Chapter 386 The Jedi counterattack, the first kick!
Everyone knew that Luo Wu was warming up, even though he had not yet taken off his coat.
For Arsenal, this is a positive sign.
It seemed that the Arsenal soldiers were also inspired. After the game restarted, they finally made a decent attack. Saka on the right took the ball and played with Torreira in the middle, then passed the ball to Haaland.
Haaland leaned on Otamendi in the middle and distributed the ball to the other side.
J Luo came from the left to attack.
Keep passing the ball into Manchester City's penalty area!
Haaland headed the ball over Otamendi and Laporta, but was still interfered by Otamendi in the air. Otamendi made a small movement with his left hand and hit Haaland's.
Chest, Haaland's body tilted to the left, and eventually the ball missed the goal.
No matter what, Arsenal finally scored the first goal.
Manchester City then switched from defense to offense, but after advancing past the center line, Elneny immediately gave De Bruyne a powerful blow, coming up from the left and knocking De Bruyne down with his shoulder.
De Bruyne fell very awkwardly, lying on the lawn with his head buried in the turf. A close-up look at the scene showed a few grasses hanging from the corners of his mouth.
"Oh,"
"What a bad fall!"
"De Bruyne."
"But he stood up immediately."
"He was full of murderous intent, but he didn't protest?"
Um.
No.
On the other hand, captain Otamendi rushed up, but this time he only protested with the referee and did not have a physical conflict with the Arsenal players.
This was not the case in the last game. The reaction from both sides was quite intense, but this time the emotions were actually under control.
This shows that they are prepared and can realize that today is a championship battle.
No one can afford to be sent off.
The referee didn't say anything. This kind of confrontation is too common in the English league. At least Elneny didn't make any hand movements, and he didn't even give a verbal warning.
The two parties immediately dispersed.
Manchester City transitioned into a positional battle.
"Manchester City played very patiently."
"Constantly transferring and passing back."
"Arsenal's defensive formation was indeed well set up, and there were no major surprises. However, Manchester City played very patiently, making more than ten consecutive kicks in front of the penalty area, but failed to find an opportunity, and then lost the ball.
Passed it back."
But Arsenal did not press forward and still defended the backcourt.
The Manchester City players finally launched an attack from the right wing. Walker advanced to receive De Bruyne's pass and then sent a cross at a 45-degree angle.
The half-high ball fell into the front spot of Arsenal's penalty area. Aguero alertly grabbed the shot with his right foot before Papastathopoulos!
Holding was in a good position, but Aguero failed to control his balance when shooting. The ball went directly off the baseline and bounced back to Martinez.
Fight back!
Haaland beckoned near midfield, but Martinez did not pass the ball to him, but gave it to Koscielny on the left.
Koscielny passed the ball directly to Ronaldo in front. Ronaldo hit the ball with his heel with his back to Walker, then turned around. The ball successfully went behind Walker, and he also successfully got rid of Walker.
"pretty!"
Walker's speed was too fast. He turned around, kicked off his feet, and immediately stabbed back diagonally. He fell to the ground and scooped the ball away from Ronaldo's feet.
The ball rolled out of the sideline and Walker did not foul.
"Alas,"
"It's too intense."
J. Ronaldo immediately got up and rushed forward. He saw Koscielny picking up the ball. The two people cooperated very well. When he rushed forward, the ball also entered the court again and fell to the ground.
before his eyes.
Ronaldo glanced at the front of the penalty area and passed directly to the center with his left foot!
Laporte and Otamendi double-teamed Haaland! But Haaland suddenly took a step back, followed closely behind Laporte, and forced his way to Laporte's right left foot.
Flirting!
The ball headed towards the lower left corner of the goal, but the speed of the ball was so slow that Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson easily threw the ball into his arms.
Arsenal fans finally burst into applause in the stands. This was Arsenal's second attack.
Luo Wu, who was standing on the edge of the court warming up, also clapped his hands.
It's great that my teammates can perform like this. The performance in the first ten minutes was really disappointing.
Of course, Manchester City is now leading by two goals, so they don't need to be so anxious. All they need to do now is not to concede the ball first, and then try to expand the score to three goals. Then Arsenal will most likely be unable to recover.
