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On September 9th, the battle of the Premier League reignited, and the fourth round of the league started at around one o'clock in the afternoon.

The first team to play was the Premier League giants Manchester United. Today they played at home against the newly promoted Crystal Palace, which was slaughtered by Sheffield United in the last round of the league. In the end, they won 1-0, finally stopping the two-round losing streak.

It was still Van Persie who scored the goal. The Dutch striker scored three goals in the first four rounds and helped Manchester United grab six points abruptly. The record of two wins, one draw and one loss is barely passable.

However, winning a newly promoted team is so difficult, even if the media who are optimistic about Manchester United at the moment are frequently questioning, Sir Mok can be said to be under a lot of pressure.

Fortunately, winning is finally a good result. Manchester United fans are still happy today, and they all look forward to the team's rebound after this bad state.

And the Premier League fans who watched the Manchester United game were not very satisfied with the quality of the game, and they turned their attention to the powerful team that will play next.

The match between Sheffield United and Arsenal naturally attracted the attention of most media and fans.

Manchester City and Tottenham are both abusive games today. The strong dialogue is between Sheffield United and Arsenal. The major media are also promoting this matchup early.

After all, Arsenal's recent recovery, not to mention double-killing Fenerbahce in two rounds of the Champions League play-offs, also defeated rivals Tottenham in the league and ushered in two consecutive victories.

The fiery Gunners face the strong and domineering Sheffield United, this game is naturally worth watching, and everyone also wants to see if Sheffield United will stumble against the Gunners.

At this time, the Sheffield United players who have completed their warm-up have returned to the locker room and finished their final preparations before the game.

After Speed ​​briefly explained the key points of the tactics, he asked the players to check their equipment again. Taking advantage of this short interval, Neymar approached Li Mo with great interest and asked him why he knew Liverpool's equipment ahead of time. This season will rise strongly.

This really makes Neymar not curious. To be precise, everyone in the Sheffield United team is very curious about Li Mo's original "accurate" prediction, including Speed.

As far as Liverpool was so bad last season, Xia Chuang didn't spend too much money. Normal people really can't regard them as a team that can cause major troubles for Sheffield United in the new season.

But before the season, Li Mo was optimistic about Liverpool. At that time, everyone thought he was just admiring Suarez, but now when they look at the standings, what the hell, Li Mo's prediction is really a bit of a magic trick!
1-0 in three games, nine points in three rounds, and won the double red meeting with Manchester United in the last round!

Today's Liverpool, like Sheffield United, is the only team that has won a complete victory since the start of the Premier League season!
Don't care how "lucky" you are to win, 1-0, that's three points.

Two 1-0 in one game, you can attribute it to luck, but 1-0 in three consecutive games, then there is something!
Li Mo looked at Neymar as a curious baby, smiled and said a few words that he was blind, he was just optimistic about Suarez.

In order to prove his innocence, Li Mo also cited the example of Suarez's injury in a pre-season friendly match.

"Liverpool won three consecutive victories, but it has nothing to do with Suarez. I am optimistic about Liverpool because I am optimistic about him. You all know the reason, so it is pure luck. I can't predict the foresight. How can it be so coincidental? Guess that Sturridge will break out and lead Liverpool to a winning streak? So it's luck, pure luck."

Li Mo flickered, everyone in the locker room thought about it, but Neymar happily touched Li Mo's head, saying that he hoped to get good luck from Li Mo.

The eyes of the rest of the players brightened, and they all came to pick Li Mo's hair.

This thing is still very popular in the football world. Lucky objects, lucky numbers and the like can especially arouse the interest of the players. Li Mo is also dumbfounded, so he can only let his teammates toss.

After playing around, Li Mo saw that the time was almost up, so he applauded and signaled his teammates to gather around to cheer up and prepare to go out to line up.

But when he was speaking, Li Mo was still thinking about Liverpool's three consecutive victories, and he had to feel the "inertia" of history.

In the original timeline, Suarez was suspended for biting last season, which made him unable to play at the beginning of this season. Sturridge seized the opportunity and scored consecutive goals to help Liverpool score three 1. -0 comes out and shows off.

But now Suarez didn't bite anyone last season, and Li Mo originally thought that the timeline was completely messed up.

But Suarez's minor injury in the pre-season friendly made him still miss the first three games of the league. Liverpool's development track inexplicably returned to the way Li Mo remembered.

It was still Sturridge's outburst, and it was still 1-0 in three games, which was exactly the same as Li Mo remembered, which caused him to feel emotional again.

However, the rise of Liverpool is the rise, and now Sheffield United has become a trend. Last season, when Sheffield United played in the Premier League for the first time, they were not afraid of playing Manchester City. Now the opponents are nothing more than Liverpool and Chelsea. That's all, Li Mo has confidence in his brothers!
"To play at home, let's act like we are at home! Let's go! Kill Arsenal today and shut up those boring media! It's not up to them whether we fail or not, we've played it! Come, come! Let's go!"

