532. Morning at Kearney Training Base
Wenger's life this season is very difficult. Affected by the World Cup, Arsenal's preparations are not ideal. Then their start was a bit bad. They lost too many points in the weak team. As a result, they can only rank sixth in the standings. Chelsea can be described as far away as Chelsea, and Manchester United, which is fourth, is also four-point gap. The top rival of North London Tottenham Hotspur. In addition to Liverpool, they are the worst in the Premier League.
The Kearney training base in north London is Arsenal's base camp, one of the top football training bases in England.
As usual, Professor Wenger came to the training base early and started his day's work.
Compared to the bad things on the field, Mr. Wenger felt that things in life were not that bad. This month he ended his relationship with his wife, but this was really nothing in Wenger's opinion. He is a football dog, and women, especially his wife, need to be matched. Because of this, even if he has a daughter, he is unwilling to marry his wife. Until one day he gets married. Now a few years have passed, and the marriage and lover are over.
For Wenger, maybe a woman can be a lover, and football is his best companion.
Family affairs did not affect Wenger's condition. He came to his office early every day as usual and made a cup of coffee for himself. Wenger began to watch recent game videos of Manchester City.
Wensheng has too many blood debts in his hands and needs Wenger to pay them back. The outside world has given Arsenal acclaim all day long, saying that there are such things as the four crazy demons. Wenger just laughed it off. He is not the four crazy demons. He shouted from his heart, "I went for the championship!", but this time he really has to face this problem. This season is the same as last season, and he must not regard the four-month goal as his goal in the second half of the season.
Now it is a critical moment, and Manchester City can just use it to sacrifice the flag!
After watching the video for a while, the professor had already recorded a lot of insights in his notebook. At this time, the members of his coaching team arrived one after another.
"Good morning!" Steve Balder walked into Wenger's office with his coffee.
He became Wenger's assistant coach in 2012. He had worked in Arsenal's youth training system for 11 years and was a veritable old man in Arsenal.
"Good morning! Steve!" Wenger did not raise his head and continued to write and draw on the draft paper. Baldor was not surprised and dragged a chair over to sit next to the professor and watched the video together.
"They are even more difficult to figure out when it comes to offense this season! According to data, Manchester City is the one who averages the most popular players this season. Daniel gives him a lot of freedom for the frontcourt players!" Baldor said while looking, "This is very difficult for us to defend, and there are many restrictions. Their players are also very creative and have a high level of tacit understanding!"
Wenger nodded, "I attended the elite forum in September last year. At that time, he mentioned this concept on the forum. Defense depends on organization and discipline, while offense depends on the players' own performance!"
"Free play?!" Balder didn't believe it.
"Of course it's not absolute freedom. The team has always been the cornerstone!" Wenger smiled.
"He is picking up people's wisdom, and he won't copy you yet. Maybe he got inspiration from you!"
Wenger shook his head, and Baldor's words were just touting himself. His ideas from Wensheng were still very different. He just said that Wensheng also had team constraints on the frontcourt, while Wenger was more restrained than Wensheng. Arsenal's offense was actually very serious. You can see at a glance that these were carefully designed by Wenger.
"Anyway, their offensive firepower seems to have declined compared to last season, but their methods are more difficult to defend!" Wenger said.
Release his frowning brows, and a smile appeared on Wenger's face, "Steve, if you are the head coach, what choice do you make for this game?! Should we stick to our own style, focus on me or be more targeted?!"
"You've got some conspiracy in your heart, right?" Balder also smiled.
"But I want to hear from you!"
As they were talking, Boro Primorak, Neil Banfield, Payton and others in the team all arrived at Wenger's office. It was necessary to have a meeting before training, and the coaching team would not be absent.
Everyone expressed their opinions one by one. Wenger kept nodding after hearing this, neither denying nor affirming!
After everyone expressed their opinions, Wenger said: "Although we are away, we need points now! Now I have to say that it is obviously impossible for us to compete for the championship. Now our goal is to qualify for the Champions League! Now every point is very critical for us, so at Etihad Stadium, even if we can't score three points, it is still necessary to get one point!"
Wenger said this and everyone understands what he wants to do, and there is no doubt that he will do more targeted settings to deal with Manchester City.
"We can play defensive counterattacks! This season, Manchester City no longer blindly pursues control of the ball, and plays more concisely. It is difficult for ordinary teams to deal with their continuous impacts!"
Wenger finally revealed his thoughts. In order to ensure stability on the defensive line, he decided to adopt a defensive counterattack routine in this game instead of pursuing control rate. He simply let Manchester City do the ball control well.
Based on their understanding of Manchester City, the coaches kept making revisions, and a plan to respond to the enemy was quickly formulated.
When he was about to go out, Balder asked Wenger again, "Can the goalkeeper position get Sczesny back?"
"No, he must be punished! This game continues to be put on Ospina!" Wenger said firmly.
Polish national goalkeeper Szczesni joined Arsenal youth training at the age of 16. He is a talented goalkeeper trained by Arsenal. As early as 2009, he was promoted to the first team. After years of loan and struggling in the team, Szczesni firmly became Arsenal's main goalkeeper. He also got the Golden Gloves last season. Szczesni's performance this season is also very good.
What made Scheznie disgusted Wenger?!
The answer is smoking, and the more accurate answer is: Smoke in the locker room!
In the first game of the New Year, Arsenal challenged Southampton away. Arsenal lost 0:2 to his opponent in that game, which made Arsenal very uncomfortable. Szczesny, who lost two goals, hid in the bathing place and smoked. In the end, the incident was high, which made Wenger furious. He was fined and suspended for Szczesny.
Chapter completed!