240 Turning the Tide (Part II)
Reading scored four goals for Arsenal in the first half and it was definitely an accident, a real surprise. It's a completely abnormal thing, Reading doesn't have that kind of strength.
Not to mention Reading, even Arsenal's two biggest nemesis in the Premier League, Manchester United and Chelsea, it is not easy to score four goals in the first half. Not to mention a team like Reading.
After Jin Ming and Cazorla came on in the second half, the rhythm of the whole game was completely under Arsenal's control.
Reading simply couldn't control the ball in midfield.
However, Arsenal's style of play is still the same, with too much possession, too many passes, and too few direct threats. After watching from the sidelines for a while, Wenger took advantage of the dead ball to get Jin Ming over.
"Kim, don't just be on the left. You and Santiago swap places. There was a chance to add more shots. ”
"Yes."
Jin Ming nodded.
It's just a few tricks to break down dense defenses. Set-pieces, long-range shots, or players with the characteristics of Messi. When Barcelona is besieging the opponent and can't break the goal, Messi will step up.
Break through within a small area, attracting a large number of defenders. When several defenders are defending Messi, there will be space elsewhere. It will create a hole in the opponent's defense.
And a player like Messi will also frequently cause fouls on opponents and can get many set-pieces.
However, Arsenal do not have a player of Messi's style, after all, Messi is still unique at the moment. In this case, it can only be to increase long-range shots, or set-pieces. At the current Arsenal, the strongest long-range shooting ability is Jin Ming.
The most decisive in long-range shooting is only Jin Ming.
That's why Arsene Wenger let Kim Ming go to the middle.
Cazorla is a very well-rounded player. You can kick with both left and right feet, and there is no problem on the left, middle, and right side. So Wenger asked Jin Ming and Cazorla to switch positions from time to time.
Jin Ming is not Cazorla.
There was no Cazorla's ability to control the ball, nor Cazorla's playmaking, nor Cazorla's passing ability. Therefore, Jin Ming came to the middle and could not take on the role of the front midfield. Cazorla played in a similar position as a midfielder at Arsenal, but Jin Ming came to the middle and fired more directly. Therefore it is more similar to the type of second striker.
Simple and straightforward.
This is the characteristic of Jin Ming.
"Coquelin, give the ball to Cazorla. Cazorla smashes the ball and Cazorla breaks down the left flank. Cazorla's technique is good, Cazorla, cross! ”
Cazorla is truly outstanding.
The twenty-six-year-old Cazorla is very good at both ball control and breakthroughs. This time after getting the ball, Cazorla easily broke through the defender's player. Instead of going to the middle, he suddenly took the left side.
Of course, Cazorla took the left side, and Jin Ming immediately took the middle lane. Give up your position on the left.
Cazorla came to the left, and the choice was different from that of Jin Ming. Jin Ming generally likes to break through on the side, and that's because Jin Ming has speed. But Cazorla doesn't have absolute speed. The threat on the flanks is not as good as in the middle.
So when he got to the left, he didn't go outside, but immediately made a cross.
"Chamak, Chamak header, header back to the spot!"
Chamakh is a player with excellent headers. This time he saw the ball and pushed it back. The ball came near the arc of the penalty area.
"Jin Ming, Jin Ming. This is Jin Ming. Jin Ming volleys! ”
After Chamak put the ball back, there were actually Reading players near the penalty area. But his reaction was so slow, he didn't expect Jin Ming to face the incoming ball without waiting for him to land, and directly volleyed.
This is what sets Kim Ming apart from other Arsenal players.
Arsenal players want to shoot when they create the best chance with their passes. Balls like this. Even Cazorla would have stopped the ball. Because there are disturbing Reading players next to them.
But Jin Ming is different.
Jin Ming doesn't like things that are too cumbersome, and simplicity and directness are Jin Ming's characteristics. This time was the same, Jin Ming didn't hesitate at all, and directly picked up his left foot. A volley.
This kind of volley, it is very difficult to control the ball. But Jin Ming's shot this time suppressed the ball.
