green knight

Chapter 279 : Warm up in advance?

After the start of the second half, Wenger did not immediately make substitutions and adjustments, but continued to use the original first-half lineup and waited and watched.

But Norwich's Irish coach Hughton couldn't hold his breath. He was two goals behind and he changed two people in a row.A defensive midfielder goes down and an attacking midfielder comes up.The winger Snodgrass, who had performed frequently before, was replaced, and the winger who came up was England's native winger and full-back Pilkington.

However, this adjustment did not have an immediate effect. On the contrary, because the new offensive midfielder Hula Khan often attacked forward, his midfield organization was slightly weaker.

5 minutes into the game, Wenger started to make substitutions.

Ozil was replaced first, and he was replaced by veteran Rosicky.Rosicky did not show dissatisfaction with being replaced, he trot down smiling and hugged Ozil to complete the handover.

Then Wenger's second substitution was a bit unexpected. When Giroud saw Li Zihan next to the fourth official on the sidelines, he knew that he should be replaced.When he started to walk down the field, he was stopped by Ozil, who smacked him.

Jirou glanced around, only to see the sign on the fourth official's hand with the number fourteen in red, and then the number twelve in green.

NO.12 replaced NO.14?I am NO.13, who is Fourteen?

Giroud temporarily forgot who his teammates wore the NO.14 jersey.

Walcott was taken aback when he saw this number, although Wenger also used Li Zihan as a striker to replace the winger before.But more often Li Zihan went to the left side, which has nothing to do with his right side.But now Wenger actually replaced himself with Li Zihan?Who is coming to the right?

Chamberlain is not good at the right side because he is not used to playing this side. Li Zihan has never seen him play this side. As for Giroud, it is even more impossible.

Could it be that Ozil came to this side, and then Li Zihan tried a new position to go to the middle midfielder?

Although the doubts belonged to doubts, Walcott quickly ran off the field to complete the substitution with Li Zihan.The two hugged each other friendly on the sidelines, and then whispered in his ear that the professor would give him time to rest.
"Arsenal also replaced two people at this time. The two scoring heroes Rosicky and Walcott were replaced. What does Wenger mean by this? It should not be dissatisfied with the two, it may be to preserve strength, next week There is still the Champions League to play."

"Unexpectedly, Li Zihan replaced Walcott, not Chamberlain or Giroud. Let's see who goes to the right, huh? Li Zihan appeared on the right, can he play in this position? Anyway, I didn't see him play. But the left side has been there a lot. Let's wait and see."

"Wenger is giving Li Zihan and Ozil some time to warm up, right? It's a good match against the Champions League in the middle of the week. At the same time, Walcott and Rosicky don't have to play the whole game so tired. Oh, I still see Will Schell is warming up, uh... warming up in a training vest on the sidelines, is he going to play later?"

"Norwich City really don't know whether to laugh or cry. Arsenal replaced Rosicky and Walcott, who each scored a goal in the first half. But it was Ozil, a freshman in his prime, who came up. And the talented striker Lee who has recently scored goals. It seems that what Norwich can do now is to try to lose as much as possible."

Of course Norwich understands this, they also know Li Zihan and Ozil.No one would think that Li Zihan and Ozil would be weaker than the veteran Rosicky and the little tiger Theo Walcott.

So before the situation became clear, Canary decisively chose to hold on to the "camp" to see the situation. Anyway, there was still half an hour left.

Later on, Norwich was a bit like putting a bus at the door, and Li Zihan's inside cuts were often rejected by the bus outside the penalty area.Breaking through the sideline, he easily passed the opponent's fullback.But once the inside cut encountered layers of blockades from the opponent, even the wingers and front midfielders retreated to the front of the penalty area, leaving only one striker in front.

Li Zihan is quite ashamed of such tactics, but he has to admit that football is the same as the battlefield.People only pay attention to the results, the winners survive and the dead have no right to complain.And defense is also the most important part of football, otherwise why do you need a defender?

Although very upset, Hanniang has no reason to blame others, after all, this is also one of the tactics.

Since Norwich was not in a hurry to fall behind, Li Zihan was not in such a hurry to cut in.He began to consciously cooperate with his teammates more, increasing the number of times the ball was passed back and forth under his feet.

"Tsk tsk. Why does this game look like Arsenal are passing and cooperating within the contact team? Norwich is just too unscrupulous. You guys are two goals behind and you are defending ass. Instead of fighting the opponent so vigorously One game, at least the scene is better. Dear, as a Premier League team, how dare you, even many English Championship teams have more backbone than you.” This is the thinking of most fans.

