Chapter 752 Challenge Arsenal (5)
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Just as Wenger, who was standing on the sidelines, was thinking about how to make substitutions and adjust, on the court, the referee also drove all players except Ronaldo and Westman out of Arsenal's penalty area and began to arrange for Fiorentina to take the penalty kick.
Ronaldo put the ball on the penalty spot. Since many people in the Fiorentina team have good shooting percentages, there is no fixed penalty kicker. Generally, whoever creates it will be punished. Unless someone really has no confidence or has some special reasons, they will ask others for this job.
After the referee blew the whistle that could take the penalty, Ronaldo ignored Siman, who was waiting for the game, immediately ran a short distance run, and then directly shot with his right foot!
During the shooting, Ronaldo was cautious, and there was a brief pause in his movements before kicking the ball out. This caused Siman, who had moved first, to lose the initiative and could only watch the ball quickly jumping into the goal he guarded from the other side!
One to zero, Fiorentina leads away!
Looking at Ronaldo, who was celebrating his goal on the sidelines, Anelka couldn't help but show a hint of jealousy. He was young and energetic at this time, and he was in the rising period of his football career. He was praised by the British media and had not experienced the ups and downs of the future. Therefore, when he saw Ronaldo, who was about the same age as him, was inevitably jealous.
"Nicolka, don't be too impatient." Borgkamp, who noticed Anelka's eyes, advised Prince Ice, out of love for the newcomer, "Ronaldo has been in Europe for more than four years to gain his current fame. You have only been in the top league for less than a season. It is inevitable that there will be a gap in this regard."
"But I'm really unwilling to give up. Everyone says that my talent is not worse than him, but Ronaldo is an alien, and the name he calls me is 'Ronaldo of France'?" Anelka said in a bit resentful, "One day, I will let people know that I am the best striker in the world!"
"Haha, I am really ambitious." Hearing Anelka's bold words, Prince Ice, who is already over the age of passion, couldn't help laughing, "Then I must look forward to it in my heart. I hope that in a few years, I can see that the team has an additional top striker!"
If Zhuang Mingge heard Borgkamp's words, he would definitely complain, "Brother, you're really right. Arsenal does have a world-class scorer in a few years, but unfortunately it's not Anelka, who is now partnering with you, but his French compatriot Thierry Henry...
"There is no need to wait for so long." Anelka looked at the Fiorentine player who was walking towards his half, licked his lips and said, "As long as the ball can be passed to me, I can let Fiorentina taste the price of despising me tonight!"
Just as Borgkamp patiently guided Anelka, Wenger finally stopped hesitating and made a substitution move. He did not dare to let Adams be responsible for Arsenal's middle defense alone. Although the captain's ability and concentration are trustworthy, facing Fiorentina's extremely powerful and luxurious attack line, Wenger did not think that Adams could withstand the concentration of Vieri, Ronaldo and others alone.
So Wenger chose to replace the right midfielder Palol with veteran Steve Baldor, allowing the former member of the five defenders (after Keeon arrived, the elderly Baldor gradually faded out of the main lineup, which was a watershed for Arsenal's two generations of five defenders) to partner with Adams with central defenders.
After all, compared with Ovemas, Anelka and others, Palor is obviously much worse in speed and technical aspects, and is not as threatening to Fiorentina's defense line as other people. In addition, Arsenal does not have an advantage in midfield control. Wenger, who has overreacted, feels that it is better to give up the midfield directly and use the speed of Anelka and others to fight Fiorentina's counterattack. Therefore, under many considerations, Palor, who had just played for more than ten minutes and had not yet started the event, was replaced by Wenger and became a victim after Keon was sent off.
Capello naturally would not let his side go to the advantage of having the number of players on the court. After the game started again, he immediately directed the team to adjust the offensive focus, allowing Fiorentine players to launch more offensives from the left. Although there is still a Dixon on the right, he is only one person after all. Facing the successive attacks of Carlos, Ronaldo, Redondo and others, Dixon is unlikely to withstand the test of this level - not to mention that his strength is not at first level.
It has to be said that the defense line left by Graham is still quite reliable. With the number of people at a disadvantage and the scene is passive, Arsenal's defense line withstood several waves of offensives initiated by Fiorentina and did not allow the goal to be captured by the opponent again. In fact, Arsenal's real bad at defense was after all the five elders of the back defense faded out of the main lineup. At that time, the Gunners' combat effectiveness declined significantly after being forced to turn to the defensive battle.
However, although Arsenal players burst out with amazing fighting spirit and morale under the command of Adams, the Fiorentine players still found an opportunity to tear open this defense through continuous midfield passes.
In the 25th minute, Carlos forced his way through Dixon on the left and passed the ball back to the top of the penalty area. Effenberg, who followed up in the middle, kept kicking off the ball and shot from a long shot. Unfortunately, the ball happened to hit the crossbar and bounced out of the bottom line.
Two minutes later, Fiorentina made a comeback. This time, Redondo dribbled the ball and attracted Dixon's attention and then cooperated with Carlos who was inserted into the side. The latter sent a cross again. Vieri beat the elderly Baldor and directly shook his head, but his attack was blocked by another veteran David Siman.
In the 33rd minute, after receiving the ball from Carlos behind him, Ronaldo made continuous bicycle moves in front of Dixon. After shaking the old defender, he had to take a few steps back and maintain a distance, and suddenly accelerated. He broke through his defense zone before Dixon reacted!
Seeing Ronaldo cut into the penalty area, Adams rushed over to make up for defense at the first time. At this time, he could only hand over the defensive task to Balder. After all, the ability of aliens is well known to the world. It is no different from suicide by emptying in his own penalty area.
Ronaldo had no intention of confronting Adams head-on. After making a fake shot, the alien picked the ball to Vieri in the middle of the penalty area. After blocking Baldor behind, the latter directly swung his left foot and shot hard!
Although Siman saved the ball sideways and blocked Vieri's shot, he made the same mistake as before, allowing the ball to roll back into Arsenal's penalty area... The result was that Lyonberg, who appeared like a ghost at the landing point of the ball, rushed to the empty goal with an easy push shot before the Arsenal player made a remedy!
Chapter completed!