Chapter 387 11 seconds!
Although Emery has never won a league championship in his coaching career, he has coached several strong teams, and... he has won the Europa League championship!
Not once, but... four times!
When coaching Sevilla before, Emery led Sevilla to win three consecutive championships in the UEFA Cup. In the three seasons before Mourinho led Manchester United to the UEFA Cup championship, Emery won the UEFA Cup championship with his "washbasin" for three consecutive seasons.
Afterwards, Emery was spotted by Paris Saint-Germain because of the capital of these three UEFA Europa Leagues, thinking that he is a head coach who is good at playing cups. Since he can win the Europa League three times with the weaker Sevilla, then will Paris Saint-Germain, which he has created at all costs... be able to win the Champions League?
But the result... Obviously Emery is still quite apart from the top coach. Not only did he fail to bring a Champions League trophy to Paris Saint-Germain, he even lost the Ligue 1 championship!
In the end, Paris Saint-Germain's management lost confidence in him, drove Emery away and voted for Mourinho.
During the transfer period in early winter of the year, after the Gunners fired Benitez, they temporarily invited Emery. Unexpectedly, when the team's record was only ranked ninth in the Premier League standings, Emery actually led the team to win the UEFA Champions League again in the new season.
After the end of last season, Emery signed a new two-year contract with Arsenal, which is also the reward for the Gunners' helping him qualify for the Champions League.
But Emery looked at the Arsenal stars, and he was really not just thinking about playing a short-term job at Arsenal, but hoped to make a difference here. At least it was quite difficult to meet such a group of stars who were suitable for his tactics. The foundation of the "Gullers" is obviously much better than Sevilla at the time!
Moreover, although Arsenal has many stars, it is not as lack of fighting spirit as Paris Saint-Germain stars, and it is still so chaotic!
The strength of the stars such as Lacazette, Ziyech, Aubameyang, Ozil, and Draxler is also great. If you really want to say that you are stronger than the stars such as Neymar, Mbappe, and Verati, it will definitely be unrealistic!
But if it is really a lot worse, it is not necessarily true!
At least these players are obedient and can fully play their tactics. They will not be like those big-name players in Paris Saint-Germain, who often overwhelm their personal will over the overall interests of the team during the game, and they have no tactical discipline at all!
It's a terrible thing for such a team to achieve good results in the Champions League!
Mourinho?
It’s useless if Guardiola goes!
So this time Emery, who wanted to make a difference in Arsenal, knew that the first game of the new season was to play in the European Super Cup with Manchester United, so his little thoughts were moved... He has been leading the team for half a season, and Emery is actually very clear about the current problem of the "Gullers". These Arsenal stars are a bit bad in terms of fighting spirit, and in the past two years, he has gradually lost confidence because his performance is not very ideal!
However, after being led by Emery to the UEFA Cup last season, the "Gunners"'s confidence was recovered. Although they didn't feel that they could compete with Manchester United, they were also a little dissatisfied!
Not convinced... This is obviously a good thing!
What I fear most is the kind of team that is already irritating, so Emery received a notice from UEFA that he hoped that he would cooperate with the reporter's interview and could say some provocative words in the "war of words" before the game, which was really in line with Emery's wishes.
And Emery really doesn't think that his team has no chance in front of Manchester United, so he is so rude... We also came to the UEFA Champions League last season!
Although the level of the Europa League is not as high as the Champions League, it is not so easy to win the Europa League!
So... this time I have to take advantage of the European Super Cup opportunity to compete with Manchester United!
If you lose, that's normal!
But what if you win?
If I really win Manchester United in the European Super Cup, Emery believes that he can use this game to boost the morale of his team in one season.
Before the game started, Emery looked at his players in the locker room and said: "Young men, the new season is about to begin. This European Super Cup game is actually not important to us. Winning and losing is not important, and it will not have any impact on our new season! But... today our opponent is Manchester United! Don't you want to let go of your hands and thoroughly test Manchester United's strength in this game?"
Emery's words really touched the hearts of Arsenal players. In the past two years, they have watched Manchester United stand up again and become the leader in the Premier League again, and even won the championship trophy twice in the Champions League.
But speaking of this...Where is Manchester United better?
Looking at Manchester United's lineup, it seems that their number one star, No. 7, China Yang is indeed strong, but the others... are just average!
Even Martial, the French international, has seen its strength increase a lot in the past two seasons. His performance at Manchester United before was just that, but such a team of Manchester United has become the "Red Devil" that everyone in Europe is afraid of!
Why!?
Although Arsenal and Manchester United lost the game in two rounds last season, they only lost 1:2 at Emirates Stadium. Although they lost 4 goals at Old Trafford Stadium, there were two penalty kicks on Manchester United.
Losing...is not much!
What's more, after Emery's training, Arsenal's strength has improved by leaps and bounds, especially since they have developed many sets of threatening set-piece tactics, they may not be able to compete with Manchester United!
For a time, everyone from Arsenal was full of expectations for this game, wanting to see how big the gap there was between them and Manchester United, and all of them felt that using the European championship as their reference standard would be beneficial or not harmless.
But when the European Super Cup started, just 11 seconds later, everything changed...
At the beginning of the game, Manchester United took the lead in kicking off, and Yang Xiaozhuang passed the ball to B Fei!
After B Fei got the ball, he continued to pass the ball to his backcourt...Mark Tominai, Aliyu, Varane, and then the ball was passed back to B Fei!
At this time, B Fei took the ball and ran forward two steps, suddenly passed it with a kick, and directly gave the ball to the Arsenal penalty area on the right side of the center, right in front of the Arsenal center back Koscheerney and left-back Emerson Pamieri.
At this time, Yang Xiaozhuang suddenly rushed out from behind. The moment he stopped the ball, Koscheerney and Emerson had already retreated. They could close the door at any time to block Yang Xiaozhuang's forward route.
But... Yang Xiaozhuang has no plans to break through!
After stopping the ball, Yang Xiaozhuang just looked up, then swung his right leg and hit the ball. At this time, he was more than one meter away from Arsenal's penalty area!
The ball suddenly flew out from Yang Xiaozhuang's feet, drew an arc deflecting to the left in the air, and flew directly into the Arsenal goal from the blind corner of the upper right corner...
Chapter completed!