In November, Arsenal had to play six games, but they only achieved 4 wins and 2 draws this month. Laudrup and Magath suffered injuries one after another along the way.

Wu Jie doesn't know whether he is lucky or bad, because since he came to play in Europe, except for the team's injury crisis in his last season at Bayern, he and his teammates have been very patient at other times.

But it is easy to find similarities. Generally speaking, teams with frequent injuries have a higher average age, although this is not absolute.

The injuries to Magath and Laudrup this time are mainly due to the World Cup qualifying matches.

Not only will Asia be in the World Cup qualifiers, Europe will also be in the second stage of the group stage.

In the Asian World Cup preliminaries, there will basically be competition for another spot outside the Chinese team. The competition is very intense, but the level of competition is very low.

When the European World Cup preliminaries reached the second stage, the bayonet was really going to be red, and every game was going to be a bloody battle.

Britain and France even have a chance of being eliminated in the group stage.

The Netherlands is on the verge of being eliminated from the group. With the Three Musketeers, the Netherlands may not be able to make it to the World Cup?

The two Arsenal injured players are both the main players of their respective national teams. Magath is the main defensive midfielder of West Germany, and Laudrup is the core midfielder of Denmark. Both of them were injured after participating in the national team games.

Afterwards, he came back to play club games without adequate rest.

Fortunately, Laudrup's injury is not serious and it will take at most two months to recover.

Magath was not so lucky. His injury was diagnosed as an "Achilles tendon rupture" and he was immediately written off for the season.

If you take his age into account, even if this injury is healed, it will be difficult to maintain his athletic ability, and he will basically retire early.

It's a pity for Wu Jie. Magath is a player who pays great attention to maintenance and is very active in training. That's why he can play until the age of 32 in this era and maintain a very high physical condition and competitive level. Coupled with the incomparable

His rich experience frustrated many English midfielders last season.

Now Arsenal has lost such a dedicated and full-time defensive midfielder who can fully clean up the team's butt. The loss is not small. In addition, Laudrup is also injured, and half of the entire midfield has collapsed immediately.

Fortunately, there was the all-powerful Gullit at this time. Wu Jie moved back again in the next game and returned to the attacking midfielder position again.

Gullit retreated to the midfielder position, and Arsenal began to play a more standard two-midfield configuration.

The offensive power of this lineup is not low. When Magath and Laudrup were there, these two people and Gullit were in an inverted triangle position, two in front and one behind.

Now that Wu Jie and Gullit are playing one behind the other, the two wingers are naturally replaced by John Barnes and Gordon Covans, and then paired with Elkjer and Lineker on the front line.

John Barnes should be the happiest person. Arsenal bought him for a lot of money, but it is difficult for him to start in important games this season. He can only play the core of the offense in the second team. This is of course not

The role he wanted, now finally has a chance to show off his talent.

In December, Arsenal only played 4 league games. Although many players had to go back to play for the national team, such a relaxed schedule still gave them enough time to develop the chemical reaction of the new lineup and adapt to the new tactical play.

This is actually not that complicated. As Graham is a coach who is not good at attacking, Arsenal's offense originally relies on the individual performance of the players.

Now Arsenal has switched to a 4-4-2 parallel position. The main purpose is to expand the lateral width of the offensive end, increase the attack from the two wings, and make full use of the width of the field to launch the attack. This can allow the two players Barnes and Covans to attack.

The personal abilities of a top winger were brought into full play.

In particular, Wu Jie played the role of Barnes as a sharp knife on the left to the extreme. Although his goals per game also dropped as a result, the number of assists increased unknowingly, and the team's record also slightly improved in November.

After slowing down, sprint forward again with full power!

Not many English League One teams have the fighting spirit to catch up with them now. Even though Arsenal suffered two draws in November, no one thought it was an opportunity to catch up. Who gave Arsenal the lead?

It's really too big.

After the first half of the game, Arsenal's league record reached a terrifying 21 wins and 2 draws. Not only did they score 44 points at the half, breaking the English League One half-time points record, but they also led by 9 points.

With second-placed Liverpool.

Such a terrifying half-way lead had already made everyone lose hope of winning the championship.

What the British media and fans are talking about now is: Arsenal will not win the championship undefeated, right?

This kind of thing seems to have never happened even in English League One in ancient times!?

Perugia in Serie A had an unbeaten record of 11 wins and 19 draws in 1978-1979, but they ranked behind AC Milan that season and could only finish second, becoming the first unbeaten season in the world.

A team that failed to win the championship.

But looking at Arsenal's record, I'm afraid they not only want to create a myth of winning the championship undefeated, but also completely break the single-season points record in English League One, and be a long way ahead of the second place, which will make others despair.

record.

If they can also achieve good results in the Champions League and domestic cups, such as winning an unprecedented five crowns in the history of English League One, coupled with the myth of unbeaten championship, such an achievement may make many British fans kneel down to Wu Jie.

Impulsive!

Wu Jie feels that it is not time to be optimistic yet. Arsenal has now reached the fifth round of the League Cup, which means they have reached the semi-finals. They only need to win two more games to win their first domestic cup championship.

