Chapter 130: The Strange Arsenal

On February 28, in the 27th round of the league, Manchester United welcomed Arsenal at home.

Before the game began, someone shouted that Arsenal were here for revenge. Arsenal did lose the last game, leading 2-0 early and being overturned by Manchester United, so Arsenal is coming for revenge in this game.

Arsene Wenger's Arsenal are so consistent that one can almost guess where they are going each season.

At the beginning of the league, Arsenal had a neat and sharp attack, knocking the opponent to the ground; In the middle of the league, injuries appeared, offensive firepower weakened, and defensive problems in the midfield and backfield were exposed; At the end of the league, the opponent either stepped up to grab points or not allow points to be conceded, the Gunners' firepower was blocked, and the midfield and backfield made mistakes one after another, barely fighting for the top four.

This seems to be the epitome of Arsenal's titleless season.

Although Arsenal have not suffered any injuries this season, the injured personnel in their squad are all marginalized members of the team except for Cazorla, and the overall injury will not be weakened much.

Manchester United, on the other hand, have players injured at the back, including Phil Jones, who is still in the red card suspension, Marcos Rojo, who was injured in training, and Kramer, who has some leg muscle discomfort after the Champions League game.

At the back, Manchester United's injury situation is still more serious than that of their opponents, but the overall impact will not be too great.

In fact, if it weren't for Manchester United's strength this season, Arsenal's performance this season would still be okay, with 15 wins, 6 draws and 5 defeats in 26 league games, picking up 51 points.

Arsenal's steady performance every season is almost like an auxiliary paste, so that Arsenal fans seem to have begun to suffer from aesthetic fatigue. The last time Arsenal won the league was in an unbeaten season thirteen years ago, and a whole season of unbeaten runs out of luck seems to have run out of their luck, and since then, Arsenal have not been able to touch the Premier League trophy again.

A giant team that has been unable to win the league title for a long time, even Arsene Wenger, who has been in charge of Arsenal for almost two decades, is starting to find boos from his fans at the Emirates Stadium. The slogan "Arsene Wenger is out" even began to appear over the pitch that had once been so loyal to him.

Of course, the majority of Arsenal fans, as well as Arsenal's hierarchy, still support Arsene Wenger's continued role as Arsenal manager.

But for Arsene Wenger, he was booed at the Emirates Stadium, albeit by a handful of fans, but the incident itself alarmed Wenger.

Arsenal fans are tired of his coaching style, of Arsenal's consistent but incapable of repeating championship seasons.

Maybe it's time for Arsenal to make some changes.

The French coach, who is famous for playing attacking football and playing artistic football, insists on his own style of football even if he has not won a championship for many years, and Arsene Wenger is also thinking about countermeasures when facing Manchester United.

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The boos at Old Trafford came and went. The boo, of course, was given to Arsenal.

"Coward!! You guys attack it!! ”

"Shrunken Turtle!!"

Manchester United fans booed Arsenal in the box from the stands. Because from the very beginning of the game, Arsenal shrank in their own penalty area!!

Yes, it was a stubborn defense, and Arsenal retreated directly to their defensive third and let Manchester United bombard the perimeter. The scene of this scene in Arsenal, which is famous for playing attacking football, and Wenger, who claims that football is less utilitarian and has an incomparable production of artistic football, is really unexpected.

Including Manchester United's players and Carlo Ancelotti, they didn't expect that Arsenal could do so thoroughly and completely let go of their faces.

Who would have thought that the dignified Premier League giants Arsenal would choose to shrink into a ball in the face of their opponents, just like turning into a turtle shell in front of their own goal, using this way to defend Manchester United's attack, no one will be comparable, Wenger will completely sacrifice the attack, and defend so thoroughly away from home.

If it's a mid-to-lower team, maybe it's understandable, but it's Arsenal!!

Watching even players like Mesut Ozil gamble in the box makes people who witness it all wonder what to say.

Arsenal's defense is indeed quite thorough, and even in order to defend, the forward Olivier Giroud has returned to the box several times to clear the ball with a header. Arsenal are completely in a posture of giving up on attack.

"Is Arsene Wenger possessed by Jose Mourinho?"

"Could it be that Arsenal have quietly changed their manager, and this game will only be played by Mourinho, who is idle at home?"

"Has even Arsene Wenger put up his ideal workhorse? Perhaps today we are seeing the death of an idealist. ”

"Can you hold a point with such a stubborn defense? I really doubt it. After all, Manchester United has the most powerful attacking weapon! ”

The commentators were criticising Arsene Wenger's tactics and the boos from the stands never stopped. But when the TV camera gave Wenger a close-up, the old French man was still standing on the sidelines with a stubborn face, looking at the field with sharp eyes, as if his team was the dominant player at the moment.

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Although everyone is criticising Arsene Wenger and criticizing his tactical choice, his tactical work has been very good.

Because even Manchester United didn't expect Arsenal to be so thorough. Therefore, they were a little unprepared in the face of Arsenal's stubborn defense, lacking sufficient psychological preparation for the attack, and they were once very worried about Arsenal's counterattack, and did not dare to really press on the whole line, leaving one hand to defend against Arsenal's counterattack.

Which Cheng thinks that Arsenal is really determined to defend today!!

The camera was on Arsene Wenger again, and it was already the 38th minute of the first half.

"Does Arsene Wenger really want to defend the whole game like that? Although it seems that Arsenal's defense is solid and does not give Manchester United any chance, there is still a second half in this game, and Manchester United only need to score one goal to undo all of Arsenal's previous efforts. ”

Manchester United's offensive is getting more and more intense. They also discovered that Arsenal was really iron-hearted in defense and didn't even care about attacking!!

Arsene Wenger was also a little nervous at the moment, and on several occasions he thought his team was going to be breached.

But Arsenal defended quite well in the first half and luck was on their side.

When the first half ended, the two sides went into the break with a score of 0-0.

Players from both sides walked into the tunnel with their heads bowed down, and Arsene Wenger was also expressionless, turning and walking back to the visitors' dressing room.

Ancelotti looked at Wenger's back a little strangely, did the opponent really want to score a point by defense?