Chapter 462: Top battle

Arsenal, as one of the giants that have competed with Manchester United for a period of time at the beginning of the new century, during the seasons Wenger coached, with their gorgeous style of play and the tradition of attacking, they have attracted one after another. Group of young fans went into the pit.
However, Arsenal's gorgeous style of play, for these fans, is a typical digging regardless of burying.
Countless people have entered this pit of Arsenal, but they have to watch Arsenal in an embarrassing state of being without a crown year after year.
A newly-built Emirates Stadium has put a huge financial pressure on the Arsenal team and limited the funds in the hands of Professor Wenger. For a long time, it can only turn Arsenal into a championship hopeless. More than a giant team.
And when the stadium is put into use and the team moves towards the formal. A stingy boss, but restricts Arsenal to return to the ranks of the championship.
In fact, for the team owner, it seems that there is nothing wrong with doing so. After all, the Premier League today is not the two-power hegemony of the year, but has transformed into a rivalry.
Nowadays, the major teams are in the stage of high investment. Gone are the times when you want to simply add additional investment to become the champions of the Premier League.
Now if you want to win the Premier League championship, in addition to being willing to spend money, you also need to see whether the team can quickly integrate together, defeat several other giants in each other's competition, and achieve victory after victory.
In the first two years, Arsenal chose to set the goal of the team to maintain the wealthy record and strive for the Champions League qualification. It can be said that for the current situation of the Premier League, in addition to the championship honor, the most profitable business method.
However, in the current six-strong competition for hegemony, Arsenal, who has invested the least, can no longer ensure that they can qualify for the Champions League. This is also the reason why Arsenal's management is rare this year.
For the championship, Arsenal may have more than one heart but not enough energy, but in terms of competing for the Champions League qualification, for Arsenal, if they can't win the top four, it is killing people and money like killing parents.
The current share of income from the Champions League matches, but Arsenal urgently needs to win, to ensure a larger source of funds for the team's income balance.
And this summer, Arsenal's achievements in the transfer market, and now it also confirms that Arsenal can achieve better results this season.
Liverpool now ranks first in the league standings, with an unbeaten record of 7 wins and 2 draws, with 23 points.
Arsenal is the absolute dark horse of this season. After losing to Villa at home in the opener, Arsenal, led by Ozil, who came from a high-priced transfer in the summer, played in the next 8 games. An impressive record of 7 wins and 1 tie, only 1 point behind Liverpool, ranking second in the Premier League.
Since the games of the other six giants have ended before this game, third and fourth Chelsea and Tottenham once again fell out of the chain. Chelsea lost to Newcastle away and Tottenham was tied away by Everton. .
This also makes that in the real-time Premier League standings, Chelsea and Tottenham are only 20 points, ranking three or four, Manchester City's 19 points, and Manchester United's 17 points farther away from the top of the standings.
As long as the game is divided, even if the second Arsenal wins, they can get 25 points, which is a game gap with the third behind.
And if Liverpool can be a guest at the Emirates Stadium and beat Arsenal, who are in the same hot state recently, then Liverpool will lead Arsenal by 4 points, leading the team behind by at least 6 points, and can get a fairly safe point lead to a certain extent.
Both sides have made adequate preparations for this battle for the league's first place.
In the League Cup match in midweek, two Premier League giants were knocked out of the game "live up to expectations", and they gave up quite a bit for this game.
However, unlike Arsenal, who have a neat lineup and excellent state, Liverpool still encountered a certain injury crisis before the start of the game.
Jose Enrique suffered a strain during training, plus Glen Johnson, who will be suspended due to a yellow card in this game.
The injury of the two main full-backs has caused Liverpool's two wing defenses and offensives to be in huge trouble.
Originally, in response to Glenn Johnson's absence, Rogers has adjusted some players' positions to make up for the decline in offensive and defensive strength on this side.
And now, Jose Enrique has no way to play, which means that Liverpool’s previous arrangements have been useless.
In the limited time, Rogers could not combine the team as a whole on the basis of two new players.
Finally, after struggling a bit, Rogers could only choose the most skilled lineup in the center and frontcourt. On the left and right sides, he replaced the corresponding substitute players and sacrificed certain offensive and defensive strength to ensure the overall stability of the team. .
Flanagan played for the first time this season. In the previous game, Sissoko, who was able to play two full-back positions at the same time, was the player in the first order.
Flanagan played the left-back position, while Sissoko went to the right.
Rogers limited the range of the two men's offensive insertions and gave them the first priority to do a defensive job.
And after all, this is a guest at the Emirates Stadium to challenge Arsenal, and Arsenal will definitely be the first to attack. For Liverpool, there is no need to worry about the lack of wide players and the problem of breaking the barrel.
The focus of this delayed Premier League battle, making the Emirates Stadium full of seats, a large number of Arsenal fans poured into the stadium to watch this first battle.
Although there are only a few thousand Liverpool fans who have come to London as a guest~EbookFREE.me~, they still have enough fan power to cheer for their team.
This season, Arsenal is different from the slow heat in the past and entered the game very quickly. For one thing, the main players of the team did not show much loss, and the introduced players like Özil can still compete with the team. Seam connection, so Professor Wenger can rarely have a stable environment for the new season.
Moreover, in previous seasons, the injury problems that plagued Arsenal did not appear at the beginning of this season.
The ability of old injured players like Rosicki, Ramsey, Cazorla and Arteta to play at the same time shows how perfect Arsenal's health is in the new season.
Liverpool is still the usual 433 lineup, relying on 3s offensive power to match up with midfielders to compete against Arsenal.
Arsenal is a 4231 lineup that favors pass control.
Arteta and Ramsey played double defensive midfielders, one was responsible for scheduling the pass, and the other was responsible for the attack.
The midfield offensive trio composed of Ozil, Rosicky, and Cazorla all have excellent personal skills and passing ability to ensure Arsenal's offensive fluency.
Striker Giroud is a high center, but has quite good athletic ability. Although it is more of a fulcrum for the team in the frontcourt, Giroud has a good unconventional shooting method and the ability to grab points. , Can be used as Arsenal's frontcourt flash point.
The two teams pursued pass control and focused on the offensive team. They attracted a large number of neutral fans before the game.
Everyone wants to see if Arsenal's midfield combination performs better, or Liverpool's 3s can show stronger offensive firepower.