Chapter 490： Defense is the thigh?

Chapter 490 Defense is the thigh?

"How about the arrangement of the opponents in the scrims?"

Patrice asked.

In order to prepare for the battle, Patrice found a total of four warm-up opponents.

are Rome in Serie A, Barcelona in Spain, Wolves in the British Championship and Porto in the Portuguese Super League.

"It wasn't particularly smooth. Barcelona explicitly rejected our invitation to the warm-up match. Porto and Wolves said they had finished their schedule and had no spare time."

What about cheating ghosts?

Patrice looked angry.

Barcelona is fine, Porto and Wolves are definitely doing this on purpose, and most likely they don’t want to play a warm-up match with Arsenal without Wenger.

Patrice's face was uncertain.

"Who are the opponents who invited us to the warm-up match?"

Martin Hughes said helplessly; "There are a lot of teams invited to us, but they are mainly concentrated in the secondary league."

Patrice's face became even more ugly.

This is isolating the arsenal!

As the Champions League champion last season, Arsenal has become the research target of many teams in the new season.

After Wenger fell ill and Patrice took over the team, no team wanted to play a warm-up match with this European rival.

They want to study Arsenal, and without exposing themselves.

But the Wolves refused the warm-up match, it was just disgusting!

After a moment of silence, Patrice sighed: "Find three teams to fill the vacancies. Tomorrow we will go to Italy first, and the remaining three warm-up matches will be held in London."

Anyway, it is the party who is invited, and it is up to you to decide where to kick.

In fact, after Arsenal won the championship, there have been some doubts about Arsenal's championship.

The problem is with the intensity of Arsenal's game.

Arsenal have only faced Bayern Munich, a traditionally strong team in the entire Champions League.

Paris Saint-Germain is also a rising rookie in recent times.

Juventus, despite its revival, is still not in the top European ranks.

Therefore, many people think that Arsenal ate a lottery bonus, and they did not win the Champions League from Real Madrid, Barcelona and other teams.

The strong teams were killed by other teams, while Arsenal took advantage of the opponent's weakness to take advantage of the opportunity to defeat the opponent.

Simply put, they are questioning the gold content of Arsenal's Champions League.

In this regard, Arsenal did not make any refutation.

A champion is a champion, how can there be a stolen champion?

They went to the Champions League final with dignity and beat their opponents, so how could they not be champions.

But outside fans don't recognize these.

Anyway, there is no gold content.

Arsenal can't do anything about it either.

It can be said that the current Arsenal has become the target of public criticism.

Under the aura of the Champions League, everyone's research goal at the beginning of the season is Arsenal.

While detracting from Arsenal, he is studying them.

And the current Arsenal has just undergone a big change. Under the influence of many main players leaving, it is also a question worthy of consideration.

The next day, the Arsenal team, led by Patrice, went to Rome, Italy to prepare for a warm-up match.

Here, Lucky saw many familiar faces.

The first is Gervinho, the former Arsenal player.

This Arsenal player who was at the same time as Luckey was finally abandoned by Wenger and moved to Rome. Now the situation in Rome is not particularly good.

It's just that Gervinho seems to be avoiding them on purpose and doesn't want to communicate too much with them.

Obviously, for Gervinho, the memory at Arsenal is not particularly good.

On the contrary, Szczesny was very enthusiastic.

He even invited Luckey and other Arsenal players to have a party at their house after the warm-up match.

But Patrice directly rejected it.

In this regard, Szczesny can do nothing.

In addition, Dzeko also moved from Manchester City to Roma.

Apparently there was no place for Dzeko in Guardiola's squad, so he sought a transfer.

Dzeko looked at his former opponent, Arsenal, the current Champions League champion team, and felt very uncomfortable.

They are already Champions League champions!

But he started to go downhill.

Although Serie A is also one of the five major leagues, compared to the Premier League, neither salary nor game intensity can be compared.

