Not to mention that the two actually had conflicts in their responsibilities during the offense that had passed half.

This is an important reason why Arsenal was defeated by his opponent's counterattack in the first half. Without a reasonable level of defense, it is too easy for the opponent to fight back. As long as you grasp the opportunity to pass the ball well, you can easily break through the defense line. It has little to do with the personal abilities of the defensive players and is a strategic failure!

Wenger had a headache about this.

If Vieira does not participate in the offense and plays Silva or Palol, Vieira will definitely not be happy. He has the ability to organize and assist in the midfield, why not?

But it is absolutely impossible to let Fabregas play a defensive midfielder of the engineers. Even if Fabregas is willing, Wenger is still afraid that he will not be able to sleep.

In any case, with a view to the changes in this game, Wenger gave Vieira orders during the break, allowing him to stay in the back line to ensure that there is no problem with the defense!

Vieira put the overall situation first and naturally agreed without any objection. As long as Silva returns from injury, he will naturally return to his former role.

Arsenal's performance in defense immediately improved in the second half. Southampton, who came to Highbury, had no good chance of playing against defense. As time passed, their offensive enthusiasm became lower and lower.

Arsenal began to put pressure on its opponents frequently through long-range radios.

If Pire is at its peak, Arsenal can break through the opponent's iron barrel formation through more delicate ground passes and cuts, but Pire can only make the contribution of stable passes and receiving support, Arsenal can only rely on personal breakthroughs, long shots, and set pieces.

When Arsenal fans began to worry again, Arsenal equalized the score with Henry from a long shot outside the penalty area in the 69th minute of the game, which was a world-class wave.

Four minutes later, Henry was knocked down by his opponent on the left side outside the penalty area and won a free kick. Qin Xiong took the free kick and scored!

Arsenal scored two goals in 5 minutes to reverse the score!

The score did not change any more. In fact, before Qin Xiong scored, Southampton's substitution adjustment was to strengthen defense, but when Arsenal knocked on the gate with a free kick, Southampton had no choice but to swallow his anger and accept the fate of reversal but encountered the fate of reversal.

After the game, Wenger was only excited for a short time and fell into long-term thinking.

Qin Xiong integrated into Arsenal and began to become the key player in Arsenal's offense.

He will contribute assists and score key goals when the team needs someone to stand up.

And what about his teammates?

Fabregas is also progressing, and the mature Spanish genius made Wenger unable to ignore his existence and look forward to his future.

The biggest question hidden in Wenger's mind is: How can Fabregas and Vieira coexist?

When Qin Xiong replaced Borgkamp, ​​his status was unshakable.

Whether it is Vieira or Fabregas, it cannot be said that they cannot play the front midfielder, but they obviously cannot perform better than Qin Xiong in the front midfielder position. No one in the Arsenal team can compete with Qin Xiong.

Therefore, Vieira and Fabregas can only appear in the central and forward positions or back midfielders, but they seem to have mutually exclusive or counteract each other in the same area. Not to mention positive mutual promotion, it may be difficult to achieve even the most basic balanced coexistence.

Wenger will not draw a rash conclusion. He is willing to observe for a while, especially considering that Vieira will enter the 30-year-old age mark in two years. Will he be willing to change his style of play and concentrate on defending at the critical point of his career? If he is willing, then he and Fabregas will have a theoretical basis for coexistence.

Wenger praised Qin Xiong after the game, and said: "He integrated into Arsenal faster than I expected. Henry scored twice? I am not surprised by Henry's performance. If there is a striker who scored at least 30 goals in a season but is the most normal thing, then this striker is Henry. Will anyone be surprised if he scored a goal? So I think we should talk about Qin Xiong. He has adapted well to the Premier League and started to become famous here. His field data in the past two months are extremely dazzling. If you have seen Qin Xiong's training attitude and understand his professional qualities, then maybe we should not be surprised, but for young players, I think it is still necessary to give them more encouragement and trust. I believe Qin Xiong will be better."

News in the UK is fast, because it is the center of European news, and the news of the match against Manchester United a week ago has become unpopular a week later.

Football critics or writers from many media outlets on Fleet Street unanimously agree with Wenger's remarks.

"Qin Xiong has become the key gentleman of Arsenal!"
Chapter completed!