Chapter 140 Sesk! Very good!

Gala got up and rushed to the referee and argued loudly. Of course, he knew how dangerous it was to give Fiorentina a free kick in this position.

The guy Degan has always kicked a free kick as a penalty. Someone once made a statistic that the probability of Degan's free kick is as high as 90%. He is a person with excellent psychological quality and excellent shooting skills. I'm afraid that the hit rate of kicking a penalty can't reach this number.

Other Arsenal players also gathered up and made noise. Maybe they can't change anything, but this practice of procrastinating time is likely to cause some psychological disturbance to Degan.

The referee was not moved at all, but kept waving to let Arsenal's players leave. Just now, when Gala fouled, he stood behind and saw clearly. Now Arsenal's players are still protesting, which is simply insulting his IQ.

And Gala's foul position is on the penalty area line. Even if he awarded a penalty kick, there is no problem. He only gave Fiorentina a free kick, which is already an outlaw.

Seeing that the Arsenal players were so endless, the referee was also a little angry. He directly took out the yellow card and shook it in front of Flamini, who was the most noisy, and then did not forget to give the perpetrator Gallas a yellow God of War card.

The Arsenal players finally stopped. From the beginning, Degan set the ball early and waited for the referee's whistle.

In this position, Digan was very confident to score a goal, but the process of the free throw was very speechless.

Arsenal players will not row the wall honestly. Often as soon as the referee turns around, they move forward a little bit. They can't wait to step on the football and let Degan be punished.

The referee could only come back and let Arsenal's players retreat, but as soon as he turned around, the other party repeated his skills and repeated several times. The referee was also annoyed. He found an obvious target Adebayo and directly gave him a yellow card, so that the Arsenal players were honest.

A whistle!

Digan did not run at all. Almost at the same time as the whistle sounded, he waved his legs in place and kicked the ball out. Arsenal's wall had no reaction at all, and he didn't even have time to jump. He felt that the football flew over their heads. By the time they turned around, the football was already in the goal.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! The ball is scored! The ball is scored! Degan scored a very imaginative goal, impeccable, completely impeccable, and Amunia didn't even react.

After scoring the goal, Digan did not look very excited. He stood still, opened his arms and received cheers from the Florentine fans around the stands.

Prandelli on the sidelines also looked very excited. He turned around and hugged the assistant coach, waving his arms and shouting excitedly at the stands behind him.

When Degan's free kick broke through the Arsenal net, Prandelli really felt that he was very close to the Champions League final.

He took a coaching position from the Atlanta youth team, accumulated in Verona, and became amazing in Parma. Now in Florence, he finally waited for the harvest.

"Cesare! We won! We are sure to win! Arsenal is not our opponent either!" Antonelli shouted excitedly in Prandelli's ear.

Prandelli also can't continue to suppress his inner excitement. Since the death of his wife, he has not been so happy for a long time, but when he saw the score shown on the electronic scoreboard, he forced himself to calm down.

"No! No way! Now is not the time to celebrate the victory. The lead of a ball is not good. We need to continue to attack and strive for goals!"

Look at the time, the first half was almost over. Soon after the game restarted, with Adebayor's shot as he missed the goal, the referee blew the whistle at the end of the half.

In Florence's dressing room, Prandelli stood in the center: "Rod!"

Digan heard Prandelli's voice and stood up: "Coach! What are the instructions!"

Prandelli glanced over each player's face and said, "Boys! Now is not the time to celebrate the victory. We are just one goal ahead. For two rounds of the game, one ball is not safe. In the second half of the game, we must continue to strive for goals! Rod! This is your responsibility!"

Degan is also very clear that if the game only ends with a score of 2:1, Fiorentina will get an away goal and go to the Emirates Stadium in the next round. At that time, Arsenal only needs one goal to eliminate them.

Degan will not put himself in such a threatening situation, so solving all the troubles in one game naturally becomes his first choice.

"Coach! You don't have to say this kind of thing. I think we all have the same idea as you. We don't have the habit of leaving trouble for the next scene!"

