Chapter 652: Su Dong makes Bayern invincible!
The battle at the Emirates Stadium ended with a score of 1 to 3.
Arsenal suffered a crushing defeat at home, which almost destroyed their hopes of advancing to the semi-finals.
The British Guardian commented that if it were not for Van Persie's goal in the final stage of the game, which helped the Gunners retain a theoretical chance of a comeback away from home, the Gunners would have been swept away by Bayern in their own home court.
The Guardian was quite dissatisfied with Arsenal's performance in this game, believing that the Gunners did not play to their strengths at all.
Judging from the data, the number of shots of the two teams was thirteen to twelve, with the Gunners having one more shot than Bayern. However, in terms of shots on target, the Gunners only had three, while Bayern had as many as nine. The latter's efficiency was obviously much higher than the former.
The factors that caused this huge difference in efficiency were related to the playing styles of the two teams in this game. Bayern adopted more of a counterattack style, and almost every counterattack created a threat, so the number of shots on target was also more.
But on the other hand, the Gunners' efficiency is indeed too low. "Before the game, Wenger once shouted to Bayern, saying that he wanted Bayern to see a completely different Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium!"
"We can understand that he had a lot of confidence in Arsenal at that time."
"This is the youngest team in the Premier League, with an average age of only 23. At the same time, they did not concede a single goal at the Emirates Stadium throughout 2009. What an amazing achievement!"
"With such an impressive record, Wenger has every reason to be confident in his team and the young players under his command. He believes that these young players can help him realize his long-cherished wish."
"But in the real game, these young Arsenal players collapsed before even lasting ten minutes."
"If the first goal conceded was a reflection of Sudon's superb personal ability and was caused by goalkeeper Almunia's excessive hesitation, then what about the second goal? After conceding a goal, this group of young players completely lost their composure, which allowed Bayern to seize the opportunity to launch a counterattack and score a crucial goal."
The Guardian believes that today's Arsenal is like a continuation of Wenger's own personality, and so are these young players.
Perhaps it is to please the home fans, or to satisfy their own pursuit of football philosophy, or perhaps they want to try to achieve results through beautiful football... But in fact, Arsenal has always lived in an ivory tower of their own design and refused to come out.
Their football may be beautiful, but it is too fragile.
Fans do like beautiful football and fancy ball possession, but they like results and victory even more.
The essence of competitive football is victory! Without victory, no matter how good the game is, what is the use?
"When the Bayern trident relied on their individual abilities to complete a beautiful counterattack in the frontcourt, the fans at the scene began to leave one after another. The game was not over yet, but the stands were already sparsely populated."
"The fans are voting with their actions. They are telling Wenger and Arsenal that beautiful football does add points, but the essence of professional football is to pursue victory."
"When you are at home and a strong opponent scores three goals in a row and you are powerless to stop them, does it matter how good you play and how much possession you have?"
The Guardian also pointed out a problem that Arsenal has had in its operations over the years, which is the lack of a sense of belonging.
Meritorious veterans are all signed on a one-year basis, and meritorious captains are ruthlessly sold off, which has brought a very bad atmosphere to the locker room.
"Fabregas has been linked with Barcelona, Nasri has also made it clear that he will use Arsenal as a springboard, and players like Adebayor and Arshavin came to Arsenal in order to move to a better club and get a higher salary. They never thought about staying at the Gunners and achieving success with the team."
"Because, before them, Henry, Pires, Vieira and other predecessors have proved one thing, it is difficult for Arsenal to succeed nowadays!"
The Guardian also used Bayern as an example, calling on Wenger and Arsenal to reflect on their own business philosophy.
In the past two years, Bayern has become a powerful force that cannot be ignored in European football. After Su Dong joined the team, they have received attention from the entire European football world.
After winning the Champions League last season, Bayern is still the number one favorite in this season's Champions League, especially after defeating Sporting Lisbon with a total score of 13-0, Bayern's reputation reached its peak.
Now, having defeated Arsenal 3-1 away from home, Bayern has almost secured a place in the semi-finals, further boosting their prestige.
And all of this comes from Bayern's investment.
Su Dong, Ribery, Robben, Modric, Mascherano, Marcelo, Pepe, Neuer, Tymoshchuk...
In just three years, Bayern has introduced a group of players in their prime with outstanding strength, which has greatly enhanced Bayern's overall competitiveness.
More importantly, a group of outstanding young players have emerged in the Bayern team, such as Toni Kroos, Thomas Muller, Hummels, Badstuber, Contento, etc., who are all well-known young rookies in Europe. Their strength and potential are even better than those of Arsenal's young players such as Denilson and Giroud.
