Chapter 836: The Pig Digs Up the Cabbage
"Su, I feel like Wenger is accumulating strength and preparing to use a big move against you?"
When Pepe saw the interview between Wenger and Arsenal players in the newspaper, he asked Su Dong with a smile.
"Bullshit!" Su Dong replied indifferently.
This was Manchester City's routine meeting every match morning. After hearing this, the Manchester City players couldn't help laughing out loud, and it eventually turned into a burst of laughter in the conference room.
"Every time I meet Wenger, he pretends to be serious. Every time I meet Mourinho, he says that no one understands Su Dong better than me. What's the result?" Toni Kroos couldn't help but laugh and said sarcastically.
Indeed, how to restrain the Soviet Union has become a topic of study for many famous European coaches.
Every time they meet Su Dong's team, the famous coaches will try their best to study ways to restrain them.
From Chelsea to Barcelona, every time Mourinho met Su Dong, he would say before the game, "I watched Su Dong grow up, and no one knows him better than me." But the problem is that the mad brother never loses in words, but never wins a game!
The same is basically true of Wenger and Ferguson.
They had created the so-called Sudong cage before, but it didn't trap Sudong.
"But to be honest, Arsenal's move this time was a bit big." Pepe said seriously after laughing.
"It's actually quite normal," Gareth Barry said. "You only need to understand Arsenal's business strategy in recent years to understand."
Everyone immediately looked at the former Aston Villa captain, wanting to hear his opinion.
"Wenger is not a pedophile at all. He is just pragmatic at most. You can check that in the first few years when he coached Arsenal, he made a lot of efforts to recruit players, and most of them were talented players, such as Vieira and Henry. Although they did not perform well in Serie A, their strengths have been proven."
"Even someone like Anelka, who was a genius who became famous in Ligue 1, Wenger took advantage of the time difference and poached him to Arsenal at a low price, which is exactly the same as poaching Fabregas from Barcelona's youth training camp."
Everyone nodded. Arsenal had made many big spenders over the years, such as Reyes. This player was also very valuable, but he did not achieve satisfactory results.
"Wenger's real transformation began when they started planning to build a new stadium. Arsenal had limited financial resources and was unwilling to accept investment from a major Russian shareholder, so they had to tighten their belts. Wenger had to sell captains one after another and vigorously train young players. It can be said that Wenger was struggling to support the new stadium."
"Now the new stadium has been built, but Arsenal's finances are still not very good, so Wenger's goal every year in the Premier League is to win the championship, but in fact, everyone can see clearly that it is to be in the top four of the league and keep the Champions League qualification. In the Champions League, Arsenal's goal is to reach the round of 16."
"For Arsenal, these two goals are very cost-effective and can maximize profits with a small investment, so Wenger has never forced results, as long as he can stay in the top four of the league and qualify for the Champions League group stage."
Everyone nodded after hearing this.
"What Gareth said is absolutely right." Su Dong also spoke up, "But this year is completely different from previous years. Or rather, the situation has been different since the Abu Dhabi consortium acquired Manchester City. Arsenal felt threatened, especially this season. They are really scared!"
Su Dong's words made everyone present feel proud and proud.
This is the truth.
After 21 rounds of the league, Manchester City still tops the list.
Arsenal is currently ranked third in the Premier League, but Tottenham Hotspur, ranked fourth, is in a very strong momentum. A group of players led by Rafael van der Vaart and Gareth Bale have demonstrated amazing fighting power and even pulled Chelsea, which once occupied the top spot for a while, out of the top four of the league.
It can be said that in today's Premier League landscape, among the top five teams, Arsenal has the weakest overall strength.
Once Chelsea recovers and returns to the top four, Wenger will be in an awkward situation and may not be able to maintain his top four position in the league. Therefore, before this possibility arises, Wenger must first ensure that Arsenal gain enough advantages.
Especially in this kind of strong dialogue.
This is not just about three points, but also about Arsenal's morale and fighting spirit.
Because of this, Wenger attaches so much importance to games like Manchester City.
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The Gunners attach importance to it, and so do Manchester City.
The whole team was very dissatisfied with the 3-3 result in the first leg. Everyone was eager to take revenge at the Emirates Stadium. Guardiola naturally understood the team's thinking.
Manchester City's overall tactics will basically not see any major changes. Guardiola and the coaching staff have already given instructions on the details that need to be paid attention to, so there is no need to say more on the match day.
What he wants to emphasize now is the opportunity that Manchester City must seize in the game against Arsenal.
