The Ball at Your Feet

The game quickly entered the halftime. Although the score was still 1:1, Arsenal had already taken the initiative on the court. The Arsenal players who entered the dressing room looked a little depressed.

"You played well in the first half, but there is a big problem with my tactical arrangement." In the dressing room, Deschamps didn't talk nonsense with everyone, and directly took all the mistakes to himself. "Your skills are very good. Although I did encounter some troubles, it was because the opponent was too strong, not your fault."

The players were a little relieved when they heard this, but this is obviously not enough.

"In the second half, we think of a way to win-this is our first game of the season. Although it doesn't matter, it's just as embarrassing if we lose." Deschamps scanned the room, "But if it's you It doesn't matter if I feel embarrassed, I have nothing to say."

"Tell us how to kick." Jiuli said.

"In the second half, let's change our style of play." Deschamps glanced around the room. "In midfield, we change into Eduardo, Lucas, you have a rest. We must first do a good job in the midfield defense, and we can't let our opponents ravage us anymore. Midfielder."

Both Cisse and Bernardi accepted this disposition. Bernardi did little in the first half. Although the two organizing midfielders seemed to have an extra point of contact, with Arsenal's double midfielder configuration, he could not play any role at all. In contrast, it is more reliable for Eduardo Cisse to step up the midfield interception.

"Sabani, you will rest in the second half. Don't get me wrong, you played well, I just need to be taller to cause trouble for Campbell. Dado, you go on the court and continue to fight for the header in the middle."

Both Roundup and Pulsau nodded and agreed to the decision. Although Nongda is considered an all-around striker, he relies more on his excellent speed to play. His heading ability is not his strong point after all. With Pulsau's tall stature of 188 and his excellent header skills, although it is not certain whether he can compete for the top, his ability to compete for the top is much better than Roundup.

"But you have to pay attention, Dado is just a cover, what I really hope is the attack on the side." Deschamps pointed to Zhao Yaning and Evra on the side, "You two are the focus of our attack in the second half."

"You mean, let us make a quick breakthrough?" Zhao Yaning couldn't understand it. "But I don't have much room to play. They are in a good position."

"I didn't let you go to the center. Going to the center will definitely be very difficult. Needless to say. But you can go to the bottom line to pass the ball. The England full-back is too lazy to defend. He simply leans on himself. His fierceness and card position skills scare you into the middle. You need to kick a man and play one-on-one with him. As long as you can pass him one-on-one, you can go straight to the bottom. Their defensive strategy is If you don’t cut inside but you don’t hit the bottom, you won’t encounter much resistance if you pass the bottom.”

"But my passing skills are very poor." Zhao Yaning blushed a little.

"You are not allowed to pass to Dado. Once Dado appears in the middle, he will definitely attract Campbell's attention. At this time, you can pass the ball to others. Ludovic will be in the middle, Jerome and Par Tris will come in on the right, all you need is to give them the ball." Deschamps pointed to Jiuli and Rothen.

These words made Jiuli's eyes light up.

Obviously, the core of this tactic is him. What Zhao Yaning needs to do is just a wide range of wing transfers. The difficulty of this is much simpler than passing to the center to make the center fight for the top. Evra and Rothen both attacked on the left, which completely disrupted the defensive arrangement.

Gilberto Silva has just arrived at Arsenal after all, and there is still a little problem with cooperation. Although Keown is of a high level, his age is indeed unforgiving. If there are more impact points, it is indeed easy to form chaos in the frontcourt, and the ability to capture fighters in this chaos is definitely a figure that can be counted in the entire Ligue 1.

Use your strongest point to attack the opponent's weakest point. This is the whole point of the tactical arrangement.

"If you understand, go ahead. At the end of the second half, I want a victory!"

After a short break, the game restarted.

Monaco changed two people, and Arsenal also made some adjustments: Bergkamp, ​​who had not played much in the first half, was replaced by Wiltord: This is not surprising, because Bergkamp He doesn't like to do airplanes. He drove to Monaco one day in advance. Although there may not be physical problems, he is certainly not very good. Anyway, it is a friendly match, Wenger does not want to overuse him and let him go early is not a bad thing. Wiltord is also a veteran of the French team, let him play, but also to take care of the fans.