"Ronaldo hasn't come on yet. Emery is probably still waiting. Arsenal have performed well in the past few minutes."
"Obviously the pace of Manchester City has slowed down, which gave Arsenal a chance to breathe. Now Torreira, who has the ball in the middle, is observing the movement of his teammates. Guendouzi on the left stepped in and the ball was quickly scored.
When I got to the left, I handed it over to J Luo."
Ronaldo threw a cow's tail and teased Walker, but it was still the same as before. Although Walker was confused by the fake move, he retreated very quickly. Although Ronaldo rushed up from the left, Walker still stabbed the ball.
Out of the sideline.
This time Ronaldo simply rushed to the side of the court, picked up the ball, and immediately threw it to Elneny in the middle. He continued to rush towards the bottom line. Elneny took advantage of the trend and hit Walker again.
Behind you!
Walker was finally half a beat too slow and was passed by Ronaldo!
Haaland takes the lead!
But this time Otamendi got stuck and pushed the ball out first, but outside the penalty area, the ball fell at the feet of Torreira, who volleyed directly with his right foot!
The ball went too far and flew out of the baseline.
"Ouch, Arsenal missed the chance to equalize the score."
"Arsenal looks to be getting better and playing better and better, although the quality of the shots is poor."
Emery on the sidelines saw this situation and did not replace Luo Wu.
Maybe he feels that if he continues to play like this, Arsenal can score goals?
At least the momentum is up.
But often a lot of bad things happen at this time.
After Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson picked up the ball, he saw the space inside Arsenal's right side and drove the ball over with a big kick.
At this time, Lichtsteiner was slowly running back, but he didn't expect Sane to start early. Sane, who was five meters away from him, was rushing towards him at a violent speed. Lichtenstein
Steiner was startled and looked up to see that Sane had already flown over. He quickly ran back, but Sane's absolute speed passed him by like a bolt of lightning.
When the ball was about to land on the turf, he gently moved his left foot inward, and the ball followed Sane and cut to the left edge of Arsenal's penalty area.
It actually formed a single sword.
In a flash of lightning, Arsenal's defense was instantly dismantled. Papastathopoulos in the middle quickly gave up his defense on Aguero and pounced in front of Sane.
But at this time, Sane gently tapped the arch of his right foot forward, and the ball instantly rushed into the penalty area. Sane also rushed towards the ball like a hungry cheetah. Martinez hesitated in front of the goal.
I just rushed out of the goal, but it was too late.
Sane hits the ball and shoots into the near corner!
Bang!
The ball was so fast that it shot directly into the goal like a cannonball. Martinez had almost no reaction.
"Gooal!"
"goooooal!"
"goooooooooooal!"
"Sane!"
"Sane finally scored, 3:0. Manchester City leads by three goals!"
"Arsenal was completely defeated. When their morale had just returned, they thought they could get a goal back, but they conceded another goal."
"Hey, Emery should have simply sent Luo instead of hesitating for so long."
"It's too late now. We're three goals behind. This is a championship game. How do we equalize? It's almost impossible. Our opponent is Manchester City. There aren't so many miracles in this world. Just because it's a miracle, it's not always possible.
occur."
"Qiang Ruluo, I also have a headache now."
The live camera focused on Luo Wu on the side of the court, who had already taken off his jacket and pants at this time.
Can't stand it anymore.
When he turned to look at Emery, he didn't expect that Emery was also looking at him.
In the exchange of eyes, they should have understood each other's thoughts.
0:3, it’s time to burn the boat.
Emery asked the assistant coach to make a substitution.
While the Manchester City players were still celebrating, the fourth official had already raised the substitution sign.
Torre pulls down, Luo Wu goes up!
Arsenal's last trump card is also its only trump card.
His appearance made Arsenal fans forget the pain of falling behind 0:3.
The crowd actually cheered his name.
Manchester City fans were very happy at first and were cheering for their third goal, but Luo Wu's appearance gave them a headache.
Although they had three goals in hand, Luo Wu's appearance still made them feel a little nervous.
After all, Luo Wu has left a deep shadow on them.
"This guy is still here."
"It's really annoying."
"There won't be any surprises, right? Why do I have a bad feeling that this guy can score goals?"
