Chapter 291: The First Crown of England
With a 3-0 win over Napoli, Arsenal have six points. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
And in the latter game, Galatasaray won 1-0 against Porto. So Arsenal will play Galatasaray tomorrow and Napoli will play Porto.
Galatasaray Football Club, often referred to simply as Galatasaray, is a professional football club based in Istanbul, Turkey. It is a sub-club of Galatasaray Sports Club, which is part of the Galatasaray community at a higher level.
Galatasaray has won 49 Turkish domestic titles, including 20 Turkish Super League titles, 16 Turkish Cup titles and 13 Turkish Super Cup titles, all of which hold the current domestic record. Galatasaray is also one of three clubs that have never been relegated from the Turkish Super League since its inception in 1959, and the only club in Turkey to have won the league title for four consecutive seasons.
Galatasaray won the Europa League and UEFA Super Cup in 2000, becoming the first Turkish club to win an intercontinental trophy. In the 1999-2000 season, the club achieved the feat of winning the Turkish Super League, the Turkish Cup, the Europa League and the UEFA Super Cup at the same time, and was unbeaten in all competitions in the Europa League that season. Galatasaray is also the only Turkish club to have been ranked No. 1 in the IFFHS world rankings.
How many honors Galatasaray has is not the focus of Zhang Xu's attention, Zhang Xu focuses on only one person, and that is the former Chelsea striker "Warcraft" Drogba!
Didier Drogba is physically strong and has outstanding goalscoring ability, winning three Premier League titles and two Premier League Golden Boot titles.
Drogba has strong physicality, is extremely explosive, and is good at running, and it is difficult for defenders to defend. Drogba is a nightmare for top defenders, because he is not known for his fancy moves with the ball, but with the impact of a monster, the speed of a cheetah, and the strength of a lion, he leaves defenders far behind, and is very practical. Moreover, he also has an excellent sense of smell in front of goal, and he decisively takes a kick at the goal, so that no matter how good the goalkeeper is, there is nothing he can do.
Drogba has the physical fitness of a sprinter, 6 feet 3 inches tall, 88 kilograms of perfect physique, not very fast, but if you rush up, you will appreciate the terrifying speed of Warcraft.
His shots are basically based on long-range shots, angry shots, and burst shots; Due to Drogba's unique shooting position on goal, the line of the ball is very strange and the shooting skills are excellent.
At the same time, he is also good at creating opportunities for his teammates.
Drogba's free-kick style is unique, roughly the same as Cristiano Ronaldo's free-kick style, and he is one of the representative players of the elevator ball.
In the face of such a well-rounded player, although Drogba is thirty-five years old, it is still a big challenge for Arsenal and Zhang Xu!
Zhang Xu is known as a tank, and Drogba is a "monster", who has better physical fitness is also the focus of many fans in this game.
However, Zhang Xu is still very confident in himself.
No matter how strong Drogba's physical fitness is, he can't compare with himself who has almost all of his physical attributes reached 99 points, right?
Coupled with his general defensive attribute of about 95 points, Zhang Xu has the confidence to completely block Drogba.
Although he is very confident, Drogba's toughness has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of Premier League teams, especially Arsenal, I don't know how many goals Drogba has scored, so they all feel that Zhang Xu wants to completely block Drogba, which is almost impossible.
Even the head coach Arsene Wenger was not optimistic about Zhang Xu, and he repeatedly explained to Zhang Xu the matters that need to be paid attention to in defending Drogba, for fear that Zhang Xu would not know how powerful Drogba is.
The next day, still at 4:20 p.m., the battle of the spotlight kicked off with a whistle from the referee.
In this game, Arsene Wenger continued to play a 3-2-3-2 formation, Zhang Xu still served as the team's captain on the field, Vermaelen needed to recuperate due to a recurrence of injury, so the back line was Koscielny, Sagna and Mertesacker; Zhang Xu was still joined by Mikel Arteta, with Wilshere on the bench and Ramsey, Salogo and Cazorla starting the line-up.
Up front were Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, with Olivier Giroud also on the bench.
Such a drastic adjustment is also Wenger's consistent practice, warm-up games, the result is not important, the important thing is to let the team get full exercise, and take the opportunity to practice the formation and tactics.
For Galatasaray, former Arsenal full-back Eboue captained Galatasaray, with Didier Drogba and Sneijder both on the bench.
After the start of the game, Zhang Xu did not make any temptations at all, and directly launched a fierce attack on Galatasaray.
Only 40 seconds into the opening game, Zhang Xu saw the timing in the front court, and a beautiful pre-judgment card position and a steal broke a pass from Galatasaray's back, and then passed diagonally to Salogo who was in front of him, and Sanogo's low shot from the edge of the box was confiscated.