The Guardian believes that Bayern's operations are healthy and orderly.
More importantly, with the rise in performance, the joining of superstars headed by Su Dong has brought huge attention to Bayern, which has made the commercial operations of this Bundesliga team rise steadily. Now it has become the team with the strongest commercial operation capabilities in European football, not inferior to Manchester United at all.
Finally, the Guardian concluded that if Arsenal wants to get rid of the embarrassing situation, they should introduce Sudon, Ribery and Robben instead of supporting young players such as Denilson and Djokovic. Otherwise, with the possible rise of Manchester City in the future, the Gunners may not even be able to maintain their top four position.
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Bayern ace dominates the Emirates Stadium!
The cover of the German magazine Kicker's Champions League special issue used a photo of Su Dong's back when he kicked the free kick that opened the scoring, and used a title to highlight Su Dong's outstanding performance in the game.
Kicker magazine believes that Bayern defeated Arsenal 3-1 away from home and has one foot in the Champions League semi-finals, and Su Dong played a major role in this.
With two shots and one assist, Su Dong's contribution is unquestionable based on the statistics, and he was also selected as the best player of the game.
But more importantly, Su Dong's pass and shot shortly after the start of the game completely disrupted Arsenal's deployment and directed this victory.
Kicker magazine believes that Arsenal's performance in the Champions League this season is not actually ideal. Although they had big wins, beating Porto 4-0 at home and Fenerbahce 5-2 away, they also gave up the top spot in the group because of a 0-2 loss to Porto away.
Later, when Arsenal faced Serie A team Roma, both rounds of the game were very thrilling, and they finally eliminated Roma on a penalty shootout.
"The clean sheet at home in 2009 is certainly something to be proud of, but it cannot cover up Arsenal's overall lack of strength, and this game against Bayern exposed their defensive weaknesses."
"Wenger's young player Djokovic, who had high hopes for him, seemed vulnerable in front of the powerful Su Dong. Gallas and Kolo Toure also failed to stop the impact of Bayern's trident, which made the Gunners lose two goals at the beginning of the game and were frequently threatened with the goal afterwards."
Kicker magazine stated that Bayern's stability left a deep impression on people, and although Heynckes' response in this game seemed conservative, it actually harboured murderous intent.
Finally, Kicker magazine believes that Bayern's performance since 2009, especially Su Dong's form, has made people full of expectations for Bayern's next game, and Heynckes' team may not have no chance to defend the treble.
Especially the Champions League.
After the Champions League was reformed, only Barcelona successfully defended the title, and the number one contributor to Barcelona's defense at that time was Su Dong.
Now, if Bayern can defend the title again, Su Dong will undoubtedly become a superstar that the media and fans all over the world will compete to praise.
Because in the history of the Champions League, no player has ever achieved such an achievement!
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The front page of Bild read [Su Dong makes Bayern invincible! ].
The German media believes that Bayern was able to beat Arsenal 3-1 away from home, and Su Dong was the key among the keys.
Bayern's strength in the past two years is also inseparable from Su Dong's continuous goals.
"Throughout the history of world football, there has never been a superstar who can do what Su Dong did. In fact, we have every reason to believe that he has surpassed the scope of earthlings and the limits of human beings."
Bayern chairman Beckenbauer commented in his column that Su Dong is already a great player.
"He made us start to rethink the current trend of professional football. He redefined the center position and changed the tactical trend of world football with his comprehensiveness, diligence and hard work."
Beckenbauer believed that within the current tactical framework, no one could come up with an effective way to contain Su Dongbo, and the only thing that could defeat him was probably time.
"What's even more exciting is that he is only 24 years old!"
Youth means potential.
Everyone knows that Su Dong is just entering the golden period of his career. As long as he is not injured or sick and continues to maintain his current state, I believe he will achieve greater success.
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Be it The Guardian, Kicker magazine, Bild, or even Beckenbauer's column, their high praise for Su Dong and Bayern is now a thing of the past for both Su Dong and Bayern.
The thing a professional player fears most is to live on his laurels.
After the team returned to Munich from London, they quickly began preparing for the Bundesliga.
In the next period of time, Bayern will be busy in the Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup, with no chance to breathe at all, and the games will be one after another.
If the team wants to achieve the goal of defending the treble set by Heynckes and the Bayern giants, the next leg of the schedule is crucial.
It can even be said to be the key to success or failure!
(End of this chapter)
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