Chapter 326: Big win over Arsenal!! (1)

Chelsea kicked off first in the second half.

Icelander Eidur Gudjohnsson stood in the center circle, passed the ball to Arjen Robben next to him, and ran forward. Arjen Robben controlled the ball slightly and passed it back to Wang Li behind him.

After receiving the ball, Wang Li did not choose to dribble forward or pass the ball directly. Instead, he let the ball stick to his feet for a while, waiting for his teammates to approach the front court. After the players of both teams crossed their positions, he slowly dribble the ball forward - this even made many Arsenal fans in the audience think that he was delaying time.

But in fact, this is just to make the "zone attack tactics" play smoothly. If a quick attack is launched at the beginning, Robben, Duff and others are behind Wang Li, then it becomes a one-on-one duel rather than a tactic.

When Wang Li passed the center line with the ball, he was intercepted by Arsenal's young defensive midfielder Flamini. In the first half of the game, this young player who was highly expected by Wenger had been dribbled past by Wang Li countless times. Facing Wang Li's dribbling attack, Flamini felt a little uncomfortable, but despite this, he had to bite the bullet and go for the ball.

But surprisingly, Wang Li did not choose to pass the opponent directly this time. He did not waste time and quickly transferred the ball to the left.

When Arjen Robben received the pass, most of Chelsea's players had already taken their positions and the game was in full swing. Gudjohnsen had already run into the opponent's penalty area, ready to look for opportunities to shake off the defensive players and create chances. Correspondingly, Duff, Lampard and others were already in the frontcourt, and the four formed a four-corner diamond position in the middle and on the sidelines.

This is just the general framework of the zone defense tactics. Before coordination is achieved, this positioning and movement will keep Wang Li in the middle of the diamond. He can pass the ball or dribble alone, giving him more options.

Of course, it is impossible to maintain regular positions all the time in a real game, and Chelsea's attack cannot always be initiated by five people. Even if the offensive capabilities of other players are relatively weaker, they can still have some effect on Chelsea's offense. In other words, this position is only a rough formation before launching an attack, just like when two armies confront each other, a better formation can also play a role in winning or losing, but when the real battle begins, it is difficult to maintain the formation.

As the offensive core of the team, Wang Li certainly would not impulsively attack based on momentum. Now Arsenal's formation has not been opened up. Even if it is difficult for the opponent to crack the "zone attack tactics", they will not be invincible with this tactic. At least when the opponent uses dense human wave tactics, no matter how sophisticated the coordination is, it will become powerless.

So, just past the center line, Wang Li and Arkin Robben started passing the ball to each other, passing the ball to each other three times in a row, and seemed to have no intention of attacking forward. During this process, Arsenal's midfielder was unable to steal the ball, especially Flamini, who was the most frustrated. He had been standing next to Wang Li, but every time he could only watch Wang Li standing in front of him to receive the ball. No matter how he positioned himself, it was completely useless.

This made Flamini feel very powerless. If someone had told him before, "Your defense will be useless against Allen," he would definitely refute it unconvincingly and ignore it. But now he is very clear that compared to the black-haired boy next to him, the reputation of genius he has in North London is really worthless.

Don't think that Chelsea's only offensive method is fast break. In fact, with so many big-name players, positional warfare is the best choice. Arsenal is the exact opposite. Although their players are also very good, they still have too many young players. If they play positional warfare, the probability of these young players making mistakes will increase sharply. Therefore, compared with Chelsea, Arsenal is a little worse in this regard.

In this kind of passing, Arsenal's formation was gradually stretched apart.

In fact, one of the reasons why Arsenal is not good at defense is that their players have a strong desire to attack, so when they see Chelsea constantly passing the ball in the middle, some players want to steal the ball and launch a counterattack. This is a normal idea, but it also creates opportunities for Chelsea's offense.

Just as Pires and Fabregas came towards Wang Li from the left and right, intending to double-team him, Wang Li, who had just dribbled the ball with his right foot twice, suddenly moved!

