Can you please tell me how Arsenal's tactical play has changed under Wenger?

Alcena Wenger, one of the best managers in Arsenal's history, or maybe we should remove one, was full of controversy and made Arsenal fans love and hate him. I have been an Arsenal fan since I started watching football in 2002, and the many years without a title during that time has been a real struggle. At first, I fell in love with Arsenal because of Henry, when Henry moved to Barcelona, I used to think that I would follow to see Barcelona, but it turns out that when fell in love with Arsenal may be because of Henry, and the depth of this feeling for the Gunners, or perhaps more for the kind of Arsene Wenger, "the real meaning of the word" beautiful! The love of soccer. Arsenal is like the "dancer on the tip of the knife", although it is very beautiful, but it is very difficult to go. As a successful manager, Wenger has been looking for change and progress, so that he can catch up with the trend of the times, but the pursuit of beautiful soccer, so that Arsenal gradually less tough Graham era, Wenger's resume also proved that you can not rely on the beauty of the championships you won't win, soccer has his iron blood and passionate side.

Bergkamp, the technical seed that Wenger planted in Arsenal

Every tree is slowly grown from a seed, and Arsenal before Wenger's arrival is very different from what it is now. "Rude," "brutal," "dirty" are the best footnotes for Arsenal, the so-called "five old men at the back" does not seem like a compliment. "does not look like praise, but for the gunners kicking outdated and violent interpretation, long-term away from the European field, so that the English soccer and the European continent soccer can not be connected, when the world is researching how to make the soccer in the ground running more smoothly, the English are still in the implementation of a standard set of 442 and the side of the road in the center, and happy, and from the North London's Arsenal, even more so than Liverpool.

Wenger was the first non-British coach in Arsenal's history, and it wasn't easy for an outsider to gain the trust of the dressing room, but of course Wenger wasn't the worthless coach he was in the eyes of the media at the time. He won the Ligue 1 title and discovered the greatest player in African history - George Weah. The first World Footballer of the Year was brought to France by Wenger, but all that was nothing in the eyes of England.

The Arsenal dressing room is a pandemonium, with Anglo-Saxon culture a staple of the locker room and Adams at its head. The clan, which favors Germanic culture, has the same high spirits as the Germans, and we don't know exactly how Wenger managed to fix the locker room, a job that no other manager would have been able to do so quickly and so well.

After fixing the locker room, Wenger began his own transformation of the team, he did not like Graham's Arsenal, he advocated technology, believe in data, he came from France, and even went to Asia, technical soccer is what he likes, and at that time, there was a Arsenal lineup of players he was extremely interested in - Bergkamp.

While Bergkamp was still trying to improve his tackling in the box to adapt to the fast-paced English style of play, Wenger told him to stay out of the box, that it wasn't the place for your talents. It was almost incomprehensible at the time - what do you do with a striker who is more than 6-foot-8 and not very fast outside the box?

This was the first step in Wenger's transformation of Arsenal, and Bergkamp was the seed of that technical soccer, with his delicate ball control, imaginative passing, and incredible crossing, all of which stemmed from Wenger's tactical transformation. Arsenal's front line from the simple twin towers grabbing points, into a speed impact + technical organization, whether it is Anelka or later Henry, in Bergkamp's curation are playing with ease.

At that time there was a saying circulating: want to see artistic soccer? Either go to the Bernabeu to see Zidane or go to Highbury to see Bergkamp. The new tactical style made Arsenal's 442 stand out in the English game. Mixing the stability of the back line with the technical factor of the front line makes Arsenal's two strikers difficult to defend, and how should you defend against a center forward who is not in the box? The opponent's center backs don't know. And it is because of the arrival of Bergkamp, so that the Arsenal midfield organization of the heavy responsibility has become much easier, therefore, Wenger's heyday of Arsenal midfield combination has been two biased towards the defense of the center forward Vieira + Petit / Gilberto, although it is a technical soccer, but the waist of the Arsenal is the hardest in Europe.

Therefore, the prototype of technical Arsenal has been quietly buried in the early days of Wenger's tenure, and the seed is Bergkamp, the Ice Prince's unique technical strengths were developed, Wenger let him from a box charging warrior, into a poet who can be free to play. He has never scored more than ten league goals since the new century, but there has never been any doubt that he is a top striker, and he has opened up the precedent that tall centers may not need to compete for headers.

