18?18

Wenger sat in the home team coach's seat, hugging her waist, watching the Chelsea players wearing blue jerseys celebrating wildly. In the stands, Chelsea fans were also cheering for nonchalantly, but these two numbers appeared in his mind.

The first 18 is a question mark, but the next 18 is an exclamation mark.

This is a question raised by many media before the game, because Chelsea has lost 17 games against Arsenal in the past few years. They have not defeated Arsenal for many years. This is a psychological advantage for the Gunners.

After Ye Qiu arrived this season, the new coach and new players, after drastic reforms, this psychological pressure has been weakened a lot, but Arsenal's psychological advantages have not been weakened much. Until the last two league matchups, Arsenal failed to win the opponent, and they were both at a disadvantage in the field, which made Arsenal somewhat panic.

Wenger has no doubt that this year is the most promising year for Arsenal to compete for the Champions League and Premier League championships. This is not only because the team is in excellent form, but also because the main players including Henry, Vieira, Pire and other major players are in their first year of playing. Once this year passes, if you want to have such an opportunity again, you don’t know when.

But what I didn't expect was that a Chelsea suddenly broke out.

In the Premier League, Arsenal was behind Chelsea, and Wenger had no choice but to do so. Because the league relied on accumulation, he could only chase him behind and wait for Chelsea to make a mistake. However, in the European Champions League, Wenger was ambitious and wanted to eliminate Chelsea and win the Champions League.

As long as you pass Chelsea, it will not be a problem whether it is Real Madrid or Monaco.

In order to play against Chelsea in the first leg, Wenger thought hard and first set up a suspicion before the game to create signs of Reyes, Lyonberg, Gilberto Silva, Ashley Cole and others being out due to injury. Many of his own people even thought that this was true, but in the end they all got on.

He boldly replaced Borgkamp with Reyes. Such a risky approach is not often used, but the effect is very obvious. Reyes scored the only goal in the first half and was also a surprise in Arsenal's offense.

In defense, Wenger has targeted Chelsea's offensive routines that may appear in the game countless times before the game, and has made various targeted arrangements and arrangements for the main offensive players in Chelsea. He and his coaching staff have almost tried every possible possibility.

But in the end, he missed one person, that is, Chelsea's No. 18, Claude Marklele

It is not surprising to miss Marclayle, because the French midfielder is best at defense. His last goal dates back to when he played for Celta in the 990s, but in those two years in Celta, he played 70 league games and scored 3 goals.

Moreover, in recent years, as Marklele's position has been continuously moved backward, he has almost always been insulated from the goal, which has made many people even doubt whether Marklele will score a goal? Many people subconsciously marked the Marklele's follow-up goal on an inequality sign, indicating that this is nothing possible.

It is believed that countless people have overlooked the fact that Marklele is definitely a professional player with very solid basic skills. As long as such a player is given a chance, he can still score goals.

From the top of the arc to the goal, it's less than meters away?

For the current professional players who can shoot at random 30 meters, the meters are very short.

Therefore, when Marklele's shot broke through Lehman's goal, Wenger's first reaction was impossible, and his second reaction was depressed, because he had calculated it very much, but he just missed one Marklele.

He should have thought of it for a long time because Deco is very far behind. How could Deco not push up when both Lampard and Davis are pressing? The only explanation is that he deliberately does not push up. The reason for this is to create space and opportunities for Marklele to press up.

When Arsenal's defense was paying attention to Deco, Lampard and Davis, Marklele, who had been stationed in front of the defense line, suddenly pressed down, completely disrupting Arsenal's rhythm. In the end, everyone discovered that no one was going to guard Marklele.

On the 18th, unbeaten in 18 games, is there still hope?

Wenger could clearly feel the breath on the players' chest on the court, as Marklele's shot quickly lost, his physical fitness was almost exhausted, but now he was equalized by his opponent, which made them all feel very annoyed and helpless.

But what's so bad is that Wenger has obviously not many changes in his hands, because his team is all formed around the French gang. On the defense line, Keon is old, Sendros and Krish are young, and Sigan has many problems. There are only two substitutes in the midfield, Edu and Palor, and two substitutes in the front line, Borgkamp and Vertod.

Bench thickness has always been one of the most fatal problems for Arsenal and the reason why the team repeatedly collapsed in March and April. However, Wenger never thought of further expanding the team's lineup and bench thickness. Of course, there are also the team's fiscal budget issues. On the other hand, Wenger has never been good at rotation.

Perhaps, it is precisely because Wenger studied economics and has his own ideas about finance, but it is undeniable that Arsenal's main lineup is indeed very strong, but it is obviously insufficient in terms of bench thickness. Whether it is against Manchester United or Chelsea, Arsenal's bench thickness can even be described as weak.

