Chapter 928: The Next City
Finding confidence and support defensively, Pogba will naturally want to contribute in attack.
Although defense is important, fans and non-fans can't appreciate it, they only like to watch goals, so the media can only blow the attacking players.
In addition to wanting to gain the approval of his coach, Pogba also wants to be able to make a splash against Arsenal like Wayne Rooney.
Arsenal were behind and kept attacking, and United didn't get many attacking chances, Pogba waited anxiously for almost ten minutes before finally finding a good moment to plug in.
Manchester United full-back Patrice Evra provided an assist from the wing, dribbling the ball all the way to the bottom line.
Pogba thought that Patrice Evra was his fellow Frenchman and might take care of his fellow countryman, so he quickly followed.
However, Patrice Evra saw Pogba and Hernandez grabbing points after breaking through the bottom line, but instead of crossing, he cut inside and slashed into the penalty area, and passed the ball to Scholes who followed in the middle.
Paul Scholes also has a long-range shot, and it was he who killed Barcelona in the semi-final for Manchester United's Champions League winner.
Scholes didn't stop the ball and just kicked it over.
The ball flew through the crack and went straight to the top right corner of the goal.
Arsenal goalkeeper Almunia leaped to his feet and saved the ball with one hand.
Manchester United won a corner, Scholes took the penalty, and curled the ball to the centre-back Smarin who grabbed the point in the middle.
However, Smalling was heavily targeted by the Arsenal players and was unable to get to the ground.
No one in the middle grabbed the point, but Gao Xiaodong was cruising to the back point and pushed the ball back to the middle of the penalty area.
When the corner kick was taken, a tall player like Pogba was also marked, but after the first wave of points, no one was marked by the 18-year-old hairy child.
Pogba took advantage of his height to press Wilshere, who was looking to clear, and headed the ball into the top left corner of the goal.
Pogba had a good angle, if it was Scholes's corner, goalkeeper Almunia would not be able to touch the ball, but this was Gao Xiaodong's header ferryed over, without speed, and was saved by Almunia.
United continued to take a corner, this time headed off by Koscielny.
Evra grabbed the ball, and the unguarded Pogba waited for Evra to pass it to him, but Evra didn't trust Pogba, treated him as air, and passed the ball directly to Gao Xiaodong.
Gao Xiaodong was more about defending and organizing offenses before, and there were not many direct attacks, Evra's goal, Arsenal's defensive position was a bit chaotic, when Gao Xiaodong received the ball, he was about to stop the ball, but he leaked the ball, turned around and shook over Denilson, who came over to defend, and caught up with the ball is a burst.
Gao Xiaodong's long-range shot, not to mention anything else, but the momentum is completely different from others, because of the good explosiveness, the ball flies out with a whistling wind, which makes the defenders tremble when they block it.
Almunia didn't dare to be careless, he leapt to his feet and tried to punch the ball off the sideline.
But I didn't expect Gao Xiaodong's ball to have a little arc, and Almunia punched it empty.
Almunia's heart was cold, and he quickly turned his head to look at the goal behind him.
Gao Xiaodong's shot broke through the goalkeeper's ten fingers, but he couldn't avoid the goalpost, and the ball bounced off the goalpost with a bang.
Gao Xiaodong shook his head very regretfully, he shot very stretched and was very comfortable, but he didn't expect it to be blocked by his own goalpost.
Ferguson got up to celebrate when Almunia swooped down, only to hit the post.
Ferguson sat back in his seat as if he had been hit by a ball.
Wenger hugged his head and secretly rejoiced, now that the game time has reached 60 minutes, if Gao Xiaodong scores another goal, the game will be over.
Andy Gray, the on-site commentator, sighed: "It's a shame that Gao's shot is a pity! “
With the score behind and still unable to find a way to score, Wenger finally couldn't hold his breath, and he replaced striker Chamak and replaced the defender Denilson to increase the attacking power of the front.
After Chamak came on the pitch, he became the fulcrum of the front court, covering Van Persie and giving Van Persie the ball to give Van Persie more chances to shoot.
In the 63rd, Brown's header cleared the ball to the top of the arc, Nasri followed up with a right-footed shot to hit the rebound ball, and the goalkeeper Van der Sar, who has been performing well today, was in a good position to get the ball
In the 68th minute, Diaby's right-footed volley from outside the penalty area hit the defender and bounced off the bottom line.
The Gunners took a corner kick and Arshavin suddenly played a tactical corner, which was passed to team-mate Sagna on the wing.
Sagna crossed to the edge of the box and Van Persie suddenly dropped back to the top of the arc to get the ball.
Smalling has been following Van Persie, but Van Persie's retreat surprised Smalling, and Smalling lost his position.
Van Persie's shooting skills were so good that Smalling didn't dare to let Van Persie take the ball in this position, and Smalling hooked Van Persie directly from behind.
Arsenal get a free-kick from the edge of the box.
Van Persie took the free-kick himself, but the ball was close to goal.
Van Persie's left-footed free-kick bounced off the wall and a minute later, Diaby's left-footed curling shot from the left side of the box went wide of the far post.
As time went on, the Arsenal players became more and more anxious and aggressive, completely forgetting that this was at Old Trafford, which was the Red Devils Manchester United who were first in the league.
In the 72nd minute of the game, Manchester United launched a quick counterattack, Scholes used Gao Xiaodong as a cover, dribbled forward, and then crossed the right side to find Rafael who was inserted.
Rafael quickly cut along the wing to the baseline.
Arsenal left-back Gibbs fought and retreated to prevent Rafael from going down.
Rafael made a quick stop, twice in a row, deceived Gibbs, and quickly hit the bottom line
Cross to goal.
Wayne Rooney and Hernandez slotted into the box at high speed to grab the spot.
However, Arsenal's two centre-backs were in their own positions, with Jolu heading out of the box before Hernandez.
Julu also made a mistake in his busy schedule, and actually went headlong in front of Scholes.
Scholes had previously tried a long-range shot and found that his feet were not feeling very good, so he immediately leaned over a little and passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong.
Scholes passed the ball very well, not giving Gao Xiaodong his feet, but giving Gao Xiaodong a space to accelerate away.
Gao Xiaodong rushed two steps, shook off the defender, and rounded his thigh with a furious shot.
The shot was so powerful that the ball soared into the sky and flew straight into the corner of the goal.
Almunia was in a mediocre position this time, taking a quick sideways step and leaping too late to make a save, as the ball flew into the net against the post.
Manchester United lead Arsenal 2-0!