Green Journey

Chapter 503 Happy less than 2 minutes!

At 22:55 BJ time, the live camera was connected to the LeTV Sports live broadcast room on time.

As soon as the scene picture appeared, today's starting lineups of both sides appeared in the camera.

Arsenal: (4231)

Goalkeeper: Ospina

Defenders: Bellerin, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal
Defenders: Coquelin, Xhaka

Attacking midfielders: Walcott, Ozil, Sanchez

Forward: Welbeck

Manchester City: (433)

Forwards: Sane, Aguero, Sterling

Midfielders: Chu Zheng, Fernandinho, De Bruyne

Defenders: Clichy, Otamendi, Stones, Keylor
Goalkeeper: Caballero

“这是两家俱乐部历史上正式比赛的第191次交锋，此前阿森纳取得了96胜44平50负，进311球失218球的战绩。”

"Among the 39 matches in the Premier League era, Arsenal have 23 wins and 9 draws occupying an absolute advantage."

"Manchester City, judging from their historical record, although they are at an absolute disadvantage, Manchester City is no longer what it used to be. After Guardiola's arrival, he has turned this Blue Moon team into an iron army. Its attack power is the top in the world. Anyone who encounters Manchester City will have a headache."

"The situation facing Arsenal and Manchester City is exactly the opposite. Manchester City has the absolute upper hand and everything is going in a good direction."

"However, Arsenal has been in constant internal strife recently. The players and the head coach are suspected of being alienated. The fans are also busy driving Wenger away. The Arsenal is facing an unprecedented crisis of trust."

"Compared with the last round of the league, the starting lineups of the two teams have undergone certain changes."

"Arsenal, Ozil came back and started the game, and the defensive midfielder Coquelin replaced Chamberlain."

"Due to the injury of the main goalkeeper Petr Cech, Ospina is the starting goalkeeper today."

"And Manchester City has also changed a number of positions."

"Because Walker sprained his ankle in the world preliminaries and needs to rest for a week, Navas will play a guest role at the right back of Manchester City today."

"Guardiola also replaced Yaya Toure in the midfield position today, and replaced Caballero in the goalkeeper position..."

After the words fell, I saw the camera cut to the stands on all sides of the Emirates Stadium, and suddenly a large number of warming slogans appeared in the eyes of fans all over the world.

"No New Contracts! "

"Wenger gets out of class! "

"Times Have Changed! "

"Under Wenger's era, we have rusted! "

"After 20 years in Europe, we're still waiting, Wenger, tell me, when are we waiting? "

"Wenger! Out! "

"..."

Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu shook their heads when they saw the dazzling English on the densely packed red warming banners on the stands, and then smiled again.

The battle is imminent, and this is too disunity. The internal strife has come to the court, and they are not afraid of affecting the morale of the team.

But having said that, Arsenal probably don't have much morale right now, they have fallen to the bottom, where can they fall.

"Wenger, Wenger!" Zhan Jun's tone was quite sad. It is really emotional that a generation of famous coaches ended up like this.

"I guess many Arsenal fans now can't tell whether they want to support Wenger or against Wenger."

"Yes, if you can still remember the glorious and proud past of Gunners, you will be even more confused and hesitant in front of reality now!"

On the court, Chu Zheng, who was standing outside the arc of the center circle and waiting for the kick-off, heard the loud and clear singing of "You don't know what you're doing!" by the Arsenal fans in a chorus of thousands of people, and he was also quite incredible in his heart.

A few days ago, I saw a statistic in the "Daily Mail", saying that more than 8% of gun fans wanted Wenger to leave. At that time, Chu Zheng didn't quite believe it.

But now it seems that this data may be true, Wenger seems to have almost deserted at Arsenal.

At four o'clock in the afternoon in London time, with referee Marina's whistle, this much-anticipated Premier League focus game officially started.

Before the game, many authoritative European media believed that Wenger urgently needed a convincing victory to boost the team's sluggish morale, gather the team's soon-to-be-lost hearts, and stabilize the coaching position under his buttocks.

So in today's strong dialogue with Manchester City, Wenger may adopt counter-attack tactics.

After the start of the game, it turned out that the media had guessed right. Arsenal raised the pace of the game and adopted a quick and concise offensive strategy.

As for Manchester City, 433 was given before the game, but it was actually 4231.

When the team is attacking with the ball, De Bruyne will go up, sometimes even run to the front line, playing the midfielder position.

And Chu Zheng played the position of the left midfielder, but once he goes forward, Manchester City's formation is 4141.

After the opening, Chu Zheng did not push up immediately.

Instead, in the position of the left midfielder, he assisted Fernandinho to stabilize the midfield defense while silently observing Arsenal's players.