In the 5th minute of the game, it was Zhang Xu again, after receiving a pass from Cazorla, he made an accurate through pass and directly tore apart Galatasaray's backline.
Sanogo grabbed the first point and shot directly, but was blocked by the opponent's defender, but the football did not block far, and was obtained by Ramsey, who immediately shot again!
And this time Ramsey's shot hit the outstretched arm of the Galatasaray defender! However, the apparent handball was not seen by the referee, allowing Galatasaray to escape.
In the 19th minute of the game, it was Zhang Xu again, when he was dribbling the ball near the halfway line, he keenly spotted Walcott's forward insertion, and immediately made a precise long pass.
Galatasaray defender Riera made a fatal mistake in defending the pass, and Walcott hit a rebounding volley after Walcot was picked up by Walcourt from 12 yards out on the right side of the penalty area.
But it's a pity that this close shot actually missed the near corner post and flew out of the bottom line!
During this period of time, Galatasaray, who had a strong style, was not without offensive, but in the face of Zhang Xu's strong defense, their offensive was just like a wave on the reef, which seemed beautiful but had no effect.
Thirty-nine minutes into the game, Arsenal finally scored a goal.
After Zhang Xu won the ball in front, when he turned and shot from a distance half, he was blocked by a Galatasaray defender, and the ball flew out of the bottom line by grazing the post, and Arsenal won a corner.
Walcoat took a corner kick and gave Zhang Xu a gesture covertly as he passed by.
Zhang Xu comprehended, and walked towards the outside of the big penalty area seemingly casually, looking like the team organized the team to counter-rob and defend on the spot after the team did not score a corner kick.
Galatasaray didn't know much about Zhang Xu's ability, so he didn't regard Zhang Xu as the main defensive target.
Walcott took a corner kick straight away, and the arc of the corner was beautiful, flat and fast, and in the blink of an eye, it was already flying to the edge of the outside of the box.
This is the time!
Zhang Xu saw the opportunity, suddenly stepped forward at high speed, and jumped directly at a distance of about three meters from the small forbidden area!
At this time, his strong jumping ability was completely exposed, and the moment he was stuck in the air, he was more than thirty centimeters taller than the others!
In this case, no one can stop Zhang Xu from grabbing the first point! The football smashed Zhang Xu's forehead! Then he quickly changed direction, smashed on the goal line, and bounced into the net!
The ball is in! 1:0!
And the ball was carried all the way to halftime.
At the start of the second half, Galatasaray, who were behind the score, had to put Drogba and Sneijder on the bench.
Drogba is really tough, when he touched the ball for the first time, because he was not used to his way of dribbling and shooting, Zhang Xu really gave Drogba a chance to shoot, but fortunately, goalkeeper Szczesny reacted quickly, otherwise this shot would have made Drogba successful.
After learning his lesson, Zhang Xu began to ponder Drogba's habits and shooting characteristics, and soon, his super scholar's head studied Drogba thoroughly.
In the next time, Zhang Xu was confident. Drogba's good days came to an end.
In the fifty-seventh minute of the game, Drogba crossed the halfway line and was immediately stopped by Zhang Xu. Seeing that a yellow man dared to confront him head-on, Drogba twitched the corners of his mouth, and immediately rushed directly towards Zhang Xu with a football.
Seeing this scene, Walcott's face suddenly showed a weird smile: Haha, it seems that Drogba is in trouble!
Sure enough, as he expected, Drogba changed direction twice in a row, but he was unable to get rid of Zhang Xu, and finally he planned to use his body to squeeze Zhang Xu away, but unexpectedly found that the other party was like a wall, and he couldn't squeeze away at all.
Just when he was surprised that the other party was no less strong than his own body, he suddenly felt that there was no trace of the football under his feet, he looked down and saw that one foot was rapidly recovering, and the body behind him also loosened, and a figure rushed out from his side.
Drogba lost his center of gravity and fell backwards, almost falling to the ground.
At this time, he saw that on the back of the distant figure, a big number "18" was clearly printed!
Needless to say, it was naturally Zhang Xu.
In the time since, Zhang Xu has fully demonstrated the strength of the world's top midfielder, limiting Drogba to death, this "monster" who once galloped in the Premier League is as well-behaved as a kitten in front of Zhang Xu.
In the seventy-third minute of the game, Zhang Xu made a long pass over the top in the middle of the road, and found Walcott with great precision, Walcott suddenly accelerated, shook off a position, and then decisively shot with his feet, and the football hit the inner post and rebounded and rolled into the net!
Two to zero! Arsenal seal the win!
In the end, Arsenal beat Galatasaray with a score of 2:0!
So far, in the Emirates Cup competition, Arsenal has won two games in a row and accumulated 11 points to win the 2013 Emirates Cup!
And Zhang Xu also won the first championship trophy after coming to the UK! (To be continued.) )