green knight

Chapter 4: When you see him on the court, you can see hope!

Accompanied by the song of Liverpool, the stadium security soon dispatched security forces to surround the stands of the visiting team Arsenal.Just security guards, not violent riot police with sticks and shields.

This is to prevent some individual radical Arsenal fans who can't stand it and run to find Liverpool fans to "fight for [-] rounds", which leads to stadium violence.

The meaning of dispatching security guards is just in case. After all, the Arsenal fans did not make drastic actions. If the riot police were directly dispatched, it would be disrespectful to the fans of the visiting team.

And the on-site security to the visiting Arsenal fans the organizers meant that it was protecting them from the impulse of force from the excited Liverpool fans
All attention was on Liverpool's singing, but no one noticed that Arsenal had made substitutions at the beginning of the second half.

The veteran Flamini was replaced by the long-awaited Arsenal forward Li Zihan.

This substitution didn't seem to attract much attention. Even the TV broadcaster frequently showed the happy Liverpool fans singing songs, and the Arsenal fans who were trying to punch someone with a hard face. .

When Sky Sports, which was in charge of the broadcast, reacted, the second half had already started for 5 minutes.And at the minute of the audience, the subtitles for substitutions were just displayed at the bottom of the screen.
Liverpool fans have not yet discovered that Arsenal's formation has actually changed, and Flamini on the midfielder is gone.On the front line, Chamberlain on the left went to the right.It turned out that Cazorla on the right went to the center to parallel with Ozil. In order for Arsenal to make the space in the center less crowded after joining Cazorla, Ramsey in the midfield gave way to the midfielder. Location.

And it turned out that on the left side of Chamberlain, there appeared a player wearing Arsenal's NO.12 jersey-Li Zihan! !
"Oh Lee came on, he replaced Flamini. Arsenal, two goals behind, started to make a change. Even when they were behind at half-time, Wenger seldom made an immediate change at the beginning of the second half. , especially so decisively removed a defensive midfielder and replaced it with an offensive player. Could it be that there was no one to replace before, so they didn't make immediate adjustments, but now there is Li, a fiery striker, so Is the time for the replacement brought forward?"

"It seems that Li's injury should not be a major problem. Wenger gave him half time!"

After 5 minutes of familiarization, Li Zihan has now adapted to the rhythm of the field and the playing style of his teammates.

At 1 minute, Li Zihan took the ball to attack for the first time.Under the cover of Cazorla's running position, Ozil's sudden long pass found Li Zihan on the touchline.

Li Zihan didn't start to break through Flanagan's defense immediately after taking the ball, but made a fake pass when Gibbs came up behind him to get the ball.But he flicked the ball towards the inside in the opposite direction, accelerated and rushed away from Flanagan from the inside.

Flanagan stretched out his hand but failed to grab Li Zihan, so he had no choice but to turn around and chase after him.It's just that his opponent wasn't Ozil or Cazorla. His opponent was Li Zihan, who had the advantage of speed. When he turned around, he could only see Li Zihan's back.

Gerrard, the soul of the Red Army, was the first to discover that something was wrong. The experienced Gerrard immediately saw the support brought by Li Zihan.He came over quickly from the middle to help defend, but Li Zihan did not choose to make direct contact with him.

Li Zihan knew that Gerrard had a lot of experience, and in terms of physical strength, he had to admit that he was not as good as this veteran in his thirties.

Ozil lightly passed the ball to the center, and he himself completely liberated his speed from the sideline without the ball, and rushed past Gerrard quickly.

As an almost 34-year-old veteran, how can Gerrard have the speed of a young man like Li Zihan?I can only watch this young player who is almost 15 years younger than him rush straight from the white sideline, and there is nothing I can do.

Of course, it cannot be said that there is nothing they can do. Relying on the experience of the old captain and his usual understanding of the opponent, they immediately turned their heads and shouted at the nearest right central defender, Kolo Touré, and he immediately followed up. Past Lee.

Because he knew that if Li Zihan rushed over at the speed of Li Zihan, and the opposing midfield genius Ozil's grasp of the opportunity, he would definitely pass the ball back to Li Zihan on the wing.

