Super Marshal

May 15th, Saturday, afternoon.

London Highbury Stadium is staged the final round of the Premier League matchup.

The home team Arsenal faced Leicester City.

After Chelsea won seven rounds ahead of schedule, the final round of the game could not change the ranking between the two teams against each other. Arsenal locked the league runner-up ahead of time, while Leicester City got a relegation place ahead of time. .

Before the game, everyone felt that Arsenal should be able to knock down their opponents easily.

But the truth is not so.

The referee of this game is the 48-year-old Durkin, this is also his last game on the whistle, after which he will retire.

But I don't know if it was because of his dizziness or other reasons that caused him to have a very controversial penalty at the beginning of the game.

It was the first attack that happened in the audience. Arsenal attacked after the opening. Right-back Lauren then jumped in and dribbled into the penalty area of ​​Leicester City, but suddenly fell to the ground.

The Arsenal players thought it should be a penalty, but Durkin thought that the Leicester City defender did not commit a foul.

As for the slow-motion playback of the scene, it was difficult to judge whether it was a foul or Lauren's flop because of the angle problem.

Perhaps due to the impact of the opening, Arsenal started playing very unsatisfactorily. Although they firmly controlled the advantage on the field, they were never able to convert the advantage into a goal.

In the first ten minutes, Gilberto Silva, Henry, and Ljungberg tried to hit the goal continuously, but they never hit the right position, especially Henry, whose long-range shot was even more off the mark.

But Arsenal still occupies an overwhelming advantage in overall strength and continue to control the situation.

In the 20th minute, the Leicester City defender fouled again. Arsenal got a good position, but a direct free kick from a little further away. Henry directly kicked the goal and went higher again.

After that, Bergkamp, ​​Pires and Henry all got the chance to start, but they still failed to hit the target.

The only threatening shot came from Henry's grab in the small penalty area, but was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper.

The French forward was so depressed that he almost wanted to hold his head.

But when the game entered 30 minutes, Arsenal could not attack for a long time and the situation was a little lax. Leicester City suddenly launched a counterattack. Sinclair got rid of Vieira's cross on the right. Former Arsenal player Dikov Header in front of the goal hit the goal and broke Lehman's goal.

This goal completely broke the deadlock on the court.

Arsenal began to launch a crazy counterattack, and Leicester City's situation was even more embarrassing.

Especially four minutes after Leicester City’s goal, Bergkamp opened the opponent’s defense line with a beautiful through ball, and passed into the penalty area. After Henry received the ball, he threw away the opponent and attacked. The goalkeeper, a kick shot.

But it was supposed to be a steady shot, but because of too much pursuit of angle, I wanted to push a dead corner at the bottom right, but hit the post, was caught up by the opponent's defender and kicked out of the sideline with a big foot, an out-of-bounds ball.

After consecutive missed scoring opportunities, Henry was furious in the penalty area.

Everyone can see that he is anxious at this moment.

From leading five goals, to now being chased repeatedly by the other side, to a tie, the tension and anxiety in his heart can be imagined, and the urgency of scoring is even more expressive.

But it was Captain Vieira who really equalized the score for Arsenal.

In stoppage time in the first half, Vieira suddenly came in from behind. After receiving a through ball from Bergkamp, ​​he swayed the goalkeeper in the penalty area and made a calm push.

What's interesting is that whether it is an assist, a passing route, or a goal method, it is exactly the same as Henry's shot just now, but one scored and the other missed.

As soon as the ball was scored, the first half was over.

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"What's the score over there?"

As soon as the whistle sounded, Henry walked quickly out of the court and went straight to the coach's bench. He asked assistant coach Pat Rice, who is Wenger's most effective assistant and has a very good relationship with the players.

Pat Rice also knows that Henry refers to Chelsea.

"Two to zero, Chelsea are temporarily ahead."

Pat Rice's words caused Henry to take a breath and hurriedly asked: "Who scored the goal?"

Everyone could see the anxious appearance.

"Don't worry, Ibrahimovic and Deco scored."

Hearing the news, Henry was relieved.

In this game, Arsenal’s opponent is the relegated team Leicester City, but Chelsea’s opponent is Leeds United. Currently the Premier League ranks bottom. Although the hard power is better than Leicester City, this team I have lost fighting spirit a long time ago, otherwise I wouldn't be reduced to such a miserable relegation.

"The first half led by two to zero, and the second half is still very promising." Henry said worriedly.

Last season, he lost the league title and the goalscorer. Henry was unwilling to reconcile him, so he was determined to make a shame this season, not only to help Arsenal win the league championship, but also to regain the goalscorer throne.

But now, Arsenal has lost the championship with nothing, if he loses the top scorer again, it will really be nothing.

Because of this, Henry has a strong desire to score goals.

But sometimes the stronger the desire to score, the more likely it is to make mistakes.

