Although there are not many opportunities for defenders from opposing sides to meet, in the new century, the assists of full-backs have become the tactical consensus of all teams, so the chances of cross-border full-backs meeting have greatly increased.

Arsenal's penetration in the middle of this game met with huge resistance, only from the two flanks to open the gap, after Sagna passed the ball twice, fans and teammates did not dare to count on him anymore, the Frenchman's colorful braids like beaded curtains looked like pigtails from a distance, but as soon as the cross became a plane. The heavy responsibility of breaking the opponent's defense still falls on Li Huan's shoulders.

After Fabregas became another core in Li Huan, his position returned to the front of the back, from the prime minister to the chief dispatcher of the arsenal, it turned out that in such a predicament, Fabregas personally stepped forward to charge, and now, after Fabregas got the pass from the backfield, he almost didn't want to pass it to Li Huan, and then moved closer to the side to receive Li Huan's assist.

Fabregas is very comfortable to return to his old job, and his style of play is also elegant, and he actually has a chance to ridicule Li Huan, who is galloping on the side, "Li! Don't run too fast, the striker is still waiting for you to pass the ball! Do you want to play skewers again? ”

Van Persie saw Li Huan take the ball and ran directly to Hoffenheim's penalty area, and shouted to the side: "I'll go and wait first." ”

The relaxed and confident mentality of the Arsenal people angered Hoffenheim's players, and several players rushed over to defend on the right side where Li Huan was, Eduardo, Gustavo, and even central defender Jaisler began to move to the side, plus right-back Baker, Hoffenheim had more than a third of the players come to intercept Li Huan.

Li Huan is not a tenacious person, seeing that the opponent is heavily defended on the side, how can he break through again, and immediately handed the ball to Fabregas, but he himself did not stop the pace of inserting forward, and still shared the pressure on Fabregas on the side.

Fabregas's ability to read the game, the overall situation in Arsenal does not think of the second person, that is, Li Huan is not as good as Fabregas, the No. 4 successor of La Masia's division, Fabregas knows Hoffenheim's personnel transfer well, and after receiving the ball from Li Huan, he immediately dribbled forward to the middle circle and went straight to Hoffenheim's penalty area.

Hoffenheim is no stranger to Arsenal's style of play, they learned when they lost to Arsenal at home, and Hoffenheim's players have long been prepared for Arsenal's combination of play, and today's 4321 Christmas tree formation they discharged is a little worse in attack, but it can effectively crack Arsenal's attempt to mobilize their defense.

Cesc Fabregas inserted the ball, Hoffenheim's middle still has two midfielders Timoshchuk and Simunich, the overall defense line has not been damaged, Fabregas and Walcott want to break through the defense of two experienced midfielders and two central defenders is not easy, it is good to be able to control the ball without conceding.

At this time, Hoffenheim's defense was more empty on the left side, and Sagna also rushed to the front court, and he also knew that his first few passes were really sorry for the fans and his teammates, but he did not lose the courage to try, and still shook the bells and whistles to ask Fabregas for the ball.

Fabregas naturally understands that Hoffenheim's left side is empty because he doesn't look down on Sagna, and he has the intention not to pass it to the French pigtails, but the right and middle sides are crowded with opponent players, whether it is himself or Li Huan, it is definitely not a wise move to break through, and it is possible to be counterattacked by the opponent's broken ball, and the Champions League title is not bought with money, so Fabregas had to pass the ball to Sagna.

Sagna's excited heart was trembling after receiving the ball, there was only one full-back of the opponent on the opposite side, and Nasri came to pick him up in the middle, and a one-two combination was able to shake off the defense of the opponent's defender.

Sagna calculated well, and Nasri did pull the edge earlier than the defenders, and after a one-two between the two, Sagna easily broke through Ibertsberg's low cross. But the more Sagna wanted to pass the ball, the more unreliable it was when he passed, a great opportunity to attack, far and near the midpoint of his teammates outflanked, when he passed, the ball actually went out of the bottom line before spinning back.

"It's a fucking defender, look at this unraveling."

"Silly ×1 looks a lot like an undercover agent."

"Why does Sesk want to pass the ball to him, it's better to break through himself."

"God, forgive him, Sania finally stopped a counterattack from his opponent in advance." ……

The Arsenal fans in the stands finally couldn't stand it, and many began to ridicule Sagna, and some fans who came from China angrily scolded stupid ×.

Sagna's cross finally made Fabregas discouraged, even dead, because Sagna was simply an unforced mistake, and even if Hoffenheim didn't have a player on the left, Fabregas couldn't be sure if the French pigtail could pass a good ball.

