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Chapter 230 Advance to the final and fight Liverpool again
In the middle of the week, Arsenal ushered in a challenge from West Ham United at home.

This is the No.20 round of the league.

In this game, Arsenal's main force was out, but the Hammers also caused a lot of trouble for Arsenal.

At the last moment of the game.

Hammers helped West Ham United's No. 9 center Carlton Cole take advantage of a corner kick to help West Ham United complete a tie.

Arsenal regrettably won a [-]-[-] draw at home.

After this draw, Arsenal are three points behind Manchester United with one game less!
This game made the media and fans in Manchester excited.

The "Manchester Evening News" teased Arsenal very much in the report: "... Now we have reached a familiar moment: Arsenal are moving away from the championship zone."

But on Arsenal's side, Wenger said in an interview: "This is the team's normal ups and downs. It is impossible for us to win 38 games in a row. This is impossible. We have one less game now. Three points behind, does that mean anything?"

To be honest, Arsenal fans are actually a little worried.

In recent years, Arsenal has repeatedly experienced ups and downs in the middle and late stages of the season.

Or the state is not good, or there are many injuries.

When the adjustments are over, the league will soon be over.

So in the last few rounds, Yu Yong mustered up and tried his best to finally win the fourth place in the league.

This has become a joke for fans all over the world.

The world's jokes are one stone, and our factory monopolizes eight buckets.

it's not just a joke
However, although Arsenal fans are worried, they are actually more concerned about another thing.

That is the League Cup!

After the team played the No.20 round of the league, they returned to the home court to usher in the second round of the League Cup.

In this game, Arsenal even sent more young people from the youth training academy to exercise.

As a result, the team defeated Reading [-]-[-] at home and advanced to the final of the League Cup with a total score of [-]-[-]!
The opponent in the final is the Brentford team from the English Championship!
Brentford defeated Aston Villa [-]-[-] in the away game. The score of the home and away rounds was [-]-[-]. They eliminated Aston Villa through a penalty shootout and entered the final!
A team in the Premier League championship group, a team in the middle of the league in the English sub-division Champions League.

This huge gap in ranking determines the huge gap in strength between the two sides!
No one will think Brentford can beat Arsenal at Wembley.

"Yellow leads Arsenal's youth players towards the League Cup championship!"

After Arsenal eliminated Reading to advance to the League Cup final.

All the media believe that Arsenal are only half a step away from the League Cup championship!
And almost all the media were surprised, even shocked, by the way Arsenal played cup games.

There is speculation about whether Arsenal will use the combination of substitutes, youth players and Ye Luo in the League Cup final to play in the League Cup.

However, the final of the League Cup will be held in mid-February, and there is still more than a month away from now, so it is difficult for anyone to predict what will happen in this month.

"Arsenal continued their previous rotation pattern in the second leg of the League Cup semi-final. They rotated almost everyone, except Ye Luo. Rotation, they still have amazing fighting power, a [-]-[-] away victory is enough to secure their qualifications for the League Cup final, and a [-]-[-] home victory makes it even more impressive. The result of another League Cup semi-final match was that Aston Villa lost to Brentford [-]-[-] at home. The big dark horses in the League Cup, but I am afraid no one will think that they can be black to the end!"

After the game, the "North London Standard" report was very optimistic.

"It's time to end Arsenal's trophyless era!"

They write very passionately at the end of the article.

Although the League Cup is tasteless, for Arsenal, which has not won a championship for many years, it can be regarded as a long drought and rain.

Arsenal are firmly in third place in England's total number of domestic titles, behind Manchester United and Liverpool.

but.

Their last champion was the FA Cup champion in the 2004-2005 season.

Their last league championship was the undefeated championship season in 2003-2004.

That season was the pinnacle of Arsenal's Premier League era.

From that season to now.

After winning an FA Cup in the 2004-2005 season, Arsenal has not won any significant championship trophy for almost eight years-the Emirates Cup does not count.

So for Arsenal fans.

If you can win a League Cup this season and end the embarrassment of the team without a championship for many years, it is also something worth celebrating.

not to mention.

Arsenal did not win many championships in the League Cup.

Arsenal have only two League Cup titles in team history.

They were all in a very distant era, and they were obtained in the 1986-1987 and 1992-1993 seasons respectively.

