Chapter 248: Negative and negative cannot be positive

"Welcome to the first round of this season's Premier League, when Arsenal play Aston Villa at home. The first half relied on goals from Weimann and Abbon Lajo as Villa were away from home to the Emirates Stadium and were 2-0 up to Arsenal. We'll see what changes Arsene Wenger will make at half-time, and sure enough, Arsenal captain Belgium centre-back Vermaelen, who had struggled in the first half, was replaced by French centre-back Koscielny. ”

"Li Zihan was not substituted by Arsene Wenger, and it seems that the professor intends to wait and see."

Although the fans are dissatisfied with the club, they want the club to pay a lot of money to buy some superstars to help the team achieve great things. But they still did their best for the team, and the singing and chanting of the Arsenal fans did not stop as soon as Aston Villa kicked off the game.

"I don't care about the confusion I once had,

Ignoring the enemy's obstruction,

I won't be melancholy for no reason

-- Flying, flying, flying,

- Gunshots, I have my direction! ”

French centre-back Koscielny was an impressant from the start, despite a number of mistakes when he first joined Arsenal. But it has been corrected a lot over the years, and there are occasional highlight performances, which can be regarded as conscientiousness.

Delph's high ball finds Bentek, the center of the frontcourt, and Bentek jumps to the top to make a ferry for Abanglaho next to him. Of course, Merdesart couldn't let the other side get his wish, and pressed Bentek to jump and grab the ball before him. Merderssat headed the ball into the gap behind him, and the reason why he didn't dare to push it away from the box was because he had seen Weimann cut in from the side, and if the ball was pushed in front of him, it would be easy for Weiman to get on.

Abonlaho was instantly activated to get past Koscielny's defensive zone and get behind him to get the ball. However, Wenger had handed over Koscielny at halftime, so the French central defender did not dare to be careless. rushed directly into the stab, and did not hesitate, and opened his feet like a pair of scissors to catch the ball.

Abonlaho was about to touch the ball, but he was really scared by Koscielny's "scissor-foot" - he jumped on the spot and dodged Koscielny's scissor-foot.

No surprise, Koscielny easily made contact with the ball first, and after holding the ball, Koscielny did not immediately stand up, but kicked the ball to the side with his foot.

Although Abang Lajo dodged Koscielny's "fatal scissor leg" in time, he accidentally tripped over his calf in a hurry. Abang Laho, who was in the air, couldn't keep his balance, so he planted it directly, rolling on the grass three times before stopping.

Fortunately, his foot tripped on Koscielny's calf, because that place is where the shin guard is located, and if it trips on the ankle or thigh, it is estimated that it will be the playing time of the Arsenal team doctor.

Instead of standing up, Abang Lajo rolled three times, but sat on the ground and raised his hands to signal that the opponent had committed a foul.

The Arsenal fans, who had been applauding Koscielny's brilliant and ferocious defence, immediately turned their applause into boos, which of course was not for the French centre-back, but for the opponent's Abonlaho.

The referee of this game, Howard Webb, a local referee in England known as "the bald Webber", made a gesture to continue the game, and did not blow a foul on Arsenal because of Abang Lajo's fall. Although Webber is one of the most referees in the Premier League, and although his style of enforcement is controversial, it does not hide the fact that he is a good referee, and he has clearly seen that Koscielny's tackles, although fierce, do not go to Abonlaho himself, but to the ball. At the same time, he didn't tackle anyone, but he accidentally brought the opponent to the ball when he tackled. Besides, he also saw the ball that the French central defender tackled first, and Zuihou brought Abang Lajo down. So Webb made the gesture that the game continued, and it was a nice defense.

"Koscielny defended beautifully, and if Wenger had trusted the French centre-back more when he started the line-up, he probably wouldn't have allowed Aston Villa to score two goals in the first half."

Koscielny's tackling of the ball was not a haphazard kick, but a premeditated one.

Sagna was the first to get into the position and snatched the ball before it could go out of touchline. Then lean back to Delph, who is following up, and don't let the opponent spoil the ball.

Zuihou didn't turn either, instead passing the ball to Arteta near the middle of the pitch. Then he turned and cut in past Delph and Arteta immediately pushed the ball back to Sagna in front of him, who immediately dribbled forward as soon as Sagna regained control of the ball.

"France's right wing-back - Sagna, this is Arsenal's counter-attacking opportunity!"

