Chapter 428 Very cruel
After the draw with Manchester United.
Arsenal's winning streak came to an abrupt end.
Then there was a League Cup match.
Arsenal's opponent is Middlesbrough, a team from the English Championship.
For other Arsenal players.
It’s a game day to rest.
But Yeluo still needs to lead the reserve team and U19 players to compete in this game.
This game was very difficult for Arsenal.
Until the 90th minute of the game.
The score was still three to three.
Just when people thought that Arsenal was likely to be forced into overtime by a British Championship team, or even take a penalty kick to decide the winner.
Yeluo completed the winning goal in the 92nd minute of the game.
Led the team into the next round of the League Cup.
After the League Cup.
Yello will be back to participate in the league competition soon.
The tenth round of the league.
Arsenal defeated Aston Villa 3-0 at home.
Ye Luo scored twice.
He has scored 22 goals in the league this season.
And this is just ten league games.
His total number of goals this season has also reached 39 goals.
In the Champions League.
Yello also continued his crazy form in the Champions League group stage.
Arsenal defeated Monaco 4-0 at home.
Yello scored two goals and assisted one.
Arsenal even made a wide range of rotations in this game.
Nearly half of the main players were replaced.
As a result, the rotation range is so large.
Arsenal also performed so strongly at home.
Monaco, who thought they had a chance to score points in the away game, swallowed four bullets and returned home bitterly.
After four rounds of the group stage.
Arsenal have won all four games and collected 12 points.
Ranked first in the group, three points ahead of second-placed PSV. Third-placed Galatasaray and fourth-placed Monaco both have one point. This means that Arsenal has already qualified for the group stage two rounds in advance.
What they have to solve now is to appear first in the group.
They will soon be able to solve this problem, because on November 22, in the fifth round of the group stage, Arsenal will face PSV Eindhoven at home. If they defeat their opponent, they will be able to qualify as the first in the group one round in advance. .
In this group, no team can stop them.
In the eleventh round of the league, Arsenal faced Nottingham Forest at home.
Arsenal showed no mercy and beat the opponent cleanly 2-0 at home.
Forest used to be a dominant European team in its heyday. Although they have returned to the Premier League now, their revival will take a long, long time, maybe ten years, maybe fifty years.
It can't be now anyway.
Nottingham Forest are now favorites for relegation.
They have only taken three points in ten Premier League games.
It can be said to be quite miserable.
Nottingham Forest, once the champions of the Champions League, have now fallen to the point where they occasionally rise to the Premier League and then sink quickly.
Arsenal, on the other hand, has made great strides on the road to revival.
After playing against Nottingham Forest, Arsenal will have to play Sunderland away, just three days later.
This is another League Cup game.
The League Cup has reached the fourth round.
One step further is the quarter-finals.
If you can get through the quarter-finals, you can advance to the semi-finals.
The League Cup has been reformed since this season. The semi-finals are played on a home and away basis. After two games, the team with more goals will advance to the final.
If the two teams score the same number of goals, unlike European competitions, away goals will not be compared, but thirty minutes of overtime will be played directly. If the winner cannot be determined in overtime, A penalty shootout will take place.
After the semi-finals it's the finals.
Here the rookies from the reserve team can compete at Wembley Stadium. Many of them have not yet had the experience of playing on this stadium.
It's an exciting prospect for them.
They have been working hard towards this goal...
Training hard.
The media is no longer surprised that Arsenal sends its reserve team to participate in the Carabao Cup.
Some media felt that this was Arsenal not trying their best and ignoring their opponents.
But in fact, sending reserve teams to participate in League Cup matches is something that many wealthy clubs do.
The only difference is that other giants usually face weaker teams, such as teams from League One.
It is rare for Arsenal to adopt a posture of using reserve teams to participate in all competitions.
However, the media discussion only stopped here.
Some media believe that it is simply a dream for Arsenal to win the League Cup by relying on the model of reserve team Gaiello.
Before the start of the Carabao Cup against Sunderland.
Manager Arsene Wenger didn't say much in the dressing room.
Although Sunderland is the favorite for relegation this season - then again, in which season was Sunderland not the favorite for relegation?