With so many opportunities throughout the first half, if it is in normal times, he dare not say that he can grasp all of them, but at least he can score a goal. If the state is a little better, scoring two goals will be fine, but now...

"Thierry." Wenger came over from the side, "Don't put too much pressure on yourself!"

Henry looked at his teacher deeply and nodded heavily, "I know, don't worry, I won't lose!"

After speaking, Henry turned and walked into the player tunnel.

Wenger watched him leave behind him, but sighed with worry on his face.

After all, the pressure he put on himself was still too great.

Henry has performed well this season. Without his more than 30 goals, Arsenal would not be able to achieve today's results. He is definitely the team's biggest contributor to this day.

But Wenger also knows his lover well, the more critical the moment, the more pressure he puts on himself.

For some people, this is a good thing, but for Henry it is not necessarily.

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In the second half, they changed sides to fight again. Arsenal launched a strong attack on Leicester City after the opening, hoping to eat their opponents in one go, but Leicester City chose to defend and refused to give up.

The two sides played hard to separate, but Arsenal has never been able to find an effective way to break the Leicester City team.

The Gunners are best at defensive counterattacks. Breaking density has always been not his strong point. Whether it is Henry, Bergkamp or other forwards, they are not good at breaking density, but they can play a better role in counterattack.

This has also led to Arsenal having an advantage on the field, but it is difficult to convert the advantage into a goal.

Instead, it was the Leicester City team who, after stealing Pires's breakthrough, launched a counterattack and created Gilberto Silva's handball in the penalty area, but the referee Dulkin did not award a penalty kick.

The Leicester City team was very dissatisfied with this, and the Arsenal players also refused to give up. The two sides even had a physical conflict. In the end, Durkin played 50 boards each, which resolved the contradiction between the two sides.

However, after the game restarted, Leicester City's action was significantly increased, which made Arsenal's attack more difficult to develop.

Henry was anxious and helpless on the court. He was like a headless fly, covering his head.

He looked to the sidelines from time to time. Although he didn't speak, assistant coach Pat Rice knew him well and kept shaking his head to indicate to Chelsea that Eto'o still failed to score.

Obviously, the more it is this critical moment, the greater the pressure on the players on both sides, the more nervous, and even so nervous that it is difficult to even score a goal.

But the news of Eto'o's failure to score a goal, instead of reducing Henry's psychological burden, made his desire to score even stronger, because he knew that as long as he scored a goal, he would win.

He believes that at Stamford Bridge in the south, Eto'o must think so too.

Sixty minutes later, Arsenal failed to score and Henry also scored nothing.

But Chelsea of ​​the South scored another goal.

Fortunately, the goal scorer is not Eto'o, but Ronaldinho.

This relieved everyone in Arsenal.

But Henry ran more aggressively on the field, rushing as long as he saw an opportunity, and drilling when he saw the gap, and everyone at Arsenal was also cooperating with Henry and working hard to create a chance to score.

Seventy minutes later, Chelsea scored another goal!

"Damn it, why did you get in again?" Pat Rice yelled in anger.

But again, when Deco was the hero of the goal, he laughed again.

"Exactly, it seems that the **** Cameroon forward is under too much pressure. Even Deco scored twice. He hasn't scored yet!"

But soon, Pat Rice shook his head and sighed, "What the **** is this!"

Even his previously unrelated assistant coach has tightened his nerves and felt a lot of pressure, let alone Henry, the person on the court.

He must be crazy about scoring goals now, right?

But at this critical moment, a sudden change occurred on the court.

After Bergkampra got the ball on the left, Ashley Cole slid into the penalty area with his left rib, and the Dutch directly picked the pass without thinking.

Ashley Cole turned around after taking the ball and was about to pass the opponent. As a result, Sinclair, who performed well in this game, stretched out his hand and directly knocked Ashley Cole into the penalty area.

In an instant, everyone turned their eyes to the referee Durkin.

Arsenal's players rushed at him for the first time, and Henry and Vieira, who were the first to bear the brunt, shouted in unison, "penalty kick, this is a penalty!"

This time, Durkin finally didn't hesitate anymore, blew the whistle directly, and pointed his right hand to the penalty spot.

"Yay!"

In an instant, the entire Highbury Stadium cheered.

Henry even hugged his teammates in the penalty area, celebrating this hard-won opportunity.

Vieira, Pires, Gilberto Silva, Ashley Cole, Bergkamp...

All the players ran over to encourage Henry ~www.readwn.com~The French striker also stood on the penalty spot.

I saw him carefully put the ball on the white spot, stepped gently on the turf in front of the ball, and then slowly backed up, calculating every step, as if to hinder everything. The factors for scoring all seem to be eliminated.

After stepping back a few steps, Henry stood still, closed his eyes, and breathed heavily.

It wasn't until the referee blew the whistle that he took a deep breath, opened his eyes suddenly, and rushed towards the ball, stepping on him as he had expected before. Point on the step.

Every step is so precise and so familiar!

The goal is finally here!

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