There is a dream called football

The capacity of Hamburg's home stadium is about 57,000 people. Today, more than 55,000 people came. Don't doubt the Germans' love for football and their spending power. As long as there is a game in Germany, the stadium will basically be full.

In this case, there is no need to worry about the atmosphere of the stadium. Hamburg wears traditional jerseys, white tops and red shorts, while Arsenal wears away players, with blue as the main color.

After the game started, Hamburg was the first to show strength. This should be the most normal routine. Generally, the home team will be stronger and they can live up to their fans.

Serbian forward Ljuboa is still very capable. He is tall, good at confrontation, and most importantly, he can control the ball with his feet.

Of course, if you look at it from Wenger's perspective, he doesn't want such a player. The main reason is that he lacks characteristics.

What wealthy families need is top quality.

For example, in terms of speed, Henry and Li Qiao are top-notch.

Passing, Fabregas and Rosicky are top notch.

In goalkeeping, Lehmann can be considered top-notch.

Therefore, Liu Boya can only hang out in second-rate teams, because he is okay in everything, but can't be top-notch in anything.

However, this is a player that Hamburg can afford. No matter how high a player is, whether it is salary or transfer fee, Hamburg cannot afford it.

Liu Boya's two shots are not a special threat, but it cannot be said to be completely relaxed.

Another forward, Sanogo, is more of a winger than a forward. He is still used to operating on the wing.

Wenger understood this at a glance. This guy lacked center training during youth training. You must know that center is a unique skill. The first thing to do is to get the ball with your back, so it is very important to be able to hold it.

Secondly, the sense of space is very important. To get the ball with your back, you also need to have a basic understanding of the situation behind you, which is not easy.

Liu Boya is a typical center. When facing Zhu Lu, Liu Boya will lean on first and then make moves.

But soon, Arsenal discovered that Hamburg's offense was indeed very rough. If they had the chance, they would pass through the ball. If there was no chance, they would just shoot violently.

This kind of offense is a little too simple, but the advantage is that it basically doesn't give Arsenal a chance to steal the ball in the midfield and counterattack.

Hamburg's offense must end with a shot. It doesn't matter how outrageous the shot is, the important thing is to leave enough time to run back.

Commentator Martin Taylor was amused, "The styles of the two teams are really completely different. Arsenal wishes all 11 members of the team could pass the ball to their feet, while Hamburg wishes they could shoot as soon as they touch the ball, as if the ball is hot."

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This style of football is so exaggerated that Arsenal's ball possession rate is as high as 88%.

This kind of ball possession rate makes Arsenal themselves embarrassed, and this kind of ball possession rate is actually not conducive to offense. Everyone in Hamburg defends in the backcourt, making the offense very difficult.

At this time, Hamburg's rough style of play also began to show up.

When De Jong was defending Rosicky in the midfield, he kicked Rosicky's ankle. The kick was so bad that the referee immediately gave him a yellow card.

Rosicky fell to the ground and did not get up for a long time. The team doctor came in to check and found that the most feared injury was not the tibia, but the knee.

The knee is like a pivot, and the tibia is connected to the pivot. Generally, a player's cruciate ligament strain is affected by the tibia, so De Jong's kick was meant to intimidate.

Fortunately, Rosicky suffered a serious injury this time. It didn't matter, it just hurt.

Soon, De Jong and Li Qiao had another conflict on the wing. This time the Arsenal players couldn't hold back anymore and everyone gathered around.

"Want to fight?"

De Jong behaves like a villain, and he is also known as a villain in football.

"Boy, don't think you're the only one who can kick people."

"Yeah, I kicked someone. I went for the ball."

"You are a coward."

"You are a stupid coward."

The referee came over. In this case, it is impossible to send a yellow card, two yellows to one red, and send De Jong off, but a verbal warning is necessary, because De Jong is like a spark, he is likely to detonate a powder keg.

Moreover, the referee also knows what Hamburg, who is not as strong as his opponent, wants to do. It is the referee's responsibility to understand the characteristics of the players on both sides.

After a sincere warning, the game continued, but everyone knew that there would be no calm after this game, because the emotions of both sides had already boiled up.

*****

Last season, Arsenal didn't have many ways to break through intensive defense, but this season is different. With the addition of Adebayor, Arsenal finally has a battering ram that can break open their opponents.

Fabregas lobs the ball into the penalty area. Logically speaking, Hamburg is not afraid of it. Kompany is an aerial dominance player, but Adebayor can still have aerial advantage even if he faces Kompany. This is

Very scary.

When Adebayor headed the ball over and over again, coach Dole couldn't sit still. It seemed that he had studied too little about Arsenal's Adebayor.

It's no wonder that Adebayor is not well-known at this time. He is a rookie in football and spent last season in the French league.

But this is what Wenger is best at doing at Arsenal, which is to dig out obscure players. Think about Fabregas, Henry, Van Persie and others. Wenger introduced them at a low price and then became superstars.

With Adebayor as a fulcrum, Arsenal can hold the ball in the opponent's penalty area, and Henry can use the second point to make a lot of fuss.

Therefore, Hamburg's intensive defense cannot deny the ball thousands of miles away, and the ball can still often fly around above Hamburg's penalty area.

And when the ball cannot stay away from the penalty area, it is very dangerous, because theoretically the ball can be lost at any time.

*****

Another corner kick.

This was Arsenal's fifth corner kick in the first half, and the opponent's statistics were zero.

However, in these five corner kicks, Rosicky always found the center of the penalty area, and there was no change. The first point was also hit by Hamburg players.

Arsenal made a substitution this time, with Fabregas taking the corner kick. Hamburg was also worried that the opponent's corner kick would change.

Sure enough, this time Xiaofa opened a back point, and the back point is usually occupied by smaller players, and Li Qiao was at the back point.

But the distance the ball traveled was too long. As a result, it was impossible to header the ball from the back point. Li Qiao lightly stepped forward and headed toward the center of the penalty area.

Adebayor, Toure, and Gallas were all trying to grab points. This was the task of the big man, but Hamburg goalkeeper Kirstein had very good control over the high points in the penalty area. He attacked and stretched out his hands to pick up the ball.

arrive.

I originally expected the opponent to make mistakes, but the German goalkeeper is not at the level of Asia. This kind of basic skills is very solid and there is no problem at all. But what no one expected was that Kirschstein's next move was seized by Arsenal.

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