Football King Bale

Chapter 17 The Collapsed Spurs

Tottenham and Arsenal had mutual offense and defense in the game, and both created some chances. Unfortunately, the players who shot the goal did not grasp it, and the score on the field remained unchanged.

The home team, Arsenal, suffered a blow in the 33rd minute of the game. Their starting center forward Bendtner strained his groin and was unable to continue the game. Wenger had to use up a substitution quota early, replacing Bendtner with Eduardo.

Bendtner's fate is not good or bad for Arsenal. Bendtner himself does have certain abilities. As a high center forward, he has strong physical fitness, amazing jumping, and excellent ability to predict and position in the penalty area.

These abilities are also the reasons why Wenger put Bendtner on the field in such a major game as the North London Derby. He hopes that Bendtner can become the fulcrum of the frontcourt and form a good cooperation with Van Persie. After all, Van Persie is a point-grabbing forward, and it is not his strong point to let him compete with Tottenham's back line.

Although he has corresponding abilities, Bendtner's problems are also obvious: his state is unstable, his ability to grasp the goal is average, his professionalism is not very high, and this guy has a mysterious self-confidence. He vowed to surpass Ibrahimovic within three years, become the top scorer in the Premier League, the top scorer in the World Cup within five years, and become the world's top striker.

These words of Bendtner earned him the nickname of the Emperor of Confidence. It's just that Bell knows that even after three or three years, apart from the accumulation of off-court stories, Bendtner has not fulfilled his bold words.

People who are overconfident generally play football more independently, and Bendtner is no exception.

Moreover, Bendtner is not only a bit independent in playing football, he can even be said to be a bit brain-dead.

A few years later, the brains of the two Bashens became known all over the world, but before them, Bendtner had already become a representative of the world of brain damage. He was once arrested by the police for destroying the door and French windows of his apartment late at night. His most well-known saying is: no matter where it is, it feels good to be Bendtner.

In the past half an hour, Bendtner has wasted several scoring opportunities and failed to cooperate well with Van Persie. On the contrary, Arshavin and Van Persie formed a good interaction.

Eduardo, who replaced Bendtner, was once a talented player, but the short leg incident two years ago destroyed this genius. It has been more than a year since he bid farewell to the stadium due to injury, and the previous aura has not been seen in him.

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Arsenal caused short-term chaos on the field due to substitutions, and Tottenham took advantage of this opportunity to launch an offensive.

Due to Bell's active performance, Arsenal's defense has tilted to a certain extent, and Joel Luka's right wing has a space. Palacios found the gap and sent a penetrating pass.

Joel Luka went forward quickly, received the ball behind the Arsenal defense, and then made a cross from the bottom.

Joel Luka's pass did not choose to pass a high ball, but a low ball, and he was not looking for the high center forward Crouch in the front, but an inverted triangle pass into the penalty area, looking for Ronaldo. Bill Keene.

However, today's Robbie Keane is in a bad state. Facing Joel Luka's pass, his reaction was obviously a bit slower. As a result, Arsenal center back Vermaelen made a kick to clear the ball.

The ball from Vermaelen's clearance was caught by Cesc Fabregas, and Arsenal once again formed a threatening attack. As a result, Arshavin's shot from inside the penalty area arc failed to hit the goal.

Tottenham took a goal kick, and Gomez didn't kick the ball directly to the frontcourt, but threw the ball to the left.

Bale caught a throw from Gomez in his own half and sprinted along the touchline. Near the center line, Bell made a change of direction and passed Clichy, who hadn't fully retreated.

Behind Clichy is a large open field, and Bale dribbled the ball forward quickly, heading straight for Arsenal's goal.

Seeing Bale break through Clichy, Arsenal's midfielder Alexander Song and central defender Vermaelen Zizi rushed towards him.

In the middle of this week, Arsenal coach Wenger specially organized the players to watch the video of Tottenham's last game. They are very aware of Bell's threat on the left.

It's just that, in this way, Arsenal's defensive force in the center is empty, and their other center back Gallas and left back Sagna's attention is on Crouch.

Bale dribbled on the ball while still watching the pitch, and he saw a huge gap around the arc of Arsenal's box.

Seeing this, Bell did not hesitate, and directly swept the ball across the middle of Arsenal's penalty area.

This pass is full of threats. As long as a Tottenham player appears in that position, it is completely facing an empty goal.

There was indeed a Tottenham player in that position, none other than Robbie Keane.

