Volume 3 The Myth of the Gunslinger Chapter 288 Mistakes

Competing for the first championship in Europe at Wembley Stadium, the opponent is a small club like Birmingham that has not won against them for nine years, after the game started, Arsenal was a little too excited, they were anxious to eat the opponent in one bite, and after the kick-off in the middle circle, they pressed it hard, without a little prelude, and went straight to the **, and did not want to think about whether the opponent would resist.

Birmingham are obviously well prepared, every player of their Arsenal team has studied it to the bone, and even gossip about which star's underwear is what color is very clear, in the face of Arsenal's big attack, Birmingham did not panic, they stood in position, and actively used the defensive tactics of zone marking to deal with Arsenal's three-dimensional attack combined with the side.

Because of the referee Mike. Dean was lenient in his enforcement, with Birmingham's players being open in scramble, and they were clever enough to take advantage of the referee's perspective to block and pull Arsenal players who were running without the ball, so that Arsenal's fluid attack could not go smoothly.

In the opening three minutes, Arsenal's intention to give Birmingham a dismount and let them obediently cede the trophy did not materialize, but Birmingham played a beautiful counter-attack.

Barry. Ferguson broke the ball and saw Li Huan pressing forward to assist very forward, leaving only a defender Diaby and central defender Zhu Lu behind, the back was in the shape of a horseshoe, and he suddenly went straight behind Arsenal's defense for a long distance.

Mingham midfielders Bowyer and Alex Ferguson have their hearts set in Bari. Ferguson had already started to run sideways before the straight stop, and Ferguson went straight to the point, and he suddenly accelerated, and immediately threw Diaby and Djulu off a big slot.

Diaby and Djoul are tall and heavy, but neither of them are speedy players, and they are particularly slow to turn, and by the time they can react before chasing back, Bowyer has fasted into the box.

It was at this time that the referee Mike. Dean's whistle sounded as well, and he signaled for Bowyer to be offside.

Arsenal fans and players were relieved that if it wasn't for offside, Arsenal would probably have conceded the opening goal, although Arsenal didn't have much problem conceding a goal, but Birmingham were encouraged to add a lot of difficulty to Arsenal to win the title.

The Birmingham players protested a few words, but they were not sure whether the ball was offside or not, so it was forgotten, but soon the slow motion came out, and Bowyer's one-on-one ball was not offside, and he was still a position away from the last defender, Jurou, when he was running.

The Birmingham fans in the stands were in an uproar, and Birmingham's head coach McLeish angrily asked the fourth official to judge, but the fourth official spread his hands and said: "So many of us don't see clearly, the referee is also a human, and it's normal for him not to see clearly." ”

McLeish said depressedly: "He is a full-time offside watcher." ”

The fourth official turned his head to the field, ignoring McLeish, with an expression on his face as if to say, "How do you become a coach, don't you know that mistakes are also part of the game of football?" Got McLeish so angry that his lungs almost exploded.

The referee's misjudgment dealt a big blow to the psychology of this Birmingham team, they did not think that there would be a pie-in-the-sky chance in the first three minutes, but the opportunity came and it was artificially wiped out, which made the Birmingham players full of anger, because the opponent was too strong, maybe they only had such a chance in a game. This anger prevented Birmingham from calming down and playing according to the pre-game tactics, thinking they could create another one-on-one chance, and committed more troops on the counter-attack.

In the 18th minute of the game, Li Huan once again inserted the ball from the backfield, and even passed several people all the way, attracting the defense of many players in Birmingham, Li Huan divided the ball to find Arshavin, Arshavin continued to resolutely go down after receiving the ball, and the Birmingham defender pounced on the tackle and was shaken by the Russian Tsar, and then swept the ball to the front of the gate.

Arsenal had a lot of point-grabbing players, in addition to strikers Bengtner and Walcott, Rosicky, Nasri, and even Wilshere all rushed to the penalty area to grab points, plus Birmingham's nine defenders, and there was chaos in the box.

However, it is amazing that the ball that Arshavin swept towards the penalty area was not touched by anyone, and the outstretched legs of both the attacker and the defender were dodged by the ball and flew out of the sideline from an impossible line.

The subsequent game became more and more strange, Arsenal's offensive tide, shooting constantly, but unfortunately, the number of shots on goal does not mean more goals, although Nasri, Bendtner, Arshavin have a very threatening shot, the hero of the game is Birmingham goalkeeper Foster and the goalpost, the former England international in this game high and low block saved Arsenal many threatening shots, Foster can't stop all of them are blocked by the goalpost, today Wembley Stadium's goalpost has become Birmingham's second goalkeeper, By the 30th minute, Arsenal had 10 shots, seven on target, hitting the post three times, and the rest were saved by Forster.

