Chapter 66 Unbearable

Before the end of the first half, neither Arsenal nor Manchester City scored again, and the two teams returned to the dressing room with a score of 1:1.

For Manchester City, who are playing away, the score of 1:1 is not bad, but everyone played very difficult in the first half, so when they returned to the locker room, they were not in a happy mood. They were all silently doing their own thing. Things, or resting in the seat, even if talking is whispered, which makes the atmosphere in the locker room a little depressed.

When Wan Sheng walked in, he saw such a scene, so he waved his hand high and said in a loud voice, "Guys, what are you doing! We have a draw, this is Highbury Stadium! It must be said , 1:1, we did well in the first half!"

Many people followed suit and shouted.

Seeing that the atmosphere was more active, Wan Sheng began to talk to everyone about the play in the second half.

In terms of tactics, no adjustments have been made on the whole, and neither has the lineup. What I want to talk about is some problems in the first half and what needs special attention in the battle with the opponent, especially in terms of defense. Henry led the striker. It is very important to note that if one is not careful and negligent, the opponent may seize the opportunity to score goals, which will directly determine the outcome of the game.

Wan Sheng explained this very seriously, and then he specifically pointed to Anelka, "You should be more calm! Pay attention to your cooperation with other people!" However, he took care of Anelka's face and didn't say much. .

Later, after letting everyone continue to work on their own affairs, Wan Sheng found Anelka alone, walked to the door of the locker room and had a detailed discussion with him.

"You are a little too lonely in the game. Many times your best choice is to pass the ball to your teammates. You should trust other people!" Wan Sheng said seriously, "You must play according to tactics, otherwise I don't mind throwing you Change it!"

The last sentence is a bit harsh.

Anelka is the same age as Wansheng and is the team's first star. It still feels very shameful to be said that by Wan Sheng, but he doesn't feel weird, because Wan Sheng is the head coach. In the previous summer preparations, he was said that more than once. I didn't feel anything. But he was still a little dissatisfied, because he felt that his performance was good.

'I scored goals, and the goals proved my performance! ’

Anelka thought so.

So he didn't care what Wansheng said.

Every coach is emphasizing things like tactics, and Keegan before is the same, but when it comes to the game, don't you want the players to perform? He has always followed Keegan's tactics to play, and the result has been a series of losses and defeats.

Now he feels that he is in good shape, so he should let himself play freely!

tactics or something. It's not all about scoring goals. Such complicated tactics, what to cooperate with teammates, what to keep running, not to create opportunities for goals! ? So as long as you can score goals, nothing else matters.

Anelka lowered his head, as if listening to Wan Sheng's words seriously, but the corners of his mouth curled up in disdain. He completely took these words as a deaf ear.

Wan Sheng didn't know Anelka's thoughts.

He saw Anelka keep taking penalties. Thinking that what I said was still effective, I let go. Go ahead and give others some tactical guidance.

So it's time to start the second half.

Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines at the beginning of the game. He needs to watch the game carefully in order to see the performance of the team after a half-time, and he can also do some command temporarily.

He felt that he didn't need to do anything, but he quickly raised his mind again - it was still Anelka.

Manchester City launched a wave of attack.

Sinclair ran with the ball and completed a pass on the wing. The ball fell to Anelka's feet. Sinclair waved to Anelka to pass it back. .

This kind of small cooperation naturally has to pass back, so that Sinclair can dribble the ball deeper and deeper, and then he will complete the cross from the wing. If there is no chance, he will pass back to stabilize the rhythm and go again Look for opportunities.

This is Manchester City's tactic.

But now the situation is different. After the ball reached the feet of Anelka, he did not pass it to Sinclair, but took the ball and made a shot, which fooled the retreating defender Fabrega. , he dunks the ball in again and wants to dunk Fabregas.

Anelka obviously underestimated Cesc Fabregas. The Spanish teenager is a young talent trained by the 'French professor'. He is the player who replaces Vieira and becomes Arsenal's midfield engine, whether it is offensive defense or personal ability. The speed of reaction and so on, Cesc Fabregas are quite good.

