After Manchester United won the first round of the Champions League group stage in the new season, they returned to the Premier League and immediately welcomed a strong opponent at home in the fifth round...Arsenal!

Regarding the grievances between Manchester United and Arsenal, in fact, with the retirement of "Sir" and "Professor" over the years, it can be said that the grudges and the grudges have disappeared.

But when it was also a rebuilding team, the "Red Devils" were really aggressive when they were rebuilding, and they were also willing to spend a lot of money to buy people in the transfer market. However, after Wenger retired, Arsenal always said that they would rebuild a strong team with the strength to compete for the championship, but their actions were never big.

He hired Benitez to coach before, but Benitez's coaching level has long been the peak period when he led Liverpool to the Champions League. Now his level is just first-class. The facts have proved that Benitez is not the right choice for the "Gullers". In the end, he left sadly because of his unsatisfactory results. After Emery took over Arsenal, he failed to bring the team back to life. However, he won the UEFA Cup championship with the "Gullers", thus qualifying to participate in the Champions League this season.

After the start of this season, the unstable factors of Emery's coaching were exposed in the first game. They lost four away goals to West Ham United, which directly led to the team's ranking in the Premier League.

Afterwards, Arsenal defeated Middlesbrough and Watford, and then tied with Liverpool at home. Currently, he only ranked 9th in the standings with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss and 7 points in the Premier League.

Of course, even if it is just ranked 9th, there is only a three-point difference between Arsenal and Manchester United, which is the top!

And in the first round of the just-concluded Champions League group stage, Arsenal defeated Leipzig with one goal away and also won a good start to the Champions League group stage.

So relatively speaking, Emery did not bear much pressure at Arsenal, but the "Europa League King" still led the team to challenge Manchester United at a pre-match press conference held after arriving at Old Trafford Stadium.

"We know it's very difficult to get out of Old Trafford, but our team and I are ready for this tough game, and we'll be here to go all out and hopefully after the ninety minutes we can get a result that will satisfy us."

But in fact, Emery said it was very aggressive, but the tactics he arranged for the "Gunners" were seen at the beginning of the game with a different Arsenal team!

In the past, Arsenal was a team that was full of attack, but in this game, Emery arranged a 4-2-3-1 tactic for his team... not the tactic of accumulating heavy troops in the middle and front courts, but the tactic of hoarding troops in the middle and back courts!

Four defenders, double midfielders, three midfielders... plus a goalkeeper, Arsenal players arranged as many as ten players in their half!

As it turns out, Emery's tactical arrangement still has a very ideal effect...

In today's game, Solskjaer still rotated to a certain extent against Manchester United's lineup.

Yang Xiaozhuang, Martial and Rashford are still on the attack line, while in the midfield, they have arranged B Fee, Aliyu and Mark Tominayi. The midfielder composed of these three is still very good at fighting tough battles.

On the defense line, Joe Riley, Tuanzebe, Varane and Warren played together, but in the goalkeeper position, Solskjaer gave Joel Pereira another chance to play.

The goalkeeper position is actually a very special position on the football field. It really requires rich game experience to allow a goalkeeper to play the greatest role. Otherwise, even a talented goalkeeper with extremely talented do not have enough game opportunities or even don’t understand the characteristics of the opponent’s offensive players, he may make mistakes on the court.

Since Solskjaer intends to give the club's youth training players more opportunities, he cannot only use one De Gea in the goalkeeper position, otherwise in this case, once De Gea is injured... what should he do?

Manchester United's former substitute goalkeeper Sergio Romero has already transferred to Cologne, but in the end... he wanted to compete for the position of a main goalkeeper, but in the end he could only sit on the bench and wait for an opportunity.

It can be said that Romero's transfer is really a failure. Not only did he get no benefits, it also led to Manchester United's only goalkeeper position, De Gea is the only one who is easy to use. Solskjaer can only slowly train his youth training player Joel Pereira, hoping to train him into a qualified substitute goalkeeper first.

After the last game, De Gea's wrist was sprained to a certain extent, so Solskjaer gave Pereira a chance without hesitation.

But since the substitute goalkeeper was used, Solskjaer naturally put forward some requirements on the team's defense line. The most important thing is of course... Don't assist frequently, the first task is to protect your team's goal!

Manchester United's attack power is not weak, but in this game, the opponent's "Gunners" were making every effort to defend, which led to Manchester United relying on five people to attack Arsenal without two full-backs assists.

Aliyi is a midfielder. He can occasionally help Manchester United's midfielder with some ball control, but it is impossible to really make much contribution to the team's offense!

Front court, five to ten!?

How to rush this...?

So after the game started, a very strange phenomenon occurred... Manchester United's offense seemed to be weak, and Arsenal's defense seemed to be very strong!

The commentator at Old Trafford Stadium was a little confused: "Today's game... is a bit weird! We rely on to win and crush countless opponents' powerful offensives. Today, we can't play the sharp feeling of the past! Yang is still trying very hard in the frontcourt to find opportunities, and he can indeed easily get rid of the opponent's defense, but he never gets a real good opportunity! Arsenal was abnormal in today's game. They made their defense very well, and it looks... it seems like an iron barrel formation!"

Not only the commentator was puzzled, but countless people who were following the game were also a little dizzy...

The "Red Devils" who fought at home cannot fight a sharp attack!

The Gunners, who have always been fond of attack, have developed a defensive formation that can withstand Manchester United's offense!

This... what do you care about?

Are these two teams in poor condition?
Chapter completed!