Arsenal's enchanting performance today made the commentator even puzzled, "...... God, no Satan, what's wrong with Arsenal, their attack is not sharp and not beautiful, the shot cannot be said to be no threat, but it can't knock on the door of Birmingham, Birmingham's goalkeeper Foster is like being possessed by God, and the goalpost is simply sent by God to help Birmingham, Arsenal is scoreless, and the score becomes difficult for them, because they are not fighting against the opponent, but against luck, against God......"

After Ben Foster and the post kept saying NO to the flying ball, the Arsenal attackers became more and more eager to keep their composure, and the previous attack had already used their ability to look at the opponent in one fell swoop, but their efforts were miraculously blocked by the goalpost and the goalkeeper, and they could not think of a better way to continue the current attack.

In the 32nd minute, Birmingham got a corner kick opportunity, Birmingham deserved to be the team with the most corner kicks among the 20 Premier League teams this season, Larsson's corner kick did not hit the goal, but hit a corner of the penalty area, Roger Johnson's header from the edge of the box knocked back to the goal, Birmingham's corner kick combination made Arsenal a little confused, and there was confusion in the marking defense. The 2.02-meter-tall Kicic was originally defended by Li Huan, but everyone in the crowd ran around, separating Li Huan and Jiqi, in the crowd, Jiqi's height played a crucial role, he didn't have to jump, the header rubbed the ball back, and the ball flew into the goal just past the hands of the attacking goalkeeper Szczesny.

1-0! Birmingham City took the lead unexpectedly.

Birmingham went crazy all the time! It was a miracle that they were ahead of Arsenal and the best team in the world, and more than 30,000 Birmingham fans jumped up and waved their arms at the hero of the goal, the high-ranking man Kiqi.

"Ah......hh Birmingham have scored! Jiqi, high-ranking guy! He's done with his best header! At the moment when he scored with a header, Li Huan was not by his side, but in that case, even if Li Huan was beside Yue Jiqi, there was no way, the advantage in height was too obvious, I was afraid that before Li Huan jumped, the ball would be pushed to the ...... by Yue Jiqi There was no suspense in the final now there is suspense, and even the outcome is unpredictable, of course, there is still a lot of time, there is no doubt about the reversal with Arsenal's strength, but after all, the game has suspense, it is no longer Arsenal who leads by a big score at the beginning, and then the rest becomes garbage time......"

Wenger's face was very long, the game was completely unexpected by him, out of his control, it can't be said that Arsenal didn't play well, it's not that Arsenal didn't create chances, but they just didn't score, so that he as a coach was helpless, he had already looked forward to the awards ceremony before the game, and many people, including club officials, even talked about "what happens after winning the championship". If you lose the trophy, Arsenal will lose a lot.

However, the professor is still not disappointed, let alone despairing, Arsenal swept all the giants in the Premier League and the Champions League, Wenger does not believe that he can't clean up a Birmingham, he believes that Li Huan will soon make up for his mistakes, in the past, whenever Arsenal has difficulties, Li Huan will be powerful, he has become a guarantee for Arsenal to overcome difficulties, not to mention that now it is Li Huan's mistake to make a goal scored by Jiqi.

And Li Huan was stunned for a moment after the mistake in defense, although the mistake was not purely his personal reason, but the opponent's ingenious corner design was also the reason for his carelessness, allowing the opponent to score under his own defense made Li Huan very depressed, but Li Huan was not only depressed at the moment, but he also thought of the other world he experienced, this final Arsenal lost, of course, what he remembered was not this League Cup, but that Arsenal did not win any championship in the sixth year this season, And judging from the current situation, it seems that there is an invisible hand in the dark that prevents Arsenal from winning the title.

"Maybe we're going to have to fight against fate!" Li Huan thought secretly.

As the captain, Li Huan couldn't show any discouragement, although it was his mistake, Li Huan was still very confident, admitted his mistake with great grace, and then sent a signal to his teammates to attack.

'Keep attacking, I don't believe the post can hold us back how many shots, we can get rid of Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool, Barcelona, can't we get rid of a Birmingham? Brethren! Cheer up, we can't let the dream of the whole crown be disappointed! Give it a go! ”

(To be continued)