After defeating Manchester United, Arsenal won 19 consecutive games! It is only one game away from Real Madrid's 20 consecutive games.

And who is the next opponent? It is Southampton!

Southampton Football Club (southampton Footba11c1ub) was originally named St. Mary yma (stmary\'syma) a professional football club in Southampton, the port city of Hampshire in southeast England. It is nicknamed "Thesaints". It was founded in November 1885. Its current league is the English Football League.

In 1898, he moved to Xiaogu Stadium as his home stadium. After using it for 10 years, he moved to St. Mary's Stadium in 2011.

Southampton Football Club was relegated from the English Champions League to the English Football League after the 2oo8/o9 season.

The team won the second place in the League One season in the 2o1o/11 season and advanced to the English Championship. The second place in the 2o11/12 season and successfully advanced to the English League. The team won the 14th place in the 2o12/13 season.

Southampton has performed quite well this season. In the past 11 rounds of the league, Southampton has unexpectedly accumulated 22 points and stood on the throne of the third in the league!

Although there is still a lot of gap compared to Arsenal's 11 consecutive wins and 33 points, this also shows that Southampton is still in good condition now! At least, it is much better than Manchester United and other giants.

As for this game, all Arsenals did not think it was difficult to win. First, this game was a home game, and Arsenal had a natural home advantage. Second, because the team had already won Manchester United away, and then won a Southampton, which was not very strong, it seemed not difficult!

However, after the match against Manchester United, Britain ushered in a temporary quit period because national match day has arrived again.

Zhang Xu also received a call from the national team. In China, there was an Asian Cup qualifier against Indonesia and another game against the Saudi Arabian national team.

Zhang Xu really has no interest in these two games.

Especially the match against Indonesia. If this match is held in Indonesia, Zhang Xu may still be able to take revenge in front of everyone in Indonesia, but now it is held in China, so Zhang Xu feels it is meaningless.

On the one hand, if you print Ni's face in front of the Chinese, the Chinese are happy, but the Indonesians can't see it, which makes Zhang Xu feel a little empty; Second, Zhang Xu believes that the current national team has shown momentum and confidence, and even if he doesn't go back, the national team can easily defeat Indonesia; Third, Zhang Xu also wants to see if the national team is really not allowed to leave him!

In addition, the game against Saudi Arabia is also a home game, and Zhang Xu feels that there should be no problem in winning Saudi Arabia.

Therefore, he directly called the national team head coach Camacho to explain his thoughts. Camacho was still very willing to Zhang Xu. At the same time, Camacho also believed that there should be no problem in defeating Indonesia and Saudi Arabia at his home court, so he agreed to Zhang Xu's request not to return to China to participate in the game.

The fact is just as Zhang Xu expected. Although the national team did not have Zhang Xu in the game on November 15, the confidence of the national team was fully revealed in this game.

Although the confident national team has a slightly worse skill than European and American players, it is still slightly higher than that of Indonesian players.

Therefore, the game was calm and the national team always took the initiative in the game. In the end, the national team successfully won Indonesia with a score of 2-0.

After winning Indonesia, the national team's group points in Group C reached 12 points, ranking high in the group ranking, and qualifying was a foregone conclusion.

Such a record has indeed been rare in international competitions in recent years.

All Chinese fans are very clear that the national team can achieve such a record must be inseparable from Zhang Xu's contribution! When the national team determined Zhang Xu's core position, the national team basically never lost a game!

However, the second game against Saudi Arabia made Zhang Xu feel incomprehensible.

They also played at home, but in this game, the national team seemed a little passive in front of Saudi Arabia. They wanted to compete for technology, but they found that their skills were much worse than Saudi Arabia. Fortunately, their bodies were stronger than the opponent and their height was also a little taller, which finally made up for some technical shortcomings.

In addition, it is home to fight, so it can still compete with Saudi Arabia.

The score of this last game is zero to zero!

One win and one draw in two games is pretty good. The Chinese national team's group points reached 13 points and they are sure to qualify.

After Zhang Xu saw that the national team successfully defeated Indonesia and drew with Saudi Arabia, he no longer cared about the situation of the national team. He focused on the upcoming 12th round of the British League.

At about 3:00 pm on November 23, 2o13, a focus match in the 12th round of the 2o13/14 English Football League was held at the Emirates Stadium, with Arsenal playing against Southampton at home.

Arsenal has won 5 wins and 3 draws against Southampton in the last 8 games, and has won 14 wins and 5 draws against Southampton in the last 19 home games. Southampton's last away victory over Arsenal was the first league in 1987.

The two sides had 28 matches, with Arsenal having the upper hand in 16 wins, 8 draws and 4 losses, of which 10 wins, 4 draws at home. The two sides had 82 matches in history, with Arsenal having the upper hand in 43 wins, 23 draws and 16 losses.

Wilhelm took the game in rotation, and Mertsacker recovered from the flu.

