Chapter 152, another champion
After Ye Luo scored, he ran to the corner flag area with open arms.
Once there, he slapped the Arsenal crest on his chest at the Arsenal fans in the stands.
His way of celebrating aroused the enthusiasm of the Arsenal fans, and the already high cheers were even higher.
Everyone shouted Ye Luo's name to their heart's content.
The rest of the Arsenal reserve squad came in from the back, but they were already eager to kick off the goalkeeper when Yelo got past him.
After catching up with Yelo, they surrounded him and hugged him in celebration of the goal.
Taking the lead in the Carabao Cup final, these Arsenal reserve squad players know all too well what that means.
Now Yelo has done his job and brought the lead to the team.
All they have to do as a reserve squad is defend desperately and block Chelsea's shots with any part of their body except their hands.
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After the game restarted, Chelsea did not press hard and equalise as the Arsenal reserve squad had hoped.
Instead, they defended solidly and then slowly.
Such an approach is naturally prudent and stable, but it is a bit demoralizing.
The Chelsea fans in the stands were anxious when they saw that their team was not in a hurry after falling behind.
Some fans are eager to run into the stadium and play in person.
But the Chelsea players didn't show how to respond when they came behind, so boos rang out.
It's a boo for their own team.
It's dissatisfaction with the team's performance.
Chelsea's players understood what the boo meant.
Especially when they themselves keep passing the ball at the back.
But they turned a deaf ear.
The boos from the fans were clearly not as threatening as Yelo.
If they press hard and get kicked in by Ye Luo again, the game will be completely over, even if there is more time left, it will not be garbage time.
When the time comes, Arsenal will be back in full force, and they will definitely press hard in order to keep their hopes.
At that time, Arsenal could play however they wanted, and one Yelo could mess up their backline and maybe concede more goals.
So they won't listen to the fans.
It's much better to concede just one goal before the end of the first half than to concede two.
Conte's face was very unsightly.
He certainly knows what is on the minds of the Chelsea players.
But it shouldn't have been done just after conceding a goal.
It's not to tell the Arsenal reserves that we're afraid of your attack, so we're going to back down.
Even if they didn't concede goals in the first half, do you think Arsene Wenger won't be able to see anything at half-time?
If he couldn't see anything, he wouldn't be Arsenal's manager!
Do you think you can concede only one goal in the first half and not attack in the second half?
In the second half, when you have to attack, what do you do?
Could it be that when you attack at that time, you are not afraid of their counterattack?
It's the final, you have to show your fighting spirit!
When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins!
If you both lose to each other in momentum, how can you expect to win the game?
But he can't tell his players right now, because he doesn't have a chance to say it to the players, and the players can't hear or listen to it in such a noisy environment.
He could only watch from the sidelines with his hands on his chest and a gloomy face.
At the same time, he also hopes that the team will not concede any more goals before the end of the first half.
Falling behind by two goals does make it difficult for him.
Although Chelsea's tactics of shrinking their heads have made Chelsea fans feel humiliated.
But the effect is still good.
By the end of the first half, Arsenal had indeed not scored again.
The score was 1-0 with Arsenal leading.
But that didn't make Conte happy.
Because this scoreline is not to say that Chelsea stubbornly held on to Arsenal's stormy attack.
A large part of the credit for this score goes to Arsenal themselves.
In the face of Chelsea's stubborn defense, they did not press and attack, but continued to shrink in their own half.
Anyway, now they are ahead, even if they are only one goal ahead.
And they are confident in their defence.
So even if they are only one goal ahead, they still have the advantage.
In the second half, as long as Chelsea dared to press out, they could restart the counter-attacking process.
In doing so, Chelsea will be back to the scrambled performance of the first half.
So Conte wasn't at all happy with his team's performance in the first half.
He's already starting to worry about the second half of the game.
Returning to the dressing room, Arsenal were not unhappy with having scored just one goal in the first half, on the contrary, they were happy.
Especially what Ye Luo said to them, it made them even more motivated.
