After the match against Bayern, Manchester City did not stay long in Munich and returned to Manchester overnight.

The Premier League's Christmas Express is about to kick off, and Manchester City are about to have a devil's schedule for some time to come.

Three days later, they will face Arsenal at the top of the table.

If you look at the form of both teams, Manchester City are in slightly better form.

Also in the Champions League, they came back to draw with the mighty Bayern Munich after conceding two goals on the road.

Arsenal, on the other hand, had a three-point advantage, but was hoisted up and beaten away from home and was almost eliminated.

However, Manchester City's previous league games have stumbled, which has raised some doubts about their form.

There is not much difference between the quality of the two teams, and the result of the game is related to their tactics and on-the-spot performance.

Whoever is in better shape and can take advantage of the opponent's mistakes will have a greater chance of winning.

The coaches of both teams are staying up late watching videos of each other's games, trying to find the flaws in each other.

Arsenal, after watching Manchester City's recent league games and their performances in the Champions League, Wenger rubbed his forehead tiredly.

It's hard to deal with!

After Lin Quan joined, Manchester City's attacking power in the front field was too strong, and if he couldn't be restrained, Arsenal would probably not be able to withstand the opponent's attack.

Arsenal are the kind of team that is not good at playing against the wind, there are too many young players in the team, and it is always easy to collapse in the second half before, which makes the team less resilient, and they can be supernatural when the wind is down.

But once there is a headwind, Arsenal's young players will be overwhelmed.

As a result, when they concede one goal against a strong team, they will keep conceding one goal after another.

The reason for this phenomenon is not complicated, that is, after Vieira left Arsenal, Arsenal could not find a suitable team leader.

Wenger was originally very optimistic about Xiaofa, but Fabregas was seduced by Barcelona and ran away, and Wenger's years of hard work were ruined.

This, combined with the fact that there are no titles every year, and Arsenal's clause not signing contracts for more than one year with players over the age of 30, has made it impossible for Arsenal to attract the best players or retain the best players in the squad.

It's a pity that if Lin Quan could have been brought back to the Emirates Stadium, then the leader of the Arsenal team might have fallen.

With a sigh, Wenger quickly shook this thought out of his head.

Lin Quandu has already joined Manchester City, and now there is no point in saying this, rather than wasting time on this kind of thing, it is better to think about how to limit him!

After watching the two games between Manchester City and Bayern Munich, as well as Manchester City and Sunderland, West Bromwich Albion and Southampton, Wenger finally had some ideas in mind.

In contrast to Arsene Wenger's concerns, the players in the Arsenal squad are not afraid of Manchester City.

Little Tiger Walcott posted on social media:

'I had a hunch that I would score goals at the Etihad Stadium and more than one!'

Also a leader among the young players, Walcoat was very unconvinced by Lin Quan.

Compared with Lin Quan, Little Tiger debuted earlier and became famous earlier.

He doesn't think he's worse than Lin, after all, he came to Arsenal with the title of super genius.

Professor Arsene Wenger, who has always been a thrifty homemaker, is willing to spend £5 million for him at the age of 16, which is enough to prove his strength.

And Walcott's performance after joining Arsenal also proves that the professor sees people.

It's just that, compared to the heights that Lin Quan quickly reached after joining Manchester City, Walcott has always been inferior to fire over the years.

Little Tiger blames these on injuries, and a speed-type player like him is indeed prone to injury, and once injured, it can have a big impact on their form.

But in the past two years, as the number of injuries to Little Tiger has decreased, his performance in the league has also become better and better.

Last season, he scored 14 goals for Arsenal in the league and was Arsenal's top scorer, and after Van Persie's departure, it can be said that the little tiger has propped up Arsenal's attacking system.

Because of this, he received the highest salary in the Arsenal team - £100,000 a week.

Walcott's words quickly attracted huge attention and discussion on the Internet.

Naturally, Arsenal fans sang praises to the little tiger and cheered him on.

"Come on, little tiger!"

"Show the people of Manchester City how good you are!"

"Tell them who's the fastest man in the Premier League!"

Manchester City fans were dismissive of Theo Walcott's statement:

"Tsk, it's really a cat or a dog that dares to jump out and compare with Emperor Lin!"

"Haha, Walcott? This person is also worthy of being compared with Lin Huang? Lin Huang scored 22 goals in half a season, can Little Tiger score so many goals in a full season? ”

"Hehe, Lin Huang has scored more goals in the Champions League than in the Little Tiger League!"

