"pretty!"
"The ball is in!"
"It was a magical game. The two teams seemed to greet each other and scored each other's goals at the beginning!"
"Li Kang's exquisite through ball!"
"Maguire succeeded in pushing and Arsenal equalized the score!"
"To redeem himself, he gave his opponent a penalty just a few minutes ago!"
"Look at the replay, the ball was passed so well..."
"Half-distance champion, return to suspense."
The real-time Premier League standings were displayed on the screen.
Chelsea, which just ended the game, currently occupies the top spot.
...
Studio.
-【Feed the cake to your mouth...】
-[It was Li Kang who pressed Maguire’s head and asked him to swallow it. 】
-[My grandma can score this goal! 】
-[Why do I feel that Maguire’s shot is more stable than Morata’s? 】
-[Look, the moment Li Mingdeng hid from Baines! The left foot lands continuously and touches the ball continuously! So handsome, Messi is possessed by Robben! 】
-[Qualified soccer king’s kicking style! 】
-[Hot knowledge: After the millennium, as long as Chelsea wins the second half of the championship, the probability of winning the Premier League is 100%! 】
...
Stamford Bridge.
Abu struggled for a long time and finally turned off the TV.
I feel conflicted.
One side hopes that Arsenal will lose, and the other side hopes that Li Kang will win.
"Boss, Lee and Wenger get along very well, but he and Conte may not be able to..."
"Fabregas has been put on the bench by Conte for a long time, and Diego Costa is likely to be criticized by the coaching staff..."
"Okay, stop fucking snitching in front of me!"
...
Goodison Park.
Arsenal fans outshone the Toffees.
Maguire shouted with excitement, turned around, picked up Li Kang and spun him around.
For a defender, nothing can make up for the self-blame caused by defensive mistakes more than scoring goals.
"Lee, thank you!"
"Let go of Li, an equalizer is not enough! We want to win!"
The Arsenal players picked up the football, celebrated, and ran back to the center circle.
Robles spread his hands helplessly.
The competition for the goalkeeper position in Everton's lineup is very fierce. They also signed the 34-year-old Stekelenberg in this summer window.
Lukaku pointed to Arsenal's goal and encouraged his teammates: "Don't be messy, their defense is not much better than Manchester City!"
...
Courtside.
Boulder raised his arms and shouted.
Wenger briefly celebrated and then sat back on the coaching bench.
"The pressure we're going to face is going to be huge."
"We can't let Lee and Xhaka switch positions!"
The other side.
Koeman's mood seemed unaffected by the loss.
He pulled the midfielders and kept whispering.
This Barcelona legend is not good at building a system, but he is very good at making adjustments on the spot.
Chubby fingers kept gesticulating on the small tactical board.
"Cheer up, do you understand everything?"
"It's not difficult at all."
"If I were thirty years younger, I would be very excited to meet an opponent like Li!"
...
The game resumes.
Miralas kicked the ball back to Barkley.
Arsenal's striker quickly crossed the center circle.
After the ball was passed slowly by itself, it flew from the Everton backcourt to the wing again.
"Let's find Baines!"
"Can Xhaka win the second head-to-head meeting this time?"
Halfway through the Premier League schedule.
Xhaka, who is in his growth period, has been given many nicknames by fans: Reverse Vieira, Lu Liangwei, Card-eating Master, and Rusty Metronome.
with no doubt.
He was eaten alive by the Everton captain again!
There's not even a chance for a foul!
It's not that he's not good at it.
But Baynes's state this season is like a comeback, with overwhelming combat effectiveness!
"It's gone again!"
“Monreal’s slot was timely!”
"Oops, the gap behind me was taken by Lukaku!"
"Which side will the little monster play?"
...
Baynes' left foot made a cool move.
The football lifted off the ground and passed over Monreal's head lightly.
Arsenal's left half was torn through!
"Lukaku!"
"oops!"
"The judgment of the landing point is not accurate enough!"
"Mustafi easily controls the ball!"
There were boos.
