Chapter 225: 9 goals in the Champions League, tied with Ronaldo, 22 goals in the league, aiming at Alan Shearer!

After the game with Bayern, Manchester City did not stay in Munich for long, but returned to Manchester overnight.

The Christmas Express of the Premier League is about to start, and Manchester City will face a devilish schedule in the next period of time.

Three days later, they will face Arsenal for the top spot.

If we just look at the status of the two teams, Manchester City is in slightly better shape.

Also in the Champions League, they reversed the situation and tied with the powerful Bayern after conceding two goals away from home.

Arsenal had a three-point advantage, but was beaten by the opponent away from home and was almost eliminated.

However, Manchester City had a bumpy performance in the previous few rounds of the league, which made people somewhat doubtful about their condition.

There is not much gap in strength between the two teams, and the outcome of the game depends on their tactics and on-the-spot performance.

Whoever is in better condition and can seize the opportunity of the opponent's mistakes will have a greater chance of winning.

Coaches from both teams stayed up late to watch videotapes of the other team's games, trying to find flaws in the other team.

On the Arsenal side, after watching Manchester City's recent league games and their performance in the Champions League, Wenger rubbed his forehead tiredly.

It's not easy to deal with! After Lin Quan joined, Manchester City's frontcourt attack was too strong. If Arsenal can't restrict him, then it is very likely that they will not be able to withstand the opponent's attack.

Arsenal is the kind of team that is not good at playing against the wind. There are too many young players in the team, and they always tend to collapse in the second half, which makes the team lack resilience. They can be amazing when the wind is in their favor.

But once the wind goes against them, Arsenal's young players will be at a loss.

This results in them losing goals one after another when they encounter strong teams as soon as they lose one goal.

The reason for this phenomenon is actually not complicated. After Vieira left Arsenal, Arsenal could not find a suitable team leader.

Wenger was very optimistic about Fabregas, but Fabregas was seduced away by Barcelona, ​​and Wenger's years of hard work were ruined.

Coupled with the fact that Arsenal has not won any championships year after year and the clause that Arsenal will not sign contracts of more than one year with players over the age of 30, Arsenal is unable to attract the best players or retain outstanding players in the team.

It's a pity that if Lin Quan could have been brought back to the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal might have had a leader.

With a sigh, Wenger quickly shook off the thought from his head.

Lin Quan has already joined Manchester City. It is meaningless to say this now. Instead of wasting time on such things, we might as well think about how to restrict him!

After repeatedly observing the two games between Manchester City and Bayern, as well as Manchester City and Sunderland, West Bromwich Albion and Southampton, Wenger finally had some ideas in his mind.

Compared to Wenger's concerns, the players of Arsenal are not afraid just because their opponent is Manchester City.

Theo Walcott posted on social media:

"I have a feeling I will score more than one goal at the Etihad Stadium!"

Walcott, who is also a standout among young players, is very dissatisfied with Lin Quan.

Compared to Lin Quan, Xiao Lao Hu debuted earlier and became famous earlier.

He doesn't think he is worse than Lin Quan. After all, he came to Arsenal with the title of super genius.

Professor Wenger, who has always been frugal, is willing to spend 5 million pounds on the 16-year-old, which is enough to prove his strength.

Walcott's performance after joining Arsenal also proved the professor's vision for people.

However, compared to the heights that Lin Quan quickly reached after joining Manchester City, Walcott has always been lacking in recent years.

The little tiger attributed this to injuries. Speedy players like him are indeed prone to injuries, and once injured, it will have a great impact on their condition.

But in the past two years, as the number of injuries to the little tiger has decreased, his performance in the league has become better and better.

Last season, he scored 14 goals for Arsenal in the league and was the team's top scorer. After Van Persie left the team, it can be said that the little tiger supported Arsenal's offensive system.

It is also because of this that he received the highest salary in Arsenal - 100,000 pounds a week.

Walcott's words quickly attracted huge attention and discussion on the Internet.

Arsenal fans naturally sang praises to the little tiger and cheered him on.

"Come on, little tiger!"

"Let the people of Manchester City see how powerful you are!"

"Show them who is the fastest man in the Premier League!"

Manchester City fans were dismissive of Walcott's statement: "Tsk tsk, any Tom, Dick or Harry dares to compete with Emperor Lin!"

"Haha, Walcott? How can this guy compare with Lin Huang? Lin Huang has scored 22 goals in less than half a season. Can the little tiger score that many goals in a full season?"

