Strong Waist

Sporting Portugal's offense cannot be underestimated. After Arsenal gave up the ball, their advantage in intensive offense was established.

During the ten-minute attack, they threatened Arsenal's goal several times.

On the other hand, Arsenal's counterattack made frequent mistakes.

The cooperation between Giroud and the two wingers is not so tacit. The cooperation between the three always feels like it lacks a lubricant, and the success rate is not high.

Can't play the sharp scoring feeling that Mourinho wants.

Even after Giroud retreats, in many cases he will be stared at by the opponent's players, or lose the ball, or be unable to score the ball.

These are the consequences of hesitation and slowness.

But in order to increase the success rate, it is necessary to play a little slower.

Once you get up quickly, you will return to the situation of making mistakes.

"It's still not enough running in!" Mourinho shook his head.

Sporting Portugal's offense continued continuously, and finally at the end of the first half, their main striker Dost scored a wonderful free shot.

Assisted by the Argentine player Acuna.

Sporting equalized the score, but they are always a little unhappy.

They knew in their hearts that Arsenal was rehearsing a new lineup and did not enter the game with a safe posture.

They are more in the test, rather than care about the outcome of the game.

And Arsenal's previous goal is their complete state.

Under this kind of emotion, the Portuguese sports stadium always feels a little aggrieved.

They tried their best to score a goal, but the opponent's attitude was a bit understated.

"Don't care about conceding the ball, focus on tactics and teamwork. Giroud, don't be afraid of making mistakes, keep trying. Aubameyang and Mane also cooperate with Giroud more. You need to communicate more!"

After Le Kai shouted at the three of them, he continued to participate in the game.

But the situation is still not ideal.

After the start of the second half of the game, this tactic always gave people a feeling of stagnation.

Mourinho and other coaches on the sidelines also gathered together, even though they thought it would not be so easy to advance this lineup.

But the problem is obviously more than that.

"Lack of lubricant!"

Arteta said seriously; "Those three lacked a player who was like a lubricant before."

"Someone needs to help them get through the coordination, or in other words, add a support point at the rear, which may be able to play better results!"

"Who will be the lubricant?"

"Wilshere?"

"Then who organizes the rhythm of the frontcourt?"

"Then let Kay be the lubricant!"

"You're reckless. Kay has the ability to shoot from the outside. Let him do the work of distributing the ball, isn't it killing Kay's long-range shooting ability?"

The coaches are arguing, they think about the lubricant type of players.

At this moment, Mourinho waved his hand and said, "Stop arguing, don't worry now! This is the end of today's tactic exercise, and the other substitutes are still waiting!"

Hearing this, the coaches turned their heads and looked over.

On the bench, a group of substitutes including Xhaka stared at them eagerly.

Only then did they realize that the game time had almost entered 80 minutes.

\u0026 Minutes, Arsenal made a large-scale substitution.

Except for Giroud and Lucky, everyone else including the goalkeeper was replaced.

Goalkeeper: Cech.

Defenders: Holding, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal.

Midfielders: Ramsey, Lucky, Xhaka.

Forwards: Welbeck, Giroud, Lacazette.

Five minutes later, Lucy and Giroud were also replaced, and the three little ones also got a chance to play.

At the end of the 90-minute warm-up match, Arsenal drew with Sporting Portugal 2:2.

After the game, Arsenal returned to London and immediately started the post-match summary.

Of the two lineups, the first is undoubtedly more dominant.

However, after 79 minutes, Lucky and Giroud's cross to grab a point shot was also excellent.

Giroud's sense of smell in front of the goal is extremely sensitive, especially good at headers.

With Lucky's precise passing, this ability is infinitely magnified.

The most important thing is that Arsenal not only has Lucky, a player who is excellent in crossing the ball.

Robertson, Wilshere, Mane, Aubameyang are all fine.

And in the counterattack, their arc pass can help the center forward.

In this respect, Giroud's characteristics overlap somewhat with Lukaku's.

And Giroud's physical confrontation feeling is no less than that of Lukaku.

The most important thing is that Giroud still has the tactical characteristics of being able to retreat and play the ball. Once he completes the development of this tactic, it is estimated that Lukaku will give up his main position.

For this reason, Lukaku is anxious.

His performance in training and warm-up matches has also become more active.

Not only in offense, but also in defense, he also frequently launched threatening steals in the frontcourt.

A lazy Lukaku began to work hard, full of threats.

And seeing the changes in Lukaku, Mourinho is very satisfied.

"Is there any possibility of Lukaku and Giroud coexisting?"

Everyone shook their heads. The characteristics of these two players overlapped a bit.

"Let them compete for the starting lineup like this!" Mourinho said; "Whoever is in better condition will be the main force!"

The recent competition between Lukaku and Giroud is benign. Both of them are secretly competing with each other, and the cycle is upward. This is an extremely ideal state.

If the two center forwards are in an excellent competitive state, this is conducive to Arsenal's configuration of more tactical lineups.

Different styles can be played according to different opponents.

And this season, Arsenal must fight on two fronts. The Champions League and the league must be taken care of. The two centers are in excellent condition, which is also a great contribution to the team.

"But Giroud's retreat tactics..."

Arteta sighed; "Who is suitable to be this lubricant?"

In recent training matches, Ramsey, Wilshere, Kanter, Xhaka, Lucky and even substitute Sam have all tried lubricant work.

Among them, Ramsey and Wilshere have the best effect. If you insist, Wilshere can make more threatening passes.

But the effect is still not ideal.

To this end, the substitutes are also constantly working hard.

For players such as Ramsey and Xhaka, they are very clear that as long as they can cooperate with Giroud, they may be the main players in another lineup.

What a tempting option.

They are not like Lucky and Kanter, who have absolute main attributes in the midfield.

Even Wilshere is trying to fit into the role.

"What kind of pass do you want?"

Wilshere took the initiative to ask Giroud.

Hearing this, Giroud looked at Wilshere and said, "What I want is not a pass, but a breakthrough!"

"breakthrough?"

Wilshere froze for a moment.

Giroud nodded and said; "The speed of passing the ball to the wall is really fast, but it will firmly suppress me in the middle position and cannot form a richer running position. So my idea is that the midfielder passes to the winger, and the winger Wait for the opportunity to pass to me, when I hold the ball, the two wingers and the midfielder quickly run forward with three arrows, so that I can have three passing options, and I will also make moves based on this choice!"

Soon, Xhaka, Ramsey, Kanter and Sam all ran over to communicate.

In this regard, Giroud also treats them equally.

"how do you feel?"

After training, Le Kai took the initiative to find Giroud, and it is the captain's responsibility to help new players integrate into the team.

Giroud is an unsmiling character.

"Very good!" Giroud said; "Everyone is working hard to win, and I can feel that everyone wants to improve quickly."

Lucky smiled and said, "Our goal is to be the champion!"

Giroud: "This is why I am willing to come to Arsenal to compete!"

Lucky nodded; "I will not favor any of your centers, nor will I not pass the ball to you because Lukaku and I have been teammates for a longer time, as long as you run to a threatening position, I will pass the ball , what I need is a center who can score goals for the team!"

Although what he said was somewhat disrespectful, this was Lucy's inner thoughts.

He will not favor anyone, goals are king!

"I wish I could!"

Giroud nodded with a smile.

For a player of his stature, a level playing field is rare.

Lucky smiled and nodded; "There are still two warm-up matches, and then we are waiting for the league to kick off. Looking forward to your Premier League debut!"

Giroud; "I'm looking forward to it too! And I'll score!"

Lucky; "Let's talk when you score a goal."