In midweek, Arsenal host West Ham United.

This is the twenty-first round of the league.

In this game, Arsenal was the main player, but the Hammers also caused a lot of trouble for Arsenal.

In the final moments of the game.

The Hammers are West Ham United's No. 9 centre-forward Carlton. Cole took advantage of a corner to help West Ham equalise.

Arsenal were held to a 2-2 draw at home.

After this draw, Arsenal are three points behind Manchester United with a game in hand!

The match had the media and fans on the Manchester side boiling.

The Manchester Evening News made a mockery of Arsenal in its report: "Now we have a familiar moment again: Arsenal are moving away from the title race. ”

However, on the Arsenal side, Wenger said in an interview: "It's the normal ups and downs of the team, we can't win 38 games in a row, it's impossible to do, we're playing one game less now, three points behind, does that mean anything?" ”

To be honest, Arsenal fans are actually a little worried.

Over the years, Arsenal have seen their form rise and fall in the middle and latter stages of the season.

Or the state is not good, or there are many injuries.

When the adjustment comes, the league is almost over.

So in the last few rounds, he mustered up his courage and tried his best to finally win the fourth place in the league.

This has become a joke for fans all over the world.

The world is a stone, and our factory occupies eight buckets.

It's not just a joke

However, although Arsenal fans are worried, they are actually more concerned about another matter.

That's the League Cup!

After playing the 21st round of the league, the team returned to home for the second leg of the League Cup.

Arsenal even sent more youngsters from the academy to work out in this game.

As a result, the team defeated Reading 2-1 at home and advanced to the final of the League Cup with an aggregate score of 7-3!

The opponent in the final is Brentford from the English Championship!

Brentford defeated Aston Villa 1-0 on the road, and the score was 1-1 over the two legs of home and away, and eliminated Aston Villa on penalties to reach the final!

A team from a Premier League contender, a team in the middle of the English Championship in the English second division.

This huge gap in the rankings determines the huge strength gap between the two sides!

No one would think Brentford could beat Arsenal at Wembley.

"Yelo is leading Arsenal's Academy players towards the Carabao Cup title!"

After Arsenal eliminated Reading to advance to the Carabao Cup final.

All the media believe that Arsenal are only half a step away from winning the League Cup!

And almost all the media were surprised and even shocked by the way Arsenal played the cup game.

There is speculation about whether Arsenal will use the combination of substitutes and academy players plus Yelo to play in the League Cup in the League Cup final.

However, the Carabao Cup final is still more than a month away in mid-February, so it's hard to predict what will happen in that month's time.

"Arsenal continued their previous rotation pattern in the second leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final, where they rotated almost everyone except Yelo. And it is precisely because of this, even if Arsenal has rotated a considerable amount of squad rotation, they still have a surprising fighting power, a 5-2 win away is enough for them to qualify for the League Cup final, a 2-1 win at home makes Arsenal stand in the case of Yelo, and the other League Cup semi-final result is Aston Villa lost 0-1 at home to Brentford, Brentford from the Championship has become the big dark horse in this season's League Cup, But I'm afraid no one will think that they can go all the way to the end! ”

After the game, the North London Banner reported optimistically.

"It's time to end Arsenal's championshipless era!"

They wrote very passionately at the end of the article.

Although it is said that the League Cup is very chicken, but for Arsenal, which has not won a championship for many years, it can be regarded as a long-term drought.

Arsenal are firmly in third place in the total number of domestic titles in England, behind Manchester United and Liverpool.

But.

Their last title was the FA Cup in 2004-2005.

Their last league title was an unbeaten winning season in 2003-2004.

That season was the pinnacle of Arsenal's Premier League era.

From after that season to now.

After winning an FA Cup in 2004-2005, Arsenal have not won a significant trophy for almost eight years – the Emirates Cup does not count.

So for Arsenal fans.

If we can win a League Cup this season and end the embarrassment of the team without a championship for many years, it is also a thing worth celebrating.

Not to mention.

Arsenal have also failed to win the Carabao Cup.

Arsenal have only won two Carabao Cups in their history.

They were all in the distant past, in the 1986-1987 and 1992-1993 seasons.

