Samuel Chukwueze (Samuel Chukwueze) has experienced the growth of the season and deserves to be the Europa League final

In the summer of 2019, after the first season in charge of Arsenal, which resulted in Chelsea’s disastrous defeat in the Europa League final, Unai Emery submitted his transfer request to the Arsenal board of directors.

At the top is Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha (Wifried Zaha), the Spanish agent firmly believes that he can “win on his own” and allowed the transition from a three-pointer against Chelsea in Baku.

Instead, the organizers of the UAE stadium chose to sign Zaha’s international teammate Nicolas Pepe to receive the club’s record transfer fee. He believes that his potential and greater advantages make up for his lack of English football experience.

“I met Zaha, he wants to come,” Emery told protector. “The club considers Pepe to be a member of the future. I said: “Yes, but we have to win now. This guy (Zahha) wins the game. “”

Emery played his abilities, but never seemed to have mastered how to accurately extract the best things from Pepe, and in December, the former Sevilla and Valencia boss Was relieved of his duties as Arsenal’s head coach.

In addition to the weakening of the results, he was unable to convey his ideas correctly, and was also frustrated by his preference for over-analysis, which eventually made him lose clarity and respect in the locker room.

However, his stock is still very high in his hometown of Spain. When Villarreal, who needed silverware after more than a decade of stability in the first half, called, Emery made his request again.

This time, they met: Etienne Capoue, Dani Parejo and Francis Coquelin came in to provide the midfielder with steel and vision, while the other A former Alberto Moreno (Alberto Moreno) came to strengthen the position of the left back.

Curiously, despite the immediacy and specificity of Villarreal’s killing tactics-winning the Europa League-this time, Emery did not ask for an energetic forward who would win the game.

Instead, Samuel Chukwueze seemed to finally bloom to the player under his watch, making a decisive contribution to his dizzying speed and control.

In the Europa League this season, the 22-year-old has scored a goal in the yellow submarine game and assisted four more times until the final in Gdansk on Wednesday.

This is about 25% of the total harvest of the competition that Villarreal participated in, and even more than this number. The Nigeria international has won the competition through Emery’s unique confrontational motivation brand and got rid of the young Yere. The challenge of Yeremi Pino called for attacking for himself on the right side of the game.

It seems that a long time ago, Emery conflated with the former lender Takefusa Kubo and put him on the list of what he thought was a due right and lack of consistency in performance.

This resulted in Chukovic losing his position in the starting lineup. By the end of January, he had only made six league starts.

It is admirable to try his best to fight back, especially when forced by the manager, he has learned some instincts and put his talents in the service of the team.

“In La Liga in April, he said: “Before, I thought football was a right to enjoy the way I wanted. “Now, I think I understand the meaning of tactical training. I think my overall understanding of the game has changed a lot. “

Slowly, he won the trust of Emery. After defeating Dinamo Zagreb in the eighth-finals, the manager praised him for his team’s progress. “Personal Contribution”.

From mid-February to early May, he also participated in 7 of the 10 league games. Before that, he only got a stable playing time in the Europa League.

Such a significant increase makes the prospect of Zukwueze missing the final even more frustrating.

The winger looked like he suffered a hamstring injury in the second leg of the semi-final against Arsenal and was strained as a result, and therefore missed the game during the last four match days of La Liga. Although it is reported that training has resumed unprecedentedly in the past week, it is undoubtedly a risk against Manchester United.

It will be exhilarating to work hard throughout the season to be useful, and then miss the greatest game of his career so far.

It can be said that this will also weaken this opportunity and make it impossible for the viewer to engage in a potential battle in the age between Luke Shaw and Chukowitz, which not only has the physicality and vitality to make the earth shake on its axis , And it will be one of the game’s defining tactical battles.

If there is a slight turmoil in Villarreal (and under Emery’s guidance, this is indeed possible), Chukowitz’s influence on the entire campaign will not be ignored, and he will join a Nigerian group Elite groups-Kanu, Finidi George, to date Mikel John Obi, Victor Moses, Taribo Taribo West and Chidi Odiah both won European championships.

However, if he cannot get out of the predicament in time and play an active role in Gdansk, then there will be a clear feeling of missing his bachelor party: all the achievements afterwards, but no fun.