Chapter 214 Equalize
"Oops..." Seeing Tottenham's offensives continued under the command of Alonso and Bastulk's double-core midfielder Alonso and Bastulk, which almost made the Arsenal players on the court almost breathless, Wenger couldn't help but feel a little shocked. It was not until this time that the professor realized that compared to the seemingly unsparing defense, Tottenham's threat on the offensive end should be worthy of his attention!
Not to mention that Alonso and Bastulk can always keenly find out the loopholes in Arsenal's defense. The accurate passes like a scalpel and excellent overall view make Gunners such as Sigan and Vieira have been overwhelmed. The frontcourt trident composed of Drogba, Robben and Ronaldo alone is enough to cause huge trouble to Arsenal's defense!
Before this, the reason why Tottenham did not perform strong enough on the offensive end was, on the one hand, because newcomers such as Klose and Robben were just a little newcomer, and needed enough time to adapt to the rhythm of the UK's game and integrate into Tottenham's tactical system; on the other hand, the reason was that the continuous record of not conceded by Cech created by Cech was too rare, allowing the players to unconsciously devote more energy to the defensive end in the game so that Cech's record of not conceded could continue.
Now, with Cech's record of not conceding goals being ended by Henry using rules to get things done, although the morale of Tottenham players has been hit to a certain extent, the conceding of the goal has also made them let go of their psychological burden, allowing them to devote more energy to the offense!
The main reason is that since George became Tottenham's head coach, the reality of Tottenham has given players sufficient confidence. Therefore, even if the team is behind the score now, the players have not felt any panic, because they firmly believe that under George's leadership, the final winner of this derby must be Tottenham Hotspur!
Originally, Sigan and Kloe Toure felt quite difficult when defending Drogba. While Tottenham strengthened their offensive and increased the frequency of cross-swapping players in front court, the defensive pressure on the two men suddenly increased in a geometric manner!
Even a central defender of Nesta’s level is difficult to ensure that he can defend successfully every time by being attacked by different types of players, not to mention Kloe Toure, who has only debuted for two years and Sigan, who is mediocre.
Logically speaking, Wenger should make adjustments at this time to allow Vieira and other midfielders to strengthen their protection of the defense line and reduce the frequency of being directly attacked by Tottenham players. However, the problem is that the professor is not very proficient in defense and is not very concerned about it. He has never established a complete defensive system, which has led to Arsenal relying on the players' personal abilities to complete the defense in most cases. Therefore, facing the increasingly prosperous offensive after the game started again, Arsenal's defense line gradually became no longer as solid as it was at the beginning, and was repeatedly successfully broken through by Drogba and others to create murderous intent.
If Lehmann, who was in front of the goal, hadn't been in good shape today and had several decisive attacks successfully resolved Tottenham's offensive, I'm afraid Arsenal's lead would have been tied by Tottenham and even completed the reverse.
However, Arsenal's good luck finally ran out at the 41st minute of the game. Robben, who moved to the right, kept violating. After passing the defense of Ashley Cole and Fabregas, he decisively chose to dribble the ball and cut in and advance all the way to the front of the penalty area, and then directly shot the goal with his left foot!
Although Robben has not yet mastered the skill of shooting an inward curve ball in his previous life, the Dutch Pan at this time has already achieved considerable success in this regard. The ball he shot cleverly bypassed Vieira and Kroo Toure who were trying to intercept halfway and headed straight to the far post at the goal!
The timing was sudden, the ball was extremely fast, and the angle was tricky. This was the biggest feature of Robben's signature inward shooting and the most threatening point. In George's previous life, even those first-class goalkeepers who had been famous for a long time would be depressed by this move when they were not prepared. Therefore, although Robben's use of only an unfinished version, it was enough for Arsenal to have a drink!
At this moment, Lehman, who had turned the tide several times before, stood up again, and flew to save with extremely relaxed movements, blocking Robben's shot the moment before the ball was about to fly into the goal!
However, the ball blocked by Lehman did not fly far, but after hitting Kroo Toure, it bounced back to the small penalty area. The worst thing is that the ball landed just not far in front of Drogba!
Faced with such a good opportunity, Drogba, who followed up in the middle, naturally had no reason to let it go easily. The Ivorian Warcraft relied on the power of others to forcibly block Sigan behind him, and before the latter took the remedy, he stabbed the ball into the goal that had become an empty goal!
One-to-one! Before the end of the first half, Drogba's goal-shot shot helped Tottenham tie the score, pulling the two teams back to the same starting line!
The leading advantage that they finally achieved was successfully smoothed out by their opponents before entering the halftime break. This reality caused a considerable psychological blow to Arsenal players. After re-telephone, they seemed a little confused, causing them to make many unnecessary mistakes on the court.
In other words, there were not a few minutes left in the first half, and the Tottenham players also needed to relax their tense nerves after more than 40 minutes of attack. Otherwise, before Bennett could blew the whistle to announce the end of the first half, Tottenham even hoped to reverse the score before the end of the halftime break!
Since Wenger picked up Arsenal's coaching stick, the remarks about "Arsenal players are not capable of resisting pressure and are not good at fighting tough battles" have never stopped. Especially in the 2oo2-o3 season, Arsenal was reversed by Manchester United and won the championship after being led by the second place for more than ten points. The team's flag characters Henry and Pire even said "We were robbed of the initiative in the championship by Manchester United" after being countered by Manchester United, which made the topic of the Gunners' spiritual attributes stand at the forefront again!
With such a precedent, this North London Derby is no exception. Tottenham's oppressive offensive and Drogba's goal before the end of the first half brought great psychological pressure to Arsenal players. In addition, he had never taken advantage of the confrontation with George before, which made Reyes, Sigan and others very depressed, feeling that they still could not win a victory from Tottenham this time!
Chapter completed!