In the FA Cup, Arsenal have won a lot of titles, and so far Arsenal have won a total of 11 FA Cups, second only to Manchester United with 12 times.

So it's understandable that Arsenal fans are looking forward to a League Cup trophy.

January 2013 was a hectic year for any Premier League team.

Especially for teams like Arsenal who are not out of the Carabao Cup yet.

Played the semi-finals of the League Cup.

The next game is a cup again.

It's the FA Cup this season.

Premier League teams begin to join the draw in the third round of the FA Cup.

As a result, Arsenal were unlucky.

They drew against Premier League side Everton.

Still away from home.

Three days after the FA Cup, the team will host Liverpool in the 22nd round of the league at home.

As a result, Arsenal followed the same pattern as Yelo plus substitutes and youth team players.

Outcome.

They were beaten 2-1 by Everton at Goodison Park.

Yelo did not score in this game.

This also led to their direct exit from the FA Cup.

In fact, this is also normal, for a team like Everton, they have no worries about relegation and have little hope of qualifying for the Champions League, so they are very motivated in a cup competition like the FA Cup.

On the other hand, at Arsenal, Yelo brought a group of substitutes and youth team players to play in the cup competition, and if he was not careful, he would be eliminated.

The two sides don't attach much importance to the FA Cup at all.

And after losing this game.

Arsenal's last three games have been won and drawn, and one defeat each.

This has led to questions about their status.

Many people feel that Arsenal's good form from the beginning of the season to the present is gone.

Arsenal and Yelo have finally entered a "bottleneck period".

And it is in this context that they meet the challenge of Liverpool, who have been on the upswing of recent times and are in quite good form.

The first leg of the season between Arsenal and Liverpool took place in the first round of the season.

This match has a special meaning for Yelo as it was his first game in England.

And it's not just a cat and a dog team, but Liverpool, one of England's two giants.

At that time, Liverpool had just changed managers, and Rodgers had just taken over.

Therefore.

At the beginning of the season.

Liverpool's form has been up and down.

They played in the first half of the season, winning just three of the first ten league games.

However, since the 10th round of the league, Liverpool's form has gradually recovered.

They drew with Chelsea and then made it three wins in a row to move them up to seventh in the table.

After losing to Manchester United in the fifteenth round of the league.

So far, it is unbeaten in six league games and has won five in a row!

That result saw them overtake Tottenham in the 21st round of the league and move them into fifth place.

And this is one of them.

Liverpool completely abandoned Downing, Pollini and others in the forward line.

Instead, a 3S trident combination with Suarez, Sturridge, and Sterling as the main force was established.

Also in midfield.

Straightened Henderson and replaced Joe Allen as the main player.

Jordan Henderson, Steven Gerrard and Lucas form a midfield three.

Good both offensively and defensively.

If there is a weakness in this Liverpool team, it may be that the double high school defenders who have partnered Skrtel and Ager have been too slow to turn.

Rodgers' approach is to reactivate the veteran Carragher and make Carragher appear more in key games this season, using his experience to partner Ager or Skrtel.

Needless to say, right-back Glen Johnson, who is Liverpool's best right-back right now.

At left-back.

Spanish veteran Enrique has been replaced by teenager Andre Wisdang.

And so it goes.

Liverpool have quietly completed an upgrade in Brendan Rodgers' hands.

This is also the fundamental reason why they have won five consecutive league games in the last five league games.

This Liverpool is definitely not the Liverpool that Arsenal met in the first round of the league at the beginning of the season.

Of course.

Arsenal are not the same Arsenal that started the season either.

But who's making their recent form seem a little erratic?

At the virtual training ground.

Ye Luo has recently been researching how to integrate [Beckenbauer's experience] with modern football and his own football ability.

In the Cup, Ye Luo was doing these experiments.

On the field, nothing is simply a pile-up.

How can you bring out the best in yourself?

This in itself requires continuous competition to accumulate and summarize.

And the experience points from Beckenbauer can undoubtedly help Ye Luo to complete this work faster.

Liverpool in this game are a fresh opponent for Yelo.

They are completely different from the start of the season and they are in very good form.

It's certainly not easy to beat such a team, but Arsenal will have to do it because if they continue to drop points, they will most likely be separated by Manchester United and Manchester City.

(End of chapter)