"Rafael is holding the ball! Facing Maël's press! Passes the ball to Ferdinand beside him!
"Then to Valencia! Kyle Walker is up against him! Stretches his foot to hook the ball! The football is out of bounds! The referee awards Manchester United a throw-in!
"Kyle Walker is a bit dissatisfied, he feels that Valencia kicked the ball out of the sideline, he didn't touch the football at the end, but at this distance, with such intense confrontation, it is indeed difficult for the referee to see clearly."
"…"
Valencia waited a moment and passed the ball to the side-back Rafael, who then took the throw-in.
Maël also followed back at this time, and he and Kyle Walker stabilized the defense on the wing together.
"Bang!"
After passing through the Manchester United midfield, the football quickly returned to their side, and Valencia took the ball again, facing the double-team from the two of them.
"Pa!" Maël suddenly accelerated and chased back, rushing forward and poking the football from under Valencia's feet, then subconsciously stretched out his hand towards the air, indicating that the ball possession belonged to Arsenal.
The football brushed past Valencia's foot at the end, with an obvious change of direction, which was easy to distinguish.
But for some reason, the referee still awarded the ball possession to Manchester United in the first instance.
Maël opened his mouth wide and glanced at the referee, then suddenly turned his head and glared at the linesman who was close to their side.
Unlike Kyle Walker's previous disruption of Valencia's football, this time his disruption was right under the linesman's nose. In theory, the linesman should have seen it and should have quickly prompted the referee.
"Didn't you see it?!" Maël questioned the linesman, his tone not very good. Anyone would be angry after losing their rightful ball possession twice in a row.
At first glance, this may just be a throw-in, but the ball possession always goes to Manchester United, and they need to grab it again... If the opponent sends the ball into their goal through this opportunity, who can he reason with? Can he accept this result? The linesman hesitated, wanting to switch the flag to his left hand and raise it towards Manchester United, but in the end, he awkwardly and deliberately pointed to Arsenal, indicating that the ball went out of bounds on Arsenal's side.
"Ha…"
Maël was laughed at by anger, he didn't say any more sarcastic 'good, good, good' because he had a card, afraid that the other party would take the opportunity to get him off the field.
Everyone can see now that there is a problem with this game. It seems that the Premier League has begun to exert its strength, trying to make trouble at some points to prevent them from dominating the league.
Then come on!
He must control his temper and not leave any handle for these people!
As long as he is still on the field, he is not afraid of these, because the truly beautiful goals must be undisputed. He can defeat Manchester United's twelfth or even thirteenth player through his strong personal ability! Moving towards the epic of 58 consecutive unbeaten games, turning the Premier League upside down! "Bip!"
Manchester United took the throw-in, and Maël strolled towards his position, waiting for an opportunity.
The referee can misjudge the ball possession to Manchester United, and even misjudge corner kicks, misjudge fouls, etc., but he cannot prevent the ball possession from developing to his feet.
Wait… His eyes became sharp, like a cheetah looking for an opportunity to strike when hunting.
"Pa!"
In the 21st minute of the game, Valencia suddenly slipped during a breakthrough against Kyle Walker, accidentally touching the football with his right foot and poking the ball out of Arsenal's baseline.
Even he himself couldn't help but roll his eyes and look up at this moment, making a regretful look.
But the blind referee pointed to the corner flag area of the baseline, indicating that it was a corner kick.
"What the f*ck!"
Kyle Walker put his hands on his head in shock, anger, and laughter, squatted on the ground, bounced up and rushed towards the referee, "Are you blind? You must have some problems, right?! A normal person wouldn't make such a penalty!"
"EiEi!!" The Arsenal Expeditionary Force behind him also erupted in a commotion, everyone stood up dissatisfied, pointing at the referee and roaring angrily, boos followed.
The referee turned around under enormous pressure, but Kyle Walker didn't want to let him go, constantly wanting an explanation, chattering on behind him.
