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5 Twenty Chapters: Real Madrid in a hurry

Real Madrid conceded two goals in a row, but failed to score a goal, and began to panic.Originally, they thought they had a big advantage, but they were pulled to the same starting line by the opponent without knowing it, and now they are playing at home. If Arsenal score another goal in the next game, then they must score at least consecutively. Only two goals have a chance, even if you tie the opponent's away goals in the end, you will have more away goals than yourself.

Ancelotti asked the team to press forward to attack at this time. Obviously, he also knows the severity of the situation. The key is that now his two starting central defenders have received yellow cards. Maybe this will become a hidden danger for him in the future.

Ancelotti hesitated and said to his assistant, Fernando Hierro, Real Madrid's passing star and former Galactico captain and now Real Madrid's assistant coach: "Fernando, let Nacho prepare to warm up." Hesitated a little. After a while, when Hierro was about to turn around and let the players prepare, Ancelotti said again: "Forget it, let Daniel (Carvajal) prepare for the warm-up, Isco and Asir (Iliara) Mendy) is also ready to warm up."

Hierro turned around, nodded, and continued walking toward the bench.

As for Arsenal, Wenger also began to let the players warm up. The weather at the end of April is not too cold, and it is in warm Spain, but Wenger should prepare early. up.

"Mathieu (Mathieu Flamini), Mikel (Mikel Arteta), Thomas (Thomas Rosicky) you go warm up!"

At this time, the camera also showed the warm-up area of ​​the players on both sides.

"Ancelotti and Wenger seem to be ready to make some adjustments, especially Ancelotti, now their advantage is gone, the two central defenders have yellow cards. As a good coach It is time to eliminate this hidden danger. Otherwise, if there is one less player to fight, the result of the game against Arsenal will be really difficult to predict, but at least the balance will tilt towards Arsenal. So at this time, An Celotti sent Real Madrid's young defender Carvajal to warm up."

"In fact, Real Madrid's bench is thick, and there are still many options in the defense, such as the Portuguese Coentrao, the Spaniard Arbeloa and Nacho."

"From this aspect, we can see why Real Madrid is a top giant, while Arsenal is just an ordinary giant. Regardless of the starting lineup, even the bench is an absolute failure. At least in the defense line, Arsenal are now the only one. The only choices are Vermaelen and Monreal, who are not reliable."

Real Madrid's offense became more and more fierce. After Li Zihan scored the second goal, Arsenal was almost beaten by Real Madrid.And Arsenal also began to recover across the board, defending Real Madrid's counterattack, leaving only Li Zihan in the frontcourt to counterattack.

And Real Madrid is obviously also afraid of the opponent's counterattack, so the central defender Pepe who stays in the backcourt has been following Li Zihan, even when the opponent has no ball or even Real Madrid has the ball. Lonso did not go forward to help the offense. Considering his physical fitness and the sharpness of the opponent's counterattack, he chose to stay to help defend, but let his midfielder Modric go forward to attack.

The iron triangle of attacking midfielders formed by Cristiano Ronaldo, Bale and Di Maria launched a fierce attack on Arsenal's defense. Benzema also kept interfering with Arsenal's central defender Koscielny in the middle .

According to Carlo Ancelotti's tactical arrangement before the game, Arsenal's biggest weakness on the defensive side is Benzema's compatriot French central defender Koscielny, in addition to his poor interception ability in the midfield.

From the data of the last two seasons and the analysis of game videos, Koscielny is almost the most unstable factor in Arsenal's defense.He often lost his position in position, and he was prone to sending penalties to the opponent or giving himself a red card.

Arsenal's poor defense is actually not because the midfielder's waist is not strong enough, but there are many factors.Such as the unstable Vermaelen and Koscielny, as well as goalkeeper Szczesny.

So Benzema went to Koscielny, using his impact to put pressure on his compatriots, maybe the other party can't stand it and it's easy to make mistakes.

Sure enough, Koscielny made a mistake in the No.607 minute of the game.He followed Benzema's position, and Cristiano Ronaldo dribbled the ball on the sideline. He thought it was a cooperation between the two, but Benzema's movement directly took him from the center to the side.

At this time, Cristiano Ronaldo cut in with the ball, looked at the open space in front of him, and shot directly.

The ball flew towards Arsenal's goal quickly.

