Chapter 299: Old Rival
On November 19, in the twelfth round of the Premier League, Manchester United hosted Arsenal.
It's been almost two weeks since the last round of league fixtures against Swansea City, as it was a World Cup matchday.
In this regard, although the schedule has already come out, but Manchester United's coaches and fans are still very speechless, the club is being targeted by the FA, the only three World Cup match days this season, Manchester United have to play against the Premier League powerhouses, the first two are Manchester City Liverpool, this time is Arsenal...... Even the previous match against Chelsea was affected by the World Cup matchday.
Among the current top six in the Premier League, after Manchester United played Arsenal this season, only Tottenham Hotspur has not played again, and all fans hope that nothing will go wrong before the game against Tottenham.
Thankfully, Mourinho didn't have any injuries this time.
After all, those who can participate in the national team are the main players of the team, and if they are injured, the strength of the team will be greatly reduced.
Of course, if an Arsenal international is injured, Mourinho is happy to see it.
There are also a lot of gimmicks against Arsenal, Mourinho and Wenger are also old rivals, before Mourinho was at Chelsea, he and Arsenal were the same London football club, and every time they played, there were a lot of topics.
This time was no exception.
Before the game, the two managers also routinely began to talk about it.
"Mourinho? The guy who was kicked out by Chelsea twice? And now he's back? He may think that football is just ten people putting a bus in front of the goal, and then letting a player like Shen Peng try to score goals. ”
Arsene Wenger showed no mercy and Mourinho was also-for-tat:
"Last season, Arsenal didn't win the title, and now he is probably the manager with the highest demand for sacking in the entire Premier League. As for the buses? During my years at Chelsea, I won at least three Premier League titles. And what about him? Playing so-called flashy football, but since the 03-04 season, they have not been able to win the Premier League. But there are quite a lot of FA Cup titles, and that's what he can do. ”
Of course, the mouth cannon is the mouth artillery, but when it came to arranging tactics, both sides were fully prepared.
Wenger had learned Shen Peng's strength in the Champions League group stage the year before last, and Shen Peng had made a lot of progress in the past two years, and the overall strength of Manchester United was not weak, so he didn't dare to be careless at all.
Mourinho did not dare to underestimate Arsenal's attack, so far this season, Arsenal's previous games, as long as the opponent is not a stubborn or Tottenham Liverpool team, they have almost always scored three or four goals, and even Chelsea, which has not changed its formation before, has lost to them 0-3.
In this game, both sides were in a 4-2-3-1 formation.
On Manchester United's side, Mourinho let Rashford play as a central striker, Ibrahimovic was substituted, the central midfielder also became Pogba, and Wayne Rooney was also on the bench, but the other positions did not change much.
On Arsenal's side, it is the two thighs in the team, with Sanchez and Mesut Ozil playing as a central striker and a central midfielder.
After the game started, the two sides began to fight in the midfield, and you came and went for a while, so it was not lively.
Arsenal continued their attacking efforts, while Manchester United's defence was solid.
In the thirteenth minute, Arsenal passed the ball to Sanchez after a series of combinations in the midfield, and Sanchez found an opportunity outside the penalty area and shot with his feet.
The ball flew into the corner of the net but De Gea made a great save to save it.
Arsenal took advantage of this opportunity and prepared to take a corner.
After waiting for the referee to signal, Ozil whipped in a corner.
The ball flew in an arc into the Manchester United penalty area, looking for the Arsenal player.
However, De Gea was quick to jump up and punch the ball away.
The ball flew outwards and was about to land in a no-man's land.
At this moment, Shen Peng suddenly rushed over!
There was also a person behind him, who was the player that Arsenal used to defend Shen Peng, Coquelin!
Obviously, Coquelin was going to be thrown away by Shen Peng.
Shen Peng rushed to the ball first, but Coquelin was not far behind him, and both of them were facing Manchester United's goal, so if Shen Peng wanted to dribble the ball, he had to stop the ball first and adjust his body orientation.
And once he stops the ball, then Coquelin will definitely entangle him as soon as possible, disrupt his rhythm, and then wait for the other players to come around, then his idea of taking advantage of the opponent's corner kick to counterattack is shattered.
Coquelin knew this, and Shen Peng also knew this, so after Shen Peng ran to the ball, he made a move that no one expected.
I saw that when he was about to get close to the flying ball, he suddenly jumped up, and in the surprised gaze of Coquelin, he knocked the ball with his heel in mid-air, and then he landed and then rebounded in his leg, and the whole person bounced in the direction of the Arsenal goal like a spring that was pressed and released.
One man, one ball, bypassing Coquelin from both sides.
The ball is divided!
Seeing Shen Peng, a very creative person, the ball was divided, Coquelin also quickly stopped and prepared to follow as soon as possible.
But he had already increased his speed to the maximum when he chased Shen Peng with all his might, and at this time Shen Peng suddenly turned back, so he couldn't brake and slipped directly on the ground, only to watch Shen Peng go away with the ball.
Although Shen Peng was very elegant this time, the force was not easy to control, so the speed of the ball flying out was a little fast, and Shen Peng was full of strength before he touched the ball before the opponent's defender.
Facing the opponent's defender, Shen Peng directly went to the front of the ball diagonally, and chased it over, without any fancy fancy, just relying on speed to get hard!
Mustafi, who defended him, didn't have any way, the world knew that Shen Peng was fast, but he just couldn't catch up.
In his desperate eyes, Shen Peng left a back, caught up with the ball that was about to roll out of the sideline, and then made another trip to his feet and rushed towards the Arsenal goal.
Although the Arsenal defenders were already trying their best to run back, from the perspective of the side of the field, Shen Peng rushed out of the crowd as if Bolt was sprinting.
As soon as he ran into the box, he calmly picked up the ball in the face of the onrushing Cech and the ball flew into the net with ease.
1 to 0!
Ten minutes into the game, Manchester United broke through the door of Arsenal, which also made the home fans cheer passionately, as if they had seen a victory.
It was an extremely quick goal, as if the ball had just come out of Arsenal's feet and into their own goal in the blink of an eye, the kind of attacking speed that many fans who have watched the game for many years have never seen, and perhaps, only the kind of goal that shoots directly into the opponent's goal in the middle of the field can be faster than this......