Mister Legend

Chapter 527

In many mature sports circles, there is a tradition of retired celebrities returning to their old clubs, and European football is one of the areas where this situation occurs most often.

Among them, Real Madrid is one of the clubs that are most keen on "recycling" their own retired stars. Hierro, Solari, Zidane, Guti, Raul, Alonso... have all been or are in the construction of various echelons. In the management position, he continued to shine for his old club.

And another world-class giant that is famous for making good use of past achievements is the Bundesliga hegemony Bayern Munich. The troika management system of honorary chairman Beckenbauer, chairman Hoeness, and CEO Rummenigge has continued from the end of the last century until the end of the last century. Until the football emperor completely faded out of the football circle, and their head coaches from the first team to the U17 youth team are mostly their own family members who have played for the team. It can be said that this club has a firm Bayern blood from top to bottom .

Of course, we can't forget the Rossoneri after "Brother Li" was driven away. Former AC Milan stars such as Maldini, Leonardo, Kaka, and Fiori have all joined the management and coaches Group, look around, it's all memories!
This tradition is also relatively popular in the Premier League. Previously, Gerrard, Lampard, Solskjaer and other stars have all returned to their home teams after retiring (Chelsea’s significance to Lampard is to some extent It can also be called the mother team) accumulated experience in the youth team and laid a good foundation for coaching other teams in the future.

However, Arsenal's work in this area is somewhat unsatisfactory. The team's former legends Tony Adams, David Seaman, Bergkamp and others did not stay to serve after retirement, and they almost even had a relationship with them. The arsenal has nothing to do with it anymore. This is not the attitude that a world giant should show.

After Henry retired in 2014, he briefly served as the coach of the Gunners youth team, but because the professor didn't like him and was also a part-time commentator on Sky Sports, he had no choice but to leave the Kearney training base again.

But fortunately, this chilling behavior turned around in 2016. First, the Swede Ljungberg returned to Arsenal, served as the head coach of the U15 and U19 youth teams, and then the German defender Silence After retiring in 2018, Tesak directly took over the heavy responsibility of the Gunners' youth training director, which made a good start for the club to establish a fine cultural tradition of team stars returning home to serve.

This summer, when Li Mudi took over as the coach of Arsenal, he also put a certain amount of thought into this aspect.Welshman Tony Roberts, the goalkeeper coach who was a professor, and the old physical coach Tony Colbert, who left after Emery took office, have been invited back, and now the King of Highbury has been recalled. Gathering the loyalty of the fans can have an excellent effect.

Ten days passed quickly. On November 11th, the exhausted international players returned to the club and immediately started training for the weekend league.

And Aubameyang has started a hellish state. He must accept one to one and a half hours of "additional meals" after the group practice that is not very easy every day, so as to train himself how to stop The biscuits that are brought to the mouth are easily spit out.

Fortunately, standing in front of the beautiful sheep is Henry, one of his idols, which makes the former feel a lot of physical pain, and can also slightly reduce the psychological burden.

And after handing over this big problem to his new colleague, Li Modi temporarily re-entered the role of hands-off shopkeeper, because his workload is really not light.Not only did he have to formulate tactics and strategies for each of the next games, but he was also distracted into the winter transfer window that was about to open in one and a half months, which made him unable to spare time to make a good effort for a long time after that. Accompany your wife, especially the little princess.This put the Gunners coach in an extremely bad mood, so he always appeared on the training ground and outside the court with a black face, making the players also Alexander.

On Sunday, 22nd, Arsenal ushered in the challenge of Newcastle at home. Under the leadership of Benitez, the latter has remained in the middle of the standings since returning to the Premier League. Make an impact.It's a pity that due to the stable state of several wealthy teams, coupled with the gap in financial resources, this Magpie has not been able to make a big breakthrough in performance.But no matter which strong team meets them, they will still feel a headache. If they are not careful, they may be bitten by the extremely sharp beak, which is a very painful experience.

