Chapter 289 Super Horse’s epic dragon at Old Trafford
"wuwuwuuuuuu——"

In the 3rd minute of the game, Martin intercepted Carrick's pass to Rooney at the front of the penalty area. He was knocked down by Herrera just as he was about to start. The referee Michael Oliver blew the whistle to signal that Herrera had committed a foul. , the Manchester United die-hards in the Stretford Stand issued harsh boos.

Not only for the referee Michael Oliver, but also for the 'flopping' Martin.

It's a pity that the boos created by Manchester United fans disappeared as quickly as they came.

Martin, who was pulled up by his teammates, had no idea that Manchester United had the home court advantage and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

Celebrities and fans were so aggressive on social media before the game, but they kept a low profile at Old Trafford.

Martin admitted that he enjoyed playing football in this 'Dream Theater'. The stage was big enough and the home court capacity was full. Unfortunately, the atmosphere could never keep up.

Arsenal organizes the attack in the backcourt and moves the football to the 30-meter offensive area through layers of advancement.

The home team Manchester United obviously deployed in a targeted manner, especially in marking Martin.

Herrera, who serves as a defensive midfielder, directly marks Martin when Arsenal is attacking and does not give him an easy opportunity to handle the ball.

With his back to the goal, Martin passed the ball to right back Bellerin and looked back. It turned out to be Herrera who had just switched from defense to offense and knocked him down in time.

However, he was not too surprised. Before traveling, he had watched a period of time when Mourinho was coaching Manchester United. Herrera's best performance was undoubtedly the one where he watched Hazard to death throughout the game.

Unexpectedly, Van Gaal, who advocates oppressive total offense and total defense, would also adopt a full-court marking defensive strategy.

It's really uncomfortable to have a defensive player watching you all the time, but... it's also quite challenging.

He wanted to test the strength of Herrera during Van Gaal's coaching.

Up the intensity!
In the following period of offense, Martin's offense mainly focused on sorting out and simplifying complex offenses.

That is to reduce the time of ball control and send the ball to the best position as soon as possible through advance observation.

Martin's focus was entirely on organizing the offense. Arsenal's overall offense gave people a mercury-like feeling. The offense was like a tide, as if they were conducting a half-court offensive drill.

There were only die-hard fans in the auditorium who cheered without sparing any effort, and most Manchester United fans watched the game quietly.

Van Gaal, the home team coach directing the technical area, frowned, obviously very worried about the game.

Arsenal's offensive was overwhelming, and their defense was not particularly strong. He didn't know if the team could withstand it during this period.

If you can withstand it, you may score a goal next.

If you can't stand it, you'll be in trouble.

0:6 warning in the first round.

The game came to 10 minutes, and the score displayed on the scoreboard had not changed yet, it was still 0:0.

Martin's performance was slightly affected by Herrera's full coverage, but not significantly, so the team's offense was still in order.

Herrera, who temporarily 'frozen' Martin, felt the pressure growing.

It seems that I can keep an eye on it, but in fact, with the continuous sudden stops and turns, I feel that my physical energy is exhausted very quickly.

Although he was not out of breath, he knew clearly that if this situation continued, it would be difficult to finish half the game.

Looking at Martin, who was still acting calm and calm, I couldn't help but think: Why is this guy's physical ability so abnormal?
……

Arsenal's continuous attack did not yield the desired results. Martin tried to turn the offense high and high, giving up some possession of the ball and giving Manchester United the initiative to control the game.

As the owner of this stadium, you should attack more or less, right?

The style of the game changed, and Manchester United coach Louis van Gaal was stunned...

Soon, he realized something.

Arsenal consciously gave up the initiative and turned the positional battle into a quick counterattack.

But he had to accept this reality.

Playing at home, Arsenal can't be allowed to play away from home for a long time, right?
In addition, only by taking the initiative in the game can we create absolute scoring opportunities.

Although quick counterattacks are the most efficient way to score points, Van Gaal also liked to play with the ball when he was coaching Manchester United. Otherwise, Bastian Schweinsteiger, who is over [-] years old, would not have been bought to Manchester United. It is a pity that he is currently recovering from injury. Otherwise, Definitely the starting lineup.

Sometimes defensive counterattacks also bring a lot of sweetness, but the football concept he pursues is more inclined to the ultimate comprehensive dominance of the offense.