Although complaints belong to complaints, Chinese fans are still very satisfied with this result.After all, Arsenal won and saw Li Zihan play again.

In fact, Norwich doesn't want to, but rather than the process being ugly, at least the result is dignified.Think about it, one is two to zero, and the other is "Four Happiness Coming to the Gate", "Five Goats Kaitai", "Six Lakes and Four Seas", "Seven Ups and Eight Downs". Until more than zero.

That looks good?

"Norwich has nothing to do. Although there are no underdogs in the Premier League, their strength is indeed not enough compared to Arsenal. A weak team can only hope to use defensive counterattacks to win a game against a strong team, or He said try to keep a good score. If you want to blast out with the opponent for a life-and-death confrontation, then I will definitely die, and the opponent must still be alive.” The commentator began to digress, because if the fans keep focusing on In such a game, the fans in front of the TV may fall asleep in less than 5 minutes.

Li Zihan passed the ball to Ozil and tried to "drill" into the penalty area.Ozil immediately passed the ball back to him, and just as Li Zihan got the ball, two people came up to defend him.Li Zihan was not impatient, and immediately returned the ball and passed it to Chamberlain's feet. Chamberlain continued to hand the ball to Ramsey who came in later.

"Li Zihan was very smart with this ball. He knew immediately that he had no chance when he got the ball. He didn't think he was too sure when facing two defensive players. And the space is very narrow. For a player with his characteristics It’s a bit unfavorable, so the ball will be made right away. First, control the ball at your own feet to have a chance. If you give the ball to the opponent, then how can you attack? This is also part of Arsenal’s football philosophy. Advocate offense and pass and catch coordination. Wenger may have read the art of war, the best way to defend is to attack."

After controlling the rhythm, Flamini who took the ball suddenly sent a through ball.Li Zihan, who had been prepared for a long time, started directly, hitting the opponent's midfielder who was guarding him a bit by surprise.Seeing that it was too late for the opponent, the central defender grabbed Li Zihan and forced him to slow down, and then another central defender immediately followed up and kicked the ball out of the baseline.

Li Zihan was pulled to the ground in the confrontation with the opponent's central defender. He immediately made a gesture to the referee, signaling the opponent to pull a foul.

Ozil immediately rushed up and pointed to the referee at the twelve yards of the goal. The meaning was obvious: this is a penalty kick!
All the Arsenal fans started to cheer, shouting loudly: "Penalty kick! Penalty kick!!" With the ups and downs of the sound, their fingers also pointed to the penalty spot in the opponent's penalty area.

"Arsenal's players thought it was a penalty kick. The opponent's central defender pulled someone during the defense. The ball was a bit difficult to grasp. The pull was actually a pull, but they didn't see clearly whether it was a penalty kick when they fell to the ground. It seems like Li Zihan It should have stepped into the penalty area line with one foot? Let's see how the referee makes a penalty."

The referee pointed to the corner without hesitation.

"Oh, the referee gave a corner kick!! It was a corner kick, not a penalty kick, not even a free kick! Did he mean that the opponent didn't foul? Let's take a look at the slow motion, oh. Stepping into the penalty area, the opponent's defensive central defender stopped him, this is an obvious foul, and the referee made a wrong penalty."

The Arsenal players quit, and they went up to the referee to argue.Especially Ramsey, who almost pulled the referee's clothes.Fortunately, the veteran Flamini reacted quickly and immediately grabbed him.

Wenger stood on the sidelines and yelled at the field, obviously not at the referee, but telling his disciples not to go too far to argue with the referee, and just express their dissatisfaction a little bit.He then went up to the fourth official and started the appeal
Thinking about myself leading by two goals anyway, the Arsenal players became a little more angry and reluctantly accepted the penalty.

Ozil trots over, intending to take the corner.

Modesat ran up from the backcourt to compete for the top,

Ozil's corner flew straight into the center of the penalty area, intending to find Meredsart and Giroud there.When the ball was pushed by the opponent's central defender, instead of clearing the bottom line immediately, it was pushed to the supporting winger on the side, intending to fight back.

Norwich's winger received the ball and was immediately harassed by Gibbs who was pressing up. In a hurry, he immediately passed the ball to find his center forward.

But his pass was a little weaker, and then he was pushed down by Flamini in the midfield.The ball fell to the feet of Modesat, who returned in time after fighting for a header from the penalty area to no avail.

After receiving the ball, Modesat wants to give it to Flamini in front of him, because his back is facing the attacking direction and it is inconvenient to pass to the frontcourt, so he wants to handle the ball through Flamini .

But this time an accident happened