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"Hey! Noble, do you see? We are ahead now!" After seeing the referee declare Pires' goal valid, Vieira immediately rushed to the front of the Tottenham bench and showed off proudly in front of George. He looked like a dancing gorilla, "What's the price you mentioned? Why don't I see anything?"
For a time, the stadium was filled with the cheers of Arsenal fans. All Arsenal supporters applauded Pires' goal and Vieira's counterattack, and they all mocked George, who severely humiliated Wenger and Arsenal before the game!
Hearing the sounds coming from around the stadium and looking at the proud smiles on the faces of the Arsenal players, the expressions of the Tottenham players were naturally very ugly. After all, no matter what, George is their head coach, and it is their side that lost the ball. Vieira's approach is undoubtedly provoking the entire Tottenham team!
"Damn it!" Mascherano couldn't help but look at the Arsenal players showing off in front of his coach, while cursing his previous performance in his heart. In the view of the young Argentinian player, if he could have been calmer in the previous defense and not attracted attention by Ljungberg's breakthrough, but stayed firmly at the edge of the penalty area, Pires would not have been able to score so easily. Got a chance to hit the goal. Because in that way, he can interfere with Pires' shooting action for the last time!
"Okay, Javier (Mascherano), don't blame yourself." Seeing Mascherano's angry expression filled with self-blame, Speed walked up and patted the other man on the shoulder. , comforted, "Lack of game experience and being easily deceived are the price that every professional player will pay when he is young. What you need to do now is to learn from these experiences and lessons to avoid making similar mistakes again."
"Well, Gary, I understand." Being able to grow into a top defensive midfielder in his previous life, Mascherano relied not only on his outstanding football talent among his peers, but also on his willpower and ambition. Naturally I will not be depressed because of this setback, "I just feel very unwilling. We could obviously block Arsenal's attack, but in the end, because of my mistake, the team and the boss were embarrassed." "
"Just recognize the mistake." Speed raised his hand, smiled and rubbed Mascherano's head, and then stopped Ronaldo and Ledley King who were about to go over to help George out, " Cristiano! Ledley! If you still want to win this game, then just go back and stay here and don't go over there to join in the fun! Believe me, if you go over now, you will be in real trouble! "
At the same time, seeing Pires opening the scoring for Arsenal with a volley from outside the penalty area, and Vieira running in front of him to show off his power after the goal, George just raised his eyebrows and did not provoke Vieira this time. He didn't give any response, and even grabbed Anderton, who was about to rush up to compete with Vieira, and pushed the latter back to the bench. Because he knew that in this situation, no matter what reaction he made, it would not be of any help to the situation at hand. In this case, it is better to just ignore the opponent's provocation and use this time to think about the next game strategy.
Moreover, George also understood that the home team's goal seemed to be the result of a clever tactical cooperation between Arsenal players. But in fact, this is mainly due to the excessively strict penalty standards of referee Boll - if it weren't for Boll using a series of whistles from the beginning of the game to make Tottenham players restrained when defending, they would not dare to make easy decisions. If it's a defensive move, Pires won't be able to get that much space to shoot!
However, the preferential treatment given to Arsenal almost ends there. George secretly speculated on Bol's thoughts. After all, previous law enforcement records show that the referee is a guy who likes to find balance. Since Tottenham now suffers from the penalty scale, Bol will definitely give Tottenham corresponding compensation in the game.
"This should be enough. If we continue like this, this game will be unwatchable..." George expected it well. After seeing Arsenal players take advantage of their penalty scale to score goals soon after the opening, Boer couldn't help feeling a little regretful in his heart. He originally just wanted to teach George a small lesson, but he did not expect that the change in penalty scale would have such a big impact on Tottenham's young team. Arsenal scored at the beginning of the game.
Now, since Arsenal has obtained actual benefits by taking advantage of the excessive penalty scale, then there is no need for them to continue to give preferential treatment to the home team. Making this focus battle of the twelfth round of the Premier League smoother and more beautiful is Boll's main task as the referee, rather than turning this North London derby into a one-sided massacre due to an imbalance.
Of course, even without Bol's care in terms of penalty scale, every Arsenal attack after the game restarts is still enough to make Tottenham players scramble. If it weren't for Cech's performance as a world-class goalkeeper in this game and several successful saves in front of the goal, Arsenal might even have hoped to further expand their lead in the first twenty minutes of the game!
