After the second half began, Fly continued to coast.
After the 15-minute break at halftime, Chelsea players had recovered some of their stamina, and it wasn't time for him to perform yet.
In the 52nd minute of the match.
Wilshere's forward breakthrough was fouled, but the ball was timely protected by Nasri.
Immediately, Nasri played a one-two wall pass with Arshavin, then slotted the ball to Sagna, who had pushed up on the right flank.
Sagna drove straight into Chelsea's penalty area from the flank with a diagonal run.
Facing Ashley Cole's defense, Sagna kicked the ball to Cole's right side.
Cole quickly turned to chase the ball, only to find that Arshavin had touched the ball a step ahead of him.
Facing Terry's tackle, Arshavin made a light short pass to his left.
Nasri, who had suddenly surged into the middle of the penalty area, met the ball with a powerful shot.
The ball instantly disappeared from everyone's sight like a streak of white light.
Only a loud "Bang" was heard, and the ball hit the outside of the left post and bounced out.
Fly misjudged the landing point, losing the opportunity to tap into the empty net at the first moment.
After adjusting his body and finally getting the ball, Alex was tightly marking him from behind, making him extremely uncomfortable.
Helplessly, Fly passed the ball back to the pressing Clichy.
Clichy received the ball and played it across to Diaby in the middle.
Diaby took a big stride after receiving the ball, dribbled past the tackling Mikel, and passed the ball to Wilshere at the edge of the penalty area.
Before Wilshere could even make a shooting posture facing the goal, he was once again tackled to the ground by Essien, ball and all.
Being tackled twice in a row, Wilshere was a bit annoyed and started shoving Chelsea players.
However, Fly quickly went up and pulled his good brother back, "Jack, calm down, they just want to provoke you, it's not necessary."
Facing Fly's comfort, Wilshere's anger dissipated, replaced by confusion.
What's going on?
Fly is starting to comfort people?
He knew very well that when they were both in the Arsenal youth academy, Fly's temper was truly nowhere near the word "gentle".
Every time he was fouled, he was the first one to want to fight!
How did he suddenly change his personality after joining the first team?
If Fly knew what his good brother was thinking, he would definitely give him a big eye roll: Isn't that obvious? Can youth academy matches and first-team professional matches be compared?
Youth academy matches, to put it bluntly, are about a person's potential and talent, not results!
That is to say, even if no results are achieved in youth academy matches, it will not affect professional evaluation of the player's future.
But first-team professional matches are where results matter.
A player's commercial value and popularity largely depend on the results they achieve.
If Fly wants to achieve his goals, he naturally has to find ways to win as many honors as possible.
Therefore, Fly is very serious when it comes to professional matches.
To put it simply, he is very shrewd and very self-serving, and will not do anything detrimental to the team due to temporary impulse.
In this regard alone, Fly's personality is very similar to LeBron James in basketball, an absolute egoist.
If for LeBron James, people who are not good at playing or cannot assist him in winning championships are not qualified to be his brothers.
Then for Fly, it is the same.
People who are not good at playing or cannot assist him in winning championships are not qualified to be his brothers either!
The reason why Fly has a good relationship with Wilshere is because, glass physique aside, Wilshere in a healthy state is very strong.
He can be a member who helps Fly win championships.
So Fly recognized him and even gave him advice to try to get injured less.
The ultimate goal of these actions is nothing more than assisting Fly in winning championships.
Wenger is probably old and shrewd; he quickly saw through Fly's intentions.
This led to the series of conversations and even signings with Fly before.
Because Wenger knew that the current Arsenal squad could not support Fly's ambition.
Only by signing new players and refreshing the squad could Fly's dream be realized, which is why Wenger talked openly and honestly with Fly.
After all, Fly's ambition is also his, Wenger's, ambition.
Fly wants to win championships, and why wouldn't Wenger want to?
Seeing his old rival, Sir Alex Ferguson, leave him far behind in various honors, how could Wenger not feel unwilling in his heart?
Before, he had no opportunity and could only pretend to be resigned.
Now that he has the opportunity, he naturally has to make a final push, go all in, and fight Sir Alex Ferguson to the end!
It can only be said that Wenger and Fly's shared desire makes this master-apprentice pair very taciturn.
Back to the match.
Essien's repeated fouls finally earned him the first yellow card of the match.
Nasri took over the ball and shot directly from the free kick, but hit it too hard, and the ball flew over the crossbar and into the stands.
In the 61st minute of the match.
Fly noticed a significant decrease in the running frequency of Chelsea players.
He knew the opportunity he had been waiting for had arrived!
In the 66th minute of the match.
Chelsea's muscle forest showed a clear weakness for the first time.
Wilshere broke away from Mikel in the midfield and suddenly played a low through ball that instantly cut through the Blues' defense.
Fly, like a cheetah, instantly accelerated and darted through the gap between Terry and Alex.
Because Fly had been in an invisible state for the past ten minutes or so, Alex subconsciously relaxed his guard.
As a result, due to a moment of laxity, he was directly left behind by Fly in two steps!
However, Čech showed his ability as a world-class goalkeeper at this moment.
The moment Fly darted past Terry and Alex, Čech had already rushed out.
Seeing this scene, Fly thought to himself that it was bad.
Given the current distance between him and Čech, if he were to stop the ball before shooting, it would definitely be too late.
By then, Čech would have already dived at his feet.
So Fly had only one choice: shoot directly without stopping the ball!
Without any hesitation, the moment Fly's toe touched the ball, he flicked his ankle, and the ball was gently chipped into the air.
The ball drew a strange falling-leaf arc in the air, going over Čech's desperately outstretched fingertips.
Finally, the ball grazed the underside of the crossbar and dropped into the net!
Arsenal 1:1, equalized the score!
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