Li Mo roared and broke open the door of the locker room first and went out. The rest of the Sheffield United players cheered along with the strange yells, and then one by one slapped or kicked the door of the locker room before rushing out, full of momentum!
Speed ​​looked behind them with a smile, naturally very satisfied with the confidence of his disciples, but after looking at the locker room door, he shook his head again.

"It's time to change the door again, these brats."

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Under the sunlight, Li Mo led his team to play. Amidst the cheers of Sheffield United fans, the commentators from various countries started to introduce the starting lists of both teams to the audience.

Although Wutai has started to broadcast the Premier League live again this season, because the funds are not sufficient enough to be squandered, there are many games about Sheffield United that Wutai does not have the live broadcast copyright.

This is the case for today's game. Fortunately, Sina Sports will broadcast live as usual, so Huaguo fans still have a stable channel to watch the game.

Sina also once again invited General Fan as guest commentators, Zhan Jun, Zhang Lu and Lao Fan. This commentary lineup is luxurious enough, and it also makes Huaguo fans look forward to it.

At this moment, Zhan Jun had already opened up the conversation and asked Lao Fan to introduce the starting lineups of both sides today.

".Arsenal didn't dare to push forward today. Facing Sheffield United, they resorted to a four-two-three-one formation. Wenger may still want to control the midfield as much as possible. Even if they can't win Sheffield United, they must have enough The number of midfielders to ensure that the rhythm is not out of control.

I think Arsenal might really have a chance in front of Sheffield United's midfield arrangement today. After all, Drinkwater and Medel are both on the bench, Matic takes turns, and the combination of Dembele and Barry is theoretically There is no problem, but after all, the two have not played as a formal partner before, so whether they are suitable or not has to be tested by the game."

Lao Fan talked eloquently at the side, Zhang Lu couldn't help nodding, Zhan Jun took the time to look at Sheffield United's starting roster for today, feeling uneasy.

Looking at the staffing, Sheffield United does not have any problems, but after all, they recruited four new aids in one go. Neymar and Felipe Luis are lucky to say that they have played three rounds before and have established a preliminary tacit understanding with their teammates. .

But Barry and Lescott also followed, and Zhan Jun had to admire Speed's boldness.

Fortunately, Drinkwater, Medel, Maguire, and Matridge are all sitting on the bench. If it is not possible, Speed ​​also has room for adjustment. It is better than having no one to replace.

Huaguo fans also looked a little apprehensively at Lescott and Barry, who represented Sheffield United for the first time, thinking that these two abandoned players from Manchester City could do what Speed ​​said. As he said, he is still a 100% trustworthy player!
At three o'clock in the afternoon, with the noise and cheers on the scene, the referee on duty blew the whistle for the start of the game. Sheffield United, who was at home, took the lead in laying out a defensive stance to welcome Arsenal's tentative attack.

Today, Sheffield United returned to a four-four-two formation. Neymar, as the right midfielder, needs to make a certain contribution on the defensive end.

However, Speed ​​does not expect him to invest in defense like De Bruyne, he only requires him to interfere with the opponent's wide ball holders as much as possible.

Behind Neymar, there are Barry, who is always ready to defend, and Matthew Lorton, who has a strong defensive ability, so his side is not considered a defensive weak side.

From the point of view of position, there is not much difference between him and his position when he was playing right winger before, and the position of Dirk on the left is much deeper than him.

Just like the variant four-four-two lineup that Bell played before when he was on the court, Bell needs to return to defense, but his position will be higher. The side lanes just changed the tactical weight.

It is rare for Li Mo and Berbatov to play together in the starting line-up again. It is still the old rule. Brother Xiaosa goes forward and assumes more fulcrum functions. Li Mo has a wider range of activities, which also makes it more difficult for Arsenal's defense to figure him out. The running position and receiving position.

The frontcourt offense is easy to talk about, but the focus is on the defense and organization of the midfield and backcourt.

Not only the fans of Sheffield United are paying attention to Barry's performance, Wenger is also curiously looking at Sheffield United's midfield at the moment, wanting to see if Sheffield United can still play the past strangling defensive effect.

But at this moment, Barry didn't have much nervous expression on his face. Even though he knew that there would be countless fans examining and observing him, he still had a calm mind.

After all, he is a veteran of the Premier League. He was able to firmly occupy the position of the main midfielder in Manchester City before. How can he not have two brushes to cooperate with Yaya Toure's midfield superstars?

He is getting older, but correspondingly, his understanding of tactics and his ability to read the game are also increasing day by day.

Manchester City needs fresher blood, younger players to wipe Yaya Toure's ass, he is just not suitable, it does not mean that his strength has regressed significantly.

