Chapter 210: Passive

"Onward - Everton!"

"Grab their place, grab it!"

"We want the Champions League, we want to enter the Champions League!"

As the players from both sides entered the field, the Goodison Park stadium was immediately filled with anxious shouts.

Quite simply, they are now just one point away from Arsenal, and if they win this game, they will be able to beat Arsenal and finish in the top four, and they will have a chance to compete in the Champions League of their dreams.

In fact, in the 05-06 season, they once realized such a dream, but unfortunately, they had no experience at the time and were kicked back to the League Cup early.

Over the past few years, David Moyes' Everton results have been quite consistent, and they have been able to maintain a top-six appearance, and the Scotsman has long wanted to live another Champions League addiction.

It's a pity that in recent years, the results of the traditional semi-finals have been quite stable, and it is not easy to see Arsenal alone, so they naturally want to seize this opportunity.

Not only did Everton's fans maintain such high-pressure shouts, but Everton's players maintained high-pressure pressing from the very beginning on the field.

The most uncomfortable thing is Xiang Hao. The height of 1.94 meters and the unkempt Fellaini are definitely not clumsy.

With those long legs, even if Xiang Hao didn't snatch the ball away by him, the first two steps were absolutely uncomfortable, like a-stirring stick, constantly interfering with you, responding to people, and the rhythm of the entire attack and defense slowed down.

And what made Xiang Hao even more angry was that the eighteenth tall thin man in front of him.

With a height of 1.8 meters and a weight of 75KG, it can never be said that he is a physical expert, but the opponent's defensive awareness and small actions are very uncomfortable, just like Everton's alias Toffee, which is very sticky.

Even if he passes the other party, he will still catch up like a hound, tirelessly, coupled with Everton's overall midfield interception, it is difficult for Xiang Hao to have a chance to calmly divide the ball.

Everton said it was 4411, but to be precise, it was 451, which is more appropriate.

Obviously, it is to take a tall and strong, but flexible Fellaini to block the front line, and Neville and others in the back steal from time to time, even if they can't steal, it makes Xiang Hao have no good chance to pass a good ball.

In order to avoid his own mistakes, Xiang Hao had to hand over the ball more to Denilson, and asked him to help him make the transition, and he would sort out the entire offensive routine.

At this time, it can be seen that Arsenal's overall offensive strength is insufficient.

On the wing, neither Ramsey nor Eboue can achieve the ability to burst points on a single soldier, and Vela is not a traditional player with the ball, he needs someone to feed the ball.

In order to maintain their offensive vitality, the two defenders had to be put on at the right time. The entire Arsenal formation is in a high-pressure situation, but it cannot effectively solve all this.

That gave Everton a fantastic opportunity to play on the counter-attack. Twenty-one minutes into the game, Arsenal's attack was fruitless, and the ball fell to the feet of Everton.

Arteta had been steady for a second before suddenly splitting the ball straight to his left.

Although Baines is white, his explosiveness is stronger than most blacks, and soon Sania attacked too high and failed to take it back in the first shot.

Striding like a meteor, like a thunderbolt, Baines drove straight into Arsenal's half, the penalty area.

"gogogogogo – Leiden !!"

In the cheers of the audience, Baines saw a bright spot, which was his teammate - Tim? Cahill, "Smack! ”

Although the Australian is only 1.78 meters tall, his physical condition is exceptionally good, and he has amazing jumping. Caught up from the back point, completed the grab in front of Gala, and hit hard, "Smack! ”

"Huh!"

A slight scraping sound, so wonderful for an Everton fan.

“GOOOOOOOO——OL!!!”

'1-0, 1-0, we're ahead of Arsenal, we're ahead of Arsenal!! Victory – Goodison Park !! ”

The originally calm stadium burst into flames in an instant, the blue flag was waving, spreading endlessly, and the Everton fans greeted the goal with the loudest cheers.

'Everton, we're the best!!

"Good job, good Everton !!"

"Beat them and let them eat!!"

Goodison Park has become a sea of joy for Everton fans, with smug shouts coming and going.

Moyes clenched his fists, trying to suppress his excitement, the face that didn't like to smile in the first place, the more cold it was at this time, this was the Scottish, that face, very much like the dick of an ascetic.

However, he has formed a mid-to-upper team in Everton, a club with little investment, and his individual ability is undoubted, and he has the potential to go to the next level, the question is whether he can step on the next step.

Wenger was at least optimistic about him, and when the team was one goal behind, he couldn't help but glance at the Scotsman, and sighed helplessly, his team's weakness was almost pinched by him.

It has to be said that Moyes hated Arsene Wenger's game so much, and on the wing, he stared at the point behind Arsenal's two full-backs.

In fact, Everton have tried to hit that point before, and this time it finally happened, and I have to say, it is the credit of Moyes. ”

Lineker praised Moyes with admiration and looked at the situation on the pitch.

"Well, and he's been the most successful so far, and that's the restriction on Hao, and I think that's one of the keys to Everton's current lead."

Motersen clearly agrees with Lineker's point of view, and he takes a closer and broader view, "minimising Hao's danger in the middle and forcing Arsenal to split the attack on the flanks many times."

Since Arsenal lost the only speed of Walcott on the wing, they had to press more players in order to keep the attack going, which was the fundamental reason why Arsenal fell behind by one goal.

If Arsenal wants to really change this result, Hao must activate this. ”

Mortenson pointed out the crux of Arsenal's game, the crux of the first 20 minutes, as if calling Xiang Hao.

And this call, Xiang Hao also understood that when the ball was scored by the opponent, Xiang Hao subconsciously glanced at the old man on the sidelines.

Seeing that the old man's gaze also noticed his side, he shook his head a little disappointed. Xiang Hao understood that the old man was not satisfied with his previous performance, or with the trend of the whole game. Xiang Hao realized that he had to stand up more to get the ball.