"Haha, Lin Huang has scored more goals in the Champions League than in the Little Tigers League!"

In the eyes of Manchester City players, these two people are not on the same level at all. The little tiger is trying to force a fight, so they cursed back without any hesitation.

Walcott has played for Arsenal for many years and has accumulated quite a number of fans.

Seeing their own star being scolded, they naturally couldn't sit still, so they started to fight back and curse at Manchester City fans.

Some reporters who were eager to watch the fun went to find Lin Quan outside Manchester City's training base and interviewed him about this matter.

"Lin, what do you think of Theo's statement?"

The reporter's question made Lin Quan stunned for a moment, and he subconsciously asked: "Who is Theo?"

This sentence was originally just a normal question from Lin Quan, because he didn't even know that this was Walcott's name.

However, the fans who like to watch the fun don't care about these, especially the fans of Manchester City.

In their view, this was the response of their star player to the challenge of Arsenal's star player, and this response was very much to their liking! As a result, these four words quickly became a hot word on the Internet that day, and Manchester City fans rushed to Walcott's Twitter and lined up to copy this sentence.

"Who is Theo?"

"Lin: Sorry, I don't know who Theo is!"

"Oh oh oh, someone's scam failed!"

"Hahaha, you deserve it. You're obviously not a player of the same caliber, but you insisted on trying to scam me. You got slapped in the face, right?"

Seeing Manchester City fans lining up to provoke the other party on Twitter, Lin Quan thought about posting a tweet to analyze it. After thinking about it carefully, he rejected this idea.

If we explain it at this time, it might be seen as showing weakness, which would have an impact on Manchester City's morale.

Besides, Walcott was the one who took the initiative to provoke. Since he was the first to attack, he shouldn't blame others for fighting back!

On the Arsenal side, Walcott was furious at Lin Quan's response and the provocation of Manchester City fans!

He swore that he would give his opponent a slap in the face at the Etihad Stadium! Seeing Walcott, who was full of energy and fighting spirit on the training ground.

Wenger on the sidelines was surprised and happy, and his confidence in this game increased a lot!

…

On December 14, the 16th round of the Premier League officially kicked off.

As the focus of this round of games, the top battle between Manchester City and Arsenal is scheduled for noon on the 14th.

The intention of this arrangement is obvious - the Premier League wants to cater to audiences in Asia and America.

Especially in Asia, when the game started, BJ time was just nine o'clock in the evening, which was the absolute golden time.

This season, thanks to Lin Quan's joining and the Premier League's vigorous promotion, the ratings of Premier League games in Asia have increased significantly.

After signing the broadcasting contract with CCTV, the Premier League's attention and popularity in China have greatly increased.

Many fans who originally did not watch the Premier League have also started to follow the CCTV live broadcast of the Premier League games this season.

Of course, the most watched game here is obviously Manchester City's game.

Whenever CCTV broadcasts Manchester City's games, the ratings will immediately soar.

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However, if the games of other Premier League teams are broadcast, the ratings will drop significantly.

Obviously, most of the fans came for Lin Quan.

"Lin Huangchong, I'm your fan!"

"Has the little black guy shown his chicken feet? How can a real fan call Brother Lin "Lin Huang"?"

"Haters are also fans. As time goes by, they develop feelings for each other!"

"By the way, Lin Huang is in really hot form right now, scoring 22 goals in the league and 9 goals in the Champions League group stage!"

"Haha, there were goals in every one of the six group stage games, which directly broke the historical record of the Champions League. It's really exaggerated!"

"Hehe, those people who said that the Black Forest Emperor's goals were not as good as Messi and Ronaldo's before, have been slapped in the face now, right?"

"Haha, I don't want to play against the wind!"

In the first four rounds of the Champions League, Lin Quan only scored 5 goals and was criticized by Messi and Ronaldo's fans, especially Ronaldo's fans.

However, in the last two rounds, Lin Quan scored 4 goals and surpassed Ronaldo in the Champions League scorer list, tying him with Ronaldo and becoming the top scorer in the Champions League.

"It's a pity that Ronaldo also scored a goal, otherwise Lin Huang would have dominated the top scorer list!"

Some fans still feel a little regretful. Real Madrid won again in the last round of the group stage, and Ronaldo scored a goal to increase his total goal count to 9.

