Chapter 138: Turning Stopping the Ball into Art

On 21 August 2005, the Gunners visited Stamford Bridge and Drog scored from Senderos to give the Blues a 1-0 victory, ending Arsene Wenger's 500th game in charge of the Gunners.

It was as if Pandora's box had been opened, and for a long time after that, Arsenal's invincible armor fell off piece by piece, but Wenger used his broad shoulders to protect batch after batch of young gunners to thrive.

Although the Gunners' youth team has failed to achieve great ambitions time and time again, the professor has still produced a number of promising stocks for England, captains for Wales for the next decade, a top-winning goalscorer for Manchester United, and a midfield maestro for Spain who can succeed Xavi.

At the same time, the professor is still alone at the front of the team, under the pressure and doubts of not winning the championship year after year.

It's not like he didn't have a better place to go.

Over the past nine years, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Paris have offered offers with great hospitality and high prices, but the professor has a special love for Arsenal.

He threw the water bottle and couldn't get past the zipper, and even tears glistened in his eyes, but he still didn't fall to his knees.

Even if the opposition fans ridiculed him like a tsunami, even if his own fans began to vote against him, he still believed that he was shaping the best future for Arsenal.

'If I decide to leave one day, it's because I feel like I can't lead the team forward anymore.

Perhaps, only when Arsene Wenger turns away, will people understand what teaching is all about Arsenal and football.

Arsene Wenger has been in charge of the Gunners for 1,000 games this Saturday, with the Bridge, Chelsea and Jose Mourinho.

In the pre-match press conference, when it came to his 999 Gunners years, Wenger was still full of emotion.

“…… As many people have said, my 500th race is probably a big cut-off point.

Before that, we had a lot of accolades, but after that, we had a lot of difficulties.

It was a trophy-free period, the most difficult and sensitive period, and the second half required more commitment and strength than the first half of Arsenal.

I accepted the challenge because we had to compete with a club that was losing $150 million a season, and we had to make a profit of $30 million.

It's like I told you that you're going to race with Usain Bolt tomorrow with a 10-kilogram sandbag strapped to your body, and you're going to win......

Thankfully, we've come here, and last season's treble is proof of that.

We now have the best players in the world, Lin Yun, Luka Modric, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Mikel Arteta, Wilshere...... We are confident to win everything! ”

In the strongest squad of the Gunners selected by the media as Arsene Wenger's 18 years in charge, only Lin Yun is now in the team.

In the past nine years, the Gunners' main squad has been in full swing, since Vieira's departure, there have been as many as five captains who have left, and none of the starting eleven in his 500th game remain at Arsenal, while opposite Chelsea, Cech, Terry and Frank Lampard are still members of the Bridge, two of them are still starting for the team this round, and Chelsea's captain today is still Terry.

From the league win away to Blackburn Rovers on 12 October 1996 to today's away trip to Chelsea, Arsene Wenger made his 1,000th appearance as Arsenal manager.

For 17 and a half years, whether it's 49 games unbeaten or eight years without a title, he's always been here, he's become the symbol of this team, the symbol of this team, the belief of this team, and the players will definitely want to help Arsene Wenger celebrate this special day with a hearty victory. ”

'I don't know if it was the Champions League big play that affected the Blues' form in the league, Chelsea endured a nightmare last weekend when not only did they have two players sent off for red cards, but even manager Jose Mourinho was sent off to the stands as the team lost 1-0 to a mediocre Aston Villa.

They are now six points behind Arsenal with a game in hand, and with only nine games left in the league, title race is in a favourable favour and the Blues will have to take all three points to retain their title hopes. ”

'Chelsea started 4-2-3-1.

Goalkeepers: 1-Cech;

Defenders: 2 Ivanovic, 24 Cahill, 26 Terry, 28 Azpilicueta;

Midfielders: 21-Nemanja Matic, 4-Luiz;

Midfielders: 14-Schurrle, 11-Oscar, 17-Hazard;

Forwards: 29-Samuel Eto'o. ”

'For Arsenal, Wilshere and Theo Walcott are still out injured, but the good news is that Rosicky is finally back from injury.

The professor is in the exact same formation as Chelsea.

Goalkeepers: 1 - Szczesny;

Defenders: 3 - Sagna, 4 - Mertesacker, 6 - Koscielny, 28 - Gibbs;

Midfielders: 8-Arteta, 20-Flamini;

Midfielders: 7-Rosicky, 19-Oxlade-Chamberlain, 20-Modric;

Forward: 11-Lin Yun. ”

Arsenal kicked off first and the players showed a strong desire to attack, pressing heavily from the start, with a variety of simple and quick ground passes that made their attack like mercury, and they raced around the Blues goal for five minutes.

It wasn't until the sixth minute that Chelsea completed their first attack of the game.

Schurrle's cross from the right was met by Samuel Eto'o, but Szczesny was able to save from the spot.

Arsenal returned to color one minute later, Rosicky passed through, and Lin Yun's left-footed shot from the edge of the box was saved by Cech bravely.

Chelsea came close to taking the lead in the 10th minute.

Schurrle crossed the ball on the counter-attack, and Eto'o curled a high-quality left-footed shot past Sagna on the right side of the box, but the ball hit the side-netting.

It looked like it had been scored and many Chelsea fans were already cheering, with Jose Mourinho jumping up in excitement only to find out soon to find out that he had made a fuss.

Chelsea's midfield is starting to get a little lively, with Eden Hazard playing with the ball frequently, but the midfield line of Mikel Arteta and Flamini has snuffed out his threat time and time again.

In the 16th minute, Arte made another tackle on Eden Hazard and cleared the ball with a big foot, and Modric got the ball in the Chelsea half.

Arsenal were once again in attack, while Chelsea quickly shrunk their defence.

The Magic Flute was met with a high-intensity interception from Chelsea, and instead of continuing to drive the ball, he bumped his heel and handed the ball to Rosicky, who was plugged in behind.

Rosicky took a few steps forward with the ball and suddenly slotted the ball to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who cut in from the other side, as the Chelsea defenders pressed on.

Chamberlain was almost unguarded and comfortably received the ball.

He even had time to look up and take a good look before pushing the ball forward, running and making a long pass.

This passing position is stretched to the extreme, like a shot.

The ball did look like it was heading towards the goal, but halfway through it suddenly crossed an exaggerated arc to the left side of the penalty area.

Lin Yun had been in ambush here for a long time, and he rushed forward two steps before coming to the landing point.

Terry hurried to follow, continuing to press closely.

Lin Yun stretched out his right foot.

The soccer ball was comfortably removed against the top of his foot.

The so-called comfort is that the soccer ball is flying at a fast speed, but suddenly it is intercepted by one foot in a lightweight posture, presenting a beautiful picture that even people who do not know football will find beautiful.

It was as if the whole world had come to a halt because of this.

Of course, the so-called pause is just an illusion of the audience, and the experienced Terry will not be fooled by this illusion, and he decisively stretched out his foot to steal the moment Lin Yun touched the ball.

Lin Yun had expected it, and generally picked the ball lightly.

The ball didn't even leave his feet after it stopped, and flew again, but this time it didn't go over Terry's head, but flew past his chest at a half-height ball, and the feeling of breaking the ball a centimeter further but not touching the ball made Terry want to vomit blood.

The ball falls to the ground and bounces slightly.

Lin Yun took a step forward and jerked his left foot against the football.

Beautiful volley, deadly volley!

There's something going on today, that's all for now, forgive me......

(End of chapter)