Chapter Twenty-Five: If You Kicked Me, You'll Give Me Back

The match against Manchester City did not enter the real ** until the last minutes.

For any team, they will not hold on to a draw unless they are forced to do so, all teams want to please the fans, and what makes the fans happy is, of course, to win.

The game was a draw until the 85th minute, and in the face of a draw, both teams will of course have more thoughts: in the last few minutes, maybe you can get three points with a little fight?

So in the final stage of the game, the two sides suddenly launched a tragic attack again, this is the case on the football field, either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind, both teams are willing to do everything desperately to attack, that of course will create a lot of opportunities, and it will also expose a lot of flaws.

In the 86th minute, Manchester City cooperated in the front, Alexander. Song's reckless snatch won the opportunity, but fortunately Almunia reacted quickly enough this time to let the Brazilian striker's cold shot fail to achieve results, but as soon as he turned around, Arsenal also forced Schmeichel Jr. to make a wonderful save, Descartes flanked and Walket cooperated to go down, the little tiger passed a high ball, Adebayo pressed Richards' header to hit the goal, if it wasn't for Schmeichel Jr.'s position was accurate enough, the ball would have been hoisted in from the back post.

Before the fans could catch their breath, City's attack hit Arsenal again, this time by Elano, and the Brazilian midfielder tested Almunia with a long-range shot.

Unlike City's frequent long-range shots, Arsenal's attack was more disciplined and patient under Descartes' organisation, maintaining a consistent passing tradition of not shooting without passing the ball into the opposition box.

This time it was Rosicky who burst into the box, and after Descartes and Adebayor drew much of the attention of the City defence, Rosicky suddenly unleashed his breakthrough to get past two City defenders in quick succession and take the ball into the heart of the opposition.

Manchester City's back line suddenly turned on their backs, some people went to block Rosicky, some people went to jam the Arsenal striker, all of them looked like they were facing a big enemy.

But he didn't expect Rosicky to turn a corner, and suddenly he didn't go to the middle, he took the ball directly to the bottom line.

This made Manchester City's defenders even more flustered, and the bottom line knocked back? Yes! The bottom line is passed to the back point? Yes! The bottom line crosses the manufacturing of oolongs, and there is wood? Of course! Is there a wood in the bottom line zero-angle shot? This can also be had!

Rosicky has countless options, but Manchester City's defenders have only one way: block him or die!

Mills rushed forward with all his might, and let out a loud roar from afar, which he tried to intimidate Rosicky and bring him to a slight pause at his feet.

Rosicky is also an old fritter on the court, how can he be frightened by this kind of trick that does not enter the stream, if Zhang Fei can drink Dangyang Bridge, Kahn can drink until the opponent's forward legs are weak, then Mills's big drink is at most just adding 0.0 and 0 decibel noise to the Etihad Stadium.

Before Mills could pounce, Rosicky finally passed the ball out, not back, not horizontally, but directly high to the back post.

Walcott, who was at the back post, sprinted up at high speed and collided with Manchester City left-back Bohl.

Although the two collided violently, the ball was not destroyed, it fell limply from the top of their heads to the ground, and then bounced to the middle.

Ten eyes and 5 or 6 legs were waiting for it in the middle, and in the end, no one touched it, and the ball rolled into the goal line in the horrified eyes of Schmeichel Jr.!

Arsenal took the lead again.

And unlike the previous two times, this lead finally broke the morale of Manchester City, and although they launched a ferocious comeback in the subsequent game, they had no choice but to swallow the bitter defeat in the end.

And once again the hero of Arsenal's victory was Descartes, who had just turned 18.

At this moment, the news about the "Gemini dispute" and the infighting in the media has all disappeared, and there is only one focus of attention, that is, Descartes.

With this game, his league goal tally for the season has increased to 13, making him the team's second-highest scorer behind Bam Adebayor, while his assists have now reached 17, which is also the second-best assister behind Cesc Fabregas.

But the problem is that he only plays less than half the time of the above two.

Before you know it, Descartes has become the "best" player in the Arsenal team.

The media are good at digging for data, but also good at using data to promote their arguments, in their opinion, Arsenal's internal core battle can be over, the first half of the view of Bregas, the second half of the view of Descartes, this is the best way to look at the moment, anyway, these two are worthy of the team's trust of excellent players, Arsenal has these two people, it is equivalent to having two treasure troves, what else do they need to fight for?

But is it really that simple?

On 12 February, Arsenal hosted Blackburn Rovers, a game that was seen as a no-brainer before the game, with Arsenal currently topping the league table with 60 points, while Blackburn are ninth in the league with only 39 points, which is not a conversation of the same weight class at all.

The result of the game did not exceed expectations, as Arsenal won the game 2-0 at home, taking their league points to 63 points and extending the gap on Manchester United to six points.

Just when people thought that Arsenal had shaken off the turmoil of infighting and were on a high-speed path, the seemingly unstoppable vehicle suddenly broke down.

