Chapter 114: The amazement of Valencia fans
The Champions League group stage between Arsenal and Valencia has been going on for nearly 20 minutes, and although neither side has yet to break through the opponent's goal, the fierce competition and exciting attacking battles still make the fans who watch this game addicted. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Although the Arsenal team did not continue their technical flow of play in other games, the rapid offensive and defensive conversion that Premier League teams generally emphasized was still vividly interpreted by them, especially after the fulcrum of Liu Han in the frontfield, although Arsenal did not have an advantage in the midfield, but the attack was not greatly affected.
Liu Han's super physical fitness allowed the defenders of the Spanish team to really see what the top NBA stars are, strong strength and super fast speed, which made Liu Han more threatening after getting the ball, and Valencia had to shift the focus of defense to Liu Han.
Cooper, as Valencia's coach, actually has some contempt for Arsenal's tactics, he feels that such tactics lack technical content, but Liu Han's performance and the performance of Valencia defenders after he won the ball made Cooper have to admire the strength of the Oriental.
Valencia also performed very well in the first 20 minutes, with Mendieta, Kiri Gonzalez and Gerrard frequently attacking the Arsenal defence with the ball, which made Vieira look a little hectic, and the two wing-backs kept cutting inside, and the Arsenal defence was always a bit shaky when defending.
Arsene Wenger frowned tightly on the sidelines, Arsenal's back line performed very well in the first two years, but at the beginning of this year, Wenger found that there were some holes in the backline, not to mention the full-backs, now all teams lack suitable full-backs, and the Arsenal players in the central defender position are close to or even more than 35 years old.
Such a backline, in the face of such a sharp breakthrough by Valencia, inevitably looks a little scrambling.
There are not many fans who can come to the scene to cheer for Arsenal in this game, and the reputation of British fans is not very good in the world, so there are not many tickets prepared by Spaniards for fans from the United Kingdom, on the contrary, there are many Chinese Chinese who came to the scene to cheer for Liu Han, and even some Chinese fans are still wearing the Chinese team uniform, and the red Chinese team uniform is quite conspicuous in the white jersey of Valencia fans.
As Liu Han's performance in the Arsenal team has become better and better, he has also become a representative figure in Chinese sports, and a player can cross two professional sports and achieve great success, such cases are certainly in the world, but there is certainly no such thing as Liu Han.
In the 27th minute, the score finally changed when Valencia captain Mendieta's long-range shot from 30 yards out caused chaos in front of the Arsenal goal.
Mendieta's long-range shot was saved by Seaman, but centre-back Dixon made a mistake when he cleared the ball and the ball bounced off Vieira's back and fell back into the box.
In the confusion, Valencia's Argentine goalscorer Claudio Lopez, nicknamed "Little Bug", stabbed through the door guarded by Seaman, and Valencia led Arsenal by one goal at home.
There are always a lot of surprises on the football pitch, but this one was obviously not good for Arsenal.
With 50,000 spectators cheering, the Valencia players celebrated at the Mestalla Stadium, while Dixon, who made the mistake, was clearly very disappointed, he is 36 years old this year, and it is estimated that he will not be at Arsenal for long.
The match restarted after the Valencia players celebrated, with Liu Han serving Henry again in the middle circle.
The Valencia players started pressing immediately after Arsenal restarted, intending to take advantage of the goal they had just scored to completely crush Arsenal.
And Arsenal's players inevitably began to think about equalising as soon as possible, so the tempo of the game began to increase further.
After surviving a round of onslaught from Valencia, Arsenal played a brilliant link five minutes later.
Vieira in the backfield faced Kiri Gonzalez's breakthrough very calmly and directly stuck in the position, although Gonzalez is good in La Liga, but Vieira is still obviously not enough.
Vieira didn't take much after breaking the ball, and directly made a long pass to the front court to find Liu Han.
The number of midfielders is not dominant, and the opponent's pressing in the midfield is also very tight, so Arsenal's players have to choose long passes, fortunately there is Liu Han as a bridgehead.
Vieira's pass was headed over by Liu Hanyi to Bergkamp on the right.
Bergkamp did not choose to go wide or pass again after receiving the ball, as he had done before, but instead rushed forward with the ball.
Bergkamp's breakthrough forced Valencia's defense to show a man to come forward to press, and at this time, Liu Han, who had just finished scrambling for a header, suddenly accelerated and moved behind the Valencia defense.
Bergkamp observed Liu's movement, which Valencia took very seriously to Liu's defence, and his movement pulled away from Valencia's two defenders.
Bergkamp did not force a pass to Liu Han, but suddenly made a diagonal pass to find Henry, who was also starting from the left and cutting diagonally into the box.
It has to be said that Liu Han's running position is very good for Henry's interspersed space, and he only has Valencia's left-back Djukic next to him.
At this time, Liu Han, who was originally moving to the right side of the goal, suddenly stopped, then turned around and began to move quickly to the other side.
