norwich a favor." ”

Inside the stadium.

Arsenal players are still warming up on the pitch.

Tens of thousands of Arsenal fans cheered loudly, calling every star by name.

The sound was huge, and it was loud and loud.

From the momentum exuded by the fans and the confident smiles on the faces of the Arsenal players, it was a sign that this would be an easy game.

After Arsenal started the season with three wins in a row, all Arsenal fans had a bold idea.

League champions?

Why not!

It's Arsenal's turn, too!

Arteta thinks the same way.

In short, Arsenal is inflated up and down!

Beep!

The crisp opening whistle brought everyone's thoughts back to the pitch.

Arsenal kicked off first and quickly controlled the game from the start, with the ball basically at the feet of the Arsenal players, and the Norwich players were pressed into their own half and were dispatched back and forth by the ball.

Arsenal directly and domineeringly opened the half-time offensive and defensive drills.

This scene made Ferdinand couldn't help but smack his mouth again and again: "Gary, have you noticed that after winning three consecutive games at the beginning, Arsenal's temperament is different from before." ”

"I'm starting to have a championship temperament!"

"As soon as he started, he pressed Norwich to attack wildly, and the possession rate was directly full, without giving the opponent a chance to breathe."

"This kind of scene can only be seen in Manchester City and Liverpool before."

'Now Arsenal are at that level.'

"It seems that I am going to retract my previous opinion. Arsenal will win this game comfortably. ”

'No, no, no, I don't think Arsenal can win easily.' Neville shook his head and said: "Leo, there is an interesting phenomenon in the first three rounds of the Premier League this season, all the teams that have the advantage on the field end up losing. ”

"In the first round of the league, Arsenal played Brentford away, and Arsenal had an absolute advantage in the first half, but the score was 0-3 at half-time! If Zheng hadn't come off the bench in the second half and staged a great comeback, Arsenal's game would definitely have been a black start. ”

"It was still in the first round of the league, Manchester City played Tottenham away, Manchester City got 80% possession in that game, and the final score was 0-1, Tottenham won."

"In the second round of the league, Arsenal hosted Chelsea, and Chelsea dominated the whole game in that game, with 80% possession and nearly 40 shots on goal, but the final score was 0-3, and Arsenal won."

"In the third round of the league, Arsenal played Manchester City away, Manchester City had 83% possession and more than 40 shots on goal throughout the game, but it was still Arsenal who won."

"These statistics also reflect the sideways that possession is useless."

"I think the next season is going to be a sea change in the way European teams play – abandoning ineffective possession in favour of riskier attacks and more efficient counter-attacks, which may become the new tactical trend."

"I have a hunch that in this year's Champions League and next year's World Cup in Qatar, there will be a large number of teams that adopt this defensive counter-attacking style of play."

"And Barcelona/Spain's ball-possession style of play is being abandoned by more and more teams."

Ferdinand was stunned: "Hiss... Isn't this style of play the same style of play as Chelsea in the 04/05 season? ”

"That's right! Twenty years of reincarnation, and now it's the turn of this style of play to raise its head. Neville nodded.

"Back then, it was the first M Mohams counter-attacking storm that swept across Europe, followed by the pass-and-control style of play, followed by Klop's all-attack, all-defensive high-pressing style of play, and now, the counter-attacking storm is here again."

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