In fact, not only the English media, but the entire European and even the entire world's media are frantically reporting on Yello's crazy performance in the Premier League!
in Spain.
Marca even made the front page of Arsenal's 5-1 away win over Manchester City!
You know, as a media in Madrid, the front page of Marca's football section is generally something that only Real Madrid can enjoy.
Of course.
The fact that Marca made this game a front page issue was also related to Yello.
In the article, [Marca] said that if Real Madrid were willing to slightly increase their salary offer for Yello at the beginning of the season, maybe Yello would still be in La Liga now.
But Florentino also had something to say.
For Real Madrid, they do not need to completely match Manchester City's offer, but even so, Florentino does not dare to offer Yello too high a salary.
Because Real Madrid is not like Manchester City, their team is full of superstars!
Ye Luo's salary is high, will the salary of other stars also rise?
If they rise at the same time, then no matter how rich Real Madrid is, they will not be able to support such a huge salary expenditure.
But what if it doesn’t rise? The locker room is about to explode.
So Marca’s complaint is just that I don’t have back pain while standing and talking.
Otherwise, why did Florentino angrily accuse Manchester City of destroying the market environment in the interview.
That's the truth.
The atmosphere in Real Madrid's training base has not been very good these two days.
Because Cristiano Ronaldo's face has been stern these two days.
Of course everyone knows the reason.
That guy Yello scored 10 goals in five Premier League games.
Now that La Liga has played six rounds, Ronaldo has only scored eight.
It is actually fewer goals than Yello in the Premier League - you must know that the competitiveness of the two leagues is completely different.
Prior to this, when Yello chose to join Arsenal, many players in the Real Madrid team were quite regretful, thinking that such a player who had reached the peak was about to begin to decline.
This is not surprising, because history has no shortage of geniuses who were born out of nowhere and then fell quickly. Although Ye Luo's emergence was more shocking, it is not surprising that he fell down.
But now, his performance in the Premier League is really amazing.
So much so that Marca even reported and praised Yello.
It is not surprising that Cristiano Ronaldo, who has always regarded Messi as his competitor, feels unhappy when facing a newly emerging opponent, and even works harder in training.
Mourinho is happy to see Ronaldo's efforts, but this is not his recent worry.
There are already some cracks in his relationship with the Real Madrid dressing room.
In Barcelona.
Barcelona players also found that Messi was a lot more active in training.
Everyone tacitly knew what was going on.
After losing the UEFA Best Player Award to Yello, many media also firmly predicted that this year's Ballon d'Or award would most likely go to Yello.
Who would have thought.
The player who ended Messi's three consecutive Ballon d'Or awards was not Cristiano Ronaldo, but Ye Luo.
This fierce competition forces both Messi and Ronaldo to perform at their best.
However, now even the teammates who have the most confidence in them are actually murmuring in their hearts.
compete with that monster
Is there really any chance of winning?
For Arsenal, a big victory over Manchester City is certainly a good thing, but then the team faces the problem of injuries in the midfield.
Diaby suffered a knee injury and will be out for at least a month.
After the game, Arteta had some tightness in his calf muscles and needed to sit out for two weeks.
As a result, Arsenal can send younger players.
After the fifth round of the league.
On September 27, Arsenal ushered in a League Cup match against Coventry from the English First Division.
It’s different from La Liga.
There are two co-existing domestic competitions in England, the FA Cup and the League Cup.
As the oldest football tournament in the world, the FA Cup has a long history. It is an event that can be participated in by amateur leagues from the Premier League to the ninth level.
The League Cup is a competition launched by the English Professional League to compete with the English Football Association. It involves teams from the Premier League, English Championship, English League One and English League Two.
Although the winner of the League Cup can also qualify for the Europa League.
But in terms of general consensus, I still think the FA Cup is more important than the League Cup in England.
Since this game will be played away to Norwich two days later, Arsenal has completely sent out substitute players and some youth team players to play.
However, due to the huge strength gap between the two sides, after all, there is still a British Championship between the Premier League and English League One.
Arsenal, who played at home in this game, beat Coventry 5-1 and successfully entered the next round of the League Cup.
And after this game.
The team went to Carrow Road Stadium in Norwich, and the Magpies at home were quite tenacious.
They directly set up a 541 formation, leaving a fast forward in front to counterattack.
