Chapter 169 The Advantages of Small Teams

Without his own style, it is easy to "meet wherever he plays", which is naturally not beneficial for a club with long-term and stable goals. However, Xiao Ming is still young and has enough time to form his own style. Leiden Oriental is just in full swing. In the days to come, they can slowly form their own style.

However, for this game alone, the changeable and unstable style of Leiden Oriental is not without benefits. At least Wenger feels a headache now. In the videotapes collected, he only saw that Leiden Oriental's offense is very distinctive, with simple and fluent wing attacks, clean and neat mid lane players, the height on the front line and the ability to capture fighters coexist, but most of the time they use attacks to solve their opponents. However, in this game, Leiden Oriental's three lines and their compactness did not leave much room for Arsenal to organize attacks. At the same time, their young head coach was also very fast to respond. Vieira and Borgkamp had just changed positions, and he immediately responded.

Seeing Borgkamp and Ovemas being stared at by the opponent, Arsenal players consciously moved the offense to the right and organized the attack by Palor.

It has to be said that in addition to giving Arsenal's unyielding fighting spirit and tenacious style in nine years, his style has also seriously affected Arsenal's offensive power - the entire defense line is almost only defense but not attacking. Even when Dixon and Winterbone were young, they were just typical defensive full-backs. Now that they are older, their speed has decreased, let alone attack - even if they want to assist Wenger, they may not be relieved. The two full-backs who cannot run into the 100-meter speed and 12 seconds assisted the opponent's halftime, and they will not let the opponent's counterattack be accurate?

Arsenal has not encountered such defense in the league, but it is rare to do so thoroughly like Leiden Oriental. Several defensive players from Leiden Oriental just keep a close eye on Arsenal's most important offensive points in terms of technical characteristics. In this case, only Palol is the only one who can organize the offense.

Palor is an old minister of Arsenal. Although he is only twenty-five years old, he has played in Arsenal for six seasons, and this season is his best performance so far. He scored five goals in the league and is in good shape.

After receiving Petit's pass, Palor began to dribble along the sidelines. Jinklaze, who returned to defense, was quickly thrown away by him, but this did not mean that he could be unobstructed - Daniel had already come forward.

Seeing Daniel pounce towards him, Palor first made a forced move, then quickly moved the ball to the middle and cut across and break through.

Palor had personally experienced the League Cup match two years ago, but Daniel was the right back at that time and had never played head-on with Palor. At that time, Arsenal's left forward was still another Dutchman, Huddle, who had already transferred and left. Daniel, who had a stubborn defense in the game, made the Dutch player never successfully break through the game with his tenacious defense. However, Palor was not scared. He was not as good as he is now, and even two years ago, Huddle could not compare to himself in the team's training. Daniel's successful defense against Huddle two years ago could not explain anything.

Moreover, although Daniel was brave and tenacious in that game, he was very strong in defense. As long as he avoided his first robbery, he would be able to easily get rid of him.

Sure enough, after he spiked the ball horizontally, Daniel immediately rushed up and stretched out his feet to block the ball. There was a lot of gap between his legs...

Palor immediately dunked the ball back and immediately stabbed the ball between Daniel's legs, then accelerated a change of direction and was about to catch up with the ball.

Just as he took a step, Daniel, who had already pressed all the center of gravity, suddenly stopped and quickly crossed the ball, blocking between Palor and the ball. Palor, who couldn't hold it, hit him, and did not knock Daniel down, but instead staggered himself.

However, Daniel took advantage of his collision and caught up with the ball with two big steps, then controlled the ball and turned around. Unexpectedly, he did not clear the ball, but drove the ball up by himself!

This was quite unexpected to Arsenal players. In the pre-match intelligence collection, they knew that Daniel was a player who rarely assisted, and compared with him, he had more assists on the right. In fact, even fans of Leiden East were quite surprised after seeing this scene. Daniel had played the main player for nearly three seasons, but he averaged no assists in a season, and he scored no more than three goals so far, and he dribbled the ball and went forward.

This is definitely a move that surprises everyone.

Palor was slowing down and didn't have time to return to defense. Borgkamp rarely defended in the midfield. Vieira had already rushed into the penalty area of ​​Leiden East, and Petit also stepped forward to prepare to take on the attack. A large area of ​​open space on the Arsenal's forward and back lines happened to be used by Daniel.

Seeing Daniel's forward insertion this time, Xiao Ming's eyes immediately lit up - if it weren't for luck, then the timing of forward insertion was really good. He just caught the loophole between the opponent's offense and defense transition. Moreover, he looked much more skilled than before, and he had a very good combination of ball control under his feet. It seems that he has been training a lot during this period.

