Chapter 105: Speed of Life and Death
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After returning to the dressing room in midfield, Arsene Wenger surprisingly did not take responsibility for the goal conceded in the first half, he pulled Cesc Fabregas over this time, muttered to him for a long time, and then simply laid out the tactics for the second half, to the effect that he had to pay attention to the opponent's counter-attack, and then let the players walk out of the dressing room again.
Losing the ball but not being scolded is not a common experience for Arsenal players, not to mention that at such a life-and-death juncture, many players originally thought that Wenger would be angry in the dressing room, but he didn't expect him to spend most of his time whispering with Fabregas, what is the reason?
When walking through the players' tunnel, even Descartes couldn't help it, grabbed Xiaofa and asked quietly: "What did the boss say to you?" ”
Xiaofa hesitated for a moment, glanced around, and found that the Everton players had not yet come out, so he quietly replied to Descartes: "The boss asked me to go out in the second half and defend that Arteta." ”
"Huh?" Descartes' mind suddenly came alive and asked Cesc Fabregas to defend Arteta? Both are midfielders, and if Xiaofa wants to defend the other side, it means that he will be promoted to the position of the front midfield. So who goes to the backcourt to organize the team's attack?
I don't know why, the game with Barcelona appeared in Descartes's mind again, it seems that Barcelona did the same at that time, they used Xavi to block Cesc Fabregas's ball, and then isolated themselves and their teammates, speaking of which, for a full 90 minutes, neither he nor Arsenal found a way to break through the Barcelona cage, is Wenger preparing to paint a gourd?
Descartes could not question Arsene Wenger's tactics. After all, the other party has eaten more salt than he has eaten rice. But he always felt that there was something wrong with this, as if Wenger was not imitating Barcelona, but it also did not look like a set of deliberate tactical routines, his arrangement. It looks a lot like some kind of whimsical and sudden decision. Do so. It's easy to make things more complicated by letting the team lose control.
Descartes couldn't say what the specific problem was, but he just felt. Arsene Wenger's arrangement may cast a shadow over this game.
When Cesc Fabregas was brought up front, Arsenal caught Everton off guard at the start of the second half.
Cesc Fabregas belongs to the kind of player who is excellent in attack and above the level of defense, otherwise he would not be eligible to be promoted to the core of the team by Arsene Wenger, in some ways, he is really very similar to Xavi, so Barcelona will insist that he return to Xavi's class, and when he sniped in the forward position, it quickly embarrassed Arteta, the brain of Everton.
Mikel Arteta and Cesc Fabregas are both Spaniards, and even both of them are out of La Masia, so both technically and genre-wise, they are very familiar with each other, and in this case, Cesc Fabregas, who has a better overall quality, quickly gained the upper hand, not only quickly stifling Arteta's play, but also allowing Everton's momentum that had just risen a little bit to be quickly beaten.
Finding this change, Descartes couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, Jiang was really still old and spicy, Wenger saw the key point in Everton's formation at a glance, and quickly gave the opponent a heavy blow, before he felt that something was wrong, but he didn't expect that he was suspicious.
But is this really Cartesian suspicious?
When Cesc Fabregas was raised, Arsenal's midfield position was only left with the Brazilian Denilson, in fact, although Denilson has been used as the main force this season, but through the game with Barcelona, many people have seen clearly, he is by no means an excellent midfield barrier, Wenger uses him, I am afraid that he is more interested in his ability to play the ball, he can help Xiaofa sort out the midfield, this is what Wenger likes most, as for defense? Arsene Wenger has always relied on his own defensive line.
And when Arsene Wenger turned his gaze to Mikel Arteta, who had been so impressive after coming on in the first half, he effectively forgot that Everton had another man in midfield, Belgian Marouane Fellaini.
At this time, Fellaini is still not famous, although he has a height of 1.90 meters, but it is this height that makes him very deceptive, in fact, Fellaini is a player with very good skills at his feet, his passing may not be top-notch, but his back to the ball and the ball is very his own set, the most important thing is that he has a lot of flexibility and coordination that big men do not have, whether it is on the ground or high-altitude balls, he can handle it well.
Fellaini's move to Everton broke Moyes' transfer record, and he paid £15 million from Belgium's Standard Liege, surpassing the £12 million that Moyes brought in from Middlesbrough in '07, making him Everton's veritable first earner.
The subsequent Premier League experience proved that Moyes's vision is very accurate, and when Arteta left, Fellaini became the new core of Everton's midfield, and his number of assists and goals increased year by year, from 1 goal and 2 assists in the 10-11 season, to 11 goals and 5 assists in the 12-13 season, he completed the transformation from ugly duckling to white swan very well, until the 2013-2014 season was brought to Manchester United by Mo Ye, and he also set a new high of 27.5 million pounds transfer fee.
