Chapter 40: Another Success
The Premier League game is still going on, and the tight game makes some players from other regions very uncomfortable when they first join the Premier League, they can't keep up with the Super Fast Offensive and Defensive Rhythm and Intensive Schedule of the Premier League, the general team is fine, but the old strong teams in the Premier League such as Arsenal or Manchester United and Liverpool are fighting in the third and even fourth lines every year, so the players who have just arrived will feel very tired. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, Liu Han integrated into the Arsenal team very well after only three games, although he usually does not talk much, and his face looks a little cold, but he will not refuse the friendly relationship of the team, plus Liu Han can barely communicate with others in many languages, so he is very relaxed in the Arsenal team, except for the African Kanu who is a little dissatisfied with Liu Han, everyone else is fine.
Just as Liu Han was preparing for the third round of the Premier League on Saturday, Wang Junsheng personally led a team to England, and he wanted to invite Liu Han in person.
Wenger is very satisfied with Liu Han's performance in the center position, although this outstanding former NBA superstar needs to be further strengthened, but the ball intelligence he showed in the game is very satisfactory to Wenger, not everyone can have such an excellent ball quotient as Liu Han, and even Wenger thinks that there are very few players with Liu Han's ball quotient in the entire Premier League, and Wenger is really fed up with the roughness and savage of some players in the Premier League, and he still remembers what it looked like when he first took over the Arsenal team, At that time, Wenger didn't even think there was a single brainer in the team.
Arsenal's third round of Premier League matches was played three days after the end of the second round, against the "Black Cats" Sunderland, Sunderland are the promoted horses this season, although they have been in the English top flight for more years than Arsenal, but the current Arsenal is not comparable to the Sunderland team.
Sunderland qualified for the Premier League with a record 105 points in League One last season, and their home stadium of the Stadium of Light is also the third-highest home stadium in England at all levels of league, and their top scorer Kevin Phillips is now the hottest striker in the UK, the small player who is only 1.7 meters tall first trained in football at the Southampton academy, and his stature is so small that the coach at the time did not think he could be a striker. Just to develop him as a full-back, and there are even rumours that Kevin once polished Shearer's shoes when he was in the Academy, but when Kevin scored 35 goals in a season in League One, he was regarded as an inspirational model by many fans.
Arsenal is still playing away from home, but fortunately, England is not big and the players are not tired from the journey.
Arsene Wenger still used a three-striker tactic in this game, but this time he moved Bergkamp's position back again, even close to the midfield position, and let Liu Han and Henry put one left and one right in the front line, or Wenger's lineup is more like 442. That's right, Wenger also adjusted the back line in this game, and the Brazilian Silvinho was finally able to start, which was a full-back tactic used by Wenger in order to fully exploit Liu Han's height advantage, and Sunderland's forward line was not taken seriously by Wenger.
Of course, Arsene Wenger also put two attacking players off the pitch in order to maintain control in midfield, with Patrick Vieira, Parlour and Petit in midfield.
At the beginning of the game, the Sunderland team attacked first, facing the best defense in the Premier League last season, the promoted Sunderland team did not have a good way, their combination of a high and a fast forward team was in the wind and water in the League One, but in the Premier League, their ability is no longer so prominent.
In the case of unhindered defense, Arsenal's two full-backs began to assist frequently, the Brazilians needless to say, they are born with an attacking aura, even if they are central defenders, the Brazilians also have the desire to show off their footwork, and the other wing Wenger sent the young player Upson, who is only 20 years old, and the young man is always full of momentum.
In the fifteenth minute of the game, the Arsenal team scored, Petit split the side in the middle, Silvinho followed the bottom line cross, Liu Han pressed the defensive header of the two defenders of the Sunderland team in the middle, the opponent's goalkeeper stood a little off, Liu Han's header was very powerful, and the Arsenal team took a 1-0 lead.
Sunderland, who were unbeaten in 24 games last season, were so happy with promotion to the Premier League this season that they thought the Premier League would be nothing more than that, but after two rounds of fixtures, they failed to score a point. Now, Liu Han has taught the Sunderland team a good lesson with his performance.
The Arsenal team, which took the lead in less than 20 minutes, played more unrestrained, and under Wenger's continuous adjustment, the Arsenal team's ground passing tactics began to bear fruit. The midfield controls the rhythm of the game, and the side is completely handed over to the two fullbacks to gallop, the Arsenal team not only flies with both wings but also penetrates the short pass in the middle, although Liu Han sometimes makes mistakes and loses the ball, but he already has a sense of cooperation, in fact, football and basketball have a lot of similarities in tactics, at least this kind of passing and cutting cooperation is not incomprehensible in Liu Han's view.
Arsenal's onslaught left Sunderland a little uplifted, and they were besieged by Arsenal at half-time, with high striker Quinn even returning to the back to defend Liu Han's height, leaving Kevin Phillips alone to support him up front.
However, Sunderland's defense was broken again by Arsenal after only 20 minutes, this time the goal was scored by Dutchman Bergkamp, Henry pulled the side to cut inside and shoot, Sunderland goalkeeper got out of his hands, Bergkamp rushed to score the goal, Henry had a lot of chances in this game, he played his speed and agility to the advantage, but the shot was always a little worse.
Before the end of the first half, the Sunderland team fell behind by two goals, which made their players even more disappointed, coupled with the fact that the Arsenal team has been attacking non-stop, the suppressed Sunderland players began to move more and more, especially the players who defended Liu Han, they did not hesitate to use hurtful actions to prevent Liu Han from touching the ball.
In the fortieth minute of the game, Liu Han received a pass from Bergkamp with his back to the goal, and just when he was about to pass the ball back to the Dutchman, the Sunderland player behind him directly put Liu Han to the ground with a disregarding back tackle, but fortunately, Liu Han lifted his foot forward in time when he felt the impact of his heel so that he did not suffer too much damage, which is actually related to Liu Han's insistence on the old boxer who learned in Southeast Asia. He can now feel the force that the other party has put on him very sensitively.
Although Liu Han was not injured, such a move was intolerable even in the fierce Premier League, and the referee showed the Sunderland player a red card directly after pulling away the double-reversal that almost clashed.
Sunderland made matters worse, but when they were still regretting that their players failed to get Liu Han down, Liu Han broke the door of Sunderland again with a banana free kick, and Liu Han scored twice in half-time, and Sunderland was also unfortunate to fall behind by three goals in the first half, and it seemed inevitable that a big defeat would be inevitable. (To be continued.) )