Chapter 16: Winning by Momentum
"Toot!"
No matter how Arsenal fans hacked Xiang Hao before the game, Arsenal's lineup could not be changed. With the whistle of Potter, the 08-09 season of the Emirates Cup, Arsenal's match against Juventus officially began.
Xiang Hao played as a central midfielder, but more often stayed in the backfield, as for the frontcourt, Wenger handed over to Nasri and others.
“gogogogogo!!!”
"Samir, run!!"
"Offensive !!"
With the whistle sounding, Arsenal fans have put Xiang Hao aside, and the cheering waves have been set off wave after wave, with Nasri as the prevailing.
The current Nasri is not the 'Nasri' in the mouth of Arsenal fans, he is the 'Zizu II' introduced by Wenger with a lot of money, and he is famous. However, Arsenal fans do not expect Nasri to become Zidane, and they feel that it is worth it to reach the height of Pire. And Nasri has also been highly praised by the Arsenal club during this time, vigorously promoted, and is much more popular than Xiang Hao.
In fact, among the new players, Nasri is a newcomer who Wenger must have him rush to the position, because there is no one on the wing of Arsenal, and last season, Arsenal's two Hleb and Rosicky, who were responsible for the wing, left Barcelona, and the other was injured and said goodbye to this season. Arsene Wenger bought Nasri, not only because of his potential, but also because he wanted him to be the main player on the wing. (1) (Ben ~ read (novel) ybdu
However, Nasri's performance in the previous warm-up games was not as good as the outside world said. "Zizou II" is more about Nasri's potential, and now he is somewhat disappointing to the fans, but fortunately Wenger patiently enlightened him and gave him enough playing time to make him more adaptable to Arsenal's system.
Nasri himself is also arrogant, and naturally he is not willing to perform indifferently in the Arsenal team, and he is also holding back a fire during this time.
After the opening, Nasri repeatedly took the initiative to ask for the ball, interspersed with inward cuts, and actively formed a tandem in the front court. And Ramsey also asked for the ball according to Wenger's tactics, giving him more balls, and Arsenal's main attack direction was Arsenal's left side, and it was a fierce attack from the beginning.
Arsenal's frontcourt, Walcott, Bendtner, Bella, less than 20 years old, all of them are alive, playing a super strong team like Juventus at home, their excitement is more than fear, and Juventus is a little out of breath with wave after wave of impact.
In the eighth minute, Walcott and Vela crossed and beat Chiellini behind him, and if it wasn't for the linesman's misjudgment to blow off Arsenal's single knife, Arsenal would have scored.
In the 19th minute, Nasri cut inside from the left, smashed the ball continuously, shook off Nedved's defense, and then shot a cold arrow near the penalty area, but unfortunately the angle was a little higher, and the ball hit the top edge of the crossbar and flew off the bottom line.
It can be said that in the first 20 minutes of the opening game, Arsenal relied on their own impact and firmly occupied the initiative on the field, burning most of the time to Juventus's half.
Arsenal's front line continued to press, and even Xiang Hao unconsciously pushed forward, no way, Ramsey and Nasri had already pressed so much, in order to keep the whole formation not disjointed, Xiang Hao had to press up.
The time unconsciously came to thirty minutes, under the chain defense of Serie A, Arsenal's group of young guys couldn't even attack, and their anger slowly leaked down, and the fabric of the woman's skirt was really good.
The psychology of the Arsenal players was vented, but they didn't realize it, they still pressed the lineup, didn't know how to take it back, and pestered the woman, and finally, the woman was angry, under the skirt, which was Qianqian's thin legs, but Kongwu's powerful big black feet.
In the 32nd minute of the game, after Nedved grabbed Walcott's ball in his own half, he made a big foot and distributed the ball to the right side before Xiang Hao blocked it. Marco Marchioni, who was plugged in at high speed, received the ball as soon as possible. Arsenal's entire defence collapsed in no time.
Because Ramsey was too deep in front, Xiang Hao wanted to make up for his back, but he didn't dare to get too close, for fear of being hit behind him, and at this time, Walcott lost the ball in the middle area.
Nedved seized this vacancy, made a big long pass, did not give Xiang Hao any chance to entangle, and directly hit one of Nasri's back, and Juventus's attack directly hit Arsenal's vital point.
Gibbs, who was a little immature, was unprepared and was tricked by a feint by Marco Marchioni, giving up his defensive position and being driven into the box.
Highball.
Marco Marchioni had plenty of space and time to aim for the spot, and a gleaming head had appeared, and the ball landed precisely on Trezeguet's head, and the result was unquestionable.
