Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 616 Europe Chapter 2003 Qualified Early
After defeating Manchester City at home, Newcastle ushered in their seven consecutive unbeaten games in the league, but their glory in this game was overwhelmed by several other teams. Manchester United relied on Ruud van Nistelrooy and Kleberson at home The goal was a [-]-[-] victory over Blackburn, and Chelsea relied on substitute defender Melchiot's diagonal shot from the far corner of the penalty area to beat Southampton in the away game, but like Newcastle, they also Not the protagonist of this round of the league.

The protagonist of this round of the league is Arsenal under the command of Professor Wenger. Henry, who scored ten goals in the previous twelve rounds of the game, changed his role. When Adriano was absent due to injury, he began to assume Playing the role of organizing the offense, it was he who helped Pires, Bergkamp and Ljungberg each score a goal in the first and second half with three wonderful direct passes. He completed an alternative hat-trick-assisting hat-trick!
However, Henry's performance is not the only reason for the media to focus on Arsenal. After a three-goal victory in this round of the league, Arsenal has won ten wins and three draws in the thirteen rounds of the new season. Thirteen consecutive games unbeaten, this is a new record, the record for the best start in the history of the Premier League.

The previous record was created by Liverpool last season, with 13 games unbeaten, [-] wins and [-] draws. They lost to Middlesbrough in the No.[-] league round.

Setting a new record does not mean that Arsenal will stop at [-] games unbeaten - although their competitors hope so, their last three league opponents are Fulham, Leicester City and Blackburn, whoever they are, don't seem to have what it takes to beat Arsenal.

Created the best start record in the Premier League, but the impact of this record is limited to England, because the Premier League is only 11 years old, and what Arsenal created is only the record of the Premier League, not the record of England's top league.

But just three days later, Arsenal made a sensation throughout Europe.

With Yu Wei, who created the best start record in the Premier League, Arsenal began to participate in the fifth round of the Champions League group stage and challenged Inter Milan away.

You must know that just over two months ago, Arsenal had just lost [-]-[-] at home to Inter Milan. At that time, the coach of Inter Milan was Argentine Cooper, but after more than two months, Cooper had already The poor performance in the league was the fate of getting out of class, and now the head coach of Inter Milan is Zaccheroni, known as "Crazy Zach".

Zaccheroni has performed well in the league since he took office. He has won three consecutive games, including a [-]-[-] sweep of Reggina at home, but in the Champions League, they only scored one point in two rounds. Even so, there are still not many people who think that Arsenal can beat Inter Milan at San Siro, after all, this is their home court.

At the beginning of the game, it was normal. Henry opened the scoring with a wonderful free kick in the No.209 minute, but after 4 minutes, Inter Milan relied on the top scorer Vieri's shot to equalize the score, and the two sides entered a draw. second half.

Inter Milan's crazy attack has brought a lot of trouble to Arsenal's defense, but at the same time their defense has continued to increase. Only 4 minutes into the second half, Henry assisted Ljungberg, who was in the penalty area. The shot again put the score ahead.

Then Inter Milan launched a crazy counterattack, but failed to cause too much threat to the gate guarded by Lehmann. When the game entered the last 10 minutes, Inter Milan began to collapse.

In the 85th minute, Henry passed Inter Milan's captain Zanetti in the penalty area and scored with a low shot. De beautifully made the ball, Pires broke into the penalty area and volleyed successfully.

Arsenal scored three goals in 5 minutes. Inter Milan suffered the biggest defeat in the Champions League since losing 72-[-] away to Borussia Monchengladbach in [-]. While qualifying, it also made Inter Milan face the need to defeat Dynamo Kiev away in the last game in order to secure the right to qualify.

Since Newcastle's away game against Porto was held on the second day, both Pei Wei and Mourinho watched the game in front of the TV. The strong strength shown by Arsenal moved both of them at the same time.

"After several years of operation, the professor already has a strong team." Pei Wei sighed: "There are Henry and Adriano's partners on the forward line, an all-round killer, a king of the restricted area, and a substitute. A veteran like Bergkamp, ​​a capable player like Kanu and a rookie like Ariadiere, the two midfielders Ljungberg and Pires are at their peak, and Vieira and Gilbert are in the middle These two defensive midfielders have both offensive and defensive midfielders. The substitute has a strong faction like Edu. The back line has Ashley Cole on the left, Sun Chenghai on the right, Keown and Campbell in the middle, and Lauren and Segan on the bench. Such a player has a strong main force and an excellent substitute, basically every player is in their prime, with such a team, who else can stop them."