The other substitution was a bit surprising: right back Lauren was replaced by a black defender. He should be a young player. Although the Monaco players don’t recognize him, look at the picture on his jersey. Ray Kolo’s name, and considering that no one has seen him played in France, several players discussed in private that he should be a player from Ivory Coast: the players there like to write the last name in the first name.

But what is his level? This is what everyone does not know. It stands to reason that the First League pays more attention to Africa. They all know more or less the outstanding players in Africa. However, under the leadership of Wenger in the past two years, Arsenal has established a scout system in Africa that does not lose to Ligue 1. The understanding of parts of Africa has even surpassed that of Ligue 1.

But no matter why they changed, for Zhao Yaning, the people he needed to face were the same.

It is still Ashley Cole, and Vieira, who is wandering in the middle, may come to block him at any time.

After the game started, Zhao Yaning started his harassing moves. Obviously, Jiuli also knows very well that Monaco’s sneak attack style cannot be used as a long-term offensive measure. Wenger is not a fool. As long as Monaco plays like that once or twice, he will definitely make adjustments. Therefore, what he has to do now is to paralyze his opponents so that Arsenal cannot see where Monaco is attacking.

Therefore, he gave the ball to Roten on the left again and again, and Roten also made long passes again and again to kick Pulsau in the frontcourt.

This style of play really affects the Arsenal players: perhaps in their opinion, the replacement of a tall forward is just for the header attack. Although Pulsau is not very advantageous against Campbell, he still has a clear advantage over Roundup.

On the other hand, Arsenal also played worse than in the first half: after Bergkamp went down, the midfielder lost one contact point, and Monaco's double midfielder formation also made Arsenal play a little different. Too comfortable, their pressure is much worse than in the first half.

And this situation has also caused Ashley Cole to have more and more forward penetrations: Zhao Yaning has no ball rights, and he does not have to involve too much energy. Compared to the endless struggle with Zhao Yaning in the backcourt, he hopes to help the team score a goal again. As for Zhao Yaning, he doesn't pay much attention. After all, Zhao Yaning is not a winger who knows how to pass the ball. Even if he cuts the ball inside, facing Arsenal's midfield defense, it is difficult to work.

Such an attitude, in the eyes of Jiuli, is a performance that the plan is half successful.

Soon, Jiuli took advantage of Cole's loss of position and passed the ball to Zhao Yaning's feet. Zhao Yaning kicked the ball out by stopping the ball, and immediately raised the speed to the highest. Gilberto rushed over and tried to make up for Zhao Yaning's ball. Zhao Yaning stopped and dunked the ball. When Gilberto shot the ball out, it was another one-foot spin. Find enough space for yourself to pilling.

But at this time, Campbell also squeezed Pulsau behind him, occupying a favorable position. Although Jiuli tried to run out of position, his height and long pass have a natural disadvantage. But looking at the left, Evra has rushed over at high speed, and Rothen also attacked forward. Although Keon also noticed them, Monaco's frontcourt still has one more spot.

Kick, long pass.

Zhao Yaning's long pass technique is very ordinary, but because no one affects him, the ball still easily draws a large arc and falls to Evra on the left. Evra didn't hesitate, and immediately took a strong shot, but his meaning was too obvious, and his shooting skills were not very outstanding. Keon stepped in front of him and stretched out his leg. The ball hit Keon hard and bounced back to the center of the court.

Jiuli grabbed the first point and immediately took a low-level shot. Although his angle and strength are good, he obviously underestimated Arsenal’s tacit cooperation. Several people have gathered in the penalty area. Jiuli’s shot angle is not very large. According to Keon and Campbell’s position, I hope Although Mann’s vision was obstructed, he still accurately judged the path of the ball and saved the ball from the baseline.

Although this attack didn't work, but from the beginning of Jiuli's plan to hit the goal with two consecutive feet, their attack this time at least shows that their tactics are still effective. The surrounding fans burst into applause, and the Monaco players also gained a lot of confidence.

