Chapter 233: Killing Arsenal
With Changhong's goal, Lehmann couldn't make a save at all, and could only watch the ball go into the net.
Looking up at the ball still bouncing in the net, the 36-year-old Lehmann's eyes flashed with a hint of loneliness, and losing the ball meant that Arsenal were speeding away from the FA Cup title.
Coming two goals down against Manchester United, what it means, everyone knows very well in their hearts.
But no one had any way to stop this lost goal, because when Dong Fangzhuo took the ball and shot, everyone failed to get close to Dong Fangzhuo at the first time, Dong Fangzhuo's shooting space was too big, even if he didn't prepare for a long time, but the shooting action was quite natural and relaxed.
"When did Xiao Dong's feet become so hard?"
"The list of the World Youth Championships will be announced soon, and if he dies in the Youth Championships, the Chinese team will have a show. This group of young players in China is good and may achieve good results. ”
The coach of the national youth team, Crawford, has not yet announced the squad of the national youth team, so Chinese fans are speculating whether Dong Fangzhuo can follow the team to the World Youth Championships in the Netherlands, the most important reason is that Dong Fangzhuo has now become the main force of the national team, and the World Cup qualifiers and the World Youth Championships have conflicts, and the other reason is that the main force of a national team will play the World Youth Championships, which seems unlikely.
"Don't think too early, maybe he can't go to the national team and the World Youth Championships, the last game with Saudi Arabia, Dong Fangzhuo's move to set aside Alihan is now being investigated by the Football Association, and Dong Fangzhuo may be rejected by the door of the national team. Alihan's character is actually very hard, in case he really rejects Xiao Dong from the door. ”
"It's a good thing, he can go to the Germans' tent in peace."
"But what if the Football Association doesn't even give the World Youth Championships a chance?"
“……”
At half-time, United entered the dressing room with a 2-0 scoreline, with Ferguson emphasizing man-to-man defence before launching a quick counter-attack. After all, with two goals in hand, Arsenal will definitely attack to the death, Manchester United is the first priority to defend well, and then play defensive counterattack.
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In the Arsenal dressing room, the big team went out, and under normal circumstances, Vieira likes to walk out of the dressing room last in the half, but today Henry was stunned and dragged him to the end.
"Patrick."
"Is that true?"
"What?" Knowingly, Vieira was about to take a step, but heard Henry's question.
Sooner or later, this question will not be escaped.
He stopped, then looked at Henry earnestly.
'Yes, I don't think it's challenging in the Premier League anymore, I want a change of environment, I want the Champions League.
In the face of his friend, Vieira did not hide anything and spoke directly about his thoughts. After so many years in the Premier League, he has won so many titles, the Premier League, the League Cup, the FA Cup and even the Community Shield, but the Champions League he wants most has not.
Originally last season's 49-game unbeaten streak had given him confidence, but this season's successive defeats in all competitions have left him with no hope of Champions League hope.
In addition, Juventus is a team with such a strong temptation that almost all the best players in the world have gone there. He felt he should leave and become part of Juventus.
Henry was silent for a long time, pondering Vieira's words, and finally spat out only one sentence.
"Let's play the last game."
He didn't say the championship because there was no hope in sight right now. He wanted to play, but it wasn't realistic.
The two men were the last to walk out of the tunnel, and everyone was already on the field. Vieira glanced at Henry and hurried to the field, while Henry could only walk to the bench from the other side.
Henry knew that as soon as Vieira left, he would be the next captain of the Gunners, but now, he was not happy at all.
The big battle is ahead, but you can only watch the team fall behind 0:2 from the bench!
Old comrades-in-arms Ljungberg and Edu have warmed up, and Dutchman Van Persie has also taken off his coat on the sidelines.
The old old, the young and the young, the future of Arsenal looks a little ethereal. Manchester United, on the other hand, seems to have completed the inheritance and handover.
The 28-year-old Henry also seems to have been emotionally affected by Vieira......
No
It shouldn't be like this.
Henry shook his head inwardly.
Hurry up and wave away that bad thought.
The second half of the game restarted, and soon,
Bang Bang Bang -
A drizzling rain fell on Wenger's body, making Wenger's shoulders feel a little heavy. He didn't walk back to the dugout, but braved the light rain to walk to Edu, who was warming up, and he explained something.
It looked like he was about to make a move, and sure enough, he replaced the young Cesc Fabregas shortly after.
"The performance of Xiaofa in this game can be described as a disaster, a mistake indirectly allowed United to score the first goal, and in the second goal, he also had considerable responsibility in the penalty area. Of course, his partner Patrick Vieira is no better than that, as the two of them have been poor in the middle, allowing United's little ones to do whatever they want in attack. ”
"But I think Arsene Wenger also has a certain responsibility, although Xiaofa has played a lot this season, but he has not played much time, and suddenly let him start in this most crucial final, he will definitely not play better than expected." Lineker analysed the reasons for Cesc Fabregas's poor performance.
But if Wenger hears this, Wenger will definitely have to curse, and he doesn't want Fabregas to start, but Edu has just recovered from injury, he can't let Edu take risks, now it's different, he has to let Edu come up, it's better than Fabregas being on the field.
Wenger didn't have much to do, everyone who could use it used it, after Edu came up, Arsenal still tried to speed up the attack, but the speed has not been able to get up, and Manchester United has kept the back field very steady.
Arsene Wenger then brought on Ljungberg for Gilberto. After thinking about it, he simply got Van Persie up, Van Persie came on to replace Reyes instead of Bergkamp, and at the critical time, Wenger still chose to believe in the veteran, even though Bergkamp was 36 years old, and still kept him on the field.
