April 23, 2017, Emirates Stadium, London, England.
What is being held here today is the semi-finals of this season's English FA Cup. The two sides are Arsenal and Crystal Palace. It is truly a London derby.
Today’s starting lineups for both sides are as follows:
Home team Arsenal, head coach Wenger, formation 3421
Cech
Back three from left to right Holding, Koscielny and Gabriel
Midfield four from left to right Monreal, Ramsey, Xhaka and Oxlade-Chamberlain
Double attacking midfielder Sanchez and goldfish eyes
Olivier Giroud
Visiting team Crystal Palace, head coach Tong Yi, formation 4213
Alisson
The back four from left to right is Theo, Upamecano, Van Dijk and Achraf.
Double defensive midfielder Witsel and Kante
Single attacking midfielder Sabitzer
The front three from left to right Asensio, Jimenez and Mbappe
In today's game, the Crystal Palace team did have a large-scale rotation, which was as expected by many media before the game. And it is precisely because of this that they are not optimistic about the Crystal Palace team. They feel that in this game, Crystal Palace
He's going to be beaten by Arsenal.
Of course, Arsenal has also rotated, but there are not many people rotating, and the main framework is still dominated by the main players. From this, it can be seen that Arsenal really wants to win this game.
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This FA Cup title is indeed Wenger's talisman.
Both Wenger and Arsenal desperately need this FA Cup title.
Seeing the lineups of both sides, Arsenal fans are full of confidence and firmly believe that they can win.
The Crystal Palace people are really too arrogant, and some look down on their Arsenal team too much.
In this game, Arsenal will make Crystal Palace pay for their arrogance.
beep!
The referee Darren England blew the whistle to officially start the game, and the home team Arsenal kicked off first.
Arsene Wenger is not immune, and now he is also playing a three-centre-back system, adding two wing-backs in the midfield. But is it a bit overkill to let Chamberlain play as a wing-back? Can his defense withstand Crystal Palace's offense?
It’s unknown now, but as the game progresses everyone will be able to understand the outcome of this issue.
The football quickly rolled towards the feet of Goldfish Eyes in the frontcourt.
I have to say that the current Goldfish Eyes is still a good player in the Arsenal team. He has not completely slacked off yet. He can still put some passion into the game in the frontcourt, otherwise he would not have performed last season.
He has performed so well. But this season, his enthusiasm has declined, and the results he has delivered so far are much worse than last season.
However, he is still a point that Arsenal has to rely on.
That's why this guy goes his own way in the game.
This time, the guy was obviously a bit procrastinated and lazy after holding the ball. He saw Sanchez advancing forward, and this was a good opportunity. Giroud helped Sanchez create a wall to block the Crystal Palace defensive players, creating a chance for Sanchez.
Very good chance to get forward.
and This line is also invincible.
As long as Goldfish Eye passes the football, the ball will be scored directly. With Sanchez's ability, the probability of scoring is very high.
And with his goldfish eye ability, he can pass the ball very easily.
Wenger on the sidelines was excited. This was an excellent opportunity. Are Arsenal really about to get off to a dream start? Wenger raised his hands in the air and was ready to cheer.
There was a bang sound, and at the moment when Goldfish's eyes were about to kick the ball, a leg stretched out from his side like lightning, and pushed the football out.
Beautiful, beautiful, grab it!
The Crystal Palace fans at the scene gave Kante thunderous applause. Kante's timing was really great and perfect. With Kante here, the Crystal Palace fans were very relieved.
Oops, Arsenal fans are in mourning!
Wenger on the sidelines was even more speechless. The goal was not at all Kante's, but Goldfish's too lazy.
According to Goldfish Eye's ability and style in the past, if he hadn't been lazy and procrastinated, he would have passed the ball accurately long ago. How could he have waited for Kanter to pounce to steal it?
Not to mention, Goldfish Eye was able to do it easily last season.
However, this guy has indeed been lazy a lot this season, which is one of the important reasons why Arsenal's performance has declined this season. Moreover, this guy has frequently caused a lot of troubles off the court recently, which has affected him and the team.
This is something Wenger is very dissatisfied with.
This guy, Jinyuyan, seemed to have let himself go. He began to frequently turn his attention to the sidelines and go out to make trouble. On the contrary, he became more and more lazy and mediocre in the game.
Wenger is really very angry!
But there is no good way. None of the people he has found can completely replace Goldfish Eyes.
Although he is said to be lazy, he still has some ability, and he can be regarded as the only one among the current Arsenal midfielders.
So, Wenger is still patient now.
Of course, it was impossible for Wenger to remain indifferent. He immediately roared at the goldfish eyes in the stadium, stimulating this guy to be more active, and even his words were a bit excessive.
However, the goldfish eyes on the court still go their own way.
Seeing this, Tong Yi smiled slightly. This is where his confidence lies in this game!
If the current goldfish eyes were the goldfish eyes from last season, Tong Yi would still be worried. But this season's goldfish eyes, although they have not completely rotted away, are on the road to rotting now, and
It's a straight line decline.
He knew there was a conflict between Wenger and Goldfish Eyes, but Wenger still had to rely on Goldfish Eyes now.
This is Crystal Palace's opportunity.
The knocked-out football rolled directly towards Van Dijk, who immediately made a diagonal pass and quickly passed the football to the wing.
Ashraf on the wing caught the football and drove the ball forward. Monreal on the wing came up to him immediately.
Crazy pressing and interception.
