Chinese champion

Chapter 352

0:2, this is a score that makes Arsenal almost desperate, not to mention that it is still at their home court.

The Emirates Stadium was silent, and only the Inter Milan fans on the field were celebrating enthusiastically. Pei Wei was surrounded by his teammates and ran a long distance of nearly 50 meters to get rid of three players including the goalkeeper. With the strong teammates around him, Pei Wei is rarely alone with the ball, and even his statistics are declining, because most of the time he only needs to pass the ball, but no one can deny his offensive strength effect.

It was a less spectacular goal than his previous goals against Arsenal at Mallorca, but it delivered the victory.

Pei Wei felt more and more that in such a powerful group, individual efforts would have real value.

Although it is most exciting to save the team by one's own efforts, no matter how powerful a player is, he cannot always rely on one person's strength to win. Even if he is as strong as Maradona, he still has the card Reca, Giordano and Ferreira won the Serie A championship for the first time after the support of strong teammates. Football, after all, is a sport of eleven people.

My own goal just now, a personal steal, a breakthrough in the middle, and a goal after getting rid of three defenders in a row, on the surface, it seems that it is completely a manifestation of my personal ability, and has nothing to do with other teammates, but in reality, if it is not Zhuang Feng, Ibrahimovic, Ronaldinho and others attracted the attention of most Arsenal defenders, and he would never be blocked by only two defenders in such a long distance!

"Wenger is old!" Mourinho sighed next to the TV: "He made too many mistakes in this game, especially not sending special personnel to mark Inter Milan's frontcourt players, especially Pei Wei. He is too confident in his team's offensive ability, thinking that relying on offense can completely suppress the opponent, if he does not change his tactics, there is absolutely no hope for Arsenal in the second half!"

Wenger also discovered the mistake in his tactical arrangement at this time, but he did not make adjustments immediately, because the first half of the game was coming to an end, and adjusting the tactics by changing players now would cause confusion among the players, it is better to wait until the middle Make a decision during the break.

At the same time, Wenger was also sighing in his heart. Most of the current Arsenal players joined the team in the past two years. The tacit understanding of gestures to change tactics is far behind.

The main players of the 49-game undefeated team left one after another. Pires went to Villarreal and retired this year. Ljungberg moved to Ligue [-] Lyon. Needless to say Vieira, Ashley Cole went to Chelsea, Campbell moves to Portsmouth, Bergkamp retires...

Wenger knows that these veterans still have plenty of potential to tap, but in order to form a younger and more impactful team, Wenger can only do this. The price he paid for this is Arsenal The results are very unstable.

But he can only bear this kind of result, but he doesn't know how many years it will take to turn the current team into the previous iron army...

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"We can't go on like this." After the first half, the players from both sides returned to the locker room. Wenger's serious expression was in perfect contrast to Mancini's happy face.

Looking at the silent players, Wenger also knew that the team's morale was at its lowest point. If they couldn't cheer up, Arsenal's road to the Champions League this season might have come to an end.

"Their tactics are obvious, that is to defend and counterattack, and in the counterattack, they mainly rely on these three people." Wenger drew three circles on the Inter Milan side on the tactical board: "Ronaldo, Zhuang Feng and Pei Wei !Because the speed of the three of them is the fastest, and what our defense lacks is speed."

"So..." Wenger looked around: "We still have to attack in the second half, because we have no other choice!"

Wenger's words were resounding: "This is our home stadium now! And it's different from four years ago. We didn't meet Inter Milan in the group stage. Even if we are ranked No.2 in the group, we can qualify! The current situation is, Either we die, or they die! So we have to fight! Treat this game as the last final! You have to think this way, we are now in the final of the Champions Cup, and we are now 0:2 behind. If we can't pull three goals in a row and stage a big comeback, then we will get nothing!"

"Let's run! Boys!" Wenger's provocative words echoed in the locker room: "In the second half, you have to show [-]% of your physical strength! Just like the first half of the attack, they beat them out of breath. Don't be angry! And after losing the ball in the frontcourt, no matter who they are, they have to fight back on the spot, so that they can't make long passes comfortably, and at the same time, others have to return to defense immediately! If there is no long pass from the backcourt, they No matter how fast the counterattack team is, there is no way! Do you understand?"

"Understood!" The Arsenal players finally regained some morale, and Wenger nodded secretly. If this is the case, there will be a fight in the second half.

Mancini will not take risks. He must have seen that he can only strengthen his offense in the second half and will play a more resolute defensive counterattack. Now that he has two away goals in hand, he has enough confidence to do so.

Now Arsenal can only attack, even if they only recover one ball, it is much better than now.

The 15-minute intermission time has arrived, and after the managers came to urge them, the Arsenal players walked out of the goal one by one.

When Captain Henry was about to leave, Wenger said softly behind him: "Patrick performed very well today..."

Henry froze for a moment, then strode out of the locker room.

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In the first half of the game, Vieira, who returned to the Emirates Stadium for the first time, performed perfectly. Although he had no goals or assists, he enveloped the entire Inter Milan like a big tree. In the backcourt, he had seven successful steals in just halftime. Neither Rosicky nor Baptista could get any benefit from this barrier, and his running ability didn't look like it at all. A 32-year-old veteran!

