Football's hand covers the sky

Chapter 273 Premier League clean sheet record

Before the UEFA Champions League knockout draw, Arsenal still has a league game to play. Some things are just so coincidental. Arsenal's opponent in the [-]th round of the league is Newcastle United, which defeated Chelsea in the last round.

This game is obviously not specially arranged by the FA. The schedule has been arranged since the beginning of the season, so it is purely a coincidence.

In the world of football, such coincidences are actually very common, and this is one of the charms of football. After all, no one knows what the outcome of the game will be.

It's like the match between Arsenal and Newcastle United. If Newcastle United hadn't defeated Chelsea in the last round, then this game would definitely not attract so much attention.

In addition, the most notable thing about Arsenal is Li Shou's clean sheet record. The Premier League's clean sheet record was created by Manchester United goalkeeper Van der Sar.

On November 08, 11, Arsenal played against Manchester United at home, but Arsenal still had Nasri, and it was this midfielder who pierced Van der Sar's goal and scored twice.

Van der Sar's record of not conceding a goal began after losing to Arsenal. From the No.13 round to the 28th round, Van der Sar's not conceding a goal spanned nearly four months.

There is also a very interesting situation here. Van der Sar's record of not conceding a goal was after losing to Arsenal, while Van der Sar's record was just terminated by Newcastle United, with a total of 1311 minutes.

Li Shou's record of not conceding a goal is not Arsenal's record of not conceding a goal. This is an essential difference. From the third round to the sixth round, Li Shou started.

In the ninth round of the league, Li Shou returned, and then Arsenal won a seven-game winning streak. Therefore, Li Shou has not conceded a goal in more than ten rounds.

Although Li Shou is still far behind Van der Sar's record of not conceding a goal, according to Li Shou's current performance, this gap is actually not difficult to catch up. As long as Arsenal can surpass Liverpool in the No.17 round, other teams are not strong.

In fact, even Liverpool's performance this season is a bit poor. Not to mention the failure to appear in the Champions League group, they only scored 21 points after the 15th round of the league, which is as much as [-] points away from Arsenal.

Points don't mean everything. The game still depends on the players' on-the-spot performance. To be honest, Liverpool's strength is not bad, but for the current Arsenal, Liverpool is something later. Arsenal need to solve Newcastle United before they are eligible to discuss Liverpool.

The recent record of Newcastle United is quite good. They have won 8 of the last 6 rounds of the league, including a championship team like Chelsea that has never lost this season.

And before the start of the game against Newcastle United, there was another bad news from Arsenal, Koscielny was injured again, but Arsenal also had good news, Debig returned to the team from injury.

But Derbyg’s return does not quench his thirst. What Arsenal need now is a central defender. There are now five full-backs in the Arsenal team, not to mention Chambers, who was suspended due to a yellow card, as well as the young Bellerin and Gibson and Mereal on the other two sides. Arsenal still only has Mertesacker as a central defender.

So in this game, there is another full-back who wants to play as a guest central defender to partner with Mertesacker, and Wenger chooses Debig, who has just recovered from his injury, with Gibson and Bellerin starting on both sides.

Flamini, Ramsey and Cazorla are in the midfield, Griezmann and Sanchez are back on the striker, and Giroud is the center. Although the French center has not recovered to his best condition, his role as a bridgehead is still obvious, and Giroud is relatively more reliable than Welbeck.

Arsenal playing at home will naturally not be polite, not to mention that since Li Shou became Arsenal's starting goalkeeper, Arsenal's tactics have begun to change.

Arsenal completed the first shot 2 minutes into the game. Giroud received a pass from Sanchez and carried the defensive player in the penalty area, and the shot went wide.

In the last game, Taylor was suspended from two yellows and one red. In this game, Newcastle United played Williamson, who was over 1.9 meters tall. Obviously, this was a targeted choice.

But sometimes height can't represent everything, not to mention that Giroud is not inferior to Williamson in this respect, and even in terms of personal ability, Giroud is much better than Williamson.

This is directly reflected in the game. In the 7th minute, Cazorla picked the ball into Newcastle United's penalty area. Giroud watched Williamson's header ferry again.

Cazorla took a corner kick, and Mertesacker, as the first altitude on the field, hit the ball. If Mertesacker hadn't been a bit unlucky, Arsenal would have scored.

The Newcastle United goalkeeper failed to save the German's header, but the ball eventually hit the crossbar, but the ball did not bounce off the baseline, but bounced back into the penalty area.

Griezmann, the round-conscious Frenchman is definitely the best frontcourt in Arsenal. Even Sanchez can't compare with Griezmann, so Griezmann is also the person who reacts the fastest in the entire penalty area.

But the quick reaction does not mean a goal. Griezmann did complete the shot, but his shot finally hit the full back standing on the goal line.

"Lady Luck seems to have chosen Newcastle United today." Once on the crossbar and once on the defensive player, Arsenal seems to be really lacking a little bit of luck today.

Luck may not be with Arsenal, but the initiative has always been at Arsenal's feet. Newcastle United hadn't even seen Arsenal's goal 10 minutes before the start of the game. Li Shou could only maintain his body's functions through his own exercise.

And this situation has continued. In No.13 minutes, Newcastle United entered the hinterland of Arsenal to find an offer from Flamini and Derbyg, and the ball returned to Arsenal's feet again.

Ramsey immediately sent the ball to the left, and Sanchez ran after receiving the pass. At the same time, Giroud in the middle and Griezmann on the other side also rushed to the Newcastle United penalty area.

Sanchez's breakthrough ability is the strongest in the Arsenal team, and Sanchez is also the top scorer in the Arsenal team, so when Sanchez hits the Newcastle United defense with the ball, Newcastle United's defense naturally leans towards Sanchez.

Sanchez has never been a selfish player, so after attracting Newcastle United's defensive players, Sanchez kicked the ball into the penalty area.

In the middle of the penalty area, Giroud has thrown off the defender Williamson and rushed to the penalty spot, and then Griezmann has also thrown off the defender to outflank at any time.

(End of this chapter)