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Chapter 697 425 Quarter One First Round 1

Trapani's starting lineup for this game:

Goalkeeper: Amelia

Defenders: Behrami, Barzali, Samuel, Evra

Midfielders: Schweinsteiger, Mascherano, Kaka

Forwards: Henry, Suarez, Messi

Kameni was injured and could not play in this game, so Amelia got the chance to start. There were no injuries on the back line. Bielsa chose the strongest defense combination in his mind. Beckham in the midfield also had a minor injury. Tony did not get the starting position on the front line and sat on the bench.

Suarez did not have a smooth sailing this season. At the beginning, he was a lucky player. At the beginning of the second half, the latter guy suddenly had a period of time and was not in good shape. Recently, he has regained his senses. Bielsa wants to use a striker who can run and press on the front line. Suarez's attitude touched him. It is not easy to get a starting position.

As for the wingers on both wings, there is no surprise. Messi and Henry are the protagonists.

Arsenal's starting lineup:

Goalkeeper: Almunia

Defenders: Sagna, Toure, Gallas, Clichy

Defensive midfielder: Song

Midfielders: Walcott, Denilson, Fabregas, Nasri

Forward: Adebayo

Wenger's lineup is relatively complete. The team has no injuries. The main players can basically attend this game. His team is a tiger team. There are many young people in the team. The momentum is very strong and there is a certain amount of experience, but the shortcomings are also obvious. The state is somewhat unstable after all.

The Champions League theme song ended, and the two sides picked sides to complete the game. Arsenal kicked off first. The core of Arsenal's team is Fabregas. After Henry left, Fabregas grew up quickly. His assists and scoring abilities are very good. However, this season he was absent for four months due to injury in December. He did not return until last week's game against Manchester City. This game against Trapani is his second game in the second half of the season.

In the first few minutes of the game, Arsenal changed their tactical style of play, played more patiently, and controlled more ball possession. Bielsa was a little careless and did not arrange close pressing for Fabregas, which led to Fabregas' smooth movement and many times of organization in the backcourt to help Arsenal control the situation.

On both sides of Arsenal, Nasri and Walcott are young players with excellent personal breakthrough ability. Walcott successfully broke through Evra's defense twice with the ball, but unfortunately his last pass was a big problem, with bad timing and passing route.

Five minutes later, although Arsenal did not have a shot, Walcott's breakthrough impressed the home audience very much. In fact, he did not have much ability to control the ball, and mainly relied on his speed. Evra was not slow, but he was not fully prepared at the beginning, and was eaten alive by Walcott twice.

This formation of Arsenal is quite interesting. On the one hand, Wenger requires his wingers to return to defense, and retreat becomes 4141, and when attacking, it can change to 433.

Arsenal's style of play is not without sacrifices. For example, Fabregas' offensive ability was affected. He had to stay in the backcourt to coordinate in order to get his team out of the problems caused by the opponent's high-pressure pressing. In the 6th minute, he made a slight forward move and was seized by Trapani, who played a high-quality counterattack. Arsenal's old captain, Henry's iconic volley hit the far corner post.

Arsenal's full-backs are all players with strong assists and very fast speed, but defense is not their most prominent link, so facing Trapani's frontcourt offensive combination with strong technical ability and high tacit understanding, they are somewhat at a disadvantage.

Wenger's thinking is also correct, and it cannot be said that he is wrong. Today, he obviously pays more attention to the control of the team. He does not want Trapani to get too much ball possession. He arranged Adebayo in the frontcourt, hoping that Adebayo will play a high point in the frontcourt.

When the backcourt cannot send the ball to the frontcourt through the ground, Adebayo is a sharp weapon. He has height and is not slow at foot. Arsenal can use him as a fulcrum to make high balls.

Bielsa still had no intention of stopping. He thought the team's position was not compact enough and the pressure in the front court was not strong enough, so he frequently gestured and asked his players to press forward.

Barzagli, wearing the captain's armband, felt helpless. It was only a short time after the start of the game, and the speed of Arsenal's two wings had already brought potential risks to the team. Still pressing forward? ! Wouldn't that give the opponent a chance to play behind him? It was too far away from the goalkeeper, and it would be difficult for the defender to chase him even if he wanted to.

But the coach had to listen to the order, and Trapani's players still had some trust in this.

Trapani's increasingly upward formation caused trouble for Arsenal. Arsenal's players were forced back to their own half, and the flow of the backcourt was not smooth. They sent the ball to the front court several times, and the defenders hurried forward to create offside. They knew that Trapani was best at doing such things, and his attack was sharp and direct.

Adebayor got a chance to confront, but he was at a disadvantage under the double-team of Barzagli and Samuel. At least from the first 20 minutes, Wenger's expectations of Adebayor did not come true. The poor guy competed with Barzagli for the header three times, but failed all of them. Barzagli was shorter than him, but jumped higher than him and was also very strong.

The game was very intense, but there were not many highlights. Trapani's frontcourt performance was also relatively dull. Suarez was as diligent as ever, Henry played well, but Messi was not exciting enough and did not even dribble.

The fans in the stands suddenly shouted "Leo, Leo!"

Probably to stimulate Messi's excitement.

In the 23rd minute, Messi retreated to the midfield to receive the ball. The position where he received the ball was already close to his own defense line. At this time, dribbling the ball should be said to be a risky move, but Messi took advantage of the public's psychology very well and dribbled the ball in this place.

After taking the ball with his back to the goal, he did not pass it back, but suddenly turned around. Fabregas was left behind by Messi before he could come back to his senses.

Messi's dribbling pace was very low. Alexander Song rushed over from the side to make a tackle. Messi had excellent control of the ball. He lightly lifted his toes and passed over Song's legs. Suddenly, he took a big step to dribble the ball. The ball was separated, and Denilson unfortunately became the next person to be dribbled.

A strange situation appeared on the field. Messi's dribbling speed was obviously not very fast. He always kept the ball under his feet. There were two Arsenal players chasing him behind him. He did not take any foul measures and could not touch the ball.

A few seconds later, under the control of Kaka and Suarez, a big door was accidentally revealed in the middle of Arsenal. Messi rushed to it. When Toure and Gallas wanted to close the door, everything was too late. Messi shot low in the middle between the big penalty area and the small penalty area. The angle was very tricky. Almunia could not save it, so Messi's shot went into the door.

"Oh oh oh!" The sea stadium was boiling. Messi's perfect personal performance was very difficult this time, but under the control of his teammates, Messi found the defense line to break through. His path was a zigzag route, going straight into the middle, which was very effective.

This kind of dribbling is not common. After all, the opponent's players are still a little young. Facing the sudden rampage of Messi, they actually relaxed a little. Fabregas, who followed later, should regret that he did not make a tackle in time. It would be better to commit a tactical foul than to have the goal breached. .

Bielsa stood up from the ground and applauded. People expected that the two offensive teams should collide with each other, but in reality, both sides completed few shots in 20 minutes. Arsenal was in good shape. They did a good job in control and were quite in place when dealing with Trapani's counterattack. It was time for Trapani's stars to stand up.

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