After Tristan's shot, Mallorca once again launched a defense of retreating from all players.

Compared with the first fifteen minutes, Arsenal's offense began to become much more patient. They kept passing back and forth, turning their feet back and forth, hoping to tear open Mallorca's defense and find an opportunity to score.

However, Mallorca's defense surprised them. With Arsenal's back and forth transmission, Mallorca also defended back and forth - but not one of them ran back and forth to defend, but overall back and forth! You should know that the entire defense line moves back and forth with the opponent's attack, which is a test of the cooperation of a team. It is easy to be used by offensive players during the back and forth movement, but Mallorca did this very well. Their tacit understanding of this defense line is still not ordinary!

What's more, despite moving back and forth, the move is basically the defensive players on the periphery. As the main defensive force, the four defenders are guarding in the penalty area. They can fill the gaps in the defense line without moving!

It seems that the dispatching cannot create any opportunity. In the final stage before the end of the first half, Arsenal launched a fierce attack!

It was something they could not stand to bring the draw to halftime.

Henry retreated to get the ball. After avoiding Tristan's counter-robbery, he began to dribble the ball from the midfield - this is one of his killer moves. He dribbles from this place and can often break through the siege in one breath and then score a goal!

However, at this time, Mallorca had a black figure tightly pressed against him.

There are few who can compare with Henry in terms of speed, but Etoo is one of them.

Two black figures fought in Mallorca's half. Although Etoo was constantly shifting away by Henry because of his average defensive ability, he still entangled Henry tightly, making Henry unable to increase his speed!

Seeing that he was about to rush into the dead end, Henry chose to pass the ball, but Nadal completed a front defense in front of Borgkamp, ​​intercepted the ball and drove the ball far away.

The ball flew far to Arsenal's half. Himan attacked and got the ball. He was about to kick off the half to Mallorca, but he heard the whistle blew by the referee at the end of the first half!

Ximan was stunned for a moment, then hugged the ball in his hand with some annoyance, and then walked towards the referee - he didn't get much test in the whole first half. If it weren't for the hotter weather, the man with braids would probably have a cold...

In the whole first half, Arsenal created only a few opportunities. Although he shot eleven times, he only shot within the goal frame once. This situation is rare for Arsenal, who has gone from a rough football like Graham to another direction after Wenger took office.

Arsenal fans looked at Mallorca and might think of the Arsenal team Graham had before. However, although they also applauded Arsenal at that time, it did not prevent them from booing the current Mallorca...

Mallorca's players were unmoved at all. They had heard too much of this booing in the past two years - in fact, Mallorca almost defeated Lazio with such extreme defense and counterattack last season in the Winners Cup final. If it weren't for the two outbreaks between Nedved and Vieri in the second half, Mallorca might have won the Winners Cup championship - in fact, after that game, it was Mallorca who received widespread praise.

When he walked towards the player passage, Jose and Wenger looked at each other. Wenger had no expression on his face. Jose smiled politely at the other party, and then walked into the player passage first.

Looking at Jose's back, Wenger thought about it thoughtfully, and then walked into the player channel.

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The Mallorca players who returned to the locker room immediately did not talk and laugh as much as they did when they were out. They sat in their positions one by one, gasping heavily, and quickly calmed down the fatigue caused by physical energy consumption.

This kind of defense is also very physically consuming. After all, they need to run to maintain the defense line without any flaws. The physical energy consumption is second, and the energy consumption is even greater.

Jose carefully observed the players' expressions, and what made him feel at ease was that after a period of breathing, the players' breathing had begun to become stable, at least there would be no situation where they could not run for a while - this is very important, and this game may be a protracted battle.

Jose was a little surprised that Mallorca had almost no counterattack opportunities in the first half. After all, Mallorca's counterattack attack was also excellent. Although there was no midfield support in this game, Tristan and Etoo were also natural counterattack experts. They were unable to create any opportunities. It can only be said that the five old defenses left by Graham still had excellent abilities.

In this way, it may be necessary to drag in overtime or even penalty kicks. In this case, the physical fitness of the players is crucial.

But what made Jose feel at ease was that it was obvious that the group of veterans on the defense line did not have much mental pressure, because there were too many games, and this kind of defense almost became an instinct for them. With the actual physical energy consumption not much, they quickly returned to normal. There would be no problem with persisting for ninety minutes or even one hundred and twenty minutes.

It was not until the players had almost rested that Jose clapped his face and made everyone's attention focus on himself.

"How is it? How is it like in the first half, guys?" Jose asked with a smile. At this time, his relaxed mood could relieve the players' tension.

