Chapter 42 The Derby Battle Begins

"This is the PP Sports Premier League column, and I am the commentator Zhan Jun."

After Zhan Jun's simple opening remarks, he said with great anticipation: "The upcoming game is the 12th round of the Premier League. Arsenal is at home to meet Tottenham's challenge. This game is known as one of the most popular games in London and is also famous. North London derby."

Director Zhang Lu also smiled and said: "Hey! Tottenham and Arsenal are centuries-old enemies. The grievances between them cannot be explained in one or two sentences, and it is also on the basis of this enmity that the North London Derby has also become the most popular game in the UK. The hottest anomaly match ever."

"The intensity of this game can be regarded as the top in Europe. Of course, sometimes it is presented on another level, such as some unfair black calls."

Counting the North London Derby in the past, there is a strong atmosphere of fire.

In this game, various situations happened frequently, and sometimes, the protagonist in the game was not the players, but the referee, who ruled a game with a black whistle.

Of course, despite the convergence of various contradictions, this is not at all able to resist the hot situation in the North London Derby.

Throughout the new Emirates stand, there are red waves on three sides of the stand. These are Arsenal fans.

Only the North Stand has some Tottenham fans, but it seems a bit small among the more than 70,000 Arsenal fans.

Before the game even started, fans from both sides had already started pinching each other.

They started singing!

The chorus of more than 70,000 people made the earth tremble.

In the warm-up session, when the Tottenham players came on the field, the Arsenal fans at the scene began to boo wildly.

The boos were all over the sky, which put a considerable amount of pressure on the Tottenham players.

Every time Yi Le touched the ball, boos came from the scene, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

These people are so noisy!

Yi Le frowned, and he looked at the stands dissatisfied, and the wild boos suddenly became violent.

Hush! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Yi Le grinned and turned back to continue warming up. Three minutes later, they returned to the locker room.

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locker room,

Boas said with a serious face: "Guys, now! This is the Emirates Stadium! This game is the North London Derby. Countless Tottenham fans are paying attention to this game. They are expecting us to bring the victory back to White Hart Lane. We cannot live up to their expectations!"

"In this game, I have only one request!" Boas said fiercely: "Kick them!"

The boys from Tottenham immediately screamed.

"Fuck them!"

"Fuck these whores to death!"

"Victory belongs to Tottenham!"

"come on! Come on!"

Boas stood at the door. He high-fived every player and encouraged them loudly. He didn't lead the substitute players to the coach's bench until they walked to the player tunnel to stand in line.

Boas and Wenger came out almost at the same time, but both of them were looking forward, and they didn't care about each other at all.

After walking out of the aisle, the two snorted in unison, turned left and right, and there was no communication during the whole process, and shaking hands was even more unnecessary.

In this derby, both Tottenham and Arsenal gave everything.

Tottenham will play the strongest lineup, and the same is true for Arsenal.

Spurs played in a 4-5-1 formation.

Forward: Harry Kane.

Midfielders: Dele Alli, Sun Xingmin, Yi Le, Eric Dier, Thomas Carroll.

Defenders: Alderweireld, Volker, Danny Rose, Vertonghen.

Goalkeeper: Lori.

Arsenal also played in a 4-5-1 formation.

Forward: Giroud.

Midfield: Kirkland, Sanchez, Ozil, Cazorla, Arteta.

Defenders: Gabriel, Monreal, Debussy, Mertesacker.

Goalkeeper: Cech.

At the end of the opening ceremony, the captains of the two sides selected sides, and with the whistle of the referee, the game officially began.

Arsenal took the lead in the kick-off. As soon as the football was kicked out, the Tottenham players rushed up like tigers descending the mountain.

They started a crazy press in the frontcourt.

This season, Tottenham have become very offensive under the training of Villas-Boas, especially after they have increased the high press, they can often occupy the dominance of the midfield.

But against Arsenal, that was somewhat contained.

Arsenal played Ozil's midfield!

In this season, Arsenal tend to choose offense instead of conservative defense, because their defense is too weak and they have to gain the advantage of the midfield to match the offense.

And Tottenham's playing style is almost the same, relying on Yi Le's huge vision and rhythm control ability to end the game.

Both teams are playing in the middle of the game, so neither of them want to make it easier for the other side's midfield.

Ozil's technical characteristics are clear passing ideas, and he has imaginative passing abilities such as through balls and pick passes, and he can always make a beautiful final pass.

But his shortcomings are also obvious, that is, his body is relatively thin, and the frequency of his feet is too slow.

In response to this shortcoming, the defensive task given by Boas to the midfielder is to increase physical confrontation and the way to get stuck.

At the beginning of the game, several high-intensity physical confrontations broke out between the two sides, and even Ozil was released several times, which made the Germans look indignant.

