Chapter 203
The game was a success, but the opponent was not as good as the opponent.
Someone once said that the best strategy to break through the tight defense of the "bus" tactics is to frequently try long-range shots, clever crosses and actively create corner kick opportunities.
And Arsenal obviously knows this. At the beginning of the second half, because the opponent took the initiative to give up the ball, Arsenal was able to start a bombardment attack mode.
However, despite their great efforts on the offensive end, they still failed to score any goals until the 80th minute.
Faced with such a situation, the Arsenal fans on the sidelines could no longer hold back their excitement and stood up to sing the team song.
The passionate singing echoed over the Emirates Stadium, as if inspiring every player.
The league has reached this point, and every game is crucial for Arsenal.
Originally, Southampton was a team that Wenger had to win in his plan, but he didn't expect that they would be able to show such a tenacious fighting spirit in this game.
Although Southampton's players have been defending all the time, according to the data, their running volume is more than Arsenal's players, which is mainly concentrated in the first half.
Although the team has not been able to open the situation, Wenger, the team's head coach, still stood on the sidelines with his hands crossed and watched the game calmly.
Although he was a little impatient in his heart, he did not show it. He knew very well that the team did not need to make any adjustments at this time. Everything could only rely on the efforts of the players. Even if the game was really tied, they still had a chance.
While Wenger was thinking about the problem, the fans suddenly exclaimed in the stadium.
After he looked at it carefully, he found that it was not them who scored the goal, but Southampton took advantage of Arsenal's long-term attack to launch a counterattack in the game.
At this time, Southampton's No. 11 Tadic didn't know how to break through and had a single shot against Arsenal's goal.
Seeing this situation, Wenger, who was calm before, couldn't help but raise his eyes.
Only to see that Lei Ming didn't choose to leave the goal to defend him at this time. He just stretched his body as much as possible to block the opponent's shooting angle to the greatest extent.
Facing a single shot from the side, all goalkeepers will block the near corner and leave the far corner for the opponent to shoot, and Lei Ming is no exception this time.
Southampton's offensive player Tadic seemed very nervous at this time. He knew very well that this might be their best chance in this game.
Facing the talented goalkeeper of Arsenal in front of him, Tadic didn't seem calm.
But he knew very well that if he scored this goal, he would definitely become famous, because so far, only a few Premier League strikers have been able to score against the opponent's goal. No matter which top team, they all seemed very nervous when facing the Arsenal goalkeeper.
In a flash, after seeing the opponent blocking the near corner, Tadic almost did not hesitate to kick a lob to the far corner to score. After he finished, he was stunned.
Because just opposite, the goalkeeper seemed to have accurately predicted his thoughts and easily blocked his shot with his feet. Fortunately, the blocked ball did not fly far, but landed in front of the Southampton players again. Facing this God-given opportunity, Southampton's top scorer No. 7 Sean shot the ball.
But at this moment, the Arsenal goalkeeper appeared on the flight path of the ball and successfully picked up the shot.
"God, what a wonderful save, two consecutive saves!"
"The Southampton players wanted to use the gate guarded by Lei as their background wall, but Lei said no with his strength!"
"Lei once again saved the team with his own strength, which is really exciting!"
"Counterattack, this is definitely our chance!"
After seeing Lei Ming successfully save the team with a magical two consecutive saves, the host clapped the table excitedly, and then he saw Lei Ming once again made a very threatening long pass.
At this time, due to the attack just now, the formation of the entire Southampton team was no longer as dense as before, and the Arsenal players were also very clear that this was a rare opportunity.
When the counterattack horn sounded, Arsenal's four core players in the frontcourt had begun to attack
Attack Southampton's defense.
Sanchez grabbed the first point of the thunderous long pass, and he directly used a header to pass the ball to Reiss Nelson. After Reiss took a few steps, he passed the ball to Aubameyang who ran out of the front court with an imaginative through ball.
Southampton players and Aubameyang competed for the ball, but from the scene, Aubameyang obviously had more advantages than the opponent. If nothing unexpected happened, the ball should be grabbed by Aubameyang.
In fact, the situation was also as predicted by the public. When Aubameyang grabbed the ball first, he instantly formed a half-single-handed situation, but when he was about to shoot, he did not shoot, but passed the ball directly to Lacazette who followed up.
Facing such a comfortable ball, Lacazette also showed his psychological characteristics of a striker, and steadily pushed the ball into the net.
In the 89th minute of the game, Arsenal finally completed the lore at home 1:0.
Lacazette, who scored the goal, excitedly hugged Aubameyang in his arms and thanked him again.
He knew very well that if the opponent wanted to shoot, there was actually a 50% chance of scoring, but he didn't expect that Aubameyang really passed the ball to him again unselfishly.
"Hahaha, why thank you? I said long ago that I would definitely help you get the Golden Boot."
In fact, Aubameyang played very aggrievedly in this game. No matter how many opportunities he created, he was always a hair's breadth away from scoring. Even several shots were rejected by the crossbar. He was repeatedly rejected, and even he had some self-doubt.
It happened that he saw the players following behind him in his peripheral vision, so he naturally had to choose a safer way to attack. Lacazette did not disappoint him at all. Not only did he appear in the key position in time, but he also calmly scored the ball into the opponent's goal.
At the moment of the goal, the entire Emirates Stadium was shaken a few times.
The fans at the scene were all excited to see this wonderful and hard-won goal and they all hugged and jumped to celebrate.
Originally, many of them had planned to accept the fact that the team was tied, but they never expected that the team would complete a lore reversal at the last moment. How could this not be exciting!
After the 5 minutes of injury time, all the home fans at the Emirates Stadium shouted happily, "We can do it, we will continue to challenge for the championship! No one can take the championship away from us."