Midfielder

Chelsea and Lin Yi are still rampant in the league. These guys have advanced to the Champions League in advance. At this moment, Arsenal, the only team that can still hope to snipe them, is not having such a good time.

Although they are only three points away from Chelsea in the league standings, they seem to have let down their breath after Manchester United ended their unbeaten record, and they have been unable to muster the energy to continue fighting.

Whether in the Champions League or in the League Cup, they are stumbling. Even if they win, it makes people feel nervous. There is no smooth mercury pouring down at the beginning of the season.

I really don’t know if they were dispersed by Manchester United. After the unbeaten record was broken, they suddenly became weak. Even Arsenal fans did not expect the team to fall into such trouble.

This is completely the opposite of Chelsea. The crazy people from Stamford Bridge became even crazier after losing a game. They would even use ten times the counterattack to prove their ferocity to others.

They are a group of wild beasts. The more injured they are, the more dangerous they are. Especially when they bleed, they will appear extremely ferocious. As long as there is prey passing by them, they will pounce without hesitation.

Even if this ferocity will make them pay a heavy price, anyway, as long as there is a chance, they will tear the prey that passes by their eyes. They often seem to be indifferent to everything.

This is the temperament that Mourinho has instilled in Chelsea. They are not nobles, but a group of gangsters, and they are the kind of gangsters who don't care about their lives.

Compared with Chelsea now, Arsenal seems to lack such a little courage and a little bloody killing instinct. When they bleed from their wounds, they are more accustomed to licking them alone.

They will not fight with their opponents with their teeth bared like Chelsea, maybe this is the reason why they are behind in points.

Especially when Wenger encounters those teams that rely on their bodies recently, he is always subject to the opponent's impactful kicking style. Maybe it is the counterattack of Manchester United that has made these players feel scared.

Although Arsenal also has tough guys like Vieira, this impression has always been around Wenger's team. No matter how he adjusts, it has not been fundamentally changed.

The injuries and fatigue of the players forced Wenger, the wise old man, to passively start rotation.

Especially in the deployment of midfielders, players like Ljungberg and Pires have begun to enter an inertial fatigue period after continuous battles and must stop to rest.

This left Wenger with no choice but to find some backups from his bench and the second team. The old man even selectively gave up the fight for the League Cup. After all, the players in front of him could not support the three-line battle.

But you also have to admire Wenger's training of young players. Under his guidance, those young players in the second team have begun to take the lead in the league, especially the Spanish boy who entered the first team this year.

When Pires and Ljungberg were both absent due to injuries and fatigue, Fabregas began to form a partnership with Vieira in the middle. His long-range shooting ability and ability to read the game began to make many people look at him with new eyes.

Many football critics have said that this may be the candidate for the next soul of Arsenal's midfield. In addition to the lack of experience, his skills are fully qualified for the main position of Arsenal.

And many people like to compare this young Spaniard with the black-haired boy from Chelsea. Whether it is their skills or something else, they will be compared.

Although Lin Yi has long been accustomed to such comparisons, he also has a different interest in this young opponent in London, especially after watching that guy play football.

"A very interesting guy, his shooting is indeed much more accurate than mine." After watching the video material, Lin Yi turned around and said to Faria, and the rigid guy responded to him with a middle finger.

"Even Cech's shooting is more accurate than yours." Lin Yi almost choked to death by Faria's words.

There is no way. Although Lin Yi has been training hard, he is indeed a little worse than Fabregas, who has a little scary long-range shooting ability. Even if he wants to refute this, it is useless.

This is also the idea of ​​many team defenders. Many times, they would rather let Lin Yi choose to shoot than let this kid dribble or pass the ball. Compared with those two threats, shooting is the safest.

"A freak." This is Faria's evaluation of Lin Yi, which is enough to stimulate Lin Yi's nerves.

Since Lin Yi watched Fabregas's game video, he started to increase his shooting training every day. He didn't want to be despised because of shooting problems when the two met.

The war between two young people in the same city, just like in Portugal, the confrontation between Lin Yi and Ronaldo came from this, and Lin Yi has become accustomed to being a winner.

He doesn't want to change this habit in England. Fabregas? Maybe he will be a good opponent for him.