'Did you notice the performance of the Chelsea players after we scored? Instead of rushing to press for an equaliser, they opted to drop back to defend. What does this mean, guys? This shows that they are afraid of us! They're afraid that when they press up and attack, we'll score more goals! The first team of a Premier League team, with all the main forces attacking, would be afraid of our reserve team? But that's the truth! So guys, we are invincible! The enemy has already told us this in the best possible way, so come to the game in the second half with that in mind! ”
The words made the blood of the Arsenal reserve team players boil, and the roar in their throats almost knocked the ceiling off.
Meanwhile, in the dressing room next door, Chelsea manager Antonio Conte was fiercely criticising his team's capitulation in the first half.
"You are surrendering in advance! Do you think you can win this game by going 0-1 in the first half? You've told Arsenal all your hole cards! They now know that you are afraid of their counterattacks, and they will only be more brazen in the second half! What can you do? There will be no way! Didn't you have to attack in the second half? ”
Antonio Conte's scolding left the Chelsea players unable to lift their heads.
It's a shame indeed.
But the manager couldn't come up with a good solution.
After all, Arsenal's reserve team is not so easy to break.
Before breaking through the goal of the Arsenal reserve team, I am afraid that Ye Luo will score another goal, or even a few goals......
This fact frustrated them.
What do we rely on to win the game?
Our attitude was serious and impeccable......
It can't be helped.
Are we not even as good as Arsenal's reserves?
It has always been easy to make them admit that they are underdogs, but it is not so easy to make them admit that they are not as good as the Arsenal reserves......
But that's the way it is now – in terms of the game itself, they really don't seem to be as good as Arsenal's reserves.
At the very least, the defence will be able to hold Chelsea's attack.
Chelsea's defence, on the other hand, could not hold off Arsenal's counter-attack.
The defense is not as good as others, and the offense is not as good as others, isn't this inferior in strength?
What else can Chelsea do to compete with Arsenal's reserve squad for a title?
The fact that they are also a Premier League giant, and they can't even win a reserve team, makes them feel tightness and shortness of breath.
Morale plummeted.
So.
In fact, there was no suspense in the second half of the game.
Chelsea have no fighting spirit and no confidence, while Arsenal's reserve team is full of fighting spirit and confidence.
The second half had just begun, and some of Chelsea's players were unbelieving and wanted to push harder.
As a result, it was predictable that their attack did not pose any threat to the Arsenal reserve goal.
Then Arsenal's counter-attack was threatening.
Ye Luo led the counterattack and almost broke the goal.
If it weren't for Courtois's fingers playing a role in the most crucial moments......
Arsenal won a corner.
Chelsea, on the other hand, took a defensive corner as an opportunity to shrink back.
This corner Ye Luo did not go in.
But Chelsea haven't started any more decent formulas.
They are genuinely worried that their team will lose more.
If Chelsea don't press up, Arsenal's reserves naturally don't press either.
Anyway, now they're ahead.
This situation in which neither side pressed on either side lasted for about 20 minutes.
With game time running out, the Chelsea players realised there was no point in holding on.
If they want to win this game, they will have to attack, even if they are pierced by Arsenal's arrows.
What's more, Chelsea fans are also reluctant to give up on the team's conservative tactics.
The boos didn't go away in the second half.
Manager Antonio Conte also kept his team on the sidelines to get the team to press.
With all these factors in mind, Chelsea are finally attacking again.
Chelsea's attacking favourites are the Arsenal reserve squad players.
That means they have a chance to score.
Winning just one goal is clearly not enough for these high-spirited Arsenal reserve players.
The next game was for Chelsea to press on the attack, while Arsenal's reserves held on on the counter-attack.
It wasn't until the 78th minute that Arsenal finally seized a chance to counter-attack.
Gnabry dribbled through the flank and then crossed.
Ye Luo, who followed up in the middle, made a leap to the top.
Goalkeeper Courtois also flew out to block, and he didn't know whether to block this cross or Yelo's shot.
In short, the distance between the two people is very close.
It's almost going to crash together.
Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois actually took advantage of him at this time because he could use his hands.
In the goal area, the goalkeeper must be strictly protected, and if there is any physical contact between the two sides, the attacking player will basically be judged to collide with the goalkeeper.
The goalkeeper ramming the player is self-protection and is not punished.
