Football: The king of midfield, Guardiola is crying with envy

Chapter 235

In the Emirates Stadium, Manchester City fans who traveled with the team were instantly excited!

Countless Blue Moon fans jumped up from their seats and hugged each other tightly!

After screaming and cheering, Manchester City fans sang their cheering songs.

"Blue Moon, you know what I am here for~"

"You here me say prayer~"

"You will win everything~"

[Blue Moon, you know what I am here for. ]

[You heard my prayer. ]

[You will win everything! ]

The cheering songs of Manchester City fans obviously caused dissatisfaction among the home team Arsenal fans, and the fans of the two teams began to shout louder and louder.

Chen Chen, who helped the team get off to a good start, celebrated with every teammate he met. This assist that broke through the opponent's defense made him feel very satisfied!

Of course, this will not be his limit!

Soon, the players of both sides returned to the center circle and the game continued.

It was painful to lose the ball, but it was the right thing to continue to face the game seriously.

Under Arteta's emphasis, the Gunners on the field threw away the regret and anxiety of losing the ball. They began to adjust their mentality and take every attack seriously.

The 9th minute of the game.

Arsenal's offensive opportunity.

Martinelli took the ball and went straight to Lacazette in front, but was shoveled back by Rodri first.

The ball was still at Arsenal's feet.

Xhaka got the ball.

However, De Bruyne was defending in front of him, so the Swiss turned a corner and passed the ball to Tierney who came forward on the left road.

Tierney suddenly kicked the ball after getting the ball!

The ball came from Arsenal's left to the right. They were going to play a gap where Manchester City's defense was not in place after the wing transfer!

Before the ball went out of bounds, Saka on the right got the ball.

Seeing Ake rushing up, Saka hurriedly dribbled the ball inside, and then swung his left leg to hit a world wave!

"Bang!"

The power of this shot was very strong!

The football flew past Laporte's arm, and Ederson in front of the goal immediately kicked out to make a save.

Under the gaze of all the fans, Ederson made a great save!

"Saka! No ink."

"He kicked directly after cutting inside!"

"Dou has great power!"

"Huh! Ederson!"

"Ederson reacted very quickly, he saved Saka's shot and it was bound to score!"

In the commentary booth on the Arsenal rostrum, Zhan Jun exclaimed!

Zhang Lu said with a smile, "One hit beautifully, the other saved beautifully, today's game is very interesting!"

"Arsenal got a corner kick, let's see how they are going to play."

Saka, who missed a great opportunity, put his hands on his hips and looked up at the sky, then sighed.

The England international felt very sorry about this.

Saka's performance at Arsenal last season was average. He started 30 times in the league and only scored 5 goals.

His performance this season is not bad. Saka has already scored 8 goals and 5 assists in just half of the Premier League.

Of course, this is also related to the Englishman getting more playing opportunities.

Nicolas Pepe, the 80 million man, has performed very poorly this season. Arteta bought him to compete with Lacazette, Aubameyang and Saka.

What's the result?

Without the influence of injuries, the Ivorian has only made 11 league appearances, 3 starts and one goal so far this season.

People can't be compared.

In this comparison, Saka is pretty good.

Therefore, Saka got more playing time, and Pepe, who can play as a center forward and right winger, was directly put on the bench.

Odegaard took the corner kick.

The Norwegian directly looked for Gabriel, who is 190cm tall.

He did find it, but Gabriel headed it in the wrong direction, and the ball slid directly out of the baseline.

16th minute.

Saka wanted to play a wall match with Odegaard, but failed to get through.

Ake grabbed the ball, and then the Dutch defender ran forward with the ball, and Manchester City turned defense into offense!

But the next second, Ake couldn't run.

It turned out that Saka held him back, and Ake couldn't run at all.

The Dutch international spread his hands to the referee with a helpless look on his face.

Atkinson blew the whistle immediately.

Saka wanted to communicate with Atkinson, but Atkinson didn't want to listen to his explanation at all.

Saka got a yellow gem card.

Arteta frowned on the sidelines.

It's not a rational thing to get a yellow card so early.

Time passed by little by little.

Saka, who received a yellow card, was a little quiet in the past few minutes, but Lacazette was very active.

The former French international began to retreat frequently to support and organize.

Interestingly, when Lacazette came back, Odegaard would rush to the center position to occupy a point.

When the time on the big screen came to the 23rd minute, Lacazette retreated to the defensive midfielder position and got the ball.

Then he sent the ball to Xhaka's feet on the left.

After Xhaka got the ball, he wanted to carry it forward, but the space he could carry was very small because De Bruyne was in front of him.

Xhaka, who couldn't move forward, chose to knock it horizontally to the right, and the ball came to Partey's feet.

After Partey got the ball, he went straight to Saka in front!

"Bang!"

Rodri ran over and double-teamed with Ake, and Saka couldn't get the ball at all.

Soon, Rodri took the ball out, and the Blue Moon players once again switched from defense to offense!

Chen Chen motioned Sterling to the baseline while he cut in diagonally.

Rodri didn't hesitate and directly picked the ball to Sterling.

However, the height of the ball was not good and was blocked by Partey.

The attack and defense transition was too fast. Now it was Arsenal's turn to attack again!

Partey passed the ball to Odegaard who turned back to defend. The Norwegian turned around and sent the ball to Xhaka who was in the front position.

Seeing De Bruyne approaching again and Mahrez also retreating to double-team, Xhaka quickly passed the ball, which was like a hot potato.

Martinelli on the left received the ball.

After Martinelli received the ball, Lacazette, Odegaard in the middle and Saka at the far end were desperately squeezing into the Manchester City penalty area!

Martinelli had a good choice to kick the ball into the penalty area!

"Bang!"

Every second counts!

Kick and pass!

Martinelli quickly sent the ball into the penalty area!

Seeing the football flying over, Ederson had no time to choose to attack, he quickly bent down and prepared to save!

Lacazette did not completely control the ball under the influence of Ruben Dias, he could only use his head to cushion the ball to the back point.

But this was enough!

Because Saka at the back point had already spotted the opportunity.

He was trying his best to jump up and prepare to connect the header!