After Daniel dribbled the ball and crossed the center line, Winterben rushed up. However, Daniel did not try to pass the ball, but directly made a diagonal pass and passed the ball to Jinklaze who was pulling it to the middle. Winterben turned around and rushed towards Jinklaze again. However, Jinklaze poked the ball back the moment he received the ball, and the ball landed at Daniel's feet again!

Seeing that Daniel had stopped the ball without defense and began to look at the situation in the penalty area, Sheeman immediately shouted: "Look at their forward! Especially the tall man!"

In the cross, Jankoller's lethality is definitely the largest player in Leiden East. Keon and Adams immediately rushed towards Jankoller at the same time, while Kean handed over to Dixon who returned to the penalty area to defend. Winterben stared at Jinklaze who ran to the front point.

Daniel had no time to hesitate. Now the only one who returned to defense was Arsenal's entire defense line. However, after a while, there were more than one defender. The Leiden Oriental players who followed up to attack were all stared at to death. In this case, perhaps only passing the ball to the penalty area and then counting on Kohler's height to solve the problem.

Daniel did not hesitate. After observing the situation in the penalty area, he immediately stepped on his left foot and passed the ball out.

The ball flew towards the front of the penalty area!

That was the only gap in Arsenal’s defense!

Murphy, who was sprinting and assisting, was running towards the scene, while Petit, who was pressing more closely, had not had time to return to defense!

The ball flew to Murphy accurately. Murphy, who ran out of his highest speed, suddenly paused, supported by his left foot, raised his right foot high, gritted his teeth and punched hard on the front of the ball!

He used his right foot to pull the ball slightly to the left. After flying straight into the penalty area, the ball began to show a strange arc. He flew slightly to the left, and then began to rotate to the right!

Himan is a very good goalkeeper. His judgment, position and reaction are first-class, but he often loses his shots that are hard to imagine at that angle - his two most famous mistakes have made Ronaldinho and Rooney the two future superstars.

First of all, Daniel's pass flew outside the penalty area beyond his expectations, and Murphy's long shot was also quite sudden. What's even more terrible is his quick reaction and judgment. He immediately saw that the ball was tilted to the right (the goalkeeper's perspective), but the next second, the ball began to fly to the left...

When Ximan rose up, the ball had already flew into the upper left corner of the goal from his eyes!

The entire Wembley Stadium fell into silence!

Arsenal fans can't believe that their team was led by the advantage, while Leiden Oriental fans did not expect happiness to come so quickly!

Even Murphy was stunned - this long shot had a lot of luck, and his kicking position was slightly off, and the momentum and Daniel's power when passing the ball caused this long shot to be weird arc - it can be said that in the same situation, he might not be able to shoot such a beautiful shot!

However, he was the first to react. After confirming the goal, he rushed to the bottom of the stands and waved his fists vigorously.

At the same time, the stand where Leiden Oriental fans were in the stand was boiling. The surprise just now was just because of the surprise when the joy came. At this time, the astonishment had completely turned into ecstasy and quickly spread to the entire stand!

Xiao Ming, who came to his senses, waved his fist violently and then burst into laughter.

"We are really lucky." He said to MacDonald after laughing: "Maybe God wants to make up for some of us... Because we were so lucky last season, we have completely returned to our side this season!"

Although Xiao Ming made detailed arrangements for this game and seizing the loopholes in the backcourt during the opponent's attack to counterattack was also the most important point in this game, he had never expected that the goal was so early and that there was such a large gap between Arsenal's back and forward line just now.

His original strategy was to defend in the first half, try to delay time, and then rely on his physical strength to rely on his physical strength. The average age of the main players of Leiden Oriental is much younger than that of Arsenal, and they have a longer rest time than Arsenal. In the second half, they strive to score goals with a certain wave of offense. Arsenal's defense is excellent, and Leiden Oriental's defense is also excellent. In such a final, one goal is often enough.

Now this ball has arrived early - after the celebration, MacDonald looked at Xiao Ming, and the meaning is very obvious: Do you still need to defend?

"Defense? That's of course! Not to mention the lead, even if it's still a draw, the goal in the first half is just defense!"

Xiao Ming stood up and called Daniel who had finished celebrating and ran to his field. He said in his ear: "Tell everyone that we should continue to defend, including Jankoler, to participate in the midfield defense, let Keane stand in front alone, and tell him that he only has one task in this game - not a goal, of course, if he can score, I'm happier - it's just that they can hold on to their defense line and make several of their defenders dare not come forward to assist, even if he completes the task! Finally, no matter how Arsenal's offensive players change positions, guard their area, no matter what the situation is, the defense line cannot be messed up!"

