Chapter 37: Regional Confrontation in the Champions League

Oscar's problem was quickly covered up by another piece of news.

In the just-concluded Champions League group match, Tottenham Hotspur played against Monaco at home. Tottenham Hotspur lost 1:2 to Monaco at home.

Monaco teenager Mbappe dribbled the ball at an almost crazy speed, scored a goal and created a penalty.

Defeated Tottenham Hotspur away from home.

This is something no one has ever thought of.

Many people felt before the game that Pochettino's Tottenham Hotspur had certain advantages, and no matter from which angle, Monaco's overall strength was not enough to fight Tottenham Hotspur.

But in fact, Monaco severely taught Tottenham Hotspur away from home.

This also became a small upset in this round of group matches.

In addition, Liverpool also lost the game away from home to Paris Saint-Germain.

Leicester City was tied 2:2 by Bruges away from home.

Except for Manchester City's 3:0 victory over Monchengladbach, the rest of the Premier League players all performed poorly in the group stage.

In contrast, the La Liga, which has always been competing with the Premier League, has achieved much better results.

First, Barcelona beat Celtic 7:0.

MSN's forward combination was in great form, showing a crazy goal show.

Real Madrid beat Sporting CP 2:1, and Atletico Madrid beat PSV Eindhoven 1:0 away.

Europa League champion Sevilla also tied the powerful Juventus 0:0.

In the first round, all La Liga teams had no defeats, which was in sharp contrast to the poor performance of the Premier League.

For this reason, many La Liga commentators joked; "The Premier League is just a commercial league. Their overall strength ranks at the bottom of the five major leagues. Look at how embarrassed they were by two French Ligue 1 teams!"

Such words made many Premier League fans and commentators unbearable.

The two sides once again reported fierce verbal abuse.

However, many people also admitted that the Premier League did not perform well in the first round.

For this reason, the Premier League gave up the most regrettable star who missed the Champions League, and Lucky was elected first with no suspense.

Lucky's performance in the Champions League and the league is obvious to all.

This strength is not only in the Premier League, but also in any other league. Lucky has strong midfield ability.

Even in the Champions League last season, in the crucial match between Arsenal and Barcelona, ​​Lucky successfully limited Messi's performance alone.

This is already an extremely remarkable achievement.

Who in the entire football world can perform like Lucky?

That's Messi!

But Lucky did it, and won the first round.

However, Arsenal suffered a Waterloo in the final stage of the league and lost the Champions League spot.

Tottenham took advantage of the situation and overtook Arsenal and took away Arsenal's Champions League spot.

This also made Tottenham boast for a while, saying that only White Hart Lane in London can watch the Champions League!

Arsenal fans were furious about this, but they could only say angrily, we have the Champions League title, what do you have?

This topic became the core of the quarrel between the two fans last season.

Now this topic has been brought up again, and the trouble has become Arsenal fans.

They were mocking Tottenham's poor performance in the Champions League.

It is common for fans to quarrel with each other, but as long as it does not form a scale, the club will not interfere.

In the Colney training base, Arsenal is still conducting daily training.

Unlike in the past, at the goal of the stadium, Lukaku and others gathered together and passed the ball to Lukaku.

Lukaku's running position is really erratic, so Arteta and Lukaku took this guy into the tactical room for further study. After a morning of teaching, Lukaku's running position finally became a little normal.

So, this guy didn't understand Arsenal's tactical system at all before.

He was just waiting for the ball in the penalty area, and his actions of running out of the penalty area were all out of habit, without any tactical bonus.

This also perfectly explains why this guy is always out of tune with the team.

Tactical sensitivity is too low, in layman's terms, it is too stupid!

"When retreating, move to the left and right sides. You have to form a habit of passing the ball at the first time, accurately finding your teammates, and then turning around and running immediately after passing the ball! Got it?"

Lekai stepped on the ball and said to Lukaku.

Lukaku was panting, wiped the sweat off his face, and nodded: "Got it!"

Lekai nodded and shouted; "Hummels, hold him!"

Hearing this, Hummels stepped forward to physically confront Lukaku.

Lukaku felt the pressure coming from behind, and his whole body tilted slightly, keeping his feet as far away from Hummels as possible to prevent the opponent from pressing.

At the same time, the moment Lekai passed the ball, Lukaku used the inner thigh to force and directly hit it horizontally with the outside of his foot.

This ball was passed with full force and at a good angle.

Mane quickly rushed forward and caught the ball.

"Beautiful! That's how to play it!"

Lekai clapped his hands and shouted immediately.

Lukaku also smiled, and a day of training finally yielded some results.

"Take a break."

Lekai signaled everyone to take a break, and they sat down together on the sidelines.

Lukaku unscrewed the water cup, poured it directly on his head, shook his head, and then exhaled.

"Aren't we here to pass the ball to me?"

Lukaku asked.

Lekai nodded: "Now, before we pass the ball to you, we need to let you understand the offensive routines and some running methods, otherwise how can we pass the ball to you?"

Lukaku nodded slightly.

In fact, Lukaku himself is also very clear about the fact that he has low tactical sensitivity. In the previous team, he has tried many times to understand it, but he always failed to get enough results.

And there will be no teammates like Lekai who will take the initiative to help him train.

In Arsenal, he feels different from other teams.

Here, everyone plays football very relaxed, and the atmosphere in the team is also very warm.

Robertson also smiled and joked with everyone.

When he first joined Arsenal, Robertson was full of uneasiness.

He didn't know what the top teams were like, but from the media reports, there was no lack of ugly faces of some top teams.

And factional disputes, bullying and other phenomena in the team are endless. Although the club will suppress them quickly, such problems are not uncommon.

Robertson was very nervous at first. He was not good at talking to people, so he didn't know how to integrate into the team.

But after coming here, he felt that he did nothing and said nothing.

But he just naturally integrated into it.

He didn't know how to improve the relationship with his teammates. He became familiar with each other inexplicably, and soon began to joke with each other.

Robertson looked up and saw Luka looked at the time and clapped his hands; "Okay. The break is over, continue training!"

"It's only five minutes!"

Wilshere screamed.

Luka was annoyed: "Five minutes are enough, how long do you want to rest, there is no time to train every minute, our task today is to let Romelu understand how to run?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, always feeling that this sentence was weird.

Lukaku on the side was silent for a moment, and suddenly raised his hand and said: "Captain, I'm just a little stupid."

"You know it too! Why didn't you take the initiative to explain it at the beginning?"

Lukaku was wronged: "Who would take the initiative to say that he is a fool?"

Luka was stunned.

The other teammates blinked and then burst into laughter. They laughed so hard that they fell backwards.

Lekai was also in tears and laughed; "Okay, let's go to the training field. Do you still want to score?"

"Yes!" Lukaku said with a firm look; "I will be Arsenal's top scorer!"

In fact, Lukaku's recent pressure has become very high again.

The reason is that Arsenal's previous center forward Suarez broke out in Barcelona.

He scored hat tricks in both the Champions League and the league, and his state was terrifying and surprising.

In contrast, Lukaku didn't even score a fraction of the opponent's goals, which made him very nervous.

They want to score!

They want to prove themselves!

He wants to tell Arsenal fans that the current one is better than the previous one!

"Practice retreat and transfer for another hour, and then have a training match!"

Lekai yelled.

Everyone responded loudly:

"Got it!!"

Bang! !

Dong! ! !

"Hurry up!!"

"Speed ​​up!!"

In the stadium, the intense training continued, and all Arsenal players were sweating and training hard.

They firmly believed that sweat and training would not betray themselves.

For the championship, for honor, they will become stronger!