song of the saints

Chapter 113 Red and White Lightning (Part [-])
Although the Southampton team was turbulent in the penalty area in the first half, this is normal. It is impossible for you to prevent every offensive opportunity from a strong team, but it is your luck that a strong team cannot convert opportunities into goals.Chen Zhun is a little grateful to Van Persie now, thank him for his kindness, but if Southampton's defense is still the same, then it will be a matter of time before scoring.

During the intermission, Chen Zhun also repeatedly asked the players to strengthen the harassment of running without the ball. Arsenal can't easily pass the ball back and forth, otherwise their players will be even more exhausted.

At the beginning of the second half, the two teams did not replace players, and they were also waiting for the opponent to make adjustments first, and then saw their own tricks.

After the start of the second half, I don't know if Arsenal used up all their energy in the first half. They did not adopt oppressive tactics, but followed the rhythm of the Southampton team and defended with peace of mind.At this moment, Chen Zhun was a little puzzled, and had a vague feeling that there must be fraud in this.

On the sidelines, he loudly told the defensive players not to press forward to prevent Henry and Van Persie from having the chance of anti-offside.Although the Southampton team temporarily takes the initiative on the field, they only frequently fall outside the penalty area of ​​Arsenal, and have no chance to penetrate into the hinterland of Arsenal to attack. The advantages of Cuba and Lallana are useless in this positional battle. He can only rely on crosses to find Kanoute again and again, but the central defender marking Kanoute is the young Swiss central defender Senderos, who is about the same height as Kanoute and stronger than Kanoute in weight, so we will fight again. In terms of golf, Arsenal is still dominant.

It was at this time that Chen Zhun realized that Wenger had done enough to target all aspects before the game, but he was far behind.Although he knows Arsenal's style of play and the characteristics of the players, he has no relative tactics. It seems that Chen Zhun rarely makes targeted tactics before each game. It's not that he doesn't want to do it, but he doesn't know how to do it at all. , this is Chen Zhun's biggest drawback.The consciousness of a head coach.

The game has slowly reached 15 minutes in the second half, a watershed in physical fitness.The reason why Wenger let Arsenal defend first in the first place was to wait for this moment.The most important test of the frontcourt pressing tactics under high pressure is the physical condition. Such tactics often lead to the team's lack of physical fitness and inability to run in the second half of the game.The current Southampton team has such a situation. In fact, the physical condition of the Southampton team has not been effectively resolved.

As the physical fitness of the Southampton team declined, the battle moment belonging to Arsenal came soon. Arsenal finally tore off the veil of camouflage and started their favorite oppressive offensive style. This scene seems to have returned to the first half. when.

Chen Zhun had no choice but to try to resist Arsenal's attack by substituting players. He successively replaced Kuba and Arteta, who had suffered severe physical decline, and replaced them with Glenshire and Delap.Chen Zhun switched to the former in order to have an impact speed, and switched to the latter for defense.But just as Chen Zhun put the two on, Arsenal scored.

Arsenal are still looking for opportunities from the wing. After Pires passed Luke Young, he was unstoppable. He drove straight to face Frey, who was attacking. Push the empty goal.

After holding on to the gate for 65 minutes, it still ended in a loss.Frey sat on the lawn dejectedly, and the standing Southampton players also had loss written all over their faces.

An inadvertent attack opportunity, after passing one person, there are defensive loopholes everywhere. The central defender is not close to the person, and the midfielder lacks the awareness of defense. A series of old and new problems are piled up in front of Chen Zhun in an instant, as if they will never be solved. Same.

Chen Zhun looked at the Arsenal players who were hugging each other on the field, Wenger who smiled knowingly on the sidelines, and saw the disappointed Saints fans in the stands, but felt powerless again. Chen Zhun didn't know this It was the first time he felt such a feeling, and it seemed that there were too many to count.

Even so, Chen Zhun still applauded with all his strength, indicating that the players performed very well and continue this tactical game, but he knew in his heart that the team would not be able to pass this hurdle after all. The hurdle of a strong team may really be that he is too high The current situation was caused by overestimating the strength of the team. If they had been sticking to it, the situation might have been much better.But there is no if, no possibility in the world, what happens is what happens.

Chen Zhun made the last substitution after Arsenal scored, replacing Kanoute with Crouch, and his tactics became a simple and rough long pass.

Inadvertently cutting willows into shades, this style of play suppressed the Arsenal team somewhat, because Crouch's height advantage caused the two central defenders of Arsenal to suffer, which greatly slowed down the offensive rhythm of the Arsenal team and gave A rare respite for Southampton.Chen Zhun lamented that it was too late for him to make a substitution, and now there are still 15 minutes before the end of the game.

In the 80th minute of the game, Southampton successfully defended against Arsenal's attack and took possession of the ball at their own feet. Lescott, who started the game, saw that Crouch was asking for the ball in the frontcourt. Immediately make a long pass.But Lescott's long pass was not accurate, passed Crouch, and flew straight behind Crouch. Neither Senderos nor Seagan thought of such a situation. Seagan watched the ball pass from him. His waist passed by, but he was restrained by his clumsy body. When he turned around with difficulty, he felt a red and white lightning flashing by his side. The speed was unimaginable.

At this time, thunderous cheers broke out in the stadium, it was Glenshire!

Glenshire, who has been cruising around the Arsenal back line, finally seized the opportunity!
He was not offside!He got the ball, he went straight in!

Glenshire has finally waited for such an opportunity!Don't sit on the bench!Don't substitute!I want to start!
Glenciel quickly dribbled the ball, faced the attacking goalkeeper Lehmann, shot lightly, did not wait for the ball to enter the net, and then rushed to the stands to celebrate with the fans!
He did it!This is his first goal for Southampton!
He proved himself!He is still him!
His name was cheered from the stands!again!again!again!
Yepes-Grandshire!

Seeing the goal, Chen Zhun could no longer restrain his emotions, and ran excitedly along the fans' stands, regardless of his punishment!Heed his warning!I just want to celebrate!Long applause and cheers broke out in the stands.

In the final game, it also relied on Glenshire's goal to successfully draw Arsenal. This also widened the point difference between Arsenal and Chelsea to 12 points, and the hope of defending the title became increasingly slim.

(End of this chapter)