In front of him, Henry can only be regarded as a junior-after Zidane retired, the French captain's armband was naturally worn on Vieira's shoulders, and Henry's Arsenal captain also left Arsenal when Vieira left It was only later.

Henry has never been a person who is willing to be shrouded in the shadow of others. Although he will not play tricks because of this, he will never be convinced in his heart.

Wenger naturally knew what his lover was thinking, so he said such a sentence to Henry before the intermission to arouse all of Henry's fighting spirit, so that Arsenal will have a chance of winning in the second half.

Sure enough, after the start of the second half, Henry rushed left and right like a tiger descending the mountain. The Inter Milan defense line, which was slightly unprepared for this, was a little messed up. Both Cambiasso and Cordoba were somewhat displeased. hold him.

Only 2 minutes into the second half, Henry received a pass from Rosicky and advanced to the front of Inter Milan's penalty area alone. Finally, he fell to the ground after a forced foul by Zanetti. The referee awarded a free kick. Zanetti is shown a yellow card.

Zanetti shrugged his shoulders and ran back. There was nothing he could do just now. Let Henry break through and enter the penalty area. At that time, it was like a fish in water, and it would be difficult to control him.

Inter Milan formed a five-man wall, but Henry almost completely ignored the defense of the wall and directly kicked a beautiful outer arc!
The football bypassed the human wall and flew directly to the upper right corner of the goal. Cesar moved a few steps quickly and then jumped up, but it was obviously too late to catch the ball!

Just when everyone thought the ball would go in, Wang Xiaomin, who was defending Van Persie in the penalty area, rushed over, made a very difficult hook, and kicked the ball over the goal line!

There was a sound of regret in the stands, but this attack is not over yet!

Wang Xiaomin didn't drive the ball far in a hurry, the ball flew to the middle of the penalty area, and Senderos, who put in the assist, jumped high to meet the ball!

Naturally, Materac was not to be outdone, put his hands on Senderos's shoulders, and then grabbed the ball in front of him, and Cambiasso immediately kicked the ball out of the sideline.

"Nice job!" Seeing that he was temporarily out of danger, Cesar pulled Wang Xiaomin up and rubbed his hair. Other teammates also came up to celebrate Wang Xiaomin.

"Be careful, those guys have a different momentum now, more attention to defense!" Captain Zanetti yelled loudly, commanding the defenders to form a dense defensive line in front of the goal.

Inter Milan's defenders did feel that the opponent's momentum was even stronger than at the beginning of the first half, but they had the confidence to defend the opponent's offense. This confidence came from the defensive strategy that Italy is proud of.

From the perspective of Serie A teams, no matter how popular La Liga Premier League is now, when it comes to defense, it is still the best in Serie A. As long as they are determined to defend, no team can say that they can break through the door of Serie A teams .

"In 15 minutes...they shot five times, and they were not casual long-range shots. They were all shots that could threaten the goal. It's really efficient..." Mancini is not sitting on the coaching bench now, but He folded his hands and looked at the game on the field: "But it's a pity, they met us!"

Speaking of "chain defense", people always think of Italian football, which is also the highest state of Italian football defensive art, but many fans don't know that among the four mainstream tactics of Italian football, except for the shadow striker, the other three The chain defense, cross defense and full-back assists are all derived from the bold innovation of Inter Milan, and it is Inter Milan's legendary coach Herrera who created these three tactics. , Inter Milan won two European Champions Cups in a row, creating a "Great Inter Milan Era".

Now even if Arsenal has received the power of chain defense, Inter Milan's defense is now very compressed, but it is precisely because of this compression that the distance between the defense and the goal and the distance between the midfield has become very short. There was not much space for the opponent's offensive players to sprint at all, so although Arsenal's Henry, Hleb, Van Persie and others all had good speed, there was no distance for them to sprint.

Especially Henry, what he is good at is the huge threat after dribbling the ball and accelerating from the midfield, but in this case he can only go to the goal to respond. If he can't catch the ground ball in the penalty area, Henry is not as good as Baptie Star is a threat, at least he still has a powerful header.

No matter how good a striker is, he cannot create opportunities in front of the opponent's almost endless defenders. Even if Henry breaks through two players in a row, the No.3 player will immediately appear in front of him, blocking the space for him to shoot.

This is the power of "chain defense".

Henry thought about pulling himself out to the midfield, but Inter Milan's defenders didn't come out at all. Arsenal also tried to hit the goal from the wings, but Materac became an insurmountable barrier in front of Inter Milan's goal. , without needing to be distracted to take care of other things, Materac simply pushed out all the balls flying over the penalty area. In the case of lack of header ability in the penalty area, Arsenal could only helplessly Give up such useless work.

On the surface, it seems that Inter Milan is playing very badly. So far, Arsenal have shot more than three times more than them, but in terms of score, they have an advantage that cannot be ignored-leading by two goals .

As the time passed, Inter Milan's advantage became more and more obvious. Arsenal did not want to turn defeat into victory now, but hoped to narrow the gap as much as possible, so that there might be hope in the away game.

Under such circumstances, Wenger made a desperate move and replaced Hleb with high center forward Adebayor, preparing to use the three forwards as a last-ditch effort.

(End of this chapter)