"It doesn't matter. With Lin Huang's current form, he will be able to overtake sooner or later. Aren't Messi and Ibrahimovic, who were ahead of him before, overtaken by him now?"

The fans are full of confidence in Lin Quan, if for no other reason than his superb performance of scoring in every game. There is no reason not to be optimistic about him.

"The Premier League season goal record seems to be Alan Shearer's 34 goals? Can Lin Huang break this record?"

"Isn't this a matter of minutes? Lin Huang's current goal efficiency is 1.47 goals per game. There are still 23 rounds in the Premier League. If he scores a goal every two rounds, he can break the record!"

"Hiss, isn't Lin Huang's goal scoring efficiency too terrifying? The total number of goals this season can reach fifty or sixty, right?"

"40+ in the league, 10+ in the Champions League, and as for the cup competitions, it depends on the draw for the FA Cup and League Cup. If we can make it to the final, scoring 10 goals won't be a problem!"

"If we include the goals scored by the national team, wouldn't Lin Huang's statistics be able to catch up with Melo?"

"Messi has already surpassed him. It's a bit difficult to catch up with Ronaldo, who has scored 68 goals this year!"

"This is too scary. Is Ronaldo so strong this year?"

"Haha, otherwise how can they be called the two greatest players? Messi, on the other hand, has been in a much worse state this year after scoring 91 goals last year. He has only scored 45 goals now, less than half of last year! In the past, some people said that Lin Quan was a player of the same level as Messi and Ronaldo, but many people still don't agree with this.

However, when the fans presented the data of the three players this season, those who did not know Lin Quan and had doubts about him were surprised to find that Lin Quan had actually grown to this level.

"Haha, it seems that Walcott is really trying to scam Lin Huang. He can't even score 30 goals in a season, and his most goals in the league is only 14. How can he scam Lin Huang?"

"These two players are indeed not of the same level. Walcott is not as good as Lin Quan in dribbling, passing, organization, passing and positioning. His finishing skills are even worse!"

"But the little tiger is not completely useless. At least he is faster than Lin Quan!"

"Haha, if Emperor Lin had the speed of Walcott, it would be too terrifying!"

…

Because this game is related to the championship situation of the Premier League this season, it is very important for any team aiming to win the championship.

Therefore, before the game started, in addition to the media sending a large number of reporters to report the game, major Premier League giants also sent people to the scene to watch the game.

Liverpool head coach Rogers, who is about to face Manchester City, even came to the scene. He wanted to see how much Arsenal could outperform Manchester City in this game.

If Arsenal can beat Manchester City, then the Reds can also learn from them and use their tactics to deal with Manchester City.

Of course, Manchester City’s home field is very difficult to play at, and Arsenal’s hopes of winning are not great, and Liverpool is not very optimistic about them.

However, with Arsenal's strength, they should be able to expose some of the opponent's weaknesses.

If the tactics of both teams were not conservative, this might have been a goal-scoring battle.

Rodgers guessed correctly, both Manchester City and Arsenal chose offensive tactics.

After the previous few rounds of games, Pellegrini realized that there were indeed problems with Manchester City's defense.

If they don't want to expose this weakness to their opponents, they must increase their offensive threats, put more pressure on their opponents, make them busy defending and unable to threaten Manchester City's goal.

In this way, Manchester City's hidden danger can be eliminated to the greatest extent.

Wenger and Pellegrini were thinking alike! Arsenal were not the kind of players who were very strong in defense. Without a tough leader like Vieira, their midfield was always weak.

Cazorla, Ozil, Arteta and others do not have Vieira's defensive ability, nor his leadership qualities.

Manchester City is a team with super strong offensive capabilities. If they passively take the beating, they will probably be defeated.

Therefore, he learned from the experience of several other teams and planned to use offensive tactics to fight against Manchester City.

With the strength of Arsenal players, it is not difficult to break Manchester City's goal.

Moreover, Arsenal players are good at playing in a favorable situation. As long as they take the lead, their morale will be greatly improved.

By then, the second and third goals will most likely follow.

In that case, Arsenal will not only be able to defeat the powerful Manchester City, but may even create a big victory! Arsenal just lost to Napoli in the Champions League, and unexpectedly lost the top spot in the group after leading for 5 rounds.

This makes their subsequent Champions League knockout matches very difficult. Wenger's team urgently needs a big win to boost morale and let the players regain confidence. In this way, when they meet other teams in the knockout matches, they will have a glimmer of hope! (End of this chapter)