When Zhang Tiehan scored the ball, all Wigan people went crazy!

After this season, Wigan Athletic's strong rise, League Cup victories against strong opponents, and the league has also won ten consecutive victories, Wigan fans have a strong ability to accept victory, but the development of this game still makes Wigan fans feel like they are in a dream.

They didn't expect much to win before the game, and when the opponent was Arsenal, they just wanted the team not to 'lose too ugly' and that's it. With that hope, more than 1,000 Wigan fans came to Cardiff to support the team live.

They were thrilled when Wigan Athletic broke the deadlock when they started the game, but when Arsenal equalised, they didn't feel like much – they weren't expecting Arsenal to win, and given the situation between the two teams, Arsenal were a no-brainer.

Everybody thinks so.

But now, with 75 minutes to play, Zhang Tiehan scored another goal to help the team lead Arsenal again, which is really like a dream for Wigan fans, even if they are used to Wigan Athletic's victory, but such a surprise is still too big.

They saw the hope of victory, and ...... Hope is great!

Seventy-five minutes into the game, with fifteen minutes to go, a goal could have been fatal.

When the football flew into the Arsenal fans, the Wigan fans in the stadium went crazy. They cheered and celebrated in every way they could, and at the same time kept shouting Zhang Tiehan's name, as if it was a 'sacred' name, with the power to bestow blessings on them—

"Zhang! Sheet! ”

“HARDMAN! MARDMAN!”

These two words quickly spread throughout the stadium with the voices of the Wigan fans, and even many local Welsh fans also shouted, just two words. But it is interwoven to form a vigorous dance melody that fits the atmosphere of the court.

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Patrick Vieira stood in the box and watched the ball still rolling in the middle of the goal.

His face was expressionless, but he was sighing in his heart, the opponent's personal ability was unexpectedly strong, and he could actually score the ball at that angle, and he couldn't defend it at all just now.

At the same time, Vieira is even more dissatisfied with Wenger.

If it weren't for the French, they were replaced by Cesc Fabregas. How can the other side have a chance to launch a counterattack? This counterattack is obviously targeted and premeditated, like a tactical corner, which is simply wanted in advance, said good, and then followed to do it.

Probably many people won't believe it, because there is no regularity in the game, but Vieira saw it clearly in the backcourt just now, he didn't believe that Zhang Tiehan and Ridell could cooperate so tacitly, the two must have done some communication, otherwise Zhang Tiehan would not have been able to break the ball. Without looking, he passed the ball directly, and the latter also took two steps and passed the ball directly forward.

After all, it all started with the broken ball just now.

It was Cesc Fabregas's mistake, he was not decisive when receiving the ball, causing the opponent to easily break the ball - he was scared by the opponent!

"Cowardice!" Vieira cursed.

Fabregas, Vieira doesn't really care, after all, the opponent is a young player under the age of seventeen, and he cares more about Wenger's attitude, in such a big game. Especially when Arsenal are not leading in the scoreline, what does it mean to replace Cesc Fabregas? Give him experience with the competition? Arsenal haven't gotten to the point where they don't care about the Carabao Cup!

And that's not all. The Frenchman didn't care about himself at all, so he replaced Cesc Fabregas, who had great talent, but at least, it still belonged to him Vieira!

Thinking of this, Vieira was even more dissatisfied.

As a matter of fact. Arsene Wenger in the dugout also regretted that he had a different idea from Vieira, and he regretted replacing Cesc Fabregas, not because Fabregas's mistake caused Arsenal to concede the goal, but because he was worried that Fabregas would be hit too hard. What will happen to him in the future.

"Probably not, Francisco has a strong heart." The French consoled themselves so much.

But he was already restless.

It wasn't just Cesc Fabregas's problem, they had already taken the lead, which was too much of a blow to Arsenal's morale, and they attacked the whole game and the other side took the lead, which was a desperate situation and the team conceded goals too easily.

What's next?

