467 The battle is in the reckoning
Ajax boss Blind had a heavy face, and his worst fears had finally happened.
In Ajax's current squad, the biggest flaw on the field, the most worrying point for him is the left wing-back, Maxwell's injury has made him have to "fill the numbers", and now this point is starting to be used by Arsenal, he will not be optimistic that Emmanuelsson can withstand Qin Xiong's impact.
Qin Xiong has been honed on the wing since his time at Ajax, but at that time he liked to move on the left and combine with Sneijder to cut cross-cutting or in-cutting to form a threat to the goal.
But at Arsenal, because Henry himself has a left-leaning attacking habit, Qin Xiong gradually adapted to the offensive inertia of pulling the side to the right.
Blind will not be blindly confident, Emmanuelsson is not a defensive player per se, how can he defend against the impact of top players?
Just like pulling Qin Xiong to play fullback, he will definitely be blown up by top offensive players, no doubt!
In the 32nd minute of the game, Qin Xiong pulled the side to the right side again, he went straight forward, Emmanuelsson was powerless in front of him, he looked panicked, and casually lost the center of gravity of his body.
After Qin Xiong broke through him, he observed the situation in the middle lane.
Galasek once again took the initiative to retreat into the box to increase the defensive strength in the box.
At this time, Qin Xiong unexpectedly passed the ball back to the inverted triangle position outside the penalty area.
Reyes cut inside from the wing to the middle, but didn't get into the box.
At this time, Ajax's defense at the back line was relatively weak due to defensive adjustments, and Pinard and Lindbergh immediately rushed over to start a sandwich on Reyes.
After Qin Xiong released the ball, he ran towards Reyes in the direction of his pass.
Reyes gently kicked the ball forward. Pinar and Lindbergh were misplaced and passed by Qin Xiong. The football was taken sideways by Qin Xiong.
At this time, Ajax's back line finally panicked.
Vermaelen made the same choice as Galasek. Rush forward and rush!
This choice is wrong!
It was enough for one person to grab and force Qin Xiong to make a choice, and the other person guaranteed to compress the space in the penalty area.
But the two made the same choice under the unexpected impact, when both of them defended outward, Qin Xiong, who was dribbling horizontally in front of the penalty area, suddenly changed the ball to the penalty area 90 degrees with the outside of his right foot, and the football rolled between Vermaelen and Galasek, Qin Xiong changed 90 degrees at the same time to kill in the penalty area, and he rushed past Vermaelen's side!
Due to Heitinga's injuries. De Jong played at central defender, he stalked Henry, and this time the defense was the same, he simply put his back to Henry in the penalty area, and his right hand still grabbed Henry's shirt behind him, which made Henry very uncomfortable.
Qin Xiong couldn't see the possibility of a horizontal pass, so he chose to shoot by himself!
He aimed for the bottom left corner of the goal and fired a powerful shot diagonally into the goal.
Stekelenberg may have made a subconscious save, but he made a world-class save!
The football was blocked by him with both hands, and the refraction changed backwards and flew out of the sideline on the other side!
"Stekelenberg has done a great job! Blind's prophecy was correct. The most threatening player in the Arsenal team is really Qin Xiong! He caused plenty of problems for Ajax in the middle of the pitch and down the right, and this time he suddenly switched direction and cut into the box to break down the defence of Galasek and Vermaelen. Almost a blast! ”
There was applause at the scene, sent to Stekelenberg and Qin Xiong, many Ajax fans couldn't help but sigh after seeing Qin Xiong's performance on the field today: He is stronger than when he left!
Two minutes later, Qin Xiong and Reyes repeated their old tricks on the right side, and what he told Reyes before was to let Reyes have an impact on the middle and contain the defense of Ajax's back line.
The reason is very simple, if the back continues to make up for the penalty area, then Reyes has other room to play in front of the penalty area, if the back pays attention to Reyes, then Qin Xiong will encounter less resistance when opening the Ajax defensive gap from the right side and then making the final blow with Henry.
But this time Lindbergh took a direct foul on Reyes and Ajax won a free-kick.
Qin Xionglai took a free kick, and many Ajax fans were worried.
They were impressed by Qin Xiong's free-kick skills.
Qin Xiong took a high-quality direct shot, the football went around the human wall and began to fall, seeing that the goal was undoubtedly going in, Stekelenburg saved the ball, and it seemed that Stekelenburg was premeditated to block the goal space behind the human wall.
After the successful save, Stekelenberg stood up and looked at Qin Xiong, who smiled at him, and Stekelenberg also smiled.
"Stekelenburg made another world class save! His performance today was very eye-catching, Qin Xiong's free kick shot originally seemed to be a must-score, but he didn't expect Stekelenberg to predict it correctly! This reminds us of Stekelenberg once said in an interview that he once experienced hellish torture after training, at that time, Ibrahimovic, Qin Xiong, Van der Vaart, Sneijder, and Pienal took turns to test him with free kicks from no one's wall, perhaps it was because everyone trained together in the past that he knew Qin Xiong very well and could help him make the right judgment at this time. ”
After another 2 minutes, Pienal brought down Qin Xiong in front of the penalty area, and Arsenal won a direct free kick again.
Qin Xiong stood in front of the football, his eyes staring at Stekelenberg, as if the two were declaring war in silence.
The previous free-kick was a sure bet because the wall blocked part of the goal's angle and the goalkeeper blocked the rest, but Stekelenberg moved ahead to block the space behind the wall, which in itself was abnormal.
This time, Qin Xiong took the free kick and directly chose to volley vigorously, and it was blasted towards the shooting angle where Stekelenberg was standing!
When the football was shot, he saw Stekelenberg consciously moving to the back of the human wall, and the corners of Qin Xiong's mouth turned up, feeling that Stekelenberg was going to make a big ugly!
Stekelenberg also noticed something was wrong after one move!
Qin Xiong didn't try to kick the elevator ball again, but directly blasted into the space blocked by the goalkeeper outside the human wall!
A hint of irritation flashed through Stekelenberg's mind: You're still so cunning!
If the ball is really lost, it will be equivalent to returning the free kick just now!
And it's ugly!
Stekelenberg had just stopped moving back when he heard a thud and the ball hit the outside of the post and bounced off the baseline.
He let out a sigh of relief.
Survived!
He turned his head to look at Qin Xiong, but saw Qin Xiong's stunned face!
He couldn't help but look down and snickered covertly. (To be continued......)