Chapter 8 How Bad!

There is still a gap between the FA Cup champion and the Premier League champion, but this kind of game is generally not taken seriously, and it is almost played as a warm-up match.

But the intensity of this game has exceeded the so-called warm-up match, and both sides are trying their best to win the championship.

Of course, Arsenal is more suppressing.

In fact, for many people, they are surprised by Arsenal's persistence in the Community Shield.

They think that Arsenal's goal this season should be to win the league again or even the Champions League.

After all, they were just one step away from the Champions League last season.

Their strength and performance have the opportunity to impact this honor and bring Arsenal the second Champions League trophy in history.

In five years, two Champions Leagues!

This may be the beginning of pushing Arsenal to establish a dynasty.

After all, in football, there are really few teams with such competition control.

Most teams become unstable after winning the Champions League. Although Arsenal has also experienced this problem, they quickly completed the transformation.

So, there is no need for a Community Shield.

But they underestimated Mourinho's ambition.

All the championships he mentioned include the Community Shield.

For Mourinho and even Arsenal, the Community Shield does not mean anything, but it is a recognized goal and beginning of their ambitions this season.

Win the Community Shield, and then impact the league and other competitions.

They will use this to make more adjustments in atmosphere and morale.

So Arsenal played very hard.

As for Chelsea, it was purely the new coach Sarri who wanted to bring a championship to the team. Although it was not valuable, the meaning was good.

But what he didn't expect was that Arsenal would fight them to death, and the suppression was so strong.

Now Sarri regrets that he boasted to Chelsea owner Abramovich that he would win the Community Shield.

From this form, Arsenal really wants this championship and will not give it to them.

But even so, Sarri has no way out.

Now Chelsea only needs to stabilize the rhythm, let Arsenal continue to lose good opportunities, and then take the opportunity to make a final decision.

Yes!

Sarri believes that Arsenal has many offensive opportunities, but they are poor at seizing them.

How many shots has Arsenal made?

Did they score?

"Did we waste too many opportunities?"

Arteta asked worriedly.

Generally speaking, there are serious consequences for a team to waste opportunities.

Even wasting an opportunity will make the head coach and even teammates furious.

But in this game, Arsenal's forwards wasted too many opportunities.

But strangely, neither Mourinho nor the players on the field showed any anger, but encouraged each other.

Mourinho sat on the bench calmly, with no intention of moving his butt at all.

Listening to Arteta's words, Mourinho said: "It will be normal soon, and now they are looking for the feeling."

"Looking for the feeling?" Arteta asked in confusion; "What feeling?"

Mourinho smiled; "The overall feeling!"

Arteta couldn't understand, but Mourinho was sometimes so weird, so he didn't ask too much, but turned his head to look at the court.

At this time, the ball was at Arsenal's feet.

In this game, Arsenal's possession rate was not high, but the number of shots was twice that of Chelsea.

It can be said that Chelsea was in control of the ball, while Arsenal was shooting.

But what's the use of just shooting without scoring?

After the ball was passed to Kante, Kante held the ball and observed for a moment, and then passed it to Lekai.

Lekai had no intention of sticking to the ball at all, and he passed it directly to the side with one foot.

This move surprised everyone.

After all, Lekai still guaranteed the ball at his feet before, and even when there was a confrontation, he would stop and observe for a while.

But now there is no confrontation, but the pass is very fast.

After the ball was passed from Lekai's feet, the rhythm was slightly improved.

The attack was fruitless, and the ball was passed back.

Lekai touched the ball again and passed it to Aubameyang.

This time, the rhythm was slightly improved again.

After two superpositions, the improvement in rhythm was relatively obvious.

When the ball was passed from Lekai's feet for the third time, all Arsenal players turned into one-foot pass.

The sudden increase in rhythm brings higher intensity running and confrontation.

Chelsea is very uncomfortable with this rhythm.

In Mourinho's words, Chelsea is now a bunch of teams that are training for themselves. In a war of attrition with them, these guys are very stable and have plenty of ammunition.

But in a mobile war with them, especially with a fast rhythm and flexible running, the clumsy Blues will be pulled apart.

After Arsenal suddenly increased the rhythm, their insertion became faster.

The overall formation began to press forward, and Lukay and Kante stood directly in the rib area to protect and support.

When the ball was passed, Lukay would occasionally look up at Chelsea's goal to scare the opponent's goalkeeper.

Kepa was obviously afraid of Lukay's long-range shot, so he didn't dare to be careless at all.

It can be said that Chelsea's spirit was already tight at this time.

"Arsenal's attack began to shift to the two wingers, Mane and Aubameyang also continued to attack on the wing. There was a particularly obvious change in Arsenal's tactics this season, that is, they began to use the ribs to attack!"

"In the past, Arsenal used to attack in three directions, but now with the addition of two rib areas, it has become a five-way attack, and there is a response between the front and the back, and the overall positioning is very reasonable."

"Often when Mane and Aubameyang cut inside, the two full-backs will occupy the original wing positions and continue to open up enough width for Arsenal's attack!"

At this time, Chelsea's goalkeeper Keita shook his body, and he obviously had a side step posture, but suddenly he pulled back his strength, causing his body to tilt, and he stretched out his hand to support the ground and bounced up.

The whole person seemed to be twitching, and the action looked extremely embarrassed.

And all this was caused by a long shot from Lekai outside the penalty area line.

"Kepa~~" Andy Gray couldn't help laughing; "How afraid he is of Kai's long shot!"

Richard: "But Kepa's choice is correct. He can't guarantee whether Kai will really shoot from a long distance. For any goalkeeper, they need to pay attention to Kai's long-range shooting ability."

Kepa's face also turned red.

At this time, there was chaos in Chelsea's penalty area again, and Giroud had to pass the ball to the side and reorganize.

When the ball came to Lekai's feet again, Lekai faced the ball and made a long shot again.

This action made Noriyo, who rushed towards Lekai, jump up and turn around, blocking with his body.

Goalkeeper Kepa did not fall, but his body trembled obviously.

"It's so bad!"

Andy Gray couldn't help laughing and shook his head with emotion.

Under Lekai's frequent threats, Chelsea players became more and more frustrated.

"Push them out!"

"We can't let them continue to oppress!"

"Go up and kill them!"

One by one, Chelsea players approached forward angrily.

Facing the aggressive Chelsea players, Arsenal still kept the passing rhythm and retreated temporarily.

Lukay retreated all the way to the top of the center circle. When the ball came to his feet again, he picked it up and avoided Moses who came sideways. At the moment the ball landed, he passed it to Kante.

"I just couldn't get it!"

The commentator Richard was angry.

He didn't say how good Arsenal's passing and control were, but Chelsea's pressing seemed fierce, but too reckless.

Arsenal's main attack is defensive counterattack, but it doesn't mean that their players are all rough old men.

On the contrary, there are many players who represent technology among Arsenal players.

Wilshere, Aubameyang, Mane, Giroud, Lukay, Hummels, etc. Which one of them can't hold the ball?

This reckless and uncoordinated pressing with them is exactly like a scene of Spanish bullfighting.

Chelsea is bull!

Arsenal is a bullfighter holding a red carpet to fight the bull!

Arsenal had the advantage on the field, the only regret was that they didn't score a goal.

But no one was in a hurry.

Arsenal fans believed that they could score a goal, but they just lacked an opportunity.

They believed that when this opportunity came, Chelsea would be blown away by Arsenal!