Jagged Wings

Chapter 150 The "Calm" Gunner
"Arsenal are a very good attacking team but not good defensively. We can't hold out at the back and if you don't put more pressure on them, they will do whatever they want outside our box! Delsburg!"

In the pre-match locker room, Hamburg coach Dordau, although Del News interviewed him before the game and kept saying that "as long as the score is not too big, it will be fine", but in private, no one wants to surrender, let alone this is such an important Champions League!

Dole believes that the reason why Middlesbrough was in a state of embarrassment throughout the game was because they were too conservative and gave Arsenal too many opportunities to move around and cooperate backwards, so that Arsenal seized the opportunity to completely reverse the situation. After that, the progress of the game was always in the hands of Arsenal.

And what he wants to try his best to avoid is that this kind of thing happens, so he will never give Arsenal the opportunity to show possession of the ball. He will put huge pressure on the opponent as soon as he comes up, and use offensive and non-stop attacks to oppress Arsenal. , could only be exhausted in defense, and finally made a mistake in his busy schedule and completely collapsed!

"So we have to attack and dare to press out and fight against them!"

Just as Dole said those words, Wenger said similar things in front of his players.

"Our specialty is offense. Against a team like Hamburg, defensive counterattacks are useless. We must use offense to oppress them, just like we oppressed Middlesbrough. So attack, don't stop!"

Arsenal has never been a team that only relies on defense and is good at defense. Attack has been integrated into the blood of the Gunners!

When Gilberto and Kompany led their respective teams into the stadium, the fans at the scene let out deafening chants.

Next, the captains of the two sides exchanged team flags and guessed coins.

Arsenal's starting lineup is almost their strongest lineup, except that Adebayor replaced Van Persie at the forward position, and Hleb replaced Ljungberg at the right forward position. Arsenal's other positions are the same as the previous game!
The players on both sides returned to their respective positions, stood still and waited for the kick-off.The temper of the German fans is no less than that of the UK, and some insulting slogans can be seen everywhere in the stands.

"Arsenal, are you breastfeeding?"

"When you lose the game, don't be so scared that you pee your pants!"

"Is there only a bunch of kids left in Arsenal?"

Hamburg fans want to use such slogans to insult the young Arsenal and make them psychologically unbalanced!

There are even German fans greeting the families of Arsenal players with swear words starting with s or f!
Reyes' face was not very good, because he heard the Hamburg fans yelling in Spanish. In this game, only Arsenal has three Spaniards in the lineup, so it must be prepared for them!
Some slogans even mention Reyes' parents. Although Reyes doesn't like his cheap parents very much, it doesn't mean that he tolerates being insulted by others!

But looking at it, Reyes didn't know what he thought of, but there was a smile on his face when he was angry!
"These fans are so fucking cheap, they even scolded us in Spanish!" Torres next to him was also angry, and shook his fist towards the stands!

Reyes tugged at his arm: "Okay, don't worry about it so much. You can't stop them scolding you, even if you score their goals, they will only scold you even more crazy."

"Huh?" Torres touched Reyes' head: "It's not like what you said! If you follow your usual temper, you will be scolded now!"

"Because I suddenly had an idea just now! If you think about it in another place, you may find something different!" Reyes smiled and patted: "You and I tell you, don't take your opponent's insults and attacks as insults, You take them all as compliments."

"Praise? How can this be considered a compliment? Do you think they let you go back to breastfeeding, and you are still happy?" Torres thought Reyes' statement was too strange.

What surprised him even more was that Reyes nodded.

"Of course, you can think of it this way! They scold us, which means they are afraid of us! You see, if we are just a small team, fighting for relegation every season, any team can easily see us. Fix us, will their supporters attack us like this?"

Torres froze for a moment, then shook his head.

"That's right! If we were weaker than them, they wouldn't look at us, let alone scold us so hard to learn Spanish! They scold us, which means they are afraid! Because they know that the Hamburg team is better than You can’t attack us, so you can only scold!” Reyes said, “The more crazily your opponents attack you, the more threatening you are to them. That's how it is in the world! They are afraid of us, shouldn't it be something that should make us happy?"

"Uh, it seems like this..." Torres pinched his chin thoughtfully!
Of course, the players have to maintain their demeanor in the face of such insults, but the fans behind them don't have so many scruples. The Arsenal fans covered the curse with louder singing.

"Come on! Come on! Arsenal club is the best!! Come on! Come on! Arsenal club is the best!!"

Although the number of fans in the away game is very small, compared with the scattered Hamburg fans, they are organized and disciplined as British fans. The voices of these fans have completely overwhelmed the "fighting alone" of the Hamburg fans!
On the field, Arsenal's Torres and Adebayor went to kick-off, and Reyes gestured to Fabregas from the side, telling him to pass the ball to him as soon as the kick-off, and rush from the wing.

Fabregas nodded, indicating that he understood.

The TV broadcast gave some shots of the slogans insulting Arsenal in the stands, and one of them was also given a close-up.It was a slogan written in English and Spanish abusing Reyes: "Go back to your mother's dick! Spanish bastard!"

