Chapter 242 Falling down? It doesn’t exist!
At the beginning of the second half, Arsenal concentrated all his attacks on the left, where four people were gathered, including Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Ziyech and Lacazette.
Faced with the impact of these four people, Manchester United naturally had to concentrate their defensive power, otherwise Wan Bissaka, Aliyu and Rashford would be beaten up in minutes. Even Maguire also focused his attention here, and naturally Varane also moved to the middle, which would withstand Arsenal's offensive here.
In the 49th minute, Arsenal launched an attack from the left again. After Manchester United's defensive formation moved over, Lacazette suddenly passed the ball to Zacha in the middle when he received the ball.
Immediately afterwards, Zachar suddenly turned sideways and kicked the ball directly outside the penalty area on the right side of Manchester United!
Algerian winger Brahimi rushed up immediately, but he was not fast and could not get rid of Luke Shaw's defense.
But Brahimi's body is stronger than Luke Shaw!
During the chasing of the ball, Brahimi always used his body as an obstacle to block Luke Shaw. At the moment of chasing the ball, even though the ball had just entered the Manchester United penalty area, he still shot with anger without hesitation!
Bang!
After a muffled sound, the ball pressed against the ground and flew straight to the lower left corner of the Manchester United goal in the far end!
De Gea had just moved from there at this time. Normally, the opponent wouldn't shoot at this time. After all, it's still a little far away from the goal. Unexpectedly... Brahimi chose to shoot from a long time without hesitation because of Luke Shaw.
"Fake!"
De Gea cursed, and his body instantly bounced to the right side, and fully extended his right arm, and his gloved palm was also completely opened, hoping to touch the ball, even if it was just rubbing... it would be fine!
Unfortunately, Brahimi's shooting angle was really tricky, and with a sudden cold shot, he didn't give De Gea a chance to adjust his position. The ball flew over less than a foot away from De Gea's fingertips, and finally got into Manchester United's goal from an almost dead corner... 1:0, Arsenal, who played at home, took the lead at the beginning of the second half.
"GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
In the entire Emirates Stadium, the "Gunners" irons roared wildly. Even if they were depressed in the first half, even if the team's current record was not ideal, but... at this moment, we were ahead of the arch-rival of Manchester United!
The competition between the "Red Devils" and the "Gullers" is a ten-year confrontation process. Starting from Wenger's coaching Arsenal in 1996, Manchester United won 6 championships and 1 runner-up, Arsenal won 3 championships and 4 runner-ups.
Moreover, in the season when the Gunners won the runner-up, all the championships were the "Red Devils" without exception!
In the early years of the Premier League, the main theme was Manchester United and Arsenal, the confrontation between the two famous coaches Ferguson and Wenger. This pattern was not broken until Mourinho took over Chelsea.
It is precisely because of such grudges that Arsenal fans are extremely excited about the team leading Manchester United at home!
Seeing this goal, Solskjaer frowned suddenly. He had thought that his team would be behind at the Emirates Stadium, after all, this was Arsenal's home court.
But what Solskjaer did not expect was Arsenal's tactics today, with the pass-and-control style shown by the Gunners. Once they lead in the game, they will definitely "hide" the ball like the Spanish team or Barcelona back then!
If this is the case... Manchester United has fewer opportunities to touch the ball, how can they equalize the score or overtake?
It can be said that at this moment, Manchester United really fell into a cliff!
After the game started again, after Manchester United's offense was blocked, the ball was taken by Arsenal. Sure enough, they started to play "slap" in the midfield and backcourt... This is a waste of game time!
The 3,000 Manchester United fans who came with the team made a harsh boo, but the 57,000 Arsenal fans at home were 19 times that of Manchester United fans, and they immediately cheered to support their team.
I don't care how you kick it?
Anyway, we are ahead now!
Benitez, a Spanish bald man, still has two tricks. The passing and control tactics he has created for the team have already made us ahead of Manchester United. So is there any problem with continuing the passing and control?
Nothing wrong!
Manchester United quickly had no choice but to make a change. Solskjaer let the two full-backs Luke Shaw and Wan Bissaka take the position forward, and participated in the press against Arsenal. He couldn't get the ball... What's the point?
Manchester United only had two central defenders left in the half, including Maguire and Varane, and Aliyu, who was dragging behind, these three people... and said more, they could only protect their own penalty area, and this defense line was quite weak.
On Arsenal, Benitez saw Manchester United pushing out and grinned: rushed up? OK! OK! OK! Now we only need to score another goal, and the victory of this game will be stable!
Arsenal's attacking line speed is not fast, among which Lacazette's speed is pretty good, but... it's enough! Manchester United's defensive players are not very fast either! Opportunity, as long as Arsenal seizes a counterattack opportunity, they may expand their score advantage and secure the victory!
It's just... Benitez was too happy!
In the 57th minute, before Arsenal broke through Manchester United's goal, Mark Tominai suddenly made a 30-meter long pass in the positional battle. He just came out of the middle circle and gave the ball to the left with one kick.
Martial finally caught up with the ball near the bottom line, and forced a cross, and the ball was still flying in the air. He was already handsome and he even got out of the bottom line and even got out of the lawn.
However, the cross that Martial desperately sent was not in vain. The ball flew to the left post. When he was about to be stopped by Arsenal's central defender Nastasic, a Manchester United player wearing a black jersey suddenly rushed into the air... Yang Xiaozhuang arrived!
Using the impulse generated by his own speed, as long as Yang Xiaozhuang can judge the landing point of the ball, the height of his jumping during running is amazing. When practicing heading in the static stadium, Yang Xiaozhuang will place some obstacles on both sides of the goal, kick the ball up and bounce back, and then he will grab the header.
After this training time, Yang Xiaozhuang's judgment of the landing point of the ball became more and more accurate, and his reaction speed was also developed.
Martial's cross fell just now, and Yang Xiaozhuang rushed to the ball from a higher and farther place before Nastasic... Dong!
The moment Yang Xiaozhuang touched the ball with his forehead, he shook his head and sent the ball to the goal on the right side of Arsenal in the far end!
Chapter completed!