At the beginning of the season, Arsenal won three consecutive crowns, Arsenal's players were full of confidence and pride, slaughtering Bolton Wanderers 6:1 at home in the fourth round of the league, and slaughtering Blackburn Rovers with a score of 7:1 away in the postponed third round of the league. Two wins in the league and two wins with a jaw-dropping scoreline. What's even more rare is that Arsenal's current goals are all thanks to their defender captain Li Huan, Arshavin, Van Persie, Walcott, Fabregas, Chamak, etc., and the midfield forwards scored together, showing a situation of a hundred flowers.

With a frantic goal, Arsenal finally trampled Chelsea, who had also won four in a row, two points ahead of third-placed Manchester United and proudly led the Premier League table.

After four rounds of league games, Arsenal are finally on their way to defending their Champions League title.

On September 15, Arsenal hosted the Portuguese Super League runners-up Braga.

In the Premier League, Arsenal have shown their unrivalled dominance to fans around the world, and thanks to the restructured Champions League defending curse, fans around the world are now wondering what kind of performance Arsenal can perform in the Champions League and whether it is possible to become the first team to break the curse.

Although Arsenal is very beautiful in the league, but in fact, injuries are still attacking them, Diaby, who was injured in the last round of the league, still needs to miss one or two games, Vermaelen, Achilles has not recovered from injury, Van Persie, Walcott, Bendtner, Ramsey have also begun to go into the overhaul factory for maintenance, and injuries have become a lingering nightmare for Arsenal.

Diaby, Van Persie, Walcott, and Bendtner's four main injuries have not had much impact on Arsenal, and they still have Chamak, Arshavin, Nasri, Rosicky, Bella, Fabregas, Song and others available, but Vermaelen's injury has made Wenger scratch his head a little.

Because after Galla, Campbell, Silvestre, and Senderos left, there are only three genuine central defenders in Arsenal's lineup, Vermaelen, Jurou and Koscielny, after Vermaelen's injury, Arsenal does not even have a substitute central defender, for a team, the central defender is the pillar, and the goal without a good central defender will almost always be exposed to the opponent's fire, with the level of Arsenal's goalkeeper Almunia, if he is bombarded by the opponent repeatedly, he will soon collapse, Don't look at Almunia as the best goalkeeper last season, in fact, he is stained with Arsenal's strong attacking light, the opponent has no ability to attack Arsenal's goal, Almunia's real strength will never be stronger than Van der Sar, Cech, or even Manchester City's Given.

And their opponent Braga is a nobody, but there is a lot of potential for dark horses, in the qualifying round they have eliminated the strong Celtic and Sevilla, for this historical breakthrough, they have recruited as many as 17 people this summer, including Hugo Viana from Valencia and others, no one can say what level of strength has reached now, in short, this opponent is very dangerous, must not be taken lightly.

However, Wenger quickly came up with a way to deal with it, although this method is a bit of digging the west wall to make up for the east wall, but it is also reliable, in the Super Cup, in order to exercise Sagna, Li Huan appeared in the position of central defender, Li Huan's performance in that game was very eye-catching, card position, filling, header, assist forward, shoot and score, almost omnipotent, left a deep impression on the media and fans, after the game, many reporters thought that Wenger should put Li Huan in the position of central defender, as a free man like Beckenbauer. But Wenger doesn't want to change the style of play he has developed over the years, and has not made changes to the back line, and now he has no way to change it, although the fullback Sagna is far from Li Huan, but it can barely be used, and the central defender is facing a situation where no one is available, after Diaby was injured, only Li Huan can play this position.

Braga coach Dominguez. At just 41 years old, Paciencia has been dubbed "the next Mourinho" by the Portuguese media, and has been with Porto for a long time as a player. He began his coaching career in 2006/07 and has managed Liana and Universitaria Coimbra before building a solid defence at Braga last season. He turned down offers from Poto and Potting this summer, opting to stay and lead Braga to the Champions League, where they eliminated Celtic and Sevilla to reach the main draw.

"The next Mourinho" has the confidence and arrogance of the Magic Bird, and before the game, he declared his war against the European five-time champions, "We are fearless, I know the game will not be easy, but we will not let them control the ball easily, we will do a miracle in our own way, I believe my players are capable of doing it." ”

Arsene Wenger did not respond to Domingos' arrogant remarks, as a quadruple European champion and a century-old giant, Wenger disdains a war of words with a team that is not the king of Portugal, and he is confident that Arsenal can beat their opponents at the Emirates Stadium with their remaining formations.

