Chapter Ninety-Five: Carry the Bus to the End
Arsenal will be a big test for Sunderland, and if they can win at home against two title-level teams in quick succession, it will be a considerable confidence boost for the whole team. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Arsenal are a very good team on the ground, both in terms of their personnel and the tactics laid out by the manager, passing is their deadliest weapon to destroy opponents; Arsenal also often put on particularly beautiful goals, such as the previous goal that was scored by Wilshere, who was still in the team at the time, after a series of passes in front of the goal, and that goal was subsequently selected as a candidate for the best goal of the week, month and year in world football by major media......
After the start of the game, You Lu first gave a brief introduction to Arsenal's style of play, and asked Zhang Lu, who also commentated, to conduct further analysis.
Nan Xiao still adopted a conservative defensive posture after the start of the game, not only the three back midfielders were deeply recycled, but even the three forwards were actively involved in the defense, especially Defoe, who was not only able to attack the team in attack, but also ran hard in the defensive end, beckoning Murphy and Carlos around him to constantly interfere with Arsenal's two central defenders, and build the team's first line of defense together.
Due to the lack of Halilovich's tandem in the front, Sunderland is particularly dazed when he has the ball, because only Dokal is the team's stable point of departure, so the Arsenal team is also very targeted to arrange Ramsey and Walcoat on the right side to take more care of him, so Sunderland can only contact the team's 3 forwards through long passes or through balls with very low accuracy when even the only point of exit Dokar is also restricted; However, such a result had little effect, and the three strikers were difficult to get the ball comfortably and could not organize an effective counter-attack, so Arsenal did not have much threat from the home team in the first 20 minutes.
But although Arsenal seems to have completely dominated the field, Wenger, who is on the sidelines, still keeps reminding his players to keep paying attention at all times, because he has watched many games between Sunderland and other teams, and the most lethal ability of this team has two points, one is their ability to counterattack, Defoe has a strong individual combat ability, and Carlos and Murphy are extremely fast, they are good players in the counterattack; The second is their ability to change the rhythm, although for the time being, they all retreat to their own half of the court, posing as a weak person to attract the opponent's attack, but they may suddenly speed up the pace at which node, maybe it is just a certain gesture of Nan Xiao, or a time point that has been arranged before the game, in short, they will suddenly change the rhythm on the field unreasonably at a certain moment, and launch an offensive like mercury; And once the two are combined, then it is a thing that should never be taken lightly for any team.
"Coach Zhang, do you feel that when Giroud is not on the pitch, the Arsenal team always seems to have little way to defend this kind of iron bucket formation!"
"That's right, because it was Sanchez who replaced Giroud in the position of the center forward, but Sanchez rarely appeared in this position, he was more likely to retreat to get the ball, or to cruise in the position of Iwobi on the left side, or to return to the midfield to assist Ozil or Ramsey to organize, so although Arsenal discharged a 4231 formation, it seems that there is a top 1 at the front, but in fact they are playing a strikerless formation; And even if Alexis Sanchez or Theo Walcott or even Iwobi occasionally appear in this position in the centre-forward, their height is completely unadvantageous for headers, so Arsenal have lost the most effective way to break the iron bucket when facing the opposition's shrinking defence. In addition, a more effective way to deal with the iron bucket formation is the periphery of the long shot, Arsenal also has players with excellent long-range shooting ability, such as Xhaka, such as Ramsey, all have a long shot, but the Sunderland team's three-back system is very good to limit Arsenal's offensive means, whether it is when Xhaka or Ramsey takes the ball, at least one of the three players of the Sunderland team will always appear next to them, the purpose may not be to cut off the ball at their feet, But one of those goals is definitely there, and that is to prevent them from having a chance to shoot from distance from the edge of the box. ”
The problems encountered by Arsenal are as Zhang Lu said, Sunderland's bus-style defense makes it difficult for them to penetrate into the penalty area through short passes, although Sanchez and Iwobi have the ability to pass one-on-one, but after one and a second, and then a third, always do not give you the opportunity to shoot, even if there is a chance to shoot, there is no good shooting angle; At the same time, Sunderland paid special attention to the protection of the front of the penalty area, so Arsenal really did not have many opportunities to shoot from distance.
Although the tactics of the Sunderland team make the whole scene seem very boring, it has to be said that the Arsenal players are quite irritated in the face of this kind of attack, and can only fall on the perimeter.
'You see, the Arsenal players seem to be starting to be a little impetuous. Shen Chao pointed to the Arsenal players on the pitch and said with a smile.
"Dizi's ability in psychological warfare is top-notch." Chen Mingshuo said with his hands wrapped around his chest.
"I really don't know when he had such a deep understanding of football tactics, we all watched football together before, why did you never find out?" Shen Chao pondered and said.
"Some things are innate, Dizi football talent is good, whether it is from the consciousness or the sense of the ball, you just say that when we played wild ball, have you ever seen a consciousness better than him?"
"What you said is true, it's just a pity that Uncle Nan didn't let him play football back then, otherwise Chinese football might be saved now." Shen Chao said with an expression of righteous indignation.
"I think it's pretty good for Dizi to become a coach, although he can't become a professional player, but he can cultivate more talents for Chinese football, just like Zhang Xiuwei and Xu Xin, if they can really grow into stars under Dizi, it's also a pretty good thing!"
"Well, you're right!" Shen Chao agreed with Chen Mingshuo's words, "By the way, Mingshuo, what do you think of the coaching qualification certificate?" ”
"It's okay, I'm wondering if I should take the coach certificate of intercontinental qualification directly like Dizi, or take a lower level of transition first."
"I feel like it's not a little lower now, it's even a little bit lower." Shen Chao said with a depressed face.
"Hey, Shen Chao, fight back!" Chen Mingshuo suddenly patted Shen Chao's shoulder and shouted.
Shen Chao looked into the middle of the court in the direction of Chen Mingshuo's finger, and saw Dokal dribbling forward at high speed on the left side of the court about three to five meters away from the sideline, and passed the middle line in a blink of an eye; It turned out that when Shen Chao and Chen Mingshuo were talking, Xhaka was a little sluggish in handling the ball, and the Sunderland team's iron gate Jedinak saw the opportunity to step forward and cut the ball off Xhaka's feet, and then distributed it to his teammate Dokar next to him for the first time.
Due to Jedinak's sudden break this time, the Arsenal players were not able to stick to Dokal who was holding the ball in the first place, and finally gave him a chance to take the ball forward, at this time Draxler and Carlos also actively ran forward on both flanks, trying to create better passing space for Dokar.
Dokar was also thinking about which side to distribute the ball next after holding the ball across the halfway line, but both sides looked and found that both Bellerin and Monreal were well on his passing route and did not give him a chance to pass the ball through; Just as Dorkar was struggling, the veteran Defoe showed his experience, and he suddenly stopped running forward like Draxler and Carlos, and the sudden brake threw the two Arsenal centre-backs who had been defending him far away.
"Give me the ball." Defoe said as he stretched out his hands at Dokar.