After Digan finished speaking, he turned to look at his teammates: "Guys! Before the start of the game, Arsenal's head coach Mr. Wenger said that he had defeated the two waste teams in Milan, so Arsenal had a natural advantage against any other Serie A team. Listen, as if he had conquered Italy.

"We can kick those Londoners' asses!" Compani echoed with a strange smile.

"That's right!" Degan laughed and said, " Vincent is right. Those who can conquer Italian football will never be their Londoners, but only our Florence. So in order to correct Mr. Wenger's wrong reasoning, I think we should do something to help him, so I decided that in these two rounds, I We want to solve it cleanly and neatly in a game! Do you have any questions?"

"Of course not, let the Londoners struggle to go home!"

"Kle them, let's go to Moscow!"

"That's right! It's us who are going to Moscow, and the Londoners can only cry under our feet!"

The locker room in Florence is very lively, and the locker room of the visiting team on the other side is a little depressing.

For the first half of the game, Wenger was basically half satisfied and the other half was not satisfied. In fact, the team performed very well in the first half, completely following his strategic intentions and played with Fiorentina for 45 minutes and scored a goal.

However, this excellent performance could not continue. Two minor oversights resulted in two goals.

Wenger doesn't want to criticize anyone about this. To put it bluntly, he has a greater responsibility. Now this Arsenal is too young after sending away many meritorious players. Youth means lack of experience, and lack of experience means instability.

This is like a spear and a shield. Wenger hopes that this young team can maintain vitality and momentum, but inevitably, some shortcomings will be exposed.

"Children! You don't have to be frustrated. We haven't lost the opportunity to compete yet. It's just a gap, and we also have the advantage of scoring away goals.

Wenger's words brightened the players' eyes a little. It seemed that Wenger was right. It was not unacceptable to maintain this score until the end of the game. They had an away goal. After returning to the Emirates Stadium, they only needed one goal to send Fiorentina back to their hometown, and they would play Take a flight to Russia.

Wenger hesitated for a moment and made up his mind: "We have to focus on defense in the second half, Sesk! If there is a chance, it's up to you to decide whether to fight back or not!"

Fabregas was stunned. He didn't expect Wenger to give him this task at all. He couldn't help but be moved and nodded vigorously.

Wenger continued: "What I ask you to do now is to calm down, recall what mistakes you made in the game just now, and then try to avoid those mistakes from happening again in the second half."

That's all Wenger can emphasize now. He is not a conservative head coach, but no matter how crazy he is, he can't help being timid.

After the start of the second half of the game, the Fiorentina players immediately felt that their opponents were different. Eduardo, the goal scorer, was replaced by the young player Walcourt, and Adebayo withdrew from his position. He was often seen returning to the midfield to participate in defense.

Seeing this, Prandelli immediately guessed Wenger's plan. Do you want to defend?

"Rod!"

Prandelli shouted and saw that Degan looked towards him and immediately waved in the direction of Arsenal's goal.

Attack!

Since the opponent wants to defend, Florence has only one way to attack.

The situation on the court seems to have become one-sided. Although Arsenal is still playing steadily, their defenses are constantly compressed in the face of Florence's rapid advance.

There are many defenders. Although Fiorentina is not easy to tear their mouths, they have more opportunities for long-range shots outside the penalty area, which is exactly in Florence's bosom. Almost everyone in Florence's midfield players has a long shot. Since the guests from London are so polite, they have to accept it.

For a while, Florence seemed to set up a gun pack outside Arsenal's penalty area, and bullets kept bombarding Arsenal's goal one by one. Amunia became the busiest person on the court, constantly picking up high and low blocks to relieve idleness again and again.

Arsenal's assistant coach Patres walked to Wenger: "Arthur! If we fight like this, we are really too passive. I think we should invest more troops in the middle and front court!"

Although Patles said gently, he openly questioned Wenger's arrangement at halftime, but even if Wenger is dissatisfied with the respected old coach, he can't ignore his opinions.

