Chapter 156: Before the Game Collapses
'That's the Reima I know, and as soon as he regained his composure, he opened the door for Chelsea with a stunning breakthrough performance and a clever pass. Gallas acted as a perfect backdrop for this performance in this Reima. Maybe he is also lucky, you must know that he is likely to be forever recorded in history because of this performance, and such a brilliant performance is not often seen. โ
In the spicy sarcasm of the Stamford Bridge commentary, Gallas stood up with a sense of shame and indignation, as if he had a spring under him. Facing Lao Lei, who was still silencing himself, and the smug Lao Lei, he glared fiercely, then turned around and left. Behind his defeated back, Lao Lei showed a calm smile unique to the victor. However, Old Ray did not think that Garas had surrendered to the defeat, and the palpitating resentment and anger in his last glance did not escape his eyes.
It is conceivable that in the next game, Lao Lei will have to be careful about Gallas's movements. He had no doubt that Gallas would not skimp on a red card to take him off if he had the chance. In this regard, Lao Lei was vigilant, but his heart was not excited. "I didn't say that, that's enough." Looking at the back of Gallas Wolf Bรจi leaving, Old Ray had a scorching frenzy in his eyes.
Amid the gushing cheers and singing at Stamford Bridge, the referee blew the whistle for the restart. The one-goal deficit stimulated all the Arsenal players, who dominated the football and struck the Chelsea half with great vigour. Skilful and fluid possession of the ball at their feet made them look comfortable against Chelsea pressing.
Breaking the ball from the foot of an Arsenal midfielder is a difficult task for Chelsea. Thankfully. Neither Chelsea nor Ray wanted to do anything like that. According to Mourinho's arrangement, once Arsenal control the football is. Chelsea's entire formation will collectively retract into their own half. While spreading the suffocating defensive pressure over his own half, he also turned the area 30 metres from the goal into an insurmountable thunder pool for Arsenal.
And so. In the face of Chelsea's extremely aggressive and dense defence, this is the case in Arsenal's attacking scene. They were able to control the ball beautifully from 30 metres away from the Chelsea goal, but as soon as they tried to pass it forward, they were forced to push it backwards as if they had hit a hard wall. Sometimes, even if you can break through a blockade forward, you will be cornered by the two-person or even three-person defense that immediately swarms up.
In the face of intense physical confrontation and pressing by Chelsea players, Arsenal, who have been in control of the football all this time, have not been able to pose a threat worthy of their possession during this period. Seeing this, Lineker also said with emotion: "Chelsea's defense can be described in one sentence. That is to find a concrete wall and crash into it with all your might, many people have killed themselves, and only a few have managed to survive with their heads broken and bleeding. The problems facing Arsenal now are the same as those of Chelsea before them, and they need individual flashes of stars to break down the concrete wall when they can't hope that the opposition will have a problem defensively. Pire, Reyes, Henry, Vieira. Ljungberg, now it's up to who can be the hero of this glitter. โ
Lineker's words were to the point, and to be honest, if it weren't for Ray's imprinted crotch penetration, Chelsea's first goal. It won't come so lightly. And if Arsenal want to equalise, they will also need an "old thunder", or can only hope that the Chelsea defence will make mistakes on their own. Arsene Wenger himself is well aware of this. So he could only anxiously pacing on the sidelines, waiting for the superstars in the team to give him good news.
Although all Wenger can do is wait. But his wait was to be expected. Because Arsenal's attacking group up front is so dazzling, like a pack of groundhogs. There will always be people who can take the lead, and it is impossible to keep them suppressed and not let them play any way.
In the 21st minute of the first half, after hitting a wall for a while, Arsenal's attacking group finally produced a beautiful attack that was like a trademark mercury drop. This time, Thierry Henry once again played a beautiful combination on the left flank. This combination can be regarded as Arsenal's top level work, and the smooth passing between several people makes Lao Lei even barely run with the football, and cannot make effective damage.
In this attack, all Chelsea players were almost half a step behind the Arsenal players. With such a brilliant combination, it was at this moment that Chelsea's solid defence finally had a hole. At the end of the combination, Pire, who was at the peak of his career, did not do anything else after winning the ball, but directly rubbed his toes, trying to pass the football to the feet of Henry, who had already completed the anti-offside position beautifully in the crowd in the penalty area.
