football world number one

Chapter 1986
"CCTV, CCTV..."

When the classic opening remark sounded, the two teams had already gone through the whole process from the end of the warm-up to the admission. The captains of both sides, Liu Feng and Hangeland, had already stood in front of the referee.

"Oh~, Hangeland won the captain's finger-guessing session, and he chose the kick-off for the team."

After Liu Jianhong finished his long speech, Zhan Jun quickly explained the situation on the court: "The ball was placed on the serving point, and Berbatov and Sidwell stood in front of the ball."

Today's Berbatov is no longer the magic of Manchester United, and the years make people old. After all, Ferguson, who used him so much in the past, has already announced his retirement.

However, for Fulham, which needs relegation, he is still the best choice for the team's striker. This forward still maintains a good scoring rate and can bring a lot of changes to the team's offense.

On the court, the players of both sides have quickly settled into their respective positions, but the morale states of the two players looking at each other across the midfield are completely different.

"Shhhhhh!!!"

The whistle sounded at the next moment, and the game officially started.

"Berbatov launched the ball, and Fulham began to control the ball in their own half. In this game, they did not dare to rely on big players and directly set up a 451 formation."

Berbatov's single arrow is in front, behind him are five midfielders, Sidwell and Parker are two players on the wing, and the central trio is Dempsey, Duff and Tarabut.

In terms of the four-back arrangement, Fulham coach Brad also chose the absolute main force of the team this season. Reed and Riise are two full-backs, one left and one right.

Thanks to Zhan Jun being a well-known Premier League expert for such a start, he introduced these players to the players one by one, and kept revealing their past achievements and the teams they played for.

But in the final analysis, apart from Berbatov, the Fulham team really has no star flavor at all. All the players are regular users of the relegation team, and everything is to stay in the top league.

After the start of the game, Fulham's performance was also pragmatic and terrible. After they passed the ball to their own half, they really didn't mean to attack at all.

The Arsenal players dealt with it cautiously online for a while, and then found that the opponent really had no intention of attacking at all, so they put forward 433, which was not intended to play a defensive tactic, and they pushed forward without hesitation.

"Liu Feng led Chamberlain and Walcott to fight through the half-time together. The three of them pressed very fiercely and successfully disrupted Fulham's possession of the ball."

Facing three forwards who were all too fast, the Fulham midfielder, who was not specialized in ball control, quickly couldn't stand it anymore. After the opening 5 minutes, they had to give the ball to the wing and start to move forward.

After all, after advancing past halftime, their delivery range will be wider.

"Sidwell had the ball on the left and he didn't go forward very fast and that allowed Granero to come up to him very quickly and they were in contact."

Granero, who has always been a little thin, has found a target to bully this time. I don't know if it is because of nervousness or because he is really out of shape. Sidwell's stuttering with the ball quickly gave Granero a chance.

"Steal the ball! Look at the timing and kick the ball over, and Granero has the ball."

The ball changed hands, and Arsenal's offense began. Granero gave the ball directly before Sidwell, who had lost the ball, grabbed it back.

He did not choose a long pass, because although Fulham began to widen the forward possession range through the wing, their overall defensive formation was not aggressive at all.

This also means that the Gunners must pass the attack continuously to be able to break the opponent's super bus.

This proved to be a very difficult thing to do.

From the time the ball came to Rosicky's feet, the Gunners' possession time began.

They kept the possession rate at a ridiculous nine to one in the next three and 10 minutes. It can be said that after the start of the game, all Fulham did was passively beaten.

It stands to reason that with such a possession rate, the Gunners have taken the absolute initiative and should have scored a goal.

Unfortunately, the actual situation is that Fulham has achieved the operation of letting you pass the range of the threat area, and whoever enters the threat area dies.

After several times the Gunners' attacks entered the opponent's midfield, they were blocked extremely tragically. Yes, it was tragic, because when the game came to 10 minutes, Fulham had already received four yellow cards.

Among them, two yellow cards were received by the visiting team for bad fouls against Liu Feng. The fans clearly saw Liu Feng's body from clean to black through the camera.

In the end, the Arsenal team was even a bit wary. Although they played in a 433 formation, they also started to play the game conservatively.

Everyone knows it's a close matchup, so it's really not worth getting hurt in such a matchup.

So, when the time continued to go, when it came to 45 minutes and the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, people were surprised that Fulham had completed the achievement of not conceding a goal at the Emirates Stadium.

"Arsenal's offense was severely restricted by Fulham's bus, and this game was cut to pieces by the visiting team's foul tactics."

Except for the Fulham players and fans, no one was happy. Whether it was the fans in front of the TV or the Gunners fans who were booing in the stands, they were all mentally broken by this outrageous game scene.

The emotions of Liu Jianhong and Zhan Jun were also similar to everyone else's. At the beginning, the two were enthusiastically explaining the confrontation between the two sides, but after finding out that as soon as the Gunner's attack started to directly threaten, Fulham would call a stop with a foul, and they gradually became speechless.

"They have already received four yellow cards. It is absolutely impossible to continue this style of play in the second half. Otherwise, there will still be a shortage of players, and their bus tactics will collapse directly."

When the intermission came, Liu Jianhong could only use this ending to comfort the fans, but this was also what he said in his heart: "In the second half of the game, Arsenal will definitely find more ways to break the game. Let us look forward to the subsequent games."

0-0 at halftime, Arsenal, exhausted by opponents' fouls, and Fulham, exhausted by various fouls, both returned to the dressing room. The coaches of both sides had different expressions and obviously had their own thoughts in their hearts.

The fans in the stands and the fans in front of the TV all took a short break and used their own ways to play this not long intermission.

　Chapter 2 here!Thank you for your great support! ! !

　　
　
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