Chapter 1184: Selfless Assist
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After Crouch came on, Kuyt's position did not change, and he partnered Crouch in the middle to form a double centre-forward.
Crouch is tall, Kuyt is strong, Crouch is tall but not stupid, has excellent technique, Kuyt is strong but not lazy, and does not hesitate to do physical strength, the two are in the Arsenal penalty area, and the Arsenal penalty area is not peaceful.
In the 78th minute of the game, Liverpool's defender Alonso made a long pass from the backfield, and Crouch took advantage of his height advantage to head back and find his teammates in the back row.
When Crouch headed the ball, Kuyt flew around like a fly, causing a lot of headaches for the defenders.
By the time the Arsenal players were all eyes on Crouch and Kuyt, Gerrard was quick to get forward and ready to shoot.
Gerrard and Chen Yu must be the ones to focus on, when Gerrard shot, Toure blocked it for the first time, and the ball hit Toure's ass and refracted to the right side of the goal.
Gerrard's shot was about to hit the left side, and Almunia also moved a step to the left to make a save, but the sudden change of direction of the ball caught Almunia off guard, and his body couldn't keep up with his brain, and he sat on the ground.
Gerrard shot with great power and the ball was still fast when it changed direction, and full-back Klich flew to intercept it, but it was still a step too late and the ball flew past his toes and into the net.
3:2
Arsenal are overtaking again.
Gerrard didn't expect to be able to refract into the net, he was surprised and delighted, and ran to the stands with open arms.
When Arsenal rewrote the score to 2:2, the hearts of the Liverpool players were hanging in their throats, after all, time was running out, Gerrard's goal made his teammates almost crazy, they pounced on Gerrard and threw Gerrard to the sidelines.
"Steve!"
"Steve! Attaboy! ”
"It's so timely!"
……
The teammates slapped and grabbed Gerrard, and the joy was hard to describe in words.
Gerrard got up easily, and at this time he calmed down and said to his teammates: "The game is not over yet, the opponent has a good chance, once they score again, we will be eliminated, and we need to score another one." ”
Alonso said: "But let's not be in a hurry, it's them who are in a hurry now, we are ready to counterattack, try to seize opportunities, Arsenal is not a weak team." ”
Chen Yu said: "Strengthen the scramble and don't let them beat their morale." ”
The teammates all nodded yes, agreeing with the opinions of the three bigwigs of the team.
Liverpool unified their minds, and after the game started again, the players gave up controlling the ball, tried their best to press in the middle, grabbed the ball and hit it forward, and when they had the opportunity, they went straight behind the defenders, and there was no chance to find their high school striker Crouch, so that Crouch ferried to Gerrard and Chen Yu to launch a counterattack as quickly as possible.
Liverpool's tactics were not pretty, but they were simple and practical, especially Alonso's long ball, which was very good, and at least seven or eight of the ten counter-attacks were able to reach the heads of his team-mates, which kept Arsenal from focusing on the counter-attack.
After 84 minutes of the game, Arsenal could no longer worry about Liverpool's counterattack, pressed forward on three lines, concentrated all their forces, and showed the last bit of strength to launch the most fierce attack on Liverpool since the start of the game.
Under strong pressure from Arsenal, Liverpool could not maintain the midfield and were forced to retreat to their 30-metre defence.
With Liverpool's strength, it is very difficult to break through their defense in a dense 30-meter area, and there are not many teams in the whole of Europe that can do it, but Arsenal can be regarded as one of them.
In the 87th minute of the game, Arsenal made a wonderful short pass penetration in the dense crowd of Liverpool, the players continued to do the wall-hitting cooperation, when the Liverpool players did not react, Cesc Fabregas squeezed the ball diagonally into the small penalty area, at this moment Arsenal striker Adebayo just arrived, he stretched his long legs, fell to the ground and shoveled, the ball rolled to the goal from the feet of the goalkeeper Reina.
Adebayo's shot was so close that Reyna could see but didn't have time to react, watching as the ball rolled from his feet to the net behind him.
At the moment all the Arsenal players thought the ball was going to go in, but the ball bounced off the post.
It was a goal that could have decided the outcome of the game, and the stands burst into exclamations and sighs.
The ball bounced right at the feet of Reeser and the frightened Norwegian immediately kicked the ball forward.
At the moment, Arsenal's people are almost all engaged in attacking, the number of people left in the back is very small, and Liverpool only has the center Crouch in the front, and after Rieser kicked out, it just fell into Crouch's control.
Crouch jumped high, ready to control the ball, because his teammates had not followed, but the opponent obviously would not give him a chance to control the ball, Toure behind him also jumped to Crouch without the possibility of grabbing the ball, and hit Crouch hard, Crouch fell to the ground before he could exert his strength, and the ball bounced back to the midfield aimlessly.
