Chapter six hundred and seventy-eight of the tug of war
Updated: 2012-11-13
When Arsenal fans saw the slow motion played on the electronic display above the stadium, they had nothing to say. Henry was indeed offside. The moment Pire passed the ball, half of his body was behind Mallorca's defense. It can only be said that Mallorca's offside tactics were too good, and even Henry suffered.
Wenger frowned. In the last game, Henry was also sentenced to offside first. One time it was a coincidence, but the second time it was not a coincidence. It can only be said that Mallorca has quite some experience in offside tactics now.
In fact, this is also Jose's helpless move. After all, the speed of Mallorca's two central defenders is an absolute flaw, especially after Mex was injured. In order to avoid the opponent's attack more, Jose arranged a lot of offside tactics in training to make Matthias and Vidic familiar with him. Fortunately, Matthias is not as reckless as he looks, and Vidic is also a central defender who seems rough but actually careful. In fact, in previous games, Mallorca has used many such methods to resolve the opponent's attack, but he has not done too much in important games.
After the goal was judged invalid, Arsenal's offensive momentum eased. After all, they were holding their breath before and attacking. When they saw the goal, they had already breathed a little. It was not so easy to raise it again...
Mallorca seized this opportunity and started a counterattack!
Van der Sar did not kick off the ball this time, and Mallorca did not have an advantage in the front court. He passed the ball to Matthias in front. After Matthias took the ball, he turned around and passed the ball to Vidic before Henry came up to press, while Vidic passed it straight to Alonso in front, and Mallorca launched an attack.
After removing a midfielder, Arsenal's running in the middle seemed much weaker. After all, although Pire can make a big shot, he mainly attacks on the wing, and Heleb is a standard winger. Mallorca's four midfielders, Senna, Alonso Kaka, are all used to moving in the middle, and Mendeta is now playing closer and closer to the middle, which is also related to Mallorca's characteristics. Their attack on the wing is mainly accomplished by two full-backs.
Alonso dribbled the ball forward and passed the ball to Mendeta before Fabregas pressed it up. Gilbert Silva was marking his compatriot Kaka. Mendeta had no defense for the time being. He began to dribble the ball forward. Pire, who was returning to defend, came up to defend him until the center circle. The two veterans were entangled together, and finally Mendeta dribbled away Pire and continued to move forward. Then he passed the ball to Torres who retreated to get the ball. Torres and Klose made a two-pass-one cooperation and then shot at the top of the arc. The ball was swept by Lehman and Ebue immediately cleared the ball.
The ball flew to the right side of Arsenal's frontcourt, but Ram intercepted the ball before Hleb, and then began to dribble forward, making two two-for-one cooperation with Senna and Alonso. Ram began to dribble forward in the left side!
Ebue ran out of the penalty area to defend him, but Ram continued to control the ball and forcefully broke through to the bottom line. Then he stopped quickly, dodged a gap, quickly poured the ball from his left foot to his right foot, and then made a cross!
The ball flew straight to the back point, and Kloze, who inserted it, beat Sendros, and headed to attack the goal at the back point!
Faced with this close-range header, Lehman had no time to react. However, what made Mallorca fans sigh was that the ball actually flew out of the baseline against the close post, and Mallorca missed an opportunity!
Even Klose, who had always seemed quite gentlemanly on the court, couldn't stand it anymore. He picked up the ball and stared at it desperately, as if asking the ball - why can't you get in...
Jose shrugged his shoulders on the sidelines. There is really nothing we can do about this. If he didn't enter, he wouldn't enter...
"It seems that you have bad luck in scoring today, Miloslav." Lehman, who was a little scared, began to joke with his national teammates. He was not trying to hit Klose, because he knew Klose was not a player who would easily shake it.
"I hope there will be another chance." Klose threw the ball in his hand to Lehman, then shrugged: "I will strive for a goal."
However, after doing all this, Klose was a little confused when he ran back. He was in good shape in the league this season. He has scored twenty-four goals so far, leading Etoo, who ranked second, is likely to become Mallorca's first league best scorer in history. However, his performance in the cup was average. There was a goal in the Cup, a goal in the Super Cup, and only three goals have been scored until now. Two of them were scored in a group match. In other words, he only scored one goal in the knockout stage. Not only can he not compare with Kaka who scored seven goals and Torres who scored six goals, even Van Persie, who has not played many games, scored four goals in the Champions League, one more than him...
But sometimes it is like this. A team has two excellent scorers. They often don’t score more goals in the same game, but one is better in one game. The most typical example is Inter Milan in 2002-03. Vieri kept scoring goals in the league, and finally won the Serie A top scorer but scored few goals in the Champions League. Crespo almost won the top scorer in the Champions League, but not many goals in the league...