"Bah! So what if he can score? We are now three goals ahead. He scored one goal and we scored one. I don't believe they can equalize. If Guardiola loses this battle again, it will be really unreasonable."
"I lost three games in a row and still got reversed. I don't want to fucking live anymore..."
"Now we just need to play our own football with peace of mind. There will definitely be many opportunities. The advantage lies with me!"
The advantage is mine!
The mentality of Manchester City fans is complex, ranging from confidence to worry.
Arsenal has only one idea, and that is to believe that Luo Wu will be able to create miracles!
…
The live broadcast camera focused on Luo Wu, who stood in the center circle and pushed the ball to Harland.
Haaland passed the ball back to Elneny. As soon as Elneny received the ball, he saw Rovula coming to the right to connect.
But he was close to Fernandinho.
As soon as Luo Wu came up, Fernandinho ran over and stared at him. All that is left for Fernandio now is to follow Luo Wu until the end of the game. There is no other task.
Guardiola essentially made this decision a few days ago. Even if Luo Wu was injured, he never changed his mind.
Now everything is going according to Manchester City's ideas. Whether they can win the League Cup depends on whether Fernandinho can restrain Luo Wu.
What's more, in addition to Fernandinho, there is another defensive midfielder Danilo cruising nearby in time.
It can be said that the focus of these two people is to take care of Luo Wu.
Luo Wu just kicked the ball back to Guendouzi.
Fernandinho was not given any other ideas.
Then he continued walking forward.
At this time, Haaland had already reached the front.
Guendouzi tries to pass the ball to Haaland.
Haaland leaned on Otamendi and stopped the ball with his chest, but he observed that Luo Wu was sandwiched by Fernandinho and Danilo.
He could only pass the ball to Ronaldo on the left.
It is not easy to pass the ball to Luo Wu in a short period of time. God knows, earth knows, you and I know, we all know that we must pass the ball to Luo Wu and let Luo Wu solve the problem.
Ronaldo did not pass the ball into the penalty area this time, but dribbled the ball towards Walker. The idea of using speed to solve Walker's problem was gone and was no longer used.
He stepped on the four-legged bicycle continuously, but Walker didn't take a step. Then he tried to pretend to point the ball toward the baseline, and instantly dunked the ball back.
He gave up speed.
Walker was stunned.
Then he dribbled the ball to the center and cut inside. Walker finally ran over half a beat slower, but Ronaldo continued to dribble the ball to the center!
Walker is no longer easy to defend!
Harland also pulled towards him, forming a dislocation with him.
At the top of the penalty area, Ronaldo ducked out of the way and hit the goal with his right foot!
The arc was there, but the force was not strong enough, and the ball was pushed out of the baseline by goalkeeper Ederson...
"Hey,"
"It was Ronaldo who took the corner kick, not Ronaldo. This signal is very obvious. Luo's foot is still injured, otherwise he must have taken the corner kick."
"Maybe Luo is just fighting at 70% of his level now."
Everyone is not stupid and can definitely see the problem immediately, and Guardiola is no exception.
There was even a weird smile on his face.
Emery is now acting as a living doctor, so Luo Wu should not be scary.
But I will never give him a chance.
It's just that the defense should be much simpler than before.
J Luo took a tactical corner kick.
Saka took the ball and immediately cut inside to the center.
Luo Wu held down Fernandinho and Danilo at the top of the penalty area, and other Manchester City players stayed in the penalty area. Saka had quite a lot of space to dribble the ball.
In just three steps, he dribbled the ball to the left side of the penalty area, but no one came up to stop him.
Danilo, who was originally following Luo Wu and Fernandinho, couldn't help but ran over to block Saka.
But Fernandinho is still focused on Luo Wu.
He couldn't care about Saka, so he would only keep an eye on Luo Wu.
But in the blink of an eye, he found that Luo Wu took two steps back, and Saka passed the ball!
His mind suddenly clicked and he was dumbfounded.
He thought that Luo Wu would move forward or run to meet Saka, but who knew that Luo Wu would retreat, and just as he was thinking about it, Luo Wu ran out of the space!
The ball was passed to him, and Luo Wu directly volleyed the ball!
Swing your legs in place.
He took out a curve ball with his right foot, and the ball hit the upper right corner of the goal!