Chapter 322: Free kick again

It is difficult for such a goalkeeper to judge the correct prediction, and the Southampton goalkeeper jumped up and tried to pick up the ball.

However, the ball bypassed his gloved hands and flew into the goal.

"The ball – it went in!!! It was a brilliant elevator ball that spun in the air and then went up and down, making the goalkeeper lose his prediction of the trajectory and landing of the ball, and the ball went in recently!! ”

"Lee's free-kick skills are once again in full swing! Who said that strong physical confrontation and man-to-man tactics can completely lock up the talented Lee? China's century-old genius has formalized his actions and wants to prevent him? The best way to do this is not to defend, but to score more goals than him to winFew people have scored as much as he has at the moment, at least not in Southampton. ”

Li Zihan, who scored the goal, let out a vicious breath, jumped up, and waved his fist vigorously in the air.

It can be seen that Li Zihan has also suppressed it for a long time, and now he can finally vent. Wanyama's man-marking and close-quartering presses did prevent the speedy, nimble genius from playing to his advantage. But this style of defense has a big drawback, that is, it is easy to foul. and let the opponent get a lot of set-pieces, and Li Zihan is quite accomplished in set-pieces, almost all of them are side by side with his master Pirlo. So poor Southampton, it was really their misfortune to meet a Li Zihan who could not only score goals with his own personal ability, but also create opportunities to assist, and also score goals with free kicks. ”

"I think Southampton's defence is going to change their strategy, and if they give Lee too many free-kick opportunities, I think the team that is currently second in the league will be beaten into a sieve by league leaders Arsenal."

Wan Yama finally understood Li Zihan's words now, he never understood why Li Zihan said thank himself for giving him a chance, and this goal made him completely understand.

Touched his forehead, it's a little difficult to do now, it's impossible not to foul in close defense, and sometimes it's not necessarily that you take the initiative to foul.

Looking at the referee on duty in this game, Wan Yama was happy in his heart and planned to continue to play like this. Because he has only now discovered that the referee of this game is the famous bald Webber of the Premier League, the bald Webber is a legendary referee in England, and he can also be regarded as the most famous referee in the current service in the United Kingdom. Of course, he also has a characteristic, that is, he advocates physical confrontation, and he is still relatively loose about some fouls on body collisions.

With this idea, Wan Yama continued to follow Li Zihan closely, and this time he also learned to be obedient. When there is an unnecessary foul in the backcourt, there is no foul, and in the middle of the field, far away from his goal, there is no threat, and when he sees that Li Zihan wants to get rid of it, he directly squeezes the opponent with his body.

In the defense of another physical confrontation, when Wan Yama squeezed Li Zihan away with his body, there was obviously a small movement of pushing people in his hands. Although the referee didn't blow it, he couldn't escape the commentators who watched the slow-motion playback: "There was a foul in the hand of Wan Yama in this ball, and Webb didn't blow it." But he is still careful, after all, he still has a yellow card on him, and he should be more careful when defending and not being punished. ”

Wanyama had obviously forgotten that he had already been booked, but his team-mate, Frenchman Schneiderlin, had helped him remember it.

Schneiderlin came over to communicate with Wan Yama, and finally confirmed that the two of them would exchange jobs. Schneiderlin, who is not under the pressure of a yellow card, stares at Li Zihan, and Wan Yama sits in the middle of the midfield to help defend the team's backline, including the task of connecting the front and back courts.

Wan Yama is really good in defense, at least when he has been staring at Li Zihan before, Li Zihan has not had many good opportunities in the sports battle, and it has also effectively stifled the connection between Li Zihan and his teammates. However, after changing positions and being the core of the organization, his performance was quite average.

There were often mistakes in the combination with his teammates up front, such as the ball that should have been given to Lallana but was given to Lambert. When the frontcourt is involved in assists and responses, you can't have chemistry with Lallana, Osvaldo and others.

After all, Wanya has not been in Southampton for a long time, and there are indeed some problems with the run-in with his teammates. In particular, the defensive role he has been playing before is rarely involved in the attack, and he is still in the attack with the core Lallana.

The tepid game was played for a long time, and Arsenal adopted a team attack with teamwork, and the Saints focused on defending and counterattacking.

Arsenal's opportunity in front, Li Zihan returned to the midfield to get the ball.

