Chapter 928: Another City

Having found confidence and support on defense, Pogba naturally hopes to make some contributions in attack.

Although defense is important, fans and non-fans cannot appreciate it. They only like to watch goals, so the media can only praise offensive players.

In addition to wanting to gain recognition from the coach, Pogba also hopes to be like Rooney and make a splash against Arsenal.

Arsenal fell behind in the game and kept attacking. Manchester United did not get many offensive opportunities. Pogba waited anxiously for almost ten minutes and finally found a good opportunity to intervene.

Manchester United full-back Evra assisted from the wing and dribbled the ball straight to the bottom line.

Pogba felt that Evra was his French compatriot and might take care of his fellow countryman, so he quickly followed him.

However, after Evra broke through to the baseline, he saw Pogba and Hernandez fighting for the point, but he did not make a pass. Instead, he cut inside and headed towards the penalty area. He passed the ball to the center follower in an inverted triangle. Scholes.

Scholes is also capable of long-range shots. When Manchester United won the Champions League, he killed Barcelona with one kick in the semi-finals.

Scholes didn't stop the ball and kicked it directly.

The ball flew through the gap and went straight to the upper right corner of the goal.

Arsenal goalkeeper Almunia jumped up and saved the ball from the baseline with one palm.

Manchester United got a corner kick opportunity, Scholes took the penalty, and the curve ball found center back Smalling in the middle to grab the point.

But Smalling was heavily targeted by Arsenal players and was unable to grab the spot.

No one in the middle got the ball, but Gao Xiaodong cruised to the back and headed the ball back to the middle of the penalty area.

When taking corner kicks, tall players like Pogba were also being marked, but after the first wave of points, no one was marking the 18-year-old kid.

Pogba used his height advantage to overpower Wilshere who was trying to clear the ball and headed the ball towards the upper left corner of the goal.

Pogba's head angle was very good. If it was Scholes's corner kick, goalkeeper Almunia would not be able to touch the ball. But this was the ball passed by Gao Xiaodong's header. It had no speed and was missed by Almunia. Ya struggled to save the baseline.

Manchester United continued to take a corner kick, and this time the ball was headed out of the penalty area by Koscielny.

Evra grabbed the ball,

The unguarded Pogba waited eagerly for Evra to pass to him, but Evra did not trust Pogba and regarded him as air and passed the ball directly to Gao Xiaodong.

Gao Xiaodong had previously focused more on defense and organizing offense, and rarely attacked directly. Arsenal's defensive position was a bit messy with Evra's ball. When Gao Xiaodong received the ball, he tried to stop the ball, but missed the ball. , turned around and passed Denilson, who came to defend, and caught up with the ball and fired a shot.

Gao Xiaodong's long-range shot, if nothing else, is completely different from others in terms of momentum. Because of its explosive power, the ball flies out with a whistling wind, making defensive players tremble when they block it.

Almunia didn't dare to be careless. He jumped up and tried to hit the ball out of the sideline with both fists.

But he didn't expect that Gao Xiaodong's ball actually had a slight arc, and Almunia missed it with both fists.

Almunia felt cold and quickly turned to look at the goal behind him.

Gao Xiaodong's shot penetrated the goalkeeper's fingers, but failed to avoid the goal post. The ball bounced off the goal post with a bang.

Gao Xiaodong shook his head regretfully. His shot was very stretched and comfortable, but he didn't expect it to be blocked by his own goalpost.

When Almunia missed, Ferguson stood up and prepared to celebrate, but the ball hit the goal post.

Ferguson also sat back on his seat as if he had been hit by a ball.

Wenger hugged his head and secretly rejoiced. Now the game time has reached 60 minutes. If Gao Xiaodong scores another goal, the game will be over.

On-site commentator Andy Gray sighed: "It's a pity that Gao shot! If it goes in, it will be a world wave."

Falling behind and unable to find a way to score, Wenger finally lost his composure. He replaced striker Chamakh and replaced midfielder Denilson to increase the offensive power of the frontcourt.

After Chamakh came on the court, he became the fulcrum of the frontcourt, providing cover and ball for Van Persie, giving Van Persie more opportunities to score goals.

In the 63rd, Brown headed the ball to the top of the arc. Nasri followed up with a right-footed shot and hit the rebound. Goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, who has been performing well today, was in a good position to get the ball.

In the 68th minute, Diaby's right-footed volley from outside the penalty area hit the defensive player and hit the baseline.

The Gunners took a corner kick, and Arshavin suddenly took a tactical corner kick and passed the ball to his teammate Sagna on the wing.

Sagna crossed the ball to the front of the penalty area, and Van Persie suddenly retreated to the top of the key to get the ball.

Smallin had been following Van Persie, but Van Persie's retracement caught Smallin by surprise, and Smallin lost his position.

Van Persie's shooting skills are excellent, but Smallin did not dare to let Van Persie get the ball in this position. Smallin directly extended his foot from behind to knock down Van Persie.

Arsenal received a free kick at the edge of the penalty area.

Van Persie took the free kick personally, but the ball was very close to the goal.

Van Persie's left-footed free kick bounced off the wall. One minute later, Diaby's left-footed arc shot from the left side of the penalty area missed the far post and missed the baseline.

As time went by, Arsenal's players became more and more anxious and their offensive became more and more fierce. They completely forgot that this was the Old Trafford Stadium, and this was the Red Devils Manchester United who ranked first in the league.

In the 72nd minute of the game, Manchester United launched a quick counterattack. Scholes used Gao Xiaodong as a cover to drive the ball forward, and then hit Rafael on the right side.

Rafael quickly penetrated along the wing towards the baseline.

Arsenal left back Gibbs fought and retreated to prevent Raphael from going down.

Raphael quickly stopped and started twice in a row, deceiving Gibbs and quickly reaching the bottom line.

Cross to the goal.

Rooney and Hernandez entered the penalty area at high speed to grab points.

However, Arsenal's two central defenders were in their own positions, and Djurou headed the ball out of the penalty area before Hernandez.

Zhu Lu also made a mistake while busy, and actually got in front of Scholes.

Scholes had tried a long shot before and found that his feet were not feeling very good. He immediately leaned over and passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong.

Scholes passed the ball very well. It did not reach Gao Xiaodong's feet, but gave Gao Xiaodong a space to speed up and get rid of it.

Gao Xiaodong took two hurried steps, threw away the defender, rounded his thighs and fired with a furious kick.

This shot was so powerful and heavy that the ball soared into the sky, whizzing straight towards the goal's blind spot.

Almunia's position this time was average. He quickly moved a step laterally. It was already too late to jump up and save. The ball flew into the net close to the goal post.

Manchester United leads Arsenal 2-0!