In the eyes of the Manchester City players, these two are not on the same level at all, and the little tiger is forcibly touching porcelain, so they scolded back unceremoniously.

Walcott has been with Arsenal for many years, and he has accumulated a lot of fans.

Seeing their stars being scolded, they naturally couldn't sit still, so they also began to fight back and scolded Manchester City fans.

A reporter who didn't think it was a big deal to see the excitement went to find Lin Quan outside Manchester City's training base and interviewed him about this matter.

"Lin, what do you think of Theo's statement?"

The reporter's question made Lin Quan stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked:

"Who is Theo?"

This sentence was originally just Lin Quan's normal question, because he didn't know that it was Walcott's name at all.

However, the fans who don't think it's a big deal to watch the excitement don't care about this, especially Manchester City fans.

In their opinion, this is their own star response to Arsenal's star challenge, and it is a response to their appetite!

As a result, these four words quickly became a hot word on the Internet that day, and Manchester City fans rushed to Walcott's Twitter and lined up to copy the sentence.

"Who is Theo?"

"Lin: I'm sorry, I don't know who Theo is!"

"Oooh, someone's failed to touch porcelain!"

"Hahaha, you deserve it, it's obviously not a high-grade player, you have to touch porcelain and be slapped in the face, right?"

Seeing Manchester City fans lining up under people's tweets to provoke each other, Lin Quan thought about whether to tweet and analyze?

After thinking about it for a while, he rejected the idea again.

At this time, it would be considered cowardice, which would have an impact on Manchester City's morale.

Besides, Walcott took the initiative to jump out and provoke himself, since he was the first to make a move, don't blame others for fighting back!

On Arsenal's side, Walcott was smoky by Lin Quan's response and the provocative anger of Manchester City fans!

He vowed to slap the other party in the face at the Etihad Stadium!

Seeing the vitality on the training ground, Walcott's fighting spirit was completely aroused.

Arsene Wenger on the sidelines was surprised and delighted, and his confidence in this game has improved a lot!

……

On December 14, the 16th round of the Premier League officially began.

As the highlight of this round of matches, the battle for the top spot between Manchester City and Arsenal is scheduled for noon on the 14th.

The intent of this arrangement is clear – the Premier League wants to take care of the audience in Asia and the Americas.

Especially in Asia, when the game started, BJ time was just nine o'clock in the evening, and it was in absolute prime time.

This season, because of Lin Quan's joining and the vigorous promotion of the Premier League, the ratings of the Premier League games in Asia have increased a lot.

After signing a broadcast contract with CCTV, the Premier League's attention and popularity in China have greatly increased.

Many fans who didn't watch the Premier League also began to follow the CCTV live broadcast this season to follow the Premier League games.

Of course, the most interesting of these is obviously Manchester City's game.

As long as CCTV broadcasts Manchester City's game, the ratings will soar immediately.

And broadcasting the matches of other teams in the Premier League will drop the ratings by a large margin.

Obviously, most of the fans are coming for Lin Quan.

"Lin Huangchong, I'm your fan!"

"Little Blacks are showing chicken feet, right? How can a real fan call Brother Lin by Emperor Lin? ”

"Black powder is also powder, black is black and black is black out of feelings!"

"Having said that, Lin Huang's current form is really hot, with 22 goals in the league and 9 goals in the Champions League group stage!"

"Hehe, there were goals in each of the six rounds of the group stage, which directly broke the Champions League history, which is really exaggerated!"

"Hehe, those who didn't score as much as Messi Ronaldo before, are now being slapped in the face?"

"Haha, people don't play against the wind!"

In the first four rounds of the Champions League, Lin Quan only scored 5 goals, and was pulled by Messi Ronaldo fans, especially Luo fans.

However, Lin Quan scored 4 goals in the last two rounds, and the Champions League scorer list came from behind, tying Cristiano Ronaldo, and tied for the top of the Champions League scorer list with Ronaldo.

"It's a pity that Ronaldo also scored, otherwise Lin Huang would have been able to dominate the scorer list!"

Some fans still feel a little sorry that Real Madrid won again in the last round of the group stage, and Cristiano Ronaldo scored a goal to increase his total number of goals to nine.

"It doesn't matter, with Lin Huang's state, sooner or later he will be able to complete the overtake, Messi and Ibrahim, who were in front of him before, aren't they all surpassed by him now?"

