Arsenal fans once again took to their knees to celebrate.
Because Manchester City and Liverpool, who played subsequently, were both tied away from home by their opponents, and Arsenal ultimately led them by 4 points each in the league standings.
In other words, Arsenal can have a chance to make mistakes in one and a half games, lose one game and draw one game, and still not fall out of the top spot.
In January next year, Arsenal will play a total of four league games. In these four league games, Luo Wu will have gone to the United Arab Emirates to participate in the Asian Cup and will not be able to play for Arsenal.
These four games are Fulham at home, West Ham United away, Chelsea at home, and Cardiff at home.
Three home games and one away game is quite advantageous for Arsenal. Only the home game against Chelsea is a tough match. As long as the results of the four games are two wins, one draw and one loss, they can still occupy the top spot.
Fulham, West Ham United and Cardiff are all rookies. Unless the boat breaks down, Arsenal's results won't be too bad.
In February, Arsenal will soon face their strongest opponent, an away challenge against Manchester City. At this time, the Asian Cup has just ended two days ago. Luo Wu must be rushing back to the UK without stopping. Can he catch up with this game? Then
Don’t know anymore.
Emery has just calculated these things, so he was so calm at the press conference.
But the most important thing right now is the battle in December.
The battle in December is the most terrifying!
There are still five Premier League games, one Europa League, and one League Cup in December. There are 7 games to be played in the remaining 24 days. One more game in three days can be said to be a knife-edge.
Therefore, Emery's optimism is based on achieving a complete victory with Luo Wu in December, and then he can have his imagination in January next year!
Two days later there was a home league match against Huddersfield.
Then there is an away game against Southampton.
There is still a Europa League game in between. Of course, this group stage is already useless. Arsenal has already won the first place in the group and can directly send substitutes or even the youth team to play.
After that, they will challenge Tottenham away from home in the league. Tottenham were eliminated by Arsenal in the League Cup before. Tottenham must be holding their breath to take revenge.
Then he returned to the league to play Burnley at home and challenge Brighton away!
The final away game against Liverpool!
It will not be easy for any Premier League team in December. This is the so-called Christmas schedule. Who falls behind during this period? Then there is basically no chance of competing for the championship or successfully relegating.
What Emery has to do now is to let the team get as much rest as possible, and then ensure that the first team has enough players...
Then he went to the reserve team and found Ramsey, the former team captain who had been away for a long time and had verbally signed a contract with Juventus.
Although Ramsey has not played for Arsenal recently, he has been training diligently in the reserve team. He does not want to go to Juventus without being in shape.
Emery was very hesitant at first. After all, Ramsey no longer cares about Arsenal. But now there are not enough manpower, so he still went for it.
But what surprised him was that Ramsey refused to play for Arsenal.
Ramsey did not refuse directly, but said that he was not feeling well, especially his knees, and he always felt that there was something wrong. In order to avoid being unable to join Juventus, he did not dare to take risks.
This is of course an excuse.
I just don’t want to play for Arsenal!
Emery felt unhappy because he was rejected. But he is the coach of Arsenal and there is absolutely no way he would lower his head and beg Ramsey.
In training the next day, he promoted Guendouzi, who had performed well as a substitute in the previous game, to the main lineup, and placed Guendouzi in the midfielder position to partner with Elneny.
The formation was changed to 4231.
However, Luo Wu did not participate in the team's training, and Emery asked him to rest at home.
After a day of rest, Arsenal faced Huddersfield at the Emirates Stadium.
What is surprising is that although Luo Wu was included in the squad for the game, he was on the bench.
Emery is still very courageous.
What kind of team is Huddersfield? The last in the Premier League! To play against the last team in the Premier League, Luo Wu needs to start. How shameless is that?
He boldly asked Luo Wu to sit on the bench and continue to have a good rest.
Before the game, major sports media predicted that Emery would continue to fight Luo Wu, thinking that Emery would never dare to let Luo Wu sit on the bench. The result was shocking.
This time Arsenal's youth team did not disappoint.
Saka scored the first goal in the 23rd minute of the first half.
Shortly after the start of the second half, young player Guendouzi created a chance for Iwobi with a penetrating through ball. Iwobi kicked the ball from the left side of the penalty area and the Huddersfield goalkeeper saved the ball.
, Nketiah made a mistake and rewritten the score to 2:0.
The score of 2:0 also allowed Emery to calmly put Luo Wu on the bench.
Luo Wu is also in no mood. He has been tired from playing recently, so it must be a good thing not to play.
However, the other two championship teams, Liverpool and Manchester City, also won, and the point difference did not widen.
But for Arsenal, being able to rest the team's ace and allowing the team to win is definitely the biggest benefit.
But this is not the end.
There is another Europa League match in midweek, a home game against fk Qarabag.
Emery simply gave the first team three days off and directly activated the reserve team and youth team!
Anyway, fk Qarabak’s game is not important at all.
As a result, Arsenal actually won 1:0.
Both the youth team and the reserve team were able to win the game, which was beyond Emery's expectation. He then transferred three players from the youth team to form a new first team.
In the away game against Southampton, everyone once again witnessed Emery's madness.
Because Luo Wu was still put on the bench!
Luo Wu has not started in three consecutive games and was not even included in the Europa League squad.
In the away game against Southampton, he just sat on the bench.
"Is Emery losing his nerve?"
"What gives him courage?"
"Southampton are fighting for relegation, this is not Huddersfield."
"I bet that as long as the score is behind, Emery will definitely put the Chinese on the field as soon as possible. He dares to bet now, but when he is behind, he will never dare to bet!"
commentator Martin Taylor scoffed.
Ferdinand next to him said: "But what if he bets right? What if Arsenal takes the lead again?"
"I feel like this Arsenal is a little different than before."
"Their confidence seems to have really come up."
"The young players are getting better and better as they play. They all know what the ultimate goal is."
"Everyone is creating opportunities for the Chinese to rest for the upcoming war."
"Tottenham and Liverpool are the time for the Chinese to come back!"