Chapter 416 - Direct Free Kick
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After winning away at Real Sociedad with a hat-trick from the bench by Zhang Huasong, Atletico took a day off on 22 October and resumed training on 23 October.
This time, Atletico's training attracted more media interviews and fans watching.
Of course, Zhang Huasong is the most eye-catching one, and most of the reporters and fans came to see Zhang Huasong's training.
However, during the open training time, Zhang Huasong did not show any unique ball skills, but was just doing ordinary passing and receiving training.
However, in this basic training, if it does not involve running, Zhang Huasong's passing and receiving accuracy is the most accurate among Atletico Madrid players, which proves that Zhang Huasong's passing and receiving standards are very high.
As long as he practices with the team for a period of time and forms a tacit understanding, I believe that Zhang Huasong will be able to cooperate with his teammates in the official game to play the passing and receiving of the ball in the run.
At the moment, everyone is more concerned about the Champions League group stage between Atletico Madrid and Arsenal.
After the training, Zhang Huasong signed autographs for fans and was interviewed by reporters, answering his views on the third round of the Champions League group stage.
Zhang Huasong firmly believes that although Arsenal is a regular in the Champions League and has rich experience, Atletico Madrid is not good at stubble!
Especially at their home stadium, Atletico Madrid will definitely beat Arsenal and continue to maintain the first place in the group stage Group B standings!
On Arsenal's side, Little Tiger Walcourt said that the Gunners will definitely capture Calderon Stadium, even if Zhang Huasong plays, it is useless!
Zhang Huasong's hat trick in the last game is just that Real Sociedad is not familiar with him!
And Arsenal's strength is not comparable to Real Sociedad! As long as Zhang Huasong is strictly guarded, Zhang Huasong will not talk about a hat trick, it is impossible to even score a goal!
These are naturally just pre-game war of words, and the real victory or defeat will not be known until everyone has fought!
On the evening of October 24, Madrid local time, the third round of the 2012/2013 UEFA Champions League group stage Group B Atletico Madrid hosted Arsenal at the Calderón Stadium is about to begin.
Zhang Huasong got the start in this game, and no one questioned it.
After all, Zhang Huasong scored a hat-trick in just 45 minutes in the last game. With such an excellent performance, unless Simeone's head is caught in the door, it is impossible not to start Zhang Huasong.
The match was also Zhang's first appearance as a player at the Calderon Stadium, which was packed to capacity, and countless Atletico Madrid fans jumped and jumped in the stands with excitement to welcome Zhang Huasong's first home appearance.
When the players of both sides stood in the tunnel and the live radio outside shouted the name of every Atletico player, the fans in the stadium would chant the player's name in unison.
When the commentator shouted "No. 16", tens of thousands of fans in the stadium immediately shouted "Zhang Huasong" in unison, which was amazing and shocked the audience, which fully demonstrated how welcoming Atletico Madrid fans are to the current Zhang Huasong.
As the president, Zhang Huasong will definitely not be supported by so many fans, but as a player, Zhang Huasong has become an important force in the revival of the team that fans have high hopes for after scoring a hat-trick in the last game.
Fans still feel that Zhang Huasong, as an athlete, is closer, more cordial, and more liked by them!
Therefore, the fans welcomed Zhang Huasong's appearance in this way.
As for the subsequent recitation of the names of the Arsenal players, there was no movement, and whether or not they were booed can be regarded as Arsenal and Atletico Madrid have no hatred!
Subsequently, the players of both sides led the little ball boy under the leadership of the referee team, and then played the theme song of the Champions League, and then the players of both sides shook hands and picked the side, Atletico Madrid won the right to pick the side, and the right to serve fell to Arsenal.
At exactly 20 o'clock in the evening, with the referee's whistle, the third round of Group B of the 2012/2013 UEFA Champions League group stage Atletico Madrid vs Arsenal officially began.
Arsenal, under the leadership of Professor Arsene Wenger, has been persisting in beautiful attacking football for many years, and has won the admiration of many attacking football lovers around the world.
As a result, Arsenal are also the only team on the continent that has not won the Champions League but is recognised as a giant.
It can be seen how deeply rooted and popular Arsenal's attacking football is!
Even after years without a title, Arsenal still stick to their style of play and will not change because they have not won the title!
From another point of view, this kind of persistence is also very valuable!
