Chapter 18 The Once They Used to Be
Arsenal's 3-1 win against Sunderland did not cause much wave. After all, their strength was there. Except for some reporters who vaguely expect Sunderland to be as upset as Villa, everyone reported the results of the game in a very plain manner.
During the entire game, the performance of several new players of the Gunners was remarkable. Obviously, their signings this season were just like the previous seasons.
After the game, William, who scored his first goal, showed his eight big white teeth in front of the camera and became a photo of the Gunners section after the game.
Compared to reporting that Liu Feng scored a goal every day, Liu Feng scored another goal. Liu Feng has been scoring goals. Everyone who is a little aesthetically tired has begun to want to pay attention to some news about other Gunners.
The reporters and media now only report about Liu Feng’s goals in about five games. Of course, if he completes a hat trick or carrty directly in the game, his reports will still be indispensable.
In addition, it is actually more noticeable that Liu Feng did not score a goal. After all, this man who is like a monster seems to have become the norm for an average goal per game. There must be a story for him to score in any game.
Compared to the league situation, another event that deserves people's attention has arrived.
Last season's European match belonged to the Premier League and London, with the Champions League champions and the Europa League champions of London City, respectively.
Therefore, there was a very interesting situation in the 2013 European Super Cup, that is, even though they were both in the same city, Arsenal and Chelsea had to go to the Super Cup to play against the Czech Eden Stadium.
Major journalists and media have started to warm up before the game, and various reports have also begun to appear in the Internet and newspapers.
If it is interesting to say that two teams who are out of London will go abroad to showdown, then Mourinho and Wenger will once again lead the reunion between Arsenal and Chelsea. This is the real highlight of this showdown.
Once upon a time, Mourinho was the champion coach of Chelsea's journey to a giant, Ferguson was the leader in dominating the Premier League's devil Manchester United, and Wenger was the elegant commander of Arsenal. Such a Premier League event made many people fascinated.
This summer window, when the madman Mourinho announced his return to Chelsea, the reaction it caused was unprecedentedly huge. Whether it was the Blues fans who missed the Mu Yi period who led the team to determine the position of the giants, or the fans who were looking forward to the Premier League's reunion, they were cheering on major websites.
Even Arsenal fans are welcome, after all, the team has achieved three consecutive championships in the league. Now Mourinho's return has increased the difficulty of the game, and there is no doubt that everyone can see a higher quality game.
In addition, in the preparation period before this game, the professor and the madman directly started a verbal war that they had not had for many years.
Both of them are still famous among the teams, and they are also the most familiar opponents to fans. It feels different from the previous ones at Real Madrid and the other at Gunners.
"I returned to Chelsea to get Chelsea back to the top of the Premier League. Arsenal is undoubtedly our strong rival, but I am not afraid of him and his team. Now that I have the opportunity to the European Super Cup, I will prove this to the fans in advance."
Just call Wenger and tell you that I'm not afraid of you at all. I will definitely win you in this game. Mourinho's speech made the reporters extremely comfortable. It's this feel, who deserves to be the madman Mourinho.
Wenger, who has always been gentle, has nothing good to say to Mourinho. He has been talking harshly to this old opponent during the Premier League showdown that year, and this time is no exception.
"We have beaten Real Madrid, which he led more than once, and it's time for him to realize again that Arsenal is invincible. By the way, winning the European Super Cup is only our first goal this season."
It directly pointed to Mourinho's pain points in the past three years of Real Madrid's few gains and was eliminated by the Gunners in the Champions League more than once. The two coaches whose hair was already white had this action that directly made fans and reporters climax.
The days when the pre-match interview was more exciting than the game itself seemed to be back. The hot searches of fans' discussions about this game quickly jumped to the top of major platforms, and the topic of the European Super Cup has been going on for a long time.
Against this background, there were fewer journalists and media outside the Arsenal training base, and the Gunners rarely enjoyed a very quiet training time.
The professor spoke harshly outside, but he was extremely serious and serious when leading the team's training.
He doesn't think Mourinho will be as easy as he says, especially when many of the veterans who became world superstars under him were still there before Chelsea accepted Chelsea.
This means that Mourinho can quickly reintegrate his playing and tactics into the current Blues. After so many coaches, there is no doubt that the Iron Blood Blues still needs Mu Niao to be strong enough.
"Increase the pressing intensity and don't hold back! They will be under pressure several times stronger than you on the field."
On the court, the professor was doing everything he could torture the team's midfielder, allowing the forward players to press in groups of two, or the three of them gathered to exercise their breakthrough ability in the midfield. His main focus of this game was undoubtedly in the midfield.
In addition, it is the team's back line. Mourinho's team doesn't need to think about it and knows that they have to play a defensive counterattack, but how to prevent their extremely fast counterattack is a big problem.
It may be a loss of position by the defender, a distracted mind, or everyone is not wrong, but the opponent is too fast, and trying to block Mu Niao's counterattack is a difficult problem for all their opponents.
The professor's method is also very simple, line up the team's strongest forward line, and then Gansu and others continue to practice counterattacks, and train their defenders with similar numbers.
Because Liu Feng's running position was too elusive, and Neymar's dribbling ability really made several defenders feel uncomfortable. This training lasted only an hour, and their number of goals conceded was so large that the professor just frowned.
"This is absolutely not possible. Are you embarrassed to go to the final stage???!"
Chapter completed!