Wenger's transformation in the early days of Arsenal is undoubtedly successful, the core of this transformation lies in Bergkamp, Wenger to create the unique double center forward tactics, so that the opposing center back defense has no focus, and the benefit of freeing up Bergkamp is that Arsenal's center forwards can maintain enough hardness, which at this point in time is the best Arsenal, is the most balanced Arsenal.

The formation of the "French Gang" casts the "Double Era"

Despite winning the double in the first full season of coaching, Arsenal still don't have the strength to challenge United, with the "Class of '92" being the best team in the world. With the maturity of the "Class of 92", Scholes, Giggs and Beckham gradually took the lead, and at that time, United could not only dominate the United Kingdom, but also the king of Europe, but all this quietly changed after the arrival of the new century.

Despite his fondness for England, Wenger once said that if he were a soldier in World War II, he would have preferred to be in the same trenches as the British soldiers. But Wenger has never hidden his love of his native country's players, and it was his French countrymen who helped him dethrone Manchester United as England's kings in the early part of the century.

The technical soccer factor is even stronger. When Wenger picked his Bergkamp partners, he focused more on their impact and technical ability than on how many headers they could compete for in the box. Anelka, and later Henry, were somewhat similar in that they could both be more powerful in a sporting game, rather than the kind of center forward who stays in the box waiting for a cross.

The World Cup-winning back pair of Vieira and Petit are very capable of strangulation, they were Zidane's bodyguards in the national team and Bergkamp's in Arsenal, and with Vieira having a good long-range shot and Petit being more adept at dispatching, they can provide enough support for Arsenal in the attacking end.

Shortly after Euro 2000, a Frenchman called Pire joined Arsenal. He was a Frenchman, but a descendant of the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and Spain), technology is his greatest strength, and Wenger in the introduction of his only constructed a "French gang" Henry + Vieira + Petit + Pire.

Wenger has many groundbreaking tactical changes in the early stages of Arsenal. For example, for the transformation of Bergkamp let people realize that there is no speed of the high center forward may not need to stay in the penalty area to grab the point, Bergkamp outside of the more Ibu; for the transformation of the Arsenal midfield, so that the combination of the center forward an attack and a defense is no longer become a fixed pattern, and later Juve to create a super center midfield stringer combination of Emerson + Vieira; and for the transformation of the Pirie, is to open up the counter-footed wingers precedent, he has long let the The right-footed Pire played on the left, and his role on the side is not to pass the center, but to switch places with Henry at any time to attack the opponent's ribs or even the penalty area.

Wenger at the time for Pirelli this transformation in the now has become the mainstream of the wingers play in that era still seems a little alternative. Arsenal's attacking set basically launched from the left, Pire is responsible for advancing to the penalty area after the ribs choose to cut rather than down the bottom, skating the bottom of the line job to the world's best left back Cole at that time. Pirelli and Henry took turns switching positions to impact the penalty area, and once the opponent's defense was flattened, a cross was sent to Cole, with Yongberry on the right ready to impact the penalty area.

But, many times Henry and Pirre two people can be in a one-on-one situation to complete the goal, 49 games undefeated is the peak of Arsenal, which Henry and Pirre both played more than 40 games, Henry horror of 39 goals to cover up Pirre's 23 goals, Arsenal's saucer shape of 4-4-2, the two backs defense, not a front back. Where was Bergkamp considered a striker when Wenger, playing a 4-4-2, started the first 4-2-3-1 revolution in soccer history?

Because of the double back position to protect the side of the defense, which is why Cole can be crazy assists, the "left back" Pire began to frequent and even crazy cut, cut the pass, cut the long shot, cut the single cut, Bergkamp in the middle at any time to wait, using the super-high IQ and technology to respond to the tactic of this tactic. The core of this tactic is that Henry, who was regarded as the "useless left forward" of Serie A. He was the first one to be sentenced to the death penalty. The first thing you need to do is to get rid of the problem, and then you need to get rid of the problem, and then you need to get rid of it.

Arsenal's defense was top-notch and even desperate. The right back (first Dixon and then Lauren) rarely assists, plus there is a right back to assist the defense, this side of the defense is solid. On the other side is by Henry + Pire + Cole composed of super strong "left corridor", the opponent basically can not attack into, if there is only counterattack. But given that there is still a left back protection, Arsenal in fact does not fear counterattack. Therefore, his Arsenal is not relying on the magnificent technical and offensive ability to suppress the opponent, the defensive end is also quite solid.

