Chapter 54: Hot Premier League

Arsenal is actively preparing for the Champions League knockout stage, and has entered a points race in the league, and the entire Premier League is extremely lively. Google Search Reading

After entering the points race, the Premier League's "Old Six" all jumped out.

First, when West Ham United challenged Chelsea away, they set up an iron bucket formation, relying on the goalkeeper's superb performance, and they tied Chelsea away.

Mourinho lost in the defense that he was proud of.

Secondly, when Arsenal visited Southampton, the opponent also set up an iron bucket formation, but obviously did not get the essence. After Arsenal's crazy attack, they finally scored in the 61st minute.

In the 75th minute, Arsenal made a substitution.

Luka and Mertesacker came off the court, and Arteta and Mustafi came on.

This was also Mustafi's first Premier League debut.

But his debut was bad.

Seeing Arsenal's defensive gate leave the court, Southampton changed its previous tortoise shell tactics and launched a crazy attack in the remaining 15 minutes.

He relied on long passes and lobs to lob the ball into Arsenal's goal.

Although Arsenal quickly took the lead again with Cazorla's dribbling.

But Southampton seemed to be tireless and continued to attack Arsenal's penalty area in the remaining time.

Finally, in the overtime, full-back Luke Shaw performed a thousand-mile journey alone, and assisted Gallagher to equalize with a crazy breakthrough on the wing.

After this game, Southampton 2:2 Arsenal, the two sides tied.

Arsenal was depressed. They didn't expect Southampton to put the power point so late, as if aiming at the opportunity of Lucky's exit.

And they had to admit that the offensive advancement was fierce.

Arsenal definitely didn't expect the power at this time. It deserves the name of "Old Six", it's insidious.

After learning from this lesson, Wenger postponed the time for Lucky to leave the field. Rest is necessary. In order to face the Champions League knockout stage, Lucky's condition needs to be sufficiently guaranteed.

Under this circumstance, Arsenal also won the game smoothly.

Arsenal 2:0 Crystal Palace, won the 24th round and won valuable three points.

But in the next game, Arsenal encountered trouble again.

Liverpool challenged Arsenal away!

After entering the second half of the schedule, Liverpool's state was unstable, losing to Chelsea and Manchester City respectively.

But when playing against Arsenal, these guys felt that they suddenly exploded for some reason.

Sterling no longer rushed in a few times.

Sturridge also became efficient.

Coutinho played even more bravely.

Gerrard, sitting in the back, caused great trouble to Arsenal.

Although Arsenal's defense was still strong, the two sides seemed to have a tacit understanding and madly accelerated the pace.

In the whole 90 minutes, the two sides kicked a total of 39 shots.

There was a shot almost every 2-3 minutes.

However, compared to the number of shots, there were very few goals on both sides.

Arsenal 1:1 Liverpool, the two sides tied again!

For three consecutive rounds, Arsenal won 1 win and 2 draws.

Fortunately, Chelsea also drew one game, so the points were not increased again.

But Arsenal still can't relax.

In the 26th round of the Premier League, they will go to Old Trafford to challenge Manchester United.

Although Manchester United's performance this season is bad, the team is in chaos, and the conflicts between Moyes and the players, fans and senior management are constantly exposed.

But even so, Arsenal can't take it lightly.

After all, Liverpool's previous lesson is in front of them. Facing these giants, their explosiveness and resilience in key games are amazing.

February 13, 2014, Manchester City, Old Trafford Stadium.

There was an exclamation at the scene!

"Kai! Long shot!!"

At the beginning of the second half, Lekai tried a long shot near the penalty area line.

This is a right-side left foot arch rub, the ball has a rapid fall when flying towards the goal, commonly known as the falling leaf ball.

But De Gea is in a very brave state, he jumped at a good rhythm, just stuck at the time when the ball fell, and lifted the ball out of the bottom line.

"Ah~~~~!!!"

Seeing this scene, Sina Sports Live, Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu both sighed with regret.

"What a beautiful falling leaf ball! De Gea! He is in excellent condition! Of course, Lucky also played very well in this game. When the team was unable to send the ball into the goal, he came to the periphery to try a long shot. The quality of this long shot shows that Manchester United can't ignore Lucky's existence!"

