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3 Forty Chapters: Fast-paced Rhythm

The journalists benefited, and so did Arsenal.Because the media pointed their guns at the three head coaches one after another, Arsenal's players were seldom "harassed" by the media, without external interference, and they were also concentrating on preparing for the game.

For this round, Wenger has already made a training and tactical plan before the match against Marseille, so at this time he can safely chat with the head coaches, and then let his coaching team prepare for the game according to the plan.

All in all, this game started amidst the long guns and short guns of many media reporters.

In mid-December, the temperature in England, which is already winter, is a bit low, and the wind in Manchester, which is not far from the sea, is a bit biting, and it is not far from Christmas, the most important festival in the West.It's almost the same as before the Chinese New Year. Although there are still ten days before the festival, the festive atmosphere can already be seen at this time.

The festive elements can be clearly seen on both sides of the road, and "Santa Claus" has begun to stroll on the street. The giant Santa Claus and his sleigh-shaped balloons or plastic sculptures occupy the squares of major markets and shopping centers. The most conspicuous corner.

Overlooking the Etihad Stadium in the east of the center of Manchester from above, the Etihad looks covered in silver in the snow, like a great emperor, standing proudly in the snow.

Of course, if Li Zihan were to describe it, the Ittihad looks like a bunch of cute banknotes.

Because when this famous stadium was built, it cost 1000 million pounds! !
Although the heavy snow stopped temporarily, the fluttering Xiaoxue still refused to leave Manchester. It seemed that this fan from the natural world also wanted to witness this match that was destined to be exciting.

"Welcome everyone to Manchester City Stadium, located in the east of Manchester City in northern England, also known as the famous Yi-Tihad Stadium!! The home stadium of the famous Premier League team Manchester City. This stadium has Many unofficial names, such as Manchester City Stadium, East Ground Stadium, etc. And this season, it has a new name - Devil! Ghost! Home! Field!"

"As for the data generated on this court, I think everyone is already quite familiar with it, so I won't explain too much. Today's game is destined to be a fierce, exciting and passionate game, Is Blue Moon defending its home glory? Or is Arsenal's away record continuing to be crazy? Is Manchester City one step closer to the league leader's throne? Or is Arsenal continuing to establish their leading position unwaveringly? Of course, it is also possible that they are still in London Jose Mourinho with his Chelsea and Rodgers next door with his Reds Liverpool had the last laugh."

After going through the necessary ceremony, this round of focus battle officially started.

"Okay, the game has officially started now, let me introduce Navas to everyone!! Break through the sideline at high speed and cross. Negredo took off to compete for the top, but the ball was headed by the tall and burly Maud Sartre Cleared."

The commentator originally wanted to introduce the starting rosters of the two sides, but before he could pronounce a name, Manchester City, which was playing at home, took the lead in launching the offensive.

"As expected of the craziest home game against the craziest away game, the attack has already started in less than 1 minute. Okay, let's go to Giroud!! There is no shot for Cazorla, and Cazorla takes a long shot from outside the penalty area! The ball Forfeited to Joe Hart."

"To hell with the starting lineup, let's take a look at the offensive of both sides first."

Although Manchester City took the lead in attacking, Arsenal immediately responded with color, without the slightest awareness that "it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge in ten years", but in this way, there is no chance for the commentator to read the list.

"Only one minute into the game, both sides had an attack. I have a hunch that this game will end with a big score!"

Manchester City owns the ball, in fact they have no sense of possession.David Silva dribbled the ball in the midfield and encountered Flamini's attack. The Spanish midfielder made a fake pass to Aguero, but it slipped away from the outside of the French veteran past.

Yaya Toure and Aguero immediately outflanked the center, and the starting high center forward Negredo compressed Arsenal's central defense.

Gibbs obviously can't let a threatening guy like David Silva act arbitrarily, rushing up from the inside of the sideline to trouble David Silva.Who is the experienced David Silva?Seeing Gibbs' grabbing action, he understood, and quickly distributed the ball to Yaya Toure who was responding.

But Gibbs didn't stop his movement in the end, and leaned on David Silva's body. David Silva, whose body is not his strong point, was directly brought to the ground.The referee didn't blow the whistle, but the two sides raised their hands to signal the game to continue-the offense is favorable!
Although Yaya Toure is tall and big, his dark body is an absolute advantage.But his technique under his feet is very flexible and he can slip.Subverting the rough impression under the feet of African players, he is an atypical African player.

With a small step under his feet, he deceived Ramsey, and then dunked the opponent abruptly with his feet. However, relying on Giroud who was chasing back, he split the ball to the right.