"...I admit that Newcastle can't beat them now." Mourinho also had to admit this, but he didn't think this was his failure: "It took him a few years to achieve this effect , give me a few years, I can also train such a team."

"I believe this." Pei Wei laughed: "So I will give you time...but our most direct goal is to win the away game against Porto, and then we will basically qualify."

"The away game is a bit difficult, but I believe that Porto has no ability to stop our progress." Mourinho replied.

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In any case, Porto is a very powerful team, but this team was unlucky this season. First, it encountered Newcastle, which had bought ten stars in a row, and then encountered the mighty Galaxy Fleet. Meeting Marseille with a monster striker and a lunatic winger, they lost three games in a row after the first three rounds, basically losing the chance to qualify.

Then in the fourth round of the game, Marseille used defensive tactics to draw [-]-[-] at home, and was eliminated two rounds in advance. If this game is not won, then there will be no chance to play in the UEFA Cup .

So in this game, Porto still has a tenacious fighting spirit and wants to grab the last straw. They hope that they can beat Newcastle, and then Real Madrid beat Marseille, so that they are only one point behind Marseille by four points. In the last game, Newcastle If they want to qualify, they must at least draw with Marseille, and Real Madrid, which has already qualified ahead of schedule, may not be able to entangle with Porto with all their strength, so they still hope to get a chance to play in the UEFA Cup (No.3 in the Champions League group will qualify for the UEFA Cup).

Although this hope is very slim and basically theoretical, at least there is still hope.

So this is the reason why Mourinho's answer is reserved, and in this game, he also sent the strongest lineup, hoping to win the opponent in one go and qualify early, then Newcastle will be able to win the final game Take it easy.

Given, Trabelsi, Woodgate, Lucio, Hart, Makelele, Janus, Robert, Nie Fei, Ibrahimovic and Shearer, this lineup has basically become the main lineup of Newcastle, Except for the positions of the two full-backs, which are adjusted according to the opponent's situation, the other nine players have established their main positions.

Porto played very hard in the game. The players on the field were running at all costs, while several defenders took turns to harass Ibrahimovic. Obviously, they wanted to get Ibrahimovic off the field as they did in the first game. , so that their advantage will be much greater.

It is a pity that Mourinho had expected this a long time ago, and told Ibrahimovic before the game to control his temper.

Ibrahimovic is not an idiot either. Naturally, it can be seen that the opponent is deliberately irritating him. In addition, Mourinho threatened him that if he received another red card, he would be kept on the bench for a month, so Ibrahimovic faced He didn't get angry at the opponent's provocation, but instead used his own skills to tease Porto's defenders. After the first half, Porto's two central defenders and a midfielder each received a yellow card. Got it from Ibrahimovic.

But in terms of offense, they did a good job. While Newcastle's offensive players were fighting with their defenders, before the end of the first half, Mendes broke Shay's ten fingers with a beautiful long shot in front of the penalty area. Porto lead [-]-[-] at home.

During the half-time break, Mourinho immediately made tactical adjustments, focusing the offense on the wing. At the same time, Robert, who was slightly injured, was replaced by Stewart to increase the speed of the wing.

This adjustment had a miraculous effect immediately. Shortly after the start of the second half, Stewart broke through from the side and created a free kick. Hart drove the ball into the penalty area. Lucio, who came up behind and assisted Valente, scored a header to equalize the score.

Porto really played very hard. After 5 minutes, Mendes helped them to exceed the score again. Shay was powerless with a supplementary shot in the penalty area.

But ten minutes later, Newcastle equalized the score for the second time. This time it was another defender who scored the goal. Trabelsi stepped forward after receiving an assist from Nie Fei and broke into the penalty area and volleyed successfully.

Before the end of the game, the Porto players couldn't hold back and started a massive attack, which hit Newcastle's hands. Through a beautiful counterattack, Nie Fei helped Newcastle take the lead for the first time in the game, and this was also the final score.

Pei Wei breathed a sigh of relief after defeating Porto [-]-[-] in the away game, and Newcastle won the qualification. At least, Newcastle's performance in the Champions League in the past half season was perfect.

PS: Update on ticket 610, well, seven chapters left to pay off last week's debt.

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