Daniel nodded vigorously. Although the game only lasted for more than twenty minutes, he already felt the pressure brought by Arsenal's offense. Being able to participate in the defense will of course bring greater help.

Xiao Ming did not ask Daniel and Sun Jihai to switch positions to watch Ovemas. If he had done so, he would have done this long ago. Sun Jihai and Daniel are both full-backs who can left and right, but with Glenshare, a player who is not slower than Ovemas, the main defense can basically be stabilized. Daniel has more important tasks to do on the left - due to Ovemas, Borgkamp is more accustomed to moving in the middle and right. When he comes to the right, Daniel has to take on the task of making up for defense.

Seeing Daniel quickly conveying the instructions to everyone on the field, and seeing Keene, who was originally unruly, nodding to Daniel conscientiously, Xiao Ming knew that it had already been effective to let Daniel be the captain this season - Daniel used to be himself, and Daniel now works well while motivating his teammates to do better - isn't the captain doing this?

Leighton Oriental's authentic captain Kim Krazer is more accustomed to talking with his feet on the court, but Daniel is not the case. He has a rather naughty personality and always says whatever he thinks on the court - this style is often more popular on the football court.

After leading by one goal, Leiden East's tactics did not change much. The distance between the three lines was compressed to the minimum, and everyone performed their duties, divided their troops to stare at Arsenal's two most threatening Dutchmen, shrinking the penalty area, so that Arsenal could not find any opportunity in the penalty area, including the forwards, retreating to the midfield to help defend, ensuring that there are enough personnel in the backcourt to defend.

In fact, from the beginning of the game, Leiden Oriental did this. It was not very conspicuous when the score was zero to zero. However, when Leiden Oriental led with one goal, this style of play seemed extremely dazzling in the eyes of Arsenal fans.

So after the re-telection, the booing from the square formation formed by Arsenal fans never stopped, and the fans of Leiden East are not to be outdone. Every time Leiden East breaks the ball in the backcourt, they will make a shocking cheer to suppress the opponent's booing.

Xiao Ming sat on the coach's seat with his hands wrapped around his arms, his face calm. No matter how fierce Arsenal organized the attack, he didn't even raise his eyebrows.

He believes in his players and believes that as long as Leiden Oriental starts to defend with all its strength, even Arsenal will not be able to score easily!

Arsenal's frontcourt offense is not as mercury as later generations. The tacit understanding and cooperation between the players in the frontcourt goal have reached an extremely high level. Petit and Ovemas have only transferred this season. The most important offensive point is Borgkamp and Ovemas. Now he has focused on these two people, and other players have protected the front of the penalty area tightly. Xiao Ming believes that even Wenger can't find a good way to deal with such defense!

Passing the ball? Not to mention that Arsenal does not have a center forward with excellent heading ability now, even in front of Heipia and Stam, two central defenders with a height of more than 1.9 meters and excellent judgment and confrontation, even the center forward combination of Jankoler and Tony will be difficult to break through the wall of Leiden East!

Long shot? Yes! As long as you have the opportunity to shoot!

Short pass penetration? Look at the 10-year World Cup that claims to have the strongest midfielder, and in front of the Iron Barrel formation in Switzerland, you can only keep falling on the outside. You will know how difficult it is to form an offense through penetration in this situation!

Professor, even if you have a lot of tricks, in the face of this situation, it is probably a tiger who eats a hedgehog and cannot slap...

If it was a draw, Wenger could certainly watch it happen, but after luck stood on the side of Leiden East, they made them take the lead with an incredible goal, even Wenger could not think of how to break through Leiden East's goal for a while.

Leiden Oriental's defense is not a layer of paper. Breaking one point is enough, but a wall! There are two walls with a thickness! Moreover, Leiden Oriental's main players have been resting for more than two weeks before this game. In addition, the medical team led by Levine has developed a restorative training based on the players' physical condition. Even if they keep sprinting for 90 minutes, they will have enough physical fitness!

Xiao Ming did not intend to make any mistakes for Wenger to use. At least until now, Leiden East has not made any mistakes. With the high concentration of professional players, it is almost impossible to make such low-level mistakes!

Wenger never stood up until the end of the first half.

When the referee blew the whistle to the end of the first half, Xiao Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

He finally used his detailed arrangement and a certain degree of luck to completely curb Arsenal's offense and took the lead. What he had to do in the next second half was to carry out this level of defense to the end!

The biggest advantage of being a small team is that no matter how ugly they use to win, the media will only say that they have created a miracle of dragon slaying, and will not think that they have tarnished football - who made you a wealthy family? The wealthy family has to fight against the small team in this environment...
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