Chapter 74 How to deal with Li Qingshan

Arsène. Wenger.

The Frenchman is currently the longest-serving current manager in charge of the same team in the Premier League, with Arsene Wenger having been in charge of the giants Arsenal in north London since 1996.

He is also the second-most successful manager of the Premier League era, Arsène Wenger has led Arsenal to the Premier League title three times, in addition to winning six FA Cup finals.

This is a legendary manager, and although his team has not been able to touch the Premier League for thirteen years since the 03/04 season, it is not Wenger's pot in the eyes of many pundits - Arsenal have been heavily indebted since the construction of the Emirates Stadium, plus the miser owner Kroenke who treats the team as a cash cow - even if Arsenal has paid off the debt of the new stadium. Arsenal's investment in the transfer market has not kept up with Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, and even Liverpool has invested much more than Arsenal.

But even so, Arsenal is a very consistent team - they have reached the top four of the Premier League for more than ten consecutive years, and in the Champions League, Arsenal can also be called the "qualifier", as of last season, Arsenal has been 16 consecutive Champions League group qualified!!

Perhaps this season will be Arsenal's 17th consecutive Champions League qualification.

But for Arsenal fans, finishing fourth in the league and reaching the last 16 of the Champions League are far less than the honours of the title, which they had not won for nine years before Arsenal won the FA Cup in 2014-2015.

This is really an unspeakable humiliation for Premier League giants Arsenal.

October 17th, late at night.

At A.T. Kearney's training base on the outskirts of London, Arsene Wenger's office is still brightly lit.

Arsene Wenger took off his eyes, leaned back into the back of his office swivel chair, tilted his head and rubbed the bridge of his nose with his hands.

On the computer monitor in front of him, all kinds of data, charts, and words were piled up in it. Obviously, this is another Arsene Wenger who worked late into the night.

With Manchester United just two days away, Arsene Wenger can't afford to be so worried about an old rival.

Especially Manchester United's center Li Qingshan, according to Arsenal's intelligence, Li Qingshan will definitely come back in this game, and Wenger is sure that Ancelotti will definitely arrange Li Qingshan to start - after three games without a win, Manchester United currently only has 20 points, and the ranking has slipped to fifth, but no one dares to underestimate the defending champion, as long as Li Qingshan can play, Ancelotti will definitely arrange him to play - because the team at the top of the list is Arsenal with 24 points! Manchester United are also in desperate need of a win to get out of their current slump.

The current form of the Premier League standings is this, Arsenal is at the top of the table with 24 points, followed by Manchester City with 23 points in second place, Chelsea with 22 points successfully overtook Manchester United in third place with two wins, and the team in fourth place is Tottenham Hotspur, they have 21 points, and Manchester United is now in fifth and sixth place with Liverpool with 20 points.

It's been a battle this season!

The difference between first and sixth place was just four points.

Arsenal have had a good start to the season – at least 24 points from 11 league games to sit top of the table, a rarity for Arsenal in the past. Arsene Wenger hasn't tasted the league title for a long time, and in this season, in such a troubled Premier League, as an experienced Premier League veteran, it is unknown whether there may be a possibility of taking the fire?

But Wenger knows that even if Manchester United is now ranked fifth, it is definitely not a team that Arsenal can underestimate, and the other party's achievement of winning the treble last season is enough to show the strength of this team, and in this game, Manchester United must strive to get three points in order to catch up with the team at the top of the standings, especially when Li Qingshan returns from injury.

Probably injury is the best way to stop Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan was injured for two weeks and missed two league games, which immediately dropped Manchester United to fifth place in the table, and the importance of this player to Manchester United can be imagined.

Wenger rubbed his head with a headache, he had been watching Li Qingshan's data, game videos and other materials for several days in a row, just to curb the Manchester United striker.

To be honest, if Li Qingshan can be successfully contained, Manchester United's offensive threat will be weakened by more than half immediately, and the most important thing to deal with Manchester United is to deal with Li Qingshan.

That's Arsene Wenger's opinion.

But how to deal with Li Qingshan?

Wenger has thought about it for a long time, collected a lot of information on the Internet, and read many posts on the Internet, but he still found nothing.

Since Li Qingshan began to become famous at Atletico Madrid, he was first praised for his terrifying header ability, but soon people came up with a way to deal with Li Qingshan's header - your header is great, right, I cut off the connection between you and your teammates, so that you can't get the resources of crossing, so that no matter how good your header is, it is useless.

But this trick soon found to be useless, and when he couldn't get the ball in the penalty area, Li Qingshan pulled it out himself to get the ball - his violent long-range shot made many goalkeepers scareless.

And even if you block the cross, the shooting route of the long-range shot is also blocked - assuming that your team's execution is strong enough to do this, Li Qingshan quickly blinded everyone's dog eyes again, it turns out that this kid can still have this hand of dribbling.

How do people defend this time?

You put the side lane, and there is a gap in the middle.

You defend the middle, but you can't block the side.

You set up the bus, defend intensively, and the other party is not worried at all - Li Qingshan's impact is the most powerful battering ram, no matter how strong the bus is, it can always be hammered away a few more times.

And you said that you want to suppress the opponent's attack with the attack, Li Qingshan still has a hand in the retreat midfield to participate in the ball organization - with a strong body, Li Qingshan can protect the ball steadily, and then pass the ball out, it is difficult for you to snatch the ball from him.

It's almost an inexplicable player.

Wenger rubbed his temples, which were a little popping because he had stayed up late, and thought with a headache.

How to deal with Li Qingshan...... Wenger opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling illuminated by white fluorescent lamps, lost in thought.