Volume 1: Heroes Come and Go, People Pay Attention Chapter 275 Two Battles with Arsenal (First Update Guaranteed)

Chapter 275 Two matches against Arsenal (first update guaranteed)

After the game against Tottenham, just two days later, Liverpool ushered in a league game again.

You can imagine how intensive the schedule is.

Playing two games in two days, not to mention professional players, even amateur players may not be able to bear it. And the intensity of their games is far from being comparable to that of professional leagues.

The intensity of professional competition is definitely not something amateur players can bear, let alone a high-level competition like the Premier League. Even those professional players from China will shout that they can't stand it after playing a few games and their physical fitness can't keep up. Because the intensity and level of domestic leagues are far beyond what China's leagues can match.

How else to say that playing more high-level games will improve your level faster? Even if Chen Yingxiong has cheats, if he always hangs out in the domestic league, he will probably be a first-rate player in China, a second-rate player in Asia, and a third-rate player in Europe and the world.

Playing two consecutive games, Martin O'Neill took the rotation system to the extreme - he even replaced the goalkeeper. Reyna sat on the bench. Goalkeeper Alex Smithies, who transferred from Huddersfield last season, will start.

Everyone except Chen Yingxiong was replaced.

More than half of them are substitute players, and there are also several main players. This ensures that the team's combat effectiveness is much different than the main lineup and the substitute lineup.

The rotation adopted by Martin O'Neal was not a simple and rigid main lineup and a substitute lineup, but more than 20 players were scattered. There was no fixed main lineup and no absolute substitute lineup. There are always some main players and some substitutes.

The advantage of this is that the strength of the two lineups will not be too different and the results will not fluctuate. The disadvantage is that the main lineup has not been fixed for a long time, and the tacit understanding has been affected.

However, at the current situation, Martin O'Neal has no other option. If there are any problems, at least wait until this schedule is over.

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Even with such a rotation, Bolton cannot resist it when facing Bolton at home.

They lost to Liverpool 0:3 away from home.

Chen Yingxiong shines in the audience. Because he completed a hat trick.

There were only three goals in this game, and he scored all three goals.

After the game, Bolton's coach said helplessly at the press conference: "I know Liverpool have a big rotation. They even replaced Reina... But what's the point? They didn't rotate heroes. For me, as long as When the hero is on the pitch, Liverpool doesn’t count as a rotation at all!”

Some reporters in the audience even began to sympathize with Bolton for losing. Yes, if it were another team, with such a rotation, the team's strength would have been affected long ago, and the opponents would have the opportunity to take advantage.

But this rule does not apply to Liverpool. Martin O'Neill claims that he is a believer in rotation, but everyone will spit at him - you have the ability to rotate Chen Yingxiong! What does it mean to rotate everyone and leave Chen Yingxiong on the court? Do you still have the nerve to say that you admire rotation?

Who doesn't know that Chen Yingxiong is Liverpool's biggest guarantee of victory? If Chen Yingxiong performs well, Liverpool will win; if Chen Yingxiong performs poorly, Liverpool will lose.

If you have the guts, rotate Chen Yingxiong!

Martin O'Neill is not that stupid.

Isn't it stupid to leave a big killer weapon unused and hide it waiting for others to hit you? He is not Saddam. If he had a big weapon, he would have dumped it on the United States.

Chen Yingxiong is Liverpool's big killer. Not only must he use it, but he must use it to the extreme!

He is now letting go and doesn't care what other media say that Liverpool's performance is only related to Chen Yingxiong and has nothing to do with him as the head coach. No matter what the outside world says, in the history of Liverpool, the history of English football, the history of European and even world football, when these glorious years are recorded, Liverpool's head coach Martin O'Neill will be mentioned instead of Someone else.

Chen Yingxiong is really easy to use, why not use it?

The league has only gone on for twenty-two rounds, and Chen Yingxiong has scored an astonishing thirty-nine goals in the league.

Such crazy performances are just commonplace for Chen Yingxiong, and the media even began to worry - they didn't know what kind of praise to give this player. They had used those words over and over again so many times that they had lost their new meaning.

"Great", "legendary", "amazing", "miraculous", "unbelievable", "unbelievable"... They have used these words countless times, and they still keep these words over and over again.

But what can they do? Who makes Chen Yingxiong always perform so well? Even if they want to raise some issues, they can't.

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After the game against Bolton, the role of Liverpool's first team was over. They will enter a rest period of up to ten days. This is really the envy of other Premier League teams.