Klose is a striker who can treat games with a normal mind. Generally speaking, players who are late to achieve great things or have been hang out in the low-level league have this mental state and are not afraid of favors and disgraces, so he just regrets for a moment and immediately calms down and prepares for the next game.
After missing a good opportunity, Mallorca's offense began to stagnate a little. Arsenal took the opportunity to pull the situation back a little, and the two sides began to stalemate in the midfield - at this time, the audience in the stands could finally breathe a sigh of relief, eat some popcorn, and take a sip of Coke...
Of course, this kind of scene that is common in the NBA stands is not seen in the stands of football matches, at least in ordinary stands. Football has always been a very popular sport, so that former Manchester United captain Keane would dissatisfiedly say that those "those who are well-dressed and drunk red wine in the private room and eat lobsters are not fans at all." During the game, it is impossible for fans to stuff popcorn into their mouths while cheering vaguely.
Although both sides were in a deadlock on the court at this time, every fan would not miss any situation on the court now, because although both sides were in a deadlock, the situation on the football field changed rapidly, and maybe a moment of excitement may be missed in the next moment - the basketball game has a timeout, but the football game is not.
During the deadlock, the players on both sides will not relax at all. They are carefully looking for weaknesses in the opponent's defense line, trying their best to suppress the opponent's midfield, hoping to gain more advantages.
Although Mallorca and Arsenal are both good at attacking, at this time, they are like experienced hunters, looking for flaws in the opponent's defense by observing each move, and launching fatal attacks at any time.
When the time reached thirty minutes, Arsenal took the lead in starting a fierce attack.
After a series of cooperation, Arsenal made a series of wonderful cooperation. Henry started dribbling the ball from the left, attracted Mallorca's defense attention and handed the ball to Fabregas. Fabregas was calm and did not pass the ball to Henry, who was under Mallorca's focus, but seized a fleeting gap and passed the ball beautifully to Pire. Pire drove the ball straight in, got rid of Makon's defense and then shot directly at the front of the penalty area. Van der Sar flew to block the ball, and Vidic cleared the ball with his big foot.
Fabregas then had two beautiful passes in a row. He first got rid of Alonso, then got rid of Senna's marking and then forced a breakthrough from the middle, but was tackled by Mattias, who was in time to make up for the position, and shoveled the ball with a beautiful tackle.
Three minutes later, Henry cut in from the left and passed the ball low. The ball was blocked by Vidic and went out of the baseline. After the corner kick was taken, Sendros grabbed the ball at the front point, but was pushed out by Macon, who was guarding the near post. Gilberto Silva, who followed, grabbed the ball again in the penalty area and shot the first time, but was blocked by Mattias with his body.
After resisting Arsenal's fierce attack, Mallorca began to counterattack. Alonso made a beautiful over-top ball in the midfield. Toure wanted to fly to clear the ball but failed to touch the ball. This mistake made Torres get the ball behind him. Although Torres could only break through to the bottom line under the attack of Ebue and Sendros, he then completed a beautiful pass and quickly passed the ball into the penalty area. Lehman fell to the ground and wanted to intercept the ball in the middle, but it was a little worse, revealing the empty goal behind him!
Klose rushed towards the ball. He followed up a little slower. Seeing that the ball was about to slide past the goal, Klose chose to fall to the ground and slide the ball. He could score as long as he touched the ball. But it was still a little slower. The ball flew past his feet and flew to the back point. Cole, who was returning to defense, controlled the ball.
Within these few minutes, both sides made beautiful attacks and once, the cheers in the stands were also rising and falling. However, for various reasons, both sides still failed to score goals and always passed by goals repeatedly.
However, for the commentator, such a game is much more enjoyable. I don’t know if the espn commentator has seen what Jose said in an interview. Anyway, this guy looked very flirtatious: "Excellent, so exciting. Mallorca and Arsenal showed their offensive strength! Although neither scored goals, this series of offenses is a complete enjoyment for fans! Especially for neutral fans like us... we only scored one goal in the first round, allowing both sides to go through this game.
Full of desire for offense, many media originally believed that Mallorca's leading advantage could make them play more securely. Now it seems that Mallorca is still worthy of being the Mallorca, the Mallorca who has beaten all over Europe with offense! With one goal leading, they still did not choose to be conservative, but launched a fierce attack on the away game! From now on, Mallorca is also reasonably conservative at home, because with their characteristics, in this two-round knockout type, they can make their offense more unscrupulous in the away game!”
The commentator has come to the point. In the league, Mallorca's home offense naturally has no worries. However, in the knockout round, the seriousness of the home goal conceded Mallorca had to be more secure at home, especially when playing at home first...
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