Football's hand covers the sky

Chapter 268 First Defeat

In fact, Li Shou not only had no sense of presence in the first half of this game, but also had no sense of presence in the second half. Although Southampton's defense did a good job, the goals were so poor that they rarely threatened Arsenal's goals in a game.

Wenger replaced Welbeck again with Giroud during the intermission. Regarding this substitution, Welbeck didn't say anything, and he didn't dare to say anything. The responsibility for the two excellent opportunities in the first half was indeed his own.

This substitution quickly took effect. In the second half of the game, No.605 minutes, Li Shou kicked a goal kick, and Giroud overwhelmed the defensive player in the hinterland of Southampton to ferry the header.

Griezmann burst out from the side, chased the ball away from the defender, and then sprinted into the penalty area with the ball, and this time Foster was not in the goal that could save Southampton.

Facing the attacking Foster, Griezmann pushed the far corner to complete the goal. Arsenal broke the deadlock on the field and finally took the lead in the game.

After taking the lead, Arsenal wanted to pursue the victory, but failed. Southampton's defense was so good that Arsenal never completely killed the game.

But when the team puts all their energy on defense, the offense naturally cannot be taken into account. The result of this is that Li Shou in front of the goal has never had a chance to perform.

This situation did not change until 10 minutes later. With 1:0 behind, Southampton must still attack if they don't want to lose the game like this.

It's just that Southampton was relatively calm and did not launch a counterattack until 10 minutes later, but their counterattack did not allow them to regain their disadvantage. On the contrary, Arsenal seized Southampton's offense and launched a wave of counterattacks to completely kill the game.

Mane, who came off the bench, hoisted the ball into the penalty area and wanted to use Pellet's header ability, but Mane took it for granted, not to mention Mertesacker's height, Li Shou alone is an insurmountable wall, and previous games have also proved that high-altitude balls are useless against Li Shou.

Perhaps, Li Shou’s height is not outstanding among goalkeepers. Most goalkeepers are above 190, while Li Shou is only 187. However, Li Shou’s almost abnormal jumping and explosive power can fully make up for his lack of height, and he can even do things that other goalkeepers cannot do.

The fact that Li Shou has not conceded a goal so far has a lot to do with his abnormal jumping and explosive power. When a goalkeeper's reaction, speed, ricochet and explosive power are strong enough to a certain level, it will become very scary.

And Li Shou is now gradually proving to everyone that he will gradually become "scary", and he will become a nightmare for all opponents.

The ball was blasted over Pellet's head to his teammate, who immediately sent the ball forward. After Griezmann took the ball, he sent the ball to Giroud. The French center attracted the attention of the defensive players to the right.

Again close corners, but this time Sanchez didn't kick the ball into the side netting and the ball flew into Southampton's goal as every Arsenal fan expected, and Arsenal extended their lead.

"The game is over. Arsenal scored the second goal of the game in the No.80 second minute of the game." Counting stoppage time, it is only about 10 minutes. It is almost impossible to break Arsenal's goal within 10 minutes.

Sanchez's goal was also a huge blow to Southampton's morale, which was directly reflected in the next game.

In the last 10 minutes, Southampton did not organize any threatening offenses at all, and Arsenal did not pursue goals. In the end, the game ended with a score of 2:0.

After defeating Southampton, Arsenal's winning streak came to six games, and the points were temporarily reduced to 1 point, but this 1 point changed back to 4 points a day later.

In the real start of the Chelsea game, Arsenal is full, because Chelsea will usher in another London derby in this round of the league, from another team in North London, Tottenham.

Tottenham have actually had a good record recently, winning three of the last four games. This game is a good opportunity for Tottenham who are determined to enter the first team.

It's a pity that the result of the game was different from what Tottenham and Arsenal expected. Under the pursuit of Arsenal, Chelsea showed a strong strength and defeated Tottenham with a 3:0.

Although it is a pity that Tottenham lost, it is still a happy thing for Arsenal, because both Chelsea and Tottenham are Arsenal's mortal enemies.

Although they failed to reap the benefits of the fisherman, Arsenal didn't care. The season is still so long. As long as Arsenal do their best, there will definitely be opportunities to get closer or even overtake, just like before.

The recent winning streak has brought a lot of confidence to Arsenal. Although it seems to the outside world that Arsenal's current winning streak is due to Li Shou's outstanding performance, as players, everyone has put in as much effort as Li Shou.

And now that the game is so intensive, the players have no time to pay attention to the outside world. After the game with Southampton, Arsenal immediately focused on the game three days later.

In the No.15 round of the league, Arsenal will be a guest at the Britannia Stadium to challenge Stoke City. Stoke City is not as strong as Southampton, but Arsenal have rarely won at this stadium in recent seasons.

Therefore, this game must not be taken lightly for Arsenal, especially after the results of the competitor's game came out. In this round of the league, Chelsea will be a guest at St. James' Park to challenge Newcastle United.

2:1, with the home team at the front and the visiting team at the back, Chelsea ushered in their first defeat of the season, and this first defeat for Chelsea was particularly aggrieved, because in just ten minutes, Chelsea had the advantage in numbers.

Although Chelsea has completely suppressed Newcastle United since the start of the game, they did not even give Newcastle United any chance to shoot in the first three 10 minutes.

Newcastle United's first shot in this game took place in No.30 two minutes, and Chelsea had a full 32 shots in the first 9 minutes, an average of one shot in less than 3 minutes, but such data did not bring Chelsea a victory.

This game once again proved that advantage does not mean everything, and data does not mean everything. Even Newcastle United injured their main goalkeeper shortly after the start of the second half.

Even in the face of such Newcastle United, Chelsea still lost. Newcastle United scored the first goal in 7 minutes. Cahill made a mistake in making a clearance and sent the ball to Newcastle United striker Cisse. The latter will naturally not miss this gift.

The lagging Chelsea launched a frenzied counterattack, while Newcastle United focused on Chelsea's full pressure opportunity and played a wave of counterattacks to rewrite the score to 2:0.

Newcastle United, which led by two goals, began to retreat in an all-round way. In order to defend this victory, they did not hesitate to pay the price of four yellow cards, of which Taylor also turned two yellow cards into one red.

At the last moment, Drogba stood up, but the monster was old after all, he was no longer that flourishing monster, he could make waves for Chelsea King, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Chelsea could only accept the defeat.

(End of this chapter)