Chapter Ninety-Six: Counterattack
The attack lasted four minutes, and after a couple of kick-downs and a missed chance in front of goal, Chelsea finally had a second chance on target.
In order to avoid repeating the mistakes he made in the first half, Costa deliberately chose a very tricky angle when he raised his foot to shoot, in the top left corner of the goal.
Petr Cech was in the middle of the goal, and for Cech to jump up and into the corner of the net in a matter of seconds, Costa thought it would be difficult for even a Petr Cech in his prime to finish, not to mention that Courtois couldn't save his kind of shot many times when the team was training.
Before raising his foot, Costa couldn't help but glance at Cech, he noticed that the other man's eyes were firmly fixed on his right foot, what was he doing? Predicting the angle of your shot?
Costa sneered, then shot decisively into the corner of the goal! After feeling the impact of his right foot with the football, the ball flew quickly towards the goal, Costa looked towards the goal, and then he saw that Cech had his feet off the ground, flying diagonally in the air with his hands raised!
"Hold the grass, it's really a door god possessed!" With Costa's helplessness, Cech's hands had just touched the corner in front of him, and the football flying in mid-air hit his glove, and then it was reflected back!
Cech watched his teammates attack the midfield with the ball he saved, launching another counterattack from Arsenal, and the excited look couldn't help but jump on his face, at this moment, Cech had a feeling, that is, he now feels back to his peak form!
In this London derby, he felt that he was making easier and easier saves from the start of the game, not only because he was back in shape, but also because his team-mates were getting better and better in this game.
It was a short time to feel like he was back in control of the position, something he only felt before he was 30 years old, and it was a game that gave him the feeling he had when he was younger, feeling like he could save all his shots, with Chelsea's second attack still blocked.
Jones was also speechless, Arsenal is about to take off, there are only 10 minutes left in the game, and if it goes on like this, it will be lost.
Arsenal's attack was cut off by Cahill: "Cahill, Cesc Fabregas, it was Jones who got the ball!" Jones dribbled the ball into Arsenal's half from the left. ”
Maybe he didn't expect the opponent to be able to counterattack and break through here so quickly, Arsenal's Kolasinac stood in place a little stunned, Jones lightly flicked the football to the side, and directly accelerated into the middle to start passing! ”
Just when Jones ran with the ball to a place thirty or forty meters away from the goal, Hazard and Fabregas ran towards the penalty area menacingly, Jones looked at Mustafi who surrounded him, and suddenly stuffed the ball straight to Fabregas!
After Fabregas received the ball, he accelerated and burst into the penalty area, and Fabregas shot directly from his feet without adjusting! Because Cesc Fabregas knows that Cech is in good form at the moment, the adjustment is to give Cech time to adjust.
“TOOOOOR! Cesc Fabregas! TOOOOOOOOOR! The commentator celebrated like a carnival: "Spain's former generation of golden boys is 30 years old this year, Fabregas's performance today is really brave, he almost scored a goal in the first half, and now he finally scored a goal in the second half, and it is the goal guarded by the goalkeeper Cech who performed bravely in this game!" Jones' assist, Cesc Fabregas's goal. ”
The narrator's words are full of affection for the two: "Jones is a very amazing striker, he never sticks to the ball, we rarely see him reach out to his teammates for the ball during the game, he is not greedy, he never asks his teammates to attack all around him, when he did not open the situation in this game, when his teammates have better shooting positions, Jones did not hesitate to pass the ball to Fabregas, which is also Fabregas's first goal in the Premier League this season." ”
"The most amazing thing about Jones is that he always stepped up when it mattered! Chelsea fell behind in the first half, Jones equalized with a shocking long-range shot in the second half, and then when the team fell behind again, he assisted Cesc Fabregas to score a goal, maybe he didn't perform very well in this game, but this is the quality of a top striker, as long as he is on the field for a minute, maybe when he will give his goalkeeper goal! The biggest contributor to Chelsea's two equalisers in this game was Jones. ”
The camera follows Jones closely.
Cesc Fabregas first turned and slapped Jones after scoring the goal, then ran straight to the side of the pitch and hugged Kodic, who put his arms around his player, let him go, said some words of encouragement to him, and then watched him play.
Cesc Fabregas continued to hug Jones after coming on: "Thank you for the pass. ”
"It's a goal you scored on your own, Sisko."
"The relationship between Jones and his teammates is as we all know, and Jones has absolutely good popularity in the team, which is already recognized by the players." The narrator said with a smile.
Jones continued: "It seemed like we just equalised and didn't take the lead in the game, right, Sisko, we went on to score a goal and win the game. ”
Scored two goals in a row away from home, led Arsenal twice, was equalized by Chelsea twice, the first half was Chelsea's complete suppression of Arsenal in the de facto sense, if it weren't for Cech's performance, I'm afraid it would be Chelsea who are leading now.
So the Blues players had a warm joy on their faces, and in contrast to them, the faces of the Arsenal players began to show a look of helplessness, if it wasn't for Cech's courage in this game, I am afraid that they would have lost, and their own goal was also breached twice, and the Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech could not stop Chelsea's goal.
But now, Chelsea's morale has been re-energized, and the cheers in the stadium at Stamford Bridge have not stopped since the second-half equaliser, and they have finally regained their confidence as owners of the pitch from two equalisers, and have begun to completely overwhelm the Arsenal fans who have just started to shout in the cheers of the second-half equaliser.
And the Arsenal fans from the beginning of the cheerful cheers, to the resistance after being scored, to now standing silently, as if those majestic shouts in their ears do not exist, they should have experienced the experience of falling from heaven to hell twice.
But that wasn't enough, at least for the Chelsea fans and players, Jones felt it wasn't enough, with two minutes of stoppage time in the 91st minute.
"Jones, what is he doing?"
The commentator looked surprised: "He has been running wild since he got the ball in the middle circle, and he is still running faster and faster, does he want to face the entire Arsenal back line alone?" ”
With the commentator's words, Jones had already dribbled past two Arsenal central defenders and broke into the Arsenal half, and the stadium erupted into a violent boo, which was an angry boo from Arsenal fans after seeing Jones's action.
They don't want their team to be beaten all by one person, even away from home, because it would be a shame for Arsenal for a long time to be beaten through a derby.
In football, losing is not necessarily a heavy defeat, and being beaten through the backline by one person in a derby means something completely different, with Arsenal fans starting to boo Jones in the air.