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Chapter 844 The Relationship Between Threat and Distance
Benitez was a little surprised to find that Arsenal was withdrawing their defense. He really didn't expect that with more than ten minutes left in the game, Wenger would give up his previous style of play, suddenly changed his tactics, and wanted to shrink his defense!

He never made such preparations in his presets for this game.

After all, no one would have thought that Wenger's Arsenal would shrink back to defend...

This is not in line with Arsenal's football aesthetics, nor is it in line with Wenger's style...

So in the face of this sudden scene, Benitez didn't know how to deal with it.

It wasn't just Benitez who was surprised, but the commentators who explained the game were also surprised.

"Wenger made adjustments... he let Arsenal back the defense!" exclaimed Mortensen.

"This..." Alan Hansen couldn't understand it either. "Is he afraid of something? Afraid of Manchester City scoring at the end?"

"At present, it should be like this..." After Mortensen finished speaking, he and Alan Hansen looked at each other—is Manchester City already so terrifying?
At Stamford Bridge before, Hiddink was forced to give up attacking and defended for almost the entire game.

And now at the Emirates Stadium, Wenger has also changed his football principles and style.

And that's just a change that hasn't happened in half a season.

Where would this team be now if... Rafa Benitez had taken over from the start of the season instead of Mark Hughes?
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Kaka in front of the TV saw Wenger's thoughts, he didn't want to give Rong Guang a chance to fight back with speed.

This is a very smart approach. In this way, Manchester City's defensive counterattack tactics will not work.Arsenal only needs to not lose the game to win, and Manchester City, as a chaser, if they cannot win in a direct dialogue with the fourth in the league, it is tantamount to putting their fate in the hands of others, and then it will be even more difficult to get the top four in the league.

So in this game, Manchester City must win.

But when Arsenal shrunk their defense, Kaka felt that it would be very difficult for Manchester City to win the game.

If you can't win this game, what are you talking about participating in the Champions League?
Kaka set his sights on Glory on the TV screen.

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Manchester City's players were indeed surprised after Arsenal's sudden withdrawal of defense, because they did not expect it.Just as Benitez was not prepared to face such a situation, Manchester City's players were even less prepared.

For a while, they didn't know what to do in the face of Arsenal's sudden adjustment.

In the confusion, another 5 minutes of game time passed.

In these 5 minutes, Arsenal completed the tactical deployment of shrinking defense, but Manchester City failed to seize this opportunity and score a goal.

"Arsenal has completely taken it back...There is not much time left for Manchester City. Now it seems that Manchester City wants to win this game...I am afraid it will be very difficult." John Mortensen said.

"A draw is acceptable for Arsenal, but for the chaser Manchester City, it is completely unacceptable..." Alan Hansen also agreed with Mortensen. "Wenger must have figured this out before shrinking the defense. What's worse for Manchester City is that if they can't hold back in the last 10 minutes of the game and want to press out to attack, there will be a lot of gaps in their defense. Their defense is not good. The reason why they were able to defend before is entirely due to the superiority of numbers. With so many people concentrated in the penalty area, it is not so easy for Arsenal to penetrate..."

"So, once they press out and try to win the game at the end of the game, they will have problems in the defense, and these problems are likely to be caught by Arsenal..." Mortensen added.

Alan Hansen nodded: "That's right. Arsenal can also fight back. They have players like Walcott..."

"In this way, Manchester City is really... dangerous!"

The two sang together, and those Manchester City fans who couldn't go to the scene but could only watch the live TV broadcast were heartbroken.

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Alan Hansen's analysis was good. As the game time passed, Manchester City's players did start to get a little impatient.

Their offense has also become simpler and more brutal.

When football comes to the frontcourt, it often does not have a lot of detailed passing and running cooperation, but after a simple pass, it will end the attack with a shot.

Whether it is Berbatov, Robinho, or Rongguang, they all do this.

Benitez also replaced Sturridge, a young center trained by Manchester City's youth academy, and formed a center partner with Berbatov, hoping to increase the impact in the penalty area.

All indications are that Manchester City is in a hurry.

Moreover, Benitez's adjustment has no clear idea, it is simply to accumulate the number of offensive players.

There's nothing he can do next...

After Sturridge played, Rongguang's position also changed.He played further back than before to give space in front of goal to Berbatov and Sturridge.

In the eyes of the commentators and commentators, Benitez's substitution was a complete failure. This move means that Rongguang's threat to Arsenal's goal has also been reduced.

But Rong Guang himself didn't think so.

