[双语新闻]英超联赛:阿森纳客场输球 本赛季目标不变 Liverpool Beat Arsenal 1-0
摘要: 英超利物浦队和阿森纳队当地时间14日晚进行了一场联赛第4轮的补赛。结果替补登场的利物浦球员加西亚在比赛第87分钟一锤定音,帮助利物浦队如愿在安菲尔德球场拿到了3分。目前积51分的“红军”暂居英超联赛第3,比第2名曼联仅少3分。 An 87th-minute strike by substitute Luis Garcia earned Liverpool a 1-0 victory over Arsenal in the Premier League on Tuesday, bringing them to within three points of second-placed Manchester United.
英超利物浦队和阿森纳队当地时间14日晚进行了一场联赛第4轮的补赛。结果替补登场的利物浦球员加西亚在比赛第87分钟一锤定音,帮助利物浦队如愿在安菲尔德球场拿到了3分。目前积51分的“红军”暂居英超联赛第3,比第2名曼联仅少3分。
据路透社2月14日报道,在本场比赛中,客场作战的阿森纳队依然状态低迷,只是依靠门将莱曼的出色表现才勉强在大部分时间里力保球门不失。本轮过后,他们只积41分,比利物浦队整整少了10分,这在过去的10年里都是前所未有的。赛后阿森纳队门将、德国人莱曼依靠本场比赛的出色表现被评为最佳球员。在比赛的第32分钟,德国人甚至还瓦解了“红军”队长杰拉德的点球。
赛后从曼城重新加盟利物浦队并首发出场的前锋福勒对阿森纳队门将也表达了敬意。“莱曼表现得太棒了。他高接低挡,将所有砸向他的球都扑了出去。太令人难以置信了。”对于重新加盟利物浦队后的感觉,福勒表示:“虽然在比赛中没有进球,但只要赢了球,我还是感到很高兴。”
输球以后的阿森纳队主教练温格表情严肃。“今晚我们输了一场本不应该输的球。”他说:“我们将尽最大努力,争取至少获得本赛季联赛第4名并获得下赛季欧洲冠军联赛参赛资格。”虽然球队客场表现差的现实依然没有改观,但温格认为球队中的年轻球员正在一场比一场打得好。
An 87th-minute strike by substitute Luis Garcia earned Liverpool a 1-0 victory over Arsenal in the Premier League on Tuesday, bringing them to within three points of second-placed Manchester United.
Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann earned man of the match after keeping a surging Liverpool at bay for most of the game and even saving a 32nd-minute penalty from Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard.
His heroics came to nothing, however, when Dietmar Hamann thundered in a shot from outside the area and the German goalkeeper could only tip it at the feet of Luis Garcia who knocked it home.
Arsenal looked out of sorts and out of form and their defeat dropped them 10 points behind Liverpool, who have not finished above the north London side for 10 years.
They managed only half a dozen shots on goal to more than 20 by a profligate Liverpool side, for whom Fernando Morientes, Robbie Fowler and Harry Kewell should have scored.
Fowler, celebrating his return to Anfield, praised Lehmann's efforts.
"He was fantastic. Everything we threw at him he managed to pull out. It was incredible."
Fowler, who rejoined Liverpool on a free transfer until the end of the season after more than four years at Leeds and Manchester City, said he was sorry not to be scoring goals himself but added: "If the team's winning and I'm not scoring I'm happy with that."
A grave Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said he believed his young side were improving despite their poor record away from home. "We lost the ball tonight on some occasions when we shouldn't have," he said.
Wenger said Arsenal would "try as hard as we can" to earn at least fourth place and a Champions League place.
With 26 games now played by all the leading sides, Chelsea head the table on 66 points, with Manchester United second on 54, Liverpool on 51 and Tottenham Hotspur, in the last Champions League spot, on 45, four clear of Arsenal. |