The young Van Persie had just come on and had a chance to get Heinze off the pitch and get on the right flank with Edu's long ball over the top, easily getting rid of Heinze and moving the ball down the middle, but his flaws were the same as Reyes's, and they didn't fully consider the possibility of Bergkamp winning the header with the United defenders in the middle.
However, the ball is still at the feet of the Arsenal players, after Edu came up, it was obvious that he and Vieira cooperated more tacitly, the midfield was at least well organized, and Manchester United's counterattack could not be played for the time being, so he simply guarded at the back. Seeing that the players of Manchester United ran back except for Dong Fangzhuo, Arsenal pressed even higher, except for leaving Kolo Toure and Sendros to guard Dong Fangzhuo, everyone else pressed up.
Ashley Cole and Lauren on the left and right flanks rushed forward. Arsenal need goals now, and it's two, and they have to. United's two wings were put to the test, with a steady stream of Arsenal crosses.
But Arsenal's biggest weakness is the forward line, and neither Bergkamp nor Robin van Persie can take advantage of the scramble. So they have an empty attack on the wing, and going to the middle can't solve the problem of scoring goals.
They pressed Manchester United for more than 20 minutes to no avail. The clock faded by the minute, but the score remained 0:2. And Manchester United's counterattack from time to time can't make any waves, after all, Manchester United now has two goals in hand, even if they don't score, there is nothing, as long as they bite this score.
The united Manchester United players, holding the middle, means that Arsenal has nothing to do.
"Lack of Henry!"
"If Thierry Henry was on the pitch, United would have found an opportunity, but now ......," Ian Wright tapped on the table in frustration and almost didn't let himself play, "At the end of the season, a lot of people are probably leaving Arsenal, and Arsenal, like Manchester United, needs to make a big change." But it's clear that Manchester United are ahead of the curve, and next season, it's likely that Chelsea will still be in the driver's seat. ”
Dong Fangzhuo's second half was a little too quiet, Ronaldo and Rooney were basically busy defending, rarely able to get a chance to counterattack, Manchester United actually relied on the three of them to make a quick counterattack to sneak Arsenal in this game, the first two goals were like that, but Arsenal did not give them a third chance.
If Arsenal concede another goal, Arsenal will be completely out of play. So no matter how unwilling Senderos and Kolo Toure are to stay by Dong Fangzhuo's side, they have to stare at Dong Fangzhuo, it's just their only task.
It's just that now the team is behind and their mood is not so good.
On the contrary, as a striker, Dong Fangzhuo's most important task is to score goals, and he is hungry for a third goal, but it will depend on whether United have a chance to counter-attack, and it will also be important for him to break through Sandros and Colo Toure personally.
During this period, Arsenal's central midfield was really too quiet.
Arsenal finally gave up on the flanks in favour of the middle, and the ball kept moving to Bergkamp's feet, as if Arsenal had found their flashy attack. In the 74th minute, Bergkamp, Ljungberg and Vieira played a beautiful combination in front of Manchester United's penalty area, and the three of them passed in succession in front of Manchester United's penalty area.
Bergkamp finally played the ball to an unguarded Van Persie, who followed up with a blast.
As a result, Van Persie actually missed such a beautiful scoring opportunity?
"God, is he a striker? How can Arsenal win if they miss such an opportunity? Is this really Henry's successor? Best couldn't help but scoff.
In an instant, Manchester United quickly drove the ball out, Brown handed the ball to Ronaldo, Ronaldo rushed quickly on the right side, Edu and Ashley Cole wrapped Ronaldo at the same time, Ronaldo not only did not pass, the ball was also handed to Ashley Cole, Ashley Cole handed the ball to Vieira, Vieira went straight in the middle, Bergkamp knocked his heel and passed the ball to Van Persie again, Van Persie leaned on Sylvestre hard, while shooting with his left foot, the ball slid out of the goal!
"Hey!" Rooney's voice sounded loudly on the field, and just now Ronaldo's ball was cut off so suddenly that Van Persie had already shot before Rooney could return to the defense. Now is a good opportunity to fight back.
Howard heard Looney's call, picked up the ball from the baseline, immediately dropped it on the turf, and drove the ball towards Rooney with a big kick.
Rooney is not as delicate as Ronaldo, a big foot to the ball, directly exploded Ljungberg, if the young Ljungberg still wants, he will not be afraid to fight with Rooney for speed, but Ljungberg at this age? I can only look at the ball and sigh......
Watch Wayne Rooney gallop towards Arsenal!
Dong Fangzhuo rushed to the middle with Senderos and Kolo Toure, and Ronaldo on the right also killed all the way forward on the right at the same time!
Another quick counterattack.
Lauren faced Rooney, Rooney didn't have any feints at all, and directly buckled to the right and quickly went to the middle to kill.
3vs3!
It seems that once they get such a counter-attacking opportunity, Rooney, Ronaldo and Dong Fangzhuo can have no regard for the opponent's defense.
Senderos had to break away from Dong Fangzhuo's defense and pounce on Wayne Rooney, Dong Fangzhuo pulled Colo Toure to the right, and Ronaldo had already taken Ashley Cole to the right side of the penalty area.
In the face of Sandros, Rooney did not choose to pass the ball and Dong Fangzhuo as a co-ordinator, but decisively buckled with his right foot and decisively entered the left side of Arsenal's penalty area.
Knock –
The smash and shooting action is done in one go, quite coherently, without a hint of frustration at all!
“Gooal!”
“Gooooooooooooal!”
“Goooooooooooooooooooooooooal!”
“3:0! Manchester United 3:0, Manchester United won, the game ended early! Lineker shouted and announced Arsenal's death sentence ahead of schedule.
"Manchester United's trident scored a goal per person and completely killed Arsenal!" 8)