Toffees fans love and hate the little monster: if you stop the ball, you will get an excellent offensive opportunity!
Lukaku clapped his hands and turned to give a thumbs up to the captain.
...
Mustafi stopped the ball and suddenly felt something was wrong.
Everton's frontcourt players didn't press forward?
Don't think too much.
Just pass the ball to Li... No, there are too many defensive players around Li, and I don't have that good footwork.
There was a snap.
He chose to knock the ball to Maguire.
Lao Ma raised his arm to signal his teammates in the frontcourt to keep a distance from Li Kang.
"Arsenal's attack!"
"Wow!"
"This time it's wider!"
"Five offensive points in the frontcourt headed by Li Kang! A stormy bullet moment!"
"How Everton can resist!"
"Huh? The ball was lost!"
...
Near the center circle.
The moment Xhaka received the pass from the backcourt, he was surrounded by Barkley, McCarthy, and Tom Davis!
It’s just that you are catching the ball slowly!
Reverse Vieira!
Snapped!
The ball was dropped.
The ball is back again.
Xhaka struggled to maintain possession of the ball.
Arsenal's entire offensive rhythm was slowed down...
The fan width in the front court is useless no matter how good it is.
At this moment, if Arsenal's frontcourt and backcourt support each other, they will be dislocated!
In the end, the ball was lost.
In the chaos, Barkley pushed the ball hard!
The Merseyside night sky turned blue.
Toffees fans erupted in cheers as the football track spread.
Mustafi, who was about to step forward to respond, felt his intestines turn green with regret!
What a fucking dislocation.
He turned around suddenly and looked back.
Maguire has to face Evra's two forwards: Miralas and Lukaku!
One defense against two?
...
Courtside.
Boulder was shocked.
Wenger frowned.
Koeman's face turned red and he clenched his fists...Success! Let your arsenal expand the offensive width, and our Everton midfielder will narrow down and pinch your rusty metronome!
Dare the frontcourt to retreat to support? Stop attacking!
Dare to support from the backcourt? Hit you out of position!
...
"Danger!"
"Milalas received the ball with his back and passed it to Lukaku!"
"Beautiful coordination against the wall!"
"It's about to pass!"
"Cech raised his hand crazily, but Maguire couldn't see it!"
Thirty meters area.
Maguire didn't dare to attack at all.
He knew he was turning slowly.
One defense against two? That's what Van Dijk, Varane, Boateng, Mascherano, Chiellini, Thiago Silva, Godin... those perverted central defenders can do!
Electric light and flint.
The brain works rapidly.
He chose to seal Miralas.
As for Lukaku, whose shooting skills are at a lower level...
Leave it to Cech!
...
The little monster dribbled the ball to the top of Arsenal's penalty area.
Boom!
A hard slap on the instep!
Now tens of thousands of fans can't help but hold their breath.
The football roared... flew off the crossbar...
"Pity!"
"What a waste of an excellent single-shot opportunity!"
"Everton's midfield layout is very targeted!"
Lukaku put his head in his hands, knelt on the turf...then spat, wiped his face with his jersey, turned around and gave a thumbs up to his teammates.
Cech instinctively glanced at Morata in front of him...
Wenger breathed a sigh of relief.
Koeman was so angry on the sidelines that he beat the ground wildly, his hair was messy, and his trousers were stretched to the limit by his huge butt... After adjusting his emotions, he still gave two thumbs up to his disciples: Just kick like this, Arsenal don't I want to win the half-distance championship at Goodison Park!
...
Studio.
-[It’s a bit strange. 】
-[Manchester City seems to have been beaten by Everton, and was eventually slaughtered with blood. 】
-[You can't blame Xhaka. Manchester City's Yaya Toure, the best midfielder in the world, finally made his debut under Guardiola. Even he couldn't withstand the entanglement of the three small Toffees midfielders. 】
-[A single defensive midfielder will definitely not be able to withstand the entanglement of three talented engineers. Xhaka has already done a good job. 】
-[Unless it is Busquets, his characteristic is that he is not afraid of this kind of encirclement and suppression. 】
-【what is it now? Arsenal changes to a double defensive midfielder, allowing Li Mingdeng and Xhaka to shorten the running distance? Or is it a parallel stance? 】
-[What about the width and rhythm of the attack...how do you describe it? Everton does not necessarily have to successfully seize the ball. The main purpose is to suppress Arsenal's offensive starting point and strangle the source of advancement. 】
-[Again, after being strong for most of the season, the Premier League coaching staff naturally developed corresponding countermeasures. 】
....