But the Champions League will start in January, and the FA Cup will also start in January.

This means that starting next month, Arsenal will have to fight on four fronts in a real sense.

If you include the national team games that the core players have to play, the prospects are not optimistic at all. If something goes wrong, new injuries will occur. In history, too many clubs have failed on their way to the championship because of this.

What head coach Graham and the coaching staff mean is that they can take advantage of the winter transfer period to find ways to fill Magath's super blue-collar position through signings and enhance the personnel reserves in some positions.

Wu Jie wanted to complain that Graham didn't know how to recognize people, so why couldn't he dig deeper from the inside?

Aren't more than half of the stars in Europe in this era trained step by step from their own youth training?

Of course, Graham's defense-first style naturally distrusts young players, because young people will definitely make mistakes, and some of these mistakes may ruin the team's efforts for a season.

This cannot be said to be wrong, but Arsenal now allows young people to make some mistakes, and they have the capital to give newcomers training and trial and error.

If Arsene Wenger were to coach this Arsenal team, he would probably have already begun to tap into their second team with golden potential.

But whether it is signings or excavations, Arsenal has generally not had any major problems so far this season. Magath cannot affect Arsenal's pace of making history, even if Laudrup is added.

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The Chinese team has also had no dangers along the way. In the home game against Qatar in November, they still did not score four or five goals as they did in the past.

But a slightly suspenseful, but actually solid 2:0 result can actually make the scene more tense and exciting, and the viewing experience is much better than a blindly sluggish game.

However, this suspense immediately dissipated completely when they faced the Japanese team away from home!

The Chinese players don’t know what’s going on. They are in great shape when they play the Japanese team, and their opponents are like actors who are cooperating with them. They will even make mistakes and send the ball to the goal. For example, the kind that stops the ball ten meters away.

The camera is by no means just a joke, the Japanese players really showed it in front of the Chinese team.

The Japanese players don't know what's going on. Maybe it's because they have been ridden by the Chinese team for more than half a century and can't stand up. Especially in recent years, it has become more than just being ridden. In short, when they meet the Chinese team, they all

I have no confidence, and my state has dropped to freezing point, almost like sleepwalking.

The first goal of this game came from a passing error by the Japanese team's backcourt player, and finally the ball was passed directly to Yang Shuhua's feet.

While Yang Shuhua's physical talent has reached a four-and-a-half-star level, his ball sense has also reached a first-class level, and his shooting skills are naturally very superb.

He really didn't know how to miss this opportunity presented to him by the mole.

In the end, the Japanese team's two defenders and the goalkeeper were passed cleanly together, and it was so easy to win 1:0.

After the Chinese team scored this goal in the first five minutes, the Japanese team seemed to not know how to play football at all. Not only did they repeatedly make passing errors, stopping errors, and dribbling errors, they gave the ball to the Chinese team.

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The Japanese team, which was defeated in the second half, defended directly with their eyes. Naturally, the Chinese team kept breaking through the defense line, and often created shooting opportunities with two or three passes.

In this home game of the Japanese team, even though the Chinese team was given face at the end of the game, they still managed to achieve a 69:31 ball possession rate, and the shooting ratio reached 25:8.

The results of this performance can be imagined. At the end of the game, the scoreboard on the Tokyo Olympic Stadium showed a bloody number-7:0!

This is the result of the Chinese team clearly holding back.

Wu Jie knew that in addition to the gap in strength, it was also the effect of the "Chinese Fear" that played a role.

The Japanese team, as the number one "sinophobia patient" in the world, is much more serious than other patients.

But fear is fear, and not many Japanese fans left the stadium early, because since they dared to watch this game, they were ready to accept it all.

This is the Chinese team!

A terrifying being they have never defeated!

If it weren’t for joining FIFA earlier, if it weren’t for institutional problems, the Chinese team would probably have won the World Cup???

So there is no shame in losing to such an opponent!

Besides, they have reached a cooperation intention with the Chinese Football Association. In the future, they will not only be able to send the national team to participate in the training of the Chinese team every year, but also have 50 youth youth training places to participate in the Chinese provincial teams every year, and 5 to go to "foreign countries".

The number of places to study at "Star Football School".

Japanese fans don't know these cooperations, especially how much the quotas cost.

At this moment, they were looking at Yang Shuhua, who regarded them as human beings at the age of 17, and their minds were already filled with thoughts.

As long as Japanese football has long-term cooperation and learning with Chinese football, it can also cultivate such talented teenagers in the future. Is the football talent of their Yamato nation so much worse than that of the Chinese?

As for a monster like Wu Jie, it takes decades for the whole of Asia to produce another kind of monster. It is almost impossible for the Chinese to produce another Wu Jie!

This is what Japanese fans longed for after losing, but they didn't know that Wu Jie's first child had already been born in November.

In December, Wu Jie even scored twice.

Of course, Wu Jie really does not intend for these two mixed-race children to be promoted to five stars. This is an honor that only pure-blooded Chinese people can deserve.

Now I don’t know if Han Qing will be named in the summer. If he can accurately hit the target, the Japanese may be able to see another pure-blooded five-star monster as early as 2002.
To be continued...