84, the fairy ball breaks the game, a weird arc
After right-back Phil Badesley came on, Burnley changed to a back five, and the configuration of three central defenders further compressed the space at the back, while also freeing up two central defenders to take a man-to-man approach, specifically targeting Arsenal's two central forwards.
With no way out in the middle of the pack, Arsenal had to play wide, with Jack Wilshere, Aaron Ramsey and Alex Sanchez linking up with their wide team-mates on a number of occasions, but Burnley's buses remained impregnable and the possession Gunners struggled to deal with the turtle shells of the Red Wine Army.
In the 68th minute, Sanchez dribbled the ball to the middle and combined with Wilshere before kicking up outside the penalty area and hitting the Burnley defender to bounce off the bottom line.
From Arsenal's left-hand corner, Sanchez stood in front of the penalty spot and remembered what Tan Xibi had said to him a few minutes earlier.
"The bus of these turtle sons is too powerful, and it is not the way to continue like this. When you take a corner, pass it directly to me. ”
In the corner kick tactic, it is not that he did not pass directly to his teammate waiting outside the penalty area and let him score from distance.
However, the feasibility of this tactic is extremely low, after all, there are too many people in the penalty area, and no matter how good the long-range shot is, it is useless if there is no space.
As for refracting it on a certain part of the person, what is the difference between this and buying a lottery ticket and winning the jackpot with a scratch card?
Pure luck!
However, since Tan Xibi asked for this, for the sake of the team, before there was no better way, Sanchez decided to try.
Tan Xibi was on the edge of the box, but Burnley's Jeff Hendrick followed him with his long-range footwork.
Sanchez frowned slightly, Tan Xibi was closely followed, and he was not afraid of being beaten back by mistakes?
Suddenly, Tan Xibi ran towards Sanchez, and this sudden action caused Hendrik to stumble, and when he chased after him, he was already almost a position behind.
This is the time! Pass the ball, Alex!
Tan Xibi's eyes shot a strong signal to ask for the ball, Sanchez gritted his teeth, and since Tan Xibi had temporarily gotten rid of the other party, he kicked the ball to him.
Seeing Tan Xibi receiving the ball, Hendrick desperately accelerated forward to press, and Burnley manager Sean Dyche told them in the dressing room that the Chinese player with the number 28 does not like physical collisions.
Hendrick thought Tan would adjust when he received the ball, which was normal, and players who received corners on the edge of the box usually touched the ball and then passed the ball.
But the Irish midfielder doesn't know Tan Xibi too well, if he doesn't have an idea, he won't run here to receive the ball and adjust so that you can have a chance to hit him, after all, he is a midfielder, whether it is an offensive corner kick or a defensive corner kick, he stays outside the penalty area.
Hendrick saw that he was going to get close to Tan Xibi, even if he fouled someone, he couldn't give him a chance to pass the ball, anyway, he sent a set-piece to the Gunners in this position, and with Burnley's air defense ability, he was not afraid of Arsenal's attacking set-pieces at all.
Anyway, the master of the set-pieces, Mesut Ozil, is not there, and the quality of Arsenal's set-pieces is not guaranteed.
Tan Xibi knew that the opponent behind him was following, but he was not nervous, and he could even be said to ignore the people behind him.
Because he won't give the other party a chance to hit him at all, facing the incoming ball, Tan Xibi did not stop the ball, but directly kicked the ball with the outside of his left foot, in the eyes of everyone in the field, a strange arc jumped high, and the eyes of the players on both sides in the penalty area moved along the trajectory of the ball in the air, no one jumped, if there is a close-up of the camera, you will find everyone's face, revealing a look of surprise.
Burnley goalkeeper Nick Pope reacted to the ball with a flurch, this is a cross, right? Or a cross, right? It must be a cross, right?
He took a step forward and was about to intercept the cross, but when the ball suddenly turned on the sideline of the six-yard penalty area, Pope was shocked, and it was a fucking shot!
When Pope hurriedly adjusted his center of gravity, he slipped under his feet, stumbled and almost slipped, and when he stabilized his center of gravity, he could only watch with a sad face as the yellow ball flew into the dead corner and crashed headlong into the arms of the snow-white net.
In the 70th minute of the second half, Tan Xibi scored with a strange left-footed outside instep shot to help Arsenal break the deadlock!
'Arsenal corner, Sanchez takes it. Sanchez takes a tactical corner and passes it to Wall, who responds. ”
Wall crosses...... Yes! It's a shot, a shot! ”
"Oh my God! This, this goal, in, in! ”
The commentator's voice stammered, and the strange thing was that after the goal, Tan Xibi faced the stands, opened his arms, and had a smile on his face, "Come and praise me".
Hey, why is it so quiet?
Tan Xibi saw the silence in the stands, turned around with a question mark, and saw his teammates and Burnley players stunned, Tan Xibi suddenly remembered the classic actions and words that became popular words made by an actor named Lao Pan in a comedy reality show in Huaguo on the Internet.
With his hands spread, the corners of Tan Xibi's mouth twitched and said, "It's so embarrassing!" Mom sells batches! ”
I'm most afraid of the sudden silence in the air!
The entire Tiffmore stadium fell silent, and even the referee Lee Mason paused for a full seven or eight seconds before returning to his normal whistle.
"Beep-"
The whistle seemed to wake up the sluggish crowd, and soon the Arsenal fans erupted in cheers from the stands, and the Gunners gathered around, not congratulating Tan Xibi for breaking the deadlock with his goal, but asking him how he shot the goal.
"Wall, you were supposed to be a cross, but you ended up kicking, right?"
"Yes, yes, yes, it's definitely luck."
"Luck your sister, Burnley's air defense is so good, how can Lao Tzu give you a cross?"
Tan Xibi scolded a little weakly, in fact, he just tried this way of shooting with the outside instep, but he didn't expect to succeed in a try, hehe, good luck.
"Look at the big screen!" Héctor Bellerin gestured towards the stands.
The teammates quickly looked up at the electronic screen on the pitch and saw that the screen was playing back Tan Xibi's goal.
When the close-up of the slow-motion zooms in on the moment when Tan Xibi's foot makes contact with the ball, the whole stadium let out a burst of exclamations.
"What does Wall have to do with Quaresma?" Steve Boulder asked in surprise.
Arsène Wenger pursed his lips and shook his head with a smile, Tan Xibi made his debut in Portugal, his mentor was the godfather of football in Portugal, Agostiño Oliveira, with his connections in Portugal, it is not difficult for Tan Xibi to learn his outside the instep shooting skills from Ricardo Quaresma, the world's first instep shooter outside the world.
"If only this Wall were from our British Empire." England coach Gareth Southgate, who was watching the game in the stands, touched his chin and stared at Tan Xibi with blazing eyes.
The young midfielder scored again, and almost every goal was a world wave, making it a top five or ten goal in the league, and even a goal of the season.
The goal that hit the top left corner of the near post with the outside of his left foot was quite in the style of Quaresma, the king of the outside instep, both in terms of ornamentation and practicality.
Not only is this kind of shot unpredictable, but the shot will spin quickly and give the ball a strong arc, which is difficult for the goalkeeper to judge.
But this kind of shooting has an Achilles' heel, that is, it is difficult for players to accurately control the direction of the ball, so the success rate of shots on goal is not very high.