And in the 18th minute of the game, Norwich took advantage of a corner kick created by a counterattack to score.
Norwich, who took the lead first, were even more encouraged. Their airtight defense caused a lot of trouble for Arsenal.
In the second half of the game, Yelo also assisted Koscielny to score and equalize the score through a free kick in the frontcourt.
It was not until the 87th minute of the game that Ye Luo helped the team achieve the lead with a long shot and took away three points.
This game did not attract enough attention from Arsenal - in fact, Arsenal defeated Manchester City 5-1. The impact of this game was far-reaching. Almost all teams agreed on one thing: Arsenal is now Became the top team in the league again.
That's why Arsenal faces this level of defense on the road!
What followed was the second leg of the Champions League group stage. Arsenal, playing at home, defeated Olympiakos with a score of 3 to 1 and achieved two consecutive victories in the Champions League group stage. Yello also scored in this game. Two goals and three goals in two rounds of group matches, one behind Ronaldo in the scorer list and tied for second with Messi.
On October 7, in the eighth round of the league, Arsenal tied with West Ham United one to one in the away game. Professor Wenger was very angry when he conceded the goal at the last moment.
Then comes the national team match day in October, and the team regroups two weeks later.
What worries Wenger is the injuries to the team's midfielders Arteta and Diaby.
Arteta was injured in training, and Diaby has simply been lying down since the game against Manchester City until now, and he doesn't know when he will return from injury.
besides.
Two veterans, Rosicky and Arshavin, have been the team's chronic patients since the beginning of the season.
Can't count on it at all.
Arteta is considered the most experienced player in Arsenal's midfield.
Now his injury has a huge impact on Arsenal.
The first game after the national team match day was the ninth round of the league against Queens Park Rangers at home. Arsenal lost two goals at home in this game, but with Yello's one goal and two With assists, the team won the game with a score of three to two and maintained an unbeaten record in the league.
The team went to the Schalke Stadium to challenge Schalke 04 in the third round of the Champions League group stage.
The match ended in a draw.
The two sides played 1-1 at the Schalke Stadium.
Two wins and one draw in the Champions League.
So despite failing to bring back a victory in Germany, the English media are still touting Arsenal's performance - after all, for English teams, playing away games in Germany is never a very pleasant experience.
It would be good to be able to escape unscathed.
What's more, Arsenal are indeed worthy of praise.
In terms of overall results.
So far this season, Arsenal has played a total of 13 games and achieved an unbeaten record of 11 wins and two draws.
This result is quite explosive.
But after leading the team back from Germany, Wenger always frowned involuntarily when standing on the sidelines of the training ground.
He saw some hidden concerns in the team.
Mainly in two aspects.
First: After the lack of experienced players like Arteta, the overall age of the team has become younger.
The problem with the inexperienced Arsenal's performance during this period is that the midfielder's control and control of the rhythm of the game have dropped significantly.
Starting from the five-to-one victory over Manchester City, the team ended their winning streak and drew with West Ham United and Schalke 04. In these games, they conceded goals in every game!
This is direct proof of the team's lack of rhythm control.
Second: With the media's enthusiasm for Arsenal, this kind of enthusiasm is not a good thing in Wenger's view, because as Arsenal becomes the favorite to win the championship, more and more teams now regard Arsenal as a is a key research object.
Being stared at with a magnifying glass, many teams even adopted the mentality of "if you can score a point, you will earn it" when facing Arsenal.
As a result, Arsenal will face greater difficulty in the game!
For example, in the game against Norwich, the opponent directly deployed five defenders and four defensive midfielders.
Arsenal will definitely encounter scenes like this often in the future.
This is the different environment that championship teams and ordinary teams face.
If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight.
When Arsenal was not considered capable of competing for the league championship, all teams still treated Arsenal with a normal attitude.
But after Arsenal defeated Manchester City 5-1, everyone no longer doubted Arsenal's strength.
At this moment.
The pressure Arsenal has to face is completely different from before.
But in Wenger's view, the team is actually immature in many areas. This can be seen from the problems exposed by Arteta's injury: the team is too young.
Ye Luo is great.
But he is a forward, and what the team lacks is control of the rhythm of the game.
Cazorla may be able to do that, but he needs to integrate into the team and that will take time.
