Lee George followed the team into the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal's new home stadium that was just completed.
Two months ago, Arsenal legend Bergkamp held his farewell match here, which was the first game at the Emirates Stadium. The opponent was Ajax. Vincent also came here with Ajax to watch the game, but Li did not come to watch because he was training abroad.
Today, Leeds United plays an away game against Arsenal, and Li finally has the opportunity to come to this large, modern stadium.
Although Leeds United is also preparing to build a new stadium, because the football market in Leeds is not as popular as London, the new Elland Road stadium cannot be built with more than 60,000 seats at once. Otherwise, if the fans are not full, it will be sparse and unsightly.
However, George Li repeatedly emphasized to Michael that there should be room for expansion and renovation in case of emergency.
Arsenal encountered problems at the beginning. The team had two draws and one loss in the first three games. Bergkamp's retirement had a great impact on Arsenal. It wasn't until the fifth round that he began to regain his form and ushered in a wave of three consecutive victories.
Togolese forward Emmanuel Adebayor, who just joined from Monaco this summer, showed his tough style of play and gave all Arsenal fans who are used to seeing Arsenal's mercury-laden offense a refreshing feeling.
For Leeds United, Charlotte Black, a rising star on the right who has performed well recently, continues to start. He broke the media rumors about his "connection" with his not too outstanding but extremely stable performance. It's just that this is Charlotte's last starting game in the near future, because Mills has returned from injury and will come off the bench today to find his condition.
Mills will then return to the starting lineup in the next Champions League game against Bayern.
On the left side of the team, Leeds United also encountered injuries.
The team's main left back Baines also suffered an injury, so in this game George Lee chose to start Ben Thatcher after weighing it for a long time.
Not only that, he also hid Matt Tyson in this game. If Thatcher does not perform well and the latter encounters injuries again, at least he will have someone to play at left back.
Although Lee George has other options, such as letting Pedersen or Delph, who is also from the youth team, try it, or playing a three-back tactic.
But George Li still feels that the above choice is safer.
Baynes is not the only one who is suffering from injuries. Midfielder Parker is also suffering from injuries. Therefore, De Jong started today's game against Arsenal, and his midfielder partner is Joey Barton.
George Li didn't dare to push the ball. If the defense was not full of main players, he would have to use double midfielders.
However, if George Lee finds that the opposite Arsenal winger is not willing to attack, he has other arrangements.
Wenger also suffered from attrition here, mainly due to problems on the defensive line.
After a year of flirting with Chelsea, Ashley Cole finally got his wish and went to Stamford Bridge. The main center back Campbell chose to go to Portsmouth after his contract expired in the summer.
Now, except for Toure, who is considered old in the defense, the others are all newcomers.
After the game started, Leeds United followed their usual style of play, pressing the defenders in front of the defense, restricting the opponent's core in the midfield, and starting to press high in the frontcourt.
At Arsenal, Cesc Fabregas, who has several years of experience in the Premier League, is also able to press Leeds United with ease. When he sees the double-team coming from the opposite side, he can control the ball at his feet or successfully pass the ball to nearby teammates. He still remembers being humiliated by Leeds United's defense three years ago. As soon as he got the ball at that time, Leeds United's three midfielders Smith, Davis, and Graveson would immediately double-team him. Their actions were extremely rude and they would restrain him even if they fouled him.
Now after getting rid of Graveson, Xiaofa pushed the ball to Rosicky in front. Then Xiaofa glanced at Graveson behind him, and then at Smith in the distance.
"tui~" After spitting, he continued to run forward. I thought to myself, the one wearing glasses is gone, I must give the other two people some color today.
Humph, one has yellow hair and the other has a bald head.
But before Xiaofa even took two steps, he saw his teammate Rosicky being knocked to the ground by a physical contact from No. 8 on the opposite side.
"Du~" The referee rushed over and gave De Jong a warning, telling him to move less.
De Jong spread his hands and walked away.
Xiaofa immediately discovered that the midfielder on the opposite side might not be easy to deal with after changing players today.
The No. 8 De Jong's movements were not small, and as soon as he got the ball, the opponent's other No. 23 immediately came up and harassed him.
In the nearly 20 minutes since the game started, Rosicky has rolled to the ground countless times.
The Czech midfielder sat on the ground, pulled up his socks, and then looked at the referee on the side who was showing Button a yellow card.
Smith kept explaining to the referee, but Button walked away indifferently.
Arsenal's midfield has no advantage and can only rely on the two wings to create threats.
Leeds United's right wing was fine today, but Charlotte didn't suffer a disadvantage when facing Henry, who was all-powerful in the Premier League, and just used her own speed to keep up with Henry. I was deceived by Henry's change of pace twice, but luckily he was cleared by Woodgate once, and Henry was stopped by a foul the other time.
However, Leeds United's left wing suffered today. Walcott, who joined Arsenal from Southampton last winter, kept using speed to attack Thatcher.
Thatcher was passed by Walcott in the blink of an eye. He turned around and reached out to grab Walcott, but he couldn't even grab a corner of his clothes.
Fortunately, Walcott could only choose to go down after breaking through Thatcher, because he had tried to go to the center several times before, but was immediately double-teamed by Leeds United's midfielder and central defender, destroying the attack.
However, when the game reached 37 minutes, it was Walcott's kick that resulted in the goal.
Walcott once again used his speed to break through Thatcher from the right, and then rushed to the bottom line. Because the force of the pass just now was too great, he caught up with the ball when it went out of the bottom line and chose to cross the ground.
Although the quality of this cross was very poor, it went in and out by mistake, bypassing everyone in front of the goal and flying to the back point.
Henry received the ball near the far post, first stopped it with his chest, and then made a move to shoot.
Charlotte pounced directly to block the shot, but when she came to Henry, she found that she had been deceived.
The French "Great" buckled with his left foot and volleyed directly with his right foot.
Van der Sar did not completely seal the angle, and the ball flew into the goal close to the near post.
0 to 1.
Leeds United trailed away from home.
As the game continued, Leeds United was hit by continuous rain. At the end of the first half, Van Persie was injured and fell to the ground during a fight with Clichy.
George Lee touched his forehead and quickly asked Lennon to replace Van Persie.
Don't dare to wait any longer. Van Persie's role in Leeds United is self-evident. Lee George would rather lose this game than let Van Persie play with an injury.
In the first half, Leeds United entered the halftime break with a score of 0-1.
