Chapter 346 Favoritism
As a striker, Giroud performed well last season and this season, but after all, he can only be regarded as an ordinary striker, and he is still some distance away from a first-class striker, so in this situation, it is not easy to rely on his ability to change the situation on the pitch.
If it is replaced by Lin Yu, it is somewhat possible, after all, Lin Yu's breakthrough and dribbling are very good, even if there are not many ways to pass people, but the point is that every way to pass people is very skillful.
Cazorla said before the game that he didn't know Lin Yu, but now the blind know that the most active person on the field is Lin Yu, Chelsea with Lin Yu and Chelsea without Lin Yu are completely different, and the threat level has obviously increased too much.
Arsene Wenger has done a lot of pre-match homework, but he has always been just a coach, and he can't afford to be a good woman, and he can only stare dryly when there is no one available, and he didn't expect Chelsea to play so hard away from home, it feels like they are going to turn the Emirates Stadium into a Stamford Bridge stadium.
Looking at Mourinho's calm expression, Wenger's heart is even more bottomless.
Mourinho has never been a coach who can sit still, in the game, he is sometimes more enthusiastic than the players, and because of this, he has also been sent off many times, but in today's game, Mourinho is completely firmly seated in the Diaoyutai, feeling confident, everything is under control.
It is true that although Chelsea have yet to score, it is only a matter of time before he scores in the current situation, so why bother?
The Chelsea players on the pitch are faithfully fulfilling their pre-match set-up. He doesn't have to worry about it at all, unlike when he was at Real Madrid. He was so anxious that his hair turned gray, but he couldn't completely get the team to follow his own ideas. Sure enough, the team still has to have the right style, otherwise it will be difficult for someone like Mourinho to succeed in training.
He looked at the clock, the first half was almost over, it was now thirty-two minutes, and Chelsea's attack had slowed down seven or eight minutes earlier, but even so, it was still holding Arsenal down and not giving the Gunners any chance to counter-attack.
Besides. A team like the Gunners, counter-attacking is not what they are good at, they prefer to keep the ball at their feet, but against this Chelsea team, their cooperation can't play at all, it's a bit of a pain.
Arsenal fans shouted hard in the hope that they could increase confidence and motivation for their team and change the passive situation on the pitch, which also had a certain effect. The combination of Mesut Ozil and Podolski, the two Germans, came close to finding the Chelsea goal.
However, it was a shot from Podolski that could not get into the Chelsea box. It still depends on luck to score from a long shot, but luck is such a thing, who knows when it will come back.
Maybe it's really luck. Podolski's shot didn't go back in the net, but two minutes later. Lin Yu was the first to penetrate Arsenal's goal.
After attacking for more than 30 minutes, Lin Yu cut in on the left side with a long-range shot. Sparing Arsenal's defenders, hanging directly into the corner, did not give the Arsenal goalkeeper a chance at all, and once this goal was scored, his goal tally also reached 22, further expanding his advantage in the scorer list.
As Arsenal's top scorer this season, Giroud has only scored 14 goals so far, and he can't compare with Lin Yu at all.
But no one wants to be suppressed for the rest of his life, even if it is Giroud, he also has a heart of the Golden Boot, after all, there are still many games this season, the gap of eight goals, as long as the performance is excellent, it can still be made up, the problem is that he must score, otherwise like this game, Lin Yu scored again, but he hasn't even touched the edge of the goal, how to catch up? How to surpass?
In fact, before conceding the goal, Arsenal strengthened the defense of Lin Yu, trying not to let Lin Yu enter the penalty area, but what is the point of doing this, Lin Yu still relied on a long-range shot to score, such a person, there are too many ways to score goals, he is not those traditional center forwards who can survive in the penalty area, nor is it a nine-and-a-half or shadow striker or winger who can live by speed, he has a positional battle to score goals, and he also has a counterattack goal method in counterattack wars, Lin Yu has been a goal since the day he got the ball king cultivator, deliberately cultivated himself to be an all-rounder on the court, an all-round attacker, in order not to let himself be easily blocked by others.
His efforts have not been in vain, after two seasons of improvement by Dortmund, his ability is now very comprehensive, if you want to defend him, unless you send several defenders with different styles to deal with it, but that is obviously impossible, after all, you can't all be on guard in a game, and even then, in the face of Lin Yu, who is as cunning as a fox, you still have to be fooled if you are not careful.
The key is that Arsenal's several defenders are not top-notch, and there are some problems in defending Hazard and Schurrle, not to mention Lin Yu?
So being scored by Lin Yu is almost a matter of course, and Wenger can't do anything no matter how anxious he is.
But then it was a bit of a surprise to Lin Yu, after he scored, Arsenal, which had been pressed, was about to think that something had been offended, and became very angry.
The roar in the stands was louder, and the Arsenal players, who were not very crazy, became extremely crazy, and they began to foul and scramble frequently, which caused the Chelsea players to suffer a lot for a while.
Even Lin Yu was inadvertently knocked over several times.
Lin Yu's body is strong enough, but if you are always hit by two people at the same time without paying attention, you can't stand it.