"No problem, boss." Nino replied loudly. This strong central defender is also the one with the best physical fitness on the defense line. In the first half, he basically intercepted everywhere bravely, and then several other old guys checked for the missing - they did a pretty good job in the first half.

"It's true. They didn't have any chance in the first half. Our defense can be matched by Barcelona and can still be matched by them... I don't think Wenger would have thought that we would play like this in this game, thinking that we would attack like the Cavaliers on the front, and then be dragged down by them... I'm fools doing this! Back and forth sprinting and offense is the strength of the English team, and our Spanish team won't play this."

Hearing this, the players laughed one after another - Does the Spanish team have a intensive defense? It doesn't seem like the game that the Spanish team likes to play...

"We are not an ordinary Spanish team." Jose added.

This sentence immediately mobilized all the players' enthusiasm. Yes, we are not ordinary Spanish teams, we play football completely different from other Spanish teams! Maybe that Valencia is very similar to us...

"In the second half, keep playing like this." Jose said a word set the tone for the entire second half: "Diego, Samuel, I know you really want to score goals in this game, and I want to do it very much. However, the first thing we have to do in this game is to defend, drag the game into a dullness, drag the opponent into a mud pond, so that they will become more and more impatient, and our odds of winning and physical advantages will become bigger and bigger. Arsenal does not have a super shooter like Vieri. Henry is very good, but he still needs time to exercise. At the same time, he is not the kind of striker with strong impact. Borgkamp... He is not in a very good state in this game, which is our luck."

Borgkamp's performance in the first half was indeed average. Apart from a shot, he did nothing under the fierce steals of Mallorca players. While Wenger brought Arsenal a gorgeous offense and excellent skills, he also gradually eliminated the iron-blooded style of the Graham era. Although Arsenal is still the team that has received the most red and yellow cards in the Premier League, his temperament is slowly disappearing.

Gorgeous and iron blood are originally two types of imprints that almost cannot coexist.

"In the second half, Kanu may be on the court, but don't worry, although this guy is tall and big, he is very thin. Impact and confrontation are not his strengths, he is also a technical stream... We Mallorca are afraid of everything, but we are not afraid of technical streams."

The players of Mallorca laughed again - no matter how good the martial arts are, they knocked down with one brick, no matter how high the kung fu, they are afraid of kitchen knives - they have always been difficult to create gorgeousness on the football field, but it is easy to destroy gorgeousness, especially the elite defenders of Mallorca...

During the entire halftime break, Jose basically did not make any adjustments, but the Confucian coach next door fell into thinking.

The change of chances at the last minute is indeed not Wenger's strength, but when his usual tactics seem to be difficult to score goals now, Wenger has to make adjustments.

“We need some changes in the second half when it comes to offense.”

Wenger told the players in the locker room: "In addition to breaking through on the wing, we can try our best to make use of the width of the field. I know that Mallorca's intensive defense ability is excellent, but don't forget that Mallorca's home court is the smallest in the entire La Liga - this is due to their tactical philosophy. They like to defend and are good at defending... However, this game is not played at their home court, so we can make more use of this. After breaking through on the wing, suddenly transfer the ball to the middle or even the other side, seize their defensive gaps to create opportunities. Do you understand?"

"I understand!" Arsenal players answered in unison. Wenger's arrangement was a right medicine. The so-called intensive defense means concentrating forces to form a numerical advantage in the local area, creating a tight situation, quickly shifting the offensive direction to create weak links, and it is also a good way to break intensive defense.

After all, even if all eleven people are huddled in the penalty area, it is impossible to fill the entire penalty area. If you don’t move the position, it is just eleven wooden stakes. Where can you defend?

Although this adjustment of the direction of shifting the offensive is simple, it is still a good way to deal with such intensive defense as Mallorca.

"Okay, no matter what, we have to score as soon as possible in the second half... We have to know that in terms of physical fitness, we have no advantage."

All Arsenal players knew this well. Although they only played a game four days ago, Arsenal was the elite in that game that played a Mars game with Newcastle, and what about Mallorca? Not only did the game be advanced one day, but all the substitutes were also sent...

In other words, the players in Mallorca had a full ten days of rest! And their previous games were all participating in the game with a very relaxed attitude.

"The longer the time goes, the more the opponent needs. Since it is what the opponent wants to see, we cannot let them see it. Let's set off now and use offense to win the opponent. This season, we can't get nothing."

Wenger waved his hand, and the Arsenal players stood up and walked towards the stadium under the leadership of captain Adams.

ps: Well, the words in the recently updated chapters are very kind! The kind old Guo shouted, ***!
Chapter completed!