Arsene Wenger had a headache at the thought of it, mainly because he had no choice but to let the team continue with the attack...... There may be a choice.

He glanced at the bench and waved at a dark-haired boy, "Antonio, get ready to play!" The black-haired boy was overjoyed, hurriedly took off his coat, and went to the sidelines to warm up.

Seeing that Wigan Athletic was still celebrating the goal, Wenger was not in a hurry, just looked at the pitch and hesitated, and finally gritted his teeth and made a decision. After the restart, Arsenal replaced midfielder Patrick Vieira with their Spanish prodigy, Jose Antonio Reyes.

Reyes replaces Vieira......

This substitution adjustment, so that many people can't understand, Vieira is Arsenal's midfield core, Reyes is a standard striker, the striker replaces the core, the average person will even feel 'lost', at least in terms of offense, the role of the offensive core in the attack is much greater than that of an ordinary striker.

But fans who know Arsenal, Fabregas and Vieira all know that Wenger has made the right choice, after all, with Fabregas on the field, Vieira's role is really not big, but they still think it is better to replace Fabregas, and the Arsenal players also think so.

Of course, Arsene Wenger would never do that.

Cesc Fabregas only came on in the second half, and replacing him now doesn't he tell everyone that he made the wrong choice? Arsene Wenger still believes that his face is more important than the Carabao Cup triumph, which will affect his image in the media and also affect his prestige in the team.

He would never do that.

But in any case, Arsenal replaced the useless Vieira and replaced a striker Reyes, they were going to fight with Wigan Athletic, and the arrogant Arsenal had to fight to the death in the backward situation.

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"Defend! Defend! ”

Wigan Athletic boss Jewell kept shouting from the sidelines to remind his players not to let up as long as they were able to maintain their advantage until the end. Then the victory will be theirs, and they will win the Carabao Cup and win the club's first truly meaningful title in history.

The substitutes also stood up to cheer on the team.

Strum came to the sidelines, stood next to Jewell and said, "We should make a substitution, Paul." ”

Jewell thought for a moment. "Maybe you're right." ”

The fourth official then raised his substitution card and Wigan Athletic brought on Peter Kennedy for Nathan Ellington, who had a more experienced Kennedy role to play in defence.

At the same time, Zhang Tiehan had already returned to the backcourt.

He swapped places with Riddle, who went to defend Cesc Fabregas and himself as a full-time midfielder, constantly chasing the ball in front of the box. to put pressure on the Arsenal players who have the ball.

He kept running, and he kept running......

The Arsenal players didn't care at first, and even felt that Zhang Tiehan was wasting his energy, after all, the game was so far that the starting players were running out, but it didn't take long for them to discover the effect of Zhang Tiehan's running - it would force them to pass, and if they didn't pass the ball, then they were likely to lose the ball.

More mainly. Zhang Tiehan's personal stealing ability is too strong!

There are a few Arsenal players who still play at their usual pace, when football is at their feet. Seeing that there was no chance, even if Zhang Tiehan ran over, they would not pass the ball, but wanted to deal with Zhang Tiehan like the rest of Wigan Athletic, and as a result, they all conceded the ball without exception.

Several times in a row, five minutes passed.

The Arsenal players have learned their lesson. When Zhang Tiehan ran over, they immediately passed the ball to their teammates, but often such passes had a high error rate, and it was difficult to make several hasty passes in a row. As a result, Arsenal's passing errors have increased significantly.

Zhang Tiehan is like a meat grinder.

He constantly caused problems for Arsenal with his running in front of the penalty area, his running speed was average, but it lasted for a long time, Arsenal had a headache in the face of this kind of defense, they thought of the opponent they had met in the Champions League before - AC Milan, the Italian giants also have such a player, his name is Gattuso, that is a very good defensive midfielder.

It's the same with this guy in front of you.

If you look at Zhang Tiehan's current performance, it is really hard to imagine that he scored twice before to help the team lead Arsenal. He was like a pure defensive midfielder, constantly running back and forth, using all his strength to stop Arsenal.

