Chapter 511: Arsenal's counterattack and Real Madrid's epiphany

Ozil was stunned for a fraction of a second, and immediately reacted. As the core of the current Arsenal midfield, he is the absolute core when Li Zihan is no longer on the pitch, so his reaction ability is naturally faster than other players.

He quickly half-turned and kicked the ball wide of the road.

The ball flew over the head of Marcelo, who was standing near the center circle, and fell behind him.

"Break the siege??" The Spanish commentator saw that there was no Arsenal player in the direction of the ball, and thought it was Mesut Ozil's big foot clearance.

But Mesut Ozil, who has played for Real Madrid for three seasons, knows that the German technical midfielder doesn't handle the ball blindly and purposelessly, so he has some doubts.

Immediately he knew why Ozil had passed the ball into this gap, only to see a red figure rush up from Arsenal's flank, take advantage of Marcelo's turn to find the ball, quickly cut in from the touchline, and rushed past the unprepared Brazilian left wing-back.

"Chamberlain !!" Hurhouse was the first to react.

"Oxlade-Chamberlain started instantly, he rushed past Marcelo's defence, in fact Marcelo didn't notice him at all, so he didn't form a defense."

Marcelo turned his head to find Ozil to "clear" the ball, and Oxlade-Chamberlain had already completed the quick insertion and overtaking, so by the time Marcelo went from facing Real Madrid's attacking direction to facing Real Madrid's goal, Oxlade-Chamberlain had already come to him.

Turning his head, he saw Oxlade-Chamberlain receiving the ball in front of him, and Marcelo subconsciously raised his arm to signal that the opponent was offside.

In fact, the Brazilian full-back really thought that Oxlade-Chamberlain was offside, so he didn't pick up the speed very quickly, but when he saw that the linesman didn't show any indication of his hand and followed Marcelo with the ball towards his backfield, he realized that something was wrong.

Marcelo, who was scared into a cold sweat, immediately started and chased after Chamberlain!

"Marcelo, he thought they were offside."

"When Li Zihan was shining, when Li Zihan swept London, England and even the entire Europa continent with his speed. Many people know that Arsenal have a talented striker who is extremely fast and efficient. But under the highlight of Li Zihan, many outstanding young players of Arsenal are covered by him, such as Oxlade-Chamberlain!! ”

"Real Madrid thought that without Li Zihan, Arsenal's attack and counterattack would not be possible, apparently they forgot that after Li Zihan and Walcott were injured, Arsenal also had a third supercar - Oxlade-Chamberlain!! A player with a lot of speed is a counter-attacking weapon."

Oxlade-Chamberlain dribbled the ball on the side, strode the ball, and accelerated towards the backfield of Real Madrid, followed by Marcelo chasing after the girl, and the two speed players formed a unique landscape on the sideline.

Casillas had wanted to sit back and wait in front of his goal line as he believed his team-mate Marcelo would be able to resolve the crisis before the penalty area.

But after waiting for a while, he found out that his teammates couldn't catch up!!

So the Spanish goalkeeper decisively abandoned the goal, and the two formed a flank attack on Oxlade-Chamberlain at the edge of the penalty area.

Oxlade-Chamberlain hesitated, he glanced diagonally behind him and saw that the centre-forward Olivier Giroud had not yet followed, and the distance was a little worse, and he could not support himself at all.

I don't know why, Chamberlain suddenly missed Li Zihan sitting on the bench, if he was in the middle lane, with his consciousness and speed, he could completely take his own.

Oxlade-Chamberlain slid the ball diagonally forward and then fired straight at the goal before Casillas could make a save.

Marcelo had just left the ball and he had a sliding tackle to stop it but it was too late.

"Chamberlain shot !!"

Casillas immediately flew out and didn't get to the ball, but he wasn't nervous because in his experience if he didn't bring the ball down in this position, the ball wouldn't pose a big threat to the goal behind him.

Sure enough, Casilla looked back and the ball went straight over the crossbar.

"Oops, it's a pity"

"But it's no wonder that Chamberlain has this goal, there is Casilla in front of him and Marcelo in the back, Chamberlain has no chance at all, and his teammates have not followed in time. This has nothing to do with him, after all, he is not Li Zihan, if it is Li, this ball is worth looking forward to"

Oxlade-Chamberlain glanced at Real Madrid's goal and shook his head with some regret.

