Chapter 4 Warm-Up Match

"Are you too enthusiastic about training?"

Patrice stood on the sidelines and said with some confusion.

The vacation has just ended, and in most cases, the players have not yet switched from vacation mode to game mode, which requires a step-by-step process.

It is necessary to use games and various means to stimulate players.

But the current Arsenal players are working extremely hard.

Whether he is a substitute or a main player, every training attitude is extremely hard.

Suarez had just completed ten sets of shooting training, and the substitute ran over and practiced 15 sets.

Suarez suddenly turned back and practiced five more sets.

Both sides seem to be angry?

It shouldn’t be a competition!

Wenger also noticed this situation and turned to Vermaelen and asked: "What happened in the locker room?"

Vermaelen grinned bitterly and said: "Kai ignited the enthusiasm of the substitutes, and even the main players began to feel pressure!"

Wenger was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.

"Not bad! Isn't it?"

After Wenger finished speaking, he looked in Lucky's direction.

Lucky has just recovered from his injury and is still in recovery training.

But you can already gradually increase the amount of training.

Pretty much the first game there was no problem.

After the first day of training, Wenger summoned the players.

"The pre-season warm-up matches will start tomorrow. Everyone should stay in shape and everyone will get a certain amount of playing time."

After a pause, Wenger continued; "Your performance will determine whether you can get a chance to play in the new season, or even start!"

Hearing this, the players were shocked.

The hearts of the substitutes became hot.

The main force was secretly clenching their fists one by one.

Seeing this scene, Wenger smiled.

Lucky set a fire, and he didn't mind fanning the air, which was helpful for the players to accelerate into the game state.

On the way home, Chamberlain sat in the passenger seat and complained to Lucai:

"Hey! You shouldn't have said those things, it's stressing us out!"

Lucky didn't turn his head and scolded with a smile; "You have a lot of pressure, and you are also a substitute!"

Chamberlain was stunned for a moment, then became angry and said, "I will kill you!"

Lucky: "Your target shouldn't be me, your corresponding position is Cazorla!"

Hearing this, Chamberlain suddenly became quiet.

Cazorla?

That guy has so many extraordinary skills that he can be called a pervert.

It can be said that if Cazorla had not been injured, he would not have had any chance at all.

After Lucky parked the car in front of his home, the two got out of the car.

Chamberlain lives very close to here, about 800 meters away, so he comes here every day to take a ride.

Lucky doesn't mind this either.

After saying goodbye to Chamberlain, Lucky walked into the house.

Turning on the lights, the room was extremely quiet. After simply eating some low-calorie food such as chicken breast, Lucai started training again.

Since his last injury, Lucky began to consciously exercise his flexibility.

In particular, the ligaments in the legs need to be exercised to prevent them from being strained or torn again.

Lucky doesn't want to be a victim of injuries.

There is a room of about 20 square meters on the first floor, which has been transformed into a small sports piece.

There are treadmills, elliptical machines and some dumbbells of different weights.

Lucky first jogged on the treadmill for a while. After his body warmed up slightly, he began to stretch his whole body, especially his legs, which was extremely thorough.

Then get on the elliptical machine and use dumbbells to train small muscle groups.

Finally, I laid out another layer of yoga mats and started flexibility training.

It was already eight o'clock in the evening after the entire training session. Lucky then went to take a shower, rest for a while, check his phone, read the news, and fell asleep on time at 10 o'clock in the evening.

The next day, after Lucky packed his luggage, he drove to the training base.

A total of three warm-up match opponents were Parma, Lazio and Bournemouth.

Two Serie A teams and one English Championship team.

The main reason why Wenger sought out Serie A teams for training was to test Arsenal's ability to deal with defensive counterattack tactics.

Obviously, this is Chelsea who are wary of Mourinho.

It's no wonder Wenger is like this. In fact, compared to Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United, Arsenal's winning rate when facing Chelsea, especially Mourinho's Chelsea, is really not high.

Therefore, he urgently needs to adapt the team to this defensive counterattack tactic.

Especially Mourinho's defensive counterattack!

That's really a master who seizes the opportunity and never lets up!

Arsenal's players gathered at the training base and immediately took the bus to the airport to fly to Italy.

On July 31, Arsenal ushered in its first warm-up match.

This is a game against Lazio.

Serie A teams generally like to organize deep, and this organizational method must also allow Arsenal's players to go deeper, and the overall formation must be stretched.

At this time, the positional sense of the midfielder and defensive line players will be tested.

Fortunately, Lucky, Koscielny and Mertesacker work together very well.

With Lucky sweeping the front line, the two defenders felt more comfortable.

But even so, Lazio can always cause some trouble for Arsenal.

Their center is Klose!

The 35-year-old German forward still has strong front-line ability in the last years of his career.

As the player who is most likely to break Ronaldo's World Cup goal record, Klose's sense of smell in front of the goal is extremely sharp.

Lukay almost used all his skills to stare at Klose's kick, which suppressed the opponent, but he also almost gave up his offensive ability.

In the first half, Arsenal finally scored the first goal under steady defense.

Suarez cooperated with Cazorla to complete the wall cooperation in the penalty area, and finally Cazorla scored the goal.

After this goal, Arsenal quickly made substitutions.

Wenger replaced many main players in succession and began to try the possibility of substitutes.

The performance of the main players satisfied him.

Especially Lukay, who returned from injury, has always been a thorn in Wenger's heart. Now that Lukay has returned, he still continues his good state, which also makes Wenger breathe a sigh of relief.

Lukay is quite satisfied with his performance in the first half.

In fact, there is no problem of instability for him.

Most of the predictions of other people rely on calculations and experience, but Lucky relies on the default foresight talent, which also makes him almost instable.

If you have to say the problem, it is that during the long-term recovery process, the physical strength has declined a little.

But this thing can be trained back. Of course, Lucky has learned a lesson this time and will pay more attention to flexibility training to prevent ligament injuries again.

Flamini, who came on as a substitute, also played well. As mentioned above, he and Arsenal seem to have no so-called running-in period and integrated very quickly.

But the problem is that he can't completely freeze Klose's performance like Lucky.

After competing with Klose again and again, Flamini realized how powerful Lucky was.

How did that guy suppress Klose without any sound?

Flamini also tried to limit Klose, but to be honest, he couldn't defend it.

Even with the help of two defenders, he still had some difficulty.

The only thing to be thankful for is that he played well on the offensive end.

However, this is relative.

He had paid attention to Lucky, so he also understood Lucky's ability on the offensive end.

In this warm-up match, Lucky was not unable to attack, but he sacrificed his offensive ability for the team.

And he was forced to show more offensive ability, because only in this way could he tie Lucky's performance.

This result also made him extremely frustrated.

If Lucky's defensive performance is 2.

He is 1 (offense) + 1 (defense) = 2.

Lucky did not show his offensive ability, and his defensive ability is not necessarily equal to 2!

At this moment, he suddenly realized how difficult it was to take the No. 4 jersey off Lucky.

At the end of the first warm-up match, Arsenal 4:4 Lazio, the two sides ended in a tie.

The next day, they rushed to Parma, a city in northern Italy, where they played the second round of warm-up matches.

In this warm-up match, Lucky played the whole game and his performance was blinding everyone's eyes.

10 steals, 9 interceptions, 5 destructions, one assist and two key passes!

Arsenal also won the second round of warm-up matches with a score of 5:3 under the crazy performance of Luka, Suarez and Cazorla.

After finishing the two rounds of warm-up matches, Arsenal returned home.

Although there is one last warm-up match left, that match is no longer important.

Arsenal used two games to test that the players are in good shape!

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