The camera zoomed out again, and Reyes on the sideline happened to have this slogan above his head, but he was focused, staring straight ahead, and was not moved by those slogans at all.

At the start of the game, Adebayor gave the ball to Torres, and Torres passed it to Fabregas!

Reyes is not the only one who has improved. After the baptism of the World Cup, Cesc Fabregas has matured very quickly. If he used to rely on his vigor to fight, now he can handle the situation on the field more smoothly. , The more he shows everything that a team core has, you must know that he is only 20 years old!

After taking the ball, Fabregas observed the situation, turned around and passed the football back.The ball returned to his feet after three passes from the defenders.At this time, the originally tightly compressed three-line formation of Hamburg has been torn apart. They rushed forward in a swarm, trying to, as coach Dole said, "keep the pressure on Arsenal and prevent them from turning over!"

Seeing this situation, Fabregas passed the football to Reyes on the wing, and he also ran forward.

Reyes and Gilberto made a two-for-one cooperation on the wing and continued to break forward.Just when everyone thought he was going to cross at a 45-degree angle, he suddenly cut inside and dribbled the ball towards the middle!
During the running, Reyes passed the ball to Fabregas who was in the middle. Fabregas made a long shot, but when his foot fell, he sent a very concealed through ball!
Reyes appeared behind the Hamburg defense and received the ball!
Reyes didn't hesitate after receiving the ball, but shot directly with his foot!

Because the swing of the legs is low, the football does not fly very fast, but the angle is very fast and the speed is extremely fast. Before the Hamburg goalkeeper Kierstein could react, the football had already flown past him and crashed into the goal!
"The first goal in the Champions League! This is the first goal in the Champions League this season! Made by Reyes!"

"Goal! Re-yes! Arsenal have made a fantastic start, they scored in their first attack!"

"Reyes goes wide... Gilberto... Fabregas shoots, oh no, a through ball! To... Reyes, goooooooooooal!"

At this time, it was less than 2 minutes before the referee blew the whistle, and even many photographers were still adjusting their camera equipment behind the goal, and saw the football fly into the goal!
The Arsenal fans in the stands immediately cheered. The team didn't let them wait too long, and used their best attack to tear open the opponent's defense.

And the fans in Hamburg still haven't come to their senses-the game has only started 2 minutes, how could their team fall behind?Although the defending champions Arsenal were prepared to lose in their hearts, they were still very unhappy when Arsenal tore through their defense line like paper in the first attack.

After a moment of silence, they began to fight back!

"Go back to breastfeeding! You are a bunch of shameless brats!!"

"Reyes, you Spanish melon, go back to your hometown!"

After the goal, Reyes turned around and ran towards the stands where the Hamburg fans gathered. He put his index finger in front of his lips and made a gesture to tell them to shut up!
This gesture is used internationally, and Hamburg fans definitely understand what it means!
Don't think that I have a good temper!
Bigger boos sounded!Some radical fans even climbed onto the guardrail of the stands, wanting to jump off to "show Reyes some color." The local riot police in Hamburg shoved these desperate fans with shields as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

"Oh... oh!! Beautiful!" On the sidelines, Arsenal assistant coach Patrice couldn't help but marvel when he saw Reyes break into the penalty area and Fabregas passed the football.And when the football actually flew into Hamburg's goal, he stood up from his seat with his arms raised, cheering loudly.

"We're ahead, professor!" he said after cheering, turning to Wenger, who was hugging another assistant coach.

"Yes, the lads did a good job!" Wenger laughed.

"But it's not enough, we have to make persistent efforts!" Wenger did not continue to celebrate, but walked to the sidelines and shouted to the players inside: "Keep attacking! Keep scoring goals!"

The game has just begun, we must continue to suppress the opponent with offense!

Although Reyes' performance was very fierce, he turned around and ran back slowly after the middle finger was raised.The Arsenal teammates were far less excited. Some players who were close to Reyes touched Reyes' head, which was their only expression.

This first ball, they were very calm!Because this is a game that should be won, everything is logical, and you are happy to score a goal?

That middle finger is also a matter between Reyes and the Hamburg fans, and has no half-mark relationship with the Hamburg team!

Seeing the "calm" look of the Arsenal players, the Hamburg players suddenly felt angry-Hamburg is also an old strong team in the Bundesliga. Your attitude is obviously the attitude after scoring against the underdogs, right?Maybe we can't win, but we can also let you know that the goal of Hamburg is not so easy for you to enter!

The Hamburg players were thinking angrily, but they didn't realize that with their mentality, they had already put themselves in the position of "underdogs" for consideration.

After kick-off again, the football was passed three times and two times to the feet of Hamburg defender Kompany. Kompany glanced ahead, and then decisively passed diagonally to the side field!German midfielder Trohovski received the ball. He leaned against Fabregas who was coming up to press him. Suddenly, he made a deft turn around Fabregas' close marking, and then passed it directly to the penalty area. .

