140. Opportunity

Just as the cameraman was about to cut the camera away from Arsene Wenger, he suddenly whispered a few words to Pat Rice next to him, and then the Arsenal assistant coach walked quickly to the touchline and seized the opportunity of a dead ball to call Gilberto Silva to the sidelines and start a whispered conversation.

The king looked up at the sky with his hand in his hand, "Ladies and gentlemen, do you guess what the tactical change that Mr. Professor ordered will be?" ”

"I think it might be slowing down." Andy Gray was the first to answer.

Gilberto Silva returned to the pitch and made a few tactical gestures to his players that were difficult for outsiders to understand.

Ian Wright was a little unsure, "Strengthen the breakthrough and try your set-piece tactics?" ”

"Maybe it's going to be a step up for a long shot!" Boban speculated, "Judging from the current situation of the game, AC Milan's defensive system is actually more focused on the area, and the limited manpower is arranged to defend in a limited area, which is obvious. Although the long-range shot is also a gamble, the desired result is only whether there is a gain or not, and as long as the Gunners pay attention to the control of the perimeter, there is not much risk in trying this offensive method itself. ”

Sure enough, the course of the next game was very much in line with Boban's speculation, although Arsenal's attacking rhythm was no longer like a storm, but the attacking pressure did not slow down, but after forming the first breakthrough inside the big penalty line, it was no longer focused on creating opportunities closer to the goal, but attracted the deviation of Milan's defensive system and quickly moved to the space outside the edge line to shoot from distance.

The Gunners' players up front generally have good long-range shooting skills, so Arsene Wenger is ready to try his luck and see if he can find the back of the net with a long-range shot.

In the 13th minute, Seedorf received the ball from the left side of the middle and hit the goal with his feet, slightly above the lintel.

Less than three minutes later, Henry's right-footed curling into the far corner of the net from just in front of him was cut off the woodwork by Didato.

Tactical corners, Bergkamp, who was the receiving point, abruptly lobed into the far corner of the goal without even looking up. If you want to find a word to describe the ice prince's right foot, it is a weightlift, his right foot is very small whether it is shooting or passing, especially in the run, sometimes you can't see the swing of the calf, this hanging shot is the same, and the line is weird, fortunately, Dida is very concentrated, only in the continuous retreat on the edge of the goal frame with his fingertips to rub the ball off, the ball was hit the goal frame and rebounded back to the field when the ball was cleared by Cafu's big foot!

It was Arsenal's most dangerous attack since the opening kick-off, and he almost completed the goal, which made Arsene Wenger on the sidelines extremely disappointed, and he vented his fists with some gaffes.

Clearly, the lob that missed the goal took a toll on Arsenal's morale, and the attacks they organised in the next few minutes did not pay off, with more pointless lateral passes around half-time.

"Do you want them to take it and attract each other out?" , Pat Rice advised Arsene Wenger.

After the Gunners on the field experienced a high-intensity and high-concentration offensive and defensive battle after the opening, they began to gradually show fatigue after this attack setback, and many of the gaps that ran out of the gap had active passing errors, so that under the vicious circle, there were fewer and fewer opportunities in the forward attack, and they could only do the transfer of horizontal passes or return passes back and forth, brushing the useless possession.

On the contrary, AC Milan's formation quietly advanced a few meters unconsciously, like a squeezed spring, which has accumulated strength and does not know when to explode.

Therefore, Pat Rice seems a little worried, with the above suggestions, a slight recovery of the formation can allow AC Milan to accumulate the sharpness of the counter-attack, you must know that a high-concentration defense is also a huge drain.

Arsene Wenger shook his head, "With Patrick on the pitch, I'm sure he can make the right decision at this time!" ”

Patrick Vieira, the captain of Arsenal, is Arsene Wenger's most trusted man on the pitch!

Seedorf took the ball in front of the court, almost drew a circle with the ball, and saw that there was no good opportunity to have no choice but to pass back, Lahm followed the route of the pass to chase and grab, Gilberto Silva did not pause after receiving the ball, and directly pushed it to Vieira, who was further back, but the passing power was a little too ......

The pass seemed to come a little suddenly, the Arsenal captain seemed to be unprepared in the camera, there was a mistake when stopping the ball, and the ball bounced far away from his body, which made Ljungberg, who was cruising along the halfway line, see an opportunity, and the Swede suddenly accelerated to try to steal the ball!

At the critical moment, Vieira's advantage of large stride was revealed, his long legs still touched the football before the Swede, and he stabbed the ball through Ljungberg's crotch, and then the man bypassed Ljungberg's side, at this moment Vieira's super flexibility allowed his body to maintain balance after twisting a strange angle, and quickly adjusted, and then accelerated!

In Jiang Qi's tactical requirements, Kaka and Ljungberg had to take turns cruising in the opponent's half to wait for an opportunity, and the other was in the middle line as the first line of defense to disrupt Arsenal's midfield pass, so passing Ljungberg in a gambling scramble left Vieira with a large open field in front of Vieira's eyes.

This sudden change made the Milan players seem to have a momentary pause, Pirlo was still in a forward position at the moment, and in the face of the approaching Vieira, he finally chose to step back to cut off the opponent's passing line, but Vieira's choice was unexpected......

"Patrick Vieira dribbles the ball and suddenly shoots from distance!" At this moment, whether it is Andy Gray in English or Wang in Chinese, they all exclaimed in hand, Vieira's long-range shot is extremely rare, not to mention that he is now 30 meters away from the goal.

But the Frenchman shot very resolutely and with great power, and the ball barely whizzed away with any spin, but unfortunately the angle was slightly right, but Dida did not dare to take it hard, but hit the ball with both fists.

It's just that Dida hit out the landing point of the football was grabbed by Henry, who started faster, he unloaded the ball sideways, behind him was Lucio pressing closely, the two were entangled on the penalty line, Henry stabilized the center of gravity and suddenly accelerated to get rid of the Brazilian, Lucio wanted to adjust the center of gravity to accelerate a little bit of power, subconsciously and covertly pulled Henry's corner, although the action was not big, but it was enough to destroy Henry's center of gravity when he barely started, plus Lucio's intentional closeness, Henry staggered a step and fell to the ground, At the same time, Lucio had already poked the ball out of the leg advantage.

It was a complicated defensive process this time around, but it looked like it was working, if Merck's whistle hadn't been blown......

It's a pity that the German referee didn't let go of Lucio's hidden pull, quickly ran to the place of the incident, and then pointed to the penalty spot!

Penalty kick!