Chapter 1169: Frustration
Arsenal is the technical stream, and the only one in the Premier League. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Before the arrival of Professor Arsene Wenger, the Premier League was nicknamed England and relied on the body to play.
After Arsene Wenger took charge of Arsenal, he spent several years integrating the delicate Latin style of play into the team, bringing a fresh air of technical flow to the Premier League and improving the technical content of the Premier League.
The Premier League team began to not adapt to Arsenal's technical flow of play, so Arsenal won the championship undefeated, and later the Premier League team gradually absorbed the Latin style of play, Arsenal's technical advantage shrank, and Manchester United, Chelsea, and Liverpool were always at a disadvantage in the competition with body and technology, and never won the championship again.
Today, Arsenal and Liverpool have played with a semi-substitute lineup and have not conceded goals until now, in addition to playing extraordinary, their strategy of restraining power with speed is also very targeted, but after Liverpool got Crouch, not only has strength, but also height, the players in front of Arsenal are fighting too fiercely, and at this moment they can no longer maintain the fast pace after the opening of the first half and the second half, and the game situation was controlled by Liverpool.
The weakness of young people is that their mood fluctuates greatly, when they play well, their morale is like a rainbow, and they can play extraordinarily, and when they don't play well, they may fall for thousands of miles and collapse into an army.
Unable to match Liverpool with speed, Arsenal quickly lost possession and were met by Liverpool in a series of crosses on the wing.
In the 82nd minute of the game, Reeser assisted and played a one-two with Volenin and passed the ball to the penalty area.
When Arsenal's physical exhaustion, Crouch, who came on as a substitute in the penalty area, has now become an air tyrant, passing the ball in the penalty area, more than seventy percent of them were grabbed by him, even if they can't form an attack, it will cause chaos in the penalty area, which is Arsenal's biggest threat, and he has also been defended almost like Chen Yu and Gerrard.
Risser's pass arced and landed well, goalkeeper Almunia did not dare to attack, and defenders struggled to get the ball ahead of him.
However, although Arsenal were half-substituted today, their centre-backs used a combination of defensive stalwart Toure and Gallas.
Gallas and Toure are experienced, and as soon as they saw that it was impossible to get past Crouch in the grabs, they jumped up with Crouch one after the other to interfere with Crouch's goal.
Crouch played smoothly after coming on the field, his confidence was greatly increased, and he did not hesitate in the face of the two defenders, and jumped up decisively to head the ball.
Toure and Gallas obviously won't just jump their heads honestly, and their hands are not honest either, one is Crouch's jersey collar, and the other is pushing Crouch's ****.
Crouch had a significant height advantage and also grabbed the ball ahead of Gallas and Toure, but was disrupted when he was developing, and the ball that had been firmly in the back of the net bounced off the post.
The ball rebounded to the front of the penalty area, which is the area where Chen Yu was active, when Crouch shot, Chen Yu, who was a striker himself, quickly went to the penalty area to prepare to meet Crouch's ferry, but he didn't expect Crouch to shoot directly, Chen Yu did not stop, continued to step forward, and saw if there was a chance to make up the shot.
Here's your chance!
Chen Yu accelerated forward and met the ball with a volley.
Chen Yu stepped forward very quickly, and the shot was even more decisive, Arsenal had at least two players come to protect the landing point, but they were both half a step too slow, and they arrived only after the ball left their feet, and they could only watch the ball fly towards the goal.
Arsenal goalkeeper Almunia didn't save the ball just now, but he had fallen to the ground, he hadn't gotten up yet, Chen Yu's supplementary shot arrived, Almunia had no time to think, and instinctively reached out to block.
The ball was so powerful that Almunia didn't block it, and the ball deflected in a direction and flew into the net.
1:0
Seeing the ball go into the net, Chen Yu opened his arms, turned to the stands, and erected a V on behalf of victory.
"Beautiful!"
"Awesome!"
"Cow!"
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Liverpool's players waved their fists, cheered and pounced on Chen Yu, and all the emotions that had been suppressed for most of the time were released in an instant.
The vast majority of Gunners fans in the stands were silent, but the Emirates Stadium was not silent, and the madness of the Liverpool fans was enough to turn the entire stadium into a sea of joy.
Benitez rushed out with the substitutes and assistant coaches, cheering and celebrating with the players on the pitch and the fans in the stands, just as excited as winning a Champions League knockout game.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was still standing quietly on the sidelines, the expression on his face did not change significantly, as if Liverpool had just not scored that goal.
This is not Wenger's cultivation kung fu, he really doesn't care about falling behind or leading, the league has long been hopeless, winning is to make a wedding dress for Manchester United, losing is a wedding dress for Liverpool, and Arsenal has no benefit at all, can drag Liverpool to 82 minutes before scoring, this team of main and substitute mixed teams has done an excellent job, the following time has become garbage time in Wenger's heart, he is not thinking about how to equalize, but to deploy the formation, continue to put pressure on Liverpool, Continue to drain Liverpool's physical strength and energy.
"Good! Clever reshoot! Move like a cheetah...... No one can stop ......."
