Chapter 338: A Defeat
"You're so arrogant, aren't you afraid of being blocked?"
Everton's midfield core Sharpe was obviously angry when he saw Wu Jie on the field, and it is estimated that Everton's players have read the newspaper a lot during this time, and Wu Jie's series of speeches are somewhat like Lu Daguan.
Wu Jie laughed weirdly, which made Sharp's face more and more ugly, and he thought that Wu Jie was mocking him.
But this is a misunderstanding, Wu Jie thought of a famous joke in the history of Chinese football.
"No. 7 Sharpe takes the ball and passes it to No. 8 Sharp, who passes the ball to No. 9 Sharp...... They may be brothers, and there are a lot of brothers active in football...... Good ball, this ball passed to number 10 very well! Hey? Why is number 10 also called Sharp? It could be something like this...... All that foreign players have on their jerseys is their surnames, and these players have the surname Sharp...... Pretty! No. 10 scored! The 11th came forward to congratulate, and the 11th was - Sharp? [pause for a moment] I'm sorry, audience friends. Sharp is the name of the sponsor printed on the jersey. ”
Of course, this joke is fictional, Sun Zhengping is not so funny, Wu Jie seriously suspects that this is Sharp's hard broad.
However, the guy in front of him is indeed called Sharpe, and he is still the core of Everton's midfield, and he is considered a quasi-first-class player in world football in this era.
But the mentality of the core changed significantly before the game started, which actually shows that there is a lot of pressure on the Everton players, and it is this pressure that Wu Jie has been taking advantage of recently.
This year, Everton has always put Arsenal in a position to follow with their momentum.
But they have been able to hold on until now, and they have long exceeded the limit of their own bearing, and Wu Jie certainly has to put more pressure on them.
Everton, in particular, have to juggle the Cup Winners' Cup, having just played a semi-final against Porto three days ago.
In today's game, although Everton's players are high-spirited, they are obviously inferior to Arsenal in terms of physical strength and competitive state, and they are also at a limit of exploding at any time psychologically.
This did not come as a surprise to Wu Jie, as Arsenal had just rebuilt their squad but were no less deep than Liverpool and Manchester United.
Everton have fallen far behind in that regard, starting the game today exactly as they did against Porto three days ago, with the players simply not having time to fully recover.
Coach Kendall probably also knew that it was not appropriate to fight hard with Arsenal, so after the game started, he didn't even have the intention of trying it out, and directly put on a 4-5-1 formation, and even after scattering, it looked more like 4-6-0?
The cheers at Goodison Park didn't last long before they began to wane, and even the home fans didn't seem to be able to inspire enthusiasm in such a completely rigid game.
"Do you want a draw?"
Wu Jie was also very surprised after the start of the game, Everton had been very tough before the game, he thought he was going to fight with them for a real game, but he didn't expect to be ready to defend the idea of a draw before the game started.
But the thought of Everton playing on two fronts is indeed a very reasonable choice, because a one-point advantage is also an advantage, as long as it is not tied by Arsenal, all Everton has to do is not to drop points in the last eight games, so no matter how strong Arsenal is, it will be useless.
It was a good idea, but it was easier said than done to keep Arsenal's attack.
In this battle, Arsenal replaced the forward lineup of Elkjer + Lineker, supplemented by Wu Jie and Laudrup midfield configuration, even if Everton had already laid out the defensive line, it still only lasted 30 minutes before a passing from the sky flew through the defense.
In the 32nd minute of the first half, Wu Jie received a pass from his teammates in the direction of the Everton goal with his back to his own half.
He looked like he was in a state of losing vision at this time, and the Everton players thought he was going to pass back, and their hearts relaxed a little, but Wu Jie suddenly turned around and made a long pass, and actually accurately found Lineker, who was far away in the enemy's penalty area.
Lineker was still outside the box when Wu Jie passed, but by the time he got rid of the defence and unloaded the ball safely, he was already in the box, and in the face of the panicked Welsh goalkeeper Thochhard, Lineker calmly pushed the ball into the net with his right foot.
