After being rejected, I became Shi Yijiao

Chapter 68 Predicting Your Prediction

With the whistle of the referee, the game began.

Sure enough, as Pan Yi expected, Arsenal played with the ball at the beginning.

The four players in the middle, Rosicky, Alexander Song, Ramsey, and Arteta lined up, firmly controlling the ball at their feet.

From time to time, Van Persie and Walcott on the forward line would drop back to respond, and then look for opportunities to rush forward.

On the defensive line, the two central defenders Vermaelen and Koscielny are basically only responsible for the back foot, and will not press forward too much.

The two full-backs, Gibbs and Sagna, will often advance forward, looking for opportunities to cross from the bottom.

This style of play is almost Wenger's most frequently used routine, and it is also what Arsenal is currently best at.

Control the ball, mainly short passes, stretch the space by passing and running, and finally go straight into the penalty area.

However, their routine seems to have encountered a little trouble today.

Because their opponent AC Milan took the initiative to attack from the very beginning and began to press high.

This allowed the game to enter a high-speed rhythm from the beginning.

And once the ball moves faster, and the intensity of fighting and physical confrontation increases, Arsenal's possession of the ball will become more and more mistakes.

So, after a burst of people turned their backs on the court, Milan gradually mastered the rhythm of the game.

They began to seize the advantage and launched an attack on Arsenal's position.

In desperation, Arsenal could only retract the formation a little bit and began to resist waves of Milan's offensive.

……

On the visiting team's bench.

Wenger began to unzip the zipper on his coat.

This action has been going on for several minutes.

The main reason is that the current game scene made Wenger feel some problems, which made him unable to concentrate on fighting the zipper of the coat.

The pace of AC Milan's game is also a little too fast.

This kind of fast-paced offense and defense, let alone the Serie A team that Wenger knows, has never been seen even in the fierce Premier League.

Moreover, it would be fine if both sides made more mistakes in such a fast-paced game, but it seems to be only one-sided now.

Milan players are still very skilled in running and passing and cutting, and the success rate of passing and stopping the ball is also very high.

This shows that AC Milan's players are very accustomed to playing at such a rhythm, and they have long adapted.

But Arsenal's players are different.

They are more inclined to control the rhythm of the game under their own feet, and then decide whether to speed up or slow down according to the situation on the field.

But now that the opponent has brought the rhythm to a frequency that does not belong to him, the Arsenal players seem a little at a loss.

Moreover, in the current situation where Milan is the main attacker and Arsenal is the main defender, it is difficult for Arsenal to play an effective counterattack.

Because once Arsenal catches the Milan player's mistake and grabs the ball, the Milan player who is closest to the ball, no matter who it is, will start to counter-grab immediately.

When counter-robbing, it is often quick and efficient.

Two or three people form a group, and they directly encircle and suppress Arsenal's players with the ball, leaving him no time to see clearly the position of his teammates to deal with them reasonably.

After Rosicky's dribble was intercepted again, Wenger couldn't help shaking his head and letting go of the zipper on his coat.

Under such high-intensity pressing and oppression by the opponent, let alone possession of the ball, he couldn't even control his own game rhythm.

Arsenal fell into a passive response and could only deal with waves of opponents' attacks non-stop.

Ten minutes into the game, Arsenal haven't even had a decent shot on goal.

If this continues, Arsenal will undoubtedly lose.

And now, Milan has launched another attack after this steal.

The ball has been passed to the left.

Left-back Gianluca Zambrotta dribbled forward, while left-winger Mane also ran towards him along the touchline, looking to make a catch.

The Arsenal players thought that Milan was going to start an offensive along the left, so three players also leaned over here, ready to defend.

But at this time, Zambrotta suddenly made a long diagonal pass and sent the ball accurately to the right side of the front court.

This is why Milan started with Zambrotta.

Although he is older, he is not as good as the young De Sciglio in terms of physical fitness and other physical indicators, but he is much better in passing skills.

At this time, the attention of the Arsenal players there was also on the other side, and no one was going to defend the right winger Salah closely.

Salah started to sprint after taking the ball, and quickly advanced more than ten meters.

Arsenal's back line reacted quickly, and Koscielny returned to the defense in time and blocked in front of the penalty area.

At this time, Salah still took the ball and approached Koscielny step by step.

At this time, Aubameyang in the middle has also rushed over from behind and responded in the middle.

Salah turned his body sideways, as if preparing to pass the ball to Aubameyang.

Koscielny, the French international defender, had predicted Salah's movement long ago, and stretched his feet sideways to prepare to cut off Salah's pass.

However, Salah predicted Koscielny's prediction!
He doesn't really choose to pass the ball.

Seeing that Koscielny had stretched out his feet and lost his center of gravity, Salah twisted his ankle, pushed the ball forward, and accelerated sharply.

"Snapped!"

Koscielny didn't know what to do for a moment. His brain told him to turn around and go back to defense, but his body rejected the proposal, so he fell down in the penalty area.

At this time, Salah was already close to the small penalty area of ​​​​Arsenal, and he was about to shoot.

But at this time Arsenal's other central defender, the "high priest" Vermaelen, has also been in place.

He jammed the angle of Salah's advance and shot.

Salah didn't hesitate too much, and directly chose to cross with his right foot!

In front of the goal, Aubameyang in the middle also stepped in and followed up immediately, and was about to take a shovel shot.

At the critical moment, Poland's national goalkeeper Szczesny flew out decisively, before Aubameyang, he reached out sideways and blocked the ball.

The ball flew directly out of the small penalty area, but Milan's back row attack immediately followed.

Kante in the midfield has rushed up and volleyed a volley from the penalty area line.

Szczesny's second reaction was quick. He quickly shot from the ground, jumped up, touched the lower edge of the ball with his fingertips again, and lifted the ball out of the crossbar.

corner kick.

Milan took a corner kick and Van Dijk's header missed the far post, which ended Milan's continuous attack.

Although he didn't score a goal, he attacked beautifully, defended beautifully, and played very well.

Moreover, Milan's series of offensives also made Arsenal's jittery, and it even made the Milan fans at the San Siro Stadium very hooked.

They waved red and black battle flags and sang battle songs in support of Milan, all of them were very excited.

The passion on the court also drives the passion of the fans!
(End of this chapter)