In the 27th round of the league, Arsenal challenged Birmingham away.

Birmingham City had caused Arsenal huge problems on the road in the first half of the season, and it was in that game that the topic of whether Descartes and Cesc Fabregas could be compatible was put on the table, and Arsenal also struggled to win the 1 point in that game, and the tough guy Bruce and his tough players impressed the Arsenal players.

However, after this game, Birmingham may have left more than a deep impression on the Arsenal players, but an unforgettable nightmare.

Just two minutes into the game, Birmingham defender Martin Brown. Taylor used a flying tackle to tumble Eduardo to the ground in pain, and when the camera camera got close to Eduardo's calf, people were horrified to see that his shin bone was directly out of the sock, and it looked as if his entire ankle had been broken from the middle of the iron rod!

This serious foul for Martin. Taylor brought in a red card, which also cost Eduardo an entire season, and similar broken legs were played on Cisse and Alan Smith, both of whom had been recuperating for almost a year and never performed again.

An angry Arsene Wenger called out Martin after the game. Taylor is a "murderer", he told the media: "The answer given to us by the other party is 'he's not usually such a person', but if a person kills someone once in his life, he is a murderer, if you see everything that happened at that time, you won't tell me that he went for the ball, three bans?" It's ridiculous and I can't take it. ”

Following the advice of the professor, Martin. Taylor should be banned for life!

The Arsenal players also seemed to be intimidated by the Birmingham team's "dismount", they appeared cautious in the following games, and did not dare to fight hard at all, and as a result, it seemed that the upper hand on the pitch was the Birmingham team with one less man.

They took the lead in the 23rd minute, when Birmingham City striker Fossell burst into the box, Arsenal defender Toure subconsciously stepped back, only to have Faisel easily slotted home, Toure's face was full of remorse and relief.

The professor was extremely angry at the goal conceded, and he directly replaced Toure with Galla, expressing his extreme dissatisfaction with the Ivorian defenders, how did he know that Toure had already made up his mind to escape from the arsenal next season, how could he let himself be hurt by a group of "butchers" for a ball that was about to leave?

Galla did boost the morale of the team when they came on, but the Birminghams did not hold back from taking the lead and playing one man less, and they continued to play a fierce battle with Arsenal.

Eduardo's broken calf to the impact of Arsenal's players is by no means a few dozen minutes and a replacement for Galla can be resolved, although Galla, who has just been promoted to the team's third captain, is desperately yelling at the back, but out of consideration for their own safety, there are still most Arsenal players on the pitch who seem a little timid, among them, Fabregas, who is highly expected by the manager, is one.

In the first half of this game, Cesc Fabregas completely lost his aura and organizational skills, he always seemed a little flustered when the opponent stepped forward to press, and he couldn't wait to hand over the ball to other teammates, and this panicked mood also infected other people, and the whole Arsenal team looked like a mess in attack, completely lacking the fluidity and calmness in the peace.

Faced with such a situation, Wenger had to replace Descartes in the 35th minute of the game, and he replaced the team's first captain, Cesc Fabregas.

After Descartes came on, Arsenal played 433 directly, and Arsene Wenger's plan was to bypass Birmingham's heavy accumulation in midfield and put the ball directly in the hands of the strikers, lest the players have to face more of Birmingham's hideous faces and rough entanglements in midfield.

This tactic did play a great effect, under the impact of Bendtner, Van Persie and Descartes, Birmingham's back line quickly could not hold up, they had to ask for help like a midfield teammate, Bruce could only helplessly watch his team force back to the midfield line step by step, when the first half ended, Birmingham was no longer able to pass through the midfield.

Bruce was disappointed by the situation, and he encouraged his team-mates in impassioned words at half-time, but he didn't know what else he said, but everyone could see the blood-red in their eyes when the Birmingham players walked out of the tunnel at the start of the second half.

As a result, at the beginning of the second half, Arsenal suffered another heavy blow, Rosicky strained his calf in the process of fighting with the Birmingham players, this injury was not directly caused by the Birmingham players, but when the Birmingham players rushed over, the menacing appearance did bring huge psychological pressure to Rosicky, and his technical movements were inevitably deformed in addition to the tension, so he finally caused this accidental strain.

The rainy professor didn't know what to say, so he had to mechanically replace Diaby while praying that no one on the team would get hurt again.

As a result, God seemed to hear half of his prayers, and it was true that no one was injured at Arsenal after that, but they were two goals behind.

This time it was Birmingham midfielder Larsson who scored a long-range shot that didn't look threatening, but Almunia was inexplicably distracted, his expression looked as if he was still immersed in the moment when Eduardo broke his leg, in the face of this limp flying ball, he actually made a mistake in the small goal was pierced, the ball rolled between his legs into the goal, Almunia rolled and crawled to get it back from the goal line, but unfortunately it was a step too late.

