Chapter 41 Reversal
In the football circle, it is very popular to use a sentence to evaluate a player.
The ability with the ball determines the upper limit of a player, while the ability without the ball is the foundation for a player to gain a foothold on the court.
This is actually not difficult to understand, because a player is without the ball most of the time in a football match.
There is also a rumor that the reason why Ferguson valued the Argentine white wizard Veron was that Veron was the most capable midfielder in European football at that time.
Is it surprising?
Everyone's impression of Veron is like his nickname, the White Wizard, but in fact, he is really good at running.
Looking back from 2021, Gao Shen discovered that there is a main theme in the development of football, which is running distance.
Through scientific training, a nutritionally balanced diet, players' self-discipline and other factors, players on the field are able to run better and better, which results in each team running longer and longer total distances in the game.
Many fans should still remember that the media has been reporting that the first thing Wenger did after taking over as Arsenal coach was to start with the players' diet, improving their running ability on the court by changing their eating habits.
Next, there are things like planning to build a new training base.
It is obvious that Wenger attaches more importance to players' movement than other coaches.
Someone once asked a similar soul-searching question, which is why Wenger's Arsenal always collapses in the second half?
Whenever Ferguson leads Manchester United, can he turn the situation around in the second half?
Once is a coincidence, but twice or three times, there is definitely a problem.
Is it that Wenger's team can only play the first half and not the second half?
How could there be such a strange thing in the world?
The answer is actually very simple, there is something wrong with your physical fitness.
Wenger was one of the first coaches to bring the European technical style to the Premier League, and he was a great fan of passing the ball.
Like Barcelona, Wenger requires every player to have at least two or three passing points around him when he has the ball, and it is best not to exceed ten meters, because data shows that in the game, when the passing distance exceeds ten meters, the success rate drops significantly.
So how do we do this?
Run, run and keep running!
Arsenal's advantage in passing and controlling the ball is to create a local numerical advantage through running, increase the number of passing points, and at the same time, maintain distance between players for the sake of accuracy. This makes Arsenal players run more distance than other teams.
In the first half of the season, Arsenal players were in the best physical condition after the summer training camp, so the Gunners were always able to play smoothly. But in winter, there was no winter break in the Premier League, the team was fighting on multiple fronts, the players were physically tired, and coupled with injuries and other factors, the physical condition of Arsenal players declined significantly.
As the running distance is reduced, there are fewer receiving points, the distance between players is larger, and the distance between each line of the team is also widened, resulting in more loopholes, which are then exploited by opponents and cause problems in defense.
The whole chain, in the final analysis, comes down to physical fitness.
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Gao Shen stood on the sidelines, patiently observing the situation on the field, waiting for a turning point, while also thinking about Arsenal's current situation and problems in his mind.
It's March now, and like every year, Arsenal's physical fitness is beginning to wear thin.
Of course, even so, Real Madrid still does not have the advantage.
But it is at least foreseeable that as the game progresses, Arsenal's physical fitness will get worse and worse.
At that time, as long as Real Madrid has the lead and tries their best to defend it, they will have a chance to maintain the score and pull off a miraculous reversal from Highbury.
This is also the reason why he was determined to attack at the beginning of the game.
Grab one and the bicycle will turn into a motorcycle.
After scoring a goal, the players are confident and can defend more resolutely.
If there is no goal, we still have to defend, but we can only leave it to fate.
After Arsenal sold Vieira, the team's style became weak and not tenacious enough, but Real Madrid is not necessarily much better than Arsenal in this regard.
But if there is a goal, the situation will be completely different and the players' mentality will be different.
Thinking of this, Gao Shen glanced at the scoreboard.
Ten minutes into the second half.
He appeared calm on the surface, but he was still quite worried.
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In front of the home team's coaching bench, Wenger also lost his patience.
No one knows Arsenal's problems and weaknesses better than him, so he is also preparing in advance.
Pires should go warm up.
Reyes was guarded by Arbeloa tonight and had no temper at all, and he couldn't even make a decent breakthrough on the left.
It would be better to replace him than to keep him on the court.
The game has now turned into a competition of fighting spirit and will between the two sides.
Real Madrid tonight seemed to be reborn, completely different from when they were at the Bernabeu.
Wenger also felt the pressure.
If it weren't for Henry's breakthrough dribble that created a penalty before the end of the first half, he couldn't imagine his current situation.
But even so, he was still worried.
"It's been 55 minutes, Real Madrid should have used up most of their energy."
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Not only Wenger, but also the fans and guests in the stands, the commentators of the live TV broadcast, and the many professionals and fans in front of the TV all thought exactly the same as Wenger.
Real Madrid is really almost exhausted!
After all, humans are not machines that can keep functioning as long as they are electrified.