Soon, their second attack came to Monaco again. It was still Zhao Yaning's rapid breakthrough on the right, but this time, Cole did not lose his position, and followed Zhao Yaning closely, not giving him any chance to kick. Zhao Yaning tried to stop the slam dunk again, but Cole did not lose his position this time, but got stuck in front of Zhao Yaning and blocked his way.

Once the player chooses the bottom, it is difficult to make changes when near the corner. Without enough space and passing angle, the opponent's full-back defends, as long as he gets stuck in his position, he can block more than half of his kicks, which is much easier.

But this kind of small-scale extraordinary is exactly what Zhao Yaning has been training for these few days.

He kicked the ball to the right and deliberately moved the ball away from him... Cole looked very cautious, but moved his body a bit, but didn't stretch his foot. Zhao Yaning knew that he had not deceived him. His body suddenly tilted to the left, his right leg and upper body were almost drawn into a straight line at a 45-degree angle to the ground, while his right foot moved the ball back. Kerr immediately took a step earlier this time and stretched his foot towards the football at Zhao Yaning's feet-he judged very clearly that with Zhao Yaning's balance, he might indeed break the ball.

But he still underestimated Zhao Yaning's flexibility.

As Cole stepped up and grabbed, Zhao Yaning suddenly retracted the upper body that had been protruding out, supporting his body with his left foot, and his right foot immediately changed from dialing the ball to picking the ball with one foot. The football jumped from Cole's waist. At the height of the height, he wiped Cole's body and flew past his right.

At this time, Zhao Yaning's left leg suddenly exerted force, and he rushed over from Cole's left side.

The ball was divided under such a static action, even if Kerr was well-informed, he was a little surprised.

But Zhao Yaning, who had passed Cole, didn't stop, and rushed into the penalty area along the bottom line. Keon made it up right away, but he didn't dare to make any big moves in the penalty area. He could only try to push Zhao Yaning to the bottom line, but Zhao Yaning had never thought about hitting the door by himself. At this time, the penalty area Inside, Evra, Giuli, and Pulsau are all in place.

Zhao Yaning gave Pulsau the ball with a nudge.

Campbell by Pulseau's side immediately shoveled. But Pulsau showed the calmness and skill of a shooter: he gently stopped the ball, buckled the ball, avoided Campbell's tackle, and then immediately took a shot.

Seaman fell to the ground and made a save, but the ball slipped through the tip of his fingertips and flew into the goal.

2:1.

The Monaco team took the lead again.

And this goal made Wenger, who had been sitting on the sidelines, also stand up.

This is really a surprising match.

Wenger did not do much preparation before coming to Monaco. Although he used to be the coach of Monaco, he now doesn't have much time and energy to focus his attention on his old club. The work of the coach of the Premier League club is very busy, most of his time is spent on his own players.

The results of Monaco last season and the unbearable economic situation of Monaco revealed by his old friend Jean Petit before this game also made Wenger feel that it is a team that has been in Ligue 1 to be relegated and that the management lacks funds. , The combat effectiveness will not be so strong.

However, such a game surprised Wenger a bit: Since when have the relegation teams in Ligue 1 been so brutal? Is French football improving so fast?

Yes, Arsenal did not give their full strength in this game-if it were Bergkamp who attacked with all strength, even if the opponents had double midfielders, they would still be ravaged by Arsenal, if they attacked with all strength. Pires, even if the opponent throws a Gieve who is not involved in the attack at the full-back position, it will be embarrassing to be molested. If it is a full attacking Ljungberg, he will not use such a non-working attitude to face an offensive full-back sleepwalking.

Not to mention Ashley Cole: He was embarrassed by Zhao Yaning's continuous breakthroughs in this game. If he is willing to spend more on defense and don't let Zhao Yaning take the ball so calmly, the game will be another kind of game. State now.

But even so, Monaco's performance was unexpected: their defense line has only lost one ball so far, and their attack line has shown a variety of offensive talents. If there are any problems, it is only that their running-in is not very good. Such a team, if they run better and have better tactical skills, they might really be Arsenal's rivals.

I took this game purely as a commercial game for the purpose of making money, which is a bit taken for granted. Although Deschamps is young, looking at his targeted tactical adjustments, maybe he will be a very interesting opponent in the future.

Well, try his level.

