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Cazorla's goal fully demonstrated his enthusiasm.

Although he is a technical midfielder, compared to his teammate Ozil, Cazorla's enthusiasm can be much stronger than Ozil.

For Cazorla, as long as there is an opportunity on the court, no matter how likely the opportunity is, Cazorla will not be stingy with his physical fitness, and will definitely run fully and seize all possible opportunities.

Cazorla first made a header behind the goal. This header was already a great threat. According to the choice of a normal offensive player, after completing this absolutely wonderful header, he must be fully concentrated It depends on whether you can score this goal.

However, after completing the header, Cazorla immediately supported the ground with his hands to stabilize his figure, instead of falling directly to the ground to "watch the show".

When Yang Feng really defended in place and blocked the ball, Cazorla immediately reacted and rushed to the second landing point of the ball.

Yang Feng's second reaction was fast enough, but his body was still in the process of falling after taking off to block the ball. On the contrary, Cazorla had already started at this time and was the first to chase after the second landing point.

When Yang Feng really made another move, Cazorla had already arrived at the landing point and was ready to hit the goal.

Yang Feng was really beyond his reach for this ball.

He wanted to come over to stop him, but he was really helpless.

Cazorla's volley hit the goal on the right side, and the quality of the shot was extremely high, and it went straight to the upper left corner of the goal.

Mignolet's reaction was extremely fast, but there was nothing he could do. The kick was too tricky, and Mignolet had no way to save it. Arsenal evened the score at the beginning of the second half. to the same starting line.

The Arsenal players were celebrating crazily, and the "Gunner" fans on the scene also burst into enthusiastic cheers, and all of this made the Liverpool players who had just lost the ball a little irritated.

Even Yang Feng, who has always been normal-hearted, felt a little unwilling in this round.

This time's defensive performance, I and Skrtel were completely restrained by Giroud's fast forward.

During Arsenal's counterattack dominated by the wing, Yang Feng took it for granted that Giroud was Arsenal's first support point in the middle, and in the running position, followed Giroud at full speed and rushed into Liverpool's small penalty area .

However, when Sagna made a pass, because it was a defense when the opponent counterattacked, Liverpool's defensive system was not completed.

As a result, when Skrtel and Yang Feng had completely entered the small penalty area, there were no Liverpool midfielders, and immediately filled the huge gap in the middle, giving Sagna enough space to pass the ball and allowing Cazorla has an obvious undefended forward route option.

If Giroud is safely handed over to Skrtel for defense, and if he stands more forward in the previous defensive choice, then this ball, and perhaps Cazorla's chance to head the ball, can be advanced Destruction, this goal, may not happen.

Yang Feng, who has always made the right choices in the game, made an obvious mistake in his choice this time. He underestimated the ability of other Arsenal players to grab points and paid the price for it.

When the score is equalized, for the Arsenal players, they have more confidence in the possibility of fighting for a reversal on the offensive end.

Arsenal's offensive is still going on, and even taking advantage of the psychological low period of the Liverpool players who have just been scored, Arsenal's offensive has become more ferocious.

The psychological gap aggravated the physical fatigue, which made the running of Liverpool players more affected.

Under such circumstances, the two sides ebbed and flowed, and Arsenal's offense naturally became smoother.

Especially the small-scale passing of several Arsenal midfielders can better tear open the offensive space.

Faced with this kind of interspersed running led by Arsenal players using short passes and short-distance through balls outside the penalty area, for Yang Feng, who is at the end of the defense line, he has no space to participate in the defense at all. .

And when this kind of continuous small-scale passing finally formed a threatening attack, the last player of Arsenal deliberately avoided the area guarded by Yang Feng in the middle, and mainly hit the left and right ribs of the penalty area, making Yang Feng There is no way to make an effective supplementary defense.

There is a Giroud pulled out as a fulcrum, and other Arsenal players, around Giroud, make passes and cuts.

Ozil, Cazorla, and Rosicky made consecutive short passes on the left side, and finally through Ozil's through ball to the left side, the ball was accurately inserted into the penalty area.

Rosicky accelerated forward without hesitation after passing the ball before, just in time to receive the through ball from Ozil, and took advantage of the opportunity to volley with his left foot.

Liverpool's defensive players were not in place, and this kick directly threatened Mignolet.

Fortunately, Mignolet has been maintaining a high level now, and he fell to the ground and blocked the kick.

However, Arsenal's aggressive offense is too big a test for Liverpool's defense.

With Rogers' latest tactical instructions issued, in response to Arsenal's pass and cut cooperation, Liverpool's defensive players began to give up some outside defensive areas more, and stepped up their defense in the team's penalty area.

Doing a good job of defense in the penalty area is to limit the opponent's last attack and let the team limit Arsenal's final goal area.

But this kind of defensive change, in the game, is more like pressing the gourd and picking up the scoop.

The strengthening of Liverpool's defense in the penalty area has come at the expense of greater space on the periphery and on the wing.

And this kind of space on the periphery is not as deadly as opportunities in the penalty area, but for many professional players, there is no attack under defensive pressure. Sometimes, even if the distance is far enough, they can still create a very threatening attack. of.

Liverpool's two wings, after most of the defensive players retracted to the center and the penalty area, faced the impact of Arsenal, they could only try to maintain it as much as possible.

Rosicky's breakthrough on the right side completely took Flanagan's attention away, allowing Rosicky to easily pass the ball back to Ozil who came over after hitting the bottom.

When Ozil took the ball two steps forward to the penalty area and further attracted the defensive players in the Liverpool penalty area, Ozil made another cross pass.

A short pass directly to Ramsey who came in from behind.

Rams stopped the ball with his right foot before the Liverpool player, from Ozil, turned and pounced on himself.

Ramsey chose to shoot with his right foot to complete the goal as soon as possible.

The ball was kicked out of a parabola, but because Ramsey's ball was full of force, the speed of the ball was not slow.

The goal was hit on the right side of the middle, but the ball drew a parabola in the air, and the landing point was close to the dead corner on the left.

Mignolet's save has reached its limit, but due to the limitation of his own defensive position, after taking off to the highest point, he still couldn't touch the ball.

The ball reached its highest point in the air, began to fall, barely brushed the crossbar, and fell into the goal, leaving Mignolet helpless.

Arsenal 2 to 1, go-ahead!