Because the next two games are domestic cup matches, according to Liverpool's habits, these two games have nothing to do with the first team.

Five days later, Liverpool faced their FA Cup third-round opponent at home...Arsenal!

It stands to reason that the third round is the first game of the Premier League team in the FA Cup, so generally speaking, Premier League teams will draw teams from lower-level leagues that have advanced through the first two knockout rounds, such as the English Championship. Teams and League One teams, and if you are lucky, you will be drawn into League Two teams or even amateur teams.

But this time, Liverpool's tone was so bad. They drew the Premier League team Arsenal in the FA Cup...

It's not just that simple.

Four days later, Liverpool faced Arsenal in the League Cup quarter-finals.

Fortunately, they played these two games at home and did not have to go to London, which was their advantage.

For Wenger's Arsenal, if they want to defeat Liverpool, the FA Cup and League Cup may be the best and even the last chance.

No matter what, the reserve team is not as good as the first team. Even if there is a Chen Yingxiong.

No matter what, Arsenal is also a strong team. Even if they are not as good as before, they are still strong contenders for the Champions League places.

Two consecutive games give Wenger enough time to get to know and become familiar with this reserve team, while also allowing his team to adapt to playing against this team.

Even if Arsenal lost in their first FA Cup match, they still gained valuable experience. This second game is ready.

In Wenger's view, losing the first FA Cup game means losing, and the second game is the final.

It’s not that the League Cup is more important to him, or that the League Cup is closer to the final and has a better chance of winning the championship. But the FA Cup happens to be before the League Cup. If the League Cup comes first and the FA Cup comes after, he will also feel that if he loses the League Cup, he will lose. The FA Cup is the final.

It’s not about who is more important or who is more likely to win the championship.

Wenger didn't think that if they beat Liverpool, they could win the League Cup. He hasn't thought that far yet. He just wants to beat Liverpool.

In the past two seasons, not many teams have been able to beat Liverpool, and even fewer teams have been able to beat Liverpool with dignity.

Wenger hopes his team can complete this task.

For him, this may be more important than winning the championship.

Because for a long time, Liverpool has become a nightmare for Arsenal and other Premier League teams. If they cannot defeat them, they will never get out of this nightmare.

Not to mention competing for the championship.

Even someone as strong as Ferguson could only end up retiring after fighting with Liverpool for several years, which is disappointing.

What Wenger has to do now is to lead the team to defeat Liverpool once and for all, and then tell the world that Liverpool is not invincible! We at Arsenal are not vegetarians either!

This victory may be a turning point for Arsenal this season... No, it may be a turning point for these fruitless seasons.

If they can defeat Liverpool, Arsenal's morale will be able to take advantage of the situation, regain lost ground in one fell swoop, and maybe completely recover next season.

For other teams, meeting Liverpool twice in four days would be an absolute disaster.

But Wenger doesn't see it that way.

After all, he is a famous coach and the helmsman of the wealthy Arsenal.

He understands very well that the greater the risk, the greater the profit, and wealth can be found in danger. At this time, you may be able to obtain unexpectedly generous returns.

Sometimes, you need to take a risk.

In fact, Wenger began preparing for these four days of games as early as last year. After the results of the FA Cup and League Cup matches came out, he began to arrange some special subjects for Liverpool in training.

The main function is to contain Liverpool's quick counterattack and at the same time limit Chen Yingxiong's.

This time his tactics were neither to retreat and defend nor to attack Liverpool. Instead, they pay more attention to control, firmly controlling the football at their feet, weakening Liverpool's chances of possession, taking the rhythm of the game into their own hands, and letting the game enter the area where Arsenal is best at.

And what about Liverpool? Then they can only be led by Arsenal.

As for a big man like Chen Yingxiong, Arsenal's defense is not very strict, but he puts more energy into his teammates.

Wenger believes that Chen Yingxiong is obviously too powerful. Unless he can arrange for eleven people to follow him closely and wrap him up in the middle, it will be very difficult to freeze him for the entire 90 minutes.

For this reason, he found another way - I can't freeze you Chen Yingxiong, but I can freeze your teammates!

Although his teammates are all super players, they are still better than Chen Yingxiong, an inhuman monster. His teammates are still on earth after all, and Chen Yingxiong has already broken through the sky.

It is still possible for humans to curb the performance of Chen Yingxiong's teammates. To curb Chen Yingxiong's performance... No one is willing to try this even if the end of the world comes.

But even so, if you want to defeat Liverpool, you can't just use this tactic, you have to use some resourcefulness...