“Everyone can take a look at this picture.”
Guardiola showed everyone the PPT carefully prepared by the coaching staff, which displayed the data of several games of Arsenal this season, listed very clearly.
"This is the number of games in which Arsenal have conceded two or more goals so far this season. They lost 2-3 to West Bromwich Albion at home, lost 2-3 to Tottenham Hotspur at home, beat Aston Villa 4-2 away, beat Wigan Athletic 2-2 away, and drew 4-4 with Newcastle away."
"Among these games, only one was special, and that was the match against Aston Villa. The number of goals scored by the Gunners and Aston Villa was very close. First, Arsenal scored two goals in five minutes before the end of the first half. Then in the second half, Aston Villa and Arsenal each scored a goal in four minutes. Then Aston Villa scored another goal, and the Gunners didn't score another goal until the end of the game."
Having said that, Guardiola circled several other games together.
"Except for this game, in all other games, Arsenal showed a very interesting feature, that is, they either scored a goal in one breath and then conceded a goal in another breath, or conceded a goal in one breath and then scored a goal in another breath."
"Against West Bromwich Albion, we conceded three goals in a row, then scored two goals in a row. In the 2-3 loss to Tottenham Hotspur, we scored two goals in a row, then let Tottenham Hotspur score three goals in a row in the second half. The same thing happened against Wigan Athletic."
"The match against Newcastle was the most outrageous. They scored four goals in half an hour in the first half, and conceded four goals in 20 minutes in the second half. In the end, the two teams shook hands and agreed to a 4-4 draw."
When Guardiola said this, he turned and looked at his players.
"I don't know if you have noticed that Arsenal is a team that is not very good at playing against the odds. There are 21 league games, so many games, and this does not include those games where they lost cleanly. This is definitely not a coincidence."
Everyone was also very surprised. They didn’t expect that Arsenal would have such data. This was really surprising!
To some extent, the 3-3 draw between the Gunners and Manchester City was more like a battle of strife.
Of course, that was based on the fact that Manchester City was down a man four minutes into the game and conceded a penalty near the end of the first half. If it hadn't been for the red card and the penalty, Arsenal would have lost miserably at the Etihad Stadium.
Everyone in Manchester City is full of confidence in this.
"What do you think after reading this data?" Guardiola asked with concern.
The players in the conference room looked at each other. It was clear that everyone was surprised by this data, but as for their specific thoughts...
"I think..." Su Dong laughed and said first, "We should make a concerted effort to crush Arsenal. Don't give them a chance to turn the situation around. We should trample them to the ground and rub them hard!"
Everyone cheered and laughed.
Many people thought that Su Dong was joking and trying to liven up the atmosphere.
Guardiola nodded very confidently and said: "You are right. Arsenal is now like a guy who bullies the weak and fears the strong. If you are soft, they will be tough. If you are tougher than them, they will immediately give in."
"So, their remarks before the game were more like provocations and bluffing to cheer themselves up. What we need to do is to teach them a hard lesson from the beginning of the game, completely bring the game into a rhythm that is favorable to us, and use the way we are best at to kill Arsenal!"
I have to say that after Guardiola said this, the atmosphere in the conference room did become very heated.
The whole reasoning was well-reasoned and very convincing. In addition, everyone in Manchester City was holding a grudge, so they were naturally instigated and infected.
"Remember, everyone. This is our first match of 2011. It is also our revenge match against Arsenal. We can only win, not lose!"
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Manchester City have failed to score in their past three visits to the Emirates Stadium, and the last time they beat Arsenal away from home was 35 years ago, when there was still the Premier League.
If Manchester City is a poor country pig, then Arsenal is the cabbage in the high-class city.
The latter has always been disdainful of the former. The two even seem to not exist in the same world and have no intersection with each other. In Arsenal's eyes, there has never been Manchester City.
However, the investment from the Abu Dhabi consortium and the joining of many stars have enabled Manchester City to improve its strength in a very short period of time. Especially this season, the joining of Su Dong has further improved Manchester City's tactical map, allowing this country pig to finally walk in front of Arsenal, the cabbage in the city.
Last time at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester City wanted to take this cabbage, but unfortunately, due to various reasons, they failed. This made everyone in Manchester City extremely annoyed and angry.
This time, Manchester City simply came directly to Arsenal's home. Everyone was determined that tonight, they must take the cabbage in this city and fulfill their long-cherished wish!
(End of this chapter)
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