Zhang Lu nodded; "Manchester United's defense will become more confused. They have to guard in the penalty area and watch Lucky outside the penalty area."

In the stadium, Lucky stood near the penalty area line, put his hands on his waist and shook his head.

This shot felt very good, but it was saved by De Gea.

If they could score, the game would not be so difficult.

But this long shot still had some impact.

For example, De Gea started to yell.

"Look at him! Look at him! Don't let him kick!"

He didn't think he could make the same save as before. If Lekai made a few more long shots, he was not sure he could defend them!

Manchester United was extremely upset.

Arsenal's corner kick.

Cazorla stood in the left corner area and raised a finger to the front, and the Arsenal players understood.

The whistle sounded.

Suarez suddenly rushed out of the penalty area and ran towards the corner area.

This made Manchester United's full-back Rafael hesitate, and he stayed in place to defend for the sake of safety.

Suarez rushed out of the penalty area on the side, and Cazorla passed the ball to Suarez and rushed towards the middle at the same time.

And Suarez also passed the ball to Cazorla.

Now Manchester United's defenders reacted and immediately sprinted forward to block.

But after receiving the ball, Cazorla immediately passed it to Lucky who was standing outside the penalty area.

Seeing Lucky holding the ball, Manchester United players' attention was attracted by Lucky, and they turned their heads and rushed towards Lucky again.

At this time, Cazorla first ran sideways to avoid being offside.

Until Lucky kicked, he suddenly rushed into the penalty area at 90 degrees.

Lekai made a lob pass, and the ball passed over the oncoming Manchester United players and came to the left goal post.

And here, Cazorla had already jumped.

De Gea rushed to the left, trying to block.

But Cazorla twisted his body in the air and passed the ball to the middle.

The ball passed over the top of Manchester United's central defender Smalling and came to the middle.

Mertesacker completed the jump, faced the empty goal, and easily scored!

"Cazorla passed to Suarez, Arsenal's tactical corner kick! Suarez passed back to Cazorla, Cazorla to Lekai! Lekai lobbed the ball! Cazorla looked back at the moon! Mertesacker!! Got it!!!——"

"Goal!!!!!!——"

"Beautiful tactical corner kick cooperation!!"

Zhan Jun slapped the table excitedly.

This tactical corner kick cooperation is textbook-level.

Perfectly explored the movements of Manchester United's defense and created a favorable situation.

Finally, Mertesacker scored the key goal!

This is Mertesacker's third goal in the last five games.

This Arsenal high center back has developed a new role not only in defense, but also in offense.

Arsenal players seemed very excited.

They surrounded Mertesacker!

"Third goal! Hey! Man, you scored more goals than Rosicky!"

Cazorla shouted with a big laugh.

Mertesacker also laughed happily.

The three goals not only made him hotter, but also made him more confident.

"Well done!"

Lekai was also very happy. He kept rubbing Mertesacker's head and praising his performance.

Wenger also kept applauding in the coaching booth.

When he bought Mertesacker, he also considered developing the header ability of this high center back.

But due to the instability of the back line, it has been shelved.

In recent games, Mertesacker's performance made him very satisfied.

Arsenal players were very happy, only Mustafi on the bench had a serious expression.

He and Mertesacker were in a competitive relationship, and the latter's excellent performance put a lot of pressure on him.

Plus, his terrible debut.

Although the professor didn't say anything and promised to continue giving him opportunities, Mustafi still felt extremely urgent.

In addition to Mustafi, Flamini's expression was also extremely complicated.

He applauded while looking at Lucky on the field.

Now thinking back to what he said in the locker room, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

Lucky played too well!

It was so good that it was indescribable.

Fortunately, he and Ramsey had become rotation positions and were no longer Lucky's substitutes. Otherwise, he thought it would be more reliable to consider a transfer to compete with Lucky who performed like this for the starting main force.

As for the No. 4 jersey?

Flamini had no idea at all.

In just half a season, he had been completely conquered by Lucky.

There was even a sense of identity in his heart that he should wear the No. 4 jersey of Arsenal.

Yes!

He is the leader of Arsenal!

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