"The lads have a strong desire to fight, and they kicked extremely resolutely!"

On-site commentator Lawrence said happily.

As for the commentary stand next to it, the Arsenal commentator jumped angrily and said: "Crime! These Tottenham players are committing a crime! Dirty Tottenham..."

The hot game continued, Arsenal finally couldn't stand the high press of Tottenham, and Eric Dier completed the steal.

After Eric Dell got the ball, he immediately found Yi Le in the backcourt, and passed it decisively.

Yi Le received the ball, and as soon as he touched the ball, there were crazy boos on the scene.

Hush! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Faced with the pressure from the Arsenal fans, Yi Le didn't care at all. During the game, he couldn't be distracted to focus on off-court affairs.

Yi Le observed the opponent's defense, and Arsenal seemed to have studied Yi Le, and began to shrink the defense the moment he touched the ball.

Yi Le's exaggerated through ball stunt made Arsenal have to defend.

Seeing that there were no gaps or gaps, Yi Le helplessly passed the ball to the right, while he ran forward.

But he didn't run very far, and Captain Arteta, wearing Arsenal's No. 8 jersey, posted it. He threatened fiercely: "Chinese, I advise you to be honest!"

Yi Le curled his lips. He had encountered this level of intimidation many times in previous games, so he didn't care.

He ran forward slowly, and Arteta was also clinging to Yi Le for close defense.

The 'professor' entrusted him with an important task.

Limit Tottenham's No. 21 midfielder.

Arteta's grade is a bit old, and the professor believes that Arsenal's captain can use his rich experience to deal with this amazing young player.

And the "professor" doesn't expect Arteta to freeze Yi Le. After all, this is a problem that most Premier League teams want to accomplish but fail to achieve.

Yi Le is too comprehensive in the midfield, and it is too difficult to limit this kind of player!

However, the professor's idea of ​​sending Arteta to defend Yi Le also seems to have some problems.

Some things cannot be compensated by experience.

as if now...

Thomas Carroll passes the ball to Yi Le, which is a mid-air pass.

Yi Le ran forward a few steps, and Arteta just followed.

Arsenal's captain knew very well that after Yi Le stopped the ball, he would block the opponent's turning position and force the opponent to make a conservative back pass.

His thinking was correct, but Yi Le didn't play his cards according to the routine at all.

I saw Yi Le glanced to the right, and the body that was standing still moved forward quickly.

Arteta was startled and quickly followed.

Yi Le looked at the trajectory of the ball, suddenly twisted his waist slightly, withdrew his shoulders, and suddenly pressed against the ball.

wTF!

Arteta was stunned.

How can this guy pass the ball with his shoulder?

Under Yi Le's chic shoulder pass, the football flew towards the rear point on the right.

And there, Son Heung-min was front forking at high speed.

At the same time, the Chinese and English commentaries were full of praise from the commentators!

Lawrence: "Beautiful! Yi Le's stunt, he can pass the ball with any body he can't, look at how chic and easy this pass is!"

Zhan Jun: "Shoulder pass! Appeared! Yi Le's iconic unconventional pass! The quality of this pass is very high. Sun Xingmin has already started chasing the ball. Such Yi Le is hard to guard against!"

Accompanied by this pass, the Tottenham fans in the North Stand were also jubilant.

After Yi Le played against Liverpool last time, this shoulder pass loaded with positioning system appeared in front of them again.

Look at his confident look!

He is no longer afraid at all!

Even in this high-intensity game, Yi Le still dared to make various unconventional passing moves.

In the stands of Tottenham, Lin Zhenna and Liu Xiaoying opened their mouths into an O shape, with shocked expressions on their faces.

Football, can you still play like this?

.....

Sun Xingmin was chasing the ball, his speed was very fast, he caught up with the ball in a blink of an eye, and strode forward.

In Tottenham's lineup, Sun Xingmin plays the role of a breakthrough player.

He looked up towards the direction of the restricted area.

Harry Kane was surrounded by three defenders and had no passing path at all.

In this case, Sun Xingmin decisively chose to cut inside!

Sun Xingmin's foot frequency was very fast, and he rushed towards the penalty area, which shocked Arsenal's defensive players.

They thought that Sun Xingmin would choose to pass the ball, but they didn't expect this guy to become reckless.

Guard him!

Without saying a word, Debusch rushed over quickly, and he wanted to block the ball.

But Sun Xingmin was very flexible, and after several changes of direction, he even got rid of Debussy.

Debussy was terrified for a while, and the fans stood up nervously in the stands behind the Arsenal goal.

Seeing Sun Xingmin getting closer to the goal, Debussy gritted his teeth and slammed into Sun Xingmin, knocking him staggering two steps.

And Mertesacker, who came to help defend, shoveled the football out of the bottom line.

Tottenham's sudden attack was also forced to end.