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9 month 29 day.

Arsenal hosted their second Champions League group stage opponent at home.

Olympiacos

After the away game against Dortmund, Sun Ke's mentality has stabilized a lot.

While it's impossible to be completely calm, at least your heart won't be pounding in the locker room.

In terms of strength, Olympiacos is definitely the weakest team in this group.

They lost 0-1 at home to Ligue 1 runners-up Marseille in the first round.

According to media predictions, Olympiacos is likely to be an easy win for the other three teams.

However, judging from the first match, Olympiacos is not weak.

They were evenly matched with Marseille on the field, with both teams having chances, but Marseille were better at seizing those opportunities.

Following the Champions League group stage draw, William Hill released its odds for winning the Champions League.

Defending champions Barcelona are at the top of the table and are the favorites for this season.

Real Madrid are ranked second, and the media believes that the feud between Mourinho and Barcelona is likely to continue in this season's Champions League.

The four Premier League teams occupy the third to sixth positions.

Manchester United, who drew a favorable group in the group stage, finished third.

With a deep squad and the owner always focused on the Champions League, Chelsea finished fourth.

Manchester City, placed in the "group of death," finished fifth thanks to several strong signings during the transfer window.

Arsenal and Bayern Munich are tied for sixth in odds.

The two Milan clubs are tied for eighth place.

This probability also reflects the current situation in European football, where star-studded teams like Barcelona and Real Madrid are very strong in home-and-away matches.

Premier League teams, with their strong financial resources and deep squads, all have the ability to reach the semi-finals.

Bayern Munich, the Bundesliga giants, can attract the best players in the league and are the only Bundesliga team capable of challenging for the Champions League title.

Borussia Dortmund, the Bundesliga champions last season, are a strong team, but they haven't participated in the Champions League for eight years, and all their players are participating in the Champions League for the first time.

Therefore, this Bundesliga powerhouse, which once put Arsenal at a disadvantage at home, has a title-winning probability that ranks only outside the top ten.

The Italian Serie A league, once known as the "Little World Cup," is now finding it difficult to attract good players.

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Although Inter Milan won the Champions League trophy two seasons ago thanks to Mourinho's signings and a practical counter-attacking style of play.

However, the odds suggest that they are not optimistic that Serie A teams can break through the ranks of powerhouses such as La Liga, the Premier League, and Bayern Munich.

Galati Steels, with the lowest probability of winning the Champions League, was drawn into Manchester United's group. The Red Devils have indeed been doing very well these past two years.

However, judging from his own experience, Sun Ke quickly found a flaw in the odds of winning the championship.

This highly reputable betting company in Europe placed Manchester City, who are making their first appearance in the Champions League, as the fifth favorite, which is clearly a scam.

Manchester City, whose squad undergoes significant changes every season, has been placed in a group of death.

Their opponents include Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich, the underrated Italian powerhouse Napoli, and La Liga fourth-placed Villarreal.

To be honest, the current Manchester City team is no match for Bayern Munich, and they don't have an advantage against the other two teams either.

Even if they manage to advance from the group stage, they will likely still qualify for the knockout stage as the second-place team in their group.

According to the Champions League Round of 16 draw rules, the group winners and runners-up are paired up.

Furthermore, teams from the same league will not meet in this round of the knockout stage.

This means that after Manchester City advances from the group stage, they will most likely face Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Inter Milan, or one of the teams from Group G: Zenit, Porto, and Shakhtar Donetsk.

Given UEFA's track record, Manchester City has absolutely no chance of finishing first in Group G.

These second-tier European teams either become easy prey for the title favorites or are paired with teams that unexpectedly topped their groups, guaranteeing that at least one team from a non-mainstream league will advance to the quarterfinals.

At the very least, we need to give strong teams from other leagues hope; otherwise, if the knockout stage becomes a competition between the elite teams, it will not be conducive to the overall development of European football.

Therefore, the chances of Manchester City facing Inter Milan are slim, and UEFA will most likely turn their first knockout match into a clash between two strong teams.

From this perspective, Manchester City, currently considered the fifth favorite, is likely to cause significant losses for many.

As a major rival in the Premier League title race, Sun Ke certainly doesn't want Manchester City to be eliminated early.

The tight Champions League schedule must be used to contain this Premier League team, which is the strongest in the league this season.

Of course, we can't let them live too well either.

If they make it to the Champions League quarterfinals, these guys will get overconfident and turn around and sweep the Premier League, leaving Arsenal empty-handed again.

Sun Ke guessed that Wenger thought the same way, so he wasn't too surprised when the old man made a big rotation in today's game.

In today's starting lineup, Arsenal retained three positions in the back line, only starting Maicon, who has recovered from injury, in place of Sagna.

In the midfield position, only Sun Ke was a starter in the last game.

Ramsey was beside him, and Rosicky was in front of him.