But he is a black cat.
There are nine lives.
A thrilling escape from relegation every season.
They are in the Premier League and are naturally stronger than the Championship team Middlesbrough.
So Arsenal actually needs to be quite careful here.
Especially in this game, they still played the reserve team + Ye Luo mode.
In order to win seven crowns.
Ye Luo also worked hard.
And the rookies on the reserve team were too inconsistent at times.
What if they get too nervous and end up losing the game.
Arsenal failed in this goal.
The lost championship will never come back.
This also proves how difficult it is to win all the championships.
Both the League Cup and the FA Cup are determined by one game, and you will be eliminated if you are not careful. This kind of competition system is the most accidental.
Otherwise, it is a hotbed of unpopularity.
If Arsenal loses the game, wouldn't it be a joke for everyone in the Cup?
Wingesh just gave a few instructions.
It seems that Sunderland don't care much about it.
For the reserve team players, every game in the League Cup is a final.
With Ye Luo's leadership, it is possible for them to go all the way to the finals and win the championship.
motivated by this goal.
Their fighting spirit is unprecedentedly high.
anyway.
They are all going to Wembley with Yello!
Supported by such an idea.
They are holding back their energy now.
It's like a pot of boiling water being suppressed in a pressure cooker.
About to vent.
Until then.
The boiling steam will burst out with infinite power.
The power of steam is great.
This force pushed human civilization into the industrial age.
Now this power is contained in the hearts of the players.
They need to use a force to push themselves.
To complete the seemingly impossible task!
With Ye Luo.
Go to Wembley!
For Sunderland.
Playing against Arsenal's reserve team at home - even if this team adds Yello, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Arsenal's reserve team played at home before, but was also forced into panic by Middlesbrough.
If it weren't for Ye Luo's superb performance, Arsenal would have gone home after this game.
But even Ye Luo.
It’s impossible to break out in every game, right?
This is absolutely impossible to happen.
If it happens, you deserve to be unlucky.
So Sunderland thinks.
Eliminating Arsenal by himself is probably a high probability event - unless Yello also gets a big four in this game.
That's what Sunderland's players thought.
Their fans think so too.
The media are hyping up the problems facing Arsenal's reserve team every day.
So much so that people feel that Arsenal's reserve team only bears the name of Arsenal, but is actually a weak team with no strength at all.
So will Sunderland lose at home to such a weak team?
Of course it's impossible.
Sunderland felt they had won. Arsenal fans also feel that relying on the reserve team to go to Wembley is a bit unreliable.
They are all worried about the future of the team.
However, the game starts from the beginning.
Everyone found that the situation was completely different from what people imagined.
The performance of Arsenal's reserve team players is completely different from when they faced Middlesbrough in their first game.
They attack aggressively and defend tenaciously.
They let go completely in this game!
Running aggressively and with full confidence.
Sunderland is not a strong team either.
So facing the bus set up by Arsenal's reserve team, they really had nothing to do.
Apart from long-range shots, they almost couldn't get the ball into Arsenal's penalty area.
Actually.
Everyone has fallen into a misunderstanding.
Everyone thought that Middlesbrough in the English Championship could cause so much trouble to Arsenal.
Of course, Sunderland in the Premier League is no longer a problem.
However, not many people have studied why Middlesbrough can pose a threat to Arsenal - because their playing style is simple and rough, using physical flow to deal with small players in the reserve team, of course these small players can't stand it.
Sunderland is a Premier League team after all.
Their style of play still has some technical content. Facing the Arsenal reserve team, which seems to be weaker than themselves, they pursue control, siege in the half, and try to technically knock down their opponents.
But this way.
The biggest weakness of Arsenal's reserve team - lack of experience in physical confrontation - was not exploited by Sunderland. Instead, their footwork and discipline were just enough to restrain the opponent's technical style of play. ,
So in terms of actual threats.
Sunderland are not as good as Middlesbrough who simply and crudely play long passes.
After all, football is not a simple math problem
Sunderland laid siege to Arsenal's reserves for almost twenty minutes without scoring.