It's just that Fellaini has not been taken into Wenger's eyes at this time, and Moyes is more of a midfield transition using his header in this game, except for a few beautiful header ferries, he did not have too bright performance in the entire first half, so in Wenger's view, as long as he chokes the player who played the ball from Everton, Fellaini will not be able to pose any threat to Arsenal at all.
As a result, 23 minutes into the second half, just as Arsenal firmly dominated the field. Fellaini dealt a fatal blow to the Arsenal fans who were on the rise.
After more than 20 minutes of second-half battle, Arteta had already recognised Arsenal's strategy against him, with Cesc Fabregas roaming around him in order to cut off his long ball and deprive Everton of a counter-attacking source.
It was a very effective move indeed, Arteta felt the predicament he was in, he could no longer play long balls with the same ease as he did in the final stages of the previous half, and whenever he raised his thighs, Cesc Fabregas would appear like a ghost in front of him for twenty minutes. There is little way for him to make a pass that is more than 30 metres away. Without his precise long ball, Everton's counter-attack was instantly paralyzed and Arsenal regained the dominance on the pitch.
However, Arsenal are not Barcelona after all, and they can't do the all-round pressing in front like Barcelona. Arteta can't get around Cesc Fabregas. He simply gave up his place. Pulled Cesc Fabregas to the side.
Orchestrating the team's attack with long passes is the specialty of top players like Alonso and Pirlo, but that doesn't mean anything. No player who is not a top player can make a long pass, any professional player can easily kick the ball over a distance of fifty or sixty meters, and the gap between them and top superstars such as Pirlo and Alonso is nothing more than the timing and accuracy of the pass.
When Arteta pulled the young law away, the entire central position of Arsenal was vacated, and although Arteta was restrained by the small law, the rest of Everton's players were able to calmly open up the big foot in this position.
While their passing is not as precise as Arteta's, and the upfield players don't have as much of an easy time to get on the ball as they used to, long balls are never a technical job, and Everton's front-line players are just the height of their players, and when Arsenal attack in a big way, they can do it once enough to inflict fatal damage on Arsenal.
So in the 23rd minute of the second half, Everton backfield big foot, Fellaini easily fought for this header in the confrontation with Denilson, the Brazilian behaved like a weak chick in front of Fellaini at 1.90 meters (another say 1.94 meters), let him ferry the ball to the retreating Ruo, and then if the ball was stopped, Fellaini, who had just landed, rushed over like a sharp arrow, and fired a powerful long-range shot at the top of the arc of the penalty area, which once again opened the door guarded by Almunia.
In the whole process of the goal, Denilson fully exposed his physical fitness and professionalism problems, he was unable to compete with Fellaini in the air, Fellaini had already run out after landing, and he was still lying on the spot to complain to the referee, but Fellaini hammered the final word, and Everton stubbornly equalised.
If the goal was a personal mistake by Denilson, then when Everton once again used the same routine to overtake the score on 37 minutes, all the Arsenal players and fans were in despair.
The same long ball from the back, the same header ferry, the difference is that this time it was not Fellaini's long-range shot from outside the penalty area, but if he easily shook off Galla who was too fierce after getting the ball, and then volleyed from a small angle, Everton, who had been at the bottom of the game, took a surprising lead.
This also fully fulfilled the previous concern in Descartes's mind, Fabregas's premise, of course, can prevent Arteta's long pass, but it also completely exposed Arsenal's already weak hinterland to the opponent's firepower, and it is only now that Wenger understands that Moyes has not been focusing on Arteta's organizational core in this game, but Fellaini's high point in the front.
Arsene Wenger paid the price for his sudden rise, a game that seemed to have no waves, but after he made a tentative decision, Arsenal dominated possession and shots, but Everton inadvertently completed the score lead, and there are still a little more than 8 minutes to go before Arsenal become the new "Sanya King"!
The Arsenal players on the pitch were silent, the Arsenal crowd on the sidelines was silent, the hundreds of thousands of Arsenal fans outside the stadium were all silent, and only the commentators on the scene or in front of the TV were still arguing about this shocking reversal, some of them criticized that it was Denilson who ruined the good situation, some criticized that Arsenal's shit-like defense caused the team's total collapse, and some thought that the real problem actually lay with Arsene Wenger, who used Cesc Fabregas as the premise. Obviously, it was a cat and a tiger, but the tiger was not an anti-dog, which led to the team's defeat all season, and now, where will Arsenal go from here? (To be continued......)