Chapter 342: Fierce Competition (1)

As the game heats up, Manchester City's morale has been further boosted by another goal, and they want to use more goals to destroy the last psychological defence in Arsenal's mind, reflecting their crazy home stadium with the lowest cost.

And Arsenal also want to quickly pull the score back again, after the opponent scored a goal, their side quickly equalized, and Arsenal is now full of confidence in the equalizer.

In the twelfth minute of the game, Arsenal attacked with the ball. Ramsey distributed the ball to Podolski on the wing, who took two steps on the touchline and was met by Yaya Toure. Instead of going to the opponent, he knocked the ball with his heel to Gibbs behind him.

Gibbs took the ball and wanted to see the shape of the frontcourt, but was robbed by Navas, who was back in action. Gibbs feinted to take a step forward and then pulled the ball back when Navas was intercepted. Taking advantage of this gap, he immediately handed the ball to Flamini, who pulled over to pick it up.

The French centre-back took the ball and handed it to Mesut Ozil in front of him without saying a word, and then followed behind Ramsey to intervene. Mesut Ozil picked up the ball slightly to the left in the middle and was met with a double defence by Fernandinho and Vincent Kompany.

Manchester City obviously know that Arsenal's front line is now more organized by Mesut Ozil, so once the opponent's midfield core is frozen, then the opponent's attack will lose half of its threat.

With such two excellent defenders, Mesut Ozil remained unchanged. Just as the two were in the middle of each other, a pass showed off his ability and talent.

The ball slipped through the gap between Kompany and Fernandinho and rolled behind them, where they made an instant save.

Kompany reacted quickly and immediately moved back to his position. However, there are people who are faster than him, and Podolsky and Ozil are very good friends, and it goes without saying that they have a tacit understanding with each other.

So he cut in from the touchline in the shortest amount of time to get the ball, and the sudden off-ball cut caught Zabaleta a little off guard, and he had to cut in immediately.

Podolski, who got the ball, took two steps forward and encountered Demichelis, seeing Kompany leave his position, Podolski appeared in this gap, and the experienced Argentine central defender decisively abandoned Giroud and ran over to fill in the hole for his partner. Kompany turned around and knew that he might not be able to catch up with Podolski, but he was relieved to see Demichelis quickly intercepted in front of the opponent, and immediately ran to the left central defender, that is, Demichelis's position to fill the hole he left, that is, the responsibility of Giroud, the only center forward who watched the opponent's start.

The cooperation between the two complemented each other perfectly, and even the commentator, after admiring Ozil, immediately praised the two powerful central defender partners with experience and ability.

With a roadblock in front and a chasing wolf behind, Podolski, who had the ball, was in a dangerous situation. If you rush forward, you can't quickly pass Demichelis, who is easy to see through the opponent's feints, and if you don't go fast, you will immediately encounter Zabaleta and Demichelis, so the probability of conceding the ball will be infinitely magnified.

However, Podolski was not as anxious as the commentators thought, and his excellent ability to read the game made him already confident.

Slowing down the dribble a little bit, and then making a slight attempt to lean on the inside, it would be like the poor reaction of Demichelis who is about to play an "old" after a while, and he starts in an instant.

However, Porti did make a quick move, but it was not Demichelis who thought he broke through with the ball, but passed.

A bocce ball, on the sideline, that is, passing through Demichelis's right hand, Demichelis, who subconsciously stretched his foot, did not reach the ball.

Gibbs, who was quick to get in from behind on the touchline, got the ball behind Demichelis, as Zabaleta's incision tried to finch Podolski and instead gave Gibbs a chance to cut in forward.

Gibbs flicked the outside of his right foot to get the ball and then followed with a big stride. Without giving Demichelis a chance to turn back and defend himself, he made three steps and two runs into the ribs of the penalty area.

Joe Hart struck quickly, Gibbs didn't stop the ball, and immediately took a shot with his feet.

"Gibbs! Good chance, shot!! Ah!! The commentator hated that iron could not be made of steel and said: "Directly hit the fly, this ball is quite a bit of Podolsky's style back then." It's a pity, if this ball were replaced by Cazorla, Volvot, Li Zihan or even Wilshere, it wouldn't be so bad. ”

The commentator who wanted to say that Gibbs was too young suddenly reacted that Wilshere and Walcoat were about the same age as him, and Li Zihan was even younger than Gibbs, so he immediately changed his tune.

Arsenal's attack didn't pick up and three minutes later, after a battling between the two sides in midfield, City had a chance.