Real Madrid was a little shocked, but fortunately the ball was handled by Oxlade-Chamberlain

Wenger frowned, looked at the situation on the field, then at Li Zihan on the bench, and finally shook his head.

Later, Real Madrid began a fierce counterattack, because after the previous counterattack by Oxlade-Chamberlain, they all recognized a fact, that is, two away goals are not safe!!

There are too many examples of Arsenal being beaten this season, such as Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Bayern Munich.

In fact, Ancelotti gave the team a vaccination before the game, but the Real Madrid players didn't take it to heart.

Isn't it just an Arsenal, they are also Arsenal this season, and it can't become Barcelona immediately, and it's also an Arsenal that lacks the core Li Zihan.

So the Real Madrid players were initially contemptuous of Arsenal, none of them were particularly focused on the game, and the two away goals and now the home game gave them a lot of confidence.

It's just that Chamberlain's counterattack made them understand the famous sentence: "Football is round!" words.

Once Real Madrid started attacking, Arsenal were left with the defensive part. Whether it is Di Maria, Cristiano Ronaldo or Gareth Bale, they can create a lot of threats for Arsenal, and even Benzema in the middle, he doesn't even need to show his ability, maybe he will hit five million if he picks up a leak in front of the goal or something

"Against the mighty Real Madrid, Arsenal really had no choice, and the most threatening thing for them in the whole first half was Oxlade-Chamberlain's counter-attack."

"Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla and Olivier Giroud are good, but they don't have the kind of final word. With one less Li Zihan, I feel that this Arsenal is the same as the previous Arsenal two teams. ”

Well, although Arsenal is lackluster in attack, they are still doing well defensively, Real Madrid have been attacking Arsenal for nearly ten minutes, but they just haven't opened Arsenal's goal.

It's kind of hilarious to say. Because the most criticized thing about Arsenal now is their defense, the lack of interceptions in the midfield, and the main central defender Koscielny often makes some mistakes, giving the opponent a penalty and giving himself a red card last season and this season.

Moreover, Arsenal is the team that has conceded the most goals among the teams in the Premier League who have been shot on goal with similar number of shots, which means that goalkeeper Szczesny's performance is not very good, and the occasional highlight is not enough to replace a season's defeat.

Arsene Wenger is certainly aware of his team's weaknesses at the moment, especially with the only two defensive interception midfielders Flamini and Mikel Arteta not on the pitch, making his team's defence even worse.

Therefore, Wenger also made targeted adjustments to the team before the game, and he knew that this game must not concede the goal first, otherwise the last straw that overwhelmed Arsenal will fall. He demanded that when the team was defensive, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla and Giroud in the front court must return to help the team defend, Wilshere as a central midfielder naturally has defensive tasks, and even Ramsey Wenger asked him to be more involved in defense. As long as Mesut Ozil and Wilshere have liven up the midfield, Ramsey doesn't need to be so aggressive in attacking.

He just needs to help his team stay in the middle and step up at the right time to shoot from distance.

Oxlade-Chamberlain's defensive ability can be described as the best of several players in the frontcourt, and the youngster who has played as a full-back and full-back is enough to cause some problems for Real Madrid's core Cristiano Ronaldo on the sideline, both in terms of technical defense and his excellent physical defense.

A combination of Chamberlain and Massa, a combination of Gibbs and Cazorla is adding Ozil, Real Madrid's "200 million Qi Fei" is not very flying, and Arsenal's side is also a speed player, even the veteran Sagna is still running at present, so Arsenal will not be much different in speed.

In such a situation, if Real Madrid are bent on attacking, Marcelo and Ramos on both sides must step forward to attack, and they are also very attacking defensive players, that is, legendary defenders with knives.

But if those two defenders do bring their knives up front, then the space behind them will be fully exploited by Arsenal.

Arsene Wenger was very thoughtful, and the young Oxlade-Chamberlain and Cazorla had an innate advantage in both defense and attack.

When the game came to the 40th minute of the game, Real Madrid, who could not open the situation, also began to slow down. Anyway, they are the leaders, and they are not in a hurry, they don't have to waste their bodies so much, and they are almost away from halftime.

At this time, Wenger also made substitution adjustments.

'Arsenal started making substitutions and it's 40 minutes into the game and it's not Wenger's style to make substitutions at this point in time. According to statistics, when no player is injured and needs to be replaced, Wenger's substitution time is generally in the 60th, 65th, 70th and 75th minutes of the whole game. ”