Soon Chu Zheng saw something.

Arsenal is strong on the outside but strong on the inside. Although the players were very active after the start of the game, Chu Zheng could see their lack of confidence in handling the ball.

This is the powerful side effect of continuous defeats, and it is impossible to recover in a short period of time.

If you find the opponent's weakness, it will be easy to handle.

Since Arsenal wants to play fast, then he will make the pace of the game a little faster, so that Arsenal can play fast.

In the 4th minute of the game, Arsenal goalkeeper Ospina took a goal kick.

Sane won the top battle with Bellerin near the center line of the left rib in the center circle of his own half, and went straight to Aguero.

But Mustafi went to the top quickly, forcing Aguero to be unable to turn.

Aguero was also very decisive, bending over and ferrying the ball directly to the left, ready to find De Bruyne who was going forward from the left front.

But he didn't do well with the ball, and the ball flew behind De Bruyne.

Xhaka was right behind De Bruyne. Seeing the ball flying behind him, he turned around quickly, but his feet slipped and fell to the ground.

He was fine when he fell, but Arsenal, who had opened their doors in the middle, were in big trouble.

Chu Zheng quickly stepped in from the back, rushed to the intersection of the center circle arc and the center line on the left, and swung his right foot non-stop.

But Sterling was unprepared and he was slow to start.

Although he still relied on his speed to rush between Koscielny and Monreal in the middle, when he came to the top of the arc, Ospina was already in place first, fell directly to the ground and slid the tackle, and then the ball bounced off Sterling's feet and out of the baseline.

Chu Zheng's kick suddenly accelerated, and the through ball was as precise as a scalpel, which scared all the gun fans.

On the sidelines, Guardiola and Wenger were both sitting on the coach's bench. Both of them were expressionless, and they didn't know whether they were really calm or fake calm.

But soon both of them couldn't sit still.

On the field, Ospina took the goal kick in a blink of an eye.

This time the landing point was changed to the center line on the other side.

Navas was slow to move forward, and was carried by Sanchez with his back.

The ball was quickly pushed back to the left rib of Arsenal's center circle by Sanchez.

Xhaka made a forward pass immediately after taking the ball.

At this time, in the right rib area of ​​the center circle of Manchester City's half, Ozil is surrounded by Chu Zheng and Keylor Navas on the left and right sides.

Ozil knew very well that once he stopped the ball under his feet, Stones behind him would push forward, and if Chu Zheng and Navas pinched him left and right, he would be dead.

So he kept the ball with his left foot and went directly to Sanchez who was coming along the wing on the right.

Sanchez crossed the center line, adjusted quickly after getting the ball, and then directly passed with his right foot.

Outside the penalty arc on the right side of Manchester City, Welbeck and Otamendi rushed to the landing point quickly, and a fierce physical confrontation broke out.

As a result, Otamendi struggled to fight against Welbeck, but he didn't notice that Welbeck missed the ball, so that the ball fell directly and brushed past his crotch.

Not only that, after the ball rubbed against the inside of Otamendi's calf, the speed also slowed down and rolled out sideways.

For a while, all Manchester City fans almost wanted to vomit blood.

Damn, it's here again!
Edson, who was rested in rotation on the bench, saw his eyelids twitching.

It's this, it's this!
Edson's eyes widened, his eyes full of disbelief, that's how Bravo was cheated, and he was cheated several times after he came to Manchester City.

In the restricted area, Welbeck quickly turned and followed up laterally.

Otamendi's turn was slow and he failed to get in position to separate Welbeck from the ball.

Before the penalty spot, the moment Welbeck rushed to the ball, Caballero quickly pushed it out.

At the same time, Chrissy on the other side rushed over quickly, encircling Welbeck on three sides.

But Welbeck was faster, rushed to the ball and swung his foot.

At the moment of the shot, Caballero sat down on the ground and stretched out his left leg to block, but failed to touch the ball.

In the next second, with a bang, the ball hit the inside of the post and bounced into the net.

"Boom!!!!!!!!!!!!!" In an instant, the Emirates Stadium was boiling.

But in the crowd of gun fans who are constantly jumping, the ups and downs of the warming banner are particularly dazzling.

"The goal was scored. At 5 minutes and 48 seconds of the game, Arsenal scored first, 1-0!"

"It's another chain reaction caused by a small defensive mistake! Otamendi!" Zhan Jun's tone was quite helpless.

"Actually, I can't blame him entirely. It can only be said that it was a mistake. Otamendi squeezed Welbeck's ball without touching it. In the end, he accidentally wiped it from his crotch and helped Welbeck stop the ball in disguise."

