296 Goal Own
Last season, Claudio Ranieri, the famous "tinkerer" and Italian tactician, unexpectedly led Leicester City to win the English Premier League championship as a dark horse, becoming the first "civilian team" in the history of the Premier League to win the championship. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
In world football, where the 442 formation is almost extinct, Ranieri created a parallel 442 formation based on defensive counterattacks according to the characteristics of the players, creating a fairy tale for the Fox City, but this season's tactical play was thoroughly understood by the opponent, coupled with the drag of European competition, the defending champion once fell into the relegation zone, and the meritorious coach was also fired.
After assistant coach Craig Shakespeare took over, Leicester City took on a new look, not only escaped the relegation zone with five consecutive league wins, but also eliminated the Champions League, which was good at playing cup competitions, and Sevilla, which was the king of the Europa League, advanced to the quarterfinals and made history.
After that, the Foxes' upward momentum came to an abrupt halt, and before the game against the Gunners, they had gone 4 games without a win in all competitions, went out of the Champions League, drew 1 and lost 1 in the league, and slipped down the rankings.
This time in the face of the Gunners who urgently need to get points, Leicester City deployed heavy troops in the backfield, not seeking no success, but seeking no success, for them, a point is a victory.
But Arsenal will definitely not agree, to regain the long-lost Premier League championship trophy, every remaining league game must be won, so, although this game is basically full of substitute lineups, but the Gunners up and down the goal, there is only one, 3 points!
In the seventh minute, Riyad Mahrez sent a through ball, Marc Albrighton burst into the box and knocked the ball wide, and Jamie Vardy fired a powerful left-footed shot into the side-netting.
In the 16th minute, Francis Coquelin tried a long-range shot from the edge of the box, but Caspe Schmeichel fell to save the ball off the line.
In the 22nd minute, Christian Fuchs threw a powerful throw-in, Rob Holding's header in the penalty area was not far away, the ball fell near the penalty spot, and Mahrez, who was waiting for him, volleyed with his left foot, and Zhang Zhetian reacted in time to save the ball with one hand.
In the 27th minute, Héctor Bellerin was tackled by Danny Drinkwater when he was dribbling in the Leicester City penalty area, and Theo Walcott grabbed the drop point and cut inside with the ball and then shot with the outside of his instep was saved by Schmeichel.
Tiger father has no dogs, and having a Premier League title in his hand is enough to make people sigh about the tiger.
In the 38th minute, Leicester right-back Danny Simpson fouled and received his tenth Topaz card of the season.
In the 39th minute, Mahrez passed Gabriel Paulista on the left flank and suddenly hit the goal with his left foot from a tight angle after the penalty area, and the ball hit the side netting.
"The substitutes are still not rigorous enough defensively." Steve Boulder said to Arsène Wenger.
Wenger nodded, substitute players rarely play together, so there will definitely be problems in terms of coordination and tacit understanding, in fact, he has also thought about using a full bench lineup, or whether to insist on using a special three-back formation, but Wenger still chose to insist, unless Zhang Zhetian does not travel, whether it is the main force or the substitute, the new tactics must be honed through the game.
In the 45th minute, Alexander Iwobi split the ball in front, Danny Welbeck dribbled laterally and fired a right-footed shot at the top of the arc of the penalty area, the ball hit the crossbar and bounced off the bottom line.
In the first half, the two sides mostly competed for the ball in their own midfield and backfield, and there were not many threats to the ball, and Zhang Zhetian made a key save in the first half, and soon, the two sides drew 0-0.
In the second half, Yibian fought again, neither side made substitutions, and in the 52nd minute, Fuchs fouled the defense and received his ninth Topaz card of the season.
In the 54th minute, Fuchs threw another powerful throw-in, and Anginye Ndidi headed the ball in the penalty area, and then got up and threw the ball to Bellerin with a quick hand to launch a counterattack.
Bellerin dribbled the ball all the way, and when he was about to reach the big penalty area, he suddenly cut inside and sent a through stopper, and Walcott rushed to the box to get the ball and was cleared by Robert Huter, who was returning to the defense.
In the 59th minute, Bellerin took the ball on the right side of the penalty area and knocked it back to the edge of the box, Granit Xhaka followed up with a left-footed volley, the ball touched the leg of Hutter and the sideline, and Schmeichel, who reacted quickly, saved the ball sideways.
"Our Caspe's performance is not lost to that Chinese." Assistant Leicester said to Shakespeare.
Nonsense, who doesn't know that the weak team goes out and no matter how good the performance is, they will still concede a lot of goals.
In the 65th minute, Arsenal took a tactical corner, and the Gunners who performed best in the offensive end, Bellerin, received a pass from his teammates at the edge of the penalty area and sent a pass to Paulista in the penalty area to head the goal, but unfortunately it was too positive and was easily confiscated by Schmeichel.
Seeing that the team could not attack for a long time, Wenger instructed the players on the bench to warm up and be ready to play at any time.
In the 70th minute, Leicester City took the lead in substitutions, No. 20 Japanese striker Shinji Okazaki replaced Leonardo Ulloa, and a minute later, Arsenal also made substitutions, No. 7 Alex Sanchez replaced Iwobi.
In the 75th minute, Coquelin was injured and could not continue the game, Arsenal made two substitutions in a row, No. 8 Aaron Ramsey replaced the injured Coquelin, No. 18 Nacho Monreal replaced Walcott, the Spaniard played left winger, and Sanchez switched to the right side.
When he got off the field, Walcott ran to Zhang Zhetian first, put the captain's armband on him, and the two high-fived each other, everything was silent.
Time is running out as Arsenal launch wave after wave of attacks, Leicester City are struggling to hold on, and for them, it only takes a quarter of an hour to pick up a precious point on the road and make it a two-legged unbeaten run against Arsenal this season.
In the 80th minute, Leicester defender John Benaluan fouled and received his first Topaz card of the season.
In the 82nd minute, although the "card king" Xhaka controlled his desire to get the card, he still led the fifth yellow card of the season because of a foul.
Although it is not known why Arsene Wenger switched on left-back Monreal instead of centre-forward Oliver Giroud on the bench, and also used the Spaniard to play as a left winger.
But soon, following the last FA Cup semi-final to break the deadlock, the iron tree blossomed, only ten minutes on the field, Monreal received Sanchez in the front of the penalty area, directly on the penalty line left-footed volley, the ball touched Hutter and then flew into the net, because the opponent shot more times and on the goal performance better than the palm of the sky Schmeichel caught off guard, the moment the ball into the net to make a save reaction.
1-0, Arsenal finally broke the deadlock, victory is in sight!
In the 89th minute, Sanchez sent a through plug from the edge of the penalty area, and Welbeck ran sideways to get the ball and scored, but unfortunately it was offside, and the referee ruled that the goal was invalid.
In the 90th minute, Leicester replaced Benaluan with No. 22 Demalai Gray to strengthen the attack, and the fourth official on the sidelines also raised the stoppage time card, and there were four minutes of stoppage time.
In the 92nd minute, there was a hiccup.