At four o'clock in the afternoon, the London derby starts.
Fulham used a 3-4-3 formation in this game. In terms of the back line, the starting players are Ream, Odoi and Le Marchand. In the midfield, Zambo, Ryan Sessegnon and
Serri needs to provide ammunition for the striker. Mitrovic, Schürrer and Vietto are responsible for the forward attack.
On the other side, Arsenal used a 4-2-3-1 formation. At the goalkeeper position, Leno was still starting. Per Mertesacker was rotated at the back, and Holding replaced him in the starting lineup. The other positions were different from those in mid-week.
Change.
Xhaka and Torreira occupy the defensive midfield positions, the three in front are Ronaldo (Smith Rowe), Mkhitaryan and Luo Wu, and the forward is Lacazette.
At the beginning of the game, Lineker expressed his support for Arsenal: "Although Arsenal are playing away from home, they are unstoppable. Fulham cannot resist them. Fulham should not worry about it and save their energy for the next game."
Bar."
But Danny Murphy, the famous Liverpool star who was partnering with him, said: "Not necessarily. This is a London derby. It cannot be judged by ordinary thinking. It is all in London, and no one has home and away advantages."
"I personally feel that the previous issue of Ramsey's contract extension is likely to affect the mood of Arsenal's locker room."
"Danny, what impact can it have? You have to know that the Chinese will definitely solve the problem. Everyone else is green leaves. As long as the Chinese Luo Wu plays normally, there will be no suspense in this game. This is the Chinese team. This is
It's completely different from Liverpool." Lineker shook his head and disagreed with Murphy's statement.
"Here's the problem. Luo Wu earns the highest weekly salary in the Premier League, while other Arsenal players only earn a mid-table weekly salary in the Premier League. Can they be happy? Now Ramsey just wants to increase his weekly salary.
To 220,000 pounds, this request is not excessive at all. Has Ramsey not paid enough for Arsenal in recent years? There is no problem with him receiving this salary, but Emery and Arsenal gave up on him.
What will other Arsenal players think? They will feel that one day they will be treated like this. What's the point of working for Arsenal? Why not leave as soon as possible?"
"Anyway, if it were me, I would think so. I believe that Ramsey's incident before the game will definitely affect their mood."
"Oh, then if they are really like this, wouldn't they be too unprofessional?" Lineker raised his eyebrows, "But I still believe them."
…
While the two were discussing, Fulham completed its first attack.
The German Schürrle dribbled the ball from the left wing and advanced rapidly. He and Vietto cooperated like hitting the wall, then went down to the bottom line and passed back in an inverted triangle. Mitrovic followed up and met the ball with a furious shot!
The shot was so fast that Mustafi, who was originally marking him, had no time to block it. Fortunately, the German defender was very focused and pushed the ball out of the baseline with one palm.
Fulham won a corner kick.
Unexpectedly, when the corner kick was taken, it was Mustafi! Mitrovic got on top of him and grabbed the spot! He headed the ball towards the upper right corner of the goal, just a hair’s breadth away!
The ball didn't go in!
"Yo,"
"Without Mertesacker, Arsenal's defense is still unstable. A veteran is too important to the team."
"Obviously Mustafi's marking was slow."
Mustafi was criticized again. Every time Mertesacker is not around, he is a little confused.
Arsenal attacked. Mkhitaryan, who started today, was very active after receiving the ball. He stopped the ball and passed the ball in one go. After turning around, he immediately gave the ball to Luo Wu on the right!
There were two people watching behind Luo Wu. He didn't take any risks and immediately responded to Torreira. The Spaniard Torreira made a long pass! Looking for Lacazette, Lacazette held the opponent's defender, but there was no
Instead of unloading the ball, he volleyed sideways to meet the ball and hit it!
boom!
This shot went ridiculously wide, not like a world-class center at all...
Each side completes an attack.
Fulham's counterattack speed was quite concise. After passing the ball with two feet, it hit Arsenal's left backcourt. Mitrovic pulled up and competed with Monreal for the top. Monreal's figure was obviously at a disadvantage and was beaten by Mitrovic.
