My light shines on Arsenal

Chapter 227 Premiere ([-])

"Agbonlahor's goal was so wonderful! He almost broke through half of Arsenal's defense by himself. This goal can compete for the best goal in this round of the Premier League."

The commentator praised Villa's first goal of the new Premier League season.

"Cheer up, boys!" Chen Yao clapped his hands and shouted from the sidelines to the court, "Continue to organize the attack!"

He can't show panic. The players will look to the sidelines from time to time. If they find that their head coach is panicking, the team's morale will collapse immediately.

Agbonlahor's explosive goal was beyond his expectation. It seems that Arsenal players are still a little uncomfortable with the slightly adjusted tactics for the new season.

这几年，主流的阵型还是双后腰的 4-2-3-1，上赛季，阿森纳打得最多的也是 4-2-3-1。

In fact, during Arsenal's offensive development last season, after the team completed suppressing the opponent in the frontcourt, only one midfielder was retained in the midfield and backcourt for most of the time. However, this season, Arsenal's changes are more thorough. .

At any stage, the only midfielder on the field has to bear heavy tactical responsibilities that are several times that of the double midfielder formation. He needs to dribble reasonably, choose directions, and use passes of different distances and strengths in the offensive organization. To start the offensive buildup, the ball also needs to protect the back line during the transition phase, and it also needs to cover a large amount of area during the defensive phase.

The advantage of adding many tactical tasks to one player is that it will free up other players to devote themselves to ball control and offense. The disadvantage is that once the single defensive midfielder is not able to withstand it, the team's operation will be unbalanced or even Collapse state.

Of course, the situation in actual games is not that simple.

As a team that combines total attack and total defense in style, every player in Arsenal is responsible for complex tactical tasks.

Although the single midfielder has to bear a large number of functions, other players will also help the midfielder through a lot of running and skillful rotations, reducing his burden and maintaining the operation of the team.

This is a team with sophisticated structure and complex operation. Chen Yao is trying to make his team a pure strong team and an idealistic team. This is destined to not be an easy road.

Every small adjustment and change will cause the team to face a period of pain.

The goal conceded just now can be said to be due to Agbonlahor's personal ability, but tracing back to the root cause, Jorginho failed to control the safety of the space in front of the defender's line, and Ramsey did not retreat in time to connect with Jorginho. Forming a two-man defense line, Chamberlain failed to defend in time to block Bertrand's pass...

In terms of details, Arsenal has not done well enough. These small flaws in the accuracy will not directly cause the goal to be conceded, but when the goal is conceded, it cannot be explained by probability.

Chen Yao's ideal midfielder candidate is N'Golo Kante - of course, N'Golo Kante in a fully mature state.

As for now, Chen Yao glanced at Kanter on the bench. This black boy was much stronger than he was more than a month ago, but compared with those strong orc-like men in the Premier League, he was still weak.

If Kanter was allowed to kick, it would probably be worse.

……

After Aston Villa scored, they could play defensive counterattack with peace of mind.

Villa coach Lambert looks confident. Last season, he used such defensive counterattack tactics to help Villa avoid relegation.

In the summer, Villa did not lose many players and added many cost-effective immediate combat capabilities. Lambert is confident that he has a good chance of taking away at least one point at the Emirates Stadium.

There were a few boos against Villa at the Emirates Stadium, but the louder sound was "spend (spend money)".

A group of fans pulled up a huge banner with the word "spend", calling on the club to spend money on signings.

Some fans also sang "We miss you, Verratti".

They don't necessarily really miss Verratti. What dissatisfies the fans is that the funds from selling Verratti were not invested in the transfer market. Arsenal's summer signings are stuck in the same state as a month ago.

They only bought three players who were not even of immediate combat ability.

The game continues.

In the [-]th minute, Arsenal's three midfielders instigated the offensive scene that Chen Yao wanted to see.

Agbonlahor and Christian Benteke pressed Jorginho in both directions on the way back to defence.

Two Villa players flanked Jorginho. Jorginho turned around to get away from Agbonlahor, while Benteke leaned his strong body over and tried to knock Jorginho away to get the ball.

Carvajal ran forward at high speed, leaving only a short moment for Jorginho to get the ball out.