Since I can't catch up, there is no problem calling teammates, right?The body can't catch up with you, but you can still be faster than my voice?
However, even this was a bit slow, because Ozil did not make any adjustments such as catching or stopping the ball when Li Zihan passed the ball, but directly used the instep of his right foot to meet the rolling ball. push!
The ball changed direction and rolled over behind Gerrard and in front of Kolo Touré. At this time, Li Zihan, who happened to be rushing from the sideline, received the ball, and it happened to be on the line. The ball barely made it out.
Li Zihan took the ball and dribbled it quickly, and then rushed directly to the sideline before Kolo Toure was ready.Kolo Toure knew that at this time, he would not be able to keep up with the opponent's speed in the past, and would be completely thrown away by the opponent, so he chose to turn around and chase.The same parallel running position as Li Zihan, blocking the opponent's pass to the center and the route of the inside cut.

However, he forgot that Li Zihan's speed is not equal to his own.

Li Zihan came to a place parallel to the penalty area line on the sideline. He didn't choose to go down to the sideline in one go.

Instead, he quickly stopped the ball and passed a high ball to the middle.On the other hand, he got into the gap left by Kolo Touré who had too late to "brake" and ran to the side of the penalty area!

Giroud in the middle jumped up immediately to fight for the top. This time, he had a good grasp of the ball's landing point and timing, and suppressed the bald central defender Skrtel who had been haunting him all the time.

Giroud won the header, but out of Mignolet's expectation, he didn't directly head the goal. Instead, he used a header ferry and directly returned it to Li Zihan, who had cut inside and was already in the penalty area.

Li Zihan looked at the flying ball and didn't intend to stop it. Instead, he leaned his body halfway, stretched his body, and then raised his right foot to directly hit the goal.

The ball 'hit' on the instep of Li Zihan's right foot, and then flew towards the far corner of the goal.

Mignolet's original attention was on Giroud and Cazorla who sneaked into the penalty area, so he was obviously not prepared for Li Zihan's shot.

In the end, the ball slipped from between his saving hands and hit the upper corner of the far corner of the goal!
"GOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!! THE GOAL!!! Li Zihan!!! Just 6 minutes into the pitch for Arsenal to get back a point. The excitement of this game is only just beginning, I bet!!"

"Li!!! My God, who said he was injured? Can any of you see that this is the performance of a wounded person? Anyway, I can't see it!"

"Wenger's substitution adjustment can be said to be immediate. After replacing Lee, Arsenal scored immediately. And the important thing is that this goal is not only the cooperation of Ozil, Gibbs and others, the most important thing is Giroud. The header ferry in the middle directly assisted Li Zihan. At the beginning, some people questioned that Wenger replaced Flamini instead of Giroud. After removing a defensive midfielder, Arsenal's already weak defense will definitely be defeated. Liverpool was sieved. But the French high center immediately defeated everyone's doubts with a beautiful header and returned Wenger's trust and persistence. Wenger's adjustment is perfect!"

After scoring the goal, Li Zihan originally wanted to run to celebrate under the stands where the away Arsenal fans were, but suddenly remembered something, and immediately stopped celebrating, and quickly ran towards Liverpool's goal.Under the puzzled eyes of all the fans, he picked up the ball he sent into the goal and ran to the midfield.

Li Zihan's action was a bit funny, but everyone couldn't laugh.The Arsenal fans did not celebrate wildly, but waited silently, because they knew that they were still one goal behind, and they had not yet reached the time to celebrate.

Although this is a league game, not a Champions League final.But Arsenal supporters are well aware of the meaning and significance of this game.

And when they saw the yellow-skinned young player wearing Arsenal's NO.12 jersey, they would never lose their hope for goals and their desire for victory.

I don't know when it will start, this young player who only joined the team this season has already played an irreplaceable role in the hearts of Arsenal fans.Although the opponent has not yet brought a trophy to the team, Arsenal fans firmly believe that as long as he continues to wear Arsenal's jersey, as long as he continues to run on the court, then the championship will always come.

After conceding the ball, Gerrard pulled his partner Henderson and center back Kolo Toure to his side.Let Henderson pay special attention to Li Zihan in the next game. Kolo Toure also had to pull down the sidewalk to intercept Li Zihan in No. 11 time when Li Zihan broke through. Even if it is a foul, he cannot easily let him break through Go inside the penalty area, or pass the ball easily.

Both Henderson and Kolo Toure nodded to the captain with an 'I understand' look.

People say that once people get older, their memory tends to be bad.Gerrard is actually not very old, but in the profession of football player, he can be regarded as an 'old player', and now he seems to have forgotten something, which is very important to Liverpool and Arsenal thing.