"Jermaine, get ready to play." Taking a look at the bench, Wenger found his ideal person, "There are some places you need to pay attention to..."

Soon, the sign for the substitution was raised on the sidelines, and Deschamps frowned as he looked at the substitution number.

Jermaine Pennant, replace Pires?

Pires recovered from a serious injury and should indeed be protected... But what is the purpose of replacing him with Pennant, such a continuously rented player?

Why did you cut off your left-wing offense?

As one of the talented rookies of English football, Pennant's talent is not bad. But this excellence also has to distinguish the objects of comparison. If compared with the average player, he is indeed very talented, but compared with Pires, he can not play the role of Pires at all.

As the premier winger in the entire Premier League, Pires can be said to be top-notch in organization, attack, cohesion, and field control. Even when the French team's midfield geniuses gather, he is still regarded as the best assistant candidate for the French team, and he is also the plan B after Zidane. Such an identity is enough to see his ability. What's more, the skillful cooperation between him, Ashley Cole and Henry is an important attack method for Arsenal, and considering that Bergkamp has now been replaced, this is even the most important. One of his attack methods, Wenger replaced Pires at this time, is he really ready to hand the victory over? Pennant was still on loan last season, and he was still a right-footed winger. He was more active on the right side. Let him replace Pires on the left side. With this change, what is Wenger's idea?

Although it doesn't matter whether a friendly match wins or loses, will Wenger really do it?

Deschamps is still thinking about all kinds of thoughts, but at this time, Pennant has already walked on the court. After a few words with Ashley Cole and Vieira, he walked to the left midfielder. Location.

And immediately, the offense and defense of both sides changed.

Vieira, who once again held the ball, did not pass the ball to the left, this time he divided the ball to the right. After receiving the ball, Ljungberg basically didn't accelerate much. Relying on his own rhythm changes, he easily threw Evra away, and then a beautiful curved ball passed in - but Squelach grabbed it. The first point is to push the ball out.

But Vieira grabbed the football again and immediately gave the ball to Ljungberg again.

Has the focus of the attack shifted to the right? Doubts flashed in Deschamps' heart.

Sure enough, for the next few times, Ljungberg ended his first half almost walking, and he did a few assaults perfectly. In the face of the inexperienced Evra, he almost did what he wanted. After Arsenal's left side was frozen, the right side was well activated.

But Monaco's attack, shouldn't it just fall down like this, right?

Deschamps watched the field, the football once again flowed to Zhao Yaning's feet.

As Monaco's most confident assault point ~www.ltnovel.com~ his possession is one of the most important means for Monaco to advance.

But this time, he encountered some problems. Ashley Cole stood in front of him, staring at the ball at his feet like an enemy.

Zhao Yaning swayed twice and found that his opponent did not take his fake moves, so he could only choose to break through. But at this moment, Pennant posted from him, so Zhao Yaning could only choose to turn around.

Ashley Cole did not hesitate to squeeze over, cut off the ball at Zhao Yaning's feet, and kicked it to Gilberto in the middle.

This time, Ljungberg was already running fast when he saw Cole pass. Gilberto gave the ball to Ljungberg with a long pass. Ljungberg easily unloaded the ball while running and went directly into the penalty area.

At this time, Evra was still running back because his reaction was a step slower.

Rodriguez blocked Ljungberg’s breakthrough line, and Ljungberg did not stick the ball much, and passed the ball to Vieira, who came in in front of the midfielder. Vieira hit the goal violently, knocked the ball on the crossbar, and flew to the back of the goal after a loud noise.

A beautiful counterattack-this is also one of Arsenal's favorite attack methods. Although before that, Arsenal put on an offensive look, and because they played friendly matches, they were a little careless and unwilling to spend too much energy, but when they get serious, even if Pires and Bo are not on the offensive line. Of the two superstars of Gokamp, ​​there is only one Ljungberg left, and they are also difficult to resist.

Gorgeous attack, skillful coordination, sharp counterattack, the players' many blossoms, coupled with coach Wenger's excellent tactical awareness and adjustments, this is the real Arsenal. The team that crosses England, competes with Manchester United in the Premier League, uses the art of football to make the whole England admire Arsenal!