Despite the lack of a staking center forward in the penalty area, however, the two wings rarely play the side of the road in the Arsenal does not rely on such a type of center forward, on the contrary, Pillay, Henry, and the right side of the Yongbaili rounds of the impact of the penalty area, so that those tall defenders are very difficult to deal with the technology, speed and agility of these very good players, and it should be known that Henry's ability to grab a point in fact very strong, even though he is not good at Header, but 1 meter 88 height plus his own tonnage, in fact, Henry even in the penalty area is also a full of attacking power striker, absolutely can adapt to the Premier League level of confrontation.

Relying on such a game routine, Arsenal in the early part of this century, suppressed Manchester United, "the French gang" is naturally the biggest contributor, although in the 2002-2003 season lost the chance to win the Premier League three consecutive titles, but no one denies that in the three years from 2001-2004, the Premier League belongs to Arsenal. that the Premier League was the era that belonged to Arsenal.

Technical flow further strengthened, Wenger gradually let the iron blood disappeared in the lineup

2005 for Arsenal is a very iconic year, that year Arsenal won the team's last title in the next eight years - the FA Cup until 2014 Arsenal finally in this Cup, ending eight years without a title. In that case, Wenger still has a strong connection with China. The year Wenger was born was the year our new China became successful, and both Wenger and China have experienced eight years of hardship.

Wenger's titlelessness had a lot to do with the departure of one man - Vieira. Regardless of whether it is in order to make room for Little France, Vieira's departure for Arsenal is more fatal, it is not purely in the sense of letting Arsenal's "waist powerlessness", in fact, the technical back can also support a team, such as Busquets, Vieira's departure for Arsenal for the spiritual level of the impact of the greater! The Arsenal team has become a "softball team" since then, and Wenger, who has been chasing the technology too much, has started to gradually leave his soccer with iron blood and willpower.

If the technical seeds of the front line were planted by Bergkamp, then the technical seeds of the midfield were planted by Cesc Fabregas. Therefore, I prefer to believe that Wenger at this time is trying to transform the midfield, past Arsenal's center-forward are two defense-oriented midfielders to partner. After selling Vieira, Wenger bought Hleb and Rosicky from the Bundesliga, can you say that Arsenal sold Vieira for money? Not in terms of reinforcements that summer. Arsenal had the money, it's just that Wenger preferred to spend it on technical players and he chose to ditch everything that wasn't technical related.

The departure of Dixon, Adams, Keown and Vieira saw Arsenal say goodbye to the past, and in 2005 Wenger created a technical Arsenal, with a rather bizarre formation. After Bergkamp gradually faded out of the lineup, Arsenal used Reyes to replace the position of the Ice Prince, the midfield is composed of three ten - Hleb, Faye and Rosicky, of course, the three ten and Milan that year, three ten is a little bit different, Rosicky and Hleb can not be counted in the traditional sense of the number ten, they are closer to the The front waist, and the variability of this formation is stronger. Because Hleb although the absolute speed is not fast, but at that time is also the Bundesliga king, he can form a winger, in this case Arsenal can be changed into 433, Henry center, Reyes and Hleb split on both sides, small law recovery and Gilberto form a double back to protect the two sides, in short, Wenger in the pursuit of the road of technology and a step further.

But everything is good and bad, in the pursuit of ultimate perfection on the road can not go back to Wenger, but also let Arsenal into the embarrassing history of the perennial champion, we can not go to measure Wenger's pursuit of this is correct, but soccer is the need for blood and passion, simple beauty indeed can not get the right to the championship.

Debt makes Wenger miss the time, Arsenal had the opportunity to become another Barcelona

In the pursuit of the ultimate perfect soccer, Arsenal and Wenger really ushered in a good time, in 2009, the success of Barcelona, so that the passing soccer began to ascend to the stage, people found to get the title not only only Mourinho's defensive counter-attacks, and Arsenal and Barcelona play a lineage of soccer, however, the gap in staffing is very large.

In fact, the core of the success of Barcelona's soccer does not lie in Messi but in the midfield combination of Ha Baibu, after all, Spain does not have Messi can still dominate the world for up to four years, and Wenger has also created a midfield configuration comparable to Barcelona's with the goal-scoring ability of Van Persie, coupled with the speed of the two wings of the advantage of the tactical level of Arsenal is not inferior to Barcelona.