When Sagna burst forward with the ball, he saw Ahmadi coming to help defend in the back position, and when he saw that the opponent was about the same distance, Sagna did not continue to dribble the ball, but passed the ball to Walcott in front of him and Ahmadi.

Sagna didn't stay in this position long after the pass, but immediately bypassed Ahmadi from just outside the touchline. By the time Walcott received the ball and turned, Sagna had already reached the front of the little tiger.

Originally, Walcourt wanted to rush directly from the sideline with the ball and speed, but just turned to see Sagna and saw the opponent's left wing-back Luna. Sagna was dragging the other party's defense, but Walcott became an embarrassing situation of being attacked by the enemy.

Fortunately, he saw Cazorla in the middle coming to pick up, and immediately passed the ball to Cazorla, and then burst into his own way. Cazorla did not dribble too much after receiving the ball, but pushed the inside instep of his left foot to Sagna, who was already free on the wing.

Sagna caught the ball and drew Luna's attention and then immediately played the ball to Walcott in front of him.

"It's a small area on Arsenal's right flank, Sagna, Theo Walcott and Cazorla, a striker who pulls it on the flank!"

This is also the kind of cross-cutting and attacking pattern that often appears with Arsenal, and Walcott did not wait for Sagna or Cazorla to come up after receiving the ball. Instead, he strode the ball straight and started along the sideline.

Villa centre-back Clarke immediately stepped up to the flanks to help up the defence, and when he rushed towards Theo Walcott, he also made the same ferocious sliding tackle as Koscielny. But Walquette didn't go any further and flicked the ball up on the run and it flew diagonally in front of him, in the direction of the Aston Villa goal.

After barely passing the ball, Walcott didn't have time to stop, and the inertia of high speed made him unable to control his body. Seeing that Clark and the shovel couldn't be contained, he hurried one.

Clark slid straight down the smooth grass of the Emirates Stadium off the touchline, and Walcott jumped off with an unsteady center of gravity and rolled twice on the grass instead of getting up.

In the middle, Giroud was already focused on the front when Walcott told the breakthrough on the flank, and when Walcoat passed the ball, he immediately took two steps and jumped high. Villa's other Villa centre-back, who has been following Giroud closely, did not dare to be careless and jumped along. It's just that Giroud is prepared to make a premeditated jump, while the opponent is passive. So Giroud got in front of him to get his hands on the ball and headed it at the goalkeeper – with a header!

"Walcott crosses with a high difficulty, Giroud jumps up and fights for a header and hits the goal!!"

Walcott's cross was already very average, and it was under such a difficult action, so the quality of this pass can be imagined. Giroud's header wasn't very good, but he was certainly so-so as a centre-forward. But it was hard enough for Walcott to get his hands on the ball in the face of a qualityless cross from the flank, but can the quality of the shot be high?

The phrase "negative and negative is positive" obviously cannot be used on the football field, and Walcott, who was sick and did not cross Jishu, encountered such a difficult pass.

So it was no surprise that Giroud's header hadn't been on the way to the back of the net, and goalkeeper Guzan, who had made a leap to save, couldn't save the ball.

The ball hit the crossbar and did not fly off the baseline immediately, but flew high above the crossbar.

"Oops hit the post, and you can't blame Giroud, it's not easy for him to get the ball in the face of such a 'tricky' high cross, and it can hit the frame of the goal. Of course, you can't blame Walcott, it's not easy for him to get the ball out."

Li Zihan did not cover his eyes regretfully like ordinary fans or pseudo-fans. As a professional player, especially a competitive and combative player like him, he deeply understands that as long as the ball fee does not fly out of the bottom line, is not held by the opposing goalkeeper, and the referee does not blow the whistle, this wave of attacks will not be over.

"There was still a chance, the ball didn't go out of the line and Webb didn't blow the whistle. Arsenal still have a chance, Podolski cuts in from the sideline and jumps straight up, Porty Porti"

Podolski jumped straight into the box when he cut to the touchline, as did full-back Bennett, who had been following him. When Bennett was in the air, he felt that the opponent was taller than him, and knew that the ball was probably going to be hit by Podolski, so he crashed into the opponent.

Podolski, who was hit, did not fall or be knocked off by Bennett, his body was only slightly deflected.

A slight deflection didn't completely deprive him of the ball, but it did make it a bit difficult. Zuihou saw that the ball had fallen, and before the goalkeeper stood up with applause and stretched out his hand to pick it up, he stretched out his neck and shook his head.