228 Arsenal on a strong counter-attack

In this season's Champions League, Cristiano Ronaldo has not scored for Real Madrid for 613 minutes by the first leg of the quarter-finals, the longest goal drought he has suffered in the past eight years. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the group stage of this season's Champions League, after scoring one goal each at home against Sporting Lisbon and away against Borussia Dortmund, Ronaldo has not scored again.

Although he lost the feeling of scoring goals, Ronaldo used the way of feeding cakes to help the team score, except for the home game against Dortmund, Ronaldo contributed assists in the rest of the games, and at present, with 2 goals and 6 assists, he has contributed 8 goals in the Champions League of Real Madrid.

Before the game, after Real Madrid drew Arsenal, their opponents in the quarter-finals, many people said that Arsenal was a big gift package, and the president would quickly break the drought on the Gunners.

However, in the first half, Ronaldo did not score anything, except for a dangerous one-on-one, there was no chance to shoot on goal.

But in the second half, Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane changed the formation through substitutions, and after suffering the instability in the early stage of the change, he was almost the first to score by Arsenal's counterattack, and finally tore apart the Gunners' defense with his strong individual ability, and the president hit the target with his first shot, breaking the personal Champions League goal drought of 666 minutes, and also scored valuable away goals for Real Madrid.

666 minutes, a wonderful number, looking at the excited Ronaldo's iconic celebration posture, Zhang Zhetian pursed his lips, clapped his hands, and shouted: "Guys, cheer up, there is still more than half an hour, we can equalize!" ”

"Palm, are you alright?" Laurent Koscielny asked with concern.

Other teammates also cast concerned glances, and Zhang Zhetian's heart warmed, and said: "It's okay, it's just a goal, Real Madrid is very strong, but we are not bad!" ”

After a pause, Zhang Zhetian folded his fingers, and while counting, he said: "Chelsea is very strong, it is not that it has lost to us, Bayern is very strong, it is not that we have been eliminated." If it weren't for our own problems, we would have scored first in the first half. We reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League, are we weak? ”

Are we weak?

The Gunners looked at each other, and Héctor Bellerin suddenly shook his fist and shouted: "We are strong!" We can equalize! ”

"We are strong! We can equalize! ”

"We are strong! We can equalize! ”

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Arsène Wenger smiled at Steve Boulder, who was frustrated after conceding the goal, and said: "Don't worry, Steve. Even if we are inferior in strength, in spirit, our iron-blooded fighting spirit is no worse than their Juanito spirit. ”

Boulder was slightly stunned, looked at the Gunners players on the pitch who were completely untouched by the conceded ball, and nodded.

Once upon a time, Arsenal often belonged to the opponent on a mental level when facing strong opponents, so many people commented that Arsenal's style of play was weak and weak.

When the team wants to stabilize the situation, the players often make mistakes due to nervousness, which is also criticized.

Every year after Arsenal's habitual collapse in February and March, experts, fans, and Gunners celebrities will attack the spirit and willpower of the Gunners players, and even call on the team to bring in players who dare to fight, have determination, fighting spirit, and strong willpower, can deter opponents on the field, and can drive teammates.

Now, Arsenal has such a player, which is Zhang Zhetian, a 19-year-old Chinese goalkeeper.

His crazy performance on the pitch, his ability to make saves against the sky, and his strong self-confidence gradually infected the team.

How many times, he changed the outcome of the game with his own efforts, conquered the entire arsenal with iron results, and in several games, after the captain left the field, he put on the captain's armband and led his teammates to victory after victory.

The arrival of Zhang Zhetian has made Arsenal no longer a soft persimmon to be manipulated, and it has also brought the team the confidence to play tough battles and play against the wind.

Arsene Wenger did not go to the sidelines to make adjustments, believing that on the pitch, Zhang Zhetian would make a better choice.

"Real Madrid's state is up, whether it is the overall strength or the ability of the players, Arsenal is a step behind, palm, what will you do to snatch a point from the powerful Real Madrid?"

