Chapter 414 Four-game winning streak
Group d: Juventus, Manchester City, Sevilla, Borussia Mönchengladbach
This should be considered the death group this season. All four teams come from the five major leagues, but their strength is actually clear, and there is an atmosphere of the death group, but it is not strong.
Group e: Barcelona, Leverkusen, Rome, Borisov
Barcelona is as good as ever, with Leverkusen and Rome competing for second place in the group.
Group F: Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Olympiacos, Dynamo Zagreb
This group depends on the competition between the Bundesliga overlord and Chelsea.
Group g: Arsenal, Porto, Dynamo Kiev, Maccabi Tel Aviv
As the defending champion, Arsenal has also drawn a good draw. Although Porto and Dynamo Kiev are not weak, Arsenal's advantage is still obvious.
Group h: Zenit, Valencia, Lyon, Ghent
This is a real death group, but this group has little attention. Strictly speaking, there is no real wealthy family. Although Lyon was the former overlord of Ligue 1, Lyon has now become a black store in Ligue 1.
To be honest, I don’t know if the reform of the Champions League group draw is good or bad at the moment. After all, the first time this season has been changed, so it still takes time to figure it out.
After the draw, the teams did not stay in Monaco for a long time. After all, when the league is in progress, players need to return to the team as soon as possible. As for others, it doesn't matter whether they stay or not.
Arsenal's first group match in the Champions League was in mid-September, so there is still half a month left before the beginning, so there is no hurry.
Arsenal's most important thing to do now is to focus on the league first. The day after the draw ends, Arsenal will be the visiting student James Park Stadium to challenge Newcastle United.
But after Li Shou, Wenger and Arteta came back, they received very bad news. The two main central defenders Koscheerney and Mertesack were injured one after another within one day. Although they were not seriously injured, they would definitely not be able to participate in the next day's game.
Chambers said he was very unhappy. Although Chambers was eager to welcome the first start of the season, the starting lineup he wanted was definitely not at the central defender position.
Chambers is actually not suitable for playing as a central defender. This has been proven last season. Chambers made continuous mistakes when playing as a central defender, but when Chambers returned to the wing, he would at least not make any mistakes even if he didn't perform well.
Arsenal's current defense line is in line with Chambers, so Chambers's move to the middle is also Wenger's helpless choice.
Seeing this situation, Li Shou was depressed again. If Van Dijk had been bought before, Arsenal would not have to worry so much. Let’s not talk about whether Van Dijk can truly adapt to the Premier League, at least there are enough staff in the central defenders.
Unfortunately, all this is impossible. Van Dijk has already gone to Southampton. Although he still did not start in this round, the fact that he already belongs to Southampton cannot be changed.
However, it was raining all night long. The next day, Giroud and Velbeck caught a cold again. Wenger was so angry that he jumped up. Wenger even seriously doubted whether the two guys went out together last night.
In desperation, Wenger could only make further adjustments to the starting lineup. Griezmann was at the front, Walcott started and Sanchez formed two sides, and the three people behind him remained unchanged, Coquelin, Ramse Cazorla, Monreal, Chambers, Paulista and Bellerin.
As for the goalkeeper, there is naturally no change. Li Shou is the guarantee of Arsenal's victory. Arsenal can now lack any other players, but Li Shou cannot be missing.
Thanks to Li Shou's terrible physical strength, Li Shou has never been injured since he embarked on the path of a professional player in Monaco.
However, the goalkeeper is actually the most difficult position to get hurt. Unless you are particularly unlucky, it is the kind of easily injured constitution.
If a player is talented, he is easily injured, which is definitely the most tragic thing. In the position of goalkeeper, there have been two tragic guys in European football in the past ten years.
One is the German Mesozoic goalkeeper Adler. Once upon a time Adler beat Neuer, and the other is the Spanish goalkeeper Asenho. If Asenho had not been injured, it would never be that De Gea now.
Although the injury of the player disrupted Arsenal's pre-war arrangements, Arsenal immediately took the initiative after the actual game began, and Arsenal's lineup had to be rotated, but the players' tacit understanding was not a problem.
As for Newcastle United, its strength has also been strengthened this season. Newcastle United invested more than 40 million this summer transfer period.
However, judging from the game scene, Newcastle United did not seem to have changed because of this investment. Arsenal firmly took over the initiative and completed the first shot in less than three minutes of the game.
Arsenal had three shots in the first ten minutes, although these three shots did not really threaten Newcastle United's goal, and Newcastle United's first shot was in the 14th minute.
This season, the talented center Mitrovic, who has just transferred from Anderlecht, has played for two seasons in the Belgian giants, and has scored 44 goals in the two seasons.
Speaking of which, Li Shou had played against this talented center before. In the fourth game of the Champions League group stage last season, Mitrovic made a substitute, but the two teams had already decided at the time, and Mitrovic had no chance to perform when he appeared.
Although there is a chance to perform now, it is too difficult to break through Li Shou's goal. Mitrovic's powerful shot was directly hit in Li Shou's arms.
However, no one would have thought that Mitrovic's first shot was also his last shot in this game. Three minutes after Mitrovic's shot, the ball came to his feet again, but was hit by Coquilin's flying tackle. When the ball was tackled by Coquilin, Mitrovic, who was angry and stomped on Coquilin, who was still lying on the ground.
Mitrovic was also unlucky. The referee Marina was behind Mitrovic, and the referee immediately rushed to the Serbian young player and took out a yellow card.
Genius? At this moment, Mitrovic is just a fool in everyone's eyes. Newcastle United is not as strong as Arsenal, so his kick almost directly declared the final result of the game.
But when the referee blew the whistle of the game, the score was finally frozen at 2:0. Griezmann scored the first record, and Newcastle United defender Kolocini scored his own own.
Arsenal's luck in this game was still not good, almost suppressing Newcastle United in all respects, but in the end there was only one real goal, but no matter whether it was good or bad luck, Arsenal still won the game.
Chapter completed!