He passed the ball to Damien Duff on the right, then lightly stepped past Pires and Fabregas in an instant, and when he arrived at the front of the penalty area, he just received the pass from Duff.

It happened in a flash, the whole action process only took 3 or 4 seconds, but Pires and Fabregas were left behind by him.

Arsenal's defense was not dense, but right at the start of the game, Chelsea showed an aggressive attitude, so almost all the players except Henry were in the backcourt. Although the formation was a little stretched out, it was still very dense, especially the center where Wang Li was, which was given special attention - just after passing the defense of Pires and Fabregas, Campbell came over again.

Wang Li felt a little depressed when looking at Arsenal's penalty area. Although it was difficult for Campbell to steal the ball from him, he had to know that there were Pires, Fabregas and Flamini behind him!

In desperation, he could only pass the ball to Damien Duff again, then cut diagonally to the right, trying to shake off the Arsenal players who were defending him.

As Arsenal's defense was very tight, Wang Li had been constantly passing the ball with his teammates, intending to find opportunities to tear open the opponent's defense. As a result, a strange scene appeared in the Arsenal half. A boy with black hair and black clothes was running disorderly in the Arsenal half. The football was always passed to his feet, and there were always 2 or 3 Arsenal players behind him.

This back-pass made the Arsenal players anxious, and even many Arsenal fans in the stands thought that the black-haired boy on the field was deliberately playing tricks on Arsenal. This idea made the Arsenal supporters on and off the field angry, so under the boos of the whole audience, Pires and Toure rushed forward and gave Wang Li, who had just received the pass, a flying tackle! !

After taking light steps and easily dodging their black feet, Wang Li finally found a loophole - because Toure was eager to steal the ball, the defense on the left was relatively weak, which gave Arkin Robben a relatively relaxed space.

Wang Li looked to the right, but he kept kicking the ball to Arkin Robben. The pass was very fast, jumping over 20 meters, which gave the Blues fans a feast for the eyes and cheered them on.

But the best is yet to come!

Arkin Robben didn't even receive the ball. He was like a wall. He pushed the ball with his left foot and the ball rolled towards an open space in the direction of the penalty area.

"Oh, he's lost... Danger!!"

The commentator looked at the pass and reflexively wanted to laugh at Chelsea's mistake, but he immediately swallowed the rest of the words and said in surprise. In the past games, Chelsea has played this kind of pass countless times, and every time the black-haired boy was able to catch the ball, and this time the position was even more dangerous.

Sure enough, the commentator was very "foresighted". In the next second, Wang Li appeared in front of the ball and swung his right foot to shoot the ball with great force!

"The ball goes in! The ball goes in, the ball goes in! In the second minute of the second half, Chelsea scored another goal. The goal was scored by No. 21 young player Wang Li. It was so beautiful!" The commentator of the Imperial TV station shouted with all his might.

"This goal is also his 35th Premier League goal this season, directly breaking Alan Shearer's record of 34 goals in a single Premier League season. My God, the league is not even halfway through yet, Wang Li is so outstanding. Undoubtedly, with this record, he will leave a deep and deep mark in the Premier League record!!"

"We are only in the 17th round of the Premier League now. I wonder how many goals he can score this season. Will he create a record that has never been broken before? I think everyone is looking forward to it. At least this season, the record he created can only be broken by himself."

After scoring this very symbolic goal, Wang Li ran happily to the coaching bench and gave head coach Mourinho a long hug.

Although Wang Li believed that his goal was entirely due to his own ability, there is no doubt that the endless trust of the Portuguese in him was also very important. The offensive tactics in this game were built entirely around him. How could he not be grateful to such a coach who valued him! ?

Media from various countries at the scene captured this scene. No matter from which angle, this photo is very meaningful.

After hugging Mourinho, Wang Li also hugged the assistant coach and teammates respectively. The significance of this record-breaking goal was so great that his teammates at Chelsea, who had been laughing all the time, also hugged Wang Li solemnly to congratulate him.

