148 Goals for a good time
"Camacho, come here!" Taking advantage of the timeout on the field, Schmidt hurriedly called Camacho to the sidelines.
"What's wrong, Coach?"
"Tell your players to separate the center of gravity of the defense, generally responsible for Sun, and the other half is responsible for the Frenchman who wears the number 9, and you have to limit him, understand?"
“ok!” Camacho hurried back to the pitch and conveyed the manager's instructions to his teammates.
They all nodded, and then returned to defense.
"I don't know what Schmidt and his players just said, I'm a little curious." Martin Taylor said.
"It's probably a defensive problem, and now his team is a bit bad defensively." Alan Smith saw the problem at a glance.
After less than a minute of adjustments, the game resumed, and it was only then that Wolfsburg's defence was noticed.
They no longer stick to Sun Xiang alone, but shift their focus more to Lacazette in front of him.
Every time Alexandre Lacazette got the ball, he was always defended by two to three Wolfsburg players, forcing him to pass the ball back.
They seemed to have managed to hold on to Arsenal's attacking wave after the opening kick-off.
Then, after settling their ground, Wolfsburg began to attack in an organised manner like Arsenal's half, with Divock Origi, Kuba and Malle also making occasional excellent assists.
The crowd cheered louder and looked forward to the goal.
In the 34th minute of the game, Wolfsburg almost scored.
Kuba broke through Monreal's defence down the right and played the ball back into the box in an inverted triangle, where Alexander-Arnold cleverly slipped in the path the ball traveled and allowed Mustafi to save. Behind him, Udokai stepped forward from the defender's position and came up to meet the ball that came back.
The kicked ball made a "bang" sound and flew out grazing the goal crossbar.
Wolfsburg fans hugged their heads and regretted it, just like Udokai who missed his chance.
After Gomez left and returned to Stuttgart, Wolfsburg's attacking line has been dominated by two youngsters, Divock Origi and Hinds, but the goal efficiency has not been as good as before.
So it was one of the few good chances for Wolfsburg, and if they could have taken the lead in the first half, it would have been much easier for them in the second half.
But things always backfired, and the home team's goal didn't seem to choose to help his master.
Two minutes later, Arsenal also launched an attack, Cech's goal kick was opened, and Lacazette in the middle leaned against Alexander-Arnold with his body, and wanted to force a turn after taking the ball, but Giravogui and others came up to block it, so he had to pass the ball back again.
The Wolfsburg players were relieved to see the ball move away from goal again.
"Lacazette passes back, Cazorla! He didn't stop the ball but got the ball in between, what was he doing? ..... Oh my gosh, it's sun! Here's your chance! ”
While the Wolfsburg players were still out of breath, Cazorla had already launched an attack directly from the back.
Thanks to Alexandre Lacazette's attraction, Wolfsburg had only two centre-backs at the back, Tiseran and Brooks.
The two tall centre-backs were not as fast as Sun Xiang in terms of speed and start-up, and could only rely on the method of increasing the cadence to open up the stride to catch up behind.
Soon, Sun Xiang came to the penalty area, and inside was goalkeeper Castells.
Castles knew Sun Xiang well and knew that he could rely on any method to shoot, so he couldn't let it go for too long.
When the time was ripe, Castells attacked directly to catch Sun Xiang off guard.
This really startled Sun Xiang, he was going to shoot directly, but he didn't expect Castels to save, so he subconsciously held his foot before shooting and poked the ball forward.
The ball passed, but Sun Xiang was brought down by Castels' outstretched hand.
"Beep~~" The referee blew the whistle and pointed to the penalty spot.
'There was no doubt that it was a penalty and Castels' strike was a bit reckless.
"Maybe he was a little jealous of Sun's footwork and wanted to pounce out as soon as possible, but he didn't expect it to be just a feint."
If this sentence reached Sun Xiang's ears, I think Sun Xiang's cheeks would already turn red with shame, because it was not a feint, but he was really scared.
Castelles got up from the ground and pulled up Sun Xiang, who had fallen beside him, and the two slapped each other.
He didn't go to the referee to argue, he knew if it was a penalty.
According to the order of the inside, Lacazette is undoubtedly the first penalty taker, but at this time, the ball is in the hands of Sun Xiang.
Before the game, Sun Xiang approached Lacazette to talk about the problem, and he hoped that if there was a penalty or a direct free kick, he would be able to take the penalty.
Now, that opportunity has come, and he is facing his own goalkeeper from last season, and the two men have practiced countless penalties in training, which certainly adds to the difficulty.
However, Sun Xiang still has a decision, and he has been determined where to kick from the beginning.
"Toot ~~~" Another long whistle, Sun Xiang took a few steps back, and then began to run.
One step, two steps, three steps.
He still meditated in his heart, and his steps full of emotion made every step of him very solid.
..... The last step, shoot!
The ball goes straight to the top right corner of the goal.
Castles pounced on the right side as well, but the ball was so fast that he could only watch the ball go into the net.
After scoring the goal, Sun Xiang did not make any celebrations, but ran to the side of the goal, facing the fans in the stands.
He bowed deeply.
The fans in the East Stand were stunned when they saw this, and then driven by a corner, the whole stadium began to applaud, and some emotional fans couldn't help but wipe the corners of their eyes.
After a round of applause, as with every visiting fan who scores, boos rang out from inside the Volkswagen Arena.
However, this time, the boos were louder and more emotional than before.
Of course, Sun Xiang could understand the meaning of this, because he was too familiar with this place.
A year ago, Sun Xiang was here, in this goal, the same penalty, the same top right corner, he started the prologue of his career.
So, today, he chose to pay homage to his old club in the same way, using the method of scoring goals.
His teammates didn't come forward to celebrate, they understood that it was Sun Xiang's exclusive time, and they were embarrassed to interfere. So he had to wait for him to walk back to the court after he was done, and his teammates stepped forward one by one to give him a high-five.
In the 38th minute, Arsenal scored as they took a 1-0 lead at Wolfsburg. And Sun Xiang also dedicated his goals for that good time in the most professional way.