Chapter 386 Grasping the Gate of Life and Beating Hard
Arsenal's offense is not smooth, and Fabregas, the core midfielder, is under a lot of pressure.
Although he is only 21 years old, Cesc Fabregas is the captain and core of the Premier League giant Arsenal. He is the banner in the eyes of gun fans all over the world. He is obliged to solve the offensive problem for the team.
Cesc Fabregas reached out sideways to the lower back Alexander. Song wanted the ball, and he decided to use his personal ability to open a gap in Porto's defense to boost the team's morale.
Song saw Gao Xiaodong who was less than three meters away from Cesc Fabregas. This Chinese native was very fast, and it was not safe to pass the ball. However, Fabregas had a high prestige in the team, and Song still passed the ball without hesitation. past.
Gao Xiaodong saw it when Cesc Fabregas reached out for the ball. He rushed over quickly, without slowing down, and went straight to steal it.
Such a reckless action definitely poses no threat to Fabregas, he pulls the ball and turns around 180 degrees on the spot, passing Gao Xiaodong.
There was applause from the stands, and the Arsenal fans applauded.
In the case of no improvement in the offense, such a beautiful extraordinary action can also comfort the depressed hearts of the fans.
However, Gao Xiaodong didn't intend to intercept Fabregas's ball at all, his purpose was to delay the time for Fabregas to advance.
After being shaken, Gao Xiaodong stopped abruptly, turned around, and rushed over again, still very fast.
Fabregas dodges Gao Xiaodong this time with a spike with his left foot, but when Fabregas tried to walk the ball with his right foot, Gao Xiaodong took Fabregas with his hand and delayed Fabregas speed.
Fabregas got rid of it twice in a row, although it was beautiful, but under Gao Xiaodong's continuous pressing, he couldn't even advance three meters.
At this time, Fernando had come to snatch, and central defender Rolando also consciously blocked the connection between Fabregas and Adebayor.
Gao Xiaodong came over for the third time, but Fabregas had no choice but to cross the ball to Nasri.
However, during this delay, Guarin and Hulk came back, and the midfield was densely populated. When Nasri got rid of Hulk and passed the ball to Fabregas, Gao Xiaodong rushed to grab it. Collided with Fabregas.
Fabregas staggered two steps and almost fell, but Gao Xiaodong snatched the ball.
Nasri quickly came over to press, Gao Xiaodong pulled the ball and turned around, kicking the ball behind the Arsenal defender.
This is not a one-kick clearance. This is a tactic designed by Porto before the game. Gao Xiaodong made a long pass behind the defender Sylvester, and Falcao quickly inserted behind Sylvester, using his speed and explosive power. Eat old Sylvester hard.
Of course Sylvester couldn't outrun Falcao, but Arsenal also strictly defended Falcao, who scored consecutive goals in the Portuguese Super League, and Toure kept a close eye on Falcao.
As soon as Falcao started, Toure followed, leaning against Falcao with his body.
This slowed down a bit. Arsenal goalkeeper Almunia struck, he raised his knee first, and then embraced the dangerous lob pass with both hands.
Since Porto did not press high, it was easy for Arsenal to play the ball from the backcourt, and soon the ball passed the half-court.
Without the ball, Porto midfielder Mereles followed Walcott.
The ball was passed, and Mereles immediately pasted it, not giving Walcott a chance to speed up. At the same time, left back Hisokho also made a premise to encircle Walcott.
Sarnia was very active in assisting. He saw Walcott being surrounded, and shouted for Walcott to pass back and cooperate with him.
Walcott turned sideways and moved forward at high speed, trying to play a pass and cut with Sagna.
But Hisokho was very focused, Walcott started, he also started, and ran with Walcott, looking for opportunities for physical confrontation.
The distance Walcott can sprint is very short, and Hisokho is also a fast horse. Walcott failed to completely get rid of Hisokho, and was blocked by Hisokho from the bottom line when crossing.
Arsenal's striker has only Adebayor as a high point, and the defender is Toure's header. After Fabregas took a corner kick, the ball was headed out by Porto defender Rolando.
The ball flew out and landed at Nasri's feet. Nasri distributed the ball to Walcott and let Walcott continue to play from the side.
However, at this moment Porto's players are all near their own penalty area. Walcott thought it would be so easy to hit the bottom. Walcott had just passed Melles, and Sissoko had already rushed to him. A fierce and accurate shot He tackled the ball off Walcott's feet.