Yaya Toure cut off the ball that Olivier Giroud was trying to pass to Cazorla on the wing and then handed it to David Silva.

David Silva spun beautifully and took the ball past Flamini before moving it away.

Sagna flicked her braided hairstyle and David Silva quickly handed the ball to Kolarov, who had an assist on the wing. Sagna immediately returned to the wing to intercept the opponent to prevent Kolarov from dribbling the ball down the wing unimpeded.

Instead of breaking through with the ball to steal the work of the wing-back and winger, Kolarov crossed 45 degrees behind Sagna to get into the open space for David Silva. But Koscielny was the first to see what the opposition was trying to do, getting to the spot before David Silva and getting his hands on it.

Apparently Koscielny was impressed by the second goal he had conceded, and the French centre-back, who had learned to do so, immediately cleared the ball with a big kick.

However, the ball that was originally driven to the midfield was jumped up by Yaya Toure, who was inserted back on the way, and forced his head down. The ball was pushed to Kolarov on the touchline and the Serbian full-back pulled back the ball to get closer than Sagna.

After getting the ball, instead of looking for David Silva again, it was sent to Yaya Toure. The African midfielder took two steps to get his hands on the ball, and Yaya Toure made a feint to go outside against Ramsey's defence, and when the young Welsh midfielder spread his legs, he flicked the ball with the inside of his left foot and the ball passed between Ramsey's legs.

"Crotch piercing!! Yaya Toure teases Ramsey! ”

The crotch ball was undoubtedly a disgrace for the player who was crotched, and Yaya Toure sent the crotch ball to the ball and wanted to pass the ball, grazing Ramsey's side and receiving it behind the opponent. However, Ramsey grabbed the opponent and stretched out his feet slightly, blocking the opponent's thigh with his thigh.

Yaya Toure was tripped by Ramsey and fell to the ground with his center of gravity unstable.

"Foul!! It's a tactical foul, of course, if it's said that it's old and ashamed, it's not impossible. ”

Ramsey's pull and trip was purely out of tactical necessity, as he knew that if Yaya Toure got the ball through, he would pose some threat to his own players. Because it's not just Negredo and Sergio Aguero, but even David Silva and Keylor Navas are in danger zone at the back.

Yaya Toure has a lot of options to choose from, and the addition of an attacking player will have a big impact on his team-mates' defense.

The stadium was booed and cursed by Manchester City fans.

The referee came to the scene of the crime as soon as possible, blew the whistle as he ran, signaling the game to be suspended.

Ramsey stretched out his hand to pull Yaya Toure up in a gesture of friendship, then smiled and said something to Yaya Toure, and finally patted the other person on the shoulder, Yaya Toure also nodded.

The referee rushed over and pulled out a yellow card to Ramsey without hesitation as a warning. After observing that Yaya Toure was not injured, he pointed to the spot where Ramsey had fouled him before and signalled for City's free-kick.

Ramsey quit and immediately stepped forward to the referee to theorize, thinking that the ball was not enough for a yellow card, and the referee's punishment was a bit harsh.

"Yellow card!! Aaron Ramsey got his first yellow card of the game! Ramsey's foul can be said to be a tactical foul, and it does not rule out whether to retaliate against Yaya Toure's crotch humiliation, of course, there are also factors that test the referee's attitude and scale. It's just a big loss, and I think the Welshman is now very clear about the referee's penalty scale. ”

'Ramsey was a little indignant, he was looking for the referee to reason something. Ramsey should be saying: 'Hey, buddy, I pulled him up, we were friendly, we were harmonious, and it shouldn't have been a yellow card.' Uncle Zhan Jun definitely couldn't really know what the other party meant from Ramsey's lip movements, these were just his own dubbing.

But in fact, it's really the same as Uncle Zhan Jun's guess.

Allowing Ramsey to use all kinds of words, the referee was as unmoved as 'hard-hearted'. He shook his finger firmly at Ramsey.

"The referee meant: 'Dude, you better save some effort and use it to play football, you have this Topaz God of War card!' Uncle Zhan Jun dubbed the referee's actions again.

The 29-year-old veteran has a lot of experience, not only in the judgment of the ball on the court, or the judgment of the opponent's psychology and actions, but also in the aspect of observing words and feelings.

The sharp-eyed Flamini had already seen some impatience in the referee's eyes, and immediately rushed over to block Ramsey, said a few words to the referee, and then quickly left Ramsey with Ozil, who was still indignant and babbling.