Chapter 467: Observing and thinking to break the game
The game is still going on at Etihad Stadium.
The Gunners' indirect free kick failed to threaten Blue Moon's goal. Under the strict defense of a number of Manchester City players, their offense ended with Aguero who had just turned around with the ball.
After the two defensive players came over immediately, Akun, who tried to make a ball for Liu Feng, was unable to achieve his goal.
Teammates forced the opponent into a mess, and Toure, who was attacking, found the right rhythm and cut off the ball.
Afterwards, Manchester City was not in a hurry to attack. The ball took several laps in their half, slipping Liu Feng and Aguero who were pressing for a few laps before rolling back to the Gunners' half.
Compared to the situation in the first half, the Gunners became better in the second half because the arrangement of the three-middle midfielder made their defense no longer look like they could have relied on the inspiration of a player before.
After several times, Dzeko had to pass back because he didn't have a good chance. In the end, the ball was cut off by the forward who scored twice.
The rain is still falling, and there are few attacks between the two sides on the court that break through the rain curtain.
Continuous transmission is looking for opportunities, and with the decrease in the number of offensive participants, Arsenal's tactical changes make them seem to be more and more pressed.
If Manchester City were not playing hard, it would be a conservative, steady and tentative offense, and the scene might become very ugly.
However, this is just an inevitable result of Wenger's tactical adjustment, and it is impossible to directly determine that the Gunners are helpless against Manchester City.
In the 63rd minute of the game, their attack directly conceived Pantilly a thrilling challenge.
"Ramsey cut off the ball under Dzeko's feet and sent it forward, giving it to the little tiger. The little tiger inserted it forward and completed a beautiful two-pass one-cooperation with Gansuo."
Faced with the rare wonderful attacks of the Gunners, Liu Jianhong and Zhan Jun both played a twelve-point spirit to deal with them.
"I've already killed halftime and passed the ball to Aguero. This time the offense has been very smooth. Manchester City has six people blocked the defense line in front of the Gunners' offensive players."
In fact, it was not a good counterattack opportunity. Aguero, who had the ball, also realized this. After pulling the ball to the right, he pushed the ball horizontally to Liu Feng's feet.
Looking at Pantilimon's serious expression in front of the goal, Liu Feng kept observing the movements of other defenders. Before Kolarov and Sabaleta quickly blocked him, he chose to kick the ball directly.
"A Feng! He directly shot outside the penalty area, the ball fell rapidly from the air, Pantilimun! A beautiful save, lifted the ball out of the baseline."
Compared to Joe Hart's mistakes in various world waves, Pantilimun did not perform outrageously when facing his opponent's long shots.
With Liu Feng's continuous attempts, he has not yet been able to find his opponent's weakness.
However, the attack continued, and Arsenal won a corner kick opportunity on the left side of the penalty area.
Gansuo stood in front of the ball and took the penalty. He kept shouting at his teammates in the penalty area, attracting enough attention, which made Liu Feng and Xiao Hu in the penalty area under extremely strict defense.
However, everything was not so good after the ball was opened.
"Bang!"
In the heavy rain, Gansuo hit the ball hard, and his footwork did not fly accurately to the two teammates in the penalty area under the rainy ball.
"The ball is thrown into the small penalty area, but it is wrong. It is directly hitting the upper right corner of the goal. This is a corner kick and Pantilimong jumped up and punched!"
Since the air resistance is much greater than when it is sunny, the ball's speed is not fast. Liu Jianhong looked at Pantilimon who jumped up and attacked again and sighed helplessly in his heart.
However, the plot will develop a little strange in the next moment.
"It was flawed, but it was flawed. Pantilimun failed to destroy the ball and flew directly to the right side of the penalty area. The little tiger rushed over to compete for the top!"
This was a very thrilling mistake, especially when Walcott was not far from the ball, but luck once again stood on Manchester City's side.
Just when the little tiger was about to touch the ball with a shovel, the ball that had landed first bounced in the opposite direction, barely missing his right foot.
“…”
Seeing the ball being chased back in a mess, Onoha kicked the ball away, his depression rose to the hearts of every Arsenal player.
Their attack ended like this, so much so that the Arsenal players were a little autistic.
Liu Feng can be said to be an alien among the players. Just after Pantilimun attacked again to face the ball in the air, he saw what he had been waiting for from the goalkeeper's gesture and the subsequent results.
Turning around and running towards his own half with his teammates, the striker who had not performed in this game already had a draft in his heart.
"The Gunners' offense has been destroyed again, and the game has entered the last thirty minutes, so there is not much time left for them."
Seeing Arsenal return with regret, the gun fans were disillusioned. After being kicked by Fulham in such a game, the following rain battle was as difficult as it was.
This makes people wonder if Arsenal is destined to be in trouble during this period.
The game was re-run, and there was no big difference overall, but the murderous intent hidden in the rain really emerged.
"In the 68th minute of the game, Arsenal once again got the opportunity to attack, and this time they were advancing faster."
Due to the obstacles that Manchester City faced in offense, the interval between them losing the ball was getting faster and faster.
However, with a quick return to defense, Lan Yue's defense is still stable.
Unfortunately, this time, the development of the situation far exceeded their expectations.
"Bang!!!"
When the ball went from Wilshire to Ganso and then from Ganso to Aguero's feet, the Blue Moon back line had formed the first barrier to slow down Arsenal's offense.
Then, the ball was passed to Liu Feng's feet again.
People are thinking about what Liu Feng will do, so his position at the moment when he takes the ball is much further away from the goal than the last attack.
However, when a silver dragon cut through the sky and carved out a trace clearly visible to the naked eye in the rain curtain, there was nothing to guess about the way Super Maple was dealt with.
"A super long distance shot, the ball fell from the sky towards the ball!!!"
Back, back, and kept retreating. Pantilimun was running in time. He jumped high at the critical moment, and then rushed towards the ball with both hands.
"Swish!"
"I didn't touch the ball, the ball went in!!! A Feng!"
A clear mistake that shouldn't have been made, and people didn't have time to think about this scene and heard Liu Jianhong's excited cheers.
Chapter completed!