Henry couldn't find the angle of the shot at the first time after receiving the ball, because at this time, the defender Pellegrino was already in place, and Liu Han's current running just happened to have a cross with Henry.
Henry, who understood Liu Han's intentions, shrewdly flicked the ball out, and Liu Han, who happened to run to his side, took the football directly.
Arsenal's exquisite cooperation this time hit Valencia's defenders, because Arsenal's attack was wide open and closed before, and it didn't seem to be too delicate at all, but I didn't expect that suddenly Arsenal's three strikers played this wonderful combination.
Liu Han took advantage of the situation and led the ball towards the goal, and at this time there was only Gerardo on his side to defend.
In the face of Gerardo's defense, Liu Han did not bring much, found the angle of the shot the moment he received the football, and then suddenly attacked the goal with his left foot.
Canizares was blocked by Gerardo this time, he saw Liu Han's kick, so he subconsciously saved, but unfortunately his save was a little late, and the ball flew into the goal with his fingertips.
Arsenal equalised less than five minutes after Valencia's first goal, and they played a brilliant small combination in the Valencia penalty area with no more sophistication than Valencia's.
Valencia coach Cooper on the sidelines was not deterred by the goal, and in his opinion, the game is 90 minutes long, so the game is full of variables, and it is impossible for a team of equal strength to be completely unable to score. And, seriously, he had some admiration for Arsenal's goal, at least the opposing players were very accommodating.
After Liu Han scored this goal, it was obvious that the little red in the audience suddenly shook, although there are many Chinese who are not Arsenal fans, not even football fans, but to be able to see their compatriots on the field in a foreign country makes foreigners helpless, and they are honored in their hearts.
The excitement of Valencia's goal was not yet over, and now Arsenal equalised, with Lopez and Angulo in the front line clearly starting to add more power when the ball restarted in the centre circle.
Arsenal also started pressing immediately after Valencia's restart, and both sides were bound to win the game.
Liu Han did not rush forward after Valencia's kickoff, because it was the opponent's attack at this time, and he rushed to the front court to play a little role, so it was better to observe a little in the midfield and participate in the defense by the way.
Valencia kicked off and passed back to the feet of midfielder Mendieta, who dodged the opponent with a light flicker in the face of Henry, who was a striker after all, and he didn't know much about how to defend players alone.
After dodging Thierry Henry, Mendieta suddenly took a long pass, which was a rare attack for Valencia, as their two strikers were only average height.
Mendieta wasn't rushing into a long pass, as he saw Angullo's run, where there was a hole in the Arsenal defence.
However, his long cross was headed out by Dixon, who was cut in from behind, and conceded the goal because of his own mistake, and Dixon was constantly thinking about how to atone for his guilt.
Dixon's header fell to Liu, and this time he didn't continue to pass to his teammates, but began to dribble through the middle circle himself.
Liu Han's dribbling speed was very fast, but he was not able to accelerate at the first time, because Valencia's midfield pressed fiercely.
As soon as Liu Han stopped the ball from Dixon, he encountered Mendieta, whose long pass was blocked, and the opponent pounced very fiercely, and it seemed that he was going to steal Liu Han directly, but Liu Han noticed Mendieta's movement when he stopped the ball, and flicked the ball to the left with his right foot and then his left heel, and the light "croquette" went directly past Mendieta.
Liu Han, who passed Mendieta, immediately raised his speed, but before he ran two steps, the opponent's back Farinos defended head-on, but Liu Han, who had already started speed, used his nearly two-meter body to complete a very beautiful "Marseille slalom", and Farinos could only watch Liu Han deftly dodge his own tackle.
Liu Han, who used Marseille's maneuver to get past Farinos, had already broken through to the outside of the penalty area, and Valencia's defenders began to surround Liu Han.
At this moment, Liu Han looked up and observed Canizares' position, and then decisively shot with his feet.
Liu Han's right foot did not hit the football as heavily as the fans imagined, but lightly hit the ball from the middle and lower part of the ball.
Canizares was ready to save after Liu Han broke through Farinos, he did not stand on the goal line stupidly to save, but deliberately took two steps forward, because the farther forward, the greater the angle of his blocking, and the opponent's shot will definitely pursue the angle, at this time it is more advantageous to go forward.
But what Canizares didn't expect was that Liu Han's feet were raised high but fell gently, and he directly chose to shoot.
The previous series of wonderful people had already made Liu Han's momentum up, so in many people's senses, they would feel that Liu Han was now unstoppable towards a rushing tank, but what they didn't expect was that the tank shot a deadly light poison dart at the last moment.
Canizares did not retreat in the face of this lob shot, but stretched his body as much as possible to save backwards, intending to interfere with this slightly, but Liu Han's kick just now was not a very high arc lob shot, but a flat arc, but a somewhat floating shot, such a ball made Canizares's save useless, because the ball flew directly into the net against the crossbar of the goal.
In the face of such a wonderful goal, the Valencia fans at the Mestalla Stadium inevitably exclaimed, because Liu Han's transformation between movements was so shocking. (To be continued.) )