If there were no surprises, Pire's pass should have been clever enough to get past Terry's defence and get to Thierry Henry's feet for a great one-on-one chance. But Lao Lei's right leg, which flew over, didn't let his excellent pass go through the whole process perfectly.
At the moment when Pire got the ball and passed, Lao Lei was actually pinned down and taken away by Vieira on the side. But the moment Pire received the ball, he instinctively sensed something was wrong. At this time, Lao Lei's physical instinct overcame his rational thinking. Although his center of gravity had been taken away at this time, with his strong body, he had completed this foot block.
The moment his left foot landed, he put all the gravity of his body on his left foot. Then, with the powerful explosive power of the muscles of his left foot, Lao Lei kicked his left foot, making him jump back on one foot as if he had violated the principles of physics. Because of this dangerous maneuver that is very prone to injury, Old Ray has one last chance to block Pire's pass. But no matter how fast his reaction was, he always had to slow Pire's movements by half a step.
Therefore, his outstretched right foot can only catch the flying football, but cannot completely block Pire's pass. But fortunately, it was his rub that almost doubled the difficulty of Henry's next handling of the ball. First of all, the speed and route of football have changed. On the football field, this slight change can achieve a false effect.
The flying ball landed behind Thierry Henry, who had already accelerated a step, and this sudden change might be helpless in front of the side striker. But at this time, Henry was the invincible King of Highbury after all, and he stopped his pace with his excellent physical qualities, and completed his turn. Then, while his whole person was about to be thrown back due to inertia, he actually took advantage of the momentum, jumped back, and completed the first half of the upside-down golden hook. Between the flashes of lightning, Henry's handling was flawless, reaching the extreme of what a striker could do.
It was this timely and beautiful handling that allowed him to fully stretch his body in the air and complete an earth-shattering upside-down golden hook shot before Terry's stop arrived. Old Ray's touch, although it caused Henry unexpected trouble, but after he handled it perfectly, this unexpected surprise was turned to Petr's face.
At this time, Cech, who has been extremely good at this season's table, did not expect Thierry Henry to complete such a shot. When the ball bounced off the back post and into the back of the net, he made almost no save. If the last time it was Lao Lei who decided the goal with his personal ability, then this time it became Henry's sudden flash and the savior alone.
While the Arsenal players were busy celebrating with Henry, Lao Lei, who was still on the ground, could only hammer the ground helplessly. In that defensive just now, he has done his best. Had it not been for his last touch, Thierry Henry's goalscoring process would have been very simple. It's a pity that Henry, with his superhuman superstar ability, overcame the difficulties set for him by Lao Lei in an amazing way.
Fortunately, Lao Lei's helplessness did not last much, and he quickly adjusted back. In his short career, he has a lot of resistance to this kind of unsolvable fairy ball that suddenly appeared. As long as it is a superstar, this kind of unsolvable fairy ball will always come out without knowing when. In his career so far, Thierry Henry has been just one of the superstars he's come across.
However, Lao Lei doesn't care about this ball anymore, it doesn't mean that others don't have any thoughts about him. Before the game restarted, Gallas came to Lao Lei with a villainous smile to show off. Lao Lei rarely made any statement about this move, but just stretched out three fingers to Gallas that confused everyone.
Anyone who knows Lao Lei's habits knows that he is not a person who will do meaningless things. As long as he stretched out three fingers, then these three fingers must have their meaning.
Like everyone's puzzlement, Garas was also puzzled by this. It's just that he didn't think about it at all, and just slowly ran back with a smug smile on his face. Lao Lei didn't care about his fox and tiger mighty actions, but was just planning how to fight back against him with weight.
To outsiders, this may be unfair, but Gallas is really thick-skinned.
But for Lao Lei, this is normal, fair, and interesting.
His thought was: "If not, then how can he be qualified to fight me!" โ
But what he didn't expect was that if it was in normal times, his aggressive personality would be an important motivation for him to always make amazing appearances.
But if it is in today's unstable situation, then this kind of character may lead him in a bad direction. (To be continued......)