"Cristiano Ronaldo!!!" Seeing the Portuguese hit the goal, the Spanish commentator felt like he had taken a stimulant.

But at this time Modesat stood up, he stretched out his long legs, and blocked the ball.The ball fell to the feet of Ramsey, who was back on defense, and Ramsey, who had his back to the attacking direction, had no way to shift the ball to the frontcourt to launch a counterattack.

"Great job!! Mordsart!! This is the advantage of long legs, the defensive space is much larger than other players at once!"

"Cristiano Ronaldo was in a bit of a hurry to play this ball. Koscielny was just taken away by Benzema. There is a lot of space in front of him. He can take the ball with two steps and shoot. With his speed and impact, Mordsart may not be able to defend, and even if Mordsart came to fill Koscielny's position, Bale and Modric who inserted in the middle also have good opportunities and space , but you can choose to shoot or pass.”

"From Cristiano Ronaldo's shot, you can see the mentality of the entire Real Madrid-very anxious! In fact, they don't have to worry at all. Although Arsenal equalized the score, this is their home court. Playing at the Bernabeu The ball is the natural advantage of Real Madrid, and Real Madrid is much stronger than Arsenal in terms of lineup. Real Madrid only needs to play their own ball well, and goals will always be produced. In fact, Arsenal's defense is already in place. It's crumbling."

Bell in the middle soon followed, he pressed behind Ramsey, trying to grab the ball from the opponent's feet.

For safety's sake, Ramsey half-turned and kicked the ball out of the sideline with great effort.Although he could kick the ball directly to the second floor of the stand directly opposite him with a big foot, that would give the opponent a corner kick.Arsenal do not have an advantage in defending corner kicks. On the contrary, corner kicks are still the opponent's advantage.Not to mention the three central defenders of Varane, Pepe and Ramos, there are also good headers like Cristiano Ronaldo, Bale and center Benzema.

Taking advantage of the dead ball, Wenger yelled at the field: "Recovery, defense!! Can't you understand? Jack, your position is too high, Aaron, you haven't protected the front of the defense enough, pay attention to the opponent A long shot from midfield."

Shouting and gesticulating.

On the other side, Ancelotti signaled the team not to worry, to increase the quality of offense, and use two sides to tear the opponent's defense.

The ball was indeed due to insufficient support from the midfielder for the defense. Although Wilshere played as a central midfielder, there were still many defensive tasks in this game.Arsenal played several high-quality counterattacks before and scored a goal.Wilshere was conditioned to believe that the teammate could stop, and then he counterattacked with the players in the frontcourt.

The reason why the position is relatively front is to give teammates support in the counterattack.

Wilshere nodded and began to retreat.

Marcelo threw the ball out of bounds, and Cristiano Ronaldo, Sagna, Chamberlain, and Bell, who came to support him, immediately began to press frantically.

Sagna and Chamberlain naturally did not want the opponent to easily take the ball and then form a new attack, while Real Madrid wanted to avoid the opponent's press and prepare to organize an attack.

Seeing that Marcelo, who had finished throwing the throw-in, joined the press, Wilshere also wanted to come to help.But Ozil gestured to him, beckoning himself to come.

There were a total of six people on both sides, and they launched a crazy press on the left side of Real Madrid and the right side of Arsenal. In the end, the experienced Sagna kicked the ball towards Marcelo.

The fast ball hit Marcelo's thigh and bounced out of bounds.

Marcelo and Sania raised their hands together, meaning that the ball was made by the opponent.But the linesman was near them, so it was clear that the ball was finally hit by Marcelo before it went out of the sideline.

Immediately the linesman raised the flag and pointed to Real Madrid's second half - Arsenal throw in!

"The players on both sides are very hardworking, and they don't even make it easy for the opponent to throw a throw-in!"

Marcelo shook his head with a smile and began to retreat towards the backcourt.But when he saw Sagna standing on the sidelines taking the ball and preparing to throw it to Ozil, he immediately rushed up to block Ozil.He intends to entangle with the opponent on this throw-in, and learn from the previous Arsenal, and do the same.

But Sagna obviously didn't want to have too much "emotional entanglement" with him. Sagna pointed at Ozil, motioned him to move away from Marcelo's interference, and then passed the ball to him himself.

Ozil moved according to Sagna's intention, and Marcelo followed closely.