Chapter 124 The key battle (2)(1/2)
After leading, Manchester City will play better, and there is no doubt that this is.
Now it depends on how Tottenham Hotspur’s head coach planned this game. Tottenham Hotspur has no goals this season. Their task is to play better in the remaining two league games, and it is best to win, end the Premier League journey this season in a more decent way, and regroup next season.
Tottenham Hotspur head coach Redknapp's expression did not change because of Ronaldo's goal. "A score of 0:1, that's nothing." Pacero, who was sitting in the visiting team's coach's seat, shrugged and said to his assistant, he was not very frustrated.
"Manchester City has a strong attack power and there is no need to make any changes yet. We cannot be confused by ourselves, otherwise the City people will continue to seize the opportunity. Let the young men play according to the original tactics... we have enough time..." He looked up and glanced at the electronic scoreboard in the stands and continued.
Ronaldo was still on the court to receive celebrations from his teammates. The camera also gave Ronaldo a close-up.
"This is Ronaldo's fourth goal scored for Manchester City!" Leinkell exclaimed, "Many people say he is not good, saying that Ronaldo is going to return to Brazil to retire, saying that he came to Manchester City to make money, now, I'm afraid no one dares to say these words. Although this is not Ronaldo in the peak state, this is a Ronaldo who is enough to make any defender of the team fear. Ronaldo and Zhang Yang's partner is excellent. They are not unfamiliar with the two. When they were in Milan, the two were very tacit partners. There is no doubt that Manchester City made a great deal of money when they introduced Ronaldo."
After Manchester City led the score, Manchester City head coach Mark Hughes found that Tottenham Hotspur did not panic because of losing a goal in the game, and then rushed up to surround Manchester City's penalty area. In fact, this situation is exactly what Manchester City likes to see. Manchester City's counterattack efficiency is the most efficient among Premier League teams at present.
Tottenham Hotspur players seemed not anxious at all. It seemed that they were not behind the score, but Manchester City people. Manchester City attackers represented by Zhang Yang originally planned to seize the opportunity to score another goal while Tottenham Hotspurs counterattack. Now, looking at the current situation on the court, it is not so easy to play Tottenham Hotspur’s counterattack.
In fact, for Tottenham Hotspur, their performance is on the one hand because their head coach Redknapp is sophisticated and very steady. In addition, Tottenham Hotspur is currently worry-free and has no hope of entering the European arena. It is a desireless and demandless. To be honest, even if they lose the game, there is nothing to do in this game. Therefore, the head coach told them not to be impatient, and they will naturally not be impatient.
In fact, such a relaxed mentality is quite good for a team. With such a relaxed mentality, sometimes you can play beautiful games.
The competition has entered a stalemate stage.
A fan in the stands looked up at the time on the scoreboard. The game had been going on for thirty minutes, and the score on the field was still 1-0, and Manchester City, who played away, led the score.
At this time, on the court, Tottenham Hotspur was in their own half.
After driving the ball along the left road for a while, Joel Luca called Jenas to help. When Jenas ran over, Joel Luca suddenly accelerated and rushed past Modric who was defending him. Modric thought he would cooperate with Jenas, so he was deceived.
After Joel Luca broke through Modric, he did not continue to dribble the ball, but looked up and observed the situation ahead. Suddenly, he passed the ball in a large range with a diagonal foot. With this arc, people saw that Keane suddenly rushed out to catch the ball like an arrow!
Kompany raised his hand to signal Keane to offside, but the referee did not make any statement.
It's really not offside!
When Joel Luca suddenly passed the ball for a long time just now, Manchester City's defense tried to make an offside, but he did not expect that Dunn, who was dragging the ball, had half of his body left behind!
"No offside! No offside!! Successful counter-offside! Joel Luca's pass! Keane made a one-on-one shot! Tottenham Hotspur's chance! Will there be a goal?!" The London commentator shouted loudly at the top of his throat.
Manchester City goalkeeper Jiwen quickly abandoned the goal, but when he was halfway through the attack, he saw Keane shooting with his foot.
Jiwen fell to the ground to save, but he was unable to touch the football. The football flew around from his left hand and flew into the net.
“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!”
Led by the live broadcast, singing Robbie Keane's songs rang over the White Hart Lane Stadium, and many reporters who saw this scene were also sighing.