Here come the burgers!Not only the two forwards, but also the players on the wing of Hamburg rushed forward to assist!
Côte d'Ivoire striker Sanogo received the ball with his strong body carrying Toure, and then took a shot, but the football was destroyed by Senderos who came to defend and went out of the sideline!

Then the originally aggressive Hamburg players saw that they had lost possession of the ball, and immediately patted their buttocks and withdrew to the backcourt. Hamburg's "fierce" counterattack came to an abrupt end!

The Hamburg players plausibly said: It's a joke, stay in the frontcourt and counterattack Arsenal?

Then Sanogo, who ran to the sideline to throw the sideline ball, turned around and found that no teammate came up to respond. He froze for a moment, threw the ball directly to the Arsenal goalkeeper, and ran back by himself.

There was a burst of unscrupulous ridicule in the Arsenal stands!

"Uh... this situation... It seems that Sanogo is not very popular in the team..." The commentator in Hamburg wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, hesitating to wipe Sanogo's butt.

In the ensuing game, Arsenal had no scruples to suppress Hamburg, and their possession rate reached 73%. The No. 15-minute statistics made Arsenal fans very happy. In these 15 minutes, Hamburg basically didn't get any chances.

In addition to Reyes, Torres also performed very hard. Although he also scored two goals after joining Arsenal, his performance is still far from the highlight performance in the World Cup, so he must work harder!
Torres and Adebayor made a switch, he came to the right, then received a direct pass from Hleb on the right, he didn't go to receive the ball, but ran in the direction of the ball, and then adjusted the direction of his body Well, on the right side of the penalty area, a very sudden and powerful volley!
The football rolled quickly against the turf and towards the back post of the goal!
The Hamburg goalkeeper did not expect that Torres would dare to shoot directly from such a wide and far distance, and the shot was accurate enough.He hurried to the end, and only used his fingers to pull the football out of the bottom line.

This shot won the house, and Torres also used this shot to make a good start for him in this season's Champions League!
"Torres' shot was very threatening! Corner kick! Arsenal won their third corner kick after the start of the game, and Hamburg didn't even have a corner kick. Arsenal had a clear advantage in the scene."

The left is Reyes' world, and this includes all free kicks and corners in the left half, Reyes ran to the corner to take the corner!

Torres, who is over 1.8 meters tall, is naturally the main target of the Hamburg defenders, and he must not be given the slightest chance!

Torres had no choice but to spread his hands to the referee, and then pointed to his jersey that was held by the opponent.When the referee looked over, the Hamburg players had let go of their hands, and their eyes were full of innocence!

While the pretended innocence was still on the faces of the Hamburg players, Reyes suddenly took two steps, and then took a shot!
Before the Hamburg players had time to put their hands on Torres again, they saw the ball flying towards the penalty area with an arc!
And almost at the same time, Torres took a sudden step forward while he kicked the cross, leaning forward and rushing forward!
Go ahead!

All this happened in an instant. Before the Hamburg players had time to make any moves, they still kept turning their heads to look at Reyes. It was the football that flew over instead of Reyes in their eyes. .

The football stayed in their sight for less than a second, "then they saw a thick back appear in front of them, covering half of the sky!

Immediately afterwards, they heard a burst of loud cheers coming from all directions in the stands!

Some people reacted quickly and looked back, only to see that the goalkeeper was still flying in the air, but the football had already hit the net behind him.

Torres still maintained this difficult movement of twisting the waist and shaking the head of the lion, and his body also flew out of the bottom line due to inertia!
"It's a corner kick from Arsenal. Torres motioned for the opponent to grab the jersey,... Reyes made a cross!" The commentator of Sky TV did not expect Arsenal to take a corner kick so quickly, and he didn't have time to finish his words , I had to shout, "Torres! Goal! Goal! Goal!!"

"goooooooooooal!!! Another goal for Arsenal! Torres' lion flick! Beautiful! Really beautiful!"

"2:0! Arsenal extended the score in the 25th minute. The goal came from Torres' lion flick. He and Reyes had a corner kick. The two looked very harmonious! The twin stars from Spain also They are teammates of the Spanish national team, they are very good friends in private, their tacit understanding is enough to make the other couple jealous!"

Arsenal fans in the stands jumped from their seats, arms raised, cheering as they watched the ball slip past the keeper's ten fingers and into the goal.

"Well done, Fernando! Well done!"

On the other side, the Hamburg fans were silent!
The team suffered two consecutive blows within 25 minutes, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

On the court, after scoring the goal, Torres just lay on the ground and raised his arms and shouted excitedly.Then a pair of feet appeared beside him, it was Hleb!Hleb held out his hand to him, grinned and said, "Nice job!"

Torres stretched out his hand and was picked up by Hlebra. Immediately afterwards, his teammates swarmed up, surrounded the two of them, and hugged each other tightly.

"We scored again, hooray!"

"Well done, Fernando!"

"This cooperation is really tacit!"

After so many games, if Torres was still better than Reyes and Cesc Fabregas before, now Torres has finally begun to be accepted by the entire Arsenal!
(End of this chapter)