Li Kang and netizens have similar ideas.
But I still feel that the situation is not too difficult.
Everton's tactical system?
Koeman did not carry out large-scale transformation, but modified some specific details.
His commanding style seems very similar to my own...
He subconsciously touched the back of Xhaka's head to signal him not to feel too guilty or self-blame.
....
Cech takes the goal kick.
The game continues.
Li Kang returned to his familiar deep-lying midfield position.
Koeman pulled up his pants and immediately directed the three midfield engineers to retreat to strengthen the depth defense.
"Arsenal plays a bit like Barcelona."
"The advance is slow."
"We noticed that...Everton's midfield and backfield, whether it is width or depth...Li Kang has improved his speed! Wow! Everton's formation changes very quickly!"
"Li Kang slowed down."
"In this case, the game will turn into a positional battle. So far this season, Everton's positional defense is a bit like Chelsea..."
Dull scene.
Intense game.
Some fans can't help but worry: Will Li Kang and Koeman get cramps.
...
Time passed by minute by minute.
The performance of this group of players at Everton was tenacious and tenacious.
Koeman was so tired that his elbow hurt.
Take advantage of the dead ball phase.
He took a sip of mineral water and loudly urged Deulofeu, Bolasie and others to continue warming up.
Everton's bench lacks everything but a strange striker with weird styles. They can piece together many offensive routines.
When the arsenal was thoroughly studied, the Premier League gradually returned to hell difficulty.
Boulder paced anxiously back and forth.
"Most of Lee's characteristics are severely restricted by Everton."
“There’s no room to boot.”
"Move forward a little bit and they'll look for Xhaka."
"Maguire and Mustafi's long passes are not accurate enough. If they play directly in the frontcourt, there will be no numerical advantage at the landing point."
"Everton is like a piece of brown sugar, it's helpless and disgusting."
Wenger looked at the bench from time to time, unable to find a more suitable personnel adjustment plan for a while.
...
time flies.
Beep! Beep beep~
The referee blew the whistle to end the first half.
Fans from both sides couldn't wait to run out of their seats... In addition to the two goals in the opening game, there were too many pissing spots in the subsequent games.
Li Kang and his teammates walked off the green field and accepted the water, dry towels and bananas handed over by the coaching staff.
Coleman ran forward, patted his shoulder proudly, and then quickly walked into the passage.
The heirs to the Total Offense and Total Defense philosophy...were not always sympathetic to each other.
...
Everton dressing room.
Koeman tapped on the tactical board.
"Notice!"
"In the second half, we still changed our formation according to Li's position."
"Don't worry about others. Pay attention to restricting Xhaka. He is the focus of our defense! The purpose is to delay Arsenal's rhythm and force Lee to retreat!"
"If Cazorla retreats and becomes the card dealer, then McCarthy and Barkley don't come back! Don't tell me that you two can't defeat him?"
"We successfully put Arsenal into a passive position! Indirectly, their two wings were unable to get the ball smoothly!"
"I will send Deulofeu and Lennon in the second half! Arsenal's unbeaten myth will be ended at Goodison Park!"
...
Arsenal dressing room.
Wenger noticed a bouquet of flowers placed on the table.
The petals are red and white.
It's a breed he can't name.
Is this guy Koeman imitating himself?
Freshly baked heat maps are rolled out.
“We played a little impatiently in the first half, so the midfield and frontcourt were often disconnected.”
"Forget about the half-marathon championship!"
"Everton's positional defense is not impenetrable."
"Compared to Chelsea, they have a very obvious shortcoming: the defensive space easily overlaps!"