England's commentators are praising Lineker's clever forward, stopping, unloading, and pushing at this moment, and his one-shot operation is indeed wonderful, and there are few strikers of this caliber in England in the eighties.
But most of the credit for this goal is still due to Wu Jie, who sent him a wonderful pass, although the British commentators deliberately did not mention this link.
However, when the fans in front of the TV played the goal replay, they could still see that at the moment when Wu Jie sent a pass for Lineker, the whole Everton team recovered it in their own half, which means that this ecstatic long pass penetrated the remaining 10 players of Everton except for goalkeeper Thochar, and the difficulty can be imagined.
Lineker, of course, knew where he had the credit for the goal, and immediately found Wu Jie to celebrate after the goal, and then thanked Wu Jie too politely for his pass.
This is actually too outside, but the attitude of the Arsenal players towards Wu Jie is very similar, but they don't know that this kind of "excessive" politeness is a manifestation of "outside".
But if they dare not be so respectful and treat themselves so politely, Wu Jie will have something to say, and even have a lot of emotions.
Well, since you're not your own person, you can do it for 100 points, and I won't make any difference to you, no matter how good you do, I can find fault.
Everton didn't know that he was humiliated again, Wu Jie really didn't look down on this dark horse in his heart, and he was still picking on his teammates' stubble at this time.
But today's Everton does have a way to die, this passive defensive tactic cannot be said to be useless, but you have to look at the strength of the two sides, and there are occasions to use it!
This kind of head-to-head confrontation that meets on a narrow road is obviously not fighting for steamed buns, but also for breath, and it is discouraged to retreat at this time.
So no matter how difficult it is, you have to bite this breath to death, and if you let it out, it will not only be a loss of a game, but also a game in the future.
Besides, as soon as you come up, you put on a passive beating posture, do you really think that Arsenal will be a little lighter?
Obviously, after seeing Everton retreat without firing a shot, Arsenal made a calculation.
If you dare to take a step back, I will dare to directly in your face!
Of course, even if you don't retreat half a step, I still have to you, and even dig up the ancestral grave for you!
If it is replaced by Wu Jie, then since it is all both horizontally and vertically, of course he chooses to stand.
But Everton don't have that chance to regret it, they can't stand up now.
After Arsenal took a one-goal lead, the breath that Everton was holding from top to bottom had already exploded from the inside!
The original indomitable momentum that lasted for the whole season is now a falling flower, and the fart is flowing!
Wu Jie naturally did not miss a good opportunity to completely destroy Everton, taking advantage of the opponent's unstable mentality because of backwardness, he kept using his personal ability in the last ten minutes of the first half to score seven in and seven out in the opponent's dense defensive formation.
Everton thought that more people would be stable, but in Wu Jie's eyes, there were many people and there were many advantages, but there were also great drawbacks.
If you don't practice this kind of play often, then when you encounter a player like him who can insert a needle at the seam, it is easy to be turned upside down by one person.
In the 38th minute of the first half, Wu Jie continued to use superb skills in the front court to break through, and finally stirred up the holes in Everton's defensive formation, and then another exquisite pass helped Laudrup, who was inserted from the back row, to score from a distance in front of the penalty area.
The Everton players were completely cracked at this time, and Wu Jie took advantage of the opponent's increasingly defensive moves before the end of the half-time period, and finally got a well-placed free-kick in front of the penalty area.
This made Everton, who was sitting at home, desperate, but Wu Jie, who had been posing for a long time, did not shoot, but passed the ball into the weakly defended penalty area.
The Everton players felt like they were being tricked again, but then there was a deep sense of powerlessness, because they couldn't blame Wu Jie for making the right choice and being angry, right?
In this defense, they focused most of their energy on preventing Wu Jie's direct shots, so they expelled a wall of people who respected Wu Jie too much, but they also had no extra troops to guard against other Arsenal players in the penalty area.
After Wu Jie passed the ball, Elkjer appeared smartly at the far end of the goal, and the ball landed in front of him accurately.
The Dane only had to lift his leg to finish the shot, and Thochar didn't have time to make a save from the other side of the goal.
The score was settled at 3-0 in the first half, a score that silenced all of England as almost all of England, apart from Arsenal fans, wanted Everton to win the title.
