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Chapter 322: Another free kick

It is difficult for a goalkeeper with such a ball to judge the correct prediction, and the Southampton goalkeeper struggled to take off, wanting to pick the ball.

However, the ball had eyes, bypassed his gloved hands, and flew into the goal.

"The ball - scored!!! This is an excellent elevator ball. The ball spins in the air, and then goes up and down, making the goalkeeper lose the prediction of the ball's trajectory and landing point. Recently, the ball was scored. !!"

"Li's free-kick technique once again showed its prowess! Who said that strong physical confrontation and man-to-man tactics can completely lock up the talented Li? China's century-old genius has officially used his actions. Want to prevent him? The good way is not to defend, but to score more goals than him to win. For now, few people can have such a high scoring rate, at least there is no such person in Southampton. "

Li Zihan, who scored the goal, let out a bad breath, jumped up, and waved his fist vigorously in the air.

"It can be seen that Li Zihan has been suppressed for a long time, and now he can finally vent. Wanyama's man-to-man and close-pressing really prevented the advantages of this speedy, flexible genius from being brought into play. But such a defensive method There is a big disadvantage, which is that it is easy to foul. It allows the opponent to get a lot of set kicks, and Li Zihan is quite accomplished in set kicks, almost shoulder to shoulder with his master Pirlo. So poor Southampton, It was their misfortune to meet a Li Zihan who can score goals with his own ability, create opportunities and assists, and can also score goals with free kicks."

"I think Southampton's defense needs to change its strategy. If Li Zihan is given too many free kick opportunities, I think the team currently ranked second in the league will be sifted by the league leader Arsenal. .”

Now Wanyama finally understands what Li Zihan said. He has never understood why Li Zihan said thank him for giving him a chance, but this goal made him completely understand.

Touching his forehead, it's a bit difficult to deal with now, it's impossible not to foul in close defense, and sometimes it's not necessarily his own initiative to foul.

Looking at the referee on duty for this game, Wanyama was overjoyed and planned to continue playing like this.Because he only now discovered that the referee for this game was the famous bald Webber in the Premier League. Bald Webber is considered a legendary referee in England, and he can also be regarded as the most famous referee in the UK currently active.Of course, he also has another characteristic, that is, he advocates physical confrontation, and he is relatively loose about some fouls on physical collisions.

With this thought in mind, Wanyama continued to follow Li Zihan closely, and this time he behaved himself.Unnecessary fouls in the backcourt are not fouls, but in the left and right sides of the midfield far away from the goal, there is no threat. Seeing that Li Zihan wants to get rid of it, he directly squeezes the opponent away with his body.

In another physical confrontation defense, when Wanyama squeezed Li Zihan away with his body, there was an obvious push in his hands.Although the referee didn't blow it, he couldn't escape the commentators watching the slow-motion broadcast: "Wanyama made a foul in his hand, and Weber didn't blow it. But he is still careful, after all, he still has a burden on his body. For a yellow card, you should be more careful when defending, so as not to be sent off."

Wanyama obviously forgot that he had received a yellow card before, but his teammate and midfielder partner Frenchman Schneiderlin helped him remember.

Schneiderlin ran over to communicate with Wanyama, and finally confirmed that the two would exchange jobs.Schneiderlin, who is not under the pressure of a yellow card, will stare at Li Zihan, and Wanyama will sit in the middle midfielder to help defend the team's defense, including the task of connecting the frontcourt and the backcourt.

Wanyama was really good in defense, at least when he had been staring at Li Zihan before, Li Zihan hadn't had many good opportunities in sports battles, and he had effectively suppressed the connection between Li Zihan and his teammates.However, after changing the position, the performance after being a delayed playmaker is quite average.

There are often mistakes in cooperation with frontcourt teammates. For example, the ball should be given to Lallana, but it is given to Lambert.When participating in assists and support in the frontcourt, they cannot have a chemical reaction with Lallana, Osvaldo and others.

After all, Wanya Ma has not been in Southampton for a long time, and there are indeed some problems with the running-in with his teammates.Especially the defensive role that has been played before, rarely participates in the offense, and it is still in the offense that cooperates with the core Lallana.

It was a tepid game, played for a long time, Arsenal adopted a team attack, and the Saints focused on defense and counterattack.

Arsenal's chance in the frontcourt, Li Zihan returned to the midfield to get the ball.

"Li Zihan started to retreat to get the ball. This is because once he is in the frontcourt, he will receive the attention of the opponent's defensive players, so that he almost has little time to get the ball. So now retreating helps our team The midfielder organizes and passes, while the England teenager Wilshere, who is the starting attacking midfielder, is positioned forward and becomes a false center forward. What is rare is that Arsenal still played so smoothly and peacefully after such a change. Handy, this is a bit interesting."