In the FA Cup, Arsenal has won a lot of championships. So far, Arsenal has won a total of 11 FA Cup championships, second only to Manchester United, which has won 12 times.

So it is understandable that Arsenal fans are looking forward to a League Cup championship trophy.

January 2013 was a hectic month for any Premier League team.

Especially for a team like Arsenal that has not yet been eliminated in the League Cup.

Finished the League Cup semi-final.

The next game is a cup match again.

It's the FA Cup this season.

Premier League teams join the draw starting in the third round of the FA Cup.

It turned out to be bad luck for Arsenal.

They drew the Premier League team Everton.

Still away.

Because three days after this FA Cup, the team will usher in a key battle against Liverpool in the second round of the league No.20 at home.

Therefore, in this game, Arsenal followed the previous model of Ye Luo plus substitute players and youth team players.

result.

They were beaten [-]-[-] by Everton at Goodison Park.

Ye Luo did not score in this game.

This also led to their direct exit from the FA Cup.
In fact, this is also normal. For a team like Everton, they have no worries about relegation and have no hope of entering the Champions League. Therefore, they are very motivated in cups like the FA Cup.

In contrast to Arsenal, Ye Luo brought a group of substitutes and youth team players to play in the cup, and if he didn't pay attention, he would be eliminated.

The two sides attach great importance to the FA Cup at a completely different level.

And after losing this game.

Arsenal's last three games have been won or lost.

This also led to their status being questioned.

Many people feel that Arsenal's good form from the beginning of the season to the present is gone.

Arsenal and Ye Luo have finally entered a "bottleneck period".

And it was in this situation that they ushered in the challenge of Liverpool, who have recently performed better and are in a fairly good state.

Arsenal and Liverpool played against each other in the first round of this season.

The game has special significance for Yello as it is his first game in England.

And it's not just any cat and dog team, but Liverpool, one of England's two giants.

At that time, Liverpool had just changed coaches and Rodgers had just taken office.

therefore.

early in the season.

Liverpool's state has been very ups and downs.

In the first half of the season, they only won three games in the first ten rounds of the league.

However, after the tenth round of the league, Liverpool's state began to gradually recover.

They drew with Chelsea first, and then a three-game winning streak allowed them to climb to No.7 in the standings.

After losing to Manchester United in the No.15 round of the league.

Up to now, it has been unbeaten in six league rounds, and has won five consecutive victories!

This result allowed them to surpass Tottenham in the No. 20 round of the league and rank No. 5 in the league.

And this one.

Liverpool completely abandoned Downing, Pollini and others in the forward line.

Instead, a 3S trident combination with Suarez, Sturridge, and Sterling as the main players was established.

Also in midfield.

He righted Henderson and let him replace Joe Allen as the main player.

Henderson, Gerrard and Lucas form a midfield three.

Both offensive and defensive.

If there is a weakness in this Liverpool team, it may be that the double high school defenders partnered by Skrtel and Agger before turned around too slowly.

And Rogers' approach is to re-enable the veteran Carragher, so that Carragher will appear more in some key games this season, and use his experience to partner with Agger or Skrtel.

Needless to say, right back Glenn Johnson, this is Liverpool's best right back right now.

On the left back.

Spanish veteran Enrique's position was replaced by teenager Andre Weiss.

As such.

Liverpool quietly completed an upgrade in the hands of Rodgers.

This is also the root cause of their five-game winning streak in the last five rounds of the league.

This Liverpool is definitely not the one that Arsenal encountered in the first round of the league at the beginning of the season.

Of course.

Arsenal are not the same Arsenal they started the season with.

But who makes their recent state look a little unstable?
on the virtual training ground.

Ye Luo is currently studying how to integrate [Beckenbauer's experience] with modern football and his own football ability.

During the cup match, Ye Luo was doing these experiments.

In the arena, nothing is simply piled up.

How to bring out your best energy.

This itself requires continuous competition to accumulate and summarize.

And the experience points from Beckenbauer will undoubtedly help Ye Luo complete the work in this area faster.

Liverpool in this game is a fresh opponent for Ye Luo.

They are completely different from the beginning of the season, and they have shown very good form.

It is certainly not easy to beat such a team, but Arsenal must do this, because if they continue to lose points, they are very likely to be widened by Manchester United and Manchester City.

(End of this chapter)