Chapter 225: 9 goals in the Champions League, tying Ronaldo, 22 goals in the league, aiming at Alan

After the game against Bayern, Manchester City did not stay longer in Munich, but returned to Manchester overnight.

The Premier League's Christmas Express is about to start, and Manchester City is about to face a devilish schedule in the next period of time.

Three days later, they will face Arsenal for the top spot.

Simply looking at the state of the two teams, Manchester City's state is slightly better.

Also in the Champions League, they reversed and drew with the powerful Bayern after conceding two goals in the away game.

Arsenal had a three-point advantage, but was beaten by the opponent in the away game and was almost eliminated.

However, Manchester City's previous league rounds have been stumbling, which makes people have some doubts about their status.

There is not much difference in the strength of the two teams. The result of the game is related to their tactics and on-the-spot performance.

Whoever is in better condition and who can seize the opportunity of the opponent's mistakes will have greater hope of winning.

The coaches of both teams stayed up late watching tapes of each other's games, trying to find the other's flaws.

On Arsenal's side, after watching Manchester City's recent rounds of league games and their performance in the Champions League, Wenger rubbed his forehead tiredly.

It’s not easy to deal with!

After Lin Quan joined, Manchester City's frontcourt attack power was too strong. If he could not be restrained, Arsenal might not be able to withstand the opponent's offense.

Arsenal is the kind of team that is not good at playing against the wind. There are too many young players in the team, and they have always been prone to collapse in the second half. This makes the team's resilience insufficient. They can excel when the wind is down.

But once the wind goes against them, Arsenal's young players will be at a loss.

This causes them to lose one goal one after another when they encounter a strong team.

The reason for this phenomenon is actually not complicated, that is, after Vieira left Arsenal, Arsenal could not find a suitable team leader.

Wenger was originally very optimistic about Fabregas, but Fabregas was seduced by Barcelona and ran away, and Wenger's many years of hard work were ruined.

Coupled with the fact that Arsenal has been without a championship every year and Arsenal does not sign contracts with players over 30 years old for more than one year, Arsenal can neither attract the best players nor retain the outstanding players in the team.

It's a pity that if Lin Quan could be brought back to the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal's team leader might have been found.

With a sigh, Wenger quickly shook off this thought from his head.

Lin Quan has joined Manchester City. It is meaningless to say this now. Instead of wasting time on this kind of thing, it is better to think about how to restrict him!

After repeatedly observing the two games between Manchester City and Bayern, as well as Manchester City and Sunderland, West Bromwich Albion and Southampton, Wenger finally had some ideas in his mind.

Compared to Wenger's concerns, the Arsenal players were not afraid just because their opponent was Manchester City.

Little Tiger Walcott posted on social media:

"I have a feeling I'm going to score more than one goal at the Etihad Stadium!"

Also a leader among young players, Walcott was very unconvinced by Lin Quan.

Compared to Lin Quan, Little Tiger debuted earlier and became famous earlier.

He doesn't think he is worse than Lin Quan, after all, he came to Arsenal with the title of super genius.

Professor Wenger, who has always been diligent and thrifty, is willing to spend 5 million pounds for the 16-year-old, which is enough to prove his strength.

Walcott's performance after joining Arsenal also proved the professor's vision of people.

However, compared to the heights that Lin Quan quickly reached after joining Manchester City, Walcott has always fallen behind in recent years.

Little Tiger attributed these to injuries. Speedy players like him are indeed prone to injuries, and once injured, it will have a great impact on their condition.

But in the past two years, as the number of injuries to Little Tiger has decreased, his performance in the league has become better and better.

Last season, he scored 14 goals for Arsenal in the league and was Arsenal's top scorer. After Robin van Persie left the team, it can be said that it was the little tiger who supported Arsenal's offensive system.

Because of this, he received the highest salary in Arsenal - a weekly salary of 100,000 pounds.

Walcott's words quickly aroused huge attention and discussion on the Internet.

Arsenal fans naturally sang praises for Little Tiger and cheered him on.

"Come on little tiger!"

"Let the people in Manchester City see how powerful you are!"

"Tell them who is the fastest man in the Premier League!"

Manchester City fans were dismissive of Walcott's statement:

"Tsk, tsk, it's true that cats and dogs dare to jump out and compete with Emperor Lin!"

"Haha, Walcott? Is this person worthy of being compared with Lin Huang? Lin Huang has scored 22 goals in less than half a season. Can the little tiger score so many goals in a full season?"