It's not surprising that the Arsenal reserve team took the lead in scoring through a counterattack - this "unsurprising" refers to what everyone found when reviewing the review after the game.
In fact, when the game is actually going on.
When Arsenal scored first. ,
Everyone was still surprised.
What surprised them was not that Arsenal scored.
But the player who scored the goal was not Yello.
It was not Yello who opened the scoring for the team.
This ball was an assist from Ye Luo.
Then the 18-year-old youth training youngster Gnabry knocked the ball into the goal in the small penalty area.
Yelo attracted almost all the defensive attention at that time.
Almost all of Arsenal's reserve players were left unmarked.
When Gnabry ran into the penalty area.
Yello's pass came.
Then he heard Ye Luo yelling "shoot".
It's almost instinctive.
He fell to the ground and shot.
The football was easily blocked by him.
Arsenal's first goal came just like that.
Gnabry was still in a daze after scoring the goal.
Ye Luo has already rushed forward with a group of teammates.
“Great job!!”
After Ye Luo picked him up.
Only the slightly thin Gnabry reacted.
Scored a goal myself! ! !
I scored a goal in a real professional arena!
The goal he scored was Sunderland, a team that was still playing in the Premier League last season! !
His eyes suddenly turned red.
"Did I score a goal!!!"
More teammates rushed up and slapped him on the head.
Want to taint his good luck.
“Great job!!”
Everyone was cheering.
They can feel it.
There is a fire in my heart.
Light up the path in your heart.
At the end of the road is the majestic Wembley.
Sunderland players are frustrated.
Before the game, they thought Arsenal's biggest threat was Yello.
So all they could think about was how to deal with Yello, not how to deal with Arsenal.
They do not think that they underestimate the enemy, and even feel that they are careful enough.
Because they believe that this Arsenal reserve team is simply not enough for them to take too seriously.
As long as Ye Luo is stuck, their attack can be completely frozen.
Unexpectedly, it was not Yello who scored the goal, but other Arsenal players.
Actually.
Being able to play all the way to the reserve team position in the youth training system of a Premier League giant like Arsenal.
At least he can be considered a quasi-top league professional player.
Many of them will be active in teams in the Championship or Premier League in the future.
So they have certain technical capabilities.
At least a qualified professional player.
Facing these people, you don't defend at all. This is to give others confidence-confidence is what these reserve team players lack now.
Now the players in Arsenal's reserve team are confident.
They felt that their hard training during this period had finally paid off.
Going to Wembley looks to be getting closer.
This goal greatly boosted the morale of the Arsenal players.
in the next game.
Arsenal's reserve team is led by Yello.
Controlled the tempo of the game.
They put up a fence in their own half.
Use aggressive movement to stall the opponent's passing game.
Threaten the opponent's goal through counterattacks.
In fact, no matter what, Arsenal is still a wealthy team in the Premier League.
The quality of youth training is guaranteed.
These youth training players are considered to be some of the best in England.
So they all have certain abilities.
These abilities come naturally when combined with the confidence they gain.
These players have the ability themselves.
Just lack of game experience.
Once they gain experience playing the game.
They can't be any worse than these players at Sunderland.
Not to mention that they are teammates who have played together for several years.
The tacit understanding itself is beyond words.
So when their faith rises.
The next game was very difficult for Sunderland.
They can't attack, and they can't defend.
The threat posed by Ye Luo is so huge.
Near the end of the first half.
Ye Luo opened Sunderland's door with a long shot.
Combined with what everyone saw in the first half.
Everyone felt that this game had basically lost its suspense.
Forty-five minutes of the second half.
It may be difficult for Sunderland to do anything.
They should even pray.
I pray that I don’t lose too badly.
The final score was four to one.
Yelo scored again in the second half.
He also assisted another goal.
Two goals.
Two assists.
Arsenal reserves eliminated Sunderland.
Advance to the next round!
Arsenal reserve team performance.
The media turned around and started praising him.
Many players have been dubbed geniuses by the English media.
Their fame began to grow.
But this is for them.
Just a start.
If someone loses his talent, his reputation will eventually fade away.
Professional football.
Very cruel. (End of chapter)