Compared with Wenger, an outsider, Patres is Arsenal's own person. The assistant coach, who is one year older than Wenger, has never weakened his enthusiasm for Arsenal for more than 40 years. This Northern Irishman always energetically leads the team to the field.

In 1964, 15-year-old Patles came to Arsenal and played 528 games as a right-back, undoubtedly becoming one of the greatest defenders in the club's history.

Patles has participated in five FA Cup finals and one Winners' Cup final. Les has personally experienced three double season in Arsenal's history.

Wenger also trusts Patres very much. In 1996, when Wenger first came to Arsenal, Patres became his assistant. For so many years, the cooperation between the two has been very harmonious.

Wenger is also a little dissatisfied with the current situation on the court. The second half has lasted 15 minutes, and basically Fiorentina is playing under Arsenal.

Arsenal only had two chances to counterattack. Once Fabregas lost the ball directly, and once Fabregas passed the ball to Walkot, but it was a little late, but it was interrupted by Florence halfway.

Taking advantage of a dead ball, Wenger called Fabregas to his side: "Sesk! You are the core of the team. If there is a chance, you should pass the ball more decisively and take advantage of Walkot's speed, understand?

Fabregas also knew that the opportunities for the two counterattacks just now were all wasted by him, but he preferred to become the hero of the team than sending shells to his teammates, but in the face of Wenger's stern eyes, he finally nodded.

The game continues, and Arsenal are still suffering from the indiscriminate bombing of Florence, and occasionally there is a chance to counterattack. Fabregas's pass is in place. Unfortunately, Arsenal's troops on the offensive end are so limited that they can't pose too much threat to Fiorentina.

20 minutes have passed, and Wenger's mentality is slowly changing. As long as he persists for another 25 minutes, everything will be over.

I have to say that Wenger is indeed one of the best coaches in world football, but he also has his own shortcomings and is a little conservative in major games.

In the match between Arsenal and Barcelona in his previous life, when Lemann was sent off at the beginning, Wenger chose to make a desperate decision, but when he took the lead, Wenger chose to be conservative and was reversed by Barcelona.

After that game, many people said that if Wenger could be more decisive and harder at that time, maybe Arsenal would win the cup in the end.

The same is true now. Just now, he was still worried about whether he should try to let the players attack, but as the game passed minute by minute, he finally chose to defend and dragged the game to the end.

Of course, Fiorentina will not do what he wants. Although it has been attacking for more than 20 minutes, the Fiorentina players have no intention of stopping at all.

They are young, they are infinitely energetic, and they do not hesitate to exert their physical strength. This is the advantage of the Florence Youth Guard. Although their opponents today are equally young, they are more resolute than their opponents.

Florence's stormy attack made Arsenal's goal stormy. Patres persuaded several times, and Wenger resisted it. He has now made up his mind to defend for that precious away goal.

"Arthur! I bet you will regret it!" Patres is a little depressed about Wenger's stubbornness.

But in Wenger's eyes, although Fiorentina is now attacking fiercely, there is actually no good way. Most of the time, it can only threaten Arsenal's goal through long-range shots.

But just a minute after Patres persuaded Wenger for the last time, Fiorentina scored.

is also a long shot from outside the penalty area. Although Arsenal players have been vigilant against Degan, they have caught a small gap, and Degan swings his legs and shoots directly.

Amunia was facing a great enemy. His reaction was very fast and accurately judged the line of Degan's shot, but he underestimated the power.

Seeing that the football was coming fiercely, Amunia, who originally planned to catch the ball, changed to hit the ball with his fist, but when the football flew in front of him, a small sideline suddenly occurred, which shocked Almunia and hurriedly slapped the football with one palm.

Mutu, nicknamed Viper, has been waiting for such an opportunity. Almost at the same time as Degan's shot, he threw away the Toure defending him and rushed into the penalty area. The football blocked by Amunia fell right in front of him. What Mutu needed to do was to gently block the ball.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!"