At least compared with Ronaldo who is always used to playing on the wing, he is more likely to meet Lin Yi face to face in the middle.

However, the collective emergence of young players such as Lin Yi, Ronaldo, Rooney and Fabregas has also become a beautiful landscape of the Premier League this season. The teams are not only competing for victory or defeat, but also for the future.

No matter whose future will eventually win, it will be a wonderful preview for the future Premier League battles.

"This is a Premier League for young people, and they will be the masters of the future." This is also the sentence used by the Sun at the end of a report on young players.

Fabregas' sudden rise, like Lin Yi's sudden rise in Porto last season, always brings endless reverie. There are too many variables about their future, achievements, and confrontation.

This also makes many people speculate that when the next summer comes, how many of Arsenal's veterans over 30 will be able to stay in the team, especially Pires, who is in the position of midfield organizer.

Wenger will not easily change his signing habits because of one person. Perhaps, except Henry, no one can make this old French man feel nervous. When young people emerge one after another, the veterans may be ruthlessly thrown into the long river of history and slowly forgotten.

A cunning old man like Wenger will not easily talk about future plans on any occasion, so he let those people guess and he did not give any answer. It’s just that Fabregas’s reuse is an unchangeable fact, and the time left for those veterans is gradually disappearing.

However, what makes Wenger very unhappy is that he was sniped by his old enemy again in the League Cup this time. Manchester United, which also sent out the second-tier team, defeated the old opponent with a very strange goal.

Twenty seconds into the game, Arsenal had not even reacted to the referee’s whistle, and they were already behind.

Arsenal’s new defender Dejono made a fatal mistake when passing the ball in the backcourt, and Manchester United’s Berion quickly inserted and intercepted, which caught Clichy off guard and could only desperately chase behind.

But Bellion, who rushed to the goal first, obviously had an advantage in position, and he had too many options.

Bellion suddenly shot when he broke through to the edge of the penalty area. This shot had no angle at all, and even Ferguson would think it was a very bad shot choice, but it was such a shot that seemed to be easily confiscated by Almunia, but it changed because of Clichy's foot shovel at the moment he caught up.

The football hit his heel strangely and bounced into the net. Almunia watched this scene in amazement. His body had moved in advance and he had no time to turn around to save the ball.

You can imagine what Wenger's expression was at this time. The only action this French old man, who was supposed to be known for his elegance, could make for such a goal was to cover his mouth with his hand.

But the camera can clearly capture the old man's mouth moving. If nothing unexpected happens, he may be greeting this damn goal with the French national curse, or greeting Clichy's heel!

It was this goal that determined the fate of Arsenal's second-tier team and destined Wenger to say goodbye to the League Cup. Although the old man didn't care much about the title, he was really unhappy to lose to his old enemy.

Especially when Ferguson came over after the game, the bright smile on his face made Wenger very depressed.

Losing a game does not mean that the sky has fallen, but Wenger doesn't want the failure to affect the atmosphere in the team.

Especially when the league was in the middle of the struggle, he didn't want to face Chelsea again, and the gap in the standings would be widened by the opponent. If he was really left behind, it would definitely be a disaster.

Wenger didn't know whether the two-line battle would drag down Chelsea, but if Arsenal had been in a catching-up posture in the league, Wenger knew very well that such a protracted war would definitely drag down their fragile nerves.

Whether he was willing to admit it or not, this was an unchangeable fact. Chelsea, the leader, did make Wenger very wary, and the tough Mourinho and the crazy Lin Yi made him a little bit on thin ice.

The problem is that Henry's recent state is a bit unstable. After the high-productivity period at the beginning of the season, this French number one killer has also begun to fall into a downturn. He has also begun to make mistakes in the shots that are usually sure to win.

I hope this guy can adjust his mentality within ten days, otherwise Wenger really needs to find another way to solve his team's offensive problems.

Arsenal vs. Birmingham, Chelsea vs. Newcastle United, before the two strong teams meet, they both have the last chance to sharpen their knives, and it will be a bloody battle for the top spot. . .

(The recent NBA transfers have made me very melancholy... Are the Big Three so attractive?)