My light shines on Arsenal

Chapter 40 You are a good coach, and so am I ([-])

Arsenal and Dortmund, these two teams can be said to have no grievances.

However, the UEFA Champions League group match at the end of November attracted the attention of most media.

In fact, until now, the Champions League is basically at the least attractive stage of the entire schedule cycle.

The wealthy teams have probably qualified for the qualifying rounds, while the teams that are not up to standard have already prepared themselves mentally to hang out in the Europa League.

The exciting knockout rounds have not yet started, and many teams simply started training young players in the last two rounds of the group stage.

But the game between Arsenal and Dortmund was different.

First of all, almost all the European media have reached a consensus: Arsenal this season is quite effective.

The unprecedented "dual head coach" system has already surprised everyone.After a few cup games, everyone was surprised to find that Arsenal was not joking. The team actually had different coaches in different competitions.

In other words, Wenger will choose to give himself a holiday directly in the cup...

"I don't know if Arsene Wenger has ever played Football Manager. If he has, he should know that there is a function in the game called vacation. You can take a day off and your assistant coach will conduct a game for you. .Do you know? I always thought that this operation exists in the game, but I didn’t expect it to work in reality. By the way, I also like cup vacations in the game.”

Piers Morgan, a well-known Arsenal fan, complained.

The media also tried to discover Chen Yao's life experience.The results were lackluster.

Other than his pedigree, which is a hot topic, other information points to this being a good but non-talking coach.

Study step by step, graduate, enter the youth team, and get promoted.

This also disappointed the goofy tabloids represented by The Sun.

However, everyone has keenly discovered that Chen Yao's coaching career is linked to how far he can go in the cup.

They also discovered that Chen Yao's player resources were strictly limited, and he seldom used the league's regular main players in the past few games.

Therefore, the gaming company even made a small bet on when Chen Yao would end this head coach experience journey.

Secondly, Dortmund at this time is also eye-catching enough.

They overturned Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga last season, and they also have great hopes of defending their title this season.

All of Europe is getting to know the bearded man, their coach - Jurgen Klopp.

However, Dortmund's performance in the Champions League is mediocre. It seems that they have not put their strength in the league in the Champions League.

This resulted in Dortmund not being able to qualify in the penultimate round of the group stage. If they wanted to go further, they must defeat Arsenal.

Both teams have reasons to win the game, and the coaches of the two teams are full of personal characteristics, which also makes this game a hot spot in the fifth round of the Champions League group stage.

At the pre-match press conference, Klopp was asked if he would take this game seriously.

"Of course I will take this game seriously, no one takes the Champions League lightly. I respect my opponent, Chen is young, yes, but he has shown courage and intelligence. I will see if he is a good coach, It takes a lot of quality to compete at this level, and even if he doesn't have it yet - and I don't mean any disrespect - it's not a shame."

Klopp didn't show a high attitude, but his words were full of "let me see how capable you are".

In the pre-match interview, Chen Yao just smiled slightly at Klopp's evaluation: "I want to tell Jurgen that he is really a good coach. But so am I."

On November 24th, Arsenal played Borussia Dortmund at the Emirates Stadium.

Every time he comes to an away game, the cheers of the visiting fans will make Klopp faintly excited.

He is eager to conquer stadiums, and the Bundesliga stadiums cannot satisfy him. At most, Klopp will be aroused only when he is fighting at the Allianz Arena.

The United Kingdom is different. Klopp admires the magnificence and modernization of the Emirates Stadium, and is more eager to conquer here.

It's a pity that this is only the group stage, and it is not as heartbreaking as defeating the opponent in the knockout round.

When Chen Yao stood on the sidelines, he exchanged glances with Klopp.

Klopp's eyes were [-]% curious, [-]% thoughtful and [-]% contemptuous.

What Chen Yao returned to him was a friendly smile.

In fact, it wasn't that Chen Yao didn't want to be more aggressive, but seeing Klopp, who would grow up to be one of the top coaches in Europe, standing not far from him with an awesome look on his face, Chen Yao A little emotional.

This is a brand new life.

Considering the importance of this game, Wenger approved that Chen Yao can use the regular main players in the league, but the number cannot be too many.

Chen Yao was not polite either, and directly put Van Persie and Koscielny in the starting lineup.

In other positions, Chen Yao generally followed the previous deployment.Now, some people even refer to this group of young players as Chen Yao's direct descendants, the "Youth Guards".

Arsenal starting lineup: Szczesny/Carvajal, Vermaelen, Koscielny, Gibbs/Jorginho, Verratti/Zaha, Ramsey, Chamberlain/Van Persie

Dortmund starting lineup: Weidenfeller/Piszczek, Santana, Hummels, Schmelzer/Bender, Keir/Götze, Shinji Kagawa, Groskreuz/Lewandowski
Klopp sent his main force.

He is bound to win and end the game early.

At this time, Dortmund was similar to Tottenham, and it was also a bonanza.

The young players in their team are all very likely to enter the top European giants to play,

However, the future development of many of these players did not go as smoothly as expected.

For example, the gorgeous frontcourt combination of Gotze, Kagawa, and Lewandowski.Only Lewandowski has fulfilled his potential.

However, neither Gotze nor Shinji Kagawa has reached the ideal height.

After the game started, Arsenal, who got the kick-off by tossing a coin, played very carefully.

Knowing that there were many young players in the team, Chen Yao kept gesturing on the sidelines to indicate to the players to stabilize their position.

Arsenal's three lines are compressed very tightly, and the back line is not very forward.Once Dortmund launched a high-position press, the ball that could not be handled was directly kicked out.

After Dortmund got the ball, since the service point was in their own half and Arsenal's formation was not spread out, once they advanced to the center circle, they would inevitably fall into a quagmire of breaking through the dense defense.

For Klopp's team, the space is compressed, which is not a situation they like.

What's more, Arsenal's double midfielder combination covers a lot of space horizontally, and Verratti almost keeps a close eye on Gotze.

Verratti was not big, but he was very strong. He kept pushing and pushing him, which made Mario Gotze extremely angry because he couldn't find enough space and angle to catch the ball well.

(End of this chapter)