If Yelo was really kicked in the head by Courtois, it would have been in vain.
However, Ye Luo had no intention of backing down.
From the moment the fish jumped out, he had no intention of returning in vain!
He ended up getting ahead of Courtois and hitting the ball.
The ball flew from Courtois' armpit into the goal, and then the two men collided.
Because it hit the ball first and then collided, there is no such thing as hitting the goalkeeper.
Yelo pushed Courtois, who was pressing on him, jumped up, and ran to Cole, who was passing the ball to him.
At the same time, the Arsenal fans in the stands erupted in loud cheers.
Everyone knows, whether it is Arsenal's side or those who support Chelsea, they all know that this goal has completely lost the suspense of this game!
Arsenal had a two-goal lead with twelve minutes remaining.
Chelsea are unlikely to beat each other unless God possesses them.
But the problem is that in this game, it seems that God is on the side of the Arsenal reserves.
Unless they really don't care, they have to attack, they have to score, no matter what the defense behind them.
But even if they can pull back two goals, how many goals will their backline concede in that time?
Yelo and Gnabry were hugging and celebrating, and the rest of the reserve team rushed up to join in the celebrations.
The group then hugged each other and turned to the Arsenal fans in the stands, who kept waving their arms and chanting "We are the champions!" We will be champions!! ”
The Arsenal fans in the stands responded with the same cheer "Yes! We are the champions!! ”
Compared with the excited Arsenal players and fans, Newcastle are stunned.
Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois didn't even complain to the referee that Yelo had rammed him.
Don't say that Yelo didn't actually rush him, even if he collided with him and canceled this goal, Courtois would have long lost confidence, he thought that even if he could cancel this goal, he wouldn't be able to stop Yelo's next goal.
He's going to score and the win will definitely belong to Arsenal.
They Chelsea, as the main force of the Premier League first team, played a perfect supporting role......
Conte looked at the team like this, and there was nothing to say and do.
He turned back to the dugout, then sat down and said no more.
The Chelsea fans in the stands also realised that the tide was turning.
Some started leaving early.
The question now is whether it will be convenient to go home and back to the hotel after the game, not whether Chelsea will be able to complete the comeback before the game is over
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When the picture of Chelsea fans leaving the stadium was shown on the TV screen, the game commentator couldn't help but sigh: "Maybe a lot of people don't want to admit it until now."
It's a fact to look at, Arsenal, it's not just their first team that's strong, their reserves team is just as strong!
This League Cup final is tantamount to announcing to the world that Ye Luo is invincible.
He could lead a reserve team to comfortably beat Chelsea, who are in contention for European qualification in the Premier League.
Maradona once led Napoli to the Serie A title and was crowned on the altar.
But Maradona didn't lead Napoli's reserve team to the Coppa Italia title......
Ye Luo can not only do it once, but also do it a second time, and then he has to do it a third time!
He wants to use the iron-clad facts to tell everyone about Ye Luo's strength!
The Arsenal players ended their celebrations and returned to the pitch.
The rest of the game turned into "garbage time".
Arsene Wenger also saw that he began to make frequent substitutions, using up all three substitutions in one go.
This is to give more reserve players a chance to feel the atmosphere of the Carabao Cup final, and it is not only the ten players on the pitch who have put in the effort – and one is Yelo – but because of their own strength, they can only be substitutes.
In order not to chill the substitutes too much, Wenger always used up three substitutions in each game, and when there was no suspense about the outcome of the game, more substitutes were allowed to go up and get the opportunity to play and appear.
Those who watched the Arsenal reserve team game also knew that when the Arsenal reserve team did this, it was that the game had been completely won, and there was no suspense.
You don't have to be nervous about watching the game anymore.
At the same time, this is by no means good news for Arsenal's reserve opponents.
They're already lost!
From the moment Wenger began to make substitutions, the Arsenal fans in the stands began to cheer, and the cheers continued until the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.
At that time, the cheers of the Arsenal fans at Wembley Stadium had reached the sky for nine days.
"Congratulations to Arsenal, they are the winners of the Carabao Cup this season! In this way, they won their fourth title of the season! Today, Arsenal is making steady progress towards the goal of seven crowns in a single season! (End of chapter)