Chapter 49: Ups and downs
While Arthur and other Blackburn supporters waited anxiously, time was running unhurriedly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In the 87th minute of the game, Arsenal got another chance to attack.
From the edge of the box, Pire's cut inside and crossed, Henry received Pire's pass on the edge of the box, and after he turned, he shook off the gap and fired a volley.
The ball deflected after hitting Cambiaso's body in the middle of the flight, and the ball sank hard, but unfortunately it was refracted and shot too right, and flew directly towards Friedel.
In the face of such a powerful shot, Friedel did not dare to slack off, and knocked the ball directly out of the penalty area with both fists, and the ball reached the feet of Finnan outside the box.
Finnan didn't care about the situation in front of him, and the wheel leg was a vigorous kick to break the siege.
Coincidentally, it was Drogba who came off the bench to show up on the ball. In the face of this crooked pass, the African monster leaned on Parol behind him.
If this goal was defended by Vieira, he might still be able to withstand Drogba's attack, but Parlour, who is a lap smaller, has already played the full 87 minutes, and his physical fitness is far less than that of Drogba, who has just made his debut.
I saw Drogba facing the football, squeezed Parol away with a backrest, and then quickly turned to the right and pinned Parol directly behind him.
At this time, the Arsenal fans sitting in the audience were also a little dumbfounded, while the Blackburn fans were all standing up at once.
Because Drogba was temporarily empty in front of him after squeezing past Parlour, and there was only Arsenal's goalkeeper Old Seaman in front of him, and Arsenal's defenders were pulled far behind him.
Drogba took the ball far away and began to dribble towards Arsenal's goal like a 100-meter sprint.
Parol also reacted immediately and hurriedly chased after Drogba, but how could Drogba catch up?
Even though Drogba's dribbling speed is very tricky, but now he uses the process of kicking the ball far, then accelerating to catch up, and then kicking away, and in terms of short sprints, the physical fitness of the black race can really lead the group.
Drogba soon arrived not far from the Arsenal penalty area, and Arsenal's goalkeeper Seaman had already abandoned the goal and rushed straight towards Drogba!
But before He-Man's arrival, Drogba suddenly fired a cold arrow, which was an unreasonable burst!
Seaman, who was rushing towards Drogba, apparently noticed Drogba's approach, and his first instinct was to swoop towards the football, but Drogba's shot did not give him a chance, jumped directly over Seaman's hands, and went headlong into the empty net.
Faced with this situation, the entire Highbury Stadium fell into silence!
But Drogba didn't care so much, he had already rushed to the stands excitedly, and at the same time took off his jersey and shook wildly, revealing a black tendon meat!
“gooooooooooooooooooooal!”
At this time, Drogba's teammates also rushed over one by one. They had been walking on thin ice with a one-goal lead before, but now they are about to go into stoppage time and with a two-goal lead, they are destined to win this game!
It's wonderful to think that your team is going to beat Arsenal away from home!
Mourinho and his assistants on the sidelines also celebrated excitedly, this game is completely stable!
Compared with Blackburn's madness, the Arsenal team's camp is in a dead silence at this time, seeing that hope is in front of them, as long as they reach out and hook again, there is hope, but they are still widened by a sneak attack.
The scoreline left the Arsenal team speechless, and with only the last few minutes left in the game, their momentum was somewhat discouraged.
Arsene Wenger on the sidelines hurriedly used up the last substitution and switched to the crazy tactics of 4 strikers, allowing the players to make a last-ditch fight!
Shortly after Arsenal's substitution, the fourth official held up the electronic card for stoppage time, and the bright red '3' on it indicated that there were only three minutes left for Arsenal.
And this time, Blackburn once again staged the ultimate bus tactics like the game against Manchester United in the second round of the league, and Drogba even became the team's third central defender, almost "a bus parked at the door of the ball".
With Blackburn's box already stuffed to the brim, Arsenal were unable to form a dangerous attack in the final minutes. Therefore, until the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, the score was still 2:0.
Blackburn Rovers won this 6-point battle!
Blackburn Rovers are on an unbeaten run of nine wins and one draw to claim 28 league points, while Arsenal, who have just been beaten by them, have only 14 points, a full 14-point gap between the two sides.
"Maybe, we really have a chance." Watching the live broadcast end, Arthur, who was inserted into the commercials on the TV, muttered to himself.
Arsenal have won the Premier League this season with just 87 points, and Blackburn, who have only played 10 league games, are just 59 points away from that point, and they still have 28 league games to go.
"Dreams, here we come!"
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"It's a boring game."
"yes, now both teams don't attack much."