The wing back here is like this. He immediately goes up to intercept. Firstly, he puts pressure on the opponent. Secondly, he gives his teammates time to defend. Or he creates time and space for his teammates to attack.
To prevent the opponent's counterattack for a while.
Monreal came up very quickly, but Achraf didn't care about you. He just accelerated and passed the ball past Monreal.
Monreal didn't expect it, so he was easily passed by Achraf.
After Achraf passed Monreal, he immediately increased his speed and sprinted along the side road, like a speeding sports car. Ramsey couldn't catch up at all. He looked at Achraf and sighed.
Ramsey immediately stretched out his hand to signal Holding to step forward to intercept Ashraf, and he quickly rushed back to fill the gap behind Holding.
Young Holding immediately rushed forward and intercepted Ashraf.
Facing the young Holding, Ashraf is very confident.
Holding is a young genius introduced by Arsenal last summer. He is considered a super star local central defender who has recently emerged in England. He only became the main central defender of Bolton Wanderers in the English Championship in the middle of last season and performed very well. Although the team
He was relegated, but he became famous as the team's best player of the season as voted by the fans.
Then Wenger, who liked Shota, directly brought Holding to Arsenal.
This season he has almost double-digit appearances at Arsenal. It can be seen that Wenger is still very optimistic about him. At this stage, he is sparing no effort to cultivate Holding and wants Holding to become England's best player.
Van Dijk.
But it is obvious that Ashraf does not like Holding. He feels that Holding is surrounded by empty spaces.
At this moment, Ashraf suddenly changed direction to the left, seemingly to break through, which instantly mobilized Holding's defensive focus. At this moment, Ashraf actually passed the football directly across the ball and passed it quickly
Sabitzer followed up wildly in the middle.
Ramsey has returned to Holding's central defender position, and the midfield is a bit empty.
No, Sabitzer rushed into this gap.
Arsenal midfielder Xhaka was shocked and immediately rushed over, quickly pounced on Sabitzer, preventing Sabitzer from easily receiving the ball and completing the next move.
Unexpectedly, Sabitzer seemed to have expected it and didn't catch the ball at all. Instead, he missed the ball.
Xhaka, who rushed up, didn't expect it at all. He was unprepared and could only watch the football rolling past him. Then he saw Witsel rushing towards the football. Danger!
Wenger on the sidelines also felt the danger and his heart tightened.
Arsenal's center back Gabriel immediately rushed out to defend Witsel, denying Witsel a chance to take a long shot.
However, Witsel had no intention of taking a long shot. Seeing Gabriel rushing out, he understood the diagonal pass and quickly hit the football into the space behind Gabriel.
Asensio rushed forward quickly and penetrated directly into Arsenal's penalty area.
Wing-back Chamberlain also accelerated frantically towards the Asensio pushed forward, but it was too late.
When the Arsenal fans at the scene saw this, their hearts tightened, it was dangerous.
Center defender Koscielny in the middle had to immediately move sideways to intercept Asensio who rushed into the penalty area to receive the ball.
Holding can only put down Witsel and quickly retreat to fill Koscielny's central defender position. This position cannot be left vacant. Otherwise, Jimenez in the space is likely to directly
I went to the meeting alone.
Gabriel immediately rushed out, and Xhaka quickly turned around and pounced on Witsel.
At the same time, Chamberlain also gave up chasing Asensio, and instead rushed towards Witsel, who was closest to him, without giving Asensio a chance to pass the ball. In this way, Asensio could only control the football at his feet.
, handle it yourself. This creates an opportunity for Koscielny to defend Asensio.
Arsenal players believe that Koscielny will definitely crush Asensio.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Asensio suddenly swept the ball in an inverted triangle and quickly passed the football.
The football quickly rolled towards the edge of the penalty area.
However, the ball did not roll towards Witsel, whom Arsenal players focused on defending, but towards Sabitzer at the far end of the penalty area.
Danger, danger!
At this time, Ramsey was sticking to Jimenez in the middle of the penalty area and did not stop Sabitzer at all.
Ramsey felt that it was impossible for Crystal Palace to pass the ball to Sabitzer who was in such a remote position, and even if it was passed, his defensive teammates would not let Asensio pass the ball. After all, in
There were still two defensive players on this line who could intercept this line, so he went to defend the most dangerous Jimenez.
Holding did not push forward, but retreated to the position vacated by Ramsey.
So Sabitzer is really free at this time.
Of course, Arsenal's wing-back Monreal is chasing back quickly, and he should be able to interfere with Sabitzer.
But Sabitzer didn't give Monreal this chance!
Asensio passed the corner kick very beautifully, passing the football to the far end of Sabitzer in the only gap. The Arsenal defenders Gabriel and Xhaka on this line were both
They didn't touch the football. They didn't expect the ball to be passed like this. At most, they thought Asensio would pass the football to Witsel. Their defensive focus was on Witsel and Jimen in the penalty area.
In Nice's case, Sabitzer on the far side was somewhat ignored.
Therefore, Sabitzer is now in an empty space.
He didn't give any chance to Monreal, who was rushing up from behind. He didn't stop the ball and immediately volleyed with his leg. His round right leg hit the football firmly, making a thunderous sound, and then the football led
With a sound of breaking through the air, the shot quickly hit the top corner of the near post.
The speed of the ball is very fast, like a meteor streaking across the night sky.
Cech reacted quickly in front of the goal, but he still didn't touch the ball.
The football flew straight into the top corner of the near post of Arsenal's goal.