“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
"Jin Ming! Jin Ming! Jin Ming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ”
"Two balls. Two balls. Jin Ming's appearance has fundamentally changed Arsenal, and he is more direct than other Arsenal players. Jin Ming's shooting ability is very strong, and when he was at Schalke, Jin Ming's shooting accuracy was the highest in European football. Surpassed Cristiano. Ronaldo and Messi, after arriving at Arsenal, Jin Ming's shooting ability has not changed. ”
'Two goals, Arsenal have already chased back two goals. Only thirteen minutes passed in the second half, and there was still more than half an hour to go. Arsenal still have a chance, still a chance. ”
The narrator is really hilarious.
After all, the game was too dramatic and the goal was beautiful. First, Reading scored four goals against Arsenal in the first half, and then after the start of the second half, Arsenal had already chased two goals in a row.
The goal was beautiful and the process was wonderful. This is a game that all commentators love to narrate.
"Okay."
Arsene Wenger, who has always been nervous on the field, couldn't help but stand up and applaud when he saw the ball.
Then he looked at the bench and said to Giroud: "Olivier, warm up. ”
Such is the character of Arsene Wenger.
If the game is slow, it's not a big deal. Then his substitutions are also slow and mechanical. Many people know that Arsene Wenger won't make a substitution until 70 minutes. It's Arsene Wenger's habit.
It is also the side that has been complained about by many people.
There are exceptions, however.
Once the team is behind, the game is played ugly. Arsene Wenger will play cards in quick succession.
This time it was.
Recovered two goals, but still two goals behind. Arsene Wenger is going to take a desperate gamble and get Giroud on the pitch. Giroud has not performed well since arriving at Arsenal, but he also has strengths.
That is, Giroud has a good pass, he can control the ball, and more importantly, Giroud has a good ball quotient.
Arsene Wenger threw out the last trump card and Giroud replaced Coquelin. Arsenal are going to storm their opponents. ”
Be.
After all, Reading is only a relegation team, and it is much worse than Arsenal in terms of strength. In the second half, when Arsenal began to storm Reading. Reading's weakness is unmistakable.
Reading can only be defensive now.
That's why Arsene Wenger put all the attacking players up, and it's a matter of letting go.
With Giroud on the pitch, Arsene Wenger did not put on a double centre-forward and then bombarded with wide crosses. Instead, Chamakh ran to the left and moved Kim Ming to the middle, right behind Giroud.
Jin Ming didn't understand why Wenger arranged it this way.
Because Jin Ming's position has completely become the second striker, he plays the position of a striker. This position is the first for Jin Ming, who has never played the position of second striker. But after Jin Ming came to this position, he didn't feel much strange, but felt very clear.
Clearly understand how you should run and how to choose.
The feeling was unexpected.
Jin Ming himself was very surprised. Because of such an unfamiliar location. I didn't even feel strange.
"Koscielny, big foot pass. Chamak, gave the ball to Cazorla. Giroud drops back, Cazorla passes! ”
Cazorla picked up the ball and Giroud dropped back and took away the centre-backs who defended him. He was also kept on the radar of other Reading defenders. After all, the retreat of a center forward, of course, they have to pay attention. At this time, Jin Ming's thinking was very clear, and at the moment when Giroud retreated, Jin Ming suddenly stepped forward. It's just where Olivier Giroud is.
Speaking of which, Jin Ming has never played the position behind the center forward.
But it's the so-called one-size-fits-all. When Jin Ming played on the left side, there was also such a thing. The centre-forward dropped back and then cut into the box from the left flank. In fact, it's all the same idea.
This time, it's just that Jin Ming's position is in the middle lane.
Giroud retreated, leaving behind a small void. Jin Ming saw it and ran over as well. Jin Ming is a speed player, once Jin Ming is allowed to run, unless it is a frontal defense. Otherwise, it won't be able to catch up with Jin Ming's speed at all.
Jin Ming suddenly accelerated. Get rid of the defender next to you. Also because Jin Ming's explosiveness is too strong, when Reading's defenders have not yet reacted, Jin Ming is already on a parallel line with Reading's central defenders.
Cazorla saw it.
So when Jin Ming inserted it. Cazorla also started passing. Giroud, Cazorla, and Jin Ming have not practiced such routines, but the three of them played such a tacit cooperation in the game.