"Haha, Lin Huang scored more goals in the Champions League than the Little Tigers in the league!"

In the eyes of the Manchester City players, the two were not on the same level at all. The little tiger was trying to force a fight, so they scolded him back unceremoniously.

Walcott has played for Arsenal for many years and has accumulated a lot of fans.

Seeing their star being scolded, they naturally couldn't sit still, so they started to talk back one after another and started to scold the Manchester City fans.

Some reporters who were watching the excitement and didn't take it too seriously went to find Lin Quan outside Manchester City's training base to interview him about this matter.

"Lin, what do you think of Theo's statement?"

The reporter's question made Lin Quan stunned for a moment, and he subconsciously asked:

"Who is Theo?"

This sentence was just Lin Quan's normal question, because he didn't even know that this was Walcott's name.

However, fans who don't mind watching the excitement don't care about this, especially Manchester City fans.

In their view, this is the response of their own star to the challenge of Arsenal's star, and this response is to their liking!

As a result, these four words quickly became a hot word on the Internet that day. Manchester City fans rushed to Walcott's Twitter and lined up to copy this sentence.

"Who is Theo?"

"Lin: Sorry, I don't know who Theo is!"

"Oh oh oh, someone failed to win!"

"Hahaha, you deserve it. You're obviously not a player of the same level, but you have to try to make a fool of yourself. Are you getting slapped in the face?"

Seeing Manchester City fans queuing up to provoke each other on Twitter, Lin Quan thought about posting a tweet to analyze it?

After thinking about it carefully, he rejected the idea.

If you explain at this time, it may be considered as showing cowardice, which will have an impact on Manchester City's morale.

Besides, Walcott took the initiative to provoke him. Since he was the first to strike, don't blame others for fighting back!

On Arsenal's side, Walcott was furious at Lin Quan's response and the provocation from Manchester City fans!

He vowed to hit the opponent in the face hard at the Etihad Stadium!

Seeing the lively training ground, Walcott's fighting spirit was completely aroused.

Wenger on the sidelines was surprised and happy. His confidence in this game has increased a lot!

…

On December 14, the 16th round of the Premier League officially started.

As the focus of this round of competition, the first-place battle between Manchester City and Arsenal is scheduled for noon on the 14th.

The intention of this arrangement is obvious - the Premier League wants to take care of the audiences in Asia and America.

Especially in Asia, when the game started, the BJ time had just reached nine o'clock in the evening, which was the absolute prime time.

This season, due to the joining of Lin Quan and the vigorous promotion of the Premier League, the ratings of Premier League games in Asia have increased a lot.

After signing a broadcast contract with CCTV, the Premier League's attention and popularity in China have greatly increased.

Many fans who did not originally watch the Premier League began to follow CCTV live broadcasts of Premier League games this season.

Of course, the one that gets the most attention is obviously the Manchester City game.

As long as CCTV broadcasts Manchester City's games, the ratings will immediately soar.

If the games of other Premier League teams are broadcast, the ratings will drop a lot.

Obviously, most of the fans came for Lin Quan.

"Lin Huangchong, I am your fan!"

"Little Heizi is showing his chicken feet, right? How can a real fan call Brother Lin as Emperor Lin?"

"An anti-fan is also a fan. When you are black, your emotions will show up!"

"Having said that, Lin Huang is in really hot form right now. He scored 22 goals in the league and 9 goals in the Champions League group stage!"

"Haha, I scored in every six rounds of the group stage, which directly broke the historical record of the Champions League. It's really exaggerated!"

"Hey, those people who didn't score as well as Messi and Ronaldo in the past have been slapped in the face now, right?"

"Haha, people don't fight against the headwind!"

Lin Quan only scored 5 goals in the first four rounds of the Champions League, and was pulled over by Messi and Ronaldo fans, especially Ronaldo fans.

However, Lin Quan scored 4 goals in the last two rounds, and came from behind to tie Cristiano Ronaldo in the Champions League scorer list, and tied with Ronaldo for the top spot in the Champions League scorer list.

"It's a pity that Ronaldo also scored a goal, otherwise Lin Huang would have dominated the top scorer list!"

Some fans still feel a little regretful that Real Madrid won again in the last round of the group stage. Cristiano Ronaldo scored a goal to increase his total number of goals to 9.