There is a large gap between the defenders and the midfield, and this disconnect is caused by the eagerness of Arsenal's midfield, when Liverpool's defender Reese cleared, Arsenal's defenders retreated, but the midfielders have not yet reacted, and they are still lamenting Adebayor's tackle.
Arsenal's midfielders saw the ball fall into the air and ran desperately towards the landing point, a position where it would be too dangerous for Liverpool's players to get it.
When the Arsenal players ran back, they found that Liverpool had a player running in front of them, and what made them even more alarmed was that this player turned out to be Liverpool's killer Chen Yu.
Originally, the closest to the Arsenal penalty area should be Crouch and Kuyt, but Kuyt is too diligent, every time he returns to his penalty area, Chen Yu's position is closer to the opponent's goal than him when counterattacking, and Chen Yu is a striker, and the sense of forward is very strong, when Reese clears, Arsenal's midfielder is in a daze, and Chen Yu has stepped forward, and it is natural that he is faster than everyone else.
Gallas rushed to the ball at the first time, but he didn't go to grab the ball, he had already judged that he couldn't touch the ball first, his goal was to go to people, in this position, it was absolutely worth it to stop Chen Yu's counterattack at the cost of a free kick and a yellow card, if Chen Yu pulled the ball up, the probability of the goal not being saved was almost eighty percent.
Chen Yu is very clear about Gallas's purpose, but he can't guarantee that he can avoid Gallas's foul after picking the ball, Gallas is only one step later than him at most, how to get the ball and avoid Gallas's foul, this is a difficult problem.
At this moment, all the fans who know a little bit about football know the key at the moment, and they all focus on Chen Yu to see how Chen Yu handles this ball.
Chen Yu accelerated twice in a row, and finally was about to touch the ball, and at this time Gallas also arrived immediately, and he was ready to give Chen Yu a bear hug.
Chen Yu was still almost two meters away from Gallas and still did not slow down, but before Chen Yu touched the ball, he shook his upper body for a moment, and suddenly changed direction and sprinted towards Gallas's side without touching the ball.
Gallas's goal was originally a man rather than a ball, and when the distance was so close, his attention was on Chen Yu, where could he still care if Chen Yu touched the ball or not, and stretched out his hand to grab Chen Yu.
If Chen Yu touched the ball, the speed would definitely slow down, and the impact would be reduced, but Chen Yu didn't touch the ball, the speed was very fast, and the impact was very large, Gallas's arm was a little slower, he didn't grasp it, and he was rushed by Chen Yu.
A man who doesn't touch the ball has a ball!
The wind swept past Gallas, and Chen Yu caught up with the ball and walked towards the Arsenal penalty area.
At this moment, Arsenal's defender is the only one left, while Liverpool's attacking side has Chen Yu and Crouch, and the others are left behind.
Toure decisively gave up Crouch and went straight to Chen Yu, the lesser of two evils, if Liverpool must have one person to face goalkeeper Almunia alone, Toure would rather that person be Crouch than Chen Yu.
At this moment, the situation on the field is very clear, Chen Yu either passes Toure or passes diagonally to Crouch, in the offensive third area, it is normal for Chen Yu to make any choice.
The fans in the stands seemed to remember Chen Yu's goalkeeper scoring at this time, and they were all chanting "Chen! Enter one! "Chen! Enter one! ”
Chen Yu had at least six or seven percent of the chance to pass Toure, but he didn't take any chances, Crouch kept raising his hand to ask for the ball, his position was better, at this time, Chen Yu chose to believe his teammates, he shook his upper body and passed the ball diagonally to Crouch.
Toure did not forget to intercept Chen Yu's ball line when he was marking Chen Yu, but Chen Yu's false sway was very effective, Toure was interfered with, did not intercept at the first time, and the ball was easily passed to Crouch.
Crouch was almost desperate when Chen Yu was shaking, he thought that Chen Yu would not pass it on, he was going to do it alone, Chen Yu had this status and this ability, he didn't expect that Chen Yu would pass it to him at the last moment.
Crouch took the ball and smashed it into the corner of the penalty area.
Arsenal goalkeeper Almunia had no choice but to sprint the ball from inside the small box towards Crouch to get the ball out of his feet.
Crouch didn't hesitate in the face of a ferocious Almunia and pushed the ball into the far corner with a push of his foot.
Almunia kept his eyes on the ball, and when Crouch pushed it, he quickly fell to the ground and reached out to intercept it, but Crouch hit it at a terrible angle, the ball flew past him, bounced off the post and into the net.
4:2
Crouch's goal sealed the win for Liverpool.