Chapter 15 New Season! First Opponent!

On August 11, the 2018/2019 Premier League season opened.

Arsenal's game was scheduled on August 12, which was also the last game of the day, and their first opponent was from Manchester City.

The first game was a peak showdown.

It can be said that the English Premier League still knows how to arrange the event. It arranges a highlight at the beginning, and then attracts the attention of fans to hype it up.

The game between Arsenal and Manchester City has become the only focus at present.

The two clubs fought very hard last season.

The points both exceeded 100, which can be said to have almost dominated the entire division, leaving no chance for the other team.

Liverpool next door was forced to run to the Champions League.

Fortunately, Liverpool also won the Champions League. After Klopp took office as the Red Army coach, he finally ushered in a huge honor, which also made Klopp's momentum in Liverpool become particularly high.

The current Premier League is full of strong teams.

Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, these three teams are definitely the top strengths in Europe.

Even in the Champions League, it is a frightening existence for opponents.

Manchester United and Chelsea can always come suddenly at critical moments, making the already complicated Premier League more chaotic.

Of course, this is also the charm of the Premier League.

There are many examples of strong teams gathering and weak teams unexpectedly defeating strong teams.

It can be said that the strength gap between Premier League teams is not particularly large, which also causes the situation of Premier League chaos.

However, the dominance of BIG6 is still very obvious.

At least for this season, Arsenal, Manchester City and Liverpool are definitely the three teams that he dare not underestimate.

Manchester City's investment in the transfer window this season is not large. Perhaps it is because of the crazy buying of players in the previous few seasons, and it needs to be quiet for a while, or perhaps Guardiola has enough confidence in the lineup. They are consistent with Arsenal's attitude. While ensuring the main force, they have made some small enhancements and have not invested too much transfer funds.

Of course, it would be too false to say that Manchester City does not have enough money. After all, they are backed by a world-class super group and have sufficient transfer funds.

However, in recent times, news about Manchester City violating the Financial Fair Play Act has appeared in the media from time to time. Perhaps Manchester City is afraid of this problem.

After winning the Community Shield, Arsenal's status has been sufficiently guaranteed.

After that game, it has greatly promoted the players' adjustment, and they can also enter the game status of the new season faster.

This inner change is the most critical.

This season, Arsenal's ambitions are very big, and they are not hiding them. Although they will not talk about these things like some big mouths, they will admit it openly when the media asks.

Yes!

Arsenal just wants championships, more championships.

This is especially true for players such as Giroud, Hummels, Mane, Jimenez, etc.

Among them, Giroud and Hummels said when they joined that they came to Arsenal to form a championship puzzle.

Last season, they won the Premier League championship, but it was not enough.

The Champions League is the ultimate goal.

For this reason, everyone is working hard to participate in training.

Physical training is being carried out in the training ground.

Physical training for football is different from other track and field events.

Due to the particularity of football, it is necessary to ensure a combination of anaerobic and aerobic modes.

In the horizontal training field, the players stood neatly at the sidelines, in groups of two, and quickly started running towards the opposite sideline with Arteta's clapping.

The entire running process must be done with all your strength, without any laziness.

This back and forth has an excellent promoting effect on the growth of physical fitness.

Snap!

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Snap da da da da da da!

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Arteta looked at the timer in his hand, turned his head and shouted; "Xhaka, you are one second slower, don't be lazy!"

Then he said to Kante; "Keep it up!"

Xhaka and Kante went back to the starting point from both sides and came to the end of the team to line up and wait for their turn.

While waiting, the two were also chatting.

"This is the sixth round, do you still want to run?" Xhaka wiped the sweat from his face, lowered his head and twisted the corner of his clothes to wring out the soaked sweat.

Training under the scorching sun is really unbearable.

When the weather is hot, the loss of physical energy is also accelerating.

He felt that Arteta specifically chose this time to conduct physical training.

"This year's physical requirements are very high. It is probably to ensure multi-line operations. After two days of persistence, you will be able to enter the recovery period immediately." Kante said casually.

This season, Mourinho has obviously become more concerned about physical fitness.

Perhaps in the previous few seasons, Arsenal encountered too many problems when fighting on multiple fronts.

Among them, physical fitness is an extremely critical attribute.

At this time, it was Saka and Odegaard's turn.

Bang!

With Arteta clapping his hands, the two suddenly started and rushed to the other side at a very fast speed.

When they rushed to the edge of the net, the two actually jumped.

Seeing this scene, Arsenal's players grinned.

It's great to be young!

The entire physical training was carried out in ten sets.

After these ten groups, almost no one could stand, and everyone was lying in the shade, gasping for breath.

"I want water, I want a massage to relax, I feel my calf muscles are cramping."

Wilshire lay on the ground and wailed.

Suddenly, there was a chill on his forehead.

Wilshire shuddered, and he opened his eyes and found a bottle of iced energy drink on his forehead.

"Don't drink too much at once, take small sips"

Before Lucky finished speaking, Wilshire immediately unscrewed the lid and swished wildly.

Seeing this scene, Lucky shook his head helplessly.

Wilshire naturally understood that he couldn't drink too much water at this time, but his throat was really about to smoke.

After a bottle of iced drink went into his stomach, he felt refreshed.

Wilshire lay on the lawn, squinting his eyes, feeling the comfort of the afternoon.

The breeze blew by, sweeping away a trace of stuffiness, and the sun shone through the treetops, flickering.

The sound of birds chirping was beside his ears.

Wilshere closed his glasses and said with a comfortable look; "It's so comfortable!"

Others also imitated Wilshere.

At this time, they were really exhausted.

Several people snored slightly soon after falling to the ground, and they were obviously asleep.

But the rest time was only 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes, they were rudely awakened by Arteta.

"Everyone go back and wash your body, then go change clothes, and gather in the tactical room in an hour."

Arteta clapped his hands and scolded.

Everyone wailed; "There are still tactics classes?"

They don't want tactics classes, they want to go home.

"Time is a bit tight, and we will start trying some new tactics tomorrow." Arteta said, clapping his hands; "Okay, get up, you should know that Mr. Mourinho doesn't like to be late. If you still want to play under him, it's best not to make him angry."

Hearing this, one by one, the players dragged their heavy bodies and got up with sighs.

After they entered the locker room to wash up, they came to the tactical room about 50 minutes later.

Summer afternoons are a very sleepy season, and there is physical training ahead. For this reason, the coaching staff prepared some iced watermelons and fruits to refresh the players and prevent them from falling asleep.

Lekai tasted a piece of cut watermelon, which was very sweet and cold.

After taking a bite, he felt a chill rushing to his head, and his sleepiness disappeared instantly.

At 3 pm, Mourinho came to the tactical room on time.

He didn't say nonsense, hung the tactical board in his hand aside, and immediately turned on the projector and started talking.

The whole process was extremely boring.

But the players listened very seriously.

Whether they were the main players or the substitutes, they all had a sense of tension in the team competition.

They knew very well that if they didn't want to be replaced, they had to listen to the tactics carefully.

Once they failed to hear the specific tactics because of being distracted, they would not be able to connect with the team at that time. According to Mourinho's character, he would just sit on the bench and reflect.

They didn't want to encounter such a thing.

For this reason, everyone concentrated and even took notes.