The Arsenal players on the field were horrified, while the Arsenal fans at home were booing desperately, trying to interfere with Robbie Keane, Wenger on the sidelines had already turned his head away, not daring to look at the field .

The Tottenham side is completely different, the players are ready to celebrate the goal, the thousands of fans who came to the Emirates Stadium are also ready to cheer, the old Ray on the bench and Tottenham's substitute players and coaching staff They all leaned out, ready to rush out of the coach's bench to celebrate.

But at the next moment, a shocking scene appeared: Robbie Keane, who was running, staggered, his speed slowed down, and he just watched the ball pass by him.

The Tottenham players including Bale, the coaching staff on the sidelines, and the Tottenham fans in the stands almost all hugged their heads. They really couldn't believe that such a good opportunity was taken by Ronaldo. Bill Keene was missed!

The players and fans of Tottenham were disappointed, but there was a kind of surprise for the whole of Arsenal. More than 50,000 Arsenal fans cheered in unison, and some even praised Robbie Keane loudly.

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It is not a good thing for Robbie Keane to miss the opportunity to kill one after another.

Sure enough, just four minutes later, Arsenal scored.

In the 42nd minute of the game, seeing that the game had entered the end of the first half, Arsenal set off another onslaught, trying to rewrite the score before halftime.

Cesc Fabregas passes the ball in the middle, Joel Luka fails to defend Sagna, the Frenchman breaks through the bottom and sends a high-quality cross. Easily block the ball into Tottenham's goal.

Seeing that it was about to enter the halftime break, the team suddenly fell behind in the score. This caused a lot of blows to the players on the Tottenham field, and there were serious psychological fluctuations.

Arsenal, on the other hand, took advantage of the psychological fluctuations of the Tottenham players and launched an active counterattack after Tottenham kicked off, hoping to score another goal before the end of the half-time game to expand their lead.

Arsenal's tactics were successful. Van Persie, who had just scored a goal, intercepted Palacios' pass. After Fabregas received the ball, the ball broke through and got rid of Janus and Palacios one after another. Breaks past Ledley King and shoots into the bottom left corner from the edge of the box.

Tottenham conceded two goals in a row, and the players were all stunned. They almost couldn't play football at all, and the situation became very chaotic.

Fortunately, the first half of the game is over at this time, otherwise, with the state of Tottenham players during this period, as long as Arsenal are given a few more minutes, Tottenham will concede more goals.

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In the locker room, Lao Lei criticized the team's performance in the final minutes of the first half. In this regard, the players dared not answer a word, because everyone's performance in those few minutes was so bad, it was like a collapse.

Later, Lao Lei made a request for the tactics in the second half. He asked Bell to invest more energy in the offense and boldly press the offense. At the same time, Aso Hector is required to concentrate more, because after Bell goes up, there will definitely be a space behind him. With the ability and vision of the Arsenal midfielder, he will definitely use the space behind Bell as a key attack.

However, Lao Lei did not make adjustments to the team lineup. Even if he performed poorly and missed many chances to score goals, he did not replace Robbie Keane.

As the core of this team and also the team's second captain, Robbie Keane is different from ordinary players, Lao Lei still needs to take care of his face.

However, this kind of care will not be without principles. If Robbie Keane's state does not improve in the second half, I am afraid that it will not be long before he is replaced.

In fact, in the previous few games, Robbie Keane was often replaced at about an hour into the game. Presumably, in this game, the time that Lao Lei gave Robbie Keane was almost the same. look.

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While Lao Lei criticized the players and made tactical adjustments in the visiting team's locker room, Wenger praised the players' first-half performance in the home team's locker room. Especially Van Persie and Cesc Fabregas, the two scoring heroes, made Wenger very satisfied.

Originally, Van Persie and Cesc Fabregas were Wenger's confidantes, and the old man almost regarded them as his own sons. Now that they have such a brilliant performance, Wenger will naturally not be stingy with praise.

At the same time, Wenger also asked the team to continue to attack in the second half and score more goals. As a match between mortal enemies, it is not much different from life and death. No one will stay strong in the game. It is best to step on two feet after knocking down the opponent to the ground.

Tottenham's performance this season is very good, and now they lead Arsenal by a full 5 points. Even if Arsenal misses a game, this makes Arsenal a little unhappy.

It would be great if they can defeat Tottenham with a big score in this game, causing the morale of Tottenham to plummet and collapse in the next game.

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