The referee of the Premier League penalty scale is relatively light, although several fouls have been awarded, but there is no meaning of cards, until this time, the Chelsea players did not remember that this is Arsenal's home stadium, generally speaking, even if the referee is unwilling, there will still be some home bias, this is a subconscious move, and the referee's idea does not have much to do with it.
In the last Champions League group game, Lin Yu was also entertained by CSKA Moscow, but he found that it was also a brutal scramble. Arsenal and CSKA Moscow are still not the same.
Arsenal's players are more timing-focused and more focused on the use of power. Therefore, when they fight with their feet or rely on their bodies, they choose to be in a very suitable situation. Either they can interrupt Chelsea's attack or they can create a counter-attack for their side.
Even if fighting back isn't their specialty, they have to do it.
Arsene Wenger's face showed joy, he knew that his players were provoked, daring to play Arsenal players at the Emirates Stadium like this, undoubtedly made them very unhappy, as the owners of this stadium, how could they endure being led by the nose all the time?
Although a goal was scored, Arsene Wenger was not as worried as before. Because now his team has found a counter-attack and has even started to keep the ball at their feet, creating several chances.
What's more, Chelsea's number one attacker, the number one threat, Lin Yu, has been killed, and now there is no chance to shoot at all.
But Wenger may have been happy a little too early, he only knew that Arsenal's players were dignified and bloody, but he didn't know that Lin Yu's temper was even greater. Although he was a little uncomfortable by Arsenal's foul tactics for the time being, it didn't take long for him to get used to it.
Such a player is born to come for the big scene. Just when you think you can keep him at bay, he's already looking for new ways to create opportunities.
When Oscar handed the ball to Lin Yu, Lin Yu was about to break through from the front. Waiting for an opportunity to shoot, he was just about to turn around. I felt a kick under my feet, and then a huge force came from behind. His body was instantly out of balance.
Even in the face of such a situation, Lin Yu swept the ball out while falling to the ground and handed it back to Oscar.
He looked back, and Wilshere and Ramsey were staring at him, their eyes red, and they felt like hungry beasts, and it seemed that they really had taken him for mortal enemies.
Although he didn't concede the ball, in this way, another attack was broken down, and Lin Yu didn't even have a chance to turn around.
He protested to the referee, but the referee shook his head, and he didn't even give a foul, this is the Premier League, you have to adapt to the referee with a very loose penalty scale, if this goal is changed to the Bundesliga, it is estimated that Wilshere and Ramsey will have a yellow card.
Lin Yu didn't talk too much nonsense, he just glanced at Ramsey and Wilshere, and then ran to Oscar.
"Pass the high ball, don't pass me to the ground again!" Lin Yu said.
"Huh?"
"It's okay, I have my own measure, they just don't want me to turn around and break through, in that case, just pass the high ball, with the height of their defense, who can stop me except for Meddesak?" Lin Yu smiled and said: "Come on, use your best footwork to disrupt Arsenal's backfield, now the first half is not over, if you put in him again, I don't believe they still have such high morale in the second half!" ”
"Well, since you said so, then I'll listen to you." Oscar nodded, since Lin Yu came, his passing skills have also improved a lot, mainly no matter what kind of ball he passes Lin Yu can receive, which makes him feel a lot more confident, and he has also put a lot of effort into strengthening the passing, and now he is basically able to point where to play, and there will rarely be a passing deviation.
Soon, the Arsenal players tasted the pain they had given Lin Yu.
Oscar kept passing high balls, Lin Yu would always use his body to touch the opponent intentionally or unintentionally before receiving the ball, whether it was Ramsey or Wilshere, there was no way to compete with Lin Yu, who took the initiative to ask for a body collision, and was knocked to the ground several times, and naturally the ball that landed next became Lin Yu's dish, and no one fought with him anymore.
If it weren't for the referee's several fouls, it is estimated that Arsenal's goal would be dangerous again.
Speaking of today's referee, it's really interesting, as if he was deliberately targeting Lin Yu, when Lin Yu was violated, he turned a blind eye, but when Lin Yu knocked over the opponent, he became positive, and he was so angry that Lin Yu couldn't wait to go up and beat this guy.
It's not like he's never seen a referee who owes a flat, but today's referee really made him feel the urge to kill.
Others may encounter this kind of thing, so they swallow their anger, where would Lin Yu swallow this breath so easily? He won't go against the referee openly, but it's okay to play a little trick and clean up this annoying referee.
And so the next scene begins.
Lin Yu raised his foot directly in the midfield to shoot, obviously facing the goal, but when the ball flew up, it smashed directly into the referee's head.
The poor referee's whistle was smashed to the ground.
Lin Yu went over to check the referee's situation with great concern, but in fact, he was secretly happy in his heart, I want you to target Lao Tzu, how about now?
Although he didn't come out of the film school, Lin Yu's acting skills are still quite good, no one thought that his kick was specifically aimed at the referee, they all thought that he was wrong, looking at his concern for the referee, I really couldn't imagine that he had revenge.
Of course, Lin Yu also showed mercy at his feet, otherwise, with his strength, this step down, the referee would have to faint, he just wanted to see if the referee remembered the lesson, if it was still so neat, then he would really have to be ruthless. (To be continued......)