Chapter 328: Stalemate
However, this second goal, Chambers is not a small responsibility, when Jones shoots, he ran to support Mustafi, which seems to be right, but, in fact, Mustafi does not need his support, and, with the lesson of Jones scoring the first goal, Chambers should be more vigilant at this time, close to Jones, how can you let this dangerous person be there alone!
"Judging by the second half, it was definitely the best game in the Carabao Cup! Jones scored two goals in the 15 minutes of coming off the bench in the second half, and it looked like the top scorer returning from injury was still in excellent form. ”
'Ospina was definitely the most disappointed man of the game right now, he was scored twice by Jones! However, Ospina made a couple of world-class saves, otherwise Arsenal would have conceded even more. ”
In the 69th minute, Arsenal's attack was rewarded! It was Rimetel Nells' breakthrough on the flank, which forced Cesc Fabregas to foul, Arsenal got a chance to take a free-kick, Welbeck's free-kick went into the box, Iwobi headed the goal, Courtois made a wonderful save, Arsenal's corner, Welbeck took a corner, Costa grabbed in front of Wilshere to push the ball off the line, or a corner.
'Arsenal got corners in quick succession, it's a good chance!' Before the Arsenal commentator could speak, he saw another corner in the box, and this time, Costa was unable to get past Lacazette in the scramble for a header, and Lacazette smashed the ball into the top left corner of the net with a very favourable header.
Alexandre Lacazette's goal ignited Arsenal's enthusiasm, with the Arsenal fans cheering loudly for Lacazette, and in the 73rd minute, Cesc Fabregas was tackled to the ground by Xhaka in midfield, and Chelsea sent a quick free-kick to the feet of Eden Hazard.
Hazard dribbled the ball forward, and after he made a connection with N'Golo Kante, who came to pick up, he was about to continue dribbling the ball, but he saw Wilshere coming up, although it was about 40 meters away from the goal, but Hazard suddenly came with a long-range shot! Long-range shots were pretty much the only way Chelsea could threaten the Arsenal goal since the start of the second half.
In the face of Arsenal's strong attack after the start of the second half, Chelsea was fully passive, which also caused Jones to have little chance at the attacking end, seeing Hazard shoot from a distance, Wilshere did not care too much, and the long-range shot in this position was really not a threat.
However, in the next second, Wilshere was taken aback, because he saw Hazard's shot, and the ball was very fast! Subconsciously, Wilshire rushed up to block the shot, and before his body could come, the football arrived, but his right leg, which he stretched out first, seemed to rub against the football.
Eden Hazard's shot of the ball rubbed against Wilshere's leg, the ball was not blocked, just changed direction slightly and continued to fly towards the goal, Ospina was in front of the goal, he saw the ball change direction, immediately moved his body, and at this time, the field changed again.
On the running line of the football, Costa stretched his leg to pad the football, Mustafi immediately followed when he saw this, he did not dare to kick, the purpose was to jam Costa, not to let Costa successfully touch the football, the two people were entangled in the penalty area, and there were movements in their hands, but the movements were relatively hidden, so as not to be seen by the referee to blow fouls.
Costa didn't touch the football, but the ball hit Mustafi in the ass and refracted again, which scared all the Arsenal players, and their eyes followed the football past and saw that the football fell on the left side of the penalty area, where there was no one!
Mustafi breathed a sigh of relief! The penalty area is so big, but after two refractions, the football found a place where there was no one at all, which was good luck for Arsenal.
In the 75th minute of the game, Iwobi received a pass from Bellerin, began to accelerate, he was very fast, and what was more commendable was the change of direction when dribbling at high speed, Iwobi relied on his personal speed and beautiful change of direction passing skills, all the way to the front of the Chelsea penalty area, and then a lateral pull ball, accelerated into the penalty area, and successfully caught up with Rudiger to block before the kick shot.
The shot was of high quality, almost grazing the post, but finally hit the side netting, which made the Arsenal fans in the stands think that the goal was scored, and after seeing that it was hit in the side netting, they did it regrettably.
Iwobi hugged his head in disbelief and felt the ball on goal when he shot it, but the ball hit the side-netting, and then, three minutes later, a Chelsea attack startled Arsenal fans.
Jones sought cooperation with Hazard in the front, after he passed the ball to Hazard, he detoured to the right side of the penalty area, received Hazard's pass again, and chose to rub the football into the penalty area when the shooting angle was not large, Costa jumped up with Mustafi in the penalty area to grab the point, and the football smashed on the back of Costa's head and hung towards the goal.
Ospina made a stunning save when Espina, who had been moving to the right of his body, leaped to his left and almost fingertips to block the ball over the crossbar for a Chelsea corner.
Then, Cesc Fabregas's corner kick into the box, Jones and Costa jumped up in front and in the middle, but the actual point of attack was at the back point, Hazard's header smashed into the goal, almost grazing the crossbar and flying off the bottom line, which shocked the Arsenal fans to scream, they were cold in their hearts, they thought they were going to concede the goal.
Chelsea and Arsenal's respective dedication to the attack, is their second half, their most threatening attack, most of the other time, the two sides are more caught in the midfield to fight, but the real threat to the opponent's goal is not much, this time, the situation on the field has fallen into a stalemate, neither side has too good chances, Jones has also been greatly limited, the game into a quiet period.
From the bench, Kodic said to Osi: "Osi, I didn't expect Jones to get back in shape so quickly!" ”
"yes, I can't imagine that Jones got back into form so quickly after recovering from injury, scoring a brace off the bench and scoring a hat-trick in the dressing room."
"I have to admit that Jones is a pure goalscorer, he can score goals at any time, and he has a lot of self-confidence! For us, to be able to see Jones score and to cheer for his goal is the greatest joy of all! We don't need to think too much. Just when the two of them sighed, there was a change on the field.
Boulder replaced Alexandre Lacazette with Alexis Sanchez to bolster Chelsea's attack, with Sanchez's speed and his breakthrough to pose a threat to Chelsea, as well as a good long-range shot that could add to Arsenal's attacking arsenal.
Kodic also made targeted substitutions, he replaced Costa with Segura, who was physically exhausted, Segura and Jones still have a tacit understanding, after Segura came on the field, Chelsea's attack did improve, and the tacit understanding between Segura and Jones played a role.