He never felt that the farther he was from the goal, the less threatening he was.

He has always followed the standards of a top offensive player in the world. How can a top offensive player in the world only score goals in the penalty area?
After Rong Guang gave up his position to Sturridge, he retreated and waited for his own opportunity.

Manchester City did play simpler and rougher, which can be seen from the number of times they made crosses from the wing.

More often, after they hit the football to the wing, they did not pass it again, but directly crossed the ball and hoisted the football to the goal.

This is the first choice of many teams when they have nothing to do, because this kind of attack has the lowest cost and the least technical content.

Every time the attack fails, Arsenal can fight back.

This makes Manchester City very uncomfortable.

They had to be exhausted and return to defense quickly to avoid being scored by the opponent if they failed to score.

This kind of offensive and defensive switching when exhausted makes the Manchester City players very tired, especially when the game is about to end, everyone's physical strength is already running low. After a few sprints like this, many people's physical strength can't keep up...

It seems that Manchester City's goal is more dangerous than Arsenal's goal.

But it is impossible for Manchester City to retreat now. In that case, they will lose all hope of scoring. Even if they can keep the goal in the end, what is the point of only scoring one point?

So now Manchester City can only bite the bullet and resist, and cannot retreat. At the same time, they hope to blast their goal before Arsenal score with a counterattack.

In fact, the outcome is only between this one goal. Whoever can score first will win the game and completely destroy the opponent's fighting spirit!
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No. 807 minutes, Joe Hart just threw Adebayor's shot down in embarrassment. Instead of lying on the ground to delay the game time, he got up from the ground with his hands and feet, rushed to the edge of the penalty area, and then threw the football directly forward with his arms.

The reason why I didn't directly use my big feet to kick the football forward is because using hands is always more accurate than using feet.

If you want to ensure that this attack is successful, you won't be cut off by Arsenal just after halftime.

So although he was anxious, he still kept calm.

This is very commendable.You must know that many goalkeepers often have a simple and rude big foot at this time, kicking the football forward, it seems that the closer the football is to the opponent's goal, the easier it is to score.

In a sense, it is correct to think so.

But there must be a prerequisite, that is quality.

The closer the football is to the goal, the greater the threat to the goal, but this has to be a quality approach.

If it is only close in distance, it is meaningless, because when the opponent's goalkeeper holds the football in his hand, he must be the closest to the goal. Can this threaten the opponent's goal?
Obviously not.

So kicking the ball forward with big feet can make the football close to the opponent's goal in distance, but if the pass is not good, the ball will be intercepted halfway in all likelihood, which not only wastes the physical strength of the offensive player, but also allows the opponent to directly launch a counterattack.

Joe Hart made the right choice.

Therefore, in this attack, Manchester City advanced relatively smoothly, hitting all the way to the right. Sabalite directly chose to cross after receiving Robinho's ball from the wing.

Without any feints, he just hung the football into the penalty area while Arsenal's defensive players hadn't pushed up.

Sturridge jumped up to compete for the top. He was young and strong, but lacked experience. His position was firmly stuck by Arsenal's central defender Gallas. In terms of height, Gallas was not as good as Sturridge, but in the end, Gallas grabbed the ball.

Gareth makes a header.

Sturridge was not useless at all, he and Gallas competed for the ball, and still interfered with Gareth.

So the Frenchman didn't hit the ball too far, it just went straight out of the penalty area.

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"Manchester City's offense was too simple and rude, so it failed again without any suspense..." Before the commentator Mortensen finished speaking, Alan Hansen next to him shouted: "Rong!!"

Mortensen scoured the pitch for glory -- and he found it quickly.

Glory appeared before the football landing point!

And he has already opened his posture!
Everyone is familiar with this action!

Rong Guang swung his right leg towards the football, while leaning slightly to the left.

At the same time, Arsenal's midfielder Cesc Fabregas also rushed up, trying to stop Rong Guang's shot.

He even used his body to block the glory.

But Rong Guang's right foot still arrived a little bit earlier than him...

When Cesc Fabregas jumped up and used his body to block the football, Rong Guang's right instep had already caught the football firmly!

There was a bang in Cesc Fabregas' ears, like a thunder!
Cesc Fabregas didn't feel the football hitting a certain part of his body, so he knew his block failed.

So now he can only hope that he will suddenly appear in front of Rong Guang and interfere with his shot.

So he looked back.

He saw that the football shot out by the glory was like a comet. The silver-white sphere reflected the lights above the stadium, pulling out a white light in the night sky.

Headed into the goal!

(End of this chapter)