From the analysis of the strength of the lineup, the strength gap between the two teams is actually not small. In terms of the total value of the first team provided by professional websites, the Gunners crushed the Magpies, which were only worth 7 million, with 2.75 million euros. It cannot be explained that the performance of the two sides on the court will show such a big contrast.On the one hand, it is because the worth does not represent too many things, and more importantly, the latter's head coach is the super tactical master who is famous in the world of football!

Although Bei Shuai's performance was always disappointing when he coached the giants such as Inter Milan, Chelsea and Real Madrid, when he became the head coach of the next level team, he often burst into amazing sparks. Valencia in the 2001-04 season and Liverpool in the 2004-09 season (the Red Army had fallen to the point where it was not recognized as a giant by most people) were the brilliance of Benitez's coaching career. experience.

Although the Naples era that followed was slightly inferior, it was not lacking in good points.As for Newcastle, who is currently coaching, they can still force their way through the fierce competition in the Premier League. There is absolutely no doubt about this ability.

It's just that he is constrained by the club's business philosophy and financial situation. Bei Shuaikong has a lot of talent and learning, but without the best players to implement it, he is still powerless.Although Newcastle, who was playing away from home, used extremely targeted tactics to limit the home team's offensive at the beginning of the first half, but it was also unable to put pressure on Arsenal's defense due to its own bus strategy, so Generally speaking, it has been in a passive situation.

Of course, if this state can be maintained all the time, or wait for the opponent to make a mistake after they are eager to win, or leave the Emirates Stadium with a score of 0 to 0, this is an acceptable or expected result for the visiting team.

However, Welbeck, who came off the bench, scored in front of the goal in the No.608 minute of the second half, which completely destroyed Benitez's plan, and he had to give instructions to strengthen the attack in the following time. From this moment onwards, it develops in the direction of solving the suspense.

In the end, relying on sharp counterattack tactics, Arsenal scored a goal each from Lacazette and youth training teenager Reis Nelson, winning this seemingly easy but actually very dangerous game with a score of 3-0 victory.

And with this three-pointer, Arsenal also achieved an excellent record of 12 wins and 1 tie in the first thirteen rounds of the Premier League this season, which is still the same as the best start record when Manchester City set a record of 100 points three years ago. .Only in terms of goals scored and conceded, Li Mudi's team still has a lot of gaps from the original Blue Moon team, but this is also a historical level of achievement.

However, the only thing that frustrates the gun fans is that, unlike Manchester City, which showed an unstoppable and unstoppable momentum early on, this year's Arsenal has a death-like pursuer behind it-the three-peat winner. , Guardiola's team.

After defeating Wolves in the away game, Blue Moon continued to spy behind the Gunners with a gap of four points, ready to show its ferocious fangs at any time to give the league leaders a fatal blow.Behind them, there is Tottenham Hotspur in a stable state. Pochettino's team currently ranks third in the standings with a record of 10 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, and still has the hope of competing for the championship.

However, in the eyes of the outside world, the new Premier League champions born in May next year will basically be produced among the above three teams.Although Liverpool has shown signs of rebounding in the recent period, due to their poor performance at the beginning of the season, Arsenal have already opened up a [-]-point gap in points, and there is really little hope of completing the counterattack.

As for Chelsea, whose state has been ups and downs, and Manchester United, who have just changed their coach and need a period of adjustment and running-in, they were excluded from the championship as early as half a month ago.

Li Mudi doesn't like this situation very much, but he is not very disgusted, because without the constraints of other powers, Manchester City is bound to get an amazing record in the end, which requires Arsenal to also create a close or even It is needless to elaborate on the difficulty of surpassing the original historical record.

But these are not all factors that are unfavorable to hot spots. As long as you can perform relatively well in these so-called strong dialogues, then with your own attributes of "little vegetable abuser", it is almost impossible to be in those who must win. Faltering against opponents who have scored points, as long as Manchester City has the slightest negligence, the chances of winning the league championship are still quite high.