Of course, Wenger also has his own considerations, that is, if the control-type play adopts a rotation policy, the team's performance will definitely fluctuate, because the substitutes are definitely not as good as the main players. For teams that adopt a ball-control-type play, taking rotation and substitutes will increase the team's mistakes in ball control and passing and receiving the ball.

Ye Qiu has adopted a control-type play this season, but he does not pursue ball control or smooth offense, but pursues high-intensity pressure. Once he cannot open the situation quickly, he will transition the ball to the frontcourt and hand it over to Ronaldinho, or find Drogba through the wing where the fullback is forward to open the situation, so he can rotate appropriately.

But it is obvious that no matter how Arsenal changes, it cannot be separated from Henry, Pire, Vieira and others. The existence of these people determines that Arsenal's playing style must be to control the ground flow. If it is to control the ground flow, can Palol rotate with Lungberg?

Of course, you can also introduce technical players to rotate from the beginning of the season, but the problem is that these types of players are not cheap.

The reason why many things in the world cannot be solved is not because the parties involved cannot understand it, because they cannot understand it now, sooner or later, and no one is hopelessly stupid. The real problem is that everyone can understand it, but there is no solution.

Perhaps, Wenger will be able to show his strength until Arsenal's new stadium is completed.

Ye Qiu noticed Wenger's sad face. The person who was smiling now was him. It can be said that the feng shui was changing.

After equalizing the score, Arsenal's morale has declined rapidly, and as the game continues, the physical fitness of Arsenal players is rapidly ebbing. Wenger seems to have not wanted to make a substitution, but it is probably too soon.

"Arsenal should start to adjust, right?" Tencart said beside Ye Qiu.

Ye Qiu thought for a while and shook his head, "I don't know, it depends on how determined Wenger is. There are not many cards he can change. The current lineup is the most powerful lineup he can form. If you substitute someone, you can replace Reyes with Borgkamp, ​​but how much effect can you achieve?"

This is the difference in team formation strategies. Many people say that Ye Qiu is good at playing cup games, but in fact, it is because Ye Qiu's team formation strategy has always paid great attention to changes. For example, if Chelsea now requires a change, it is very simple. Ribery and Joe Cole replace Davis or Markle, the team can change the team immediately, and they can also play 333 depending on the situation.

But in contrast, Arsenal's bench lineup has almost no such substitute to use.

This is also the biggest problem for Arsenal, Wenger, who has always had a team of teams. The main players are very strong, but you can never be able to conquer the world with a team of main players. In fact, this season, the reason why Arsenal can remain unbeaten is that there are few injuries to the main players.

But this also led to Arsenal's main lineup accumulating the game, and there is no winter break in the Premier League. Even though Wenger tried to arrange substitutes and youth teams to play in the FA Cup and League Cup, the main players were still very tired. How could they have strong combat power?

Not good at rotation and insisting on playing the main lineup to the end is why Wenger implements the strategy of signing once a year after he is 30. It is not surprising that premature aging caused by excessive fatigue of players is not surprising. Moreover, in his previous life, the hope star that was broken into Wenger's hands is far more than the stars he has cultivated.

Many times, fans are easily covered up by something. For example, when Arsenal starts to be the leader of the home, they think Wenger is very good at cultivating young players, because they only see some of them, but not the rest.

Of course, Ye Qiu has always been sure that Wenger is absolutely great for Arsenal.

"He doesn't move, we don't move. As soon as he moves, we will follow him," Ye Qiu said with a smile.

With the development of the game to this point, Chelsea has control over the overall situation, and Ye Qiu has no worries at all. After equalizing the score, Chelsea has away goals in hand, and the pressure is on Arsenal's side. It depends on how Wenger makes the game and whether he has the courage to play.

Ye Qiu has enough confidence in his team's defense, so he hopes that Arsenal will push it out and play.

But there are some things that he doesn't think of. Wenger never made substitutions, and Chelsea never made substitutions. Ye Qiu just attacked for a while after equalizing the score, and then asked the players to continue to maintain pressure, but appropriately relax some of the pressure and pressing against Arsenal.

The so-called appropriateness means continuing to wear down the physical fitness of Arsenal players.

For this type of technical team, if the physical energy is consumed to a certain extent, the body will no longer be able to effectively complete the standardized technical movements, which will lead to technical movements being distorted. Once the technical movements are distorted, the number of passes and receiving mistakes will increase, which will inevitably bring some risks.

Ye Qiu doesn't change people because he knows very well that if he takes the initiative in his hands, and if he continues to waste, Arsenal will have problems sooner or later.

He believed that Wenger knew this, but the French should be worried about how to change people

For a head coach with very rich experience and leading the team to play the Champions League knockout round, every adjustment and every substitution in the game must have its own purpose so that it can be conveyed to the players.

The two substitutions before and after, the purpose is contradictory, and in the end it will only make the players at a loss.

Therefore, the head coach always believes in a principle at this time and responds to changes in the same way, because in many cases, blind and purposeless substitutions and adjustments will only bring reverse effects in the end.