Jorginho did it - he swung his leg and passed the ball to Carvajal before being knocked off balance by Benteke.

Carvajal crossed to Santi Cazorla, and Aaron Ramsey penetrated vertically behind Villa's midfielder.

Cazorla was galloping in Villa's midfield. He wiped out Fabian Delph's interception, touched the ball quickly with both feet, swayed England midfielder Ashley Westwood, and passed to Ramsey.

Jorginho organized the ball, Cazorla dribbled forward, Ramsey joined the attack, and the operation of the three midfielders began to show results.

Both of Villa's interception lines were thrown away. Ramsey broke into the penalty area, met Villa center back Joel Okore, and knocked to Giroud.

Giroud knocked back to Ramsey, and Antoine Griezmann entered the penalty area diagonally and received Ramsey's cross.

Griezmann shot - but there was so little depth left for him that Villa goalkeeper Brad Guzan fell to the ground and plucked the ball from Griezmann's feet.

There was an uproar of disappointment at the Emirates Stadium.

In the [-]th minute, Fabian Delph made another long pass behind Cazorla and Ramsey's forward line.

This time Agbonlahor retreated to receive the ball, and Bertrand was still forward to support him. After receiving the ball, he lobbed it [-] degrees into the penalty area, and Christian Benteke volleyed the header——

The ball flew away, and Benteke didn't seem to jump up. He fell heavily to the ground and rolled several times.

The referee's whistle also sounded.

Koscielny pulled Benteke down, preventing him from exerting any force on the ball.

Benteke raised his hand to complain to the referee about Koscielny's foul action. Mertesacker and Koscielny argued to the referee that it was not enough to constitute a penalty kick.

Finally, the referee pointed to the penalty spot.

"Oh damn..." Chen Yao spread his hands. He knew that the Premier League referees never wanted to see his team. If a foul occurred in Arsenal's penalty area, they would give a penalty kick if they could.

Agbonlahor took a penalty kick. He took a deep breath, took a run, and shot hard.

Szczesny misjudged the direction, [-]-[-].

Arsenal's performance has been as bad as pre-season.

……

In the second half, Arsenal's statistical advantage increased significantly. On the one hand, they began to adapt to the rhythm of the new season. On the other hand, Lambert directed Villa to completely retreat and find Arsenal's openings in defense.

In the [-]st minute, Carvajal made a pass from the bottom, Giroud headed the ball over, and Ramsey, who came in behind, shot the ball and scored Arsenal's first goal this season.

In the [-]th minute, Chen Yao replaced Mahrez and De Bruyne, and seven minutes later, he replaced Aubameyang.

Arsenal gradually regained its form in the second half of the game.

In the [-]st minute, Mahrez cut inside Bertrand, passed Westwood at lightning speed, and curled the ball over the top of the gourd to shoot.

"Boom!"

The ball hit the goal post and bounced out of the baseline.

Mahrez sighed, and Villa goalkeeper Guzan was also frightened. The new player Arsenal replaced was ordinary, but this unusual inward shot made it difficult for him to handle.

In the [-]th minute, Kevin De Bruyne sent an amazing through ball into the gap.

The ball rubbed the legs of Villa defenders Okore and Vlaar and came to Aubameyang's feet.

Aubameyang lost his balance and swept the ball to the ground. Guzan came down a beat slower and the ball rolled into the goal.

Two to two.

Arsenal managed to equalize the score.

Chen Yao waved his hands on the sidelines and asked his players to continue attacking, hoping to complete the victory at the last moment of the game.

Lambert also swung his arms to get the Villa players to focus. He regretted it a little. Arsenal was not used to it at the start, but after all, they were a wealthy team that performed well last season. If Arsenal were allowed to attack, sooner or later they would lose the ball. .

But one point is also a satisfactory result for Vera, but the process is not very good.

In the [-]th minute, Szczesny also came to Villa's penalty area, Arsenal's last corner kick.

The ball was contested several times in the Villa penalty area. In the end, Guzan held the ball tightly in his arms, and the referee also blew the final whistle.

Two to two, Arsenal's 2013-14 season opened with a draw.

(End of this chapter)