At this time, looking at the extremely happy black-haired boy on the field, all the Arsenal fans began to feel conflicted again.

Last season, when many media revealed that Wang Li used to be a very loyal Arsenal fan and reported extensively on the reason why he switched to Wolverhampton, these Arsenal fans did not think much of it. In fact, although Wang Li played very well at that time, he was not very famous and could only be described as a rising star in England. However, after the game between Arsenal and Wolverhampton, the attitude of Arsenal fans changed immediately. On the one hand, they were angry about Wang Li's humiliating goal at Highbury, and on the other hand, they were also angry with the management of Arsenal's youth team.

And now, as they watched the black-haired boy on the field score twice at Highbury and score the very symbolic 35th Premier League goal, they felt even more conflicted.

How can we not feel sad that such a goal-scoring player turned to the rival team because Arsenal did not accept him?

Now, Arsenal has obviously become a foil. Even the referee on the field tacitly gave Chelsea time to celebrate. Many reporters outside the stadium wanted to rush into the stadium for interviews, but were stopped outside by a large group of police.

"Alan, congratulations!"

At this time, Ashley Cole and Fabregas, who had a good relationship with Wang Li from Arsenal, also ran over to hug Wang Li and congratulate him on breaking the record. Although they did not want this goal to happen at Highbury again, they still sincerely congratulated their good friend for breaking the record with his strength.

However, it was not appropriate to celebrate too ostentatiously at this time. After Wang Li and Ashley Cole said a few more words, the referee began to urge them to return to the court to continue the game.

………Arsenal coach Wenger frowned in the coaching booth. He was not obsessed with Wang Li breaking the record at Highbury. In fact, when Chelsea was celebrating, he just glanced at them and didn't take it to heart. For the Frenchman, the most important thing was to think about the game.

At this time, Wenger was recalling the entire process of Chelsea's attack just now. It seemed that they were fighting a positional battle, and the black-haired boy was the team's offensive core, but Wenger always felt that things were not that simple.

But no matter what he thought, the score on the field had become 1:3. Arsenal was two goals behind. If they wanted to win, they had to fight to the death. So, Wenger walked to the sidelines and waved his hands. It was obvious that Arsenal was going to launch a massive attack at all costs.

Arsenal are now two goals behind and there is only half the game left. If they want to equalize the score or even overtake, they must do this.

At this time, Mourinho on the Chelsea coaching bench also stood up. He walked to the sidelines, pressed his hands down, and signaled the team to stabilize the defense and then seek to attack. In fact, the Portuguese was very satisfied with the score at this time. The score of 1:3 with Arsenal at Highbury should be quite satisfactory even for a super giant team.

With the on-the-spot command of the two head coaches, the situation on the field suddenly changed. Chelsea's overall formation moved back, while Arsenal put up heavy pressure with a desperate momentum to capture the city in one fell swoop.

But everyone knew that the situation was not as favorable to Arsenal as it appeared on the field, because in the middle of the field, the black-haired boy had been wandering around there trying to find an opportunity to counterattack. As long as Arsenal made a mistake, it would definitely be a good opportunity for Chelsea. After falling behind by two goals, Arsenal had given up most of their defense. At this time, it became extremely difficult to defend against Chelsea's counterattack, especially the counterattack of the black-haired boy.

On the field, Pires dribbled the ball on the left side of Arsenal and performed a long-distance run. He used skillful and practical footwork to pass Damien Duff who came to press him. This time the pass was very clever. When Duff came forward, Pires just did a bicycle kick and changed direction quickly to break through, which caught Duff off guard. When he turned around, he could not keep up with Pires' pace.

After passing Damien Duff's defense, Paulo Ferreira, who was responsible for backup defense, also came over. Ferreira was very experienced. He did not steal the ball directly, but followed Pires' dribbling and stuck to him, not giving him the chance to pass the ball. In the physical confrontation between the two, Pires had already reached the baseline with the ball, and the ball was about to go out of bounds.