After briefly laying out the tasks for the second half, Wenger patted Li Kang on the shoulder: "Don't put too much pressure on him."
Li Kang nodded seriously.
The red lines intertwined from God’s perspective, reviewing the details of the first half.
....
The fifteen minute break is over.
The excitement at Goodison Park is renewed.
Players from both sides slowly returned to the green field.
Deulofeu greeted Li Kang and Bellerin respectively.
During the trip to Japan that year, they were teammates on the second team of the national team.
"Good evening, viewers, and welcome back."
"The live broadcast for you now is Everton vs. Arsenal at home!"
"Both sides went back and forth in the first half, and the score was 1:1!"
"Koeman took the lead in making a substitution adjustment!"
"Deulofeu replaced Williams!"
"A winger comes in for a centre-back!"
"I guess the formation needs to be switched from 3-5-2 to 4-3-3, no, it's 4-2-3-1!"
"Coleman and Baines will be further back."
"Arsenal has not made any personnel adjustments for the time being."
...
Beep!
Accompanied by the referee's whistle.
The second half of the game begins.
Arsenal have the ball.
After several passes, the football passed the center circle.
Xhaka was a little confused.
The change in the opponent's formation did not reduce the pressure on him to play the ball.
The key is Deulofeu.
He has the fifth-highest pace in the world and is extremely capable of predicting interceptions in passing routes.
There was a snap.
The ball was lost again.
"The same dilemma that Yaya Toure encountered happened again with Xhaka."
"Single sword!"
"Lukaku!"
"Wow!"
"It's so dangerous!"
"Cech made a timely attack! The danger was resolved!"
"Powerful hand toss!"
"I found Li Kang this time!"
"Beautiful! Got away from Tom Davis! Speeded up and squeezed Coleman away again! Superb ball distribution!"
"Morata is not offside!"
"pity!"
"Baines made a timely rescue!"
There were bursts of exclamations from nearby stands.
...
Time seemed to pass faster.
Different from the first half.
The second half returned to the Premier League rhythm.
The ball changes back and forth.
Fierce physical combat.
The referee - Clattenburg's yellow card was filled with the names of players from both sides.
Fight hard.
It was a tough fight for both sides.
Deulofeu's appearance broke the arrangement of Arsenal's coaching staff at halftime.
He sometimes participates in the organization on the wing, and sometimes moves closer to the center to mobilize the defensive positioning of the arsenal.
I don’t take possession of the ball very much.
Instead, he repeatedly helped Coleman and Baynes create forward opportunities.
Just like a "weakened version of 91 Messi!"
And Li Kang was also strangulating Toffee's defense line.
Start a breakout on the spot.
Outline the devil’s arc.
Immortal guides the way to tear apart space...
Luck is always a little bit worse.
Everton's parallel defense also greatly strengthened its depth defense during the formation change.
...
The 63rd minute of the game.
Cazorla retreats to meet Xhaka.
After getting the ball, he turns around and launches a long pass.
Li Kang pushed Mori away from the left wing and picked the ball towards the penalty area with his back!
Morata jumped high.
Headbutt!
Boom!
The football was like a cannonball, hitting the lower right corner of Everton's goal!
Not that easy.
McCarthy, who was assigned the goal-line defense task early, used his chest to clear the ball out of the baseline!
"Junior McCarthy!"
“Excellent performance!”
"Everton's high-altitude defense has always been good!"
"They've done a great job."
Koeman's face turned red and he kept pressing the air with his hands, signaling his disciples not to make any more mistakes.
Wenger looked calm and applauded vigorously.
The atmosphere in the stands gradually reached a climax.
Cheering chants from both sides floated back and forth over Goodison Stadium.
Toffees fans don't want to let their opponents win the second half of the championship.
The mood of Arsenal fans is like riding a roller coaster.
...
The 70th minute of the game.
Everton had their chance.
Barkley successfully intercepted the football in the 40-meter area of Arsenal's half.
Decisively separate sides.
Deulofeu showed a dreamlike pace and crushed Maguire from the front!
