Chapter 377 Penalty at the Last Moment
When Notts County equalized, David was excited, but he restrained his emotions and sat firmly on the coach's bench without much movement, but when Notts County countered the score, David couldn't control his excitement, If it wasn't for the assistant coach to stop him, he would have rushed to the field to celebrate the goal with the players!
Your team is just as good as you can be, what if it is better than the giants Arsenal, what if you are undefeated in 49 games, today Notts County will let your record come to nothing. ?Hunting?? ??? ????????????
After the game restarted, Arsenal had to attack. In the second half of the game, there was not much time left for them, and they were absolutely unwilling to lose.
However, after the confrontation at the beginning of the game, Arsenal is also very clear that their positional attack cannot pose too much threat to Notts County. Because of the uneven lineup, many tactics cannot be formed. Cesc Fabregas's The immaturity dragged down the team as a whole. If they attacked in such a mindless manner, they would probably be chased by Notts County and spanked.
Isn't Notts County's previous tactics very good? Although Arsenal can play beautiful football, it is not impossible to play some riba people. After all, as an English club, how can it be possible to leave the skills that you see behind? So, Arsenal After playing for a while, I also played a simple high-altitude ball.
Henry is a very well-rounded center. Although his body looks thin, as long as he is not a heavyweight center back, he is not too disadvantaged in confrontation. With him as a fulcrum, at least Arsenal's threat will be improved by a lot.
On top of that, it seemed to activate Cesc Fabregas, not needing him to pass threatening balls, and Notts County were not so tight on him, and Mascherano's end also gave him the opportunity. Plenty of space, often a threat in front of Notts County.
So, at this time, the two teams once again returned to the situation of attacking each other, but the attacking methods of both sides became primitive and rough, more like a contest between two low-level English teams at bayonet.
The two sides played very entangled and intense, and the transition between offense and defense was dizzying. Only this most primitive contest can make England fans release their most passionate emotions from the depths of their hearts.
Fans dare not blink their eyes, for fear of missing some wonderful shots.
However, the game was fierce, but no goals were scored. As time went by, the situation became more and more unfavorable for Arsenal, who were playing at home.
The Gunners don't want to lose the game at home. After that, the gap between them and Notts County will reach 9 points, which is by no means an easy gap to catch up.
even,
Arsenal no longer wants to win, as long as they can score a goal at the last minute to tie Notts County and prevent Notts County from expanding their points advantage, it is the best result.
There are five minutes left in the regular time of the game. Arsenal have completely given up their defense and pressed the attack on the whole line. Notts County has no intention of attacking, and slowly retreats to a well-organized defense. Victory.
Henry kept moving in the penalty area, sometimes he needed to fight for the header, and the advantage needed to rely on the Notts County defender to get the ball behind his back, but there was no chance to start directly forward, and he felt extremely anxious. Any player is eager to score goals.
Once again, the header shot over the crossbar under the interference of the Notts County players. Henry leaned on his knees with a frustrated expression and began to pant heavily. He had little energy left, and the more he felt powerless.
At this time, the substitute players on both sides had involuntarily stood on the sidelines and stared at the situation on the field, and even felt more anxious than the players on the field.
The referee has been looking at the watch from time to time, and half of the 3 minutes of stoppage time in the second half have passed, and the death penalty for Arsenal is close at hand.
Pires dribbled the ball on the flank, which might have been Arsenal's last attack, and he couldn't help but be careful.
Cesc Fabregas asked in the middle, although Pires didn't want to pass to this little guy who behaved like a disaster, but who made him Wenger's favorite young player, so the French wing still passed the ball to the middle.
Although Xiaofa is not experienced, he is talented after all. After the adjustment of the whole game, he is not so embarrassed at this time. Suddenly, he has a flash of inspiration and gently rubs against the incoming ball. The ball passed Carvalho's defense and directly Fly to the front of Henry.
It was a very creative pass, and even David couldn't help but want to applaud Xiaofa.
But a little bit of a fly in the ointment is that the strength of this ball is not very good, and some are too close to the bottom line. When Henry catches up with the ball, the ball has already reached the bottom line.
Although the angle is very small, the defenders of Notts County are still facing the enemy. A superstar like Henry has the ability to change the result of the game at any time. No one dares to be careless. Carvalho is close to him, blocking Henry from the side. Space.
Just when everyone thought that Henry couldn't make an essay in a narrow angle, the French striker suddenly made a juggling action, like a rainbow, to pick up the ball with his feet, as if to use this method to make a difference. Ibaraki County's penalty area created the same scoring opportunities.
Carvalho involuntarily raised his head to look at the ball that flew into the air, but suddenly realized that Henry seemed to be crossing over from his left side, and subconsciously made a blocking action, but in an instant, he withdrew his action again, Because he knows that this is a penalty area, if there is physical contact, it is easy to be deformed by the referee. At this point in the game, he does not want to ruin the team's good situation because of his own mistakes.
What he never expected was that he didn't look for things, but things came to him.
He had already withdrawn his movements, but Henry took the initiative to bump him, and in his surprise derivative, the Arsenal center fell to the ground exaggeratedly, then sat up and opened his hands, his expression extremely angry.
Just when the players on both sides failed to react, the referee's whistle decisively remembered that, under all the gazes, the referee's hand pointed to the penalty spot, and he awarded Arsenal a penalty!
Highbury Stadium fell into silence, but in the next second there was a sudden earthquake-like fluctuation, and the fans were so excited that they didn't even know their name.
Henry happily got up from the ground and celebrated with his teammates. They knew exactly what this penalty meant. (To be continued.)