On August 25, Chu Jiang came to Stoke City for the second time and at Britannia Stadium for the second time.

Among Premier League teams, except for Mancini and Wenger, the teams that know the characteristics of Chujiang's game best, except Sunderland, who just met, should be Stoke City.

In the knockout match of the League Cup qualifiers last season, Stoke City challenged Sampdoria away in the first leg.

As a result, due to Chu Jiang's second goal, they lost 0:3 directly.

Back to the home court where they relied on to become famous, they lost another 0:2 because they didn't know how to deal with Chu Jiang's free kick.

The total score of two rounds is 0:5. The Stoke City people are really beautiful and have little fate.

In front of Sampdoria in Chujiang, they were like the autumn wind blowing, the chrysanthemums were in lingering, and they lost without resistance.

This time, Chu Jiang's team represented by him is no longer Sampdoria, but Arsenal, who is more powerful. Can Stoke City people defend their home glory?

Before the competition officially started, Chu Jiang was a little nervous.

However, from the moment the whistle sounded, Chu Jiang quickly eliminated negative emotions from his mind and treated the game with sincerity.

In this game, Wenger still adopts a 433 formation.

Although the formation has not changed, the lineup has rotated many players.

The Ligue 1 Golden Boot Giroud, who served as a substitute in the last game, and Prince Podolski of Cologne, got the opportunity to start at the same time in this game.

Due to Giroud's appearance, Van Persie gave up the center position and changed to the left forward position.

However, General Fan's left winger is an inward-cut winger. Most of the time, he will still get the ball near the middle of the penalty area and give the left side to Andre Santos, who has strong assist ability.

Therefore, from the actual combat perspective, Van Persie's position is more like a shadow striker with a high degree of freedom.

This is a new tactic that Wenger focuses on experimenting in training, specifically targeting teams that specialize in taking care of Van Persie.

Van Persie's position moves backwards, and the difficulty of keeping him will increase in geometric multiples.

With such an adjustment, it can not only give full play to Van Persie's advantages of good skills and strong ball-making ability, but also avoid being stared at by opponents. It can be said that it can kill two birds with one stone.

However, the tactical idea is like this, and the actual combat effect must be tested by the competition.

Since Stoke City is not a very strong opponent, Wenger can feel at ease and boldly experiment with new tactics in this game.

At the beginning of the game, due to the large changes in the lineup, the players did not have a tacit understanding. Arsenal did not play well.

In addition, Stoke City's home atmosphere is very fanatical, and their players play football more fiercely, so they even have the advantage in the game.

Fortunately, Arsenal has Chu Jiang.

In this game, the side effects of the black pill still did not break out. Chu Jiang didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. But for Arsenal's game, this was obviously a good thing.

Because, if it weren't for Chu Jiang's brave performance, Arsenal's game would be very bad!

In the 5th minute of the game, Stoke City gave Arsenal a warning.

Pennant took a high ball from the side, and Crouch, the tall man, beat Vermullen in the penalty area, headed the ball and headed the ball straight to the dead corner of the goal.

At the critical moment, Chu Jiang flew and lifted the football out of the crossbar with one hand, resolving the danger in front of the goal this time.

Three minutes later, Crouch got rid of Santos and Vermullen's hands in the penalty area and shot down and kicked the ball towards the far corner of the goal.

This time, Chu Jiang Yuyue saved the risk and barely poked the ball out of bounds with his fingertips.

The moment Crouch shot, the home fans of Britannia Stadium once thought the ball was about to enter.

Countless fans stood up at the same time, holding the team's scarf, ready to cheer for the goal. However, the next moment, when Chu Jiang saved Crouch's goal that must be scored, the fans had to sit down again in frustration.

"This damn Chinese!"

Many excited fans even cursed in resentment.

Every time Chu Jiang comes to Britannia Stadium, it will bring very unhappy memories to Stoke City fans. The Pottery fans don’t like this young talented goalkeeper.

However, their curse did not have any impact on Chu Jiang.

The enemy's curse is the best compliment.

Chu Jiang doesn't care what Stoke City fans think. His job is to protect the Gunners' last line of defense.

After saving Crouch two consecutive shots, Chu Jiang was not satisfied with his teammates' performance. He called both Vermullen and Koscheerny over and asked Koscheerny, who was 186cm tall, to mark Crouch, who was responsible for protecting the second landing point.

Crouch is 2 meters tall, and it is difficult for both Koscheerney and Virmulen to beat him in the high ball game.

However, Koscheerney's defensive experience is still richer than Vermullen, and he is somewhat 6cm taller than Vermullen.

Even if Coscheerney's 6cm height advantage is better than nothing, it is still better than Vermalon, who has repeatedly defeated Crouch.