Last summer, Robbie Keane joined the Reds for a high price of £20.3 million, but Robbie Keane was kicked out for only half a season at Anfield and returned to the White Hart Lane Stadium. While at Liverpool, Keane only scored one Premier League goal against Arsenal, which made the deal that Benitez had insisted on at the beginning a joke.
Robbie Keane transferred to Liverpool at a high price of 20 million pounds half a year ago. After half a year, he returned to Tottenham at a low price of 10 million pounds. It was also rated by fans as the most funny transfer in Premier League history. Some fans even joked that Tottenham Hotspur executives should award Robbie Keane the most outstanding contribution award. Similarly, Robbie Keane only took half a year to travel to Liverpool and earned 10 million pounds for the club.
Robbie Keane, who returned to the White Hart Lane team, was busy expressing his loyalty to the fans the day after returning to the club. He said at the time, "Leaving Tottenham last summer was a difficult decision for me, and this half season also proved that joining Liverpool was not the right choice. In the future, I will give all my money to the team."
However, after returning to Tottenham Hotspur, the striker whose net worth plummeted 10 million pounds in half a year has not performed well, and Robbie Keane has been criticized. So far, Robbie Keane has played more than a dozen games for Tottenham Hotspur in the past half season, but has only scored two goals. He has also become a target of frequent ridicule by the media.
It is precisely because of the doubt that after scoring this goal, Robbie Keane is now very excited. He rushed to the stands, acted cutely and made a move to kiss the club emblem on Tottenham Hotspur's jersey.
In London, in addition to Tottenham Hotspurs paying attention to this game, there is also someone paying more attention to this game, that is, the Arsenal.
At this time, in the hotel where Arsenal players stayed, the players did not rest, and many players gathered to watch the live broadcast of Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur matches.
"Tottenham Hotspur equalized!"
"Beautiful, Irish!"
Seeing Robbie Keane's goal help Tottenham equalize the score, there was a burst of cheers among the Arsenal players.
"But if the draw is done, Manchester City can still lock in fourth place one round ahead of schedule." Walcott said anxiously.
"Don't worry." Fabregas comforted Walcott, "There is still time left for the game. The first half is not over yet. Have you noticed that Tottenham Hotspur played very relaxed today. They played very well. Even if they were behind in the score, they were not panic. I think they could still score goals."
Walcott glanced at the young captain and said nothing. Obviously he didn't believe Fabregas's words. Manchester City people would definitely fight desperately in this game. Walcott obviously did not think Tottenham Hotspur could help Arsenal block Manchester City.
After the game started again, Manchester City continued to put pressure on Tottenham Hotspur's goal. The 1-to-1 score was too dangerous. If Tottenham Hotspur finds an opportunity to score another goal in the last moment of the first half, then Manchester City will not have time to cry.
They must strive to score another goal and take the lead in the score to be more at ease.
Bridge dribbled the ball in the backcourt. He looked in front, lowered his head and dribbled the ball, and then suddenly raised his head again, directly passing with a big foot.
Modric put a pad on the chest in the midfield and then put the football on his knees to Ireland.
Ireland stopped the ball, then moved his right foot, and then suddenly accelerated and passed by Paracios. Just as Paracios was returning to defend and chased, Ireland pushed the arch of his right foot and the football flew to the frontcourt.
Zhang Yang had already started at high speed at this time. At the edge of the penalty area, ACTO entangled him, but the Tottenham Hotspur full-back soon discovered the gap between him and the most valuable star.
Zhang Yang received the ball with his right foot, then beautifully pulled the ball back and gently knocked the heel. The ball was like an obedient elf, rolling beautifully between the legs of ACTO behind him.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Yang turned around, he bypassed ACTO and caught up with football!
"The back-legged ball was scored!" Eddie Gray shouted at the top of his throat.
After catching up with football, Zhang Yang did not pause at all and shot with his feet!
Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Robinson made a quick save. He fell to the ground and rushed to the side. After the football was touched by his left hand, he rolled towards the goal. Finally, the football hit the outside of the right post and then rolled out of the baseline.
Zhang Yang was very upset when he saw that the football didn't enter. He grabbed his hair hard and howled at the top of his throat.
After Zhang Yang finished the shot, he felt that the ball had it! However, he didn't expect that the football ended up hitting the post.
Really bad luck!
Manchester City's corner kick.
Ireland drove the corner kick into the penalty area, Zhang Yang headed the ball, the football was blocked by Robinson, and De Jong volleyed in the air to make a follow-up shot. However, the Dutchman's footwork was really bad. Facing most of the empty goal, he actually kicked the football straight into the air...