No matter how high Real Madrid's fighting spirit is, no matter how strong the willpower of Real Madrid's players is, there will always be a time when they fall.
As long as Real Madrid's attack and pressure fail to work and they retreat, they will never be able to get out again.
Having lost their physical strength, Real Madrid could only defend themselves.
By then, the game will be completely dominated by Arsenal.
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When the game reached the 57th minute, Real Madrid's attack on the right was once again frustrated.
Beckham stopped the ball, looked at the front court and the left side, and then made another big pass.
The ball flew across the middle of the court, drew a beautiful arc, and landed accurately on the left side.
Felipe quickly came up, stopped the ball with his chest, pushed the ball forward, attracted the attention of the defense, and then made a straight pass to the left side of the penalty area.
Zidane ran over quickly, blocked Eboue with his body, and stopped the ball first.
After receiving the ball with his back to the goal and pausing for a moment, Zidane decisively turned to the right and quickly sent the ball into the penalty area.
Raul chased the ball, but Kolo Toure got there first and blocked the ball out of the penalty area.
Zidane just turned around and saw that Raul failed to grab the ball in time and was instead stabbed out by Kolo Toure, so he immediately chased after him.
The French midfielder was tall and had long legs. He squeezed Fabregas aside and kicked the ball away.
While Zidane was protecting the ball with his back, Felipe had already quickly come up and raised his hand to ask for the ball.
After receiving the pass from Zidane, the Brazilian left-back stopped, saw Negredo in the penalty area, and sent a cross with his left foot.
The ball drew a diagonal line and fell to the right side of the penalty spot.
Negredo just ran over from the right and judged the landing point before Senderos, but the Swiss central defender blocked behind him, leaving the Spanish center forward helpless.
Just as he was hesitating about what to do, he saw a figure rushing towards him quickly.
It was a familiar white figure.
Negredo did not hesitate and headed the ball lightly, sending Felipe's pass towards the edge of the penalty area.
I saw the white figure sprinting at the fastest speed, just meeting Negredo's header. The ball bounced up and he shot directly without stopping the ball.
There was a muffled bang at the scene, and the football went straight into the goal like a cannonball.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye.
Gao Shen was standing on the sidelines. He only saw Felipe's cross, Negredo's header, and then De La Red coming up and shooting.
When I tried to see clearly again, the court was already in chaos.
Immediately afterwards, the referee Rubers blew the whistle to indicate that the goal was valid.
"Wow! Wow!!!"
Gao Shen was completely stunned for a moment.
He first raised his hands in disbelief, then he couldn't help cheering, rushed out of the coach's command area, and ran all the way, trying to catch up with Delared.
"So beautiful! So beautiful!!! Wow!!!"
As soon as Gao Shen rushed out of the coaching area, he was immediately blocked by the staff on the sidelines.
They tried their best to get Gao Shen to calm down, to calm down, saying that it was a violation, but Gao Shen's mind was blank and there was only one thought in his mind: score a goal!
De La Red really scored a goal!!!
This damn goal finally came!
At this moment, he even had the urge to burst into tears.
De La Red rushed out of the court excitedly, but was soon tripped by his teammates and fell to the grass, and they all hugged each other.
The Real Madrid players went crazy and surrounded him, celebrating wildly.
"God, this is incredible!"
"Real Madrid's attack in the second half once again broke through Arsenal's goal."
"This is a volley shot from Ruben De La Red, a young player from Real Madrid's youth training camp!"
"It was a very sudden and unexpected attack."
Gao Shen was persuaded by the fourth officer to return to the command area. He apologized for his impulsiveness just now, but unknowingly, tears appeared in the corners of his eyes.
At this moment, this feeling of coming back to life is so fascinating.
Lucas, Maqueda and others were also celebrating wildly. When they saw Gao Shen, they all surrounded him and hugged him.
On the sidelines of the court, after DeLaRed celebrated with his teammates, he ran back to the court and specially ran over to high-five Gao Shen and gave Gao Shen a big hug.
This scene was also captured by the live camera and presented to fans around the world.
"Previously against Atletico, Raul also hugged Gao Shen after scoring, and now, De La Red has done it again."
"This makes us believe that this 25-year-old Chinese head coach may really have something extraordinary to convince Real Madrid players and play such an exciting game at Highbury."
"Just now when the score was 1-0, Real Madrid only equalized the score, but now it's 2-1. Real Madrid has successfully reversed Arsenal with a valuable away goal."
"There is more than half an hour left in the game. We have every reason to believe that every minute of the next half an hour will be very difficult for Real Madrid because they will face Arsenal's crazy counterattack."
In front of the home team's coaching bench, Wenger was already impatient to make substitutions.
And he replaced two players at once.