He's not alone.

There are a lot of teammates behind him to help him, and they're doing the same thing, but their job is a little easier, they just have to keep an eye on the good guys. With everyone's efforts, even if the attack is as strong as Arsenal, it is not easy to score, and as the minutes pass, the Arsenal players are getting more and more anxious.

This made Wenger in the dugout secretly anxious.

With the players in their rush to score, the attack is becoming more and more disorganized. The pace of the attack increased, but the threat became less and less, and from the eighty-plus minutes onwards, they had very few threatening shots on goal.

This is very beneficial for Wigan Athletic!

Every Wigan fan is cheering on their team, hoping they can get through this period and just need a few more minutes to beat Arsenal and win the Carabao Cup.

Wigan Athletic players also know that they have begun to rejoice in their hearts, but they forced the joy and cautiously faced Arsenal's goal, the game has reached the most difficult stage, they must hold on to the last stage, manager Jewell and captain Ridell shouted from time to time, also reminded them to do so.

All aspects are in Wigan's favour.

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The fourth official has already raised the sign for stoppage time - four minutes!

The Arsenal fans in the crowd were very unhappy, in their opinion Wigan Athletic took too much time to celebrate the goal, and the two teams were delayed in the middle of the game, so there was more stoppage time, and of course, they would have preferred to have scored in stoppage time...... This is certainly not accepted by Wigan fans, who prefer to end the game outright.

A minute passed and Wigan Athletic withstood Arsenal's stormy attack and they still didn't concede a goal.

Jewell began to make substitutions.

He replaced Makalocchi with substitute midfielder Jimmy Bullard, which was not much different from no adjustment, but Jewell did it just to delay the game, and one player can delay at least twenty seconds when he comes on the pitch, which is equal to one attacking time.

Arsenal fans have voiced discontent.

But that didn't affect the referee, Wigan Athletic's substitutions were within the rules.

Then Arsenal continued to attack, with Thierry, Reyes, Bergkamp in front, Pire, Campbell, Cesc Fabregas, Ljungberg in midfield, plus defenders Ashley Cole, Campbell, Toure all on top, and even goalkeeper Lehmann ran near the halfway line.

It's a desperate fight!

When Arsenal did so, all Arsenal fans were hoping they would score a goal and win the equaliser, Wigan fans were worried about their own goal, and Wigan Athletic's players were defending at the back of the pitch as if they were the worst enemies.

Zhang Tiehan was the only one, and his mind was a little active - he saw that Arsenal was empty at half-time, and he saw goalkeeper Phelan holding Campbell's header with both hands.

"Here, John!" Zhang Tiehan shouted at the backcourt, pointing one finger forward.

After John Phelan held the ball with both hands, he was about to hold it for a few more seconds to delay the time, when he heard Zhang Tiehan's shout, he looked forward and immediately looked forward with his big foot, but he didn't even look at the direction.

At the same time, Zhang Tiehan sprinted into the Arsenal half.

Lyman also realized the danger and ran backwards, but he had barely started when Jaman had already run past him. The landing point of the football is a little backward, it is almost to the position of the big penalty area, Fei Lan's kick is indeed far away, Zhang Tiehan rushed up frantically, turned around and looked carefully at the football falling in the air, and then took two big steps forward, and stepped on it with his right foot.

The soccer ball is being trampled under his feet!

It was a very precise and exciting step, and many fans exclaimed, especially those who were neutral in their hearts, they had no inclination in their hearts, and they were closer to appreciating football, they didn't expect to see such a wonderful stop in the last moments of the game.

Wigan fans cheered as well.

The only difference is the Arsenal fans, who are not cheering, there are just ...... Despair!

With their desperation, Zhang Tiehan smashed the ball into the empty net with an accurate kick to score his third goal of the half.

At this moment, it is difficult to describe the mood of the people of Wigan.

They're already filled with excitement!

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