But Arsenal is too cruel, or today's Wu Jie didn't even have the slightest hope for everyone to see, he actually went up and solved Everton with three punches and two kicks?
At the end of the half-time, the live TV also gave a close-up of Everton manager Kendall on the sidelines, as well as the home VIP box.
Although there is a privacy glass barrier there, everyone knows that Everton's chairman, Carter, is sitting inside.
The meaning of these two close-ups is self-evident, and both Kendall and Carter said before the game that they would not let Wu Jie score even a single goal.
Wu Jie really hasn't scored a goal today, but these three goals were planned and assisted by him, I don't know if this is a disguised slap in the face?
At halftime, Wu Jie also gave a hint to his teammates and coaches.
Now the situation is clear, the mentality of the Everton players has almost been shattered, and the momentum they have accumulated this season has exploded and eaten itself at this moment.
At this time, of course, it is to take the opportunity to stab a few more times, and if you don't do it, Everton will never recover.
So how do you stab a knife?
Of course, he was in charge of the midfield and helped the big guys score more goals!
Head coach Graham was the first to react, Wu Jie is going to let the team continue to attack!
The Arsenal players also understand that the boss needs more assists!
But it's not against their will, because it allows them to score more goals, so why not?
What Arsenal was thinking about in midfield was: how to make Everton die a little worse!
Everton, for their part, did not have a way to make themselves lose so badly, and now they have no way to turn defeat into victory.
The Everton players at this meeting are full of hard work for a season, only to be taken away by someone at the last minute in a game, which is simply "the best work for nothing"!
Anyone who encounters this kind of blow will only have endless negative emotions gushing out of their hearts.
At this time, even their midfield core Sharpe sighed in public, how do you maintain the morale of the whole team?
After the start of the second half, the Everton players were all over the face of the word "autism" as soon as they came on the field!
But Wu Jie also encountered a trouble, although the Everton player was lost, many people seemed to be angry at him, and it was obviously a foul against people again and again, which began to make it difficult for him to hold the ball in the front court, after all, no matter how strong he is, he can't fight hard with kung fu football.
However, can this calm Wu Jie?
If it was really that easy, he wouldn't have such a high status.
Soon, Wu Jie began to withdraw his position, and then let Magath, who has been responsible for doing dirty work this season, play as a striker, and Laudrup has directly taken the position of shadow striker.
This change quickly took effect, Wu Zhuo is now in the back position, how can you send people to besiege?
Besides, Magath can't defend when he goes to the forward midfield? Wu Jie can't organize in the position of the back waist?
Everton soon found that such a change of formation made them even more uncomfortable, and they did not expect Arsenal to have such a strange trick.
In the 53rd minute, Magath completed the ball in the front, but did not attack forward, but subconsciously passed the ball to Wu Jie in the back.
That's what he's done this season – defending, filling in the pitches, and passing the ball to the two big guys in front of him.
However, this action caused both teams of players to come to a sudden pause, but the second reaction just showed the talent gap between people.
Laudrup, Elkjer, Lineker, the three men reacted immediately after the pause, and instead took the opportunity to get rid of the defenders.
Wu Jie was directly in the backfield at this time, and the football once again crossed half of the pitch like a cannonball and smashed straight into the Everton penalty area.
Lineker had just shaken off the defenders through a series of actions such as stopping, turning, and inserting, and after receiving the pass, he took a step forward, and in the face of the attacking Somhal, he calmly pushed a far corner again, and the ball rolled into the goal before the Everton defenders could return to the goal.
"4:0, assist senior?"
"It's Wu's assist again, a wonderful long pass from the back, he can do anything!"
"I couldn't figure him out, but when we all thought he was going to set a new record for consecutive hat-tricks, he gave us an assist quadruple bonus!"
"Arsenal's international squad has made us strongly aware of the change that is taking place in world football, and perhaps in the near future, there will be more Chinese stars and South American players in European leagues...... If we want to contend with such a multinational force, I believe that in addition to limiting the amount of foreign aid, we can only bring in high-quality European, or even non-European stars. ”
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The British commentators have already understood who will win this year's title, and some are even thinking about how to deal with an international column like Arsenal.
