Chapter 430: Goal Battle (2)
Arsenal overtook the scoreline.
This is not good for Liverpool, after seeing Cesc Fabregas score, Benitez can only smile bitterly, he originally thought that the game was not so difficult, but he didn't expect Arsenal's table Xiàn is really tenacious, they played rhythm, such Arsenal is really terrible.
But Liverpool have no choice and now they can only shake their opponents hard and go to score goals with Arsenal.
An offensive war is inevitable.
Because Benitez knows that against Arsenal like this, it is almost impossible to defend the goal, and it is impossible to win by defending alone.
The Liverpool players on the pitch thought the same thing.
Especially Zhang Tiehan.
Arsenal's appearance is very good, but in the face of such an Arsenal, Zhang Tiehan is even more combative, and he feels that his blood is boiling!
Offensive!
Goal!
It's not an easy pace to win, it's a challenge for him.
Then he took on the challenge!
Liverpool were unfazed by Arsenal's goal.
Everyone knows that the game has unwittingly become an attacking contest in which a goal really doesn't matter, Arsenal scored two goals in ten minutes, and they can do it even if they find a chance or play a smooth attack.
The game soon restarted.
The fans of both teams shouted loudly to cheer for the team, and those neutral fans were also divided into two factions, as fans who came to watch the game, whether they were loyal fans of a certain team or not, but when they came to watch the two teams play, they generally supported one team in their hearts.
On the spot, the number of supporters of Liverpool and Arsenal was almost equal.
Support Arsenal because of their beautiful football, in fact. Because Arsenal's table at the beginning of the century is much better than Liverpool's table, so there are more supporters in Arsenal in France than Liverpool, but Liverpool is the Champions League champion last season, especially after the introduction of Zhang Tiehan this season, they have a lot of supporters.
Zhang Tiehan has never been to France, but he still has a lot of supporters in France.
So to speak. Among all Liverpool's supporters, half of them support Liverpool in the name of Zhang Tiehan, this is the leading role of the star, in the foreign country of France, the fans here want to support the team of their own country, such as in Paris, most of them are Paris Saint-Germain teams, if you choose one of Arsenal and Liverpool to support, they naturally want to support the team that knows the name of the star. In the past two years, Zhang Tiehan has been in the limelight, and Liverpool's supporters have also increased.
The entire Stade de France in Paris was filled with the cries of supporters of both teams.
The two teams also worked hard to play the game with the support of the fans, and in the final stages of the first half, the two teams played more intensely.
In the Arsenal dugout, Arsene Wenger was watching the game and pondering, thinking about the current situation.
Arsenal take the lead.
That's good.
If the team can go into halftime with a one-goal lead. That was of course very good for the team, but now there are five minutes left including stoppage time. The two teams played very intensely, their own team's attack was very threatening, and Liverpool's attack was also very threatening.
He was thinking about whether to tell the players to pay attention to the defense.
As long as the team pays more attention to the defense, then the situation is very favorable for the team to go into the break with a goal advantage.
Of course, there are drawbacks
Like what. What if the team can still score? If there were two goal advantages, it would have been better.
Arsene Wenger hesitated.
Looking at the time, a minute passed and in the end the Frenchman decided to go with the flow and always had a chance to score. The team also had chances to score and now it's a bit of a loss to let the team pay attention to the defense.
"I just hope the first half ends 2-1." Arsene Wenger thought.
His requirements are not high, he only hopes that Liverpool will not score any more goals in the future, otherwise let them equalize, Arsenal's advantage is completely gone, 2:1 and 2:2 into the halftime break, the difference in which the impact on the players' hearts is still not small.
With all sorts of thoughts in his mind, Arsene Wenger kept showing a warm smile on his face, as if he was holding a victory, which made the media commentator who supported Liverpool happy, "Mr Wenger looks calm, it seems that there is nothing to worry about in the game." ”
"Before the game, many people thought that Liverpool had a better chance, but now Arsenal is ahead, although Liverpool scored one goal first, but Arsenal only had two goals in ten minutes, Liverpool's goal is more lucky, and Arsenal's goals, Henry, Fabregas, are scored with strength, it seems that in this game, Arsenal is better than Liverpool!"
"We are very happy to see that Arsenal's performance is good, and hopefully the team can hold on until the end of the game, then we can look forward to the first Champions League trophy in Arsenal's history!"
Winning the Champions League is definitely a breakthrough in Arsenal's football history.
Arsenal's results in the Champions League have been poor, in the 99-00 season, Arsenal failed to qualify for the group stage in the third group and entered the League Cup, and then reached the final of the UEFA Cup, but they lost to Turkey's Galatasaray in the final, the League Cup runners-up, which is also a good result for Arsenal in Europe.
The pre-03 Champions League format was a two-stage group stage, and Arsenal never appeared in the second stage.
In the 03-04 season, Arsenal was able to top the group, eliminated Celta 16 into 8, lost to Chelsea 8 and was eliminated, and in the 0405 season, relying on the relationship between wins and losses to beat Eindhoven, but was immediately eliminated by Bayern Munich.
