Chapter 47: A huge lead
Xiao Qing is in a very good mood, although Tottenham Hotspur is still deliberately paralyzing before Xiao Qing's stunner after the game, but Xiao Qing doesn't care about these at all, because he knows that it is just part of the game; He doesn't think there's anything wrong with his behavior, he can only say that the players of Tottenham Hotspur are careless too early, this matter is not about Xiao Qing's business, this is just a lesson in the growth of Tottenham Hotspur, the game is a matter of 90 minutes, and the whistle is not at the end of the game, so you must not be careless.
However, although Arsenal won this game with Xiao Qing's outstanding performance, which is indeed a classic game, although Arsenal is very happy to win this game, they are still quite dissatisfied with the process of the game. Arsene Wenger, who was furious in this game, was a little unhappy with his team's performance, believing that his team made an unforgivable mistake in this game, which was the root cause of Arsenal's home defeat.
"If you just look at the stats of this game, it's hard to imagine how we won this game. Slackening and losing concentration after taking the lead, making some mistakes of principle, and bad luck accompanies it. Looking back and analyzing it, although I won this game, I was also speechless about this game, this game was too weird to win. After the game, the depressed manager Arsene Wenger first commented on the game, and Wenger said helplessly.
'There were very few chances for Tottenham throughout the game, I don't know how they managed to score three goals, but in the end we won. Let's check our own problems first. In ninety minutes. Some of our players couldn't keep their vigilance high throughout. However, in terms of the performance of the whole game, we still played with high quality. In the second half we were too tired and negligent and too careless. But it was the same with our opponents, who didn't stay focused enough until the end and that gave us a chance to turn around. Wenger smiled bitterly and glanced at Xiao Qing, who was sitting at the press conference with a straight face, and it had to be said that it was a great irony and joke that both teams made mistakes of principle in this game.
Arsenal beat Tottenham Hotspur 4-3 at home. There is the usual hot and exciting north London derby; As a result, Tottenham have not broken the record of failing to win all three points on opponents' turf in 17 years. But continuing last season's strong run of Arsenal in successive games, and even beating Chelsea last season, Tottenham completely rewrote their long-standing status as a quasi-top team in London. Now they can proudly stand on the same level as Arsenal and Chelsea, and they can definitely launch a strong attack on the Premier League trophy and even the Champions League trophy.
Tottenham's determined rise has made London so special – with three Premier League title contenders and three Champions League round 16 teams – the latest stretches of the Premier League and European football maps have had to be redrawn. London has historically had a lot of professional clubs, but quantity is not necessarily quality. The entire London Region has a maximum of six teams in the Premier League.
In north London, Arsenal are the only ones in the top of the Premier League. Even Chelsea's rise over the past seven years has only put London in line with its cosmopolitan credentials. Only Tottenham have advanced in the past two years. The top two have become the top three, making London completely surpass Milan, Madrid, Manchester City and other football towns with two clubs, and become a giant in football geography.
So the Gunners also understand that the challenge they will face is getting bigger and bigger, and they can't rest easy with a win at Tottenham Hotspur in this game, and they need to keep an eye on the strong performance of the pursuers behind them.
'The Premier League has been very competitive this season, there are about five or six teams that can compete for the title of Zuihou and Tottenham are one of them. Of course, we are also among them, and the opportunity is won by ourselves. I'm happy to be in the lead at the moment, but this game has also taught us something, we need to put ourselves in the right position, we need to be calm and work hard, that's football, nobody knows what's going to happen in the next moment. Xiao Qing was very calm, although Tottenham Hotspur was still chattering about Xiao Qing's stunner, but Xiao Qing didn't care about these at all, and he didn't bother to explain anything, because the goal was an incomparably clean stunner, Xiao Qing didn't think there was anything to explain. Xiao Qing is very calm, the victory of this game is the most important thing, Xiao Qing doesn't care about the interference of some other things.
