Lin Hai Ting Tao
Chapter 1468 A Lone Boat (Second Guaranteed Update)
Despite Arsenal's tight defense, Chen Hero actually chose to attack strongly in the middle, continuously controlling the ball in the most densely populated penalty area, and finally shooting into the goal.
His physical advantage was fully displayed in this goal.
Although there were many Arsenal players surrounding him, they were at a loss, only able to watch him shoot the football out.
When the football flew into the goal, everyone was stunned for a moment.
Even Liverpool commentator Harry Levy couldn't believe it, and he shifted his gaze to Chen Hero.
He saw Chen Hero waving his fists in the crowd, roaring at the sky.
He knew that the ball had really gone in!
At this moment, he had a sudden burst of energy and roared, "gooooooooooooooooooAL!! Goal! Goal!! Liverpool pulled back a goal! They are only one goal behind Arsenal!!"
From being two goals behind to being one goal behind, this was indeed exciting news.
The cheers of Liverpool fans rang out in the stands again.
They saw hope.
This is why Wenger felt that a two-goal lead was not enough—the opponent only needs one goal to make you, who was originally carefree, nervous, while the opponent's morale is greatly boosted, and anything can happen in one go, let alone a mere one-goal lead?
The situation Wenger was most worried about still occurred...
The full defense failed to stop the Liverpool reserve team... no, it failed to stop Chen Hero.
This made Wenger very helpless.
He stared at Chen Hero's roaring figure and cursed in his heart: This damn monster!
In the eyes of Wenger and the Arsenal players, Chen Hero was indeed such a monster.
Everyone defended so strictly, but he still scored!
So how can he be completely frozen?
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While the Arsenal players were distressed, the Liverpool reserve team players regained their youthful vitality. They ran up excitedly and surrounded Chen Hero in Arsenal's penalty area. Everyone rushed to hug Chen Hero.
They embraced the person who brought them hope, the person who gave them light in the darkness and saved them.
This goal was so important, hitting Arsenal's morale and restoring their confidence.
Let them rediscover that they can really compete with Arsenal.
With confidence back, strength followed.
The good thing about young people is that their momentum dissipates quickly, but it also comes quickly.
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Martin O'Neill saw Chen Hero score from the sidelines and couldn't help but jump up from the coaching bench, then spread his arms and ran all the way to the sideline. Then he embraced his assistant coach Clarke, who rushed down with him, to celebrate the goal.
He was just as excited.
Because the dream of the "Seven Crowns" didn't seem to be so easily shattered! They still had hope!
Chen Hero's kick allowed Liverpool to touch hope again.
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The cheers in the stands swept the entire stadium. Liverpool fans were also cheering heartily. Chen Hero's goal relieved many people—it seemed that Chen Hero was normal, and since he was normal, they had nothing to worry about. All they had to do was cheer for the team and cheer for Chen Hero.
Amid the cheers, the game restarted.
Arsenal players felt heavy pressure.
Should they continue to attack now?
They didn't dare, fearing that Chen Hero would seize the opportunity behind them to score again.
Then should they continue to defend to the death?
But they also saw the consequences of continuing to defend to the death. They were only one goal ahead, which was too dangerous...
This situation made Arsenal players worry about gains and losses.
For a while, they didn't know how to play.
Now it was their turn to be at a loss.
But what made them feel fortunate was that Liverpool failed to score again until the end of the first half, and they managed to maintain their lead.
But everyone was uneasy because Chen Hero made them feel like they were sitting on pins and needles, and they didn't know what would happen in the second half.
Now they could only pin their hopes on their boss, Wenger, hoping that he could come up with effective methods to adjust and get them out of this embarrassing situation in the second half.
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What could Wenger do?
Wenger's method was to take advantage of Liverpool's carelessness to launch a swift and thunderous offensive, striving to score first, control the rhythm of the game, and then score more goals, crushing the young Liverpool reserve team in one fell swoop, and the rest of the game would be nothing more than garbage time.
Everything was going smoothly at first.
They scored two goals in four minutes, establishing an advantage. Seeing that the Liverpool reserve team was already crumbling in their offensive frenzy, they only needed to add a little more effort to push them into the abyss.
Who would have thought that at this time, Chen Hero would stand up. He turned the situation around with his own strength, and the good situation that originally belonged to Arsenal was gone. Now it seemed that the Liverpool reserve team, which was one goal behind, was full of confidence and high morale...