To reach the final this season is the best result in Arsenal's history!
Now they have a chance to compete with Liverpool for the title, and Arsenal supporters are looking forward to winning the first ever Champions League trophy.
Every Arsenal fan is looking forward to it.
But if Arsenal wants to win, it depends on Liverpool's table, obviously Liverpool does not want to be beaten by Arsenal, they also want to win the Champions League, it will be a breakthrough - to win the Champions League trophy, not every team can do it. If they do, even if they don't win the league in 20 years, they will be one of the best teams in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century.
Winning the Champions League twice in a row is not a Champions League title that can be seen in the game, when Arsenal overtook the score. They couldn't wait to move back.
on the field.
Arsenal attacked again, but Cesc Fabregas's small mistake allowed the goal to end in front of the penalty area, and Liverpool steadied themselves and began to push slowly.
Offensive and defensive transitions.
Arsenal defended quickly, Liverpool didn't have time to play a quick counterattack, and could only slowly look for opportunities, and the football passed a few feet and soon reached the feet of Zhang Tiehan.
Zhang Tiehan slowly dribbled the ball. Look ahead.
Arsenal's attack just now played a little forward, and he also retreated to defend, but now his position is slightly behind his teammates, Zhang Tiehan originally wanted to give the ball to Gerrard to insert himself, but seeing Arsenal put on a solid formation, he knew that it was difficult for him to get a chance when he plugged in, so he slowly moved forward with the ball.
Steven Gerrard was on the right and Alonso had already plugged in.
Ljungberg came over to grab the ball. Zhang Tiehan made a pass to deceive Ljungberg, and then threw the ball forward and quickly dribbled forward. Fabregas in front of him immediately stopped.
Cesc Fabregas is very active and technically good in attack, but the Spaniard's defense is not very good, he doesn't think of steals when he comes over, he just wants to harass him a little, but obviously his idea is a bit unrealistic. Zhang Tiehan paid attention to his movements, and when he saw Fabregas slow down, he immediately accelerated and rushed over.
Cesc Fabregas was immediately thrown out of two positions.
If he wants to chase again, he can only look at Zhang Tiehan's back, past Ljungberg and Cesc Fabregas, and there are many Arsenal players in front of him. The advantage of using dribbling to get rid of the defense is that other Arsenal players will inevitably miss if they want to come over and make up for it.
It was Campbell who came running.
Campbell followed Gerrard just now, but when he saw Zhang Tiehan rushing forward quickly, to the front of the penalty area, he immediately gave up Gerrard and turned over to defend Zhang Tiehan, Zhang Tiehan took the opportunity to kick the ball to Gerrard.
Gerrard was unguarded.
Almost instantly, Gerrard was about to choose to take a long shot, Toure, who was defending Alonso in front, almost subconsciously jumped up and wanted to block the ball with his body, but Gerrard just made a false move, and after deflecting Toure, he kicked the ball to Alonso.
Alonso got it already in front of the penalty area.
Toure and Campbell were so close to him that he didn't have time to turn around or do anything other than to kick the ball into the open space on the left side of the box.
From Zhang Tiehan passing the ball to Alonso's pass, Liverpool's short passes cooperated, playing very smoothly and exquisitely, making Arsenal's formation full of holes, seeing Alonso's pass, Arsenal players were about to chase the ball, but in an instant they saw a figure running behind Campbell.
Number 13!
Zhang Tiehan had already fixed his eyes on the gap on the left, and when Alonso raised his foot, he knew that this guy was going to pass, and he immediately ran to the left, and sure enough, Alonso pushed the ball there.
When Zhang Tiehan rushed over, there was nothing the Arsenal players could do to take him again.
They could only watch as Zhang Tiehan ran to the front, swung his right leg high, and kicked the ball that really rolled over.
Boom!
A muffled sound shook the camera.
The ball rushed towards the door of Lehmann's handle like a meteor.
When Zhang Tiehan rushed over, Lehmann was already solemn, his face was very solemn, and he also knew how to save Zhang Tiehan's shot - he was already very experienced in this, the position of this shot was only about ten meters away from the goal, even if there was some angle, but such a shot, the average striker would not be able to react to it at all, let alone Liverpool's number three.
Lyman's choice is simple.
At the moment when Zhang Tiehan shot, he chose a direction to pounce, and whether he could save the ball or not depended on luck.
Half and half.
If the average goalkeeper would definitely choose to seal the goal angle, but in fact, this goal is a little off, but the angle is still very large, Lehmann is almost certain that such a team, the opponent will definitely find a dead corner to play.
He was right.
The moment Zhang Tiehan shot at goal, Lehmann pounced towards the far corner, and if he was lucky, he might have saved the must-have goal, but he chose the wrong direction......
The moment he made the move, Lehmann was in the air, but could only watch the ball fly into the net from the near corner.
There was nothing he could do. (To be continued......)