That's right.
A demon striker of his type is the nemesis of Arsenal's heavily equipped centre-backs.
"What a great opportunity!"
"Lukaku took Mustafi away!"
“The location of Miralas is great!”
"Why doesn't Deulofeu pass the ball?"
"Kick yourself!"
"Wow! It's an instep curve ball!"
"We seem to have seen a young Messi!"
"Cech!"
“The body is stretched to the extreme!”
"Wonderful save!"
...
The 78th minute of the game.
Morata attracted two central defenders.
Giroud cuts into the penalty area.
Everton's defense was disrupted.
The football rolled to the left side of the penalty area.
Li Kang accelerated and shook off Barkley, then kicked off and shot!
Boom!
The football hit the crossbar hard and refracted towards the stands!
The whole audience sighed.
Arsenal's No. 10 jersey is soaked with sweat.
Koeman was hoarse.
Wenger covered his forehead in regret.
It's always a little bit different.
Is the Gunners' perfect season going to hit rock bottom on Merseyside?
...
Time passes minute by minute.
The mighty Toffees fans took over Goodison Stadium.
Their team will draw with the Premier League devil tonight.
What kind of Manchester City?
What Mr. 200 million?
Coming to the blue Merseyside army will eventually return in vain!
Arsenal fans looked at the Gunners fighting hard on the field... and gradually began to comfort themselves: It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if you can't win the game, it's just a half-time championship, not a Premier League championship!
Damn it.
Why did this year's trough come earlier than in previous years?
...
The game entered injury time.
With Baynes' timely clearance, Arsenal's offense was defused again.
Take advantage of Bellerin to pick up the ball.
Li Kang bent down, pressed his knees with both hands, and gasped for air.
From God's perspective.
Dense red lines continue to extend.
Everton's tactical system is very simple.
But Koeman's small details and defensive arrangement are too perfect.
In the field of vision, except for the sleepy Eye of Truth, no other legendary shadow appeared.
wrong.
What is gathering in the wind?
Red and Blue No. 10?
No. 11 in white!
...
"Bellerin should pass the ball to Li Kang!"
"really!"
"Three Everton defenders are closing in!"
"No chance!"
"Li Kang's contact with Morata and Giroud has also been cut off."
"Is it going to be passed back...or is it going to be forced?"
...
On the large LED screen in mid-air, the time came to 92 minutes and 23 seconds.
The last thirty-seven seconds.
Arsenal are about to miss out on the half-time championship.
Koeman sat back on the coaching bench and rubbed his palms together.
For small clubs, the most fulfilling thing is to stop the giants.
Boulder was crestfallen.
Wenger was still standing in the command area, his body upright.
...
Li Kang received Bellerin's throw-in from the wing.
Turn around and speed up.
From the outside, he got rid of Tom Davis, who was blocking the front.
in sight.
The shadows of Barcelona's No. 10 and Real Madrid's No. 11 gradually overlap.
Feet pounded the turf.
In an instant, a terrifying speed broke out!
The pace is getting denser.
The moment he was intercepted.
The left foot touches the ground continuously, making an emergency stop and changing direction!
Let McCarthy and Barkley lose their focus!
The spectators in the nearby stands couldn't help but exclaimed!
"This is..."
"Drying the ball laterally from the wing!"
"incredible!"
"oops!"
"Morrie didn't follow!"
"Li Kang's steps..."
"Close to the top of the penalty area!"
"Baines!"
"I can't stop Li Kang!"
"Cut inside!"
"Hit the door!"
Boom!
The nerves of the Everton players.
The football drew an elegant arc in the sky above Goodison Park.
Koeman was stunned.
Wenger looked stunned.
What Toffees fans are feeling is despair.
Arsenal fans enjoyed the sudden happiness.
Robles did his best!
Even if the arm is a few centimeters longer, it can't change the outcome.
Everton's net was lifted.
1:2!
!
The second hand points to twelve o'clock.
Killer!
Arsenal secured the Premier League half-time championship at the last minute of injury time!
