Chapter 25: Reflections Caused by Misjudgment

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Highbury Stadium was a sea of joy, with Overmars running frantically to the corner flag area to celebrate, while Arsenal players swarmed up and stacked Arhats, and Arsenal fans frantically raised their team scarves and shouted loudly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

And the Blackburn players looked at each other, which is behind?

"It's hard to do!" Arthur sighed helplessly, Blackburn's strength is at an absolute disadvantage compared to Arsenal, and if he wants to defeat the strong with the weak, he can only take advantage of the opponent's negligence to counterattack and score on the basis of good defense, and now the backward side has become Blackburn, which is slightly weaker, and now this game is difficult to play!

Overmars' goal gave Arsenal a dream start and for a moment Arsenal's morale was at its peak as they went on a frantic siege at the back of Blackburn.

At this time, Blackburn did not want to make an effective counterattack, and even Duff and Benayongba had retreated to the half court to participate in the defense, except for Ibrahimovic, the remaining ten players wearing half-white and half-blue jerseys were all involved in the defense.

In the absence of the support of his teammates, Ibrahimovic was completely in a difficult situation when facing the famous centre-back combination of Keown and Adams, and at best he could only concede the ball in the first place, let alone counterattack.

However, in the pre-game preparations, Souness had long expected the team to concede the goal early, so Blackburn, who was somewhat prepared, finally survived the most difficult moment in the opening game by relying on the bus-like way and began to counterattack!

In the final 10 minutes of the first half, Thierry Henry received a pass from Ljungberg, glanced at the overcrowded Blackburn Rovers penalty area, and opted to shoot directly at the edge of the box, and the ball flew against the turf towards Friedel's goal.

Unfortunately, the ball didn't get in front of Friedel at all, and Carvalho flew to block the ball halfway through, and Alonso immediately controlled the ball on the edge of the box, and then got up to pass the ball forward before Vieira pounced.

"Beautiful!" The players in the stadium and the coaches on the sidelines couldn't see the subtlety of Alonso's pass, but Arthur, who was sitting in the box at the top, saw it - it was like a sharp knife cutting through the Arsenal defence and straight into the home half, and Ibrahimovic received the ball just right.

Ibrahimovic, who was unguarded within five meters of him, stopped the ball with his chest and unloaded the ball, and then turned around violently and vigorously slammed the ball forward to the court!

Arsenal fans exclaimed, because just now, Arsenal's players attacked in a big way and pressed too forward, so the back line was extremely empty for a while.

The moment Ibrahimovic got the ball, the entire Highbury Stadium suddenly erupted in a tsunami-like boo. Arsenal fans naturally want to distract Ibrahimovic with boos.

Ibrahimovic ignored the fans' boos and kept his pace running towards the Arsenal backfield.

Fortunately, Ibrahimovic is a big center forward with a height of more than 1.9 meters after all, even if his speed is considered the top among players of this height, but it will still not be a football fast horse like Overmars, and Arsenal's defense can barely keep up.

In the face of Winterburn's timely grab, Ibrahimovic did not compete with the opponent for speed, but slowed down, firmly stuck to the ball under his feet, and his upper body shook slightly, trying to confuse his opponent with a simple feint.

However, Winterburn didn't care about that, as one of the least famous members of the Arsenal backline, his task was to slow Ibrahimovic's progress, and as long as his team-mates were back in place, then it would be a successful defence, so he didn't rush to stare at Ibrahimovic with small steps.

Winterburn can not rush, but Ibrahimovic can't, Ibrahimovic knows that as long as he slows down, then several Arsenal players are likely to come back at any time, so this hard-won counterattack opportunity will be wasted.

Ibu knew that he couldn't delay any longer, glanced at the cautious Winterburn slightly, and cautiously approached Winterburn, Winterburn slowly retreated with small steps, he had to keep enough distance from Ievee, and he had to ensure that he didn't give Ievee enough room to break through.

But Winterburn has underestimated Ibu's speed and instantaneous explosiveness!

Ibrahimovic kicked the ball forward hard, and the ball rolled behind him under Winterburn's puzzled gaze, and Ievee crossed his side like a stroke in Winterburn's jaw-dropping.

Ibrahimovic's over-the-top score made it impossible for Winterburn to turn, and when he panicked to stop Ibrahimovic, he found himself powerless to catch a handful of air.