He reacted and quickly turned around to block Anelka again.

Anelka kept shaking his feet, trying to find another chance to pass Fabregas, but the latter was not fooled at all, just stopped him, and Pires ran over, and Fabregas was about to Close the door before and after completion.

Seeing this scene, Wan Sheng immediately covered his face and cursed, "Idiot!"

As if responding to Wan Sheng's words, Anelka was forced to scrambling back and forth by the two of them. After barely controlling the ball twice, he was directly cut off. He was even shoveled to the ground by Pires's steal. It's kind of pathetic.

He fell to the ground and raised his hands, but unfortunately the referee turned a blind eye.

"It's not a foul, it's a normal steal, Anelka seems to have been knocked over by himself... He should have passed the ball earlier, he was a bit too alone in this game, but his performance was not bad, the first half There's a goal and hopefully he'll find another chance..."

The narrator speaks for Anelka.

Wan Sheng, who was standing on the sidelines, yelled, "Idiot!"

...

Wansheng thought that the steal would give Anelka some reminders, but obviously he was dead wrong.

Next, Anelka was still domineering, so that for a long time, Manchester City's attack did not improve. When the attack bypassed Anelka, it was slightly better, but as long as the football reached Anelka's feet, he Start to show your ball-handling skills, and then give the opponent a chance again and again.

It must be admitted that Anelka's technique is indeed excellent and his state is very good. Sometimes he can even contain two or more of Arsenal's defenders, and he can also sway the defense to find passing and shooting opportunities, but most of the time he can't do it.

He can only be cut off directly after showing his skills, and only pass the ball to his teammates with good results. This makes the previous performance completely meaningless.

Anelka doesn't seem to know this. He just kept trying to perform, it was like the whole team's scoring pressure was on him alone, and he became the team's only goal-scoring hope.

At the same time, Wan Sheng couldn't bear it anymore!

Anelka was in good shape and performed very well. He completed a hat-trick in the last game and completed a goal in this game. But that's not a reason why he can play at will on the court. He's just a player on the team, not the special one.

In the entire team, no one is special. If you want to say special, it can only be Wansheng himself, so Wansheng cannot tolerate this kind of thing.

...

In the 57th minute, Arsenal scored a goal, with a header from centre-back Campbell to give them a 2-1 lead over Manchester City.

This goal also made Wansheng choose substitutions without hesitation.

This happened after Arsenal scored. That is, less than fifteen minutes into the second half.

"Look! Manchester City are going to make a substitution!"

"It was No. 39!? Anelka! That's right, Nicola Anelka! He was replaced by No. 12 Darren Bent!"

"Anelka is going to be replaced! It seems that Wansheng is not very satisfied with his performance. However, Anelka scored a goal in the first half, and the overall performance is still good..."

"He's just a little too lonely..."

"Or, this is just a tactical adjustment. Anelka is not a big threat to Arsenal's goal on the field, and Darren Bent is more capable of grabbing points in front of goal."

"We should introduce the new young player Darren Bent. After joining Manchester City in the summer, his performance is not bad, and he has 3 goals so far. For a striker, this goal is not many, but Darren -Bent has only played 7 times, and 3 times as a substitute, so far, his efficiency is still very good, it seems that Wansheng has made a very real deal..."

"..."

Regardless of what the commentators say, Manchester City has already raised the substitution card.

This substitution left many people stunned.

The first to bear the brunt is Anelka, who was replaced. He was unhappy that the team was suppressed by Arsenal. He never thought that this would be his own problem. Instead, he felt that the team as a whole was not good, but it was nothing. After all, it was like this in the past two seasons, and even more passively played a lot of the time, it is not bad to be able to play like this now.

At the same time, he felt that he was doing well.

He showed his skills in the game, scored in the first half, and if the team can draw or beat Arsenal at Highbury Stadium, he will definitely be the biggest contributor.

When he saw that he was replaced, he was completely stunned.

