My light shines on Arsenal

Chapter 143
September 22, the fifth round of the Premier League.

Arsenal plays Southampton at home.

In the home team locker room at the Emirates Stadium, Chen Yao was giving his final peptalk to his players.

"In the past seven days, including this league round, we have played a total of three games. I know you are very tired and exhausted..." He paused, "Our life is to constantly compete, train, and compete again. Every team is like this, this is the path we have chosen, we just have to win game after game and move on."

Charlotte and the photographer quietly hid in the corner and took pictures.

"Did you hear that?" The tall Mertesacker stood up, "You kick the ball into their damn goal in front, and I'll wipe your butts in the back. I didn't even shout that I was tired, so don't shout that I'm tired." So tired."

"Oh, Pell, but you've lost a lot of goals." A player teased.

Mertesacker blushed and shouted in a rough voice: "As long as you score one more goal than me, we can win!"

The players laughed and quarreled. Chen Yao opened the locker room door, "I'm glad to see you are still so energetic. Now go and release this energy on the court!"

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Southampton head coach Nigel Adkins looked at Chen Yao curiously, with a somewhat complicated look in his eyes.

The 47-year-old Adkins wears a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose and is elegant and elegant.

Like Chen Yao, he regards football matches as a solemn formal occasion, wearing a shirt and tie.

Adkins is a young coach. In European football, any coach under the age of 50 can be called a young coach.However, head coaches under 30 years old like Chen Yao are still rare, and they are even more unique among the five major leagues.

Adkins doesn't understand why the Arsenal board would trust a coach who is so young and has no qualifications. Like himself, it is not easy to convince the Southampton board to give him a chance. This is considering that he has ten years of experience. His professional football resume gave him this opportunity.

After getting the opportunity to coach Southampton, Adkins created a small miracle. He led Southampton to two consecutive jumps in two years and brought the team to the Premier League.

This made him a Southampton hero.

It's just that the weak Southampton can't match the intensity of the Premier League. In the first four rounds, Southampton only won one victory. Their poor start was even worse than Arsenal.

Therefore, Adkins sometimes feels some sympathy for Chen Yao. He is in charge of such a big club and has the same record as himself. I am afraid that the pressure he faces is beyond his imagination.

Twenty minutes later, Adkins shook his head and sighed, still feeling embarrassed.

He was thinking, why should he sympathize with Chen Yao?
The score on the field was [-]-[-], and Arsenal had already scored two goals before the first half was even halfway through.

The Gunners returned to home and showed their vitality again.

Chen Yao made appropriate rotations, Walcott's starting position was replaced by Oxlade-Chamberlain, Giroud continued to start, and Arteta was replaced by Marco Verratti.

Chen Yao actually likes the player Theo Walcott. He has always believed that Walcott has not fully realized his talent. If the "little tiger" can fully demonstrate his talent, he will be a world leader. A class winger.

A major factor restricting Walcott's growth is his body.

Extremely fast speed is Walcott's characteristic, which also prompts him to break into heavily defended areas by his opponents. This will bring intense physical confrontation, and repeated acceleration and changes of direction will also increase the burden on the player's body.Therefore, Chen Yao is very careful in using Walcott. He will not start Walcott with high intensity, but will give Chamberlain on the bench a chance to rotate.

As for the midfielder position, Chen Yao was also worried about whether the combination of technical midfielders would make the team lack defensive hardness, but he was worried for a long time and found that at least when facing the opponent Southampton, he did not have to worry about this problem.

Because Arsenal's high-position pressing system and frontcourt offensive system worked successfully.

In the first half of the first half, Arsenal's main ball handler in the frontcourt was Santi Cazorla. Jorginho and Verratti, two technical midfielders, kept an appropriate distance from Cazorla and were ready at any time. Accept his return pass.

Chamberlain and Griezmann, two dynamic wings, kept running back and forth in the ribs and wings. They circled Cazorla, and Olivier Giroud frequently held a player between the back lines. The player, with his back turned, prepares to bounce the ball into the penalty area.

During training, Chen Yao said to Giroud: "Olivier, don't think of yourself as a pure point-grabbing shooter. Your talent in getting the ball into the penalty area is more important than your shooting ability."

He is slowly guiding Giroud to discover what he is best at.

In terms of tactics, the adjustment Chen Yao made was to let Giroud find an opportunity to hold a defender, and then use him as an axis to make Griezmann on the left a shadow operating in the ribs and inserting into the penalty area at any time. Forward, as an end point.

This formed the main theme of Arsenal's offense in the first half: Cazorla held the ball and dribbled to connect the two ribs. When an opportunity appeared, he would directly block the penalty area or pass it short to Giroud, who would make a pivot to the goalkeeper. The offensive player with the ball.

If Southampton retreats tightly, Cazorla will pass the ball back to Jorginho or Verratti after pulling the defense line, and these two defensive midfielders are in a relatively vacuum position. There is plenty of space and good vision to attack.

Southampton was suppressed by Arsenal's frontcourt attack and complained endlessly. After briefly trying to control the ball and counterattack, they were forced to kick wildly by Arsenal's suddenly increased intensity of the frontcourt press. He just stayed in the penalty area and defended.

Even if they were defending in the penalty area, Cazorla's magician dribbling was disturbing their defense.

Taking a step back, even if they lock Cazorla's space at the top of the arc, Verratti and Jorginho are capable of dividing the ball to Arsenal's two wingers.

And Chamberlain's impact ability is not a vegetarian.

When Southampton's formation tilts towards the strong side as Arsenal moves the ball from the wing, Giroud will find the far-end central defender to lean on, and then play the ball into the penalty area, Griezmann is tormenting elusively The nerves of Southampton's defender are like ghosts, kicking goalkeeper Boruc from time to time...

In the first half, Griezmann and Verratti each scored a goal. Both goals were similar. After Arsenal moved the ball to open up space, Giroud moved the ball forward and Griezmann followed up. Shoot.

Verratti's goal also came from Griezmann's shot. Boruc saved his shot after being mentally prepared, but Verratti, under the command of Chen Yao, found an opportunity and stepped in. luck.

After all, he is short in stature but runs fast. He is easily suppressed by the opponent's high ball when he stops in the middle and backcourt. It is better to enter the frontcourt more.

Even if you lose the ball, you can counterattack on the ground and start high pressure.

Before half-time, Southampton conceded its third goal. The exhausted left-back Danny Fox was thrown away by Chamberlain at speed and sent a curve ball into the penalty area. Giroud used his chest muscles to hit the ball into Boruc's face. If you hit it, it won't pose much of a threat.

Southampton's center back panicked. After Boruc took the ball, Fonte made a hasty clearance and kicked it. The weak clearance ball fell leisurely on Giroud's head, and the tall French center hit the ball with a header. Scored his first Premier League goal.

Three to zero.Adkins closed his eyes.

Why should I sympathize with coach Chen Yao?His painful reflection.

(End of this chapter)