Unlike Van Gaal who was standing in the coach's technical area, Wenger sat on the coaching bench with his legs crossed, turning his head solemnly from time to time to chat with his assistant, and then nodded.

After a few minutes, Van Gaal saw that the offense was going around and around, and he was gaining momentum but not scoring. In addition, because of his age, he was a little tired from standing in the command and technical area for a long time. He couldn't help but sighed meaningfully: "After all, I am still old. .”

If you are older and have achieved achievements, you will inevitably become stubborn about your football philosophy and work behind closed doors.

This is also the fundamental reason why it was difficult for Van Gaal to achieve results at the end of his coaching career.

Manchester United has the initiative in the game. Rashford, who is at the forefront of the striker, is still just a young player with very fast speed, good skills and good shooting accuracy.

He only made his debut in the first team this year, but with many key goals to help coach Louis van Gaal survive the dismissal crisis, he has the reputation of 'pulling the master'.

Such a young player is good at defensive counterattacks. It is difficult to find opportunities against the combination of veteran Koscielny and Gabriel in positional battles, which means that Manchester United's points in the penalty area are directly useless.

Depay joined Manchester United with his outstanding performance in the World Cup in Brazil, but his rough foot skills made him uncomfortable in Manchester United's tactical system, and his performance became increasingly difficult.

Rooney, who performed quite high-profile before the game, is the player who has scored the most goals since the two teams met in the Premier League. Unfortunately, his competitive ability has declined greatly in his thirties, and his performance is far less than that during Sir Alex Ferguson's coaching.

Mata is still in his prime, but his technical characteristics tend to focus on offensive organization, running without the ball and overall view.

Without absolute speed, it won't be able to achieve a very good breakthrough effect if placed on the wing.

Gaining the upper hand but not scoring has also been the main theme of Manchester United during this period.

In the blink of an eye, the game reached the third and 10th minute of the first half, and the score on the scoreboard had not changed.

Herrera, who was entrusted with an important task in this game, was not easy either. He was in a defensive position and followed Martin in continuous stops and turns, which consumed his physical energy very quickly.

When Manchester United is attacking, Herrera also needs to hang around Martin, transitioning with the ball and continuing to follow without the ball. However, Martin's running range on the defensive end is still very large, without sudden stops and turns, but with increased continuous lateral coverage. .

In short, the game came to 10 minutes, and Herrera felt that he had played an intense game for 10 or [-] [-] minutes.

It’s literally twice as much physical effort.

At this time, he had a sense of resentment against coach Louis van Gaal's tactical arrangements for the first time.

Why pass so many horizontal passes?
Isn't he good at threatening the ball with vertical passes?

……

The make-up match between Manchester United and Arsenal attracted much attention. Fans of both teams were walking on thin ice and watched the game anxiously, fearing that the other side would suddenly score a goal at a certain moment.

Neutral fans are equally worried.

It’s just that the core issues are different.

When will a goal be scored?
Become the only suspense neutral fans want to know.

Before the end of the first half, the neutral fans who were waiting for the goal sang in their hearts: After waiting for a long time, I finally waited until today, and after dreaming for a long time, my dream finally came true~
In the 43rd minute of the game, Manchester United, who had gained the ball, organized the attack patiently as usual, and Carrick sent a precise long pass to Depay who was attacking on the left.

I originally wanted to pass Bellerin with a stop, but in fact I did succeed. Unexpectedly, Martin made a very timely defense and directly separated Depay from the football with his body.

After completing the interception, Martin quickly handed the ball to Gabriel, who followed Martin's gestures and passed the ball ahead of time without stopping.

Herrera, who always focused on Martin, pounced on him without hesitation.

He knows that once the steal is completed, the team may score before the end of the first half!
Martin started chasing the football and dropped his left shoulder, using the inside of the instep of his right foot to smash the ball forward to the left.

With a hint of ecstasy in her heart, Herrera blocked Martin's path through advance prediction.

Sooner or later, Martin made full use of the flexibility of his ankle at the moment when he was about to touch the ball. It seemed that he was going to use the inside of his instep to smash the ball, but suddenly he turned to the outside of his instep to move the ball laterally to the right.

At the same time, the body came to a sudden stop.

Herrera, who went to attack Martin's pass route, was immediately confused and even a little unbelievable.