Wenger's lineup is still with Zhang Xu as the core: the formation has not changed, the goalkeeper is No. 1 - Szesney; defender No. 3 - Sarnia, No. 4 - Mertesacker No. 6 - Koscheerne; back midfielder No. 18 - Zhang Xu and No. 8 - Arteta; midfielder No. 1o - Wilshire No. 16 - Ramsey No. 11 - Ozil; forward No. 14 - Walcott No. 12 - Giroud.

This game was unexpected. Due to the Piccadilly Metro Line malfunction, the game was postponed by 15 minutes due to the safety of fans entering the game.

At the beginning of the game, Arsenal, led by Zhang Xu, launched a fierce attack on Southampton.

Although this is an ordinary game, it is given some special significance - a record of twenty consecutive wins!

Zhang Xu had no special thoughts. He continued to follow the tactics formulated by Wenger and executed them seriously. But his teammates were a little excited because as long as they defeated Southampton, they could draw the record of 20 consecutive wins created by Real Madrid!

In this way, the names of all Arsenal players will be engraved in the history of world football!

If Real Madrid's record can be broken, it would be even more perfect!

The excited Arsenal players took out their best form and bombarded Southampton.

In the 11th minute of the game, Arsenal almost scored, Ramsey's straight pass was pushed out, Wilhelm broke away from the opponent's guard on the right side of the penalty area and then passed the pass from the far corner to bounce back, Southampton goalkeeper Boruchi confiscated the ball on the goal line.

Arsenal created another threat in the 18th minute. Ozil made a cross from the right edge of the penalty area. Zhang Xu, who was unguarded, made a wonderful pass from the heel from 11 yards, and Ramsey shot and hit the left post again.

In the 22nd minute of the game, Arsenal finally took the lead.

After receiving Ozil's pass in the frontcourt, Zhang Xu suddenly made a straight pass and directly tore open Southampton's defense. Southampton goalkeeper Boruci failed to attack in time. Giroud passed Boruci on the left side of the penalty area and shot into the empty goal.

One to zero! Arsenal leads with one goal!

With one goal in hand, the Arsenal generals became even more excited. Their morale was extremely high. Every minute, you could see Arsenal players completing their tasks at a high level.

Of course, Southampton is not just defending, and their offense is still very threatening.

In the 32nd minute of the game, Arteta made a mistake in clearing the edge of the penalty area, and Larana volleyed half a volley and was saved from the baseline by Szesney. Then Ward Praus took a corner kick, and Hoyverde headed the ball and was blocked by Koscheerney from the baseline.

In the 39th minute of the game, Ward Prous passed the ball, Jay Rodriguez's half-volleyball from 14 yards was saved by Szesney, and Lambert's follow-up shot was offside.

In the 48th minute of the game, Wang Yama was given a yellow card for a foul on Zhang Xu.

In the 52nd minute of the game, Schneiderlin passed the ball, and Larana's low shot from 2o yards was confiscated by Szesney. One minute later, Jay Rodriguez's shot in front of the penalty area was blocked.

In the 61st minute of the game, Cazorla fell under Wangyama's defense in the penalty area, and the referee Kratenberg refused to award a penalty. Two minutes later, Ramsey passed the ball, and Ozil's shot into the right side of the penalty area was confiscated by Boruci.

In the 68th minute of the game, Sarnia crossed to the far post, and Wilshire's lack of strength header did not cause trouble for Boruchi.

Cazorla replaced Walcott.

Osvaldo's shot from the edge of the penalty area was blocked by Sarnia, and Klattenberg rejected Southampton's handball complaint against Sarnia.

Rosici replaces injured Arteta.

In the 75th minute of the game, Osvaldo broke through Mertesack and shot from 25 yards to hit Szesni.

In the 79th minute of the game, Lambert's powerful shot from the edge of the penalty area was blocked by Wilshire, and then Wang Yama's long-range shot missed.

In the 82nd minute, Zhang Xu made a counterattack and Cazorla's shot missed from 2o yards.

Arsenal secured the victory in the 86th minute. Fonte pulled Zhang Xu's jersey while defending a corner kick. Klattenberg was sentenced to the extreme and Zhang Xu took the penalty himself.

This was the first time he was given a penalty kick, and his penalty kick attribute point was only a pitiful 63 points. However, he was pushed out by his teammates and asked him to give him a penalty kick, but he couldn't help but stand in front of the penalty kick.

Zhang Xu knew his penalty kick level very well, so he simply didn't watch the goalkeeper's movements. After hearing the whistle, he swung his right leg and shot hard!

His shot is very powerful and very positive!

The Southampton goalkeeper didn't expect him to shoot in the center of the goal, so when he rushed to the right side of the goal, he was frustrated to see the football flew into the goal from the center of the goal!

2-0! Arsenal secured the victory!

At this point, Arsenal also tied Real Madrid's record of 20 consecutive victories!
Chapter completed!