Chapter 8 Playing Football Like Before

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After the first warm-up match, Arsenal played two more warm-up matches.

They played against Barcelona in La Liga and Leverkusen in Bundesliga respectively.

The warm-up match between Arsenal and Barcelona undoubtedly attracted great attention, but the two sides did not open the viewing channel. This was only an internal warm-up match.

The main reason why Arsenal chose to play a warm-up match with Barcelona was because of Manchester City.

And Barcelona also wanted to test its own strength.

No one knows how the game went, but the two sides directly evolved into a goal battle.

The score soared to 5:5.

On the Barcelona side, Suarez scored a hat trick and Messi scored twice.

On the Arsenal side, Lukaku, Wilshere, Mane, Aubameyang and Giroud, who came on as a substitute, blossomed.

Luka scored four assists!

Although no video materials were provided, just looking at the score, it can be seen that this must be a battle between dragons and tigers.

After this game, Arsenal played the last warm-up match with Leverkusen of the Bundesliga. After this game, Arsenal will prepare for the first round of the season.

This game is also the only warm-up match Arsenal won.

2:1 win over Leverkusen, Luka scored two goals.

So far, Arsenal's pre-season warm-up matches have all ended.

On August 5, 2017, there was only one week left before the league opener.

During this period, all parties are also rushing to make final adjustments.

This week's Community Shield Cup has become the start of the Premier League opener.

Last season's Premier League champion Manchester City played against FA Cup champion Liverpool.

Guardiola's team fought with Klopp's players for 90 minutes, and finally Liverpool won the Community Shield trophy, which can be regarded as a good start.

Liverpool ranked fifth in the standings last season, but because Arsenal won the Europa League and directly participated in the Champions League group stage, the league qualification was transferred, and Liverpool also won the Champions League qualifiers.

However, they have to play in the group stage in advance to qualify for the play-offs, but with Liverpool's state, there is no problem.

If everything goes well, there will be five Premier League teams participating in the Champions League group stage.

After the Community Shield, all teams have begun to prepare for the first round of the Premier League.

Arsenal is the Premier League opener, and they will face Leicester City in the first round.

Last season, Leicester City performed poorly as the defending champion of the Premier League. Although it did not relegate, it lost a large part of the public opinion and popularity.

And the so-called Leicester City miracle will not continue to bring any help to the team after the heat fades.

However, taking advantage of that heat, Leicester City is also making a lot of money. It is estimated that it is one of the healthiest clubs in the Premier League in terms of finances.

After all, this season, many Premier League giants are in a transfer mode with a large investment.

Arsenal's transfers are all based on Giroud alone. Although the investment is not much, it is not small.

However, combined with some players who have been loaned and sold, the expenses are less than planned.

After Mourinho got the power of transfer, he stopped spending money lavishly and started to be frugal.

Although there is no gimmick of the previous signing, this Arsenal team does not need to attract attention in this way.

Based on their performance last season and the status of the Europa League champion, Arsenal still belongs to the first tier in the Champions League despite ranking fourth in the league standings last season.

But before that, Arsenal still needs to solve a problem.

‘Lubricant’!

“From the performance of the last three games, Wilshere and Ramsey are the best options for this role, and compared to Wilshere, Ramsey has a better tacit understanding with Giroud and the wingers.”

Arteta said; “I think we should focus on cultivating Ramsey’s fit with this set of tactics.”

“I think so too. If Ramsey can join this lineup, then we will have more flexible ways to deal with it in the midfield position. It is not unrelated for Ramsey and Wilshere to rotate.”

The coaches expressed their opinions.

And Mourinho was staring at the video of the game’s return defense.

In the video, there are shots of Wilshere and Ramsey cooperating.

In the cooperation, Wilshere and Ramsey's choices are completely different.

Ramsey will choose to pass the ball to the two wingers more often to help the center forward attract firepower.

But Wilshere directly charged forward, playing a simpler but more impactful game.

However, the success rate is not high.

Mourinho pondered for a moment, waved his hand and said; "Let's stop today's discussion. As for who will play this role, I still need to think about it."

After that, Mourinho said to Arteta; "Help me call Wilshere!"

Five minutes later, Wilshere came to Mourinho's office.

Wilshere was a little nervous. After all, anyone who was called to the head coach's office alone would have this mentality. Being singled out and named, there is almost no good thing.

But Wilshere racked his brains and couldn't think of what he had done wrong.

"Sit down!"

Mourinho invited Wilshere to sit down, then pulled out a laptop from the side, pressed the enter key, and the video on the screen began to play.

The video quality was a bit old. This was a video of Wilshere playing football seven years ago.

In the video, Wilshere's skills at his feet are brilliant, and he is extremely sharp and chic.

As a rare technical player among British players, Wilshere was a pure breakthrough player in the past.

Wilshere didn't understand why Mourinho showed this video to him, and he looked up in confusion.

Mourinho pointed to the laptop and said: "How confident are you if you are asked to play football like before?"

"Play like before?" Wilshere pondered upon hearing this.

After the transformation, Wilshere is now a midfielder who prefers to organize rhythm. Although there are occasional breakthroughs, they do not happen frequently.

This is very different from his age and changes in his playing style.

It is not easy for him to return to his previous style of play.

"I don't have much certainty!" Wilshere said bluntly, and then added; "But I can try."

He didn't dare to refuse, who knows what Mourinho was thinking.

Once you refuse, there will be a question mark on what will happen to you.

Mourinho was very satisfied with Wilshere's attitude. He smiled and said: "I hope to bundle you with Giroud. Although the coaching staff thinks that Ramsey and him will cooperate better, what I need is not a transfer. But a breakthrough!”

"If we carry out the most effective and sharpest counterattack in the shortest time!"

Mourinho said seriously; "You need to pierce the opponent's heart directly like a sharp arrow. This is the center forward's retreat that I want to see!"

Wilshere returned to the training ground with an extremely serious expression.

Lucky walked over and asked, "What did you say?"

Wilshere didn't hide it, sighing; "He let me play like before."

"Before?" Le Kai was puzzled.

"breakthrough!"

Wilshere continued to sigh; "So I'm going to start working on foot frequency, changes of direction, and start losing weight recently!"

At this time, Wilshere looked up and saw the young Saka continuously shaking left and right in the field, directly knocking the bulky Ramsey to the ground.

"Damn 17 years old!" Wilshere became more and more angry.

Lucky smiled and patted the other party's shoulder and said, "Come on!"

All we can do is work hard!

Wilshere wants to take this position and continue to consolidate his main position. To do this, he must obey Mourinho's arrangements and play the style the opponent wants.

"Mikel is helping me get the equipment for training changes of direction and counting the seconds for me. It's best to help me retrieve the previous records of changes of direction from the database for comparison!"

Hearing this, Arteta nodded, turned and left.

After a while, there were deflection poles, phase discs, resistance bands, climbing racks and even frequency training equipment.

Wilshere directly praised this.

“Awesome!”

Arteta smiled and said: "Then let's get started!"

Beep! !

The whistle blew and Wilshere began a grueling footwork and change of direction drill.

As for Arteta, he helped the opponent record.

In fact, from the moment Mourinho called Wilshere over, he basically understood that compared to Ramsey's style, Mourinho preferred Wilshere's sharp attack style.

For this, he was also prepared!

After all, the assistant coach's job is to help the head coach share the work pressure.