20demayo Chapter 475
Chapter 475
Fifteen minutes passed in a flash.
As the players from both sides walked out of the player tunnel one after another, the second half of the game officially began with the whistle of Boileau!
Leeds United did not make any personnel adjustments, and still had the original team from the first half.
Arsenal used a substitution opportunity.
Flamini was slightly injured in the fight with Adriano at the last moment of the first half. After returning to the locker room, he found that he could not hold on. Wenger had no choice but to replace Flamini with Gilberto Silva.
The second half just started.
Leeds United showed a strong desire to attack.
Alves and Torres played a wonderful two-on-two cooperation on the right, and sent a cross after going down the bottom. Adriano, who had been eyeing the penalty area for a long time, beat Kolo Toure to head the ball.
However, the Brazilian striker's header was blocked by Almunia, who was concentrating. After the football lost its strength, it was pressed under Almunia who fell to the ground.
"Beautiful! Almunia's reaction is absolutely god-level this time!" Martin Keown wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, "Arsenal suffered a fierce attack from Leeds United just at the beginning of the second half... Clichy and Senderos made mistakes in their defensive positions. If it weren't for Almunia, Arsenal might have suffered a lot!"
But soon, Arsenal also responded.
Mascherano fouled Fabregas in defense, and the referee Boileau awarded Arsenal a free kick in the frontcourt.
After Fabregas lifted the ball into the penalty area, Kolo Toure won the fight with Kompany and headed the ball back to the middle. Then Gilberto Silva's follow-up shot was saved by Neuer at the bottom line!
"A wonderful shot! Leeds United just threatened Arsenal's goal, and then Arsenal made Leeds United's goal restless." Jon, who was in a neutral state today, looked excited. "Although this game will determine who can enter the semi-finals, it seems that the two teams will not make us feel bored in the next forty minutes..."
Jon was right.
Although Wenger emphasized to his disciples that they should strengthen defense in the second half.
But this is Arsenal after all, and some things engraved in their blood will not be completely abandoned because of tactical adjustments.
In the next period of time.
The two teams did not give in to each other, and they went back and forth, which made the fans who followed this game very excited.
But overall.
Leeds United's offensive was still more fierce, and Arsenal was still in a defensive state more often.
Time passed by minute by minute.
When Leeds United organized the attack, Alonso always wanted to organize his teammates in the middle to pass the ball into the penalty area through short passes.
Unfortunately, Arsenal's defense was very tight.
Even if some small cooperation in the middle broke through Gilberto Silva and Diaby, the players on the Arsenal back line could always make up in time and kick the ball out of the danger zone with a big foot.
Seeing that the game time was approaching 70 minutes.
Li Shiguang was a little impatient.
After seeing Leeds United's attack was once again disrupted by Gallas and went out of the sideline.
Li Shiguang rushed to the sidelines, covered his mouth with his hands and shouted to Alonso: "Xavi, don't play so fine! Think about the pass in the first half! Try to hang the ball into their penalty area!"
Now Arsenal is clearly looking for a counterattack opportunity.
Directly hang the ball into the penalty area, as long as there are enough people, at least it can cause chaos in the opponent's penalty area! At worst, the opponent grabs the first point, and it will not be counterattacked immediately!
Alonso did not hesitate when he heard Li Shiguang's voice.
He changed his playing style immediately.
As long as he received the ball within 30 meters of the Arsenal goal, he would immediately make a lob pass, specifically looking for the forwards lurking in the penalty area.
This style of play quickly paid off.
69th minute.
Kaka dribbled the ball forward on the right side of the ribs, forced past Gilberto Silva who was defending him, and accelerated to the outside of the penalty area, but was stopped by Senderos and Clichy who rushed over.
After a slight struggle, he saw that there was no good position to pass the ball.
Kaka had to turn around and pass the ball to Alonso who was following him.
Alonso didn't say anything, and when the ball was still rolling towards him, he had already swung his right leg, and as soon as the ball reached his feet, he made a diagonal pass towards the Arsenal penalty area.
This pass was for Adriano who had already run to the left side of the Arsenal penalty area.
However, it was not difficult for Leeds United to deal with such an obvious offensive intention.
Eboue and Toure quickly moved closer to Adriano.
The two cooperated very well. Eboue was responsible for blocking the position, so that Adriano could not jump comfortably to compete for the header., Toure just jumped up and headed Alonso's pass out of the penalty area before Adriano!
Toure headed the ball very hard.
The football just started to fall after it flew out of the penalty area.
Because Leeds United temporarily changed its tactics during this period and began to lob the ball into the penalty area, in order to better defend, Arsenal's defense line actually retreated relatively far back.
So at the first time, Arsenal's players did not catch up to grab the first landing point of the football.
When everyone noticed.
A familiar white figure was already standing in front of the trajectory of the football's fall.
Alonso likes to move in the right midfield, and his dominant foot is also right foot. In order to better cooperate with Alonso's long pass, Adriano's range of activities has moved from the middle to the left during this period.
He moved like this.
Bale retreated slightly as Li Shiguang arranged during the halftime break, and stood in the position of central midfielder parallel to Kaka.
And this white figure is Bale who did not rush into the penalty area to compete for the header just now!
At this moment.
There is no Arsenal defensive player around Bale!
The Welshman jumped up lightly and blocked the way of the football with his chest.
The football was blocked by Bale's chest and could only fall slowly.
Bale, who landed first, has raised his head. His goal is the goal of Arsenal.
The next second.
The right leg stepped hard on the ground, and the left leg swung back first. When it was swung to the limit, it fell down quickly and kicked forward like a fully stretched bowstring!
Then.
The left foot, which had been stretched straight, hit the football with a loud noise!
The football was like a cannonball, without any rotation, and it went straight to the upper right corner of the Arsenal goal at a speed that was difficult to see with the naked eye!
"Bale... shot directly!?" Lineker was a little confused. The place where Bale kicked the ball seemed to be at least 30 meters away from Arsenal's goal. There was no Arsenal defender in front of him. In fact, he could have taken the ball off, taken a step forward, and adjusted himself before kicking the ball.
But Bale didn't!
Having already scored a goal, he chose to volley.
The football flew over the heads of everyone in the penalty area.
Almunia only heard the sound in front of him, and when he saw the football, the football had already flown into the penalty area.
The Spanish goalkeeper's brain quickly recognized the football and then issued an order, but the order issued by his brain was only received by his eyes.
The power of this shot was too great, and the speed of the ball was too fast.
Almunia was unable to make any reaction.
He could only stand in front of the goal and watch the football dive into the net from his left side!