Navas, who had previously had a wonderful breakthrough from the wing, received the ball again, and then, without hesitation, did what he was good at.

Shortly after Navas joined Manchester City, he became a sharp knife in the hands of Chilean engineer Manuel Pellegrini. His sharp breakthrough and dribbling ability on the wing often caused the opponents to complain.

But relying on wing speed is no problem against other teams, but Arsenal, one of the mainstream of Arsenal is also wing speed. Now in Europe, apart from Real Madrid's "[-] million flying together" and Barcelona's Neymar and Messi It is really rare that a team can eat Arsenal raw in terms of speed on the wing, especially when Li Zihan went to Arsenal on the wing.

Li Zihan did not appear in the starting list for this game, and Walcott is still recuperating in the hospital. As for when he will recover, he has to wait for the final comprehensive examination at the hospital tomorrow.

But this does not mean that Arsenal's flanks just let Manchester City show off their might. Podolski's timely return to defense interfered with Navas.

But Navas passed the ball in the end, it was just a goal
Aguero barely received the ball in the middle. The Argentine striker had not had time to adjust in the future. Koscielny immediately rushed forward to press down. The French central defender knew Aguero's personal ability very well.

Aguero originally wanted to break through by himself, but the ball was too big. The ball was behind him, and he just stretched out his foot reluctantly to touch the ball.

Not wanting to interrupt the offense, Aguero knocked the ball behind him with a touch of momentum.

"Aguero!! Beautiful pass behind Yaya Toure!!"

The African midfielder Beacon took the ball, adjusted it a little, and then shot directly from long range.

Negredo didn't care so much, he jumped directly to compete for the top, and by the way, he also took Modesat to the jump.

But he didn't touch the ball, and the ball missed his head with a deflection of his neck.

Szczesny was a little underprepared and reluctantly made a save, but the ball hit his hands, did not change much in course, flew directly into the goal, and hit the inner side net.

"GOOOOOAL!! Yaya Toure!!! Only 3 minutes into the game!! 3 minutes!!! With Yaya Toure's pass and shot, he opened Arsenal's defense and broke through Szczesny's ten-finger pass! Manchester City leads 1-[-] at home, it really is a crazy home game. Next, how will Arsenal deal with it? The game was very tense and hasty from the first minute!"

Yaya Toure frantically ran around the touchline to the stands where the Manchester City fans gathered. Yaya Toure didn't score many goals this season, but undoubtedly this goal was more exciting than the previous two goals combined. People are excited.

Such a goal is more of a blow to the opponent's morale.

Szczesny spread his hands and yelled at his teammates in front of him, obviously it had a lot to do with the ball's own midfielder not being tight.

Flamini felt a little helpless or aggrieved, but he still raised his hand to signal the problem on his side.

Although conceding the ball prematurely can easily affect the morale of the opponent and easily confuse the opponent's nerves at once, but Arsenal is a team that has experienced heavy wind and rain.

Their first reaction to conceding the ball prematurely is: Fortunately, the ball was conceded early, and there are still 87 minutes to tie or even overtake. If the last three-pointer concedes the ball, it will be troublesome.
Arsenal later launched a counterattack against Manchester City.

Wenger's task for the players before this game was very simple, to play the gap formed by the opponent's two full-backs assisting up.Whether it is Zabaleta or Kolarov, they are all full-backs who assist very forward, that is, the legendary "guard with a knife!"

A fullback with deep assists has many advantages, but also has many disadvantages, because if the assist is too deep, the opponent may not be able to retreat back when the opponent counterattacks, and it is inevitable to have a space behind him.

However, the second tactic was aimed at central defender Demichelis. The young talented central defender Nastasic was accidentally injured, which made the starting central defender of this game fall to the old Argentine central defender Demichelis.

The 33-year-old Demichelis is actually in quite good form, and his experience makes his defense very stable.But there is a disadvantage, that is, the defense in the first six minutes is in place, but in the next three minutes, Demichelis, whose physical fitness is gradually declining, sometimes gives big gifts to the opponent.

Sarnia made a 45-degree cross from the sideline, and Giroud immediately jumped up to compete for the top.But the French high center took off in Demichelis' defensive area.

Demichelis and Giroud took off at the same time, but the 1.8-meter-four Demichelis had nothing to do with the 1.9-meter-two Giroud on the header.And Giroud also kept an eye out. When he jumped, his whole body was slightly tilted towards Demichelis, pressing on the opponent, and using some slight physical contact to wear down the opponent's physical strength.