Manchester United, who are at Old Trafford, beat Wigan 2-0 to make it three wins in a row at home in the league, and more importantly, they have now increased their points to 28 points, and now they have officially climbed to second place in the table above the Blues.
Because Chelsea, who suffered heavy defeats in the previous round of this round of fixtures, are away to Birmingham. After 90 minutes of base stationing, the Blues Chelsea finally lost 1-0 to Birmingham City with a dominant away advantage, suffering two consecutive league defeats!
As a result, Arsenal are unbeaten after 12 wins and 2 draws after 14 rounds, and Arsenal, who have 38 points, are now far ahead of the standings, and the current Premier League does not look like the most competitive league at all, because Arsenal's lead is so obvious.
Although they are unbeaten in the league like Arsenal, Manchester United have only seven wins and seven draws, and although they have climbed to second place in the table, Manchester United are now as much as ten points behind Arsenal! The double-digit gap is no joke, in the face of such a huge point difference, even many people think that there should be no suspense in this season's Premier League, and the championship must belong to Arsenal!
Chelsea, who have suffered two consecutive defeats, are now extremely entangled, with eight wins, two draws and four defeats, and only 26 points Chelsea have not seen the style of winning streaks at the beginning of the season, and they have now suffered successive defeats in recent rounds, and they are now up to 12 points behind league leaders Arsenal, and they have almost withdrawn from the league title race before the halfway point of the season.
Arsenal do look that way right now, they are really crazy and have built a huge lead in the league before the halfway point of the season, and now it looks like it will be a breeze for the Gunners to defend their league title. Now very leading, Arsenal is already far ahead in the battle for the Premier League title this season, and only Arsenal is the so-called first champion echelon; The second-tier teams such as Manchester United and Chelsea are now being left behind by Arsenal by a huge margin, and the current Arsenal may end the suspense of the title race in the next game at any time.
After the first five rounds of the new season, Chelsea's performance of winning five games and conceding 21 goals and conceding only one goal has caused the usually rigorous Times to exclaim that the Blues have the potential to dominate Europe. However, in the last five rounds, Chelsea have managed to win two and lose three. This team, which once gave people the feeling of dominance, fell quickly in just one month, which no one expected!
The uncertainty of football is the joy of the sport, as is Chelsea's first league defeat to Birmingham City in three decades, suffering its first consecutive league defeat in nearly four and a half years; It's also like the match between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, no one would have expected that the plot would be so choppy in the second half.
However, although Arsenal does occupy a great initiative in the league now, it is not the time for them to be happy, although the current Gunners have a huge lead, but this does not mean that Arsenal can relax at this time.
Although Arsenal are far ahead of the table in the current league, Manchester United and Chelsea are still quite strong, and they may catch up in the table at any time with a wave of consecutive wins; Arsenal must not underestimate these two teams, because they both have the confidence and capital to win the championship.
As for Arsenal themselves, there is really no need to tremble under such a huge lead, and they can also have reservations at this time; But Arsenal can't afford to be careless at this time, because they must not squander their capital with such a huge lead, not to mention that Arsenal itself also has some shortcomings.
First of all, there is Arsenal's backline, Arsenal's defensive ability has been criticized in recent seasons and has not been able to solve it until now; Coupled with the fact that the current main player Vermaelen is still recovering from injury, Arsenal really don't have many options at the back, and they have conceded goals in successive games, which also needs more attention. With Tottenham Hotspur conceding three goals in the second half in a row, Arsenal really can't guarantee when their cheating backline will continue to make mistakes and put the team in a desperate position.
And Arsenal has been plagued by injuries over the years, although this season's Arsenal does not seem to be affected by too many injuries for the time being, at least compared to last season, it is really much better; However, the current Gunners also have a lot of wounded, Vermaelen and Bendtner, Ramsey are still recovering from injuries, Cesc Fabregas and Van Persie have just recovered from injuries; And generally the second half of the season is the time when injuries erupt, and Arsenal now have some serious injuries that naturally need to be more careful, because those damn injuries are likely to be the root cause of ruining this season. (To be continued......)