Of course, regardless of whether the opponent is strong or weak, Arsenal must do their best to deal with it. Only by doing their best in every game before the victory is confirmed can they win this game without being widely favored by the outside world. The honor has been separated by 17 years.

On Wednesday, November 11th, the Premier League ushered in a one-week double-match schedule. The Gunners' opponent in this round is the Burnley team, which looks average but can always surprise everyone.Although the latter's meritorious coach Sean Dyche (Sean Dyche translated by Mr. Zhan Jun) was poached by the lavish Wolves last summer, but this team has no superstars, but the whole team A team with very average player strength was still able to declare success in relegation early last season, and finally got the relatively ideal result of No. 25 in the league. Their current head coach, Frenchman Claude Puel's ability is still worthy of recognition.

Although Burnley's current main formation is 4-4-1-1 due to overall ability, Puel is a coach who prefers offense. The station is changed to 4-2-3-1, so as to increase the offensive power in the frontcourt.

However, these routines of his were already well known to the outside world when he coached Leicester City a few years ago, so under Li Moody's prepared response, the home team did not take much advantage in this duel. It was cheap, and finally formed a scene of gunmen besieging.

In this case, the weakness of Li Moody's lack of a center forward who can act as a bridgehead in the opponent's penalty area is more obvious. Aubameyang's hemp-like figure obviously cannot compete with a group of tower-like defenders. What is there to do in the group? Welbeck and Lacazette are slightly better than Mei Yangyang, but they are not the type of Giroud and Ruud van Nistelrooy. Therefore, when facing the iron barrel formation, Arsenal will generally play harder. .

Fortunately, the set-piece tactics that have been practiced in daily training have played a role at this critical moment. Greek central defender Papastathopoulos, who was rarely qualified to start, took advantage of the chaos created by a corner kick and volleyed the ball into the goal. In the home team's goal.

It's just that during the celebration, he not only received a yellow card warning from the referee for taking off his jersey, but also said something to the camera on the sidelines to complain that the team didn't give him a chance to play. There was a big disturbance.At that time, the camera next to the coach's bench directly gave a close-up of the Arsenal coach standing outside the touchline, but Li Mudi obtained the true biography of facial expression management from his wife, and his face did not show any negative emotions at that time. The broadcast media regretted that they missed a hotly debated topic of generals' estrangement.

As for the reason why the goal hero was replaced less than 5 minutes after the score was rewritten, it was also explained by Li Mudi at the press conference after the game as a precautionary measure to prevent the Greek central defender from receiving a second yellow card. The incident was dealt with in the past.

Under the attention of the outside world, Papastathopoulos was not punished too severely by the club because of the impulsiveness of this game. He was only fined [-] pounds in the team. In the series of games, they can still appear in the roster or even the starting lineup as planned, so everyone thinks that the conflict at that time has completely passed.

But who knows that shortly after the winter transfer window opened, the 32-year-old veteran suddenly became a member of Arsenal's departure in 2021. Only then did people recall that the Chinese coach's wrist was How tough is not the character of a good old man.

But that's all for later, let's bring the topic back to the No.14 round of the Premier League between Burnley and Arsenal.

The castle that had been defended for more than an hour was eventually breached by the opponent, which greatly affected the fighting spirit and confidence of the home team players. As a result, the Gunners seized the opportunity and Lacazette scored another goal, completely sealing the victory.

2 to 0, after the draw with Manchester United, Li Moody led the team to a wave of four consecutive victories, and the state is amazing.

However, the more exciting news for Arsenal supporters came two and a half hours later. Manchester City lost to Tottenham at home, extending the Gunners' lead in the standings to six points (Guns 40 points, Thorns 34 points. , Mann 33 points), this is really a perfect Thanksgiving gift!
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