Birmingham, who had taken a two-goal lead, were finally satisfied, and it took them 50 minutes to choose to return to defend in full, just as the St Andrew's Stadium fans began singing their new song: "We've got a Taylor, Taylor, if you don't obey, let him break your legs!" ”

The nasty song made the fourth official on the sidelines frown, and it is conceivable that Birmingham will definitely receive a penalty notice from the Football Association after the game.

But Birmingham have the biggest football hooligan in the Premier League, and they don't care if the club is punished, they just vent their emotions and base their pleasure on the pain of others.

Arsenal, who were two goals down, finally played some blood, and it was none other than Descartes, who replaced Cesc Fabregas.

In the 64th minute, Descartes broke through with the ball, and the midfielder of the Birmingham team, Riddle, rushed up with a fierce face, and before the person arrived, he had already declared his fierceness with a loud shout, but Descartes, who looked quite thin, had tenacity nerves that were very incompatible with his size, and in the face of Riddle's threat, he struggled to break through from him.

Riddle, of course, would not allow Descartes to break through his defense so easily, he raised his thigh slightly, pretending to inadvertently press on Descartes' lower abdomen, and Descartes, whose entire center of gravity was leaning forward, fell to the ground in pain with his lower abdomen as if struck by lightning.

The Arsenal players immediately surrounded him and grabbed Riddle to reason with him, but Riddle didn't mean to admit his mistake at all, he glanced coldly at Descartes on the ground, and said disdainfully: "Don't pretend, get up, you coward." ”

Descartes' heart was on fire, and he wanted to get up at once and punch the hateful fellow in the face, but the pain in his lower abdomen made it impossible for him to straighten up, and this kind of hard wound was indeed worse than death in a few seconds.

The referee rushed to the scene of the incident, checked Descartes' injury, and then showed Riddle a yellow card, but Riddle did not argue at all, he walked back with open arms like a hero, greeted the cheers and cheers of the extreme fans in the stadium.

Riddle's move deeply infuriated Arsenal's players, who finally let go of their fears and decided to teach the savage and arrogant Birminghames a harsh lesson.

And the person with the most resolute determination is, of course, Descartes, who has gradually regained his breath.

The ball was put on the penalty spot, a direct free-kick from around 35 yards from goal, and Arsenal's current number taker Robin van Persie walked over to show the Birminghamman what he was capable of.

But then Descartes suddenly stopped Van Persie and said to him, "Let me take this ball." ”

Van Persie was stunned for a moment, Descartes never asked for a set-piece in the game, he didn't know why Descartes made such a request, but the two usually had a good relationship, and he didn't want to disobey Descartes.

So Descartes stood in front of the football, and he didn't even let his teammates cover for him, just stepping on the ball and watching coldly as the Birminghams moved the wall forward little by little.

It's just that I don't know why, Riddle, who was in the middle of the human wall, suddenly felt a chill down his spine at this time, Descartes's eyes were like the wild wolf in the legendary savannah, cold and murderous, he looked as if he was not making a free throw, but was about to shoot himself with a gun.

"He wants revenge!" Riddle suddenly felt that his mind had cleared up: "He didn't want to shoot, he wanted to kick me!" ”

Riddle felt like he had completely seen through Descartes' mentality, the bastard hadn't even thought about shooting, his goal had always been to be in the middle of the wall!

Riddle began to worry a little, although the ball can't kill people, but if the opponent is ruthless enough, that kind of pain is not something that ordinary people can bear, will this bastard really do this?

Descartes really did that!

The ball flew straight towards Riddle with a howling wind, and judging by the almost non-rotating stance of the ball in the air, Descartes simply used all his strength to shoot it, and the ball must have been impressive.

Riddle cursed in his heart, and then flashed to the side without hesitation, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, although England does not have this proverb, but it is the true surname of human beings to seek advantage and avoid harm, and of course Riddle will be afraid and dodge.

But what he didn't expect was that his sudden flash pitted his teammate behind him, Birmingham goalkeeper Mike. Taylor had been observing the flight path of the ball, but the teammate who was acting as a shield in front of him suddenly dodged away, and then the ball appeared in front of him, and by the time he reacted, the ball had already flown past his ears with a strong wind, and hit the net like a wave.

“goallllllllllllllllllllll!” Of course, the person who shouted such an excited voice was not the Birmingham home commentator at the scene, but the Arsenal commentator in front of the TV, and he was in a state of excitement with all the players on and off the pitch of Arsenal.

After the goal, Descartes did not refuse the crazy celebration that his teammates pounced on him, but in the crowd, he still looked straight at Riddle, whose face was red and blue, and Riddle could even recognize it from the shape of his mouth, and he silently said two words: "Coward!" ”

Ignoring Riddle's sudden thunderstorm, Descartes quickly hugged his teammates, at which point Van Persie in the crowd suddenly whispered to him, "Are you sure that guy will get out of the way for fear of retaliation?" You're so good! ”

"Of course not." Descartes smiled and replied, "I really want to get revenge on him." (To be continued.) )