After scoring the goal, Mutu got up with his hands and feet and rushed to the sidelines, waving his arms excitedly and roaring loudly. The fans responded to him with bursts of cheers.

"Mutu! It's Mutu! Mutu's make-up shot helped Fiorentina expand its lead to two goals. There are less than 20 minutes left in the game. Fiorentina has put the victory in its own pocket. Arsenal is over, Arsenal is over!"

The Italian commentator shouted excitedly, while the commentator from the British ESPN was annoyed.

"Coach Wenger chose to be conservative at the least conservative time to let Fiorentina attack unbridled. I have to say that defense is not a characteristic of Arsenal. Even if they can build an iron wall in front of the penalty area, how long can they last in the face of the bombardment of Florence!"

Seeing the goal, Prandelli also jumped up and celebrated crazily with his coaching staff. Wenger on the other side was stunned and looked back at Parthens. The old man lowered his head and looked depressed.

Wenger sighed and realized that his decision was wrong.

So what should we do next?

After the counterattack, Arsenal has no other way out. The gap between the two goals, what can Arsenal do if they have an away goal?

Attack!

The Arsenal players who received the order immediately took action, and they were not willing to accept a failure.

After the game restarted, Arsenal regained their best way of playing one by one!

Florence did not adopt conservative tactics because of the two-goal lead. Although the attack is not as fierce as before, once there is an opportunity, Fiorentina is also very determined to invest troops.

The two sides fought a battle on the field. This is the best news for neutral fans. They don't care who says the final winner. They only care about whether the game is good or not.

As time goes by, there is not much time left for Arsenal.

Wenger made a substitution adjustment again, replacing Flamini and Gilberto, the team's veteran. Silva, but such a substitution seems to be a little futile.

I want to score a goal, but I'm worried about continuing to lose the ball.

After all, Arsenal hasn't yet to gamble, and they still have a game and a chance.

Now the burden of attack fell completely on Fabregas alone, and Fabregas, who let go of his hands and feet, really fought. Finally, when the game reached the 85th minute, his long-awaited opportunity appeared.

Florence's counterattack, but Ledesma made an unwarrant pass mistake. Rosiki broke the ball first. When Hleb saw this, he immediately pulled it to the left side. Rossiki passed the ball and hit directly behind Marjo. Because Florence just pressed the attack, at this time, Hleb's side Unexpectedly, there was no Fiorentina defender, which made him take it easy to cut inside. When the Fiorentina defender jumped on it, there was a large gap around him, which was picked by Hleb and torn open the mouth.

"Sesk! Sesk!"

The English commentator roared excitedly. On Hleb's passing line, Fabregas suddenly appeared, and Walkot was ready to respond at the far end.

But at this time, Compani had already killed him, and Fabregas had no time to hesitate and pushed and shot directly from the far corner of the goal.

Although Frey tried his best to save, the shot was so close that he didn't have time to react at all.

The football rolled over with Frey's fingertips. Florence's back seat wanted to relieve the siege, but was blocked by Walkot. The two of them were entangled and fell to the ground.

Seeing that the football was about to roll into the goal, but at this time, an accident happened. The football seemed to have encountered something and suddenly changed its trajectory slightly. Then under the desperate gaze of Fabregas and Wenger, they wiped the beam and rolled out of the bottom line.

Everyone was stunned. Obviously, it was a must-goal goal, but such a thing happened. At the most critical time, the Flagy Stadium helped Florence.

missed the best opportunity. In the next game, the two sides seemed to have exhausted their last strength. After a minute of make-up time, the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game.

3:1!

Florence won a victory at home.

Fabregas walked to the sidelines with a gloomy face. He didn't even dare to see Wenger's expression. In his opinion, it was his responsibility as the captain to play the game as it is now.

"Sesk! Raise your head!"

Fabregas was stunned and turned to look at Wenger. Wenger actually smiled.

"You did a good job!"

Fabregas's face was hesitant, and his eyes seemed to ask: Really?