"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW-De Jong! He missed such an opportunity!"
"When De Jong made a shot just now, the hearts of Arsenal fans must have almost stopped beating!"
Bentner, who was watching the game, screamed nervously. Walcott glanced at Bentner. In fact, the "Little Tiger" was so nervous. When De Jong shot just now, he thought that Manchester City people were going to score a goal.
Galas glared at the two younger generations and said, "In my experience, Manchester City people are punished for wasting opportunities like this."
Galas' popularity in the team is really not very good. Although his words meant well, it made others sound very awkward.
However, five minutes later, the other Arsenal players looked at the "former captain" with different eyes.
Because, Tottenham Hotspur really scored!
It was a set piece opportunity, De Jong made a foul on Jenas, and Tottenham Hotspur got a set piece opportunity near the wing.
Allen and Lennon took the penalty into the penalty area, and Darren Bente beat Richard Dunn and scored a header!
“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!”
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
"That's right!"
“Beautiful job!”
Likewise, Tottenham Hotspur’s voices filled many bars in London. Many of the people who cheered like this were Arsenal fans. It was only this special moment that Arsenal fans could cheer for their goal against their city rival Tottenham Hotspur!
Arsenal is looking forward to Tottenham Hotspur being able to block Manchester City and keep a glimmer of hope for them to win the fourth place in the league.
While Tottenham and Arsenal were celebrating, Manchester City fans were silent and Manchester City players were also silent.
When they were only one step away from their goal, they began to be in a state of fear and fear gains and losses. Especially when they were leading the game well, Tottenham Hotspur scored two goals in a row and reversed the score, which also made some people feel some bad premonitions.
Especially some people think of the words of Arsenal head coach Wenger before the game. Wenger said at the time, "Manchester City leads with points, that's right, but you never know what the result will be. Arsenal has not missed the Champions League in the past ten years, and the same is true at the end of this season! For Manchester City, their performance this season is perfect, and even if they play in the League Cup in the end, I will applaud them."
When Wenger said this, he was very confident about Arsenal's performance in the reverse standings.
In fact, this is the professor using psychological tactics. People just say that Ferguson is good at psychological warfare. But, just imagine, if you can fight Sir Ferguson in the Premier League for more than ten years, the professor is not easy!
This passage was nothing at all, but at this moment, under such a situation, it is inevitable that some Manchester City players will have a negative hint, that is, Arsenal has not missed the Champions League for more than ten years, and it seems that this is the case this year. I'm afraid God is also helping Arsenal.
Zhang Yang didn't know the messy thoughts in his teammates' minds at this time. If he knew, he should have cursed.
However, Zhang Yang knew that the negative impact of Tottenham Hotspur's goal on the entire Manchester City team will definitely be affected. At this time, the team must not be confused and must hold on. It is best to equalize the score as soon as possible. Otherwise, the longer the time is delayed, the greater the pressure on the team!
The game continues.
Zhang Yang has become more active. He must set an example and set an example to the entire team!
When the team is in trouble, he must take the initiative to stand up!
This is his team. He and his teammates have worked hard for that goal for a season. Now, the victory is on the other side, and no one can snatch the fruit of victory that they are about to win!
Modric dribbled the ball, and Paracios immediately came up to press.
Facing Paracios' pressing, Modric and Wright Phillips, who came up to pick up, made a wall-to-wave cooperation. Then, Modric pushed the arch of his foot and the ball reached Sun Jihai's feet.
Modric immediately continued to run forward, on the one hand, preparing to take on the offense, and on the other hand, it could also restrain Tottenham Hotspur's defense.
Sun Jihai made a rolling ball from the ground, and Zhang Yang received the ball!
Jenas came up to intercept it, and he came up to break the ball, intending to break the ball under Zhang Yang's feet.
Zhang Yang tilted his body and his right foot was beautifully twirled, and he dodged away from Jenas's interception. Jenas just kicked the air, but now he wants to get up and chase him again, it is too late.
Seeing his teammate being broken through, Joel Luca hurriedly came up to intercept Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang was pushing forward, pulling one by one, and then accelerating, and then rushing past Joel Luca!
Two people have passed in a row!
"Great!" Manchester City fans screamed and applauded in the visiting team stands at White Hart Lane Stadium. Seeing Zhang Yang's outstanding performance, the haze in their hearts seemed to gradually dissipate, and the warm sunshine could be vaguely seen, warming their hearts.
To be continued...