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This is the 16th time Arsenal have won the English Super Cup, becoming the second team to win the most titles after Manchester United with 21 crowns. Furthermore, this is also the second title in the career of coach Mikel Arteta after the FA Cup and just over 8 months at the helm of the “Gunners”.
Previously, there were not many changes as expected, especially on the Arsenal side, coach Arteta did not even register rookie midfielder Willian to play. While he also unexpectedly used FA Cup hero goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez to start from the beginning and No. 1 goalkeeper Bernd Leno was on the bench. Also on the bench was the young midfielder William Saliba.
Arsenal (white jersey) actively defended a good counterattack |
Instead, the “Gunners” established a multi-layered defense system with three midfielders Rob Holding, David Luiz and Kieran Tierney, while on two sides were Hector Bellerin (right) and Ainsley Maitland-Niles (left), and Mohamed Elneny. and Granit Xhaka kept the center of the field.
Using this system, coach Arteta made no secret of the idea of a defensive counterattack toy early on against Liverpool with a trio of “killers” Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah pitched by coach Juergen Klopp early on.
On Arsenal’s front row, the trio of Bukayo Saka, Edward Nketiah and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang are also worthy of attention from the Liverpool defense. However, the “Red Army” after joining the game was overconfident, pushed the field and pushed the “Gunners” to play deep defense, sometimes near the edge of the goal.
Virgil van Dijk once conceded to Arsenal but was caught offside |
Liverpool’s pressure created a lot, even midfielder Virgil van Dijk appeared often in front of Arsenal’s penalty area and nearly opened the scoring in the 7th minute, but was offside.
Thinking that it would be easy to control the game and gradually force the opponent to break the game, suddenly Liverpool had to receive a “trauma” like Arsenal’s trap.
In the 12th minute, in a quick Arsenal counterattack by goalkeeper Martinez, before the ball was passed by Bellerin to young star Bukayo Saka to pass a pass to forward Aubameyang to fire a dangerous shot at goalkeeper Alisson to help. ” . Gunners ”suddenly led 1-0.
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Aubameyang opened the scoring for Arsenal |
After the goal, Arsenal continued to play a defensive counterattack, which always increased the pressure on the position of young defender Neco Williams on the right wing, making Liverpool’s defense precarious.
Regardless, Coach Klopp still did not make any changes, but instead urged the whole team to climb higher to maintain stronger pressure on the Arsenal defense to find the tie. But for the remainder of the first half, Liverpool’s attack still didn’t generate enough pressure to break Arsenal’s defense.
Right in the second half, from the 58th minute, Coach Klopp launched Japanese star Takumi Minamino to replace Neco Williams, along with Naby Keita to replace James Milner to change the tactical scheme to 4-4-2 to help the Liverpool to play firmly. safer.
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Japan’s Minamino tied for Liverpool |
However, it was not until minute 73 that the Minamino striker achieved a draw for Liverpool in a rather fortunate situation when the VAR determined that the ball did not touch a teammate before, helping the “Red Army” equalize the 1- First. This is also Minamino’s first goal for Liverpool after a total of 15 matches in all competitions.
Minamino’s draw also led Liverpool and Arsenal to the 11-meter penalty shoot-out to determine whether they won or lost when they drew 1-1 after 90 minutes of official competition.
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Arsenal won the 2020 British Super Cup |
In the 11-meter series of shots, 20-year-old Rhian Brewster missed the third series of shots to the crossbar, helping Arsenal to take exactly 5 series of shots with the decisive result scored by forward Aubameyang to help the “Gunners” to win 5-4. and spectacular coronation.
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