But there really aren't many ways to do it, either to limit the number of foreign players, as some European leagues do, or to start bringing in foreign players, especially from outside Europe.
At this time, many people forget that the game is not over yet.
After the score reached 4-0, Everton's players no longer knew how to play, and it was best to describe them as the walking dead.
But Wu Jie still did not give up the opportunity to create goals, and he continued to stand behind to deliver cannonballs for the team.
Unfortunately, although he created a few chances in the future, he was a little unlucky in the end.
This is also related to the fact that after a big lead, the frontcourt players begin to relax.
However, Wu Jie was not satisfied with four assists, he was still looking for an opportunity to expand this data, and began to gesture to his teammates and coaches, it was still very explicit, and he almost shouted: I still have to brush the data!
This made the Arsenal players, who were originally going to withdraw the troops, have to continue to maintain normal running, and they really dare not go against Wu Jie's wishes.
In the 80th minute, Lineker's positive running paid off, and he finally seized the opportunity when his opponent's physical strength was also exhausted, and successfully used his last strength to complete a point-grabbing shot in front of goal, which not only created the third hat-trick of his career, but also allowed Wu Jie to tie the single-game assist record in the English top league.
Graham replaced Lineker, who couldn't run, and replaced it with centre-back Lee Dixon, and was finally ready to start withdrawing.
The Everton players were also relieved to see this, and they really wanted to get out of the stadium as soon as possible.
But no one noticed Cunningham, who replaced Magath not long ago, still had an offensive desire in his eyes.
Cunningham hasn't been in a great situation lately, as Michael Thomas started getting more and more chances off the bench after halfway point, which naturally squeezed out his playing time.
Now Cunningham has a great desire to perform, and this is naturally seen by Wu Jie, and he also plans to try if this guy can make his record unique, "five assists in a single game" still can't satisfy his appetite.
In the 90th minute, just as regular time was over and Everton's players were eager to leave the pitch, Cunningham suddenly accelerated down the right flank to get rid of a near-exhausted defender.
At this moment, his sprint actually had a little bit of peak flavor, of course Wu Jie knew that this was just an illusion, if it was really Cunningham at his peak, he dared to pass this ball directly into the penalty area.
But now he can only calculate the advance closer, otherwise Cunningham will not be able to catch it even if he breaks his leg.
Of course, Cunningham is not at his peak, but he is still good at speed.
This is enough, especially at the end of the game, when the opponent is physically exhausted and has no intention of fighting, Wu Jie's long pass from the backcourt directly made Cunningham form a single ball.
"If you can't score this goal, you don't want to mess around with me."
Wu Jie saw Cunningham unload the football slightly embarrassed, but obviously stopped the ball wide, and the dissatisfaction in his heart was already on the verge of exploding.
Cunningham's fundamentals are clearly not as good as Lineker's, but fortunately, the quality of his passing is ahead of his time and can make up for Cunningham's rough skills to the greatest extent.
Thochal, who was humiliated several times today with long half-time balls, saw the poor quality of Cunningham's stops, and thought he could save the last shred of dignity as a goalkeeper.
But the football that he hated today was stabbed by Cunningham in a move that was likely to pull the egg in a move before it went into control!
This time, the "Goodison Park Stadium" finally sounded the boos of the home fans to their own team, they could no longer bear this humiliation, this is 6:0!
But apart from the Everton fans, the eyes of the world at this moment are not on the goalscorer, nor on the exaggerated scoreline.
At this time, every camera was aimed at Wu Jie, who was standing in the backfield, raising two hands and stretching out six of the fingers.
In front of the TV, there are still many people who want to see if there will be any new celebration tricks after Wu Jie sets a new record?
However, our client stood motionless in place, and actually sang a new song written by Chen Haonan for him - "Look up to the sky and smile, look at the sky and ask, what is the best in the world; Looking up to the sky and smiling, looking at Qiankun and asking, who is the highest and most limiting. ”
PS: This chapter is just a simple black sound, and some of the testimonials happen to be posted in the testimonials.