There is a dream called football

Emirates Stadium.

Many friendly matches have been held in the summer, and teams from the United Arab Emirates were invited, but the first game of the league will only come today, and the opponent is Aston Villa, a tough nut to crack.

Villa has always been a mid-range team in the Premier League. It is impossible to compete for the championship and it is impossible to enter the Champions League. However, this team often plays the role of spoiler, which is a headache for many strong teams.

So Arsenal drew Villa in the first game, which was not a good draw.

Looking at their lineup, the back line is Sweden's main center back Mellberg, yes! He is the one who defended Li Qiao in the World Cup.

The midfielders are young Davis and Barry, these are players who later moved to strong teams.

Even more famous is their head coach, Martin O'Neill, who was very strong when he was playing football. When he was playing football, he played for the famous Nottingham Forest. Remember, that was Nottingham Forest who could play in the Champions League.

That's why Martin O'Neill said before the game, "I know the Arsenal people want to have a party in the new stadium, but I will never let the Arsenal people get their wish."

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Today is a good day, the Emirates Stadium is full of 60,000 people, and the team's goal is a victory to commemorate the opening of the new season at the Emirates Stadium, but this game was not easy to play from the first second.

Villa completely gave Arsenal a Championship style, with fast, strong and rough football that made Arsenal very uncomfortable.

Especially Rosicky, who has just transferred from the Bundesliga and is still very uncomfortable with this kind of game rhythm.

Because many fights are considered fouls in the Bundesliga, but in the Premier League, they are just reasonable confrontations. This makes technical players like Rosicky very uncomfortable and difficult to control the ball. This is also a common problem for many players who come to the Premier League.

You need to re-adapt to the rhythm of the game, and even re-understand what football is.

The game lasted for 10 minutes. The game was intermittent. The smooth passing that Arsenal expected did not come out. Wenger was furious. The opponent obviously took special care of Rosicky, and all he got in exchange was a few verbal warnings from the referee.

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"You bastards, this is the midfielder I bought for tens of millions of pounds."

But Wenger's anger was useless, because the opponent was within the rules, at least the rules of the Premier League. There was no flying tackle or elbow strike, but the move was very bad, it was a kick to the calf.

The more this happens, the more Rosicky shoots the ball, and the more he shoots the ball, the higher the turnover rate, so it makes sense that Arsenal's offense is embarrassing.

In this case, the running support of teammates is very important. You can't be greedy for credit and rush forward, but you have to take care of it yourself. For Li Qiao at this time, he has made rapid progress in this aspect.

In the past, when Li Qiao's teammates got the ball, he would run quickly, and if the ball was not passed, he would curse an idiot in his heart.

But at this time, Li Qiao doesn't know how. He has also played in the core of the national team and understands the difficulties. Therefore, when Rosicky gets the ball and the opponent presses forward, what Li Qiao does is to immediately retreat and form a contact point.

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In this way, Rosicky can feel much more relaxed. After all, the ball will not be lost. Li Qiao's passing point is always there.

These things cannot be seen in the broadcast footage, but these are the true skills of a player, and Wenger sees it and is happy in his heart.

If he can only rush forward, then Li Qiao's worth of 40 million will come to an end. For a pure winger, but a Li Qiao who can respond, organize, and break through, then there is no upper limit to his worth.

It's just that Li Qiao's organizational ability is not ranked high in the Premier League but at Arsenal. His organizational ability is still limited to the Chinese team. This is an area where he needs to continue to significantly improve.

However, Arsenal's new combination, which has only been adjusted for a few weeks, is indeed not smooth. Coupled with the strength of the opponent, Arsenal's first half can be described as embarrassing in one word.

In the second half, the score was still 0-0, and there seemed to be no hope for the big party at the Emirates Stadium.

Of course, even if the result of the game is not good, the party can still continue, but that would be too low, and it is just self-pleasure. Of course Wenger will not let such a thing happen, but at the 54th minute, the first goal was scored by

Vera.

Taking advantage of a corner kick, the ball went to the center. Swedish fool Mellberg jumped up and smashed the ball into the goal.

1 to 0.

After scoring the goal, Villa was extremely excited, as if they had won the Premier League championship. This is the Premier League, this is European football, and the feeling of competing for a breath is even better than winning the championship.

And O'Neill is here to disrupt the situation today. He wants the first Premier League victory at the Emirates Stadium to belong to Villa.

In this case, Wenger was also very decisive. He replaced Song, a defensive midfielder, and replaced Adebayor, playing a double forward. The midfield became 442, and Xiaofa retreated to play the defensive midfielder position.

But Villa were even more ruthless. After they scored, they began to retreat and then started defensive counterattacks. Several counterattacks were very fragile.

If forward Agbonlahor hadn't been too impatient, Villa would have killed the game. So how could the Arsenal players not be anxious watching this game, but even if they were anxious, there was nothing they could do. Arsenal's offense has not started yet.

In the end, Wenger chose to replace Rosicky. It was obviously impossible for him to adapt to the rhythm of the game in one game, and he could not force it.

Robin van Persie comes on.

This result is somewhat disappointing for Rosicky. He hopes to establish his status in the first game, just like he did in Dortmund, because his transfer is also the biggest move for Arsenal this summer.

The pen was invested.

After Van Persie came on the field, Arsenal played much more smoothly in the frontcourt. After all, Van Persie is very adaptable to the rough rhythm of the Premier League.

Li Qiao won't lose the ball when he got it, so he could run forward immediately and pushed his kick straight to the wing. Li Qiao curled the ball in and found Adebayor's head. The Togolese grabbed the front point.

, but the ball was deflected.

But it was Villa's head coach O'Neill who was anxious for the ball first, because he found that the traditional Arsenal was back, and Arsenal played fast and efficient offense. This was of course not good.

And more importantly, Van Persie does not stick to the ball in the attacking midfielder position, which is different from Rosicky, so Villa can't find a chance to kick anyone.

However, Villa's Davis still kicked someone in the frontcourt, which gave the opponent a chance to take a free kick.

This time Van Persie did his part and took the free kick alone. This may be the confidence brought by the World Cup. In the World Cup, Van Persie scored directly from the free kick.