Merles got the ball and quickly passed it to Gao Xiaodong. Gao Xiaodong caught the ball, paused for a moment, dunked past Fabregas who was rushing over, and passed the ball to Hulk on the right, still playing Arsenal on the left.
Hulk dribbles down the touchline at high speed.
Diaby chased after him, but Hulk didn't look fat, but his speed was not slow. Diaby couldn't catch up with Hulk, and was thrown farther and farther.
The 19-year-old Arsenal left-back Gibson retreated quickly to compress Hulk's assault space.
But Hulk is so strong, how much space is needed, he made two fake moves of changing directions, and moved the ball forward to force Gibson.
Gibson was too physically disadvantaged to compete with Hulk, so he grabbed the ball directly in front of Hulk.
This is a defense in which a person passes the ball but the ball cannot pass the ball, but before Gibson's feet touch the ball, he is knocked into the air by Hulk, and Hulk runs over Gibson like a tank.
After breaking through Gibson's defense, Hulk did not hesitate and swept directly to the penalty area to find Falcao.
Falcao ran at full speed, trying to snatch Hulk's cross, but he got away from Sylvester, but couldn't get rid of Toure, who followed him closely, squeezing and pulling. Kau was not able to touch the ball.
Just when the Arsenal fans wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, they suddenly discovered that Gao Xiaodong was rushing towards the back point at some point like lightning, and Song, who was following him, had already been left behind.
"not good!"
"Why so fast!"
"Song was thrown away!"
"good chance!"
"Come on, Xiaodong!"
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There was chaos in the stands, with both Porto and Arsenal fans shouting.
Gao Xiaodong ran to the small penalty area line and fell to the ground and shoveled. The ball flew to the lower right corner after hitting Gao Xiaodong's feet.
Goalkeeper Almunia has been following the ball. When Gao Xiaodong shoveled a shot, Almunia flew to him. The ball hit his hand and hit the goal post again.
Song just arrived at this time, and kicked the ball out of the penalty area in shock.
"God!"
The Arsenal fans in the stands called for luck. If they scored, it would be too difficult for Arsenal. An away goal is equivalent to two home goals.
Gao Xiaodong saw the ball was blocked by the goal post, he slapped the turf regretfully, then got up and ran back to defend.
Song's clearance ball fell to Diaby's feet.
This is an opportunity for Arsenal to counterattack quickly. If they can use this counterattack to create shooting opportunities like Porto, it will give Porto a hard blow and boost the morale of their team.
However, Diaby's speed was too slow, and the experienced Fu Xilai saw that he could chase back even if he was passed, so he boldly rushed to steal Diaby.
Diaby has a strong ability to protect the ball and get rid of it. With a pull and a push, he swayed Fu Xilai. When Fu Xilai turned around and tried to grab it, Diaby quickly passed the ball to Fa in the middle. Bregas.
This is another hard and long pass. Even with the ability to handle the ball like Fabregas, this ball is barely enough to stop the ball.
But just this slow, Fernando arrived.
Fernando felt that Cesc Fabregas stopped big, and he flew forward with a shovel, trying to destroy the ball.
But although Cesc Fabregas stopped the ball a little bit, he had already thought about how to deal with it when he stopped the ball. When Fernando came over with a shovel, he poked the ball, avoided Fernando's shovel, and continued to advance by himself to cooperate with Adebayor.
2 against 2 in the frontcourt, Fabregas and Adebayor played against Porto's double central defenders.
Adebayor and Cesc Fabregas cooperated very well, without thinking about it, they made a pass back from the wall, turned around and inserted into the penalty area.
Adebayor and Cesc Fabregas have no problem with the passing and running. Porto's two defenders reacted a little slower. The ball reached Fabregas' feet. pose a great threat.
But before the ball reached Fabregas' feet, Fabregas felt the wind behind him, and then Gao Xiaodong suddenly jumped out from behind him and snatched the ball.
"God! So fast!"
"Oh my god! Didn't Xiaodong shoot the goal just now?"
"God! Did I see two Gao Xiaodongs?"
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The fans in the stands were stunned.
Fabregas also didn't expect Gao Xiaodong to return to the defense so quickly. If he hadn't seen Gao Xiaodong's black hair, he couldn't even believe his eyes.