"Back off!!"
Finally, unable to bear it any longer, he turned around and raised a yellow card at Kyle Walker, forcibly suppressing Kyle Walker's appeal.
Behind them, Valencia, looking guilty and puzzled, hugged the football and walked towards the corner flag area, not understanding why this ball was a corner kick.
On the sidelines, Wenger's sharp gaze went directly to the vicinity of the Old Trafford VIP box, making a thoughtful expression.
Ferguson, with his hands in his pockets, watched the field with a not-so-good expression, seemingly guessing the ins and outs of some things.
If it were before, he might not have put on such a sour face. At that time, he only wanted Manchester United to win, only wanted Manchester United to beat Wenger's Arsenal, and make his old rival suffer.
As for the others, he wouldn't care, as long as he confirmed that he was acting righteously and that his team wasn't engaging in crooked ways.
This can be seen in that controversial game in the 04-05 season. Manchester United clearly benefited, and they ultimately ended Arsenal's 49-game unbeaten run amidst the controversy, but Ferguson accepted everything as a matter of course at the time.
Even after the game, he criticized Wenger's fragility and Arsenal's excuses amidst a fiery atmosphere.
But now it's different, he's about to leave, and he's become indifferent to many things. The only thing he wants is to win against his old rival once or twice more before he leaves.
Even if this old rival seems invincible now, he still wants to defeat the opponent in a fair and aboveboard manner!
Winning against his old rival like today wouldn't give him any sense of honor or satisfaction, he would even feel a little embarrassed.
"Bang!" Valencia's corner kick was then kicked out, and the Arsenal defenders' mentality seemed to have been affected, with some chaos in the penalty area.
"Bang!!"
In the midst of the chaos, Evra emerged from nowhere, using his right instep to direct the ball towards one end of the goal.
"Pa!" The football made contact with Thiago Silva's blocking body, forming a broken line that flew to the other side of goalkeeper Lloris' save, and finally touched the net, "Swish!"
One to zero!
Manchester United take the lead at home!
"Aaaahhhh!!" Flags fluttered at Old Trafford, and the home fans cheered happily, countless people passionately embracing in the stands.
Evra didn't know if this goal would be credited to him, but since his shot helped the team take the lead, he patted his chest while rushing towards the corner flag area.
"Did you see that! Did you see that!" He ran a few steps and then turned around to shout at the Manchester United players, "A few years ago we were able to end their unbeaten record, and now we can too!
"Brothers! Cheer up! We must take them down!"
"Oooohhhh...!!" The morale of the Manchester United players suddenly reached its peak, and they began to roar madly.
Players, for the most part, don't have enough understanding of certain things. At most, they think this is a misjudgment, and they just benefited from it, they won't feel that there's anything wrong, any conspiracy.
Because misjudgments are normal, would they not acknowledge a goal after a misjudgment?
This is football, it's a fierce competition, not a contest of who has a higher moral standard! In Arsenal's frontcourt, Maël started walking towards his own half the moment Evra scored, subconsciously making eye contact with Wenger in the process, and he could see the old coach's helplessness and some panic in his eyes.
It could be seen that some painful memories of the unbeaten run being ended in the past flooded his mind, inevitably making him emotionally unstable.
Maël nodded slightly towards the old coach, signaling to be calm, he who was still active on the field would come up with a solution.
Wenger averted his gaze, walking towards the coaching area with strength and composure, not wanting to affect the emotions of the other players.
"Walker!"
Maël came to Kyle Walker's side, reaching out to hold the other's shoulder, "Cheer up, if you have the ball, aim it towards me, Rafael is no match for me."
"There's still plenty of time, don't let others affect us, understand what we really want, okay?"
Kyle Walker nodded, but his face still showed unwillingness and grievance, his eyes also lost in sadness.
"Arsenal is in trouble! You can see that their players' emotions are a bit off, seemingly affected by factors outside the game."