"How is that possible? Did I make a mistake? I was actually replaced?" He was stunned on the field for a while, not knowing what he was thinking, but soon after it was confirmed, his face darkened.

Other Manchester City players were also stunned.

The best performance of the team this season should be Anelka. During the summer training and preparations, Wansheng also took good care of Anelka. Many of the tactics used in the frontcourt created opportunities for him. Such conditions Next, Anelka also performed quite well, just look at his current ranking of the top scorer.

That's the top scorer!

He scored more goals than Henry who played at the same time!

Such a capable player will definitely be the treasure that every coach holds in the palm of his hand, and everyone sees Wansheng's high regard for Anelka. Morris, and with so much competition on the front line, that playing time has said a lot.

But now, for no reason, just replace it?

Isn't the coach afraid of Anelka's dissatisfaction?

Many players looked at Wansheng, and saw that he was guiding Darren Bent, who was about to play. He didn't seem to care about Anelka being replaced. It was like treating ordinary players. all surprised.

They suddenly remembered some media reports on this young coach - he is a dictator, an unreasonable lunatic!

This... seems to make sense!

Since he came to the team, the young coach has been very friendly on weekdays, except for his unusually tough attitude on Bischoff, but maybe this is just an illusion, it is because he did not touch his bottom line.

Now that Anelka doesn't follow the tactics to "play freely", it seems that he has touched his bottom line, and maybe he is about to show his cruel side again.

Thinking of this, many players looked at Anelka with sympathy.

...

What other people think, Wan Sheng doesn't care. At this time, he is giving Darren Bent the last word.

"After you play for a while, pay attention to be at the top, look for opportunities, cooperate with other people, just like in normal training, don't be afraid of anything just because the opponent is Arsenal, I have won them many times, they are nothing special. !"

Darren Bent nodded again and again.

"Go, try to show your strength, I believe you can do it well!"

Wansheng patted Darren Bent on the shoulder with encouragement and let him play. At the same time, Anelka also walked off the court. He didn't even hug Darren Bent, so he walked off the court and went to the bench. On the bench, he pushed away the water bottle that Pierce handed over and sat directly on the bench.

That way, 'I'm very dissatisfied' would be engraved on the forehead.

But Wan Sheng just cast him a glance and ignored it, then walked directly to the fourth official, roaring for Arsenal to celebrate the end of the hurry, "They are stalling for time! Our substitutions are over!"

The fourth official felt very helpless that the young coach took his backward anger on himself, but he still had no choice but to signal the linesman to inform the referee.

Soon the game resumed.

By this time the topic of goals had passed, and the commentators were again discussing City's substitutions.

"Anelka was replaced by Darren Bent? That's not surprising, he was a bit alone in the first half."

The camera lens also pointed to Anelka on the sidelines, and I saw that his face was very bad, but neither the coach nor the players next to him ignored him.

Then everyone talked about Darren Bent, "Darren Bent is still a little too young, he has been playing for Ipswich in the second league before, although he has three goals in the first few rounds, but The opponent in this game is Arsenal, which is still too much pressure for a teenager who has just landed in the Premier League..."

Anelka's agent Claude and Eric Manasseh were also watching the game in a VIP box. When he saw Anelka being replaced, Claude was stunned for a moment, and immediately confronted Manasseh. He complained, "My younger brother scored a goal and performed so well, how could he be suddenly substituted? Does that Chinese want to win?"

"How does that Darren Bent compare to my brother? This substitution is so stupid!"

Eric Manasseh glanced at him and said nothing.

He used to think that although Claude values ​​money, he still knows a little about football, but now he suddenly finds that Claude doesn't know anything about football, especially when it comes to his younger brother, and he is completely unreasonable.

Anelka is very similar to his brother, and he also thinks this substitution is too stupid.

Darren Bent?

What's so amazing about this young boy, he can actually replace himself?

The team is lagging behind now, and it is a foolish choice to replace yourself before the rookie gets used to the game, so the team has no chance at all!

It seems that the coach is not planning to win the game! (To be continued ~^~)