"Jin Ming, Jin Ming has broken through."
"Single knife, this is single knife. Jin Ming's single knife, Jin Ming, left-footed pick-up! ”
“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
In twenty-three minutes, Jin Ming used twenty-three minutes to complete a hat-trick. It was Jin's third hat-trick of the season at Arsenal. Arsenal have already recovered three goals and Arsenal still have more than 20 minutes to go. The suspense of the game has always been there. ”
"Jin Ming, Jin Ming is really a shooter, a top shooter. Since Cristiano. After Ronaldo and Messi, another top scorer was born in European football. ”
Hat-trick.
Since Kim Ming scored a hat-trick against South Korea in the national team, he has scored a lot of hat-tricks in both Schalke and Arsenal. There was even a hat-trick in the Champions League quarter-finals against Inter.
But after completing a hat trick against a weak team like Reading today, Jin Ming was even more crazy.
Jin Ming ignored the players who came over to celebrate, but ran directly to the corner flag and kicked directly on the corner flagpole. may have been too hard, and the corner flags were directly kicked down by Jin Ming.
However, Jin Ming ignored the corner flag, and continued to move forward and kicked the billboard in front of him directly.
In Jin Ming's view, Arsenal players not only lack the desire for championships, but also lack passion. Football is a sport of passion, and without passion it is not football.
"Jin Ming, Jin Ming. Jin Ming has the rarest thing about an Arsenal player. Passionate, tough, tenacious, Arsenal with Jin Ming, there will be a big change. Arsene Wenger should have brought in a player of Jin Ming's calibre a long time ago. ”
Arsene Wenger smiled and said to Balder: "King is very good for playing up front. He has the speed, he has the brains, he can run and he has a great ability to shoot. ”
"Yes."
Morale.
Jin Ming picked up all the morale that Arsenal lost in the first half in the second half, and the morale of the Arsenal players slowly rose. After Jin Ming scored the third goal, the Arsenal players saw hope of winning the game. They were even more frantic and just four minutes later Arsenal equalised.
Olivier Giroud headed in Theo Walcott's cross from a corner to score Arsenal's fourth goal of the game and equalise at 4-4.
But the game wasn't over.
Giroud scored five minutes later and there was another corner. Koscielny scored Arsenal's fifth goal of the game after receiving Cazorla's cross from a corner, beating Reading 5-4.
From 0-4 to 5-4, it took Arsenal just 35 minutes.
But the crazy Arsenal didn't end the show.
In the 87th minute of the game, Chamak received a pass from Jin Ming on the left and scored the sixth goal of the game.
Six to four.
From falling behind by four goals to finally overtaking the score, Arsenal took half a game. And Reading fans went from heaven in the first half to hell in the second. And Jin Ming naturally got the best player of the game, with three shots and one pass, which was the biggest contributor to Arsenal's promotion.
Arsenal reached the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup.
And not only that, but there's a lot of good news. In the Carabao Cup quarter-finals, Chelsea beat Manchester United, Liverpool were beaten by Swansea, Manchester City lost to Aston Villa and Tottenham lost to Norwich.
Among the Premier League powerhouses, only Chelsea and Arsenal have reached the quarter-finals.
Of course, it can also be seen that the Premier League teams do not attach much importance to the League Cup. But this situation has also caused Arsenal's chances of winning the title to increase greatly. Those Premier League powerhouses don't value the Carabao Cup, but for a team like Arsenal that has not won a title for many years, the Carabao Cup title is also very desired.
Therefore, after hearing that Manchester United, Manchester City, Tottenham and Liverpool were eliminated, Arsenal was quite happy.
What's more, Arsenal and Chelsea are not in the same zone. This means that Arsenal will not face Chelsea until the Carabao Cup final. In other words, Arsenal's chances of reaching the Carabao Cup final have increased dramatically.
How could everyone be unhappy.
"Santiago, what did I say. We have a chance to win the championship. ”
Jin Ming sat on the bus after the game, smiling and talking to Cazorla. It was a thrilling game in which the Arsenal players were very excited.
"Kim, you're right."
"Trust me. We came to Arsenal to win the title and end the Arsenal title situation. (To be continued......)