But before that happens, Arsenal may have to pay some price for this.
The goals conceded in these games have already made Wenger a little wary.
He took a deep breath and then began to turn his attention to the next game. No matter what, the game still needs to be played one by one.
The team's next opponent is Tottenham Hotspur.
Everyone knows how important this game is to Arsenal.
This is the North London derby, one of the most popular derbies in England.
There are many feuds between teams in England.
A doubleheader between Manchester United and Liverpool.
The war between Chelsea and Fulham.
The Rose Derby between Manchester United and Leeds United.
etc.
As for the north London derby, the degree of opposition between the two teams and the excitement of the game are no less than those between Manchester United and Liverpool.
For Tottenham Hotspur head coach Villas-Boas.
He has been under a lot of pressure recently.
Since being fired by Chelsea and taking over Tottenham this season, Tottenham have played 9 games in the Premier League, losing three, drawing three and winning three.
Three wins, three draws and three losses, including the loss to Newcastle in the first round of the league, a 2-3 away loss to Manchester United in the fifth round of the league, and a 3-5 away loss to Chelsea in the seventh round of the league.
To be honest, it is not a surprise to lose to Manchester United and Chelsea with Tottenham's lineup. The key is that the last few games have been both draws and losses. Tottenham has been unable to win in 6 consecutive games.
Of course, these six games include three league games, two Europa League group matches, and one League Cup game.
Judging from the league situation, Tottenham, which scored 12 points, ranks seventh in the league, not far behind the top six.
Three consecutive draws in the Europa League, but two of them were away from home.
So the problem is relatively small.
There is still room for adjustment for Villas-Boas.
However, the media environment in England is not very good.
Nowadays, almost all the media are questioning the correctness of Spurs letting Villas-Boas, a "loser" at Chelsea, to coach.
Inside Tottenham's training base.
It was late at night and Boas was still working.
As a man who can coach a top team in a top league in his thirties, Villas-Boas is undoubtedly a workaholic.
He was once Mourinho's assistant coach. After Mourinho left Porto, Villas-Boas took over the team and eventually led Porto to dominate the Europa League.
It was precisely because of his reputation as "Mourinho's successor" that he won the favor of Abramovich and got the opportunity to coach Chelsea.
However, the young Villas-Boas obviously cannot convince Chelsea's big-name stars like Mourinho - this may also be because these Chelsea players are already successful.
At this moment.
Boas's office is brightly lit.
On the big screen in the office, a specially edited video of Arsenal's goals conceded this season is being played.
"Their defense isn't solid, is it?"
Boas suddenly spoke.
Assistant coach Tim Sherwood nodded and said: "They are too young. Without Arteta and Diaby, they also lack experience in controlling the pace of the midfield."
Tim Sherwood is not a direct descendant of Villas-Boas, but is the bridge of communication between Tottenham's board of directors and management and the team's coaching staff.
He became Tottenham's assistant coach in 2008 and has assisted many Tottenham coaches.
And of course he is not a straw bag.
As a player, Sherwood once won the Premier League title as captain of Blackburn Rovers.
At least in terms of championship honors.
In the Tottenham team, only Villas-Boas, who has won the Portuguese Super League championship and the Europa League championship, can compare with him.
Moreover, Sherwood's emotional intelligence is still very high and he has been able to work happily with all previous head coaches.
A paranoid like Villas-Boas can accept working with this "imperial minister", who is now his main assistant at Tottenham.
"So what we need is a counterattack!" Villas-Boas pressed the remote control and called up the video of Arsenal's game against Norwich.
"This game is of great reference value."
"But Norwich lost."
"That's right! But they only allowed Ye to score one goal." Villas-Boas held out a finger, "And it was a buzzer-beater at the end of the game! Tim, they almost succeeded!"
Boas looked back at the screen.
"They're just Norwich."
Sherwood nodded.
And this game is a derby.
he thought.
Of course, judging from the lineup, it seems that Arsenal is one head above Tottenham.
But this game was played at White Hart Lane, and it was also a derby. In a general sense, all experiences and principles cannot be applied to derby games.
Derby.
There is no reason or experience at all.
When Manchester City was still in the Premier League, they often taught the Premier League hegemon Manchester United how to behave in the Manchester Derby.
(End of chapter)