The fans are full of confidence in Lin Quan, if nothing else, just because of his supernatural performance of scoring goals in every game, there is no reason why everyone is not optimistic about him.

"The Premier League season goal record seems to be Alan Shearer's 34 goals, right? Can Lin Huang break this record? ”

"It's not a matter of minutes? Lin Huang's current goal efficiency is 1.47 goals per game, and there are still 23 rounds in the Premier League, and he can break the record by scoring a goal every two rounds in the future! ”

"Hey, Lin Huang's goal efficiency is too terrifying, right? This season's total goals can reach fifty or sixty goals, right? ”

"40+ in the league, 10+ in the Champions League, and in the cup, it depends on the draw of the FA Cup and the League Cup, if you can reach the final, it is not a big problem to score 10 goals!"

"If you count the goals of the national team, isn't Lin Huang's statistics expected to catch up with Melo?"

"Messi's words have been exceeded, it's a little difficult to catch up with Ronaldo, Ronaldo's total goals this year have reached 68 goals!"

"This is too scary, isn't it, is Ronaldo so fierce this year?"

"Hehe, otherwise how can you call it a peerless double pride? But Messi, after scoring 91 goals last year, has dropped a lot this year, and now the number of goals is only 45, less than half of last year!

In the past, some people said that Lin Quan was a player of the same grade as Melo, and many people did not recognize this.

But when the fans intuitively laid out the data of the three people this season, those who didn't know Lin Quan and still had doubts were surprised to find that Lin Quan had grown to this extent.

"Hehe, in this way, Walcott is really touching porcelain, he can't even score 30 goals in a season, and the most goals in the league are only 14, what do you want to touch the porcelain Lin Huang!"

"These two are indeed not players of the same grade, Walcott is inferior to Lin Quan in all aspects of dribbling, passing, organization, passing and running, and his shooting skills are several grades worse!"

"But the little tiger is not useless, at least his speed is faster than Lin Quan!"

"Hehe, if Emperor Lin has Walcott's speed, it will be really terrifying!"

……

Because this game is related to the Premier League title situation this season, it is very important for the team aiming to win the title.

Therefore, before the start of the game, in addition to the media sending a large number of reporters to cover the game, the major giants of the Premier League also sent people to watch the game.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, who is about to face Manchester City, even came to the scene, he wanted to see how much Arsenal could play Manchester City in this game.

If Arsenal can beat Manchester City, then the Reds can also learn from them and use their tactical play against Manchester City.

Of course, Manchester City's home stadium is difficult to play, Arsenal have little hope of winning, and Liverpool are not very optimistic about them.

However, with Arsenal's strength, it should be able to expose some of the opponent's weaknesses.

If the tactics of both teams are not conservative, it may be a goal shootout.

Brendan Rodgers guessed right, and both Manchester City and Arsenal opted for attacking tactics.

After previous rounds, Manuel Pellegrini realised that there were real problems with City's defence.

If they don't want to expose this weakness to their opponents, they will need to increase their attacking threat and put more pressure on their opponents, leaving them tired of defending and unable to threaten City's goal.

In this way, this hidden danger of Manchester City can be eliminated to the greatest extent.

Arsene Wenger and Manuel Pellegrini thought of going together!

Arsenal are not the kind of players who are very strong defensively, and without an iron-clad leader like Patrick Vieira, their midfield has never been tough.

Cazorla, Mesut Ozil, Arteta, etc., do not have the defensive ability of Vieira, let alone his leadership qualities.

And Manchester City is the kind of team with super attacking strength, if they are passively beaten, then they may be broken.

So, he learned from the experience of several other teams before him and planned to use attacking tactics against Manchester City.

With the quality of Arsenal's group of players, it will not be difficult to break down Manchester City's goal.

And Arsenal's players are good at playing tailwind, and as long as they take the lead, their morale will be greatly improved.

When the second goal comes, the third goal will likely follow.

In that case, Arsenal will not only be able to beat the mighty Manchester City, but may even create a big one!

Arsenal had just lost to Napoli in the Champions League, and after leading five rounds, they unexpectedly lost top of the group.

As a result, the Champions League knockout stages ahead of them will be very difficult to play, and Arsene Wenger's side are desperately in need of a big win to boost morale and give the players confidence back, so that they can have a chance to survive when they meet other teams in the knockout rounds!

(End of chapter)