In fact, there are not high school defenders who are tall and powerful in Arsenal.

On their bench, the central defender of the German national team was sitting at 196cm tall.

However, the German was not adapted to the fast pace of the Premier League, and his performance last season was repeatedly criticized by the media and fans. Some fans even described Merdesak as a sculpture on the court.

This shows how bad the German performed last season.

After suffering a serious injury, the unlucky Merdesack lost his main position. This season, he must also start from the bench.

After Chu Jiang's on-site adjustment, Crouch's threat was reduced a lot.

Although Koscheerney cannot beat Crouch in height, the central defender who played in the French Ligue 2 three years ago has rich experience and a good sense of position. Even if he can't grab the header, he can make it difficult for Crouch to calmly grab the points.

In this way, Chu Jiang was under a lot of pressure.

However, even so, Chu Jiang could not change the team's passive situation.

At Britannia Stadium, every player in Stoke City is like he is injected with chicken blood.

Their fierce tackles made Arsenal players who are good at technical ball control and play very uncomfortable.

The tragedy of Ramsey being broken by Shockros is still vivid in the Arsenal players.

Playing football with ordinary teams is playing football; playing football with Stoke City is playing football life!

Faced with such a team, Arsenal players have some psychological shadows and cannot completely let go of their movements, so it is naturally difficult to control the rhythm of the game.

Therefore, throughout the first half, Arsenal was passive for most of the time.

Fortunately, Chu Jiang's performance was still very brave. Under his command and save, Stoke City had the advantage in the field, but he did not score.

When the referee blew the whistle of the intermission, the score on the field was still 0:0, and no one could score the first goal.

The European Sports Channel, which broadcast the game live, quickly gave the technical statistics of the game.

As of 45 minutes at the end of the half, the two teams had almost the same ball possession time. Arsenal had a slightly more ball possession time.

However, Stoke City has a relatively obvious advantage in terms of shots and fouls.

In the first half, Stoke City had as many as 16 fouls, while Arsenal had only 9. In terms of shooting, Stoke City had 12 shots, of which 7 were within the goal range; while Arsenal had 8 shots, 5 off the target and 3 shots.

Among them, Stoke City has three must-scoring goals, while Arsenal has only one.

Arsenal's chance was kicked by Podolski, and Stoke City's three must-have goals were blocked by Chu Jiang.

It can be said that if Chu Jiang had not saved hard, Arsenal would have been in an adverse situation of falling behind at the end of the first half.

Therefore, at the end of the half, Chu Jiang was naturally the best player in this game.

During the intermission, the professor adjusted the team's tactics.

He pulled Podolsky, who was average, replaced with the little tiger Walcott, and prepared to use the little tiger's speed to help the team pass through the midfield quickly, thereby avoiding the opponent's fierce tackle in the midfield.

In addition, the professor also asked General Fan if he wanted to return to the center position.

Van Persie glanced at Giroud's ankle, shivered, and then firmly wanted to carry forward the "passing and helping" style and continue to give the center position to Giroud.

Van Persie can see that when fighting a team like Stoke City with a very lethality, the center is the flesh shield that attracts hatred!

What are the scissors and legs, what are the immortals picking peaches, and what are the palms of the clans, they are all the treatments that the center forward enjoys first.

Van Persie feels that he is good at the back. It is better to leave the center's task to the newcomer.

Giroud was crying when he heard it...

The newcomers with insufficient rank have no human rights and there is no way. At the professor's order, Giroud had to continue to be a meat shield for Van Persie in the second half.

Chu Jiang just looked around and didn't speak.

Anyway, with a professor here, he doesn't have to worry about tactics or something. Chu Jiang now lives much more worry-free than when he was in Turin and Sampdoria before.

After some tactical adjustments, Wenger slapped the players one by one, making the disciples cheer up in the second half.

Don’t look at Van Persie, Willsheer and other players are majestic outside, and they are like children in front of the professor. When the professor speaks loudly, they can only bow their heads and be gentle like kittens.

There is no way, they are all trained by professors with great effort.

At the beginning, they had no money and no fame. If it weren't for Wenger, they wouldn't know where to was wasting their time.

Therefore, when facing Wenger, they are like students meeting teachers and children meeting parents.

Being obedient? That's a must!

This is Arsenal's unique locker room culture.

Chu Jiang felt that this was great. Everyone was like a family. They could leave anything to the professor to worry about. They just had to concentrate on playing football.

After the professor finished his lecture, the intermission time was over.

Arsenal soldiers cheered up and walked back to the Britannia Stadium.

Despite the unsatisfactory play in the first half, the Arsenal players still have only one goal in the second half, that is, victory!

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