Football's hand covers the sky

Chapter 418

After easily winning Newcastle United, Arsenal ushered in their fourth victory since the beginning of the season. After the first four rounds, only two teams in the Premier League maintained a complete victory.

The first team is naturally the defending champion Arsenal. Arsenal scored 8 goals and conceded 0 goals in the four league rounds.

The other team is Manchester City. Manchester City was a bit fierce at the beginning, scoring 10 goals in four league rounds, and conceding 0 goals like Arsenal.

There are amazing performances, but there are also disappointing ones. For example, last season's second place in the league, Chelsea, occupied Chelsea in the first four rounds and only scored 4 points.

In addition to Chelsea, there is also Liverpool. Liverpool performed well in the first two rounds, but after losing to Arsenal, Liverpool seemed to have lost the way to win.

Although only four rounds have been played this season, the situation of Chelsea and Liverpool, such a record is already unacceptable, especially Liverpool, which has spent a lot of money this season, so there is not much time left for Rogers.

But this has nothing to do with Arsenal. After the first round, Arsenal will have to wait until the second half of the season if they want to play against Liverpool again. Arsenal is now paying attention to the Champions League group stage and Chelsea in the sixth round.

After the fourth round of the competition came to an end, the major European leagues ushered in the international competition day, and the players assigned to the international competition took a few days off as usual.

Li Shou's vacation was clearly arranged by Li Jiajia. He spent two days at work out of three days, and was dragged to work as a social worker on the last day.

The club will arrange things in this area every season, even every player has to do it, and Li Shou happens to be free to let Li Shou go, and Li Shou is now the face of Arsenal.

Li Shou, who returned to the training ground after the holiday, put almost all his energy on free kicks. Training with the youth team was a bit too cruel for Arsenal's young players.

Although Arsenal's young players are eager to break the goal behind Li Shou to attract Wenger's attention, the final result is often very different from their fantasy.

"Li, take it easy, the head coach of the youth team will look for me again later." Every time the youth team players are transferred, they will be very excited, but when they go back, they will be shocked and suspicious of their lives. Whenever this happens, the head coach of the youth team will come to Wenger to complain.

"I'm training their minds. If they can't even bear this small setback, then they may not be able to stand in the real professional arena in the future." Li Shou has his reasons, what else can Wenger say.

Li Shou abused the youth team very much, but the national team Arsenal received very bad news that Welbeck was seriously injured.

When Wenger heard the news, he swears directly, because according to the feedback from the national team, Welbeck needs at least four to five months of recuperation for this injury.

There are only two Arsenal forwards, Giroud and Welbeck, and now Welbeck is injured, which means that Arsenal only has Giroud as a forward.

From April to May, there was only one striker. This is not too sad for Arsenal. The media who heard the news immediately laughed at Arsenal boss Kroenke.

The Arsenal boss is not only the enemy of the fans, but also the target of ridicule by the media. After all, Arsenal is a Premier League team, and Kroenke is an out-and-out American.

The British have always looked down on the Americans, not to mention that Kroenke has always used Arsenal as a tool to make money. Now England does not exclude foreign capital, because they know that the entry of foreign capital has made the Premier League better, but this definitely does not include Kroenke.

It's all about scolding, but none of this will affect Kroenke's ability to make money, and even if Kroenke is willing to spend the money, Arsenal can't buy anyone, because the transfer market has long been closed.

In other words, Arsenal can only dig internally, or they can only rely on Giroud to support Griezmann until the winter transfer, but strictly speaking, Arsenal still has other forwards, such as Campbell.

Campbell is somewhat similar to Welbeck. He can play as a winger and a center forward, but his strength is average. Last season, he played 16 games on loan with Villarreal and only scored 1 goal.

What has happened can no longer be changed. Wenger can only change the starting lineup. Originally, Wenger wanted Welbeck to start in the next round of the league, but since Welbeck has been injured, he can only change.

Griezmann once again acted as a single striker, and then Sanchez and Walcott were still on both sides. Coquelin, Ramsey and Cazorla remained unchanged in the midfield, and Koscielny replaced Chambers in the defense.

Chambers' performance in the last game was still not good. Facing the 10-man Newcastle United, he made several mistakes. Fortunately, Li Shou remained focused as always, and the other positions remained unchanged.

Arsenal's opponent in this round is Stoke City. At the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal has never lost to Stoke City, so Arsenal will firmly take the initiative again at the beginning of the game.

This season, Arsenal played a lot more proactively than last season. Thanks to the Triple Crown last season, the confidence of Arsenal players has improved a lot, and even their personal abilities have improved.

In the face of Arsenal's strong attack, Stoke City did not hesitate, and directly retreated to defend in an all-round way. Facing Stoke City's intensive defense, Arsenal did not reach a stalemate.

Unable to break through the opponent's goal, Arsenal began to slow down the pace, trying to pull Stoke City out, not to mention, it really worked.

No.303 minutes, Stoke City broke into Arsenal's penalty area. Shaqiri, who transferred from Inter Milan this season, made a cross from the side. Spanish center Joselu squeezed Paulista from the penalty area and jumped high to prepare for a header.

But in the end Joselu didn't touch the ball, because someone jumped higher than him and completed the clearance before the ball fell on top of his head. Arsenal's quick counterattack.

The ball from Li Shou's clearance came to Cazorla's feet, who immediately sent a long pass. The little tiger Walcott fired with full firepower, caught up with the ball, and then went straight into the penalty area of ​​Stoke City.

"Single-handed~~~ Arsenal's excellent opportunity, Walcott's excellent opportunity" Walcott wasted a lot of opportunities in the last game, otherwise the game would definitely not be 2:0.

"GOOOOOOOOOOL~~~The goal is scored~~~Walcott~~ opened the scoring first, he did not continue the bad state of the previous game." Facing the attacking goalkeeper, Walcott calmly pushed and scored from the far corner.

"Arsenal has opened the door to victory, and it will be very difficult for Stoke City." If Stoke City does not want to accept this score, they must attack, but if they do attack, it is a conceded goal and a lesson for the past.

(End of this chapter)