"It doesn't matter. With Lin's current state, he will be able to overtake sooner or later. Aren't Messi and Ibrahimovic, who were ahead of him before, now overtaken by him?"

The fans are full of confidence in Lin Quan, not for anything else but because of his amazing performance of scoring goals in every game. There is no reason not to be optimistic about him.

"The Premier League season scoring record seems to be Alan Shearer's 34 goals, right? Can Lin Lin break this record?"

"Isn't this a matter of minutes? Lin Huang's current goal efficiency is 1.47 goals per game. There are still 23 rounds of the Premier League. After that, he will score a goal every two rounds, which will break the record!"

"Hiss, Lin Huang's scoring efficiency is too scary, right? Can the total goals scored this season reach fifty or sixty?"

"40+ in the league, 10+ in the Champions League. For cup competitions, it depends on the draw of the FA Cup and League Cup. If we can reach the final, scoring 10 goals will not be a big problem!"

"If you include the national team's goals, isn't Lin Huang's data expected to catch up with Melo?"

"Messi has already surpassed him. It is a bit difficult to catch up with Ronaldo. Ronaldo's total goals this year have reached 68!"

"This is too scary. Is Ronaldo so good this year?"

"Haha, otherwise how can we call them the greatest twins? Messi, on the other hand, after scoring 91 goals last year, has declined a lot this year. His current number of goals is only 45, which is less than half of last year!

In the past, some people said that Lin Quan was a player of the same level as Melo, but many people did not quite agree with this.

But when the fans intuitively displayed the data of the three players this season, those who did not understand Lin Quan and still had doubts were surprised to find that Lin Quan had grown to such an extent.

"Haha, it seems that Walcott is really trying to get away with it. He can't even score 30 goals in a season, and the most goals he has scored in the league is only 14. Why is he trying to get away with it?"

"These two are indeed not the same level of players. Walcott is inferior to Lin Quan in dribbling, passing, organization, passing and running, and his finishing skills are even worse by several levels! "

"But the little tiger is not useless, at least he is faster than Lin Quan!"

"Haha, if Lin Huang had Walcott's speed, it would be really terrifying!"

…

Because this game is related to the Premier League championship situation this season, it is very important for teams aiming to compete for the championship.

Therefore, before the game started, in addition to the media sending a large number of reporters to cover the game, the major Premier League clubs also sent people to the scene to watch the game.

Liverpool coach Rodgers, who is about to face Manchester City, even came to the scene. He wanted to see how much Arsenal could play against Manchester City in this game.

If Arsenal can defeat Manchester City, then the Red Army can also learn from them and use their tactics to deal with Manchester City.

Of course, Manchester City's home court is difficult to play in, Arsenal's hope of winning is not great, and Liverpool are not very optimistic about them.

However, with Arsenal's strength, they should be able to expose some of the opponent's weaknesses.

If the tactics of the two teams are not conservative, maybe this will be a goal battle.

Rogers guessed correctly, both Manchester City and Arsenal chose attacking tactics.

After the previous rounds, Pellegrini realized that Manchester City's defense did have problems.

If they don't want to expose this weakness to their opponents, they must increase the threat on the offensive end and put more pressure on their opponents, making them tired of defense and unable to threaten Manchester City's goal.

In this way, Manchester City's hidden danger can be eliminated to the greatest extent.

Wenger and Pellegrini thought of going together!

Arsenal is not the kind of player who is very defensive. Without a strong leader like Vieira, their midfielder has never been able to stand up.

Cazorla, Ozil, Arteta, etc., do not have the defensive ability of Vieira, let alone his leadership temperament.

And Manchester City is the kind of team with super strong offensive strength. If they are passively beaten, they may be defeated.

Therefore, he learned from the experience of several other previous teams and planned to use offensive tactics against Manchester City.

With the strength of Arsenal's players, it is not difficult to break Manchester City's goal.

Moreover, Arsenal's players are good at playing downwind games. As long as they take the lead, their morale will be greatly improved.

By then the second and third goals are likely to follow.

In that case, Arsenal can not only defeat the powerful Manchester City, but may even create a big victory!

Arsenal had just lost to Napoli in the Champions League. After leading 5 rounds, they unexpectedly lost the top spot in the group.

This makes it very difficult for them to play in the knockout rounds of the Champions League. Wenger's team urgently needs a big win to boost morale and let the players regain their confidence. In this way, when they meet other teams in the knockout rounds, they can There is a glimmer of hope!