Chapter 431: Specializing in Fighting Veterans
Fan Shang was still very pleased, although he told the players to attack with all his strength at the beginning, but the defense still did not lose it, which limited Arsenal's attack very well.
In the 7th minute, Zanetti once again used his speed past Dixon and then crossed, but this time Keown and Adams fully showed the experience of veterans, although they did not jump as high as the two strikers of Inter Milan, but they used their bodies to cling to the two, so that none of the four had to jump.
However, Dixon allowed Zanetti to break through twice in a row, which was good news for Inter Milan, and Vincent waved his hand to hope that Zanetti would continue to put pressure on Dixon here.
Inter Milan players usually chase after each other as long as they find the opponent's weakness, and today was the same, seeing that Zanetti's side had an opportunity, and the continuous passing came to the left side of Inter.
In the 12th minute, this is the third time that Zanetti has broken through Dixon in five minutes, Zanetti himself is a little tired, and Dixon is already sweating like rain, it is estimated that Zanetti will really lie down in a few times.
Zanetti no longer crossed the bottom like he did just now, but broke through Dixon and crossed into the penalty area, and Dixon didn't even reach out to pull Zanetti.
Zanetti is faced with a choice when he bursts into the box, shooting or passing, but the angle of the shot is a little small, and the cross is afraid of being destroyed by the two central defenders.
However, Zanetti decided to continue in the direction of the goal, and when he was about to reach the small penalty area, Keown had already made up for it, and he could not let the Inter players appear in the small box unguarded, which was too dangerous.
Zanetti waited for this moment, decisively swept the ball down the middle, Vieri fell to the ground in front of the ball but unfortunately did not touch the ball, but he shook the defender Adams and goalkeeper Seaman, and then Hakansuk almost faced the empty net at the back post and easily pushed the ball into the bottom right corner of the goal.
"Good shot!" This is the situation that Vincent wants to see the most, and establishing an early lead may make Inter Milan play more easily.
Originally, Fan Shang thought that he could open a breakthrough in the defense of the three elders, but today it was Arsenal's oldest defense that opened the situation, which can be regarded as Fan Shang's calculation.
Wenger is a little undecided now, whether to change Dixon or not, if it is too early, it will be a waste of a precious substitution, but if it is not changed, it is better to use a substitution if Zanetti breaks through so much.
In the end, Wenger decided to wait 10 minutes for Dixon to take a break, after all, Zanetti has hit so many times in a row, and his fitness is also a little problematic, and both sides need to rest.
Fan Shang also saw that Zanetti was a little tired at this time, and told him when he came over to let him switch places with Seedorf, and let Seedorf go to impact Dixon, anyway, he didn't let Dixon be idle.
So after the restart, Zanetti became the one who shared the ball, and Seedorf became the one who set the wing, and Arsenal still adhered to their usual policy, with the full-backs jamming the inside and the full-backs defending the players on the side.
Although Seedorf is not fast, but after all, he is young, first relying on speed, he found that he is not much faster than Dixon, so the smart Seedorf began to constantly change the speed to confuse Dixon, sometimes the speed change is more terrible than the direct and speed.
Dixon just fought a few sprints with Zanetti, and now he can finally keep up with Seedorf's speed, and his heart is still snickering, but Seedorf suddenly stopped the ball, making Dixon stumble, and then Seedorf accelerated again, Dixon gritted his teeth and started again with all his might, but Seedorf didn't take two steps and stopped, Dixon stumbled again this time, but this time Seedorf didn't wait for him to adjust his body, and the ball was directly ready to cut into the penalty area as soon as he dunked the ball from his inside.
But Seedorf just suffered too calmly, did not accelerate, and before he could leave Dixon's defensive range with the ball, he was pulled to the ground by a hand behind him.
"Toot!" A yellow card and a free-kick were indispensable, and of course the close communication between Vincent and the fourth official was also indispensable.
Compared with Fan Shang's fake discussion with the fourth official, Wenger is really anxious, the consistent and steady veteran Dixon was so badly impacted by Inter Milan today is what he didn't expect, it's less than 20 minutes now, can he be replaced?
With Hakansuk's header saved by Seaman after the free-kick, Wenger finally got out of the groove and sent a couple of substitutes to warm up.
Three minutes later, Arsenal took advantage of Dixon's lack of vulnerability again when Arsene Wenger replaced him with Ukrainian right-back Luzny, who had been the epitome of Dynamo Kyiv's Champions League performance in the previous two years.
However, when he arrived at Arsenal, he was only a marginal figure, and even the 37-year-old Dixon had never competed, and he was able to play today thanks to Fan Shang's blessing, but after all, he was young and had no hard defects in his body, so it was useless for him to be sudden.
However, it is not wrong to let Seedorf test it first, after all, Luzny is a central defender, and it is still important for Seedorf to try his flexibility.
However, twice Fan Shang understood that Luzny, the captain of the Ukrainian national team, is definitely not in vain, the defense is very steady, not blindly kicking, if Seedorf uses the change of speed to break through him, he always uses his advantage of being taller than Seedorf and longer than Seedorf to destroy the ball.
It seems that it is not so easy to open up the situation here, Vieira is not easy to play in the middle, so move to the left side of Arsenal, although Ashley Cole is the king of the left side, but now the king is still in the embryonic stage, let Thuram bully and bully him should be able to get a certain effect, Fan Shang is not greedy, as long as he can calmly cross.
After Fan Shang completed the adjustment on the sidelines, he suddenly saw that it was Pire who went to defend when Thuram attacked, others don't know whether Fan Shang can not know, Pire's defense can only be described as a void, at that time Fan Shang emphasized Bordeaux so much on defense, Pire didn't learn much, of course, it is needless to say that it is now Arsenal that is mainly attacking.
"How can I forget this, there is no way to do it, the child, I can only take you under the knife." Fan Shang said sorry to Pi Lei in his heart.
Captain Zanetti, who had been on the sidelines, briefly explained a few words, and then Zanetti ran over to point to Thuram at the time of the dead ball, and then Thuram passed these instructions to Camoranesi.