Chapter 171: Spear to Spear (II)

Mendy felt nothing more than a shudder at the command from the dugout, but he quickly calmed down and the situation on the pitch was as Portsmouth's pass struggled to reach the opposition half, with Song and Arteta in full control of the tempo of the game.

If you look at Arsenal five years ago, you will know that this team pursues precise coordination and quick conciseness in attack, and the simple and crisp counter-attack based on possession is the real arsenal. Although Arsenal today does not have the agility of the past, their rapid progress in midfield is still quite the same as it was back then.

Benjamin began to raise his hand frequently on his left side to ask for the ball, and also asked Ali, who was in the front court, to step back to make it easier to receive and prepare for the two-handed preparation. He has to step up and share the pressure on Meunier, if the pass is difficult then he can break forward with the ball and put pressure on the opponent or defeat is imminent!

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Wei Wei saves Zhao, this is Hydward's choice! He didn't think Walcott was a particularly formidable opponent, and he preferred to believe that Meunier was only temporarily intimidated by the speed of the little tiger, and if the speed really worked, Jamaica or the USA would be the strongest football team in the world.

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Arsenal's strength comes from their midfield, and 2012 was actually a pivotal juncture for the Gunners from prosperity to decline.

Last year, they let go of the Loyalty Law who wanted to return to their hometown, and broke Nasri's contract. Let go of Fabregas aside, Wenger was unwilling to let the two cores leave the team at the same time in the summer, hoping to risk the player becoming a free agent after the season and also want to keep Nasri, fighting for a championship, but at the critical moment, the team's senior management urgently stopped Wenger's self-harm, a star in his heyday wanted to leave the team but could not receive the slightest transfer fee, which was unbearable, so he sold 24 million to Blue Moon.

At the beginning of Nasri's departure, he just said that he was sad that the team let him leave the team, and he just threatened to raise his salary with the departure team. Later, the French footballer who was nicknamed "selfish" by gun fans directly and publicly mocked Arsenal: "Look at me dropping trophies!" The move stung Gunners fans and the anger has not subsided to this day.

This year, Arsenal's results on all fronts are not satisfactory, the league Manchester United and Manchester City are competing for supremacy, and there is nothing to do with your Gunners early, and the Champions League did not draw Renza this time, and the first game of the knockout round was beaten 0-4 by Milan. The domestic league cup was eliminated by Aguero, and there was only the FA Cup after a year of confusion.

The team is full of holes, Van Persie and Song have already begun to think, Fan said: "If you have to say that there is one player who is loyal to Arsenal, it is me! "But you don't see that you have been captained, how can you escape this sale?

Hydward suddenly remembered a little poem:

Tickets rose in July, and captains were sold in August.

Win a few games in September and grab points in October.

Eleven more fronts, twelve must be enough.

In the New Year, he fell ill again, and the injury became sick factory.

In January, the schedule was not strong, and after a few rounds of no wins, it fell out of gear.

In February, the Champions League was in the first round, and the cup competition continued to be a championship drought.

March and April were really dull, concentrating on the league and getting into the Champions League.

In May, he gritted his teeth and made another effort, and next year he will definitely break the crown.

The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings, and the main force in June does not want to stay.

In the blink of an eye, it's a new July, and this year I'm going to sell the captain again.

Mendy, who was on the pitch, glanced at the positions of the players on both sides at the moment, and automatically compiled a floor plan in his mind, he left his position to get rid of Gervinho's defense and moved into midfield, and the hot bird followed two steps before giving up the marking and running to the attacking position.

Van Persie, who got the ball outside the penalty area, did not choose to pass the ball to Gervinho, who was in a better position, under the watchful eye of the two, but scrambled with the instep of his foot, and the general's shot was full of power, but the position was too good to be confiscated by Enyeama. Without further delay on the turf, Enyeyama got up quickly and then threw the ball to Mendy with his mighty hand.

Arsenal's players started to come back but only dropped a small part and the other part started to counter-attack on the spot.

Arteta, who was closest to him, came over to make a scramble for the first time, and Mendy did not hesitate to pass it to himself three seconds later in an extremely unreasonable way, and the 30-year-old veteran was caught off guard, and it was too late to open his thigh to chase after him.

"Good shot!" Andy Grey couldn't help but exclaim, after a few seconds, Mendy was oppressed by Alexander? Song kept rushing to the side, but he didn't have any idea of passing the ball, and his eyes looked straight at Gibbs, who was waiting not far away!

Andy Gray was still praising one second and then shook his head and said no: "Mendy should have passed the ball past Arteta, Alli was in an absolute vacancy, didn't he see it? ”

Of course Mendy saw it, but the boss asked him to blow up Gibbs, so naturally he had to wait for him to pass that buddy!

The closer Benjamin approached Arsenal's defensive zone, the more people followed him, Mikel Arteta, Song and Rosicky. Gibbs and his teammates have a tacit understanding to form an encirclement, compress the space for the opponent to break through, close the door and beat the dog!

Dele? Ali's first instinct was to pick up, but the next second he did a counter-run in the opposite direction, and the keen Arteta decisively gave up Mendy to make up for the half, and pointed to Pierce's position further away to signal his team-mates to pay attention to the old guy.

Mendy's back was relaxed, and his eyes narrowed, looking at Gibbs who was close in front of him!

As part of A.T. Kearney's membership, the defender, who grew up at Arsenal, kept his coach's teachings in mind, kept his distance of 2 metres, kept his centre of gravity low, and kept his feet together in small steps to ensure his starting speed.

There is no fault with the meticulous defense, it is almost textbook-like. Mendy pushed with his right foot, barely paying attention to any defensive action, and Gibbs came back to his senses and quickly stepped up to press closely.

In the next second, his body rolled on the turf like a kite with a broken string.

The referee signalled that there was no foul in the normal confrontation and Mendy did not continue to break through and passed the ball towards Vardy. Koscielny was so engrossed in clearing the ball off the line that it was the end of the attack.

Although it didn't work out, Mendy's series of performances still shocked Arsenal into a cold sweat.

Gibbs climbed up from the turf without a change of emotion, just silently walked back to his defensive position.

Arsenal's backline Sagna and the healthy Koscielny are both top players, and the Belgian Vermaelen is not bad, but he is the only one who has been criticised by the England international Gibbs, who is known as the golden left-footed player. On the field, he was trembling, without self-confidence, always inattentive, off the field, the national team recruited him to travel, not to go to nightclubs but never saw him train hard, I heard that in addition to football, his only hobby was astronomy.

As I said, the universe is vast and infinite in time and space, what are human beings, what are Wenger and Clark, Gibbs is the Arsenal version of the universe chief Sun Liancheng.

In the next 15 minutes, a similar scene was still playing out, Gibbs stubbornly defended Mendy as Messi, Ali as Neymar, and Vardy in the middle was more like a Cristiano who forgot to bring shooting boots? Ronaldo scared Leicester City and Crystal Palace, who were about to play against Portsmouth.

The gunner, who had just been in full advantage, had a tendency to collapse at the moment when he was blown up, Wenger smashed a mineral water bottle to the ground, couldn't bother to zip up his clothes, frowned and fell into a long period of thought.