Chinese commentator Duan Xuan roared angrily, finally relieved, he had been worrying about watching the game before, he could see that Liverpool was doing his best, if he still couldn't win the game, Liverpool was a lose-lose today, although his physical strength was also consumed a lot, but the game was almost won, and it was a good result, Arsenal is not a dog or a cat, and the team that can achieve a goal at the Emirates Stadium is by no means in the majority.
After some praise from Balabala, Duan Xuan reminded again: "...... Liverpool can't relax, there are still seven or eight minutes left in the game, this is actually the most dangerous time, once the relaxation causes the goal to be lost, it is difficult to recover it, it has been working hard for more than 80 minutes, and there is no need to rest anymore, the Champions League is two games after all. “
Duan Xuan's thoughts were similar to Benitez's, who called Gerrard over immediately after a brief celebration, telling him not to be careless and to continue to press Arsenal, preferably one more to consolidate the lead he had taken.
Even if Benitez doesn't tell him, Gerrard knows what to do, and in the last few minutes they just don't score to control the situation, they have given so much that they can't concede.
According to common sense, after more than 80 minutes of desperate running, Arsenal's physical consumption is almost exhausted, and the superstar's personal ability cannot be compared with Liverpool, as long as Liverpool is not careless, it is very difficult for Arsenal to equalize.
However, the saying that football is round is simply true.
In the seven or eight minutes after Liverpool's goal, Arsenal was suppressed by Liverpool, and did not get a chance to shoot, but after the game entered injury time, Arsenal suddenly launched a counterattack like a return, and Liverpool was caught off guard.
Cesc Fabregas received a pass from a defender, drove the ball into the middle of the pitch for a long time, distributed the ball to the wing before Liverpool could fully block it, and continued to cut forward himself, ready to grab the point.
Eboue on the wing received the ball and went straight to the bottom line, Finnan hurriedly returned to the defense, was humiliated by Eboue's crotch, and Liverpool fell on the wing.
Eboue's low cross found Arsenal striker Bendtner in the box, who headed the ball into the bottom left corner.
Arsenal's counter-attack was very simple and very fast, with only two passes in total and only three players involved in the attack, but it worked wonderfully to score and equalise.
Looking at the ball rolling in the net, looking at the bright red 1:1 on the electronic scoreboard, Liverpool fans wanted to cry, there were only three minutes of stoppage time, Arsenal actually scored in the second minute, is there anything worse than this? What could be more speechless?
Although Arsenal's goal doesn't mean much, being able to ruin Liverpool's title dream is a joy in itself, so the Arsenal fans are very happy, very happy, they cheer, they applaud, they jump as much as they want, as if they have won.
Arsenal manager Wenger just applauded mechanically, there was still no joy on his face, Wenger actually didn't want Bendtner to score, he didn't dare to be interested in blocking Liverpool, he didn't want to offend Liverpool to death, not to mention that even if he blocked Liverpool, Manchester United people would not be grateful to him, they would only scold him for having his brain in water.
Benitez was really anxious, he didn't care about his demeanor at all, cursed at the pitch, and then went to the fourth official and asked him to quickly stop celebrating and resume the game.
The Liverpool players on the pitch also knew that the problem was serious, and they all rushed to the referee to put pressure on him to resume the game and not let Arsenal continue to celebrate.
The game finally restarted, Kuyt and Crouch, who served in the middle circle, passed the ball back to Chen Yu and then ran desperately towards the Arsenal penalty area.
Chen Yu didn't pass back, he held the ball to Arsenal's half, he knew that Arsenal would take foul tactics, he was not afraid, he wanted a free kick, at this time a free kick is much more effective than organizing an attack, what he has to do is to get as close as possible to Arsenal's penalty area.
Chen Yu's speed and technique were fully displayed at this time, Arsenal's three bags and fouls failed to put Chen Yu down in Liverpool's half, Chen Yu rushed through the half and walked more than ten meters before finally being Gilberto. Silva took a takedown and went down.
With just a dozen seconds left in stoppage time, Liverpool got the last free-kick, and all the Liverpool players rushed to Arsenal's half, and goalkeeper Reina also gave up the goal and came to the Arsenal penalty area to find luck.
Even if the result of the game doesn't matter to Arsenal, at this time, Arsenal's players and fans are very nervous, all of them look grim, their mouths are closed, and few people speak.
Arsenal are like this, let alone Liverpool, the fans all stood up, craned their necks to look at the pitch, substitutes and coaches also stood up, some clenched their fists, staring at the pitch tightly, some drawing crosses, closing their eyes and praying for the team.
The free-kick was almost 40 meters away from the goal, and Chen Yu could not shoot directly, so Chen Yu could only pass the ball to the penalty area, and then quickly rushed over to find the last opportunity.
This time the good luck did not favor Liverpool, the ball was pushed to the defender by Crouch, fell into the penalty area, everyone kicked a few times like a fish in troubled waters, and finally did not know who was kicked out of the sideline, the referee did not give the sideline ball a chance, and directly blew the whistle to end the game.
In a 1:1 draw, Liverpool did not win Arsenal, which was only half of the main team, away from home, and gave the initiative to Manchester United, which will play tomorrow, and at the same time, Arsenal consumed a lot of physical energy and became the biggest loser.