My light shines on Arsenal

Chapter 26 Sunset at White Hart Lane ([-])

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp is an Arsenal fan.When he stood on the coaching bench at White Hart Lane, looking at the slender old man in a suit not far away, with a bright red shirt tied neatly at the collar of his white shirt, Redknapp would sometimes be a little envious.

But Redknapp won't let such personal emotions affect his professional performance.He is the head coach of Tottenham, and the chest of his teammates is the rooster on the football. What he has to do is to lead this group of people to beat the opponent.

What's more, Arsene Wenger's situation may be more difficult than he thought.Redknapp thought sympathetically.

For perhaps the first time in years, Tottenham have outplayed their opponents in terms of player talent.There is nothing surprising about the tactics arranged by Redknapp. He has never been a coach who likes to think about tricks in tactics.

Someone once ridiculed Redknapp as a psychological coach who doesn't understand tactics, and Redknapp responded: "In my opinion, 90% of the results of the game are determined by the people, and 10% is the formation. "

Therefore, Redknapp's team is difficult to summarize in a certain style. Their style of play is very flexible and depends on the status and ability of the players.

But this time, they tasted the sweetness.

No. 12 minutes.

Gareth Bale easily got the ball on the left side of the frontcourt.He was not restricted in getting the ball in this area. Bell felt that Arsenal's current defensive system was a mess.

Bakari Sagna fulfilled his mission faithfully. He knew Bell's ability. Therefore, as soon as Bell dribbled the ball, Sagna took his position and followed Bell step by step to prevent him from speeding up.

Bale's aggressiveness suppressed Sagna's position. In the first 10 minutes, the full-back did not set him up once, and Arsenal's offensive presence on the right was thin.

Bell thought about the strategy for a while, and finally decided to show his personal ability.

Taking two small steps with the ball, Bale looked at the center with his peripheral vision. Bell found that Arsenal's ribs were ridiculously empty. Coquelin's position selection was not generally bad. He opened up his defense zone and chose to follow Modly. strange.

The leg muscles exerted force, and Bell suddenly accelerated. He suddenly jumped out of two positions. Sagna, who was highly concentrated, did not mess up, but got stuck in the path of Bell's incision.

Experienced opponents.Bell thought.

But one-on-one defenders will always be at a disadvantage in the face of a well-rounded offensive genius.

Bell gestured to break through to the baseline, flicked the ball along the baseline, and made a gesture of accelerating.

Sania reacted sensitively, stepped forward, and his body was already leaning towards Bell, trying to go diagonally to push Bell, who was straight down, out of the sideline.

Bell flicked the ball back and quickly adjusted his position. After touching the ball for the second time, he stepped inside and bypassed Sagna's defense.

With the next touch, Bale had already cut inside, blasting through Arsenal's empty half-space.

Coquelin knew he had made a mistake and let his defense go.To be honest, he was also confused.Arsenal's defensive system has always been messy. This kind of zone combined with man-marking defense has high requirements on player positioning and tacit understanding, but Coquelin does not have these, and he still lacks experience.

So Coquelin didn't think much about it at all, let Modric go, and chased desperately to block Bell's angle.

However, Alexander Song also robbed the premise.

The two people had no tacit understanding in this interaction and came to surround Bell at the same time.

Bell saw the huge space behind Song.A left-hand buckle was used to break through. During the movement, the outside buckle changed direction to speed up the breakthrough. Song was easily passed.Coquelin behind him was furious and flew towards him. Bell used his strength again, pulled away and left.

Coquelin shoveled the turf and hit the embarrassed Song in the face. Song glared at him and wanted to chase Bell, but found that Bell didn't get the ball.

Where is that ball?

At the feet of Modric.

Modric, who was unmarked, easily penetrated back. Enough space was given to this player with a master's talent, which was too much luxury.

Bell's breakthrough stretched Arsenal's entire defense, but he did not take credit for it. Instead, he knocked the ball to Modric with a big picture in mind.

The "Magic Flute" adjusted it leisurely, made a beautiful arc, and directly attacked the goal.

The ball went in!One to zero!

Szczesny was stunned. Tottenham's offensive organization was too fast. He only saw Bell on the wing, and then twisted left and right to pass Sagna. After that, Song and Coquelin's double press was continued by Bell. …

Then there was a flat river in front of him, and Modric got a chance to attack the goal that was not much more difficult than a penalty kick.

Szczesny took a few sips of water in frustration. He didn't want to blame his teammates. He was blaming himself for not reacting in time.

Isn't the point of a goalkeeper to block those balls that teammates can't handle?

……

Chen Yao looked at the technical statistics on the ipad, but there was no reaction.This is completely crushing talent.

Bell's speed and aggressiveness suppress Sagna, and the attack from the right will be blocked.The advancement in the middle was not smooth either. Scott Parker performed very well and conscientiously blocked most of the passing routes. The lack of creativity of Arsenal players was fully exposed, making Parker look like a sweeping machine.

He thought for a moment and looked at Wenger.

The professor also pursed his lips tightly. The situation of the game was very unfavorable. The cheers of the Tottenham fans made the Gunners even more psychologically stressed.

"Boss, let's let Robin retreat a little. The advancement is not smooth, and there is no point in letting Robin stay in the penalty area. And Aaron has the habit of pushing forward, so giving him space may be effective."

Chen Yao covered his mouth and suggested to Wenger.

Wenger doesn't really like changing course in just ten minutes, but Chen Yao's suggestion is correct to him.

Wenger thought for a while, but ultimately did not choose to change his deployment so quickly.

He said: "Look again, I will remember it."

After conceding the ball, Arsenal was in better shape than before and came back to their senses.

"Francis, be sober. Don't stare at people when you see them. Remember your mission. Your mission is not to stick to their midfielder, nor to stand still in front of the penalty area. Move, run more, you want Find a balance. Also, communicate more with your teammates, you all bumped into each other just now."

After Coquelin was educated by Arteta, if he realized something, he stopped messing with people. He honestly guarded his defense zone and paid attention to Modric's running.

After the ribs are protected, Bell can't pass people easily.After all, passing people is also a physical and technical job, and Sarnia is also a French international, so it is not so easy to be eaten raw.

But Arsenal's offensive predicament did not improve in any way, and the score was zero to one until the halftime break.

"You're right. At halftime, let's change our strategy."

When the midfield whistle sounded, Wenger patted Chen Yao on the shoulder, turned and walked to the locker room.
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Regarding the suggestions and opinions put forward by book friends (the text has reached 2K words, the following does not account for the number of words in the text):
First of all, I really appreciate everyone's willingness to point out the problem. I will seriously consider and accept it.

It seems that the biggest problem at present is that the role and function of the protagonist are too vague.As some readers said, the protagonist seems useless, just the perspective of a historical witness.

Accept criticism sincerely.

I am aware of this problem myself.

The reason is that the starting point of the protagonist of this book is too low when he starts the book.This leads to that if the protagonist is too conspicuous, Wenger and other characters appear to be like puppets (no doubt this is a big poisonous point), and the restraint treatment will be out of the story as it is now, and my own The writing power and technique have not been able to write this story with a sense of participation.

And the reason is that I started the book on a whim and lacked sensitivity and planning for this issue.It is my shortcomings that bring about the shortcomings of the reading experience.

Originally, it would be more appropriate to summarize these thoughts, exchanges and introspection after writing a whole volume, but I couldn’t help but want to write some first...

Of course, the sudden reflection here does not mean that I am going to cut the book and run away... I will continue to write, and hope that the follow-up processing can solve this problem.

Thanks again for everyone's support.

(End of this chapter)