Chapter 169: Killing the Game (4)
After a fifteen-minute break, the game resumed, and Arsenal made the first adjustment, Arsene Wenger replaced Ramsey with Tiger Walcott to see who could hold out until the end.
As soon as the second half started, Arsenal launched a fierce attack, clearly acting like a gambler with a red eye, not at all like the previous Arsenal. Arteta split the ball with his heel in the 46th minute and Podolski volleyed in from the right side of the box, but the ball was blocked by Cech before he pounced on it again.
Chelsea, on the other hand, were once again happily counter-attacking, falling to Arsenal's backfield at the mercy of Illusory whenever they had the chance, and almost every time they were able to cause chaos at the back.
In the 53rd minute, Juan Mata went straight to Torres and his shot was saved by the goalkeeper and Chelsea were awarded a corner. Mata took a corner kick on the right, the football crossed the goal but was not touched by anyone, but when the football flew to the back point, Koscielny rubbed a little behind the goal, he wanted to push the football out of the penalty area, but when the football was flying forward, a huge figure appeared in front of him again, and just when everyone did not react, Ai Huan had already sent the football back to the front of the penalty area with a slight swing, and Torres had already jumped high and directly hit the football on the ball, this time the aerial relay was too weird, which also affected Mannone's judgment, Arsenal's goalkeeper stood still and watched the ball drill into the left side of the goal, and the score became four to two.
Torres looked very excited after scoring the goal, and ran directly to Ai Huan's side and hugged him, but it was just like that, after all, Ai Huan's height is too eye-catching, and his weight is there, and Torres doesn't want to hurt himself because of his celebration, so just say it.
However, he still laughed and said to Ai Huan, "It's really too comfortable, it's so comfortable, this kind of ball just needs to be topped." I'm getting used to your passing, haha, if you're in the Spanish national team, then I dare say we can win another World Cup. ”
Ai Huan didn't say anything, he just smiled, he also knew that Torres was too excited to talk nonsense, after all, their relationship in private was very average, and at this time, Torres should have been a little unsure of how to express his feelings.
Although the arrival of Ei Fantasy did not threaten Torres' position, let's not forget that Huntelaar, who was on the bench, was Henry's former partner, and he was very familiar with Irgen's style of play, and scored after several substitute appearances, which also put Torres under pressure.
It's not that he doesn't know that his recent form has been a bit sluggish, and even if he can score goals occasionally, he definitely hasn't reached the level he should be, and if it weren't for the fact that he could be sold at any time, he could even think that he would have been on the bench a long time ago. The reason why this didn't happen was simply because Chelsea wanted to try not to spend too much time with themselves.
The reason why he is reluctant to talk to Huntelaar is that he always feels that Henry is closer to him, but as time goes by, he also finds that Henry does not gang up on or off the field, he and Huntelaar and Mata are just teammates, and he does not have much communication and contact with anyone in private, and the most important thing is that he always passes the ball to himself on the field.
So he also began to study Ai Huan, to be precise, he was changing some of his attitudes, he had to adapt to the rhythm of Ai Huan as soon as possible, and once he really settled down, he found that this Ai Huan was really terrifying.
There are still a lot of strikers who can score goals, and there are not very few people who can score goals and pass the ball, but there are very few people who can do this level in both aspects, and even many times as long as they shoot, there is no need to do any superfluous actions at all, and once this defense is put down, then scoring goals will become easier and easier.
The rest of the game has gradually moved into Chelsea time as Arsenal's morale has all but been knocked out. Chelsea missed the chance to take the lead again in the 61st minute when Mikel broke the ball up front and crossed low to the edge of the box, where Emiran suddenly crossed to Eden Hazard, and the Belgian curled a small left-footed effort that was slammed off the left-hand post.
In the 67th minute, Juan Mata broke through the middle and Hazard dodged a right-footed shot high from an angle. In the 74th minute, Juan Mata's corner from the left was sent to the back post, and Ramirez leaned over to head the ball into the goal, but the ball hit the left post again and bounced off.
In the 84th minute, Ramirez split the side, Ai Huan drew a low flat arc on the right side to the far end, the football was extremely fast, the opposing defender only barely touched it, and did not kick far, and Hazard, who was inserted at high speed, directly pushed with his right foot but still high above the goal post.
After that, Chelsea finally started to make changes, and the first to be replaced was Ai Huan, with Oscar replacing him. Cahill then replaced Luiz, who had a leg injury.
It was only at this time that Arsenal could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and their offensive gradually became ferocious. In the 86th minute, Mikel brought down Walcott on the right side of the arc, yellow card and free kick, and Giroud, who had just replaced Gervinho, curled a right-footed curling ball but it went wide of the right post.
A minute later, Arsenal were awarded another set-piece, and they made a tactic to sink back to the edge of the box, Giroud stopped the ball and half-turned and volleyed, but the ball grazed the post and flew off the line.
In the first minute of stoppage time, Olivier Giroud shook off the attacking Petr Cech on the left side of the box, but his left-footed volley hit the side-netting as Chelsea won 4-2 away at Arsenal.
Mourinho was in a good mood after the game: "I think we played very well today and we deserved this win. It's always tough at Emirates, they're a good team, but I think we deserved to win today. ”
But as the loser, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger was in a much worse mood: "I thought we were a little nervous at the start but after 20 minutes we settled into the game. We played at home but we conceded very easily, which was sad and despite the team giving a lot, we were ashamed to lose. "Interestingly, neither manager made any comments about Ai Huan, as if he had been deliberately ignored.
However, after the game, the major media highly praised Ai Huan, and everyone almost unanimously said that Ai Huan can definitely kill any game, which makes all opponents feel desperate.