In this game, Arsenal also used the tee right to attack Atletico Madrid from the beginning of the game, and will not be restrained by Atletico Madrid's defensive counterattack and away games.
It is also officially this consistent quality, so that Arsenal can win the support and recognition of countless fans even if they have not won the championship for many years.
In addition to insisting on attacking football, Arsenal also focused on defending against Zhang Huasong.
In addition to someone keeping a close distance from Zhang Huasong at any time, as long as other defenders see Zhang Huasong receiving the ball, they must focus on preventing Zhang Huasong's breakthrough and shooting.
Because everyone knows that Zhang Huasong has just joined Atletico Madrid, and the cooperation with his teammates is not tacit enough. Even if Zhang Huasong passes the ball, the chances of forming a threat are very small.
On the contrary, Zhang Huasong's speed, passing and shooting are more threatening to the goal.
Therefore, as long as the focus is on Zhang Huasong's individual breakthroughs and shots, Zhang Huasong's threat to the goal will be reduced a lot.
In the first 30 minutes of the first half, Zhang Huasong was indeed limited to almost nothing.
In addition to shooting, Zhang Huasong's other skills are only advanced, and he can't reach the point where he is like no one on the field, and it is normal to be cut off and lose the ball.
However, in the same way, Arsenal also paid a yellow card for stopping Zhang Huasong's breakthrough and shooting, and every time Zhang Huasong broke through and passed, two or three Arsenal defenders were involved, so that they did not dare to put too much energy into attacking.
As a result, Atletico Madrid did not score, as did Arsenal, and the first 30 minutes were a draw.
In the 34th minute, Zhang Huasong once again received a pass from his teammates near the halfway line and began to break through, but was knocked down by the opponent's back when he was about to enter the forbidden area after two people.
The referee blew the whistle for a foul and Atletico were awarded a well-placed free-kick up front.
In the last game, against Real Sociedad, Zhang Huasong had a free-kick on goal, but his curling free-kick hit the crossbar and did not score.
In this game, Zhang Huasong also won a free kick in the first 30 minutes, but it was too far from the goal. Although it hit the goal frame, it was confiscated by goalkeeper Szczesny.
Zhang Huasong, who scored more than half of the free kicks in training, played two free kicks in the official game and did not score, which made Zhang Huasong quite annoyed.
This time, the place where the Arsenal player fouled was on the left side of the front of the big penalty zone, about 25 meters from the goal, and it was a fairly well-placed free kick service area.
Zhang Huasong stood behind the tee, and Costa, Aguero, Falcao and others stood in the forbidden area, disrupting Arsenal's defenders and preparing to grab points or miss shots.
"Atletico Madrid's front free kick is in a pretty good position, let's see if Zhang Huasong can score this free kick!" Many of the commentators were expecting to do so.
Arsenal blocked the wall in the near left corner, goalkeeper Szczesny stood on the right side of the goal, and after the referee's whistle, Zhang Huasong began to run.
Zhang Huasong was not far from the position of the football, and after only two steps, he kicked the ball to the middle and lower part with the instep of his right foot, and then lifted his foot upward, and the ball flew up and flew over the wall of the jumper.
Szczesny saw the movement of the football from the gap and judged that Zhang Huasong was going to play the near corner.
Therefore, as soon as the football was kicked out by Zhang Huasong, Szczesny had already moved two steps to the left. Then he saw the ball flying over the human wall, and Szczesny immediately pounced to intercept the ball flying in the air.
However, even though Szczesny reacted quickly enough, Zhang Huasong's angle was more tricky.
The ball flew over the wall, arced through the air and then drilled into the top left corner of the goal, leaving Szczesny unable to reach it.
Although he made a save and judged the direction accurately, he still couldn't prevent the arcing free kick at this angle.
The on-site commentators shouted:
“goooooooooooooooooal……”
"The ball went in, the ball went in, a direct free kick, Zhang Huasong scored a beautiful direct free kick!"
"After scoring a hat trick as a substitute in the last league game, Zhang Huasong scored another direct free kick in this Champions League game and scored his first goal in the Champions League!"
"Beautiful free kick, straight into the corner, Szczesny judged the right direction, but it was still out of reach!"