Obviously the speed has been increased and the center of gravity is seriously tilted. How can it complete the emergency stop and change of direction in such a short time?

So Herrera could only watch helplessly as Martin completed the breakthrough from his original position, accelerated the ball and faced the offensive direction.

Seeing this, Van Gaal waved his arms in anger. He had given very detailed instructions before the game. He must not be reckless when defending Martin and must pay attention to his position.

In his opinion, as long as the defense does not lose position, Martin can complete the breakthrough.

If Herrera knew what Van Gaal was thinking, he would definitely complain in his heart: You can do it~
Rooney, who is used to delaying to organize attacks, is positioned relatively deep and knows how to switch from offense to defense, so he pounces decisively.

As a result, Martin easily got by using the familiar fried meatballs.

Carrick, who was dragged at the back of the midfield, even though he was cool-headed, knew that he could not let Martin continue to drive the ball forward, even if Ramsey was running out of space.

Football is a team sport, and the defensive position behind you will naturally be filled by other players.

Ramsey in the middle made a ghostly move and pushed forward along the right front to take away Rojo's defensive attention. Smalling and Damian, who did not participate in assists, shouldered the heavy responsibility of defending Welbeck in the middle.

This talented forward who came out of Manchester United's youth training has a strong scoring ability.Smalling has experienced it many times at the Carrington training base.

Martin, who had passed Rooney, looked up towards the right side of his own attack, intending to make a long pass directly towards his right side of the attack before Carrick arrived.

Carrick knew that Martin's long passing skills were extremely good, and he was facing his own defense on the left, so he immediately came to a conclusion.

Hit the space behind Blinder!

Chamberlain is fast and can complete a relatively efficient defensive counterattack!
As a result, Carrick stretched out his foot to interfere with Martin's long pass.

Unexpectedly, Martin faked a dunk and dunked the ball from the front left.

"I... Fake!"

Carrick's actions have been completely completed, and it is simply impossible to defend Martin.

The two central defenders each have defensive tasks, and the midfielders are not in position. This means that Martin, who is moving forward with the ball at high speed, is unmarked!

"Chance!"

Xinying Sports commentator Jin Xiangkai’s voice suddenly became excited.

Fans watching the live broadcast of the game were even more energetic.

Martin can calmly dribble the ball in the midfield position at high speed to face the entire back line, which means that there is a high probability of scoring a goal.

He has a strong long-range shooting ability, and his ability to pass the ball is outstanding.

To put it simply, stepping forward to defend Martin will leave a huge passing gap behind him.

Not defending would be tantamount to exposing the goal to Martin.

Even if De Gea had divine help, he would probably concede the ball.

"Wowowoooooo—"

The gentleman fans at Old Trafford watched Martin dribbling the ball across the center line at high speed. They all held their heads in their hands and subconsciously exclaimed.

Van Gaal suddenly realized something when he felt the rush of fanaticism. He shouted to the players on the field: "Foul!"

However, the exclamations from the home team fans were so loud that they directly covered up Van Gaal's voice.

In fact, even if the sound can reach the ears of Manchester United players, it is useless.

foul?

The distance is far, and one by one they are no different from Uncle Calabash and Grandpa Calabash.

With all the fans watching, Martin, who was running at high speed, dribbled the ball forward at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Ramsey and Welbeck's movements consciously gave Martin room to run. One ran to the right and the other to the left.

Manchester United's defense is not stupid either. Rojo follows Ramsey, Damian follows Welbeck, leaving Smalling in the center to prepare to deal with Martin.

Of course, when they guard at a certain angle, they consciously move outside and focus on the center.

In the blink of an eye, Smalling, who was fighting and retreating, came to the defensive 30-meter area and stopped retreating.

He knows that Martin's effective shooting range is about 30 meters. If he continues to retreat, no interference from the front will pose a huge threat to De Gea's goal.

Martin, who was dribbling the ball at high speed, had no intention of slowing down. Smalling knew the rhythm of Martin's forced breakthrough or pass. He consciously lowered his body center of gravity and prepared to foul.

The distance between the two was still about five meters. Martin's left shoulder sank, and he naturally stepped forward with his right foot to dunk the football to the left.