After several passes and cooperation with Rosicky, Flamini and others, Li Zihan received Rosicky's return to play the ball, suddenly split the side, and sent a through ball to the young player Chamberlain on the side.

After Chamberlain took the ball, he directly broke through the sideline, and Wilshere in the middle immediately followed, trying to complete the outflanking of the middle, and next to him was Rosicky and behind him was Li Zihan.

When Chamberlain met Luke Shaw on the sideline, he dunked the opponent with a smash, and then cut in.

When Wilshere saw the opponent's attention, he was attracted by Chamberlain, while Wanyama and Schneiderlin, the two major midfielders, had been paying attention to Li Zihan.So he felt that this was a good opportunity, and immediately raised his hand, motioning for Chamberlain to send a ground ball through, hitting behind the two central defenders Lovren and Fonte.

However, Chamberlain ignored the meaning of his teammates, and continued to cut inside with the ball, directly wanting to dribble the ball into the penalty area.

At this time, Wanyama, who had reacted, immediately gave up on Li Zihan, and helped defend him and got stuck in time.And Li Zihan continued to be followed up by Schneiderlin.

Chamberlain was blocked by the retreating Luke Shaw and midfielder Wanyama, and Luke Shaw came up to press and completely lost the best opportunity to pass the ball.

Chamberlain simply chose the position of Wanyama, because the black midfielder has already received a yellow card, and relatively speaking, he should be more defensive.

However, he didn't expect that Luke Shaw, who he could think of, also thought of it, so before he could find Wanyama, Luke Shaw knocked him down when he was grabbing the ball.

Webber hesitated for a while, but blew the whistle, signaling Luke Shaw to foul and gave Arsenal a free kick.It is worth noting that the position of this free kick is not much different from the position where Li Zihan scored the goal before.

"Southampton should pay attention. This free kick position is exactly what Li Zihan said he likes. The previous goal is almost in this position. I was just saying not to give Arsenal too many opportunities to set the ball. I didn't expect it to be so fast. This gave Li Zihan another chance to show off his talents."

Li Zihan looked at the referee's gesture and knew that it was a direct free kick, so he smiled and went to take the free kick.

Because Li Zihan scored a free throw before, Southampton attached great importance to this goal. Goalkeeper Boruc has been lining up for a long time.

And considering that the free kick cover has lost its meaning, only Li Zihan stood in front of the ball.But Arteta went to the front of the penalty area to make a support.

After the referee blew the whistle, Li Zihan made a run-up, and then kicked the ball again in the expectant eyes of the Arsenal fans.

"Li Zihan continued to take free kicks, let's see if he can continue to score a goal? According to this distance, Li Zihan should choose a direct goal compared to the previous goal."

Sure enough, Li Zihan chose to shoot directly instead of cooperating with Koscielny in the penalty area.

This time it's not an elevator ball, but a beautiful curve ball.The instep of the right foot rubbed an arc, and the ball flew around the wall and flew towards the goal.

The backs of the Southampton players in the crowd were covered in cold sweat, and the goalkeeper left to make a judgment and make a save.

boom! !

The ball was not saved by Szczesny's fellow Polish goalkeeper Boruc.But the ball didn't go in either, but flew out of the baseline between the post and the crossbar at the far corner of the goal.

"WOW——" all the fans exclaimed.

"Oh,,., the ball hit the far corner of the goal post and flew out of the baseline. The quality of this free kick is quite high, whether it is the angle of the shot or the strength of the kick-off, it is well grasped, but it is a little lacking Luck, otherwise it would have been another goal."

"Oh." Li Zihan gritted his teeth and frowned regretfully.

But the goalkeeper is more than just breaking out in a cold sweat. His seven souls and six souls are missing one soul and one soul, just because the angle of the ball is chosen too well. If it didn't hit the goalpost, he would There was no chance to jump at all, and Li Zihan's previous free kick also left him with a lot of psychological hints.

Southampton was obviously intimidated by Li Zihan's excellent free kick skills. When they regained possession of the ball, they didn't make a quick counterattack immediately. Location.

"Southampton is now holding the ball and slowing down the rhythm. Arsenal's offense has been a bit threatening during this time, so slowing down the rhythm will help avoid falling into Arsenal's rhythm. As we all know, once Arsenal's rhythm is completely It's pretty crazy when it's on. Certainly for the Arsenal fans and the neutral fans, it's certainly pleasing to the eye."