Chapter 262 The thirteenth round
"Shot~~~~I missed~~~Chamberlain, Arsenal's midfielder's shot failed to create any threat." In the 13th round of the league, Arsenal was away from West Brom Hawthorn Stadium.
Wenger had a big rotation in this game, with Sanchez and Griezmann on the bench, replacing Chamberlain, Villebeck and Giroud's trident.
Arteta was injured again in the midfield. Fortunately, Arsenal has plenty of midfielders. Arteta's injury has not had a big impact on Arsenal. Good news came from Arsenal on the defense. Koscheerney returned from injury and started in this game. Monreal served as the left-back, and Gibson rested and sat on the bench.
As for goalkeepers, they generally do not rotate, not to mention that Li Shou performed so well. Moreover, the reason why Wenger performed a large-scale rotation in the midfield and frontcourt was based on Li Shou guarding the goal.
Although Arsenal performed a large-scale rotation on the starting lineup, even so, Arsenal still firmly took the initiative on the field, and completed a shot in two minutes of the game, completing two shots in ten minutes.
West Brom's first shot at home was in the 16th minute, when Bellasino received a long shot from the penalty area and went over the crossbar.
Arsenal then completed another shot. Chamberlain, who was a rare starter in this game, performed very actively. After receiving a pass from Flamini, Chamberlain passed Giroud diagonally and then rushed into the penalty area. Giroud saw this and passed it back to Chamberlain, who shot the shot was saved by West Brom goalkeeper.
Cassola took the corner kick, but it was West Brom defender Dawson who wanted to make a quick counterattack. Monreal immediately stepped forward to intercept it, but was injured when competing with his opponent.
In fact, Monreal's injury was a serious flaw, but Wenger decided to replace him. Arsenal's defense line is really not worthy of injury now.
Although he was forced to make a substitution, Arsenal's performance on the court was still strong. In the 25th minute, Ramsey made a diagonal pass, and Verbeck penetrated into the penalty area and shot missed.
Weirbeck was still the same Weirbeck. Ramsey's pass almost penetrated West Brom's defense line, but Weirbeck couldn't grasp it.
However, Velbeck is not the most outrageous one today. It is really outrageous. In the 37th minute of the game, West Brom gave a big gift himself. Dolans passed goalkeeper Ben Foster back, but was intercepted by Giroud. After the steal, Giroud passed Ben Foster.
In other words, Giroud was facing an empty goal, but even facing such an empty goal, Giroud had not completed the goal, and the ball finally flew out of the bottom line with the post.
"God, was Giroud infected by Velbeck?" Faced with this situation, the Arsenal fans in the stands looked incredible, and Wenger on the sidelines even vomited blood even more depressedly.
"Damn it, maybe even this guy is not reliable, right?" Velbeck's shot was worrying, Sanogo was overused, and Podolsky's form could not recover. In this case, Giroud almost became the only expectation.
Giroud's performance in the last game still surprised many people, but at this moment, all the Arsenals couldn't help but wonder, Giroud was really reliable? This also includes Li Shou standing in front of the goal.
"Squads that miss this excellent opportunity often have to pay the price." This situation is common in football games, but as Arsenal goalkeeper, Li Shou said he refused this price, and Li Shou really did it.
In the 41st minute, West Brom also got an excellent opportunity. He made a mistake before Dorans sent a straight pass, and Bellasino successfully counterattacked.
But unfortunately, Bellasino, who successfully counterattacked, did not touch the ball in the end, because Li Shou in front of the goal had already attacked and hit the ball before Bellasino.
"Li~~~ If Li didn't have Li's flying tackle to clear the ball, the arsenal would definitely lose the ball." Li Shou's cleared ball came to Koscheerney's feet, and the Frenchman immediately sent it to the frontcourt, and Arsenal began to counterattack.
Arsenal is already very skilled in this counterattack tactic, and only Li Shou has become Arsenal's main goalkeeper. Arsenal has used the counterattack created by Li Shou many times to complete the goal.
Koscheerney sent the ball to Ramsey's feet, and the latter scored it to the side. Cassora and Velbeck were not used to being on the side, and even performed worse than in the middle on the side, so most of the time Velbeck moved across the middle and formed a double striker with Giroud.
So most of the time Cazorla is on the wing, and this time there is no exception. Cazorla, who received the pass, immediately advanced along the wing and went down as he wished after the man scored the West Brom defensive player.
"gooooooooooooooooooooooool~~~The ball entered~~~Velbeck~~~The Arsenal broke the deadlock." Cazorla sent the ball into the penalty area, and Velbeck headed the ball at the front point to complete the goal.
No one expected that Werbeck could score a goal, and it was a header. Arsenal fans had no expectations for Werbeck.
"1:0~~~Wilbeck~~ He scored his sixth goal at Arsenal." Arsenal fans could not help but be surprised when they heard this, because they never expected that Wilbeck had scored six goals.
In fact, this cannot be blamed on the fans. It is really because of the fact that Weirbeck wasted too many opportunities, and it is an excellent opportunity that is easy to score goals. If Weirbeck can seize it, the goal can be at least doubled now.
But no matter how the goal is, it is a good thing for Arsenal. It is precisely with the goal that Arsenal entered the halftime break with the advantage of one goal.
Neither side made any personnel changes during the break, but the score changed again after the second half. Just seven minutes into the start of the second half, Arsenal expanded the score to 2:0.
It was still a cross from Cazorla, but Giroud did not break through, but chose to cross the ball to the right. Chamberlain inserted from the side at this time. Facing Giroud's header, Chamberlain volleyed and scored.
Chamberlain's goal completely killed the game. Even if Li Shou stood in front of Arsenal's goal, the score of 1:0 was still unsafe. After all, no one can guarantee that Li Shou can never concede the ball.
However, for Arsenal, the happiest thing is not to win this game. 2:0 is also the final score of the game. Both sides then made adjustments to personnel, but neither really threatened each other's goal.
The real joy of Arsenal was Chelsea's game a day later. In this round of league, Chelsea also visited Sunderland, who was downstairs in the standings, but the result was different from Arsenal. Chelsea failed to take away a victory at Stadium Light.
After the 90-minute match, the score on the field was still 0:0, which means that the difference between Arsenal and Chelsea narrowed by 2 points.
Chapter completed!