0151 First visit to Emirates Stadium
George Lee followed the team to the Emirates Stadium, the new home of Arsenal, which had just been completed.
Two months ago, Arsenal's legend Bergkamp played their farewell match here, the opening match of the Emirates Stadium. The opponent was Ajax, and Vincent also came here with Ajax to watch the game, but Lee didn't come to watch it because he was training abroad.
Leeds United travel to Arsenal today, and Lee finally has the chance to come to this large stadium with a modern atmosphere.
Although Leeds United is also preparing to build a new stadium, because Leeds City's ball market is not as hot as London's, it is unlikely that the new Elland Road stadium will build more than 60,000 seats at once, otherwise it will not look good if the fans are not full.
But George Lee and Michael repeatedly stressed the need to leave room for expansion and renovation in case of emergency.
Arsenal had problems at the start of the season, with two draws and one defeat in their first three games, and Bergkamp's retirement had a big impact on Arsenal. It wasn't until the start of the 5th round that he began to regain his form and ushered in a wave of three consecutive wins.
Togolese striker Bam Adebayor, who joined from Monaco this summer, has shown his tough style of play, giving a refreshing feeling to all Arsenal fans who are used to seeing Arsenal attack with mercury.
For Leeds United, Charlotte Black, a rising star on the right side who has been in excellent form lately, continued to start, and he broke the media rumours that he was a "relational" with his modest but extremely consistent performances. It's just that this is Charlotte's last game of recent play, as Mills has returned from injury and will come off the bench today to find his form.
Mills will then return to the starting line-up for their next Champions League game against Bayern Munich.
On the left side of the team, Leeds United have also suffered from injuries.
The team's main left-back, Bynes, also suffered an injury, so George Lee chose to start Ben Thatcher after weighing it for a long time.
Not only that, but he also hid Mathieson in this game. In the unlikely event that Margaret Thatcher suffers another injury, at least one man will be able to play at left-back.
Although George Lee has other options, such as letting Pedersen or Delph, who also comes from the youth team, try it out, or play a three-centre-back tactic.
But George Li still thinks that the above choice is a little safer.
It's not just Baines who has suffered injuries, but Parker in midfield has also suffered injuries, so today's game against Arsenal was De Jong's start, while his midfield partner was Joey Barton.
George Li didn't dare to hold it up, and the back line was not full of main forces, so he could only put on a double back.
However, if George Lee finds that the attacking willingness of the opposite side of Arsenal is not strong, there are other arrangements.
Arsene Wenger has also suffered attrition here, mainly in the defensive line.
After a year of staggering with Chelsea, Ashley Cole finally got his wish to go to Stamford Bridge. Principal centre-back Campbell opted to move to Portsmouth after his contract expired in the summer.
Now the back line is new except for Toure, who is an old man.
After the start of the game, Leeds United followed their usual style of play, pressing the defenders in front of the defensive line, limiting the opposition's core in midfield, and starting to press high in the front.
Here at Arsenal, Cesc Fabregas, who has several years of Premier League experience, is also comfortable with Leeds United's pressing, and he can control the ball at his feet or successfully pass the ball to nearby teammates when he sees the bag coming from the opposite side. He still remembers being disgraced by Leeds United's defence three years ago. At that time, as soon as he got the ball, Leeds United's three midfielders, Smith, Davies and Graveson, would immediately wrap him up, acting extremely rudely, and even fouling him to restrain him.
Now after getting rid of Graveson, the small law pushed the ball to Rosicky in front. Then Xiaofa glanced at Gravison behind him, and then at Smith in the distance.
"tui~" After spitting on his saliva, he continued to run forward. I thought to myself, the one with the glasses is gone, and I must give the other two people a little color today.
Hmph, a yellow hair, a bald head.
But before Xiaofa could run two steps, he saw his teammate Rosicky being knocked to the ground by a physical contact from the opposite No. 8.
"du~" The referee rushed over and gave De Jong a warning, indicating that he should move a little smaller.
De Jong spread his hands and walked away.
Xiaofa immediately discovered that the midfielder on the opposite side today may not be easy to deal with after the change.
The No. 8 De Jong action is not small, and as soon as he gets the ball, the opponent's other No. 23 immediately forces up and keeps harassing him.
In the opening nearly 20 minutes, Rosicky has rolled to the ground no more than an unknown number of times.
The Czech sat on the ground with his midfielder, tugging at his socks and watched as the referee next to him showed Barton a yellow card.
Smith kept explaining to the referee, while Barton walked away indifferently.
Arsenal's midfield has no advantage and can only rely on two flanks to create a threat.
Today, Leeds United's right side was okay, Charlotte faced Henry, who dominated the Premier League, but did not suffer, and used his speed to keep up with Henry. There were two times when he was deceived by Henry's change of pace, but fortunately one was cleared by Woodgate's defense, and the other time he was stopped by a foul.
However, Leeds United's left side suffered today. Theo Walcott, who joined Arsenal from Southampton last winter, has been attacking Thatcher with speed.
Thatcher was passed by Walket in the blink of an eye, and he turned around and reached out to pull Walcott, but he didn't even pull the corner of his clothes.
Fortunately, Walcott could only break through Thatcher and then had to choose to go down, as he had tried to go down the middle a few times before, and was immediately disrupted by Leeds United's midfielders and centre-backs.
However, with 37 minutes played, it was Walcott's bottom that caused the goal.
Walcoat once again used his speed to break through Thatcher from the right, and then hit near the baseline, because the force of the ball just now was too strong, and he caught up when the ball was out of the baseline and chose to fall to the ground and cross.
Although the quality of the cross was poor, the wrong in and out went around everyone in front of the goal and flew to the back post.
Thierry Henry, who was near the far post, received the ball, first stopped with his chest and then made a gesture to shoot.
Charlotte pounced to block the shot, but when she came to Henry, she found that she had been deceived.
The French "Great" slammed his left foot and volleyed directly with his right foot.
Van der Sar didn't seal the angle completely and the ball flew into the net against the near post.
0 to 1.
Leeds United are behind on the road.
As the game continued, Leeds United were leaking overnight and as the first half drew to a close, Robin van Persie went down injured in a scramble with Klich.
George Lee touched his forehead and hurriedly asked Lennon to replace Van Persie.
Don't dare to wait, Van Persie's role for Leeds United is self-evident, George Lee would rather lose this game than let Van Persie play with an injury.
Leeds went into the break with a 1-0 score in the first half.