The commentators on the 18th round of the Premier League between Blackburn Rovers vs Charlton Athletic are still Sky Sports' Motensen and Martin Taylor.
At the beginning of this game, it was fair to say that the confrontation was relatively strong, at least there was no shortage of goals.
In the 6th minute of the game, Blackburn attacked, David Dunn passed the ball in the midfield, it was just a small threat, but Charlton's defender suddenly slipped, and after Benayoun got the ball outside the edge of the penalty area, he adjusted unguarded and volleyed with his right foot.
In the ninth minute, Benayoun's cross from the edge of the box, who was particularly active in the game, was nearly headed home by Frank Lampard, but the Charlton goalkeeper saved the close-range effort.
Charlton equalised in the 38th minute when a heavy shot from outside the box earned Charlton their first corner of the game, after which the Charlton striker and Stam both missed the ball, and the Charlton midfielder stabbed the ball with his right foot at the back post.
But the game began to be boring, with Charlton Athletic and Blackburn Rovers both thundering and raining down, with both strikers rarely receiving passes.
For a while, the busiest thing on the field became the referee, one moment to give one side of the foul, and the other time to judge that side offside.
From the 40th minute to the first 30 minutes of the second half, there were very few shots on goal for more than half an hour, with a combined score of less than five, and an average of only one shot on goal in about seven minutes, so it's no wonder that the two experienced commentators, Mortensen and Martin Taylor, were a little bored.
"Martin, although Blackburn Rovers were still at the top of the table before this game, but Liverpool is gradually approaching behind them, I heard that Mourinho has submitted a list of players to Arthur for a winter transfer, do you know?" Morteson asked.
"I don't have any exact sources for this, but Blackburn's recent form has been mediocre." Martin Taylor nodded.
In the 11th round of the Premier League just after Blackburn's victory over Arsenal, Blackburn challenged Leicester City away.
In the 4th minute of the game, the league vice-president gave the leader a dismissal, and the home team's No. 9 striker's one-on-one push into the left side of the penalty area was saved by Friedel.
In the 13th minute, the Leicester winger crossed from the left, and the number nine striker's header from six yards was miraculously fished out by Friedel with one hand.
However, Leicester still took the lead in the 14th minute when their left winger broke through with a cross from the left and it was his number nine striker who broke the deadlock from eight yards.
While replays showed that the Leicester player who scored the goal was clearly offside, the Blackburn Rovers' appeal was in vain.
Blackburn equalised 10 minutes later, when Benayoun's free-kick from the right was met by a defender and Ibrahimovic's shot from a tight angle went through the Leicester goalkeeper's legs for the Swedish striker's 10th goal of the season.
Blackburn Rovers came close to taking the lead in the 69th minute when Duff missed their fifth league goal of the season with a left-footed volley from 25 yards out on the left flank.
In the end, in Leicester's crazy bus strategy, Blackburn, who were slightly tired after the Arsenal game, could only accept a second draw in the league this season.
On 3 November, the 12th round of the 2001/02 Premier League season was contested, with Blackburn hosting Southampton.
Blackburn have won their last four home games. In the 19th minute, Benayoun took a corner kick from the right, Lampard nodded the ball from afar, and the unguarded Cambiaso stabbed it into the net from close range to score his first league goal of the season, 1:0!
In the 24th minute, Duff made a direct pass from the left, and Ibrahimovic, who got rid of pulling the opponent's defender, fired a low shot into the near corner from 12 yards on the left side of the penalty area, 2:0!
In stoppage time of the half, Alonso split the ball on the right side, Benayoun shot into the far corner on the right edge of the penalty area, although Ibrahimovic in an offside position did not touch the ball, but it affected the Southampton goalkeeper's decision, but unfortunately the ball hit the crossbar, Blackburn missed a good chance to seal the victory at half-time.
After that, neither side achieved anything, and in the end Blackburn won 2-0 at home to Southampton.
Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long, just when everyone thought Blackburn was on the right track, they suffered a sudden four-game draw in the league, and the score was 0:0!
The team suddenly fell into a goal drought, but fortunately, the defense built by Mourinho was still solid, and the opponent did not let the opponent score, and there were many opponents in these four rounds of Liverpool, Chelsea, Leeds United and other giants, and the four-point result in four rounds was not the end.
However, just when Blackburn fans were comforting their team and still maintaining their unbeaten league status, in the 17th round, Blackburn Rovers lost to Newcastle, the third place in the league, with a score of 1:2 away, and was crushed by the opponent for half a season.
With five league games without a win and only four points from five games, Blackburn Rovers have 36 points after 17 Premier League games, only three points ahead of second-placed Liverpool, and the pressure on manager Jose Mourinho has increased sharply.