When Barcelona beat the world, but at the Emirates Stadium ate flat, people called that game is the "Earth defense war", people began to realize, playing Barcelona not only can only rely on the defensive counterattack, perhaps not the second round of Van Persie's controversial red card, Arsenal can create a great miracle.

But Wenger, despite reaching the top of his game at the tactical level, was limited by the level of his players, who missed out on Ribery for 5 million euros, and sold his own Cole to his city rivals because of a ￡30,000 weekly wage gap. Despite the shyness of the bag, but Wenger cultivated the youth army, gradually molding. The combination of Nasri+Small Fah+Song resembles the configuration of Barcelona's "Ha Baibu". But in 2 years, all three of them left, and all of this is caused by money.

This time period of Wenger did catch a good time, this is a belong to the technical flow of soccer era, but unfortunately Arsenal's lineup is too weak. Even with the top midfield configuration, but walking around the staff changes, but let Arsenal can not form and Barcelona as the tacit cooperation, Wenger caught up with the good time, but did not catch up with the good team.

The era of the two wings, Wenger in the last moment for the simplicity of soccer inserted the wings of technology

With the departure of the small law, Arsenal entered another era, but also Wenger in Arsenal's last era. Although in this era Arsenal put an end to its own history of no title, but we have to say that this period of Arsenal is let a person look at the most hopeless Arsenal, but also the ceiling of the lowest one Arsenal.

When the strength of the players can no longer support Wenger's pursuit of technical soccer, the professor also lost another function - the ability to recognize people. In the first period Wenger underpriced Vieira. Anelka and later Henry, the second period is a small law, Toure, Walcott to support the field; and to this period of Wenger is a case of failure, whether it is the poaching of Barcelona's Miquel or Mérida, or Denilson and Frimpong, can not be accomplished Arsenal for the technical soccer for the improvement of the once again, he was like the reality of the head down, he began to try to resemble the simplicity of the Mourinho-esque Soccer, quickly push the ball to the front, but, in front of the field, Wenger still want to use with the help of cooperation to penetrate the opponent's defense, this may be Wenger for technical soccer last hold out.

Left back no longer according to the ordinary tactical arrangement of the raid to the left flank after the pass, whether Monreal or Gibbs, began to kill directly into the penalty area to score; the two starting wingers almost have to be replaced on the field, because they play in their respective side of the road at the same time the role of the wingers and wingbacks, doomed to physical fitness in the 70 minutes or so began to drop dramatically. As a result, Arsenal basically have at least 4 good wingers who can play in the starting lineup, Podolski, Gervinho, Chamberlain, Walcott, Iwobi, etc., which makes the Arsenal lineup quite lively during this time period.

Center Giroud did not use his body and head advantage to stand and wait for the ball as the critics predicted, and his running position and a pass in the penalty area frequently create a good opportunity for his teammates. There is no equal in the world but Big Giroud, and with his size and violin-playing left foot, does he remind you of Davor Suker back in the day?

And the back of Cazorla and Arteta is still full of technical content, can guarantee the defense at the same time, so that Arsenal have in front of the penalty area in front of the base to play quality cooperation. Therefore, at this time, although Arsenal is still a picturesque front, but the game is really less than before.

This is what Arsenal looked like in Wenger's last period, and he also took the last title for the old manager, until Wenger left, the technical factor on Arsenal was completely removed, after Ramsey left the Emirates last summer, Arsenal no longer have Wenger's shadow, until there is a coach who carries the flag of technical soccer - -With Arteta on board, Arsenal seem to be in the shadow of the professor of old again, only in this turbulent season, we really don't know what will become of Arteta's Arsenal in the future.

In the summer of 2018, Wenger unloaded the heavy responsibility of the coach, became an Arsenal fan, at this time, even those who look forward to his dismissal in the past feel a trace of reluctance, this feeling is very complex, people feel that Arsenal should change a coach, but really to change the time, we feel that it is not too fast, a lot of fans, especially the older Arsenal fans! Many fans, especially older Arsenal fans, can't get used to Arsenal without Wenger, but his departure is already a fact. When Wenger turned his head to look at the Emirates Stadium, Henry, Bergkamp, Oviemas, Vieira, Pettitte, Adams, Keown, Shearman, Eduardo, Law Walcott, Cesc Fabregas, Campbell, Lehmann, Van Persie, Giroud, Arteta, Cazorla, etc. Shadows are still vaguely present, but we do not know, 22 years of the career of the Gunners Arsenal in a moment of time in the heart of the old man to reach a perfect realm? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do that.