Chapter 158: Conceding a goal at home
All of England's games this season have come to an end, with only the last two finals of the Championship play-offs remaining, and the Premier League settled all the suspense in the final round, when Chelsea were once again snatched up the league title by Manchester United, they were held to a draw at home by Bolton, and were overtaken by Manchester United by five goals, and Cantona was lucky enough to win his first title as Manchester United manager.
Abou is said to have had a big argument with Mourinho after the game, and immediately, Mourinho's odds to leave Manchester United have dropped greatly in several major bookmakers, and there are even rumours that Russian coach Guus Hiddink has held secret talks with Abou in Moscow, and the two sides have already negotiated the final salary and other issues.
However, these rumors were firmly denied by both Abu's spokesman and the Russian Football Federation.
'As things stand, Jose Mourinho will continue to be responsible for Chelsea's player recruitment and preparation for next season, and Mr Abou hopes that under Mourinho's leadership, Chelsea will surpass previous seasons and win more trophies for the fans. The Chelsea FC spokesperson's statement was not so much an endorsement of Mourinho as it was another confirmation of the precarious position of the Portuguese......
"Norwich have always been in the middle of the Championship and have been in the middle of the pack, so how can they play like this season?" In the team's internal meeting, Bout asked this question suspiciously, too, in home and away games, Willingham won one and drew one, it seems that Norwich did not cause them too much trouble, and the odds for Norwich to enter the play-offs before the season were not much higher than Wellingham.
"Each village has its own tricks, and Norwich's biggest ability is to fight one by one, without any pressure and the negative impact of escalation on themselves, which I am afraid even we can't do." As the main force of the team, Capo also attended this meeting, and he usually rarely speaks, and he can't wait to express his opinion today.
Arsene Wenger nodded, "Yes, their mentality is very good, all the efforts are for the game in front of them, you can recall, the two games in the league, one is 1-0, one is 0-0, our attack was well suppressed by them, but they are not as lucky as other games, several good opportunities are not grasped, they conceded the fewest goals in the entire Championship, although there are not many goals, but the ability to score points at key times is still very strong." ”
When it comes to scoring, everyone looks to Henry.
Henry was not in a very good mood today, according to the original agreement, he was in Willingham, and even England, there were only these last two games left, and he licked his tongue in a somewhat heavy mood, "Two balls." ”
"What do you mean?" Held, who was beside him, asked.
Henry didn't reply, but winked at Held, and gestured with two fingers.
He said there were at least two goals to be scored in those two games. Lao Liu coughed twice behind the thick platform, "Don't underestimate Norwich, it's not a weak team to be able to fight to this point, everyone listens to the professor's arrangement." ”
The room immediately fell silent as Arsene Wenger began to lay out the tactical arrangements for the game to his main players......
The first game is the home field, almost all the fans of Willingham have come to the scene, in addition to the lucky tickets can directly cheer for the beloved team, there are tens of thousands of fans concentrated outside the stadium, fortunately, Lao Liu has already arranged, part of the original parking lot and some other uses, as well as the original idle vacant land are used, on the outer walls of the stadium around the hanging of several Lenovo company's latest large high-definition LCD screens, It can be regarded as finding a sense of watching the game for these fans who can't enter the stadium.
The renovation was not completed until the day before yesterday, mainly because Lenovo's super-large LCD screens had just arrived in London, and they were happily accepted by Lao Liu as part of next season's sponsorship.
Sure enough, as Wenger said, Norwich's players really seem to be playing an ordinary league game on the field, not nervous, not aggressive, using comprehensive strength to play around with Willingham, there are no big names, but it is such a team that Willingham did not have the first shot on goal until the tenth minute.
In the home and away knockout rounds, there are two keys at home, strive to score early, not let the opponent score, and there is only one key to the away game, not afraid of the opponent to score, and strive for more goals, because when the goal is the same, the team with more away goals can win, and Norwich City relied on two away goals to eliminate Crystal Palace in the semi-finals.
Based on this principle, many teams with equal strength like to attack when they play home and away knockout rounds, and at least they will invest more troops in the attack, but this game is almost a third of the way, and Lao Liu, who is sitting on the sidelines, suddenly does not know whether he is at home or away.
Norwich's head coach was still sitting on the bench as if he were on the bench, but Arsene Wenger walked to the sidelines several times to give instructions to the players on the pitch.
By the end of the first half, Willingham were 7-5 ahead of Norwich City in shot numbers, but neither side had any dangerous chances and the score remained 0-0.
In the second half, there were no substitutions on either side, but, gradually, the peace began to slowly reveal a hint of murder.
Norwich's attack started to pick up the pace and they were hoping to wear down the patience of their Wellingsham players in the first half before attacking for a while at the start of the second half, preferably taking advantage of the chaos to score.
At the end of the season, their good luck really appeared again, a shot outside the penalty area without any threat, the goalkeeper of Willingsmu, who has always played steadily, was blocked by his vision, and there were some mistakes in his technique, and he was not able to grasp the ball steadily, after the football bounced to the ground, Diawara caught up and cleared the siege, but the ball hit the opponent's striker, rebounded to the other side of the penalty area, and the Norwich player who followed up shot again, and hit Rozenal's calf and changed the line, Johnson, who had just gotten up to make a second save, could no longer make adjustments. Just look back and watch the ball fly into the goal from the other direction.
The home team actually conceded a goal, Norwich's strategy still worked, although it was luck, but it is undeniable that not keeping up with Norwich's rhythm is the main problem of this goal.
Norwich City immediately resumed their first-half style of play, and Thierry Henry's successive breakthroughs were defused by their brave goalkeepers and united defenders, and as the minutes ticked by, the home fans began to get more and more anxious.
This style of play also seems to have surprised Arsene Wenger, whose pre-match formations and variations have been unable to play a role in the opponent's marshmallow style of play with weakened attacks. He quickly used up three substitutions in the second half, but could not break through Norwich's defence.
It wasn't until the final minute of the game that Helder finally staged a solo savior, shaking off three defenders in a row and scoring with a pick.
(To be continued)