Sagna on the left was almost idle, and the focus of the struggle on the field returned to the middle and right flanks, and although Hoffenheim had only one striker in this game, the tactical arrangement of attacking from the middle was effective. Arshavin, Ibisevic and Eduardo's triangle combination has been together for a long time, and the tacit understanding between them is no worse than Arsenal's, Ibisevic has strength and skill, and his shooting skills are also very exquisite, Arshavin and Eduardo's breakthrough ability is very strong, Arsenal does not feel how difficult it is when defending, they have two backs and two central defenders, once Hoffenheim counterattacked, the pressure on the back line has become unprecedentedly strong. Even in a three-on-three defence, the triangular combination of Arshavin, Eduardo and Ibisevic can complete the attack and shooting, so that Arsenal's middle is a bit of a problem and does not dare to let go of their hands and feet to attack.

The pressure of the game returned to the right side, and the Arsenal players and fans pinned their hopes of breaking the deadlock on Li Huan again, and almost all of them passed to Li Huan's feet after getting the ball, even if Sagna got the ball, they wanted to make a long pass to Li Huan.

However, today's Hoffenheim's formation has constituted a great obstacle to Arsenal's attack, the middle penetration can not play, the side attack, Li Huan is heavily defended, and Sania's cross is not angry, which is equivalent to exchanging with the opponent, and it is difficult for anyone to break the deadlock of the game for a while. Even Li Huan couldn't break through the layers of defense that Rangnick had tailored for him, he wasn't a superman after all, he wasn't an alien, and he wasn't a god.

Seeing this scene, the on-site commentator couldn't help but sigh: "Li Huan pinned down nearly one-third of the opponent's troops on the left side, Van Persie and Fabregas in the middle were also guarded by Hoffenheim, and the only weak defense was Hoffenheim's left side, but Sagna's attack power was too poor, even if he had half of Li Huan's skills, this deadlock had already been broken, in fact, Eboue was stronger than Sagna on the field, but it was still a little early to make a substitution."

Although the Gunners spent a lot of money to buy Li Huan this year, it was only equivalent to changing an engine, and the other configurations have not kept up, and there are too few people who can play the main force, so they have to rely on Li Huan every time, and it is not possible to rely on Fabregas, and finally use people to dehydrate for the sake of results, and then continue to be injured, and then use the substitutes with insufficient strength to block the eye-catching, and finally lead to a decline in results, if some powerful players are not added during the winter break, Arsenal may return to the original old way. ”

Wenger, who was sitting in the coach's seat, was also discussing the situation on the field with his two assistant coaches, the game passed more than ten minutes, and he also figured out Rangnick's tactical intentions, although it was a life-and-death battle for Hoffenheim, but Rangnick was not dizzy, he was still very calm and planned for his goals, very German coaching tradition, relying on these players on the field alone, without a little change, it may be difficult to break the deadlock.

"How's it going to be on Eboue?" Assistant coach Rice put down the water bottle in his hand and suggested.

Another assistant coach, Paul, said: "Eboue's attack is better and faster than Sagna's, but the defense is not as good as Sagna's. ”

"Let's wait. Now the situation is still that we have the upper hand, as long as Lee, Sesk, and Robin have a flash of inspiration, the deadlock will be broken. Wenger shook his head and said, Sagna is his hometown, after Li Huan came, he was willing to be a substitute for so long, did not create a little trouble in the locker room, this time Klich was injured, he can't take care of Sagna's emotions at all, even if the coach needs absolute sanity, but he can't ignore the feelings of the players.

However, the discussion of Arsenal coaches is not over, in the 18th minute of the game, Vermaelen received Li Huan's corner header on the arm of the Hoffenheim player, the Arsenal player raised his hand to signal the penalty but the referee ignored it, Hoffenheim took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, Hildebrand threw the ball thirty meters and handed it to Eduardo, Eduardo passed to Ibisevic in the air, Diaby fell in the confrontation with Ibisevic, Ibisevic took the opportunity to pass the ball to Arshavin, Hoffenheim formed a two-on-two situation in the front, although Arsenal's defenders and Hoffenheim's attacking personnel are more than half, but because Arsenal has a lot of space in the backfield, it is very beneficial to the attacking personnel.

Arshavin shook Alexander with a false and real feint. Song stumbled, and then suddenly took the ball to the side.

Sagna was almost back in place, but Arshavin had much more speed and explosiveness than Sagna, and with the ball down the ball, Ibisevic squeezed past Gallas and smashed into the net from the edge of the box.

1:0！

Hoffenheim lead away.

The Stadium of the Emirates was dead silent, with only more than 3,000 blue Hoffenheim fans desperately celebrating.

(To be continued)