Chapter five hundred and forty-four, the perfect Sunderland
The celebration of Sunderland was as crazy as the fans at the Stadium of Light.
They celebrated at home with little time left in the first half, and the goal-scoring hero Wickham became the team's protagonist.
As for the Arsenal players, they stood in their positions and were speechless. Wenger on the sidelines angrily shouted to the field and couldn't change anything.
When the game started again until the halftime break, the Gunners who controlled the ball were unable to break through the Sunderland team's tightly arranged defensive formation.
Watching the game away, Liu Feng naturally couldn't enter the locker room during the halftime to cheer up his teammates.
He and Yuan Xiao could only sit in the stands and watch the replays on the big screen, with cheers from Sunderland fans in his ears.
Eighty percent of the exciting highlights of the entire first half were pictures of the home team.
People's pre-match prophecy was broken in this FA Cup match. The Gunners, who have never lost the game since losing in the match against Marseille, are getting closer and closer to losing.
"Okay, welcome back, and the second half will be brought to you soon."
More than ten minutes later, the two teams returned to the player channel with completely different momentum.
The Gunners, who had their heads down, were obviously scolded by Wenger in the locker room, but the professor had no intention of replacing people in the half.
After highlighting several players who were obviously not in this game, he handed over the scene to the team again.
In this game, Rosici, who had a captain's armband, shouted loudly to the players to stand up quickly and cheered the team up before the game started again.
In the stands, in the away fans where Liu Feng was in the stands, many Gunners fans also sat upright like him.
The second half is still long, and they have time to look forward to their team's counterattack.
However, what is unexpected is that the Sunderland team in this game is really surprising.
Martin O'Neal made a calm decision. With the team leading two goals, the team's formation was arranged to be 442 at the beginning of the second half.
Wickham was retreated from the winger position, and the team's midfielder reached four, and Sunderland started the defense with a leading attitude.
This surprised the Arsenal players who had already done their best after the game started and continued to welcome their opponents' crazy attacks. The pressure they faced suddenly decreased a lot.
But this does not mean that Sunderland completely gave up on the possibility of continuing to expand the score.
The speed and running of the two forwards McLean and Bentner still make Arsenal afraid to throw their opponents into the hinterland of their midfield. They dare not show off when their opponents continue to cruise in the heart of their midfield.
This directly led to the time when the big guys counterattacked just now after the start of the second half of the game was wasted.
When Giroud and Chamak finally started an attack that threatened the opponent's goal with the assistance of their teammates, the Black Cats' players had adapted to the new rhythm.
Several Sunderland midfielders and defenders kept clamping the Gunners' two forwards. Since neither of them was good at skill, it made it difficult for them to deal with after getting the ball.
Wenger on the sidelines began to turn around and called out several substitutes after the 60th minute of the game. He realized that it is very likely that he should not expect to score a goal in this game without substitution.
But what he didn't expect was that the players of the two teams played one coherent offense and defense on the court when he was about to substitution.
First, Giroud's shot was confiscated by Mignollett, although Sunderland's attack finally sent the ball to Szczesny under Bentner's shot.
In this cycle, there was no chance of a dead ball in the next ten minutes.
"The game is coming to the 75th minute, and the score is still 2-0. The Gunners' offense is not excellent in this game, and all kinds of shooting attempts seem a bit reluctant."
After crossing the 70-minute dividing line, Liu Jianhong began to sigh. He shook his head and became increasingly dissatisfied with the Gunners' reversal of the game.
It was not until the 77th minute of the game that Wenger had an opportunity to adjust.
The players standing beside him waiting for the show had changed from one person more than ten minutes ago to three.
In this game, Aguero, Liu Feng and Gansu were not on the list, so Wenger could not be as full as before when it was substitution choice.
"Henry, Ramsey, Chamberlain, Professor made three substitutions in one breath, and the intention of one midfielder to choose two forwards is very obvious."
It will be eighty minutes soon, and it will be 0-2 behind. It is really unreasonable to fight if you don’t fight at this time.
Henry, who appeared on the bench, began to wave his arms to motivate his teammates as soon as he appeared on the court. As the team's most famous show and legend, he still played a certain role.
"Chamak was replaced, Henry appeared at the right winger of the stadium team, and Chamberlain, who replaced Bernardon, appeared at the left winger."
From 442 to 433, anyone can see that Arsenal is trying hard.
So Martin O'Neal became even more amazing. He chose to replace a player at every dead ball time after the professor made the substitution adjustment.
In the 81st minute of the game, midfielder Kohlbeck appeared and replaced forward McLean McLean.
Sunderland's formation changed to 451 at this moment.
In the 84th minute of the game, defensive midfielder Mohamadi came on the court, replacing Wickham, who was strong and weak, continued to strengthen the team's defense.
Every time Sunderland substitutes, he was able to delay time as much as possible. Wenger, who was anxious on the sidelines, kept complaining to the fourth official.
But this did not prevent Sunderland from using the last substitution.
In the 88th minute of the game, the Gunners had just completed a high-quality shot. Henry, who finally found his form, made a volley and saw that he was saved by Mignolet.
Arsenal got a corner kick opportunity, but had to wait for Sunderland's substitute to appear.
Fortunately, Sunderland's last substitution was no longer in the past. The tall Bridge quickly ran from the sidelines. He was so tall that he was so strong that he jumped so hard that he entered the penalty area.
When the ball was driven out of the corner flag by Rosici, Giroud and Bridge were entangled with no one being able to touch the ball, and then Oshe was cleared by a kick.
"The game has entered ninety minutes, three minutes of injury time, the time left for Arsenal has been completely in a hurry. The ball towards the midfield was obtained by Ramsey!"
"Bang!"
He could no longer move forward slowly. Ramsey had already observed his teammates' positions before running towards the ball landing point.
Chapter completed!