In the commentary box, the pro-Arsenal commentator bluntly said: "Obviously, that corner kick was a misjudgment, Manchester United got a goal that shouldn't have been a goal."
"This can't help but remind people of a game in the 04-05 season, bringing back painful memories for Arsenal fans! I must question the Premier League refereeing team, we can see similar misjudgments have appeared quite a few times in this game, maybe once every few minutes!"
The Premier League attaches great importance to and takes care of its domestic fans watching the broadcasts, therefore, each game has more than one official commentator, and there are also commentators from each team's camp.
This commentator, speaking for Arsenal fans, ended with a meaningful sentence, "We all know that referees need to balance the game, but other people, other organizations do not need to balance it."
"Some things, you can't do... of course, I'm talking about the penalties."
On the field, as both teams' players repositioned, the referee blew the whistle again, "Beep!!"
"Bang!"
Van Persie kicked off from the center circle, his recent form has also been good, and he is very likely to complete 30+ this season.
But at this critical moment, everyone's pursuit is only to surpass Milan's 58-game unbeaten record, no one cares too much about their own stats.
Anyway, the Golden Boot is likely to be taken by Maël, and the Assists Leader too, so what are they worried about? The 22 players on both sides moved again, following the team's overall formation to advance and retreat, counterattack and chase back.
The referee restrained himself a bit after Manchester United scored a goal, seemingly knowing that going too far might backfire.
Arsenal gradually took the upper hand on the field with their stronger strength, pressing Manchester United into a siege.
"Bang bang... bang!"
In the 31st minute of the match, they played a wall-passing cooperation on the right, and finally Cazorla, who followed up, completed a scalpel-like through ball, directly piercing Manchester United's right defense.
Bale's subsequent Cross was also extremely accurate, finding Giroud, who was running into the near post.
"Bang!" It's a pity that Giroud's final shot flew directly into the stands, but it's okay, this ball at least allowed Arsenal to regain the feeling of attacking.
They were no longer affected by fragmented games and fragmented emotions, but became focused.
4 minutes later, taking advantage of the fact that the tired Manchester United defense just wanted to catch their breath and relax, Gilbert suddenly met eyes with Maël, and quickly smashed an over-the-top long pass towards the defense behind Manchester United.
"Bang!"
"Deng deng deng!!"
Maël quickly strode forward, surpassing Manchester United's entire defense in two steps, and sprinted towards the landing point of the Football.
"Go!!" Gilbert shouted excitedly from behind, this kind of cooperation, he and Maël often played it out when they were in Sheffield United.
Especially in the second half of their Sheffield United careers, after Maël's Lightning Speed ability was pulled up.
Maël heard his good brother's shouts, and immediately felt more strength under his feet, he glanced at the Manchester United goalkeeper, and found that the other party did not attack immediately.
That's good!
He will definitely take this ball, form a One-on-One, and most likely score!!
"Beep!!" Suddenly, an abrupt whistle sounded.
Maël vaguely heard the whistle as he sprinted. He didn't pay attention, thinking it was the wild whistle of Manchester United fans in the stands.
It wasn't until he sensed that the atmosphere on the field was not right that he subconsciously glanced at the linesman's position and saw the linesman raising the offside flag. The Manchester United players who were originally chasing back also stopped, panting, looking like they had escaped a disaster.
"Damn!" He blasted the ball out with one kick, muttered a few words, suppressed the anger in his chest, gritted his teeth and turned back, not speaking to anyone.
He was sure he wasn't offside. He believed the Manchester United defenders saw this too, otherwise why didn't anyone raise their hands to complain about offside from the start?
It seems that a goal that is not beyond dispute will not be able to shut these people's mouths!
Let's finish this game first. After this game, he himself will have some countermeasures against this phenomenon. He will not only fight on the court, but also use public opinion to fight off the court! He wouldn't say that the side that occupies morality in any confrontation will definitely win.