But in the rush, Pires was very calm. He moved his left foot on the ball, pulled back to avoid Ferreira's interception, and then kicked the ball directly high towards the penalty area.

There were a lot of people in the penalty area, but Henry still struggled to squeeze past the defensive players. With his body unbalanced, he made a header straight to the upper left corner of the goal. Fortunately, Peter Cech was concentrating and most of his eyes were on Henry. He then reacted and lifted the ball out of the goal frame with one hand, which also made the Arsenal fans in the audience secretly exclaim in regret.

Corner for Arsenal.

Antonio Reyes walked to the corner flagpole to take the corner kick. In the 2003 UAE World Youth Championship, Reyes and Torres were the two most famous names. Although Spain lost to Brazil 0-1 in the final, the name of "Spanish Gemini" overshadowed any player in the champion Brazilian team, and it was natural for them to be selected for the national team. This made Reyes famous.

Although his performance at Arsenal this season was considered a failed transfer by many fans, his footwork is beyond doubt. Even Pires, who has always been a big mouth and pretentious in the team, verbally stated that his long pass accuracy is not as good as Reyes.

Under the gazes of everyone, Reyes jumped a few times on the spot. At the signal of the referee, he took two steps back, swung his right foot in rhythm, and directly suffocated the bottom edge of the football - the football drew a dazzling arc in the air and flew to the back point.

Back point, Campbell's position!!

Among England's main defenders, two generals, Campbell and John Terry, are considered by fans to have stronger offensive capabilities than defensive capabilities. One of the main reasons for this is their set pieces and headers.

Sol Campbell is 188cm tall and just turned 30 this year. In the football field, 30 is already on the edge of decline, but as a defender, this is still a strong age. Seeing the ball flying towards the back point, Campbell used his strong physical advantage to twist back and forth twice, almost knocking William Gallas next to him to the ground, and then jumped up and headed the ball! !

Under the gaze of all the fans in the stadium, the football turned an angle and went towards the goal. Chelsea goalkeeper Peter Cech had no time to react.

"The ball goes in..."

The commentator's roar was stuck in his throat, and the football hit the crossbar and flew out of the bottom line.

………After one wave of trouble comes another.

Under Arsenal's almost crazy full-court pressing tactics, the ball was directly intercepted in the backcourt during Chelsea's counterattack, and Arsenal launched another fast break.

After Fabregas intercepted William Gallas' pass, he passed the ball directly to Reyes, who made a precise straight pass to Henry at the front of the penalty area.

Henry got the ball, changed direction and passed Terry, trying to break into the penalty area and have a one-on-one chance, but was tackled to the ground by the latter. The referee showed Terry a yellow card and awarded Arsenal a free kick.

Bergkamp stood in front of the ball.

Although the legendary star did not perform much in this game due to physical exhaustion and declining form, his role in stabilizing the morale of the team and his experience in major competitions can greatly help the team in this game. After collective discussion, Arsenal gave the opportunity to Bergkamp for this set piece. Even though these young players are competitive, no one will disrespect Bergkamp.

At the signal from the referee, Bergkamp calmly stared at the Chelsea wall, then kicked the ball under the edge.

The free kick went directly around the wall and flew towards the goal. Although Petr Cech tried his best to save the ball, the angle of the ball was too tricky and he was out of reach. Amid the exclamations of Arsenal fans, the crossbar helped Chelsea this time and the ball hit the crossbar and bounced out of the bottom line.

"Oh my god!! What a pity that the ball didn't go in!! It seems that luck is not on Arsenal's side. The goal always rejects Arsenal. Does God want Chelsea to win by luck? "

After attacking for so long, Arsenal still failed to score. At this time, the stadium commentator was already depressed, with less and less confidence in winning. However, he was merciless in his words. Even if Chelsea won, he only said it was due to luck - perhaps, this is another kind of Ah Q spirit! ?

(To be continued)