"Goooooooool, nice counter-attack, nice pass, Trezeguet, Trezeguet scored, Juventus led Arsenal 1-0! It was so fast, Juventus's attack took less than fifteen seconds to achieve an effect that Arsenal did not achieve for most of the hour, which is really amazing! ”
The Arsenal players watched a little dazedly as the Juventus players celebrated there. Indeed, it's too surprising, it seems that it was yourself who had the advantage just now, pressing the opponent to fight, how could you fall behind in more than ten seconds. No, this field, you must get it back!
Juventus's goal was too fast, fast for Arsenal's young people to accept, this was in their own home stadium, someone stole one, Arsenal's players are holding their breath to find one.
The goal was pierced by himself, and Nasri naturally wanted to regain this face, and said to Gibbs behind him: "Kieran, wait a little and press a little bit at the right time, get closer to me." ”
Over there, Walcott also pointed to Juventus' half, exchanging something with Hoyt. Obviously, it's also going to be offensive.
They are very bold, but this is also what Wenger is used to, before the game, when Wenger mentioned tactics, he only said two words "attack", and the rest were quite laissez-faire according to the kicks in training, so they were so 'aggressive'. In this game, Arsene Wenger is to see how well they execute their tactics and how well they cooperate with each other, and he doesn't care if they win or lose.
"Hao, let's go too, we can't fall behind and enter the second half."
Ramsey also wanted to rush forward, but seeing Xiang Hao's expressionless face, his mood was a little wrong, so he could only talk discussly.
"Hmm."
Seeing that his friends were all gearing up, even Ramsey was good at pressing, Xiang Hao couldn't say anything more, so he could only nod, but still instructed a few words, "If the situation is not right, you remember to take it back, once you lose the ball, immediately counter-rob on the spot and delay for a little time." ”
Having an advantage on the field like this, but not being able to convert the advantage into a victory, the opponent can kill themselves with just one or two simple passes, which is a typical goal conceded by Arsenal, which has appeared countless times in later generations, which is also the reason for their unsatisfactory results in the later period.
With the retirement of Arsenal's five defenders, the departure of Campbell Lauren Cole and others, Arsenal has maintained a gorgeous style of play at the same time, but the defense has plummeted, completely lacking the previous defensive toughness, once their offense does not go well, they cannot kill the opponent, and then there is a big hole in the defense.
The reason for the big hole is not only because of the fast pace of attack and defense in the Premier League's style, but also because Arsenal's players are not good at counter-attacking after losing the ball, and they do not exert enough pressure on the players who hold the ball, so that the opponent can attack quickly.
In the past, there were those defensive giants, so pressed, the opponent could still carry some counterattacks, and later, even Toure and Galla left, and Wenger couldn't buy top defenders, and after inexplicably conceding goals and being reversed, Wenger began to emphasize counter-grabbing on the spot, and the defense slowly got some improvements.
Although it hasn't reached that point yet, the three newcomers in the back defense can't be relied on at all, and Xiang Hao can only ask them to fight back on the spot in order to reduce his defensive pressure.
"Hmm."
"Okay, no problem."
"This is natural."
When the partners saw Xiang Hao nodding as well, they were relieved, if the team member in charge of defending them got angry, they would have to weigh it.
After the gang had settled, the game resumed at Potter's urging.
Arsenal continued to maintain a high-intensity sprint, suppressing the opponent in the half, but this suppression was only in the 35th minute of the game, less than four minutes before the last goal conceded, Arsenal knelt again.
In the penalty area, when Bendtner received the ball from Nasri, Chiellini was knocked to the ground from behind, the referee ignored it, Chiellini followed up with a kick and kicked the ball out of the box and into the half.
And the answer is Yaquinta, who is 1.91 meters tall and weighs more than 85 kilograms. Xiang Hao tried his best and hit his head. With a "bang", the two forces were superimposed, and the ball flew high and fell behind Xiang Hao.
Xiang Hao thought that the ball had been cleared, Zhu Luke was behind him, the ball flew towards him, and he could kick half the court with a big foot, so he didn't care anymore, took a step away, and prepared to receive the ball.
But who knows, this 'crayon Xiaoxin' person is cartoon, and his movements are also funny, he threw his thighs high, and he actually missed the ball, and he used too much force, stumbling, and almost fell.
Trezeguet couldn't believe it, but his second reaction was fast enough that he naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity, and took the ball directly from Djurou's side, shook off Galla's entanglement, and entered the penalty area, shaking off Fabianski, and sending the ball into the empty goal.
The players were stupid, not only the whole Arsenal team was stupid, but the Arsenal fans were also stupid, they couldn't understand the ball, and then they were angry.