The game officially started at 7:45 p.m. on September 15, and the Portuguese, who threatened to complete a miracle before the game, were not afraid of tigers, and they did not take the iron bucket formation to deal with Arsenal away from home, but discharged the 433 formation and Arsenal's offensive posture.

Braga dare to play against Arsenal is not completely unaware of the sky, of their 11 starters, 7 are Brazilians, and they report 13 Brazilians in the [***] list, this Portuguese team is actually Brazilian, they eliminated Celtic and Sevilla also took an attacking approach, rather than relying on defensive counterattacks to win like the average weak team.

"The game is on, let's take a look at the starting line-up of both sides, Braga is a 433 formation, goalkeeper 84 - Felipe / four defenders 15 - Miguel Garcia, 5 - Moises, 2 - Rodriguez, 28 - Silvio /, three midfielders 88 - Van Diño, 22 - Aguila, 45 - Jugo Viana / three forwards 30 - Allan, 99 - Mateus, 9 - Paolo Cesar.

Arsenal's starting lineup is (4-2-3-1): goalkeepers 1-Almunia/3-Sagna, 6-Koscielny, No. 13 Li Huan, 22-Klich/double midfielder, 19-Wilshere, 17-Alexander Song/three forward 8-Nasri, 4-Cescregas, 23-Arshavin, single striker/29-Chamak.

What surprised us was that Li Huan actually appeared in the center back position, Sania made an unprecedented start, and it seems that the professor was addicted to playing center back with Li Huan in the Super Cup.

In this game, Braga has 7 Brazilian players, and Arsenal has 4 French players, which is almost like Brazil against France, but France has always defeated Brazil, and Braga is only afraid that this game will not be good...... Yes! Braga foul! …… Cesc Fabregas is tripped on the edge of the box...... Yes! The referee didn't even give a penalty...... "The game just went to the 3rd minute, the teenager Wilshere took the ball in the middle and cooperated with Fabregas, and the Arsenal deputy was put to the ground by the opposing defender Silvio when he cut the penalty area, but to the surprise of Arsenal fans and players, the referee did not give any penalty, as if he didn't see it."

There was an uproar in the stands of the Emirates Stadium, boos, because of the presence of Li Huan, this free kick is equivalent to a goal, but the Arsenal players did not say much, they are now more and more strong temperament, feel that in the face of a team like Braga, there is no need to worry about these details, they can't help this nobody at home.

Then Arsenal's midfield, under the control of Cesc Fabregas, Wilshere, Nasri and Arshavin, began to show the Portuguese dark horse what a smooth fit is and what true attacking football is. Xiaofa is the lungs of the team, like a music maestro conducting an Arsenal orchestra smoothly. The 18-year-old England teenager Wilshere is the most effective principal violinist in Xiaofa, and this summer's new signing Shamacher is shining like gold, he is the beacon in the attack, and Arsenal's sharp and smooth short passing has made Braga have been under control, and they can't touch the ball at all, only frequent fouls.

In the 8th minute of the game, the Arsenal who played well through the clever coordination of the middle and the wing, tore apart Braga's central defense, and then Cesc Fabregas made a wonderful through ball, and the new signing Chamak went straight into the penalty area, and Brazilian goalkeeper Felipe made a quick attack to save the ball at Chamak's feet.

Chamak was nimble on his feet, he was alert to the ball and quickly took the ball away, Felipe did not save the ball and sent Chamak to the ground, and the referee did not hesitate to award a penalty and gave Felipe a yellow card.

The sound of shouting Li Huan sounded again in the stands, and the penalty kick is usually taken by Li Huan, but Li Huan came to Fabregas and said a few words to Fabregas, Fabregas first shook his head, and then walked to the penalty area, ready to take the penalty.

“…… Li Huan did not choose to take a penalty, he gave the penalty to Cesc Fabregas, this season Arsenal has set off a scoring frenzy in the league, but Fabregas has not scored a goal in the league this season, Li Huan hopes that his teammates can break the curse, a goal is the best medicine, Li Huan is now more and more general. In addition, because of the change of the captain's position and the problem of Arshavin, the atmosphere in Arsenal's dressing room is not very harmonious now, and Li Huan may also take the opportunity to coordinate the relationship with Cesc Fabregas...... The ball is in! Fabregas ...... Spaniard opens the scoring for Arsenal...... 1:0" There were enthusiastic cheers in the stands, this time shouting the names of Li Huan and Cesc Fabregas, and the fans still hoped that the two captains could get along.

(To be continued)