As for the entire Calderón stadium, it was naturally filled with cheers from the excited Atletico Madrid fans at the scene. Zhang Huasong, Aguero and others celebrated excitedly, completely igniting the warm atmosphere of Calderón Stadium.
In such a Champions League match with strong dialogues, being able to lead the Premier League giants Arsenal by the first goal was enough to make the Atletico Madrid fans cheer and celebrate.
With Zhang Huasong's direct free kick score, Atletico Madrid led Arsenal 1-0 at home.
After the score fell behind, Arsenal had to attack more, and Atletico Madrid played more logical defensive counter-attacks.
However, Atletico's defensive counter-attack was not passive, but active.
Whether it is a backcourt defender or a frontcourt offensive player, as long as the ball is near him, he will carry out non-stop high pressing, even the owner President Zhang is no exception.
In the 39th minute, Arsenal's midfield pass was broken by Falcao and passed to Zhang Huasong.
Zhang Huasong took two steps, and after passing a person with a smash, he directly hit the goal with a heavy cannon more than 30 meters away from the goal.
It was blocked by Szczesny, and Costa's follow-up shot was interfered with by the opposing defender and hit a plane.
In the 43rd minute, Atletico played a high-speed counterattack.
This time, Zhang Huasong's position was relatively backward, and after receiving the ball, he passed to Aguero, and Aguero passed to Costa who was running in front, and Costa passed to Falcao who was inserted, Falcao made it overnight, and Atletico Madrid led Arsenal 2-0!
When Falcao scored, the entire Calderón stadium was boiling again.
Atletico led Arsenal 2-0 in the first half, and all Atletico fans were very excited!
After a 15-minute break, the second half changed sides.
In the 51st minute, Arsenal had a chance to get close to scoring. Podolski's shot was denied into the no-out zone by De Gea's leg, but Walcott's close-range follow-up shot was a hit.
At that moment, the little tiger Walcott wanted to cry without tears, and the thousands of Arsenal fans in the stands held their heads and couldn't believe their eyes!
There will be punishment for not entering the empty door!
Just ten minutes later, in the 61st minute, Atletico Madrid scored their third goal!
This time, it was a counterattack and a goal from Zhang Huasong again!
He received a pass from Gabi near the halfway line and ran wildly with the ball, connecting two of them, and after entering the big no-go' zone, he violently shot the ball into the bottom right corner of the goal on the turf, and Szczesny couldn't reach it.
This long-distance run once again demonstrated Zhang Huasong's unrivaled speed advantage on the court, and this counterattack Zhang Huasong did not even use any passing skills, that is, he kicked out before the opposing defender approached, and then ran from the side to chase the ball and left the opposing defender behind.
The sense of déjà vu that instantly overtakes the opponent and then throws the opponent farther and farther away makes countless fans on the scene and in front of the TV very excited!
Atletico Madrid took a 3-0 lead at home to Premier League giants Arsenal and Arsene Wenger's face was covered with dark clouds.
After Zhang Huasong scored twice, Atletico Madrid led Arsenal 3-0, and Arsenal's players seemed to have taken a big hit, and began to make frequent mistakes in the following games.
However, Atletico's players failed to take advantage of the opportunity to extend the score, squandering several good chances to score, and the score remained 3-0 until the 82nd minute.
In the 82nd minute of the game, Aguero broke through with the ball on the right side and was tackled to the ground by the opposing defender, almost causing a clash between the players.
Fortunately, Aguero was not injured, just rubbed his legs, and then stood up.
The opposing defender was shown a yellow card by the referee and then gave Atletico Madrid a free-kick from the right side of the goal more than 30 yards.
This goal is a little far away from the goal, the angle is a little off, and the goal is a bit difficult.
However, Zhang Huasong's master-level shooting and arc free kick skills, he still chose to hit the goal directly.
After the referee blew the whistle to serve, Zhang Huasong ran five steps before hitting the ball with the inside of his left foot.
The ball flew past the top left corner of the wall and looked like it was heading towards the far corner of the goal.
Arsenal goalkeeper Szczesny saw the ball flying over the wall and seemed to be flying towards the top left corner of the far side of the goal.
However, just as the ball flew over the wall, it suddenly made a big arc turn, turned to the right and flew over.
Szczesny was taken aback and hurriedly pounced to the right, but it was too late!
Szczesny's hand was still in the air and the ball was already in the middle of the net to the right.
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