"Time can really change a person, I didn't expect that Dennis who was replaced early last season was so disgusted, and now he can be so calm."

At the end of the break, watching the players of the two teams run onto the field from the players' tunnel, the assistant sighed a little on the side, Wenger looked at Bergkamp not far away, and shook his head: "No, it has nothing to do with time, Dennis is not a narrow and selfish character, otherwise he would not accept my transformation, from the center forward position that is easier to score goals and easier to get attention, to retreat to the forward midfield."

The crux of the matter is that although we won the Premier League unbeaten last season, we were overturned by Bayern Munich in the second leg of the Champions League. For a player of his calibre, a league trophy simply can't satisfy his desire to win, and he can't get it, so his personality can get impatient, but now, in the first half, we were more dominant at both ends of the pitch than we were last season, which may give him hope of reaching the top of Europe. ”

"Not hope, sir! It's a must-have climb to the top of Europe! This year is our last chance! ”

The assistant clenched his fists fiercely, Wenger was stunned and did not speak again, the assistant was right, because the team has invested a lot of financial resources in the construction of new stadiums in recent years, and now the transfer budget given to him in each transfer window has become smaller and smaller.

Arsene Wenger was confident that his vision and ability to develop young players would still keep Arsenal competitive in the Premier League, but everything began to change when Abu took over at Chelsea last year.

The huge salary and sky-high signing fee are very huge temptations, but for top players who are not short of money, salary and signing fees are not the first consideration, and whether the whole team can get the highest honor is their pursuit!

Thierry Henry is twenty-seven, Pire is thirty-one and Patrick Vieira is twenty-eight, and they are just a few years away from the end of their prime, and Arsenal have yet to win a Champions League trophy until now.

If they continue to fail to win the Champions League this year, and clubs are unwilling to invest more in buying people, then they are likely to choose to leave Arsenal at the end of their careers and join a more competitive team in pursuit of the Big Ears Cup!

Thinking of this, Wenger's eyes gradually widened, his cheeks bulged, and his always warm pupils filled with a fierce light.

"This year! Just this year! ”

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Arsene Wenger's thoughts, the players on the pitch don't know, they just know that they want to finish Manchester United out in this game.

Soon, as the referee's whistle blew, Ruud van Nistelrooy pushed the ball back to Keane in the centre circle, but the next second, Bergkamp was close to him.

"What's going on?!"

was surprised that Bergkamp was so desperate to press, but Keane did not panic, just moved his feet to jam Bergkamp's route, and at the same time swung his ankle to distribute the ball to Phil Neville on the left, and at this moment, Chen Mo also grabbed at the same time!

Not only Bergkamp and Chen Mo, in the opening moment, Arsenal at the defensive end pressed greatly, Vieira, Essien, including Pire and Henry in the front, everyone participated in the pressing!

Caught off guard!

Arsenal were still retrenching in the final moments of the first half, and at the beginning of the second half, they pressed directly into the whole field, and Manchester United's formation began to be chaotic.

"Oh, it seems that Arsenal also saw that it was easy to have problems in the defence, and it was a decisive decision to press the whole field directly at the beginning of the second half."

'It's true, but as long as we at Manchester United can withstand this pressure, the opportunity to counter-attack will come soon.'

"Dr. Charlton is right, it is indeed easy to get control of the midfield when pressing all over the field, but at the cost of the player's fitness will drop rapidly, which is why many teams can maintain strong pressure before seventy or eighty minutes, but at the end of the game will start to weaken, physical fitness, as well as skills and tactics, are the key to winning or losing a game!"

"You've analyzed it thoroughly, but I haven't figured it out right now."

"Oh?"

'Pressing all the players has to be running, it's hard for a player to be effective if he doesn't run, but I don't think Bergkamp's fitness can support this kind of high-intensity pressing, he's 35 years old this year, and his fitness has dropped in the last minute of the first half. But now Mr. Wenger still chooses to press the whole field, I don't understand, Bergkamp's role in the offensive end is crucial, if he does not have the physical fitness to continue to retreat and get the ball organized, it will be difficult for Arsenal to launch an effective attack even if he recovers the ball. ”

"That's right, what Dr. Charlton said makes a lot of sense, but Chen Mo is also a very powerful organizer, maybe he will take over the banner from Bergkamp at that time?"

'I don't know, in the first half the little guy showed physicality, passing creativity and a wide field of vision, and the attacking aspect was more of Bergkamp and Patrick Vieira, and I'm not sure if he can play what you call a great playmaker in the Premier League, but if that's the case then he's terrible.'

The two commentators chattered, and at this time, the situation on the field had turned into a meat grinder war!

Arsenal's full-court pressing is very effective, but it also arouses the competitiveness of Manchester United's midfielders, once they lose the ball, they will immediately counter-rob on the spot, and once Manchester United succeeds in counter-attacking, Arsenal will also fight back as soon as possible, and the most competitive area is undoubtedly in the midfield!

Vieira, Chen Mo, Essien.

Keane, Phil Neville, Rooney!

I have to say that the scale of the Premier League's blowing penalty is really big, six strong men in the midfield, you push me to grab, all kinds of muscles collide, Chen Mo overturned Phil Neville one second, and Keane will be knocked to the ground in the next second, but before he turned around with the ball, and in the next second, Vieira, who came wildly, would use inertia to turn him over, but even in this case, the referee still didn't blow the whistle!

The football stadium was almost turned into a rugby stadium, and Ronaldo, who was at the forefront, did not dare to join the battle at all, but only symbolically moved next to Campbell.

But the fierceness is fierce, even Keane, who shoveled Haaland's leg three years ago, has no hurtful actions, both sides are competing who is faster, who has more strength, who is more flexible, and as long as they get the ball to get rid of the defenders, everyone will dribble forward as soon as possible, and then chase back immediately after being broken!

Left to right, right to left, the players of both teams are running wildly on the field, and the rhythm of offensive and defensive transitions is getting faster and faster!

The ultra-high frequency of offensive and defensive transitions made fans watch very cool, but gradually, as time passed, Manchester United's three midfielders led by Keane began to fail to keep up with the running frequency of Arsenal's three midfielders.

When he was thirty-four years old this year, Keane, who had just completed three long-distance switchback sprints, tried to resist Chen Mo with his back to stop the ball, but in the next second, he was knocked to the ground by Chen Mo from the side because of his soft feet, and he could only sit on the ground and watch the picture of Chen Mo taking the ball away was projected by the camera on the big screen of the court.

More than 30,000 Manchester United fans fell into a dead silence, and in the commentary seat, Dr. Charlton sighed as he struggled to get up on the screen and still wanted to chase Keane.

"Keane. I'm getting old, too. ”

(End of chapter)