Li Zihan began to retreat to get the ball, this is because once he is in the front court, he will receive the focus of the opposing defenders, so that he almost has little time to get the ball. So now the retreat helps the midfielder to organise and pass, and the England youngster Wilshere, who started as a striker, is at the top of the front and has become a pseudo-centre-forward. What is rare and commendable is that with such a change, Arsenal is still playing so smoothly and handy, which is a bit interesting. ”

After several passes and cooperation with Rosicky, Flamini and others, Li Zihan received Rosicky's return ball, suddenly split the side, and sent a straight plug to the young player Chamberlain who went to the side.

After Chamberlain took the ball, the sideline broke through directly, and Wilshere in the middle immediately followed the run, wanting to complete the outflanking in the middle, and his side was Rosicky and behind Li Zihan.

When Chamberlain met Luke Shaw on the touchline, he smashed the ball past the opponent and then cut inside.

Wilshere saw that the other party's attention was attracted to Chamberlain, while the two big midfielders, Wan Yama and Schneiderlin, had been paying attention to Li Zihan. So he felt that this was a good opportunity, and immediately raised his hand and motioned for Oxlade-Chamberlain to send a boccia ball through to the back of the two central defenders, Lovren and Fonte.

However, Chamberlain ignored his teammate's meaning, and continued to cut inside with the ball, directly wanting to dribble into the penalty area.

And Wan Yama, who reacted at this time, immediately gave up Li Zihan, and came over to help defend and stuck the position in time. And Li Zihan continued to be followed by Schneiderlin.

Oxlade-Chamberlain was stuck in the position by the retreating Luke Shaw and the defender Wanyama, and Luke Shaw pressed when he came up, completely missing the best chance to pass.

Chamberlain simply chose Wanyama's position, because the black midfielder already has a yellow card, and relatively speaking, the defense should be more effective.

However, he didn't think of it, and Luke Shaw thought of it as much as he could think of, so before he could go to Wan Yama, Luke Shaw directly put him down when he grabbed the ball.

Webber hesitated, but blew the whistle to signal for a foul on Luke Shaw and gave Arsenal a free-kick. It is worth noting that the position of this free kick is not much different from the position where Li Zihan scored the goal before.

"Southampton should pay attention, the position of this free kick is exactly what Li Zihan said he liked. The previous goal was almost this position, and I was just saying not to give Arsenal too many opportunities for set-pieces, but I didn't expect to give Li Zihan a chance to show his skills so soon. ”

Li Zihan looked at the referee's gesture and knew that it was a direct free kick, so he smiled and went to take the free kick.

Because of Li Zihan's previous goal, Southampton attaches great importance to this goal, and goalkeeper Boruc has been lining up for a long time.

And considering that the free kick cover has lost its meaning, only Li Zihan stood in front of the ball alone. Arteta, on the other hand, went to the edge of the box to make a response.

After the referee blew the whistle, Li Zihan ran and then drove the goal again in the expectant eyes of the Arsenal fans.

"Li Zihan's free kick continues to drive and see if he can continue to score a goal? According to this distance, Li Zihan should choose a direct shot with the previous goal. ”

Li Zihan really chose to shoot directly, instead of cooperating with Koscielny in the penalty area.

This time it's not an elevator ball, it's a beautiful curved ball. The instep of his right foot curled in an arc, and the ball flew around the wall and flew towards the goal.

The Southampton players in the wall broke out in a cold sweat behind their backs, and the goalkeeper left to make a judgment to make a save.

Bang!!

The ball was not saved by Szczesny's hometown, Polish goalkeeper Boruc. But the ball didn't go in, but grazed the position between the post and the crossbar in the far corner of the goal.

"WOW—" exclaimed the crowd.

"Oh,,., the ball grazed the far corner of the post and flew off the line. The quality of this free kick is quite high, whether it is the angle of the shot or the power of the kick-off, it is very well grasped, but it is a little bit of luck, otherwise it would be another goal. ”

"Oops" Li Zihan gritted his teeth and frowned a little regretfully.

And the goalkeeper is not just shocked into a cold sweat, his seven souls and six souls are missing one soul and one soul, just because the angle of this ball is too good, if it is not hit on the goalpost, he has no chance to save at all, and Li Zihan's free kick goal before also left him a lot of psychological hints.

Southampton was obviously intimidated by Li Zihan's excellent free-kick skills, and when they regained possession of the ball, they did not counterattack quickly at the first time, but made a few passes to transport the ball to the center circle arc.

"Southampton are now holding the ball and slowing down the tempo, Arsenal's attack has been a bit of a threat during this period, so slowing down the tempo is conducive to avoiding falling into Arsenal's rhythm, as we all know, once Arsenal's tempo is fully opened, it is quite crazy. Of course, for Arsenal fans as well as neutral fans, it is undoubtedly a delight to behold. ”