Champions, Arsenal-Real: as well as the Gol-Agiiello of Rice were born

The most incredible thing about the night in which Declan Rice has laid out Real Madrid is that he goal on a free kick had never made it before. Three hundred and thirty -nine games as a professional, between West Ham, Arsenal and England, and those two pearls between the 58 ‘and the 70’, those two wonders worthy of Roberto Carlos, one of the many spectators who remained speechless for his magic on the emirates stands, were his first time. “Where were those goals in the cabinet,” said the 26-year-old protagonist of the 3-0 with which the Gunners said with a smile on TV put a serious mortgage on the landing for the Champions League semifinal. Those two wonders will also have been his first time, but Rice really had them in the cabinet, waiting to bring them out for a special occasion. And so far there have been a few special times like this game in which Rice has helped Arsenal to become great.

jewels

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The jewely punishments were not going to happen. On the first, the one who became a wonderful right that circumvented the barrier with an impregnable parable, Rice had received instructions to pull from Nicolas Jover, the guru who transformed the placed kicks of Arsenal into a constant threat and also worked with the hero of the first leg of the quarterfinals to improve football. “But when I looked at the barrier I understood that it did not make sense -he confided Rice -. I looked at the goalkeeper, as the barrier was put, and I thought I could make the ball turn outside the wall and overcome it. I told Bukayo (Saka, another of the heroes of Arsenal -Real, ed), he told me to kick if I felt it.” As Mikel Arte in the press room recalled, he was from September 2021 in the home of Burnley with Martin Ødegaard, which Arsenal did not go scored on a direct punishment football. Rice then wanted to exaggerate. If the first goal was a wonder of technique and parable, the second was another wonderful shot ended at the intersection, where as on the occasion of the first goal Courtois could absolutely not arrive. “At the beginning it seemed to me that we were too far from the door, so much so that Martin and I thought of doing it two touches – he said -. Then I looked again goalkeeper and barrier and I had the confidence of the first goal. He ended up above the crossbar, as happened to me many other times, I would not have imported myself”.

What a rice!

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Instead that ball entered and Rice had another pearl to add to his collection of wonders. They come from nothing only apparently, because Riosa has been showing for at least two years of having something special when it kicks a stopping ball. His right is polite, and was refined by the two years of work with Jover to Arsenal: the corners from the left became his, with a parable to return that seems remote controlled for the head of some partner or to become an insidia for the goalkeeper. And the magic is repeated even when Rice kicks from the flag on the other side, always with the right: it often happened in the absence of Saka, who has returned from a week by an injury that has kept it firm for three months, yet Arsenal remains the team that in the last two years has scored more goals from football placed in the premier. “These goals are not a surprise for me – he said Arte -. If there was one who could do it, as he kicks, he was Declan: he has a cleaning in the incredible shot”.

Arsenal company

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How first the 60 thousand of the EMIRATES, ecstatic by its wonders have discovered it. And he also discovered it Rice, who at 26 years old understood that he could become a punishment specialist, one of those who folds the ball with parables unthinkable for others and makes him end up on the goal, even if in front he has one of the best goalkeepers in the world like Courtois. “I will really understand in a few years what I did – he said -. It was a historical night, I made two goals to Real Madrid, but now I think only of the return, to what awaits us at Bernabeu”. All Arsenal thinks about it, who wants to build his new winning story, with Arte at the helm, with this group of players. Rice in the locker room is one of the leaders, one of those who showed that he is much stronger than what was thought, even if it is the most paid English in history. Now it also kicks wonderful punishments, those that have served to spread Real Madrid.