Smalling noticed from the corner of his eye that the distance between him and Damian was almost five meters. According to Martin's dribbling ability and speed, he could complete the forced overtaking before the two were surrounded. With high concentration, there was no redundancy. Focus on other issues.

As soon as the body's center of gravity moved to the right, Martin used extremely explosive force to complete the rotation of the center of gravity. What originally seemed like he was going to use the inside of the instep of his right foot to smash the ball to the left suddenly turned into a move with the outside of the instep.

The entire movement was done in one go, which meant that Smalling, who was over 1.9 meters tall, could not react immediately, let alone reverse his center of gravity.

Rojo also guarded Martin and broke through from the direction of Martin's feet.

But he still underestimated Martin's speed and explosive power.

Martin took two quick steps to catch up with the ball, connected with the outside of his right foot and pushed the ball forward about ten meters.

Luo Huo's pupils shrank inward, and he subconsciously fell to the ground to put down the shovel.

Even if you can't shovel the football, you still have to knock people down!
"Marcos Rojo!"

Gary Neville, who served as Sky Sports commentator, shouted at the top of his lungs, staring at the Argentinian defender: "Decisive defense!"

At this moment, all Red Devils fans also pinned their hopes on Rojo, who made the final effort.

A few tenths of a second later.

Martin, who is running at full speed, wears red Puma sneakers, as if he is on Hot Wheels.

Fans in the third and 40-meter area of ​​the stadium close to Manchester United's defensive half seemed to see a golden lightning flashing across the stadium at high speed.

The speed was so fast that Ramsey and Welbeck, who were at an angle on both sides, went from being closer to the baseline to being even with each other, and then fell slightly behind at a speed visible to the naked eye...

Rojo fell to the ground and shoveled...

Only a ball of air was shoveled!
"Oh No!"

Gary Neville's unabated attack: "Stupid defence!"

It was as if he had forgotten that he was praising Rojo for his decisiveness just a second ago.

"Single sword!"

Multiple commentators in the commentary box blurted out.

Under the desperate gaze of Manchester United fans all over the world, Martin moved the ball towards the penalty area line without slowing down.

After a few strides to reach the penalty area line, the distance of Martin's next pass was greatly reduced, and his speed also dropped from fifth gear to third gear.

De Gea stood in front of the goal as the last member of the defense, and he could not avoid it.

Looking at Martin getting closer and closer, I can't help but think of the 0:6 game in the first round at the Emirates Stadium.

"No!!"

"I...want to save Kuang..."

De Gea, who was roaring in his heart, was giving himself a shot. Martin, who brought the ball to the penalty spot, did not follow martial ethics and directly used the outside instep of his right foot to push the rolling football forward to the right.

"I……"

"Fake!"

De Gea fell to the left and spread his arms to save the ball. It was obviously a lot slower. By the time the whole action was completed, Martin had already caught up with the football.

The shooting skill with the value [70] can completely guarantee that Martin will succeed in pushing the shot accurately when there is no goalkeeper in front of the goal.

The speed of the football that is close to the ground is not very fast, but... it is enough to cross the goal line smoothly and hit the snow-white net...

"Goooooooooooooal—"

Sky commentator Andy Gray's subliminally drawn-out voice was hysterical.

"Martin!"

"Get past De Gea!"

"Push! The ball is in! It's in!!"

"One train!"

"The 28th goal in the Premier League this season!"

Xinying Sports commentator Jin Xiangkai reflexively shouted continuously to release his passion for Martin who scored the opening goal, even though he is an out-and-out Manchester United fan.

Because Martin, the player who scored the wonderful goal, is...from the Dragon Kingdom!
"Oh My God!"

"A super team from Arsenal's midfield and backfield! Ander Herrera, Wayne Rooney, Michael Carrick, Chris Smalling, Marcos Rojo, David De Gea This defense was no different from a training pole, scoring super goals against six people in a row!”

"I can say responsibly... This goal is very likely to surpass Wayne Rooney's winning goal in the 2009-2010 season and become the best goal in the history of the Premier League!"

BBC commentator Lineker shouted eloquently.

"Historical... no! It's an epic goal!"

Guest commentator Henry said impassionedly: "Super horse! The leader of the invincible army!"

 The Chinese New Year will be here in more than three months, and the results of this book are not ideal, so I went home to code at night while moving bricks. The output is not high, sorry...

  
 
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