Qi couldn't exert his strength, so he looked back at the moon with a move, and the ball was hit behind Arsenal's defense in the middle!
Sessegnon, who followed, was very fast! He threw Mustafi, who was a little messy, behind him! When Mustafi reacted, Sessegnon thrust his right foot violently!
The ball instantly rolled past Holding. Leno in front of the goal did not expect that Sessegnon would not hit the goal, so he quickly moved a big step to the left.
Bellerin looked around to follow Vietto, but found that Xhaka did not follow Schürrer.
The German strode into the left side of the penalty area and slammed his left foot towards the ball in front of him.
The ball flew into the upper left corner of the goal like a flying fire. Although Leno made a save, it was of no avail.
"goooooooal!"
"goooooooooooooal!"
"goooooooooooooooooooal!"
"Schürrle's unstoppable heavy artillery."
"Haha, the German Schürrle opened his goal account this season. Unexpectedly, the first goal was scored in the London Derby."
Danny Murphy laughed.
"No one was optimistic about Fulham before the game, even if it was a real London derby."
"It would be different if it were Chelsea or Tottenham. The fact now is that Schürrle helped Fulham take the lead."
"1:0, Fulham leads at home."
"Wardfalk?"
"What on earth is this guy Granit looking at?!" Mertesacker cursed on the bench, and even head coach Emery who was not far away could hear clearly.
"Don't follow anyone at all!"
"Where did the attention go?"
Big Brother was very angry and dissatisfied with this defense.
"It's like taking a walk." Cech beside him spread his hands.
"This guy's defense has always been like this."
"As long as I run..."
Coach Emery also shook his head, but said nothing. Now conceding the ball has no pressure on him anymore.
The ball rolled to Luo Wu's feet, and Luo Wu didn't think anything of it. After all, Arsenal conceded goals in every game, and it was the forwards who wiped their butts for them.
However, after the ball was restarted, he realized that Xhaka was really out of shape today.
After getting the ball, he thought about hitting the wall with Torreira, but the ball was passed too hard and passed directly over his head. The ball rolled to the feet of Sessegnon!
"Amateur! You can miss this ball?!"
Sessegnon immediately sent a through ball!
Mitrovic!
Mustafi, who was following Mitrovic, panicked. He was afraid that Mitrovic would throw him away, so he hugged Mitrovic with both hands and held him back.
The referee's whistle sounded immediately, he took out a topaz card from his pocket to warn Mustafi, and gave Fulham a frontcourt set kick on the right side of the arc in the penalty area!
"Oh haha,"
"The start was really beyond our expectations."
"I didn't expect Fulham to play so well and Arsenal to be in such bad shape?"
"Arsenal won't concede two goals again, will they?"
"This looks like match-fixing." Lineker exclaimed, "It's impossible to play like this?"
"It's Granit Xhaka again, in this state it's better for me to go up."
After receiving the card, Mustafi couldn't help but yelled at Xhaka:
"Granit, please be more energetic!"
"What are you thinking about!"
"Sh-it!"
He was very depressed after receiving the yellow card, so he could only take it out on Xhaka. It was Xhaka's fault in the first place, as was the goal he conceded just now.
"Human wall!"
"Make a human wall!"
"What are you doing!"
Leno in front of the door was also yelling, and everyone seemed to be in a bad mood.
"On the left, there is still one person missing on the left!"
In the end, Mkhitaryan ran over and joined the human wall.
The German Schürrle took the set kick and whipped out an inswinging curve ball with his left foot! The ball passed Holding's head with a strong spin and went straight to the upper right corner of the goal!
Leno stood on the goal line and had almost no reaction. In the end, he could only save with his eyes!
The ball slides out!
Almost, Fulham took a two-goal lead!
The excited Fulham fans started singing loudly.
This is Arsenal? It’s not as scary as imagined.
Arsenal's attack started from the center this time. Mkhitaryan retreated to get the ball and passed it to Smith Rowe on the left. Monreal stepped forward. The two hit the wall and quickly advanced to the front left. Monreal
He chose to cross, but unfortunately the placement was very poor. Lacazette in the middle missed and the ball fell into the back point. Although Luo Wu rushed forward, he missed it by several meters.