As for those who want to make luck by substitution and then break the deadlock, Ye Qiu can only say that he should buy lottery tickets, and perhaps the chance of winning the lottery may be higher.

Everyone can easily see smoke from Henry's head, which means that the French striker is now very angry.

This game was praised by Wenger as the most important game for Arsenal so far this season, but Henry was completely silent in this game, and it can even be said to have no performance. How could he not get angry?

The reason why he has no performance is very simple, it is the person in front of him.

The bunch of hair on the forehead was straight, and I didn’t know how many hairs I had done to shape it. What’s strange is that so many heads were not messed up yet, and under the straight head, there was always a face that looked more like a sneer, with small eyes, small nose, small ears, and a villain, so ugly that it was so ugly.

But what made Henry angry was that no matter where he moved, this person always followed him, staring at him with his eyes all the time, as if he was telling himself extremely firmly that I will stare at you to death.

If it were normal times, Borgkamp saw Henry being pressed by his opponent, he would definitely take the initiative to seek cooperation. However, in this game, his partner was replaced by Reyes. The Spanish young player was called New Henry by many Arsenal fans because he also liked to circulate on the left. But in Henry's view, Reyes, who was fixed on the right in this game, would not even cooperate with him.

Against Henry Gareyes, against Trigacannavaro, the former almost lost in total except for one goal

No matter where the ball comes from, Chelsea's defense always seems to be able to restrain and disintegrate, especially after conceding the ball, they obviously become more focused, even without relaxing for a second, which annoyed Henry, his temper came out, and he became more and more irritable.

When he pulled the ball to the left and was double-teamed by Macon and Terry, he saw that Reyes did not approach him as close as Borgkamp to seek cooperation, but was waiting for his cross in the middle of the penalty area. Henry was furious. He wanted to grab the Spanish boy, slapped him a few times, and asked him, why do you let me pass the ball to you?

It's not that Henry is a big shot or that he bullies newcomers, but that he's now very popular

So Henry saw that he could not break through the double team of Macon and Terry, and directly made a cross and passed the ball over. He thought to himself, aren't you going to pass the ball? Pass the ball to you

Cannavaro was obviously prepared. The ball landed badly because of restrictions from Macon and Terry, the pass route was frozen a lot, and Reyes obviously was not prepared. He was waiting for Henry to pass the ball to him, so he could just eat Cannavaro alone, but he did not expect that the Italian judged the landing point before him and headed the ball to the left.

After Evra got the ball, he quickly advanced forward. When he met Lungberg, he passed it directly to Davis.

The Dutch inserted diagonally from the middle to the left, and after getting the ball, he quickly looked for a response to Ronaldinho and passed the ball smoothly to the Brazilian's feet. At this moment, Ronaldinho's position was right between Lauren and Clos Toure.

Strictly speaking, Chelsea's counterattack speed does not have the characteristics of fast play, but it plays very cleverly.

When Ronaldinho rushed to the left after Davis received the ball, he cleverly cut inward. On the one hand, he gave up the left to Davis, and on the other hand, he went to find the gap between Lauren and Crowe Toure. At this moment, Lauren had to guard against Davis and could not form a pincer attack with Crowe Toure.

Davis passed the ball to Ronaldinho's feet, but Cloro Toure's reaction was also very fast. He immediately stuck behind Ronaldinho, but the Brazilian leaned against Cloro Toure with his body. Relying on his own, Cloro Toure did not dare to foul, he flexibly used his feet to push the ball to his left.

Ronaldinho's left is the right side of the goal. At this time, Drogba had already come over to seek cooperation. I don't know how the Brazilian saw Drogba. In short, with his round, the ball happened to be in front of Drogba. The Ivorian stretched out his right foot, making the ball seem to hit his instep, and rebounded directly, landing behind Clo Toure.

Colo Toure, who was looking at Drogba, realized that something was wrong, because Ronaldinho, who was originally blocking in front, slipped quietly by his side like a loach, and actually had a two-pass and one-to-one-slamming wall-like cooperation with Drogba on the penalty area line.

Ronaldinho got the ball about 10 meters away from the goal. Facing the panicked Lehman, the Brazilian made a skillful fake move, which made Lehman think he was going to kick and made a save move, but he chose to flexibly penetrate the ball directly into the lower left corner of the goal.

The whole process was completed in one go. Without waiting for anyone to react, Ronaldinho, who had already stabbed the ball into the goal in advance, quickly rushed out of Arsenal's penalty area, opened his arms, opened his big mouth excitedly, revealing his mouth full of teeth, and celebrating the goal without any reason.

And at this moment, the cheers in the sky suddenly rang out, and everyone realized that the ball had entered

Then, everyone couldn't help but burst into more enthusiastic cheers because Chelsea reversed
Chapter completed!