Sheffield United's lineup is very young, and he doesn't need to go around to defend, nor does he need to bear too much frontal defensive pressure.

Speed ​​also trusted him a lot, and let him take on the responsibility of organizing the team's midfield and backcourt when Drinkwater was not on the field, and only let him be responsible for the main defensive work in the right half. He is grateful for this assignment No, I just feel like I've come to the right place!
Without a partner who is unwilling to do dirty work, and without frontcourt teammates who like to attack but not defend, Barry's confidence will naturally come out as soon as the burden of defense is relieved.

And he is only slow. In the backcourt, assisting defense, position selection, and interception are all top-one in the Premier League. He was blasted badly by Li Mo before. It was purely because Li Mo used his speed to bully others.

But there is only one Li Mo in the Premier League, and he is still a teammate with him now, so he doesn't need to worry anymore.

After the start of the game, Barry cooperated with Dembele to organize the positions of his teammates in the backcourt, and Kevin Dirk also actively moved closer to the center.

The Arsenal players tried to open up the situation from the middle. After several passes, Wilshere made a long pass to Giroud.

As a result, under the personal interference of Dembele, Giroud's header was deflected, and Ramsey moved quickly, rushing to the second goal of the football.

But amidst the exclamation of countless Arsenal fans, Barry made a few big strides to get stuck in the position first, and then blocked the possibility of Ramsey getting the ball with his back, and passed the ball back smoothly under the confrontation To Lescott!
This familiar positioning and confrontation seems to be immature for Ramsey. What is an old midfielder? He doesn't have the speed of striding meteors.

Wenger's expectations turned into surprise.

He didn't underestimate Barry's strength, he was just surprised at how quickly Barry integrated into Sheffield United's tactical system.

Barry is a good midfielder. No matter which coach is currently in the Premier League, he will have such an evaluation of Barry.

But at the age of 32, and transferred to a new team, it's really hard to say how much of his strength he will be able to play.

But just through the confrontation and grabbing the ball just now, a bad thought flashed in Wenger's mind.

"Wouldn't it really make Speed ​​catch another one? Did he really let Barry integrate into the tactical system?"

The feeling that the professor has no reason is ridiculous.

In more than a month, can Barry be seamlessly connected?Is Sheffield United's coaching staff really so good at seeing people?

But Barry, who was playing steadily on the court at the moment, told Wenger with practical actions.

He has indeed been integrated into Sheffield United's tactical system!
With Speed ​​and the Sheffield United coaching staff "reducing the burden" on him, and with the active defense of all the young Sheffield United players, he has indeed shown at least [-]% of his strength.

It can't compare to Drinkwater, who is now entering the peak of his career, but it is completely enough to match the position of the midfielder when Drinkwater is not on the court!
Position selection, interception, defense, organization, Barry's steady performance made Sheffield United fans very happy!
Coupled with the addition of Lescott who is able to support Giroud on the defensive line without losing the wind, many Sheffield United fans are almost laughing their faces to death.

Millions!It's a bargain to snatch these two old babies from Manchester City for just a few million!

Other Premier League fans watching the excitement also panicked.

I wanted to ridicule a wave of Sheffield United for "picking up junk", but they picked up the enemies they defeated themselves, but now it turns out that Manchester City can't use them themselves, and Sheffield United has acquired two generals with both strength and experience!
Old age also has its advantages. Usually playing a rotation, there is no problem with physical fitness and condition. Aren't these veterans good?
Watching Barry and Lescott play more and more on the defensive end, thinking that Sheffield United's bench has been raised to another level, the faces of several powerful fans turned green.

At this moment, Barry felt a burst of joy in his heart, and felt extremely comfortable all over his body!
When he was told by Manchester City last season that he was no longer in the new coach's plan, he accepted it calmly.

Hate Manchester City?In fact, he does not hate.

After reaching the age, he knew that sooner or later, he would accept it peacefully.

But Speed ​​approached him in person, and when he planned to return to Everton, he also diverted directly to Sheffield United.

He doesn't intend to take revenge on anyone, and he doesn't have the intention to mock Manchester City again.

He came to Sheffield United not because he was greedy for a high salary, but because what Speed ​​said at the time touched his heart!

"An excellent midfielder like you should not have a heavyweight championship trophy. You deserve more, and Sheffield United and I can just give you this chance to rectify your name. We are interested in joining us on the European Cup. Top? Barry, we need you."

Because of this passage, he finally chose Sheffield United.

This is a veteran's last-ditch effort!
After all, he was not willing to end his career like this.

He is also eager to get a heavyweight championship trophy that can justify his name!
That was his last ambition, and he believed Lescott was as he thought.

This is their last chance, and they have to use their last energy to prove it to the world.

They are worth it!