Chapter 772
After the training, Arteta hopes Xhaka will give all the players some advice on mentality.
"My advice is, don't think you can defend Lin Chen, don't think two people can defend him together, and don't even think that Lin Chen won't score a goal."
“Don’t think about anything that might cause Lin Chen to perform poorly, and then you will find that your mentality will become very good when facing Lin Chen.”
"Because you know, everything that happened in the game, everything about Lin Chen's creation, will happen!"
Xhaka's words were telling all Arsenal players not to rely on Lin Chen's poor performance to defeat Liverpool.
The only way Arsenal can win is to defend Lin Chen, who is performing at his best, and further defend Liverpool, and then defeat Liverpool!
Lin Chen felt that time passed very quickly because January 1th had already arrived.
It seemed like I had just finished endorsing the training building and was about to start playing in the League Cup semi-final.
For the first time, Gullit discovered that Arsenal's lineup, from the head coach to the assistant coach, to every player, was so young!
"This is a young team led by a young manager. Arteta worked with Guardiola for a long time but he also wanted to be the head coach of Arsenal."
"Since Wenger left, Arsenal had a lot of options, but in the end they chose Arteta!"
"In this semi-final, Arsenal's starting goalkeeper is Ramsdale!"
"The defenders are Tierney, Gabriel, Ben White and Cedric!"
"Martinelli and Saka will of course start. Xhaka is now Arsenal's most trusted midfielder. Nketiah performed well, Lacazette was outstanding, and Lokonga's form depends on the team."
"Alisson did not start for Liverpool in this game, Kelleher became the starting goalkeeper in the EFL Cup!"
"Gvardiol, Van Dijk, Arnold and Tsimikas started together, the midfield was Gravenberch, Odegaard and Lin Chen, and the front court was Gakpo, Soboslai and Salah."
"Liverpool rotate their players more than Arsenal."
Arsenal were very well prepared.
Gabriel always remembered the defensive tactics that Arteta talked about in training, and Ben White reminded Xhaka all the time.
The semi-final started soon, and Lin Chen began to run towards the frontcourt. Unlike what Arteta thought, Lin Chen was just running around!
Tierney had been paying attention to whether Lin Chen was running towards him, but Lin Chen never appeared next to Tierney!
The 8th minute of the game!
Lin Chen started running, Soboslai played as a center forward, but ran towards Tierney during the attack.
Gabriel immediately began to help Tierney defend. Ben White looked at Lin Chen's running position and immediately reminded Xhaka to retreat to prevent Lin Chen from finding an opportunity, but Lin Chen kept running towards Cedric!
Cedric Soares saw Lin Chen running towards him, and Arsenal's right defense had actually been spotted by Lin Chen with a one-on-one opportunity!
Odell's pass from the high center allowed Liverpool's attack to advance quickly from the left. When Lin Chen received the ball, Cedric Soares had already rushed up. No matter what, he had to defend Lin Chen before Lokonga came back!
Lin Chen chose to stop the ball and stopped it close to Cedric.
Cedric did not rush to grab the ball. Facing Lin Chen, Cedric would not rush to grab the ball no matter what.
Even if he felt he had a 99% chance of stealing the ball, Cedric would not go for it.
Lin Chen found that his first step did not work, so he simply started the second step and burst out with the ball!
Cedric Suarez was so focused that when Lin Chen exploded, Cedric also subconsciously exploded with him. Then Cedric saw Lin Chen seemed to be getting taller and taller in front of him.
