Football's hand covers the sky

Chapter 417 Four consecutive victories

Group D: Juventus, Manchester City, Sevilla, Monchengladbach

This should be regarded as the death group of this season. All four teams come from the five major leagues, but the strength is actually quite clear. There is an atmosphere of the death group, but it is not strong.

Group E: Barcelona, ​​Leverkusen, Roma, Borisov

Barcelona is as good as ever, Leverkusen and Roma compete for the second place in the group.

Group F: Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Olympiacos, Dinamo Zagreb

This group depends on the battle between the Bundesliga hegemony and Chelsea.

Group G: Arsenal, Porto, Dynamo Kiev, Maccabi Tel Aviv

As the defending champion, Arsenal has also drawn a good lottery. Although Porto and Dynamo Kiev are not weak, Arsenal's advantage is still obvious.

Group H: Zenit, Valencia, Lyon, Gent

This can be regarded as a real death group, but this group has not received much attention. Strictly speaking, there is no real giants. Although Lyon was once the overlord of Ligue [-], but now Lyon has become a black shop in Ligue [-].

To be honest, I don't know whether the restructuring of the UEFA Champions League group draw is good or bad at present. After all, it is the first time to make changes this season, so it will take time to figure it out.

After the draw, the teams did not stay in Monaco for a long time. After all, when the league is in progress, the players need to return to the team as soon as possible. As for the others, it doesn't matter whether they stay or not.

Arsenal's first group match of the Champions League is in mid-September, so there is still half a month before the start, so there is no rush.

What Arsenal need to do most now is to return their attention to the league first. The day after the draw, Arsenal will challenge Newcastle United at James Park as a guest.

But Li Shou, Wenger and Arteta received very bad news after returning. The two main central defenders Koscielny and Mertesacker were injured one after another in one day. Although the injuries were not serious, they would definitely not be able to participate in the next day's game.

Chambers expressed that he was very unhappy. Although Chambers was very eager to usher in the first start of the season, he definitely did not want to start at the position of central defender.

Chambers is actually not suitable to play as a central defender. This has been proven last season. When playing as a central defender, Chambers made a lot of mistakes, but when he returned to the wing, even if Chambers did not perform well, at least he would not make any mistakes.

Arsenal's current defense line is in line with Chambers in all aspects, so Chambers moving laterally in the middle is Wenger's helpless choice.

Seeing this situation, Li Shou was depressed again. If Van Dijk had been bought before, then Arsenal would not have to worry so much. Let alone whether Van Dijk can really adapt to the Premier League, at least there are enough central defenders.

It is a pity that all this is impossible. Van Dijk has already gone to Southampton. Although this round of the game still has not ushered in the first round, the fact that he already belongs to Southampton cannot be changed.

However, it was raining all night when the house fell, and Giroud and Welbeck caught a cold again the next day. Wenger jumped angrily when he learned of the situation, and even Wenger seriously doubted whether the two had gone out together last night.

In desperation, Wenger can only make adjustments to the starting lineup. Griezmann is at the front, Walcott starts with Sanchez on both sides, and the three behind him remain unchanged, Coquelin, Ramsey Cazorla, the defense Monreal, Chambers, Paulista and Bellerin.

As for the goalkeeper, it is naturally impossible to change. Li Shou is the guarantee of Arsenal's victory. Arsenal can lack any other players now, except Li Shou.

Thanks also to Li Shou's frighteningly strong body, Li Shou has never been injured since he became a professional player in Monaco.

However, the position of the goalkeeper is actually the most difficult position to be injured, unless the luck is particularly bad, or it is the kind of vulnerable physique.

If a player is talented but vulnerable to injury, that is definitely the saddest thing. In the position of goalkeeper, there have been two sad guys in European football in the past ten years.

One is the German Mesozoic goalkeeper Adler, who used to overwhelm Neuer, and the other is the Spanish goalkeeper Asenjo. If Asenjo was not injured, it is absolutely impossible to have the current De Gea.

Although the player's injury disrupted Arsenal's pre-war arrangement, Arsenal immediately took the initiative after the real game started. Arsenal's lineup had to be rotated, but there was no problem with the tacit understanding of the players.

As for Newcastle United, their strength this season has also been strengthened. Newcastle United invested more than 4000 million during the summer transfer period.

However, judging from the game scene, Newcastle United did not seem to have changed because of this investment. Arsenal firmly took the initiative and completed the first shot in less than 3 minutes after the start of the game.

Arsenal had three shots in the first 10 minutes, although none of these three shots really threatened Newcastle United's goal, and Newcastle United's first shot was No. 14 minutes.

Just transferred from Anderlecht this season, the talented center Mitrovic, who is only 20 years old, has played the main force in the Belgian giants for two seasons and scored 44 goals in two seasons.

Speaking of which, Li Shou had played against this talented center before. In the fourth game of the UEFA Champions League group stage last season, Mitrovic came off the bench.

Although there is an opportunity to perform now, it is too difficult to break through Li Shou's goal. Mitrovic's powerful shot was directly hit in Li Shou's arms.

However, no one would have thought that Mitrovic’s first shot was also his last shot in the game. Just 3 minutes after Mitrovic’s shot, the ball came to his feet again, but was met with a flying tackle by Coquelin.

Mitrovic was also unlucky, the referee Marina was behind Mitrovic, and then the referee immediately rushed to the Serbian teenager and took out a yellow card.

genius?At this moment, Mitrovic is just a fool in the eyes of everyone. Newcastle United's strength is not as good as Arsenal's. His kick almost directly announced the final result of the game.

But when the referee blew the whistle for the whole game, the score was finally fixed at 2:0. Griezmann opened the scoring and Newcastle United defender Coloccini scored an own goal.

Arsenal was still unlucky in this game, almost completely suppressing Newcastle United, but in the end there was only one real goal, but regardless of good or bad luck, Arsenal still won the game.

(End of this chapter)