Arsenal's left winger is Arshavin, and their right winger is Chamberlain, who was signed from Southampton for a hefty sum.

The striker in charge is substitute center forward Chamakh.

It's not easy to be in charge when you rotate five positions in a single lineup.

Without sufficient control and courage, most people wouldn't dare to rotate the staff like this.

Sun Ke discovered that after transmigrating, her perspective on things was very different from that of her previous life.

He has been able to think about problems from a macro perspective, an experience he had never had before.

In the locker room, he could clearly sense Chamberlain's tension and Shamach's eagerness to prove himself.

Sun Ke held down Chamberlain's wrist.

Hey!

My heart is pounding like a drum.

He patted Chamberlain on the shoulder like someone who'd been there before: "Don't overthink it. When you see me with the ball, just run behind the center back."

"Don't hesitate, just play the same way you usually do, there's no difference."

In the players' tunnel, Sun Ke saw several familiar faces.

Swedish center-back Mellberg, forward Mirallas.

Both of these men were Sun Ke's favorite players in the football game in his previous life.

After the match started, the away team Olympiacos players played very aggressively.

Unlike Premier League teams, the Greek giants, seeing that Arsenal's three midfielders were not strong in physical duels, actively sought to create openings in the middle.

In the fourth minute, Olympiacos lobbed the ball into the space between Ramsey and Koscielny.

With his chest muscles bulging out of his jersey, Spanish right winger Foster used his body to push past Ramsey and charged into the penalty area.

Taking advantage of Koscielny's moment of cover, Foster passed the ball to Mirallas on the edge of the penalty area.

Mirallas gently flicked the ball behind Koscielny, and Foster rushed into the penalty area, unleashing a powerful shot that sent the ball hurtling towards the goal.

Szczesny made a diving save to clear the ball out of the six-yard box, and Silva, holding off another black striker, turned and cleared the ball out of the penalty area.

With a gasp from the Arsenal fans, Sun Ke breathed a sigh of relief.

There are no weak teams in the Champions League, and that's absolutely true.

These top teams from different leagues have a wide variety of tactics and playing styles, and each one is incredibly sharp.

For the first five minutes, the Olympiacos players seemed to be on steroids, charging and attacking relentlessly with the ball.

Rosicky was knocked down three times, while Ramsey was repeatedly bullied by that guy named Foster, making him look quite pathetic.

Ramsey panicked a bit, completely lost his composure after receiving the ball, and kept passing it back under pressure from the opponent.

Without Song and Arteta, Sun Ke took on the task of advancing the ball into the attacking third.

Faced with Olympiacos' high pressing, Sun Ke did not stick to short passes after receiving the ball, but instead passed it diagonally to the two flanks.

Arshavin has been unable to contribute a four-goal performance against Liverpool after repeated injuries, but this guy is very resilient and can hold onto the ball no matter what kind of defense he encounters.

Chamberlain was a little flustered, but the little guy still managed to hold onto the ball.

In this way, under Sun Ke's organization, Arsenal repeatedly stretched the opponent's defense and finally gained a foothold in the midfield.

In the ninth minute, Olympiacos looked for Foster again.

Foster shoved Ramsey aside and then tried to combine on the right side of the penalty area.

He exerted quite a bit of force with that move, sending the ball three or four meters.

Silva suddenly started his run and immediately slid the ball to the left.

Left-back Capdevila won the first header and chipped the ball behind the opponent's midfielder.

He took a step forward and immediately passed the ball to Sun Ke in front of him.

Olympiacos midfielder Foissa made a tough tackle, leaving his position open.

Sun Ke happened to run into his defensive zone.

Sun Ke stopped the ball on his right side and immediately passed it without adjusting.

The football wasn't very high in the air, but it was moving very fast and was spinning slightly to the right.

Olympiacos' left center-back Mellberg attempted to jump to clear the ball, but noticed it spinning towards the wing and hastily turned around.

The clumsy Swedish center-back was halfway around when Chamberlain appeared behind him.

Chamberlain chested the ball into the six-yard box, then charged forward and unleashed a powerful shot.

The opposing goalkeeper had only taken one step when the ball had already passed right in front of him.

His body was still moving forward, so he could only reach back and grab it.

This is like trying to revive a dead horse by treating it as a last resort.

Unfortunately, all I got was loneliness.

As the ball flew into the top left corner of the goal, Arsenal fans immediately cheered.

Chamberlain, making his first Champions League start, couldn't believe he had actually scored.

The little guy paused for a moment, then ran off excitedly in celebration.

On the sidelines, Wenger clapped his hands excitedly.

As he looked toward the midfield, Sun Ke was high-fiving Silva and Capdevila while talking to Ramsey with his arm around him.

It looks like he's "giving instructions".

That kid...

Upon seeing this scene, Wenger displayed a responsible expression that included a mixture of suppressed amusement, surprise, and relief.

Before anyone knew it, this kid had become the person in charge of the backcourt.