"Huh?" Arsene Wenger, who was watching from the sidelines, regretted seeing Ibrahimovic's outstanding performance, after all, he had been in contact with Ibrahimovic earlier than Blackburn, and only because of a trial request, Ibrahimovic turned down Arsenal's invitation. And now it seems that Ibrahimovic has the potential to grow into a first-line star, and Wenger naturally regrets it.

Arthur is much richer than the Malmo owner, and wants to take Ibrahimovic from Malmo, but 7.8 million euros, and if he wants to bring in the Swedish striker from Blackburn, perhaps doubling the offer will only make Arthur scoff.

"Still, it's enough for us to have Thierry!" Arsene Wenger said to himself.

On the pitch, Ibrahimovic was calm after breaking through the Weinburne defence, as there was also a player between him and the Arsenal goalkeeper - Martin Keown.

Although he is about to turn 35 years old, Keown is the core of Arsenal's defence, and he has been experienced in history and represented England in the 02 World Cup.

35-year-old Keown, facing 19-year-old Ibrahimovic, this is a contest of experience and talent!

Facing Keon with a fierce face, Eevee was not nervous, although Keon's momentum was very strong, but Eevee's momentum was not weak.

However, just when Ibrahimovic was still thinking about how to break through Keown, Keown suddenly stretched out his right foot and stuck it on Ibrahim's path, and at the same time pushed his left hand hard to Ibrahim's waist, holding Ibrahim and throwing him outside the penalty area.

The referee whistled sharply, ran quickly towards the scene of the incident, and then only awarded Blackburn a free-kick.

Ibuke was a short-tempered man, and after a brief moment of distraction, he got up from the ground and roared, "Hey, just a free kick? This is certainly at least a yellow card! I'm about to enter the penalty zone! ”

"I can see very clearly, I'm the referee and you're not." The referee said expressionlessly to Ibrahimovic.

"You're the referee!" Ibrahimovic looked at the referee aggressively, but he was half a head taller than the referee, how could he look down with contempt, "Anyway, the rules on the court are set by you, you don't need to abide by the rules on the court at all, you can pretend that you didn't go to everything that happened on the court, so why don't you just punish me for faking a fall?" ”

At this time, the referee's face was very difficult, and he did not allow his referee dignity to be challenged several times in a row, so just when Ibrahimovic was still saying something, the referee showed a yellow card to Ibrahimovic!

What the?

When Ibrahimovic saw the referee show him a yellow card, he was stunned at first, and then he reacted almost angrily and wanted to rush up and reason with this guy.

"Calm down!" Henning Berg hurriedly dismissed Ibra, who was once the absolute main force of Manchester United, and knew too well that these referees had a different scale in terms of decisions between big teams and ordinary teams.

"Henning, I'm fine." Ibrahimovic finally calmed down after being pulled away, but the desire to break through the Arsenal door became stronger and stronger.

Then, there was not much time left in the first half of the game, and the Arsenal players were taken aback by Blackburn's counter-attack, so they were ready to slow down the attack first.

The morale of Blackburn's players was very damaged, and they were beaten by the opponent in the half for more than half an hour, and finally had a threatening counterattack, but it fell short, and the occasional sporadic counterattack was even more unruly.

At the end of the first half, Blackburn Rovers returned to the dressing room with a disadvantageous situation of 0-1 down.

"Looks like we're going to have to strengthen our relationship with Premier League referees!" Arthur pondered.

As the club's president and owner, Arthur's focus is not on the FA Cup quarter-final, but on the long-term and big-picture picture.

Although both in English football and football around the world have expressly forbidden clubs to contact the referee, let alone bribe in private, as a veteran Manchester United fan in his previous life, he knew too well how the team would gain a huge advantage in the game once he was taken care of by the referee.

Of course, Arthur's premeditated referee strategy does not mean that all of them are direct bribes with money and finance, but that they are more difficult to supervise.

Maybe in the transfer market, spending 10 million may not be able to give the team 1 point more in the league, but if you spend 1 million on these referees every season, the league points gained, 5 points are all bottom.

In football, are there fewer unjust, false and wrongful cases caused by the referee on duty?

Even after the "Stamford Bridge tragedy" that caused an uproar, only a few of the fans remembered it, and most fans only remembered to sing the praises of Barcelona's six-time champion.

Success and defeat are like this.

"Well, this is a key issue, it needs to be started before the team is promoted, and we need to secretly set up a referee public relations department as soon as possible." Arthur had a rough plan in his mind, and was ready to go back to the club's top management for discussion.

The construction of the club is not destined to be all great, and some tricks that cannot be put on the table are also essential. And Arthur, as the boss, thick black and tricky, is also one of the abilities he must have.