"Yes, Arsenal was very lucky today, and the offense was very simple, but the efficiency was very high! The first shot at the beginning of the game scored a goal."

On the sidelines, the appearance of this goal made Wenger and Guardiola unable to sit still, and the two appeared in the coach's area at the same time.

It's just a player applauding towards the players on the field, signaling to keep working hard.

The other is frowning and yelling at the players on the field to command.

However, in less than 2 minutes, a dramatic scene came.

After the game restarted, the Arsenal midfielder, who had tasted some sweetness, made a successful steal, and frequently played high balls before looking for Welbeck, the bridgehead ahead.

But Manchester City's defense, which suffered a loss once, became very vigilant. Stones and Otamendi did not let Welbeck's bridgehead play a role again.

In the 7th minute of the game, Sanchez retreated along the wing to get the ball near the center line, and then sent a through pass again.

But this time Welbeck was directly pinched back and forth by Stones and Otamendi, and the ball landed behind the three and bounced directly to goalkeeper Caballero.

"Willie, middle circle!!"

Chu Zheng also returned to the front of the top of the arc on the right side. Seeing five Arsenal players outside his penalty area waiting to press them high, Chu Zheng suddenly realized something, quickly looked back, and immediately raised his hand to shout, signaling Caballero to drive the ball to the center circle.

Caballero didn't have time to think about it, he threw the ball in front of him, and then kicked towards the midfielder.

At this time, in the long-range shot of the live broadcast, it can be clearly seen that there is a disconnect between Arsenal's backcourt and frontcourt players.

There is not a single Arsenal player in the large vertical area of ​​​​Manchester City's half-court and left rib.

The ball landed at the intersection of the center circle arc and the center line on the left side of Manchester City's half.

Aguero quickly retreated and rushed to the back point.

Mustafi was the first to react among the Arsenal players. He quickly followed up, then jumped up from behind, and grabbed the ball in front of Aguero.

The ball flew over the head of Xhaka who retreated three or four meters in front of Mustafi and Aguero, and fell straight to Chu Zheng who was running up.

Chu Zheng glanced over Xhaka and the others, and saw that Sane, the left side of the front center circle, had already run across the middle. He rushed to the ball and used his left foot as a support, lifted his right foot sideways, and kicked the ball directly with the inside of his foot just before the ball was about to hit the ground.

Suddenly the ball was close to the turf, like a sharp arrow shot, and went straight to Sane who turned from the ribs to the middle.

At the same time, Sane has fully charged.

He followed Bellerin on the outside line on the left.

Arsenal fans have been bragging that Bellerin is the fastest player in the Premier League, but this time they were disappointed.

From starting near the middle circle to rushing to the front of the top of the arc, Bellerin was always more than half a body behind Sane.

In a blink of an eye, Sane dribbled the ball into the Arsenal penalty area.

Facing Ospina who was attacking in front of him, Sane avoided Ospina's pounce with the outer instep of his left foot at the moment Ospina pounced to the right.

Coming out of the upper corner of the small penalty area, Sane directly pushed the empty goal with his left foot.

"The ball went in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The moment the goal appeared, Zhan Jun's voice suddenly rose!

"Sane, and Chu Zheng have a near-perfect pass and run tacit understanding!!!!"

"This is also Chu Zheng's 36th assist in all competitions this season!!!"

On the sidelines, seeing the goal appear, Guardiola also raised his right hand and clenched his fist.

Now it was Wenger's turn to be confused, and he took the lead in less than 2 minutes before being equalized?
In the stands on all sides, the Arsenal fans were as confused as Wenger. At this moment, the joy of scoring a goal 2 minutes ago was gone at this moment.

On the field, after Sane scored a goal, he was not too excited.

He ran back at a constant speed with his arms open, and hugged Chu Zheng on the center line.

"Chu, your pass is so comfortable, haha!" After embracing Chu Zheng, the slightly excited Sane patted Chu Zheng's back!
Chu Zheng also had a bright smile on his face.

The reason why Chu Zheng smiled so happily was not only because the team equalized, but also because he found another weakness of Arsenal.

"Chu Zheng passed the ball so beautifully, it's like measuring it with a ruler!" After watching the replay, Zhan Jun was amazed again and again, "If the ball speed is faster, Ospina may be able to clear the siege first. If it is slower, Sane will not be able to sprint at full speed. Everything is just right, just right."

"Yes, Sane also handled the ball quite well. With a flick on the outside of his left foot, he avoided Bellerin's crowded defense and Ospina's pounce."

"Aguero also contributed to this ball. It was his retreat that brought Mustafi up and opened the door to Arsenal's defense in the middle."

"..."

(End of this chapter)