Football: The Strongest Hexagon Warrior

All four rounds of the UEFA Champions League group stage in the 2017-2018 season have ended.

Arsenal is neither the only team to win four consecutive games in the group, nor the only team to qualify early, but it is definitely the only team to secure first place in the group this season.

Manchester United in Group A, Paris Saint-Germain in Group B and Manchester City in Group F all started with four consecutive wins.

The most depressing team is undoubtedly Manchester United, which also won four games and scored 12 points. Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City all qualified early. Even Bayern, second in Group B with nine points, can rely on being third in the group. The Celtics, who have three points, qualify early.

Group B is not sure who can finally get the first place in the group.

The tragedy of Manchester United is that it is only six points ahead of Basel and Interland Moscow, which both have 6 points. According to the same rules for the Champions League group points, the points are tied first based on the outcome. Manchester United and the two teams have only played one game each, which even means You can't qualify in advance yet.

After all, there is still a theoretical two-game losing streak while the other two teams have two-game winning streak.

The situation of Manchester City in Group F is the same as that of Paris Saint-Germain in Group B. They are six points ahead of the third place. Therefore, they can only qualify early and miss the opportunity to secure the first place in the group.

The top three or four teams in several other groups may qualify, and nothing is certain at the end of the four rounds.

After the Champions League in midweek, the mainstream media in Europe first focused on the teams that qualified early, and then focused on the British stadium.

Manchester and London to be specific.

Manchester's Etihad Stadium will usher in this season's Premier League top spot.

London is Chelsea hosting Manchester United.

But the one that gets the most attention is Manchester City vs Arsenal.

The two teams remained unbeaten in the first ten rounds. Arsenal won all ten games and accumulated 30 points. Manchester City ranked second with 9 points with 1 wins and 28 draw.

In the Champions League, both Arsenal and Manchester City have won four consecutive games.

They have also made it past the fourth round of the EFL Cup.

The state is at its peak, and the confrontation at the league level is definitely a contest not to be missed for fans who like the Premier League.

With two points separating the two teams, it was truly a six-point game.

If Arsenal win the game as a guest, the point difference between the two will widen to five points.

On the contrary, Manchester City won and climbed to the top of the Premier League standings with 1 point.

Of course, the point difference won't change if the two teams draw.

But both teams want to win the game.

It is worth mentioning that the odds offered by the world's top ten gambling companies also tend to favor the two teams to win or lose.

The Premier League match schedule is Saturday morning, which starts at 12: noon.

In terms of rest time, Arsenal has a slight advantage.

Also traveling to the Apennine Peninsula, Arsenal, who played on Tuesday, had one more day of rest than Manchester City, who played on Wednesday.

Manchester is not far from London, so the journey by boat and train will not be tiring.

……

In order to better prepare for the Saturday morning league game, Arsenal took the team bus to Manchester on Friday afternoon. There was no need to adapt to the venue. They went directly to the hotel where they were staying and performed simple strength adaptation training in the gym provided by the hotel.

After all, the style of play is already very mature, and there are no new tactics that need to be practiced. The main focus during the season is to find and repair deficiencies and restore physical fitness.

In this regard, Wenger admitted that he benefited from Martin's unfettered ability to move forward and score goals.

Tactics are often dead, and player execution is the key.

Martin can be said to be the most talented person Wenger has seen since the beginning of his coaching career.

He is always able to execute it perfectly within the established tactical system.

The most important thing is that super personal ability can open up the situation in a stalemate.

In the evening of that day, Arsenal held an official pre-match press conference at their hotel.

Faced with the prospect of the game mentioned by the "Manchester Evening News", Wenger said without hesitation: "Win the game!"

If it were put in the past, Wenger would definitely be ridiculed and questioned.

But today is different from the past. The Arsenal he coached has become invincible.

Manchester City coach Guardiola, who learned from media reporters that Wenger must win, was not only not dissatisfied, on the contrary, he was extremely satisfied.

He immediately summoned the players to the conference room provided by the hotel and watched Wenger being interviewed by the media about his belief in winning.

It would not have been a big psychological shock if I heard Wenger giving the same interview content last season.

After all, the overall performance last season was average, and it was not until the last round of the league that the top four were determined to participate in this season's Champions League group stage.

This season's performance is quite strong. Except for an unexpected 1:1 draw with Everton in the second round, they have won all the other nine league rounds, only two points less than Arsenal, who won all the games in the beginning.

They also performed well in the Champions League, winning the right to qualify from the group ahead of schedule with an unstoppable four-game winning streak.

In this context, the players' confidence has grown sufficiently, and they have realized that they can compete with Arsenal, which dominates Europe.

who is afraid of who?

Guardiola looked at the indignant players and asked while the iron was hot: "Arsenal doesn't take us seriously at all. You know that tomorrow's game at noon is at our home stadium, the Etihad Stadium. Let's talk about it, do you want to give us some money?" Do they have any color at all?"

"want!"

The players shouted in unison, fully venting their frustration.

De Bruyne's voice was louder because... since the two left Wolfsburg, there has been no win against Martin.

The most terrible thing is that they are completely defeated!

"Okay! Then we will let the Arsenal people know at noon tomorrow that Manchester City is the dominant player in the Premier League!"

Guardiola said impassionedly.

……

De Bruyne, who returned to the hotel room, felt that the winning atmosphere in the team was already very good, so he tweeted to his friend Martin on the social platform Aite: Tomorrow’s game at noon, suffer the consequences! 【struggle】

Martin, who happened to be playing with his mobile phone, received the prompt and saw De Bruyne's Instagram post. The corners of his mouth couldn't help but raise, and he replied as before: Is this kid talking in his sleep?

De Bruyne has seen Martin's meanness a long time ago and responded immediately: "I'm serious, I will win tomorrow's game!"

Martin replied: Go to sleep quickly, there will be everything in your dreams.

De Bruyne, who had been mentally prepared for a long time, was still shocked by Martin's words.

What the hell, why does this happen every time?

He refused to admit defeat and replied: Can't you respond directly?

A large number of fans who follow De Bruyne and Martin collectively joined in the fun, brought benches and melon seeds, and acted as qualified melon-eaters.

Martin, who saw De Bruyne's reply, smiled and responded directly: It's not impossible, but are you mentally prepared to lose? Don’t cry again when you lose the game~

De Bruyne: "..."

He realized that he would definitely not win the argument, so he had to end this wave of proactive challenges in a hurry: You must be mentally prepared to lose! Don't come back! 【Good night】

Of course Martin would not go as De Bruyne wished. He replied with one word: Oh.