In addition to the Premier League rankings, another thing worthy of attention is the Premier League scorer list.
Currently, the top two scorers are all taken by Arsenal players.
Van Persie ranks first with 14 goals, followed by Lei Yu with 12 goals.
In comparison, Van Persie has attended 14 Premier League games this season, while Lei Yu has only played 10, so Lei Yu has a higher scoring rate.
Not only that, Lei Yu also has 7 assists, currently ranking first in the assists list.
In other words, with the addition of Lei Yu, Arsenal's scoring efficiency has been significantly improved.
Lei Yu only needed 10 games to score 19 goals. Such a terrifying goal rate was also one of the prerequisites for Arsenal to quickly turn the goal difference into a positive number after losing to Manchester United 2-8.
In this era where the scoring responsibility is increasingly shifting towards wingers and shadow forwards, the number of goals scored by both Van Persie and Lei Yu shocked the fans.
One is a center who is gradually being eliminated by the times and has begun to develop into a defensive and ball-playing center. The other is a midfielder who mainly focuses on passing, controlling and assisting. The two have scored 26 goals together in 15 rounds of the league. This posture No worse than Arsenal with Henry.
Is Arsenal about to have a second spring?
In fact, Lei Yu already showed his strong scoring ability in Porto last season.
It's just that the Portuguese Super League doesn't get that much attention, and the Europa League is often regarded as a "loser" league in the eyes of Premier League fans who watch the Champions League.
But now, with Lei Yu's extraordinary performance in the Premier League, everyone has to think about a question.
Is it possible for Ray to compete for the Premier League Golden Boot this season?
Fans would never have thought about this issue when they learned that Arsenal had taken Lei Yu back, but now, the emergence of this issue in the market is itself the greatest compliment to Lei Yu.
Even Lu Xiaopang back then was not as amazing as Lei Yu in his first season in the Premier League.
Because Lei Yu always likes to continuously break through the middle and shoot directly into the penalty area, fans call this area "Lei's Embankment".
At first, Lei Yu thought this title was a bit awkward. Shouldn't it be "Lei's Area" or "Lei's Corridor" or something like that?
But after hearing the media's explanation, Lei Yu suddenly realized that the corridor area was simply weak.
"Embankment" is used to describe this area because after Lei Yu brought the ball here, the endless sea was in front of him.
No matter which direction he kicks, he can kick the ball into the sea.
And those who were half-immersed in the water had nothing to do but watch Lei Yu score.
So so far, stopping Lei Yu before he "goes up the embankment" has become a hot topic of discussion in various clubs.
Almost every Arsenal game has scouts from other big6 teams coming to watch the game.
They hope to find the best way to restrain Lei Yu through their opponent's response.
The focus battle between the Gunners and Manchester City has become the focus of attention for all clubs.
In any case, Lei Yu's current popularity in the Premier League is not inferior to top stars such as Lampard, Terry, Rooney, Drogba, and Torres.
As for new star players like Lukaku, Balotelli, Hernandez, and Sturridge who are about the same age as Lei Yu, they can't even touch the corners of Lei Yu's clothes.
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On December 16, two days before the match against Manchester City, the Champions League round of 16 and the Europa League round of 32 were drawn on the same night.
As soon as the draw results came out, the British media exclaimed, why are all the Premier League teams so unlucky?!
The Independent's headline read: "A nightmare signing for an English team!!!"
In the Champions League and Europa League, there are a total of five Premier League teams, all of which have been drawn.
Among them, the only Premier League teams that have reached the top 16 of the Champions League are Arsenal and Chelsea, both of which qualified first in the group.
Chelsea were drawn against Naples. This Serie A team managed to escape from the death group of Bayern and Manchester City. Among them, they had one win and one draw against Manchester City, which showed their strong combat effectiveness.
Arsenal's draw was even worse than Chelsea's, and they got the second-best player in the group - AC Milan!
Wenger seemed to have had a premonition. Before the draw, he said: "What is supposed to come will always come, and you can't hide even if you want to!"
After learning the result, the professor looked helpless: "If I were to be honest and frank, I would say that I would rather play against several other teams."
However, Wenger continued to mention the record of the only two meetings between the two teams in the history of the three major cups four years ago. At that time, although Arsenal had a goalless draw with their opponents 0-0 in the first leg of the home game, they failed to win in the second leg of the away game.
, the young gunners overturned their opponents 2-0 at the San Siro Stadium!
Not only that, in the past 11 years, Arsenal has faced Serie A teams 8 times and they have all been the final winners. In 16 games, they have achieved an overwhelming advantage of 9 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses, making them the number one nemesis of Serie A.
After the professor presented these data, many fans who were worried about the Gunners gradually regained their composure.
Maybe playing against Milan wouldn't be so bad!
With Arsenal's current state in the Premier League, the biggest headache should be their opponents!
As a result, the media all rushed to Milan to ask Allegri what he thought.
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After the draw ended, the football public opinion in the past few days was dominated by the draw results.
But no matter what the quarrel is outside, Arsenal has nothing to do with themselves.
Because in two days they will challenge Manchester City.
Since Jin Yuan took over Manchester City, Blue Moon has also had the momentum to attack the Premier League championship.
Manchester City has recruited a lot of players this season and has a new look from top to bottom.
Under the leadership of Mancini, the team even defeated Manchester United, which was second in the standings, 6-1 in a local derby.
With such terrifying momentum, he already looks like a champion.
Regardless of whether others are under great pressure or not, Lei Yu is really looking forward to this game.
Playing against the top team in the Premier League and defeating them is what Lei Yu is looking forward to most.
After more than a month of growth, Lei Yu's ability value has also increased a lot.
[Name: Lei Yu, age: 19. Height: 180cm, weight: 84kg
Basic abilities:
Shots:42
Headers:70
Passes: 82
Set pieces: 47
Dribbling:94
Arcs:56
Speed:89
Stamina:93
Reactions: 88
Sensitivity:84
Strong:95
Steals:80
Bounce:79
Saves:11
Inverse foot ability: 8 (8 levels in total, 1st level is the lowest)
Frequently used feet: None]
In comparison, shooting is still Lei Yu's major weakness.
I don’t know if it’s a problem with Arsenal’s club attributes, or if it’s my own training methods that are wrong, but in short, this attribute is growing very slowly.
But so what?
If you want to score a goal, you can completely rely on passing people to increase the goal rate.
And this time against Manchester City, Professor Xu Jiu came up with a new set of tactics based on his experience in the last League Cup match.
Among them, Lei Yu and others, who were endowed with public support, were all gearing up after knowing Wenger's tactical intentions, looking forward to the coming of this battle.