In the stands, Josep Guardiola pondered silently.

'Alex, you and Amara form a new midfield partnership and when you attack, you go into the box and you go with Theo. But when you're defending, you have to sink into the midfield position and compress the gaps in the middle so that they can't attack in the middle. However, I don't think we have much chance to play a positional battle with Real Madrid, mainly on the counter-attack. Héctor, when you're defending, you play in at the back to form a back three, and when you're countering, you take the ball in the ribs and push it in and launch a fast attack. ”

Zhang Zhetian looked at Alex Sanchez and Theo Walcott, although the two had a little unpleasant trouble because of the goal before, but the big enemy is now, and at this time they must unite and kill the opponent.

'Alex, Theo, when Real Madrid were in possession, you were in midfield to help win the ball. Guys, remember, if you grab the ball near the center circle, it's all passed to Mesut. Except for this area, pass it on to me. Mesut, "

Looking at Mesut Ozil, who had a question mark on his face, Zhang Zhetian pointed to his sides and said: "You don't have to come back to defend, stay in the front, but you must not be in an offside position." If you get the ball, remember, don't think about anything, pass to the side as soon as you want, left and right, whatever you want. ”

'Don't worry about bad passes, don't worry about failure, we have more counter-attacks and there will definitely be chances. The weakness of their formation is that they are afraid of counterattacking! ”

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Many people thought that after conceding the goal, Arsenal would attack aggressively in order to equalize.

If you're a manager, you're going to do it, but thankfully, you're not a manager, otherwise your team would have been blown up and bloodied by your opponents.

The adjustment made by Zhang Zhetian was to take the initiative to hand over the ball and guide Real Madrid to attack, and Arsenal resolutely counterattacked.

When the ball is on his side, give the ball to Sanchez, let him single-handedly challenge the Real Madrid defense with his personal ability, can succeed, equalize is good, if it fails, it is in the hands of the palm of the sky, and give the ball to the opponent.

In the 55th minute, Sanchez took the ball in the middle circle arc and advanced towards the Real Madrid half, and after passing Toni Kroos, under the follow-up defense of Casemiro, he dribbled the ball to the right side of the penalty area arc to hit the goal, but the power was insufficient and was confiscated by Kylor Navas.

In the 57th minute, Luka Modric dribbled the ball in the middle circle, and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain viciously brought down the Croatian midfielder and received the Topaz card.

A minute later, Francis Coquelin tackled Modric, Modric fell to the ground and rolled over and screamed, and Italian referee Nicola Rizzoli rushed to the scene of the incident to stop the clash between the two players, and after flashing the topaz card to Coquelin, he called the Gunners opponent Koscielny.

"Take care of your teammates, it's okay to foul, but if you hurt someone, I'll give you a red card."

"Don't worry, Mr. referee, we won't hurt people maliciously, our foul scale is nothing in the Premier League."

"That's the Premier League, it's the Champions League, I'm the referee, play by my rules!"

"Yes, sir."

A weird smile appeared on the corner of Zhang Zhetian's mouth, and he used constant fouls to disrupt the opponent's rhythm and provoke the opponent's emotions, which was also his previous arrangement.

"I didn't expect you to be a bad boy, hehe." Guardiola shook his head slightly, he had met with this kid a few times, but he didn't find out that this guy was not a "good person" at all.

In the 61st minute, as soon as Daniel Carvajal crossed the middle line with the ball on the right side, he was tackled by Aaron Ramsey with the ball, and the Spaniard who rolled out of the sideline got up and pushed Ramsey who raised his hands and pretended to be innocent with an angry face, and Ramsey screamed and fell to the ground.

Looking at Zidane, who kept protesting to the fourth official, Rizzoli showed his cards to Carvajal, but did not show his cards to Ramsey, causing the Spanish right-back to be dissatisfied and wanted to reason with the referee, but was stopped by his teammates.

Pep Guardiola chuckled: "Feel the style of the Premier League, Zinedin. ”