The reason why Tottenham is so passive is mainly because the players have encountered mostly traditional British teams before, and have not had much exposure to European technical teams like Arsenal. Therefore, when facing Arsenal, a style of play that is completely different from that of most Premier League teams, even if George had made targeted arrangements for this before the game, Tottenham players who lacked experience in dealing with it would inevitably still have some problems at the beginning of the game. be thrown off balance.
In the traditional British 4-4-2 formation, the main responsibility of the wide midfielder is to sit on the wing of the midfield and use Giggs-style sharp breakthroughs or Beckham-style precise crosses when attacking to provide the forward The two forwards on the field create scoring opportunities, and when defending, they need to assist their full-backs to prevent the opponent's attacks from the wings. But Wenger abandoned this set of traditional British football ideas and carried out tactical reforms for Arsenal under his rule that were in line with football trends!
One of the most iconic changes is that the players assisting the full backs in defense are no longer two full midfielders, but two midfielders with a wide range of activities and extremely capable abilities. The arrival of wizards like Vieira and engineering midfielders such as Petit and Gilberto allowed Wenger to successfully implement his tactical reforms at Arsenal. At the same time, Wenger's forwards, such as Anelka, Henry and Bergkamp, do not stay in the penalty area like traditional forwards such as Shearer and Andy Cole, waiting for cannon balls delivered from the midfield. , but took the initiative to pull out of the penalty area and keep running, distracting and containing Tottenham's defensive forces in order to obtain greater offensive space!
Since the double midfielder composed of Vieira and Gilberto effectively protected the defense on the wing, Pires, who served as the left midfielder, could naturally devote more energy to the offense and began frequent and even crazy cuts inside. Bergkamp on the striker used his high football intelligence and technical support in the middle, while Henry, who was supposed to be at the forefront, sprinted along the left corridor that belonged to Pires, meeting gods and gods, and encountering Buddhas. Kill Buddha!
Therefore, when Tottenham attacks, Cristiano Ronaldo on the right will encounter the joint defense of Vieira and Ashley Cole, two top stars, while Bierovka on the left will have to deal with basically no players. Gilberto and Lauren, who participated in the attack, naturally found it difficult to attack from both wings. Tottenham players are even more troubled when defending. Pires does not like the traditional attacking midfielder to receive the ball from the center and advance forward. Instead, he frequently cuts in from the left to organize attacks or pass or shoot. This gives the defensive midfielder position a lot of trouble. Speed and Mascherano caused great trouble. At the same time, since Bergkamp and Henry frequently pulled out of the penalty area and even retreated to the midfield to catch the ball, Ledley King and Vidic did not dare to leave their defensive positions easily to mark the two. In this way, Henry, who has gained enough space to accelerate, can directly attack with the ball from the left side of the front court, using his speed advantage to attack and disintegrate Tottenham's defense. What's even more painful is that if Tottenham's defense leans too far to the right to strangle Henry, then the gap they expose in the left rib cage will be exploited by Ljungberg, just like Tottenham conceded the first goal of the game.
Seeing that the team was in great trouble on both offense and defense, George's face could be said to be quite solemn. Although he knew very well that Arsenal this season was the most difficult to deal with because of his past life memories, it was not until he saw it with his own eyes that George discovered for the first time that Wenger's Arsenal was far worse than he had imagined. Much more powerful!
No wonder Arsenal in the previous life could finally win the Premier League championship this season with an unbeaten record. Wenger's tactical play and Arsenal's player configuration that are ahead of the mainstream of the Premier League can indeed crush those whose thinking has not caught up with the times. The trendy Premier League team, George thought secretly in his heart.
In this way, until the end of the first half, Tottenham could only struggle under Arsenal's powerful offensive. Only in the last five minutes of the first half, after a high-intensity full-court pressing tactic was adopted under George's order, was this passive situation reversed, leaving Tottenham fans depressed for nearly half the game. I feel better.
The reason why this tactic was not used early in this game is mainly because this style of play consumes too much physical energy of the players and also has extremely high requirements on the tacit understanding between the players. Once there is a problem with coordination, Then it's easy to be blown to pieces by Arsenal. Because Henry's speed and Pires' flexibility, coupled with Bergkamp's support and dispatch, are enough to discover and seize any loophole in Tottenham's defense!
However, despite controlling the score and taking the initiative for most of the first half, there was not much joy on the faces of Arsenal players when they walked into the tunnel. Because before the end of the game, Tottenham used a quick counterattack after stealing the ball in the frontcourt, and Drogba scored, leveling the score at one to one!
After leading for nearly the entire first half but eventually entering the halftime break tied, it's no wonder the Arsenal players were so depressed.