Because even if he, Wenger, and Arsenal win the final victory in confronting the Premier League, their unbeaten record may be gone, which is also a failure for him.
What he wants to do is to maintain invincibility, move towards higher peaks in tempering, and push back against the Premier League, so that they have a fair competition environment! Win the game first! Maël stopped Gilbert, who wanted to reason with the referee. The other party also had a yellow card on him, and rashly arguing would inevitably be caught, and the other party really wanted to see them play with 10 players.
After the game continued, he ran with a fire in his heart, waiting for the opportunity to come.
"Manchester United's advance..."
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"There is not much time left in the first half. It seems that it is becoming more and more difficult for Arsenal to equalize the score. At this time, someone needs to stand up."
"It can be found that Manchester United's overall defense is still very good. Even if Maël repeatedly passes one or two people, he rarely gets into their core area."
"In any case, when fighting at Old Trafford, there is no need to doubt the will and attitude of Manchester United players. I think this is also one of the reasons why they avoided Arsenal's goal in the first half."
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"Maël is coming over! Rafael definitely can't stop him, he can only pull him by hand! Will the referee not call a foul?"
"He is dragging Rafael and breaking through towards the center! Ferdinand!! Nutmegged!! Maël's feet are very agile and sharp, he is about to pass! Rafael hasn't let go yet! The referee finally blew the whistle... Haha, Maël should be passing soon, it's obviously too late to blow the whistle now."
"But Maël didn't say anything. He got up and came to the free kick spot."
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"Crack, crack.!"
In front of the free kick spot, Maël rubbed his left foot a few times at the support point of the shot to avoid slipping later.
Then, he took a few deep breaths to adjust his breathing, took three steps back, and looked at the Manchester United goal.
He gritted his teeth, knowing that this free kick about 25 meters from the goal must be the best opportunity he got in the first half... After all, no one can question such a goal.
After making all the preparations, he turned his eyes to the referee with a cold expression, with a sharp look in his eyes.
"Beep!" The referee seemed to be a little scared by his look, and then picked up the whistle and blew the whistle to allow the free kick.
"Whoosh!"
Maël took one last deep breath, and then stepped forward, firing at the Manchester United goal, at the Premier League, and at all the injustices and grievances.
"Bang!!"
He stretched his body, swung his arms, and whipped out an extremely gorgeous and beautiful curved shot, ensuring both the ball's speed and power, greatly reducing the goalkeeper's reaction time.
The football spun as it flew over the heads of Manchester United's players, curling towards the near corner of the goal.
Goalkeeper De Gea reacted quickly enough, but facing such a curved shot aimed at the upper corner, he was helpless.
"Swish!!"
The football hit the net, causing the Manchester United fans in Old Trafford to be stunned for a second or two, and Arsenal fans to collectively rise and celebrate wildly, "Yeahhhh!!"
One to one!
Maël, before the end of the first half, used an important goal to help Arsenal equalize the score!
"Maël!" Wenger on the sidelines quickly jumped up from his seat, stood on the sideline, wanting to speak several times, but in the end only left a simple sentence, "Well done! Well done!! Beautiful shot!!"
"Come on!!"
Maël shouted, not choosing to celebrate at the left corner flag area as he usually did, but instead ran specifically to the right side where the referee was, and as he passed the referee, he jumped up again, waving his fist and shouting, "Come on!!"
He can still score! This is the first shot to turn the world upside down! He wants to lead this Arsenal team, overcome all difficulties and obstacles, and continue to win! Behind him, Gilbert and Kyle Walker and others immediately followed, imitating Maël's show of force next to the referee.
The referee also stood there, stunned. After reacting, he exchanged a glance with the linesman, and finally helplessly pointed his hand to the center circle, indicating that the goal was valid, "Beep!!"
In a certain part of the stands, a figure in a suit swallowed, adjusted his glasses, and a few ominous premonitions appeared in his heart.
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