With the referee's whistle, the battle between Liverpool and Arsenal in Anfield officially began!
Liverpool kicked off first. When the football rolled to Gerard's feet, he immediately passed the ball back to Alonso behind him.
The guest center forward, Arshavin, came forward to harass the ball. Alonso looked at the situation in the front field. He could not find a good route to pass the ball directly, so he passed the ball to the left side. Aurelio, who came forward to receive, kicked the ball directly to the front.
Qin Xiong stopped the ball in the middle of the flank. He turned around and prepared to pass the ball forward. Nasri appeared in front of him. He looked to the right and saw Gerard in the middle. His right leg also made a pass motion. Nasri immediately stretched out his leg to intercept, wanting to cut off Qin Xiong's obvious pass.
The French starlet may be impulsive and unstoppable, but after all, he had little top-level experience. As he stretched out his leg, even the commentator, Andy Gray, could not help but shake his head and say, "Nasri is too impulsive. In front of Qin Xiong, he is as immature as a child."
Sure enough, Qin Xiong's right leg, which was pretending to pass the ball to Gerard, did not pass the ball out. Instead, it was clipped to the left. After Nasri pounced, Qin Xiong dribbled the ball from the outside and easily broke through Nasri!
After accelerating with the dribbling, Qin Xiong rushed forward with the ball, causing Anfield to shake with cheers.
He rushed in the direction of Arsenal's penalty area with an obvious murderous aura, and there were faint boos coming from the visiting fans' stands!
A small number of Arsenal fans still could not forgive Qin Xiong's departure, but most Arsenal fans felt a dull pain in their hearts.
Sagna and Song immediately came to the front of the penalty area to form a blockade to block Qin Xiong's advance. Qin Xiong was also observing the situation in the middle when he dribbled the ball to kill. There was a big gap in front of the penalty area!
Denilson seemed to be all-around, but in fact, he was not a competent defensive midfielder. He did not help much in the offense. When Qin Xiong rushed over with speed, he naturally could not withstand Gerard's charge alone.
Qin Xiong inserted the ball diagonally in front of the penalty area in front of Song. Gerard shook off Denilson and directly used his foot to push a half-high ball, trying to send the ball into the far corner of Arsenal's goal.
When Almunia was powerless to reverse the situation, the Gunners fans finally felt relieved when they saw the football slide out of the goal and fly out of the end line.
"Liverpool almost knocked open Arsenal's goal at the start of the game. Gerard's shot was just a hair's breadth away!"
Arsène Wenger, who was by the side of the pitch, was also a little anxious. He was most worried that Qin Xiong would turn Arsenal's defensive line upside down. Now, it seemed that Qin Xiong had not actually used his full strength yet!
Arsenal's side first stabilized the team under the organization of Fàbregas and got his teammates into the game.
Although he started as an attacking midfielder, his range of activity was mostly in the midfield, passing the ball back and forth with his teammates to avoid frequently transferring the ball to Liverpool to allow the opponent to launch an attack. That would lead to Arsenal's disarray under the pressure of Liverpool's offensive.
Fàbregas was more mature than Qin Xiong when he left. In the sixth minute of the game, he suddenly sent out a threatening pass in the midfield.
The football rolled to the left side and the road was given to Walcott.
The young tiger broke through Alonso's defense with his speed advantage in the inside cut, but his dribbling breakthrough technique still needed to be improved. In the end, he crashed into Carragher and the ball was intercepted!
Although Arshavin was nominally the center forward, his range of activity was large. It could be said that Arsenal played an edgeless formation today.
After Carragher intercepted the ball under Walcott's foot, Arshavin quickly dribbled the ball from the side, and then raised his left foot to shoot from the left side in front of the penalty area.
The football flew out of the end line!
It looked like the shot was forced.
Liverpool's overflowing arrogance would not give their opponents too much time to get into the zone.
After gaining possession of the ball, they would immediately organize a fierce offensive.
In the 11th minute of the game, Kuyt received Mascherano's pass on the right side of the front field and dribbled forward to advance to the offensive. When he stepped into the danger zone, he observed that Traore's defense was very stable and his positioning was reasonable. He did not rush to intercept, and he did not have the space to cut forward. That would make the offensive opportunity worse.
Therefore, he diagonally passed the ball back. Gerard in the middle was already sandwiched by Denilson, Fàbregas, and Song Santou. Obviously, a cross pass to the middle was not a good choice.
Alonso, who followed up from behind, did not stop the ball. He sent the ball to Qin Xiong's side with a diagonal pass.
Qin Xiong was the first to rush to the football under Sagna's marking. It looked like he took the initiative to receive the ball, and Sagna followed him like a shadow.
But when the football and Qin Xiong were about to collide, Qin Xiong stopped in place and slipped the ball under his feet, and then turned back to run in the opposite direction!
Sagna expected Qin Xiong to stop the ball, but he never thought that Qin Xiong would take the initiative to let the ball roll over. When he saw the football rolling past his feet, it was already too late. He was very calm and immediately stopped and turned to chase Qin Xiong!
If he wanted to destroy the football again, he was bound to make a mistake and be cleanly bypassed by Qin Xiong.
When he turned to chase Qin Xiong, Qin Xiong, who was running on the outside, still did not pull away from him. Sagna's agility was still good.
Even so, Qin Xiong's next move made Sagna completely raise his hands in surrender!
His left foot kicked the ball back from the outside, and at the same time, he turned and cut into the middle!
The football rolled behind Sagna, and he could not keep up with Qin Xiong's rhythm no matter how hard he tried to stop.
Subconsciously, he lifted his leg to block, but Qin Xiong was already prepared. His left leg knocked the ball away, and his move of changing direction to break through behind him was already at the peak of perfection. He was also very familiar with what kind of reaction his opponent would have.
He had a dodging action, and then he caught up with the football that he knocked to the left in front of the penalty area.
At this time, Song was two meters away from Qin Xiong. He was running wildly. Perhaps he had already made up his mind to foul outside the penalty area, even if the foul spot was dangerous!
He could not let Qin Xiong do whatever he wanted in the dangerous area that Arsenal was defending!
But Qin Xiong did not give him any chance at all.
At the left in front of the penalty area, Qin Xiong did not make any adjustments. He directly used the instep of his foot to blast out a falling ball!
The football flew over the top of Gallas' head and drew a parabola. The football was like thunder and immediately began to fall when it entered the small penalty area!
The goalkeeper, Almunia, hurriedly ran in the direction of the right post of the goal when he reacted. He had just run halfway when he pounced out and tried to block the ball with one palm!
But his palm was more than a meter away from the football, and it was beyond his reach!
He turned his head to look and prayed that Qin Xiong's ball would slide out of the goal.
But the trajectory of the football, which had both the speed and the beauty of the parabola, finally cut through the Arsenal's goal!
It shockingly flew into the top right corner of the goal, a dead corner!
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