The two sides quickly entered the warm-up match.

Arsenal still used the tactical style of last season!

Arsenal (4-3-3):

Goalkeeper: Cech!

Defenders: Chambers, Mustafi, Koscielny, Gibbs.

Midfielder: Kanter, Wilshere. Lucky.

Forwards: Aubameyang, Suarez, Sanchez.

Rome (4-3-3):

Goalkeeper: Szczesny

Defenders: Florenzi, Manolas, Rudiger, Digne.

Midfielders: Pjanic, De Rossi, Falke.

Forwards: Dzeko, Perotti, Shalawi.

Lucky stood in the arena and kept jumping gently.

For a whole season, Lucky has achieved the goal of weight loss, the whole body has become lighter, and the frequency of feet has also been effectively trained.

How    is progressing, in fact, Lucky doesn't know, he needs to be certified in the competition.

But the light body makes Lucky feel great.

And Patrice also instructed that Luckey's position should be to the left front, and he needs to connect with Sanchez and Suarez.

Obviously, compared to the newly joined Aubameyang, Patrice is more inclined to have a chemical reaction between Luckey and Sanchez.

Of course, Aubameyang also gave up.

He and Wilshere also need to form a linkage.

There needs to be a tacit understanding between the tridents in the frontcourt.

Does it look familiar at first glance?

This is how Arsenal played last season!

It’s just a change of staff.

Patrice is copying homework.

But Di Maria and Cazorla were in key positions, walking and getting injured, which also made Patrice full of anxiety. He didn't know whether he could play the effect.

In this case, the warm-up match begins,

Arsenal took the lead.

After Suarez returned the ball, he ran forward.

Lucky received the ball, continued to pass back, and made a protective response.

After confirming that there was no one around, Luckey asked for the ball.

The ball came to Lucky's feet again.

Lucky slams the ball forward.

But he is pulling the ball sideways, the whole person is along the left side, facing the right side, in the case of sideways, the right foot pulls the ball down.

In the past, Le Kai would not pull the ball like this, but after the holiday training, the increased frequency of his feet allowed him to choose more ways to play the ball.

Like now, Lucky’s stance can better observe the front, and at the same time, when facing the defense, he suddenly accelerates laterally and has more options.

Lekai frowned when he saw the Roma players retreat after pulling the ball sideways for a distance.

Last season, many teams would choose to press forward, but this time they are looking for a retreat.

Apparently this was researched.

They are afraid of Lucky's passing ability.

looked around and found that there was no good passing position, Lucky could only pass the ball to Wilshere, and then retreated a little depressed.

Wilshere is very motivated and extremely active in his running.

He and Suarez have completed many passes and cooperations.

But Aubameyang's side is obviously not very suitable for Arsenal's passing and cutting system, so every time the ball comes to Aubameyang's feet, there is a feeling of dragging the rhythm.

Aubameyang doesn't dribble, he also passes.

But the rate of passing and thinking is too slow, which also causes the overall rhythm to drop.

Le Kai sighed at this, this is something there is no way, only Aubameyang gradually adapts.

The game continued a little bit, and the two sides' offense also began to let go.

There have been many attacks and shots on both sides.

but failed to score.

The defense on both sides is excellent.

Roma head coach Spalletti nodded with relief, they were here to test their defensive ability.

Being able to complete the defense under Arsenal's attack is already excellent.

On the other hand, Patrice frowned.

Arsenal's offense has gone wrong!

When it comes to Arsenal, they are definitely an attacking team.

The same is true of Arsenal last season. When it comes to attacking power, they are definitely the top of the Champions League.

But in this warm-up match, Arsenal's attack power was greatly reduced.

There is the impact of personnel changes!

There is the effect of new players not adapting!

also has the effect of insufficient overall running-in!

Anyway, at present, Arsenal's best performance turned out to be the back line?

Heck!

Arsenal's defense turned into a thigh!

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