Wenger suddenly thought of a word.
Superstar.
What is a superstar?
Those who have the ability to change an important game alone, and even directly change the history of world football, are superstars.
No matter how difficult the game is, as long as they take action, it will become as easy as cutting butter with a knife.
This is the ability of a superstar!
Although the current Arsenal has many talented players, compared with this Liverpool reserve team, they lack a superstar. Liverpool relied on only one superstar to reverse the unfavorable situation, which is the best interpretation of the ability of a superstar.
In fact, Arsenal used to have no shortage of such superstars.
For example, Bergkamp, for example, Henry... But those were all things from ten years ago.
The era of superstars is too far away from today's Arsenal.
Without a superstar, how can Arsenal compete with Chen Hero?
Wenger really couldn't think of any good way to do it.
Of course, it's not to say that he has no way at all, there must be a way.
But he was not sure whether it would work.
Wenger's method was to completely give up the attack in the second half and desperately defend this one-point lead.
Just like his team resisted the attack of Liverpool's first team at home before.
At that time, facing Liverpool's first team, Arsenal withstood the huge pressure at their home court, decisively gave up the attack, and defended with all their strength. Unexpectedly, they really defended it.
Although their opponents in this game were replaced by Liverpool's reserve team, Chen Hero was even more powerful than before. He didn't know whether his tactic would still work...
But it's better than nothing.
He told the players about this arrangement during the half-time break.
No one objected, and no one doubted how high the success rate would be.
Because they had no other way but this one.
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In Liverpool's locker room, Chen Hero was encouraging his teammates, telling them that there was nothing to be afraid of in Arsenal: "Did you see that? We just scored a goal, and they started to panic. What does that mean? It means that they are actually scared in their hearts, they are afraid of us! This is a fact. Otherwise, why would their eyes be wrong when they are only one goal ahead? Because they know that leading us by only one goal is very unsafe! Since they are afraid of us, what are we afraid of? Let them tremble in front of us! There are still forty-five minutes in the second half! That's enough for us to equalize and then overtake!"
Chen Hero spoke passionately, constantly waving his fists to emphasize his tone, and the young people who listened to him also gritted their teeth, the muscles on their faces were trembling, and each one was very excited.
Martin O'Neill stood beside him, feeling that there seemed to be no need for him to go up and speak... Chen Hero said it much better than him.
Moreover, at this time, Chen Hero's words were obviously more convincing than his. Who made him score a goal in the first half under such difficult circumstances?
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The half-time break was fleeting and passed quickly.
When the second half of the game restarted, everyone found that Arsenal had retreated even more thoroughly, simply giving up the attack, and all the players on the field shrank back to their own thirty-meter area, sticking to it and not coming out. At the end of the first half, it was still considered "defensive counterattack", there was still a counterattack. In the second half, it simply became "deadly defending and not coming out".
When defending, even if they had the ball at their feet, they didn't consider organizing an attack, but instead kicked it forward with a big foot, as if they were afraid that the football would stay at their feet for too long.
It was as if every second the football stayed longer was a disaster for them...
They didn't consider ball control at all. Even if Liverpool's ball possession rate was as high as ninety-nine percent, they were unmoved.
As long as they defended the penalty area to the death and the defensive formation was not chaotic, that would be enough. Anyway, they wouldn't give Liverpool a chance, and if they could, they really wanted to park ten buses in front of the goal.
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After Arsenal shrank their defense, Liverpool also responded, and they immediately pressed forward to attack. They didn't worry at all about problems in their defense, because Arsenal had been scared out of their wits by them!
As long as they continued to put pressure on Arsenal, Arsenal would not dare to attack at all.
In fact, they might even hope that Arsenal would attack, because in that case, there would be more gaps in their defense, and if the Liverpool reserve team and Chen Hero seized one, they could make Arsenal doomed.
Arsenal were not fools, so naturally they would not listen to them and press out to attack, so Liverpool players were not worried about their rear at all.
Chen Hero led Liverpool's offensive, like a huge wave, wave after wave hitting Arsenal's goal.
Now it was Arsenal's turn to be like a lone boat in a storm, being thrown high by the violent waves, and then slammed down hard, sometimes still on the waves, sometimes already submerged in the sea, disappearing without a trace, and then a wave hit, and they didn't know where they emerged from. In this way, they were pushed back and forth by Liverpool's offensive frenzy, and they could capsize at any time.