But Fulham's Le Marchand still stopped the ball near the sideline, and without even raising his head, he sent a long pass to Mitrovic in front.
Mitrovic seemed to have known that Le Marchand would pass the ball up, and he started in advance!
Holding and Mustafi were unable to defend and started slowly! The forward and the defender competed for explosive power and speed? They obviously suffered a lot! Mitrovic was thrown away.
"Single sword!"
"Single sword!"
"Mitrovich!"
"God!"
Mitrovic didn't need to think about his teammates this time. He waved his long arms and rushed towards Leno in the penalty area with the ball.
Poor Leno didn't expect to be tested for the third time in just a few minutes. At this moment, he could only abandon the goal and only saw the ball at Mitrovic's feet.
Seeing that there was going to be a hand-to-hand fight, Mitrovic suddenly shook his right calf forward, and Leno pounced decisively.
But the next moment, a trace of despair flashed through his eyes. Unexpectedly, Mitrovic did not hit hard, but picked up the ball lightly. The ball flew over his head. There was nothing he could do.
Another save...
"goooooooooooooal!"
"Mitrovich!"
"Mitrovic rewritten the score to 2:0, less than 8 minutes into the game. Gary, am I right? Ramsey's contract extension definitely affected their mentality, otherwise they wouldn't have played like this.
Smelly."
"There is nothing Luo Wu can do on the court."
"This game is probably going to be lost inexplicably."
On the sidelines of the pitch, Emery turned around and kicked a bottle of mineral water away from his feet in a rage.
With a click, the mineral water hit the edge of the coaching bench and bounced back, hitting the fourth official. Immediately, the fourth official was splashed all over by the mineral water. The live camera just captured it. Give him a mineral water bottle.
A close-up of Wahaha!
Come on, Wahaha mineral water ads have reached England!
The fourth official immediately communicated with the referee on duty through the headset, and then saw the referee running quickly to the side of the court and taking out a topaz card from his pocket as he ran.
Before Emery could react, he got a yellow card.
In a hurry, he immediately squirted out of his mouth, forgetting that the person in front of him was giving the cards to the referee.
"Wardfalk?!"
"Why?"
He felt that he was wronged, what did I do? Why did I get a yellow card? He still didn't realize that the mineral water bottle he just kicked out hit the fourth official.
But now a foul language?
The referee once again raised the yellow card in his hand! Then he reached into his pocket and took out a ruby card!
Two yellows turned into one red, and he was expelled with a red card!
"ah?"
"Ah! Ah ha ha ha!"
"What a drama, what a drama. Emery was sent to the stands by the referee."
"I didn't expect it at all. Emery just kicked a mineral water bottle because he lost the ball. Unexpectedly, it hit the fourth official. The referee came and gave a yellow card, but why did he give a second one? What happened?
What? Look at Emery's mouth shape, is he swearing?"
Without Emery, we can only rely on guessing.
It was a mess on the court, and it was a mess off the court.
"What happened?" Luo Wu looked at everything happening on the side of the court and was confused.
"Boss, this is..."
"He was sent to the stands, so what should we do? It's really terrible." Smith Luo stood beside Luo Wu and fell into confusion.
"It can't be done anyway, these two goals are too useless to throw away." Luo Wu regained his concentration and glanced at his teammates.
But most of his teammates had their heads hanging down, not paying attention to what was happening on Emery's side, and didn't seem to care at all.
It is estimated that as Danny Murphy said, they have great opinions on Emery, so this game will not be really bad...
Emery climbed into the stands in embarrassment before he could explain anything to the assistant coach.
"It's too bad that we're two goals behind and the head coach isn't on hand to give instructions."
"The last time we were two goals behind was against Cardiff City. Now it's even worse than last time. Head coach Emery is no longer here."
"What's more important is that the entire Arsenal team is out of shape, and it's still a London derby. It looks like Arsenal is about to suffer its second defeat of the season."
"The bookmaker's current handicap says it all, it's a tie. This is the first time I'm not optimistic about Arsenal."
"Did they ignore Luo Wu?"
Under the dark sky at Craven Cottage, Arsenal once again had to start the game from two goals behind...