soccer king

At the end of the season, no matter how thick the bench is, most teams will have more or less important players unable to play, and injuries or physical exertion are the biggest influencing factors.

Arsenal have important players absent from the game, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, no one can come up with the most complete lineup.

5 month 8 day.

Arsenal and Liverpool face off in the 37th round of the Premier League at Highbury.

Benitez sat calmly on the coach's bench and waited for the start of the game. In today's game, he will still let Liverpool play counterattack, but he has no idea what the result will be. After all, he has to prepare within a week. Two key games, this is almost impossible!

Just after the battle against Chelsea, and facing the powerful Arsenal, Liverpool is already strong in single-line combat. How can they be against the sky in two-line combat?

Moreover, they themselves do not participate in the competition for the league title. There are only two opponents now, Bolton and Everton!

It's a very different environment from Arsenal's competition in the league.

The importance is similar, Arsenal is the champion, and Liverpool is the Champions League qualification seat.

Henry and Pires still sit in the stands hand in hand to watch the game.

Players from both Arsenal and Liverpool began to enter the field, and Highbury was full of cheers. The enthusiasm of the fans is beyond doubt. Everyone knows that the biggest obstacle in Arsenal's way to defend the league title, and the last obstacle, is today's battle!

"The penultimate round of the Premier League this season is about to start. If fans who are familiar with the Premier League see Arsenal scoring 91 points in the standings, they may think that Arsenal has won the championship ahead of schedule. Take a look at No.2 Chelsea. How many points, then the fans will be very surprised, yes, Chelsea also has 91 points! Arsenal only rely on the goal difference advantage to rank first!

Although Liverpool reached the Champions League final this season, they still have to fight for the Champions League qualification seat. What makes the Red Army fans unbearable is that the team ahead of them is actually the mortal enemy Everton!

This is a game that both teams must win, I believe the game will be very exciting!

Let me introduce the starting lineups of both sides.

Arsenal 433.

Goalkeeper: Lehmann.

Defender: Lauren.Toure, Campbell, Ashley Cole.

Midfield: Silva, Vieira, Fabregas.

Forwards: Ljungberg, Bergkamp, ​​Qin Xiong.

Liverpool 442.

Goalkeeper: Dudek.

Defender: Finnan.Carragher.Pellegrino, Warnock.

Midfield: Kewell, Alonso, Gerrard, Riise.

Forwards: Cisse, Morientes. "

In fact, after seeing Liverpool's starting players in the player tunnel, Qin Xiong looked for opportunities to communicate with his teammates in private.

Pellegrino has been famous for a long time and was an old general of Benitez in Valencia.And playing a central defender is not an unexpected move. When Hyypia was unable to play, his appearance was considered normal.

And Morientes, who joined Liverpool in the winter, is also an opponent Qin Xiong has played against before. The Real Madrid man played for Monaco last season.

The only thing that made Qin Xiong curious was that Warnock.

Fabregas is also asking his teammates about this man.

England international Ashley Cole answered their questions.

Warnock is a Liverpool youth player who plays as a left back.

Qin Xiong and Cesc Fabregas muttered for a while.

"I want to focus on the right from the beginning, and beat Warnock!"

"No, Cesc, that's exactly what they want! The opponent must also know that Warnock is the weak point in the defense. They will definitely strengthen the defense there."

"Then what do you mean?"

Fabregas still trusts Qin Xiong's point of view in terms of strategy.

Qin Xiong communicated with him in a low voice for a while, Fabregas nodded frequently.In the end, the two reached an agreement.

After the start of the game, Liverpool, who were exhausted, was obviously not as good as Arsenal in running rhythm.And they mainly do a good job defensively.

From the beginning of the game, Liverpool focused their defense on the left. They were indeed worried that Warnock would be blown up by Ljungberg!

Benitez frowned on the sidelines, his prediction was wrong!

He thought that Arsenal would play Van Persie or Reyes on the left side of the frontcourt!

Then the more efficient side attack will be on the right side of Ljungberg. His formation today has a little bit of an idea of ​​luring the enemy deep.

Put out a very conspicuous point for Arsenal to attack, lure Arsenal's main force to attack there, and then deploy the defense on the back line around this point. It seems weak, but in fact all the defenses around are getting ready.

When Arsenal can't start the situation, Liverpool's counterattack will be useful.

But Benitez did not expect that not only was Qin Xiong on the left side of the frontcourt, but also Vieira and Cesc Fabregas were almost paranoid in attacking Liverpool's right side when sending shells to the frontcourt from the beginning!

That is to let Qin Xiong and Ashley Cole make waves on the left!

Finnan was frequently overwhelmed by Qin Xiong and Ashley Cole, but the quality of finishing with Bergkamp in the cross or Cesc Fabregas in the back was not satisfactory.

Liverpool's several counterattacks were not threatening.

Arsenal is obviously more active and flexible than Liverpool's overall running. After the opponent's counterattack situation came out, Arsenal's backcourt defense was adjusted, and the players' pressing and marking work was very successful.

Not that Arsenal are faster.

It's Liverpool who are slow!

Just like Arsenal challenged Chelsea with exhaustion, they are completely out of the same rhythm as their opponents!

In the 19th minute of the game, Ashley Cole ran across the half again. Fabregas split the ball to the side. Ashley Cole did not take the ball again this time, but passed it straight forward.

Qin Xiong almost frightened Finnan. As soon as Qin Xiong touched the ball, Finnan had the tendency to retreat. He had robbed three times before, and two of the three times were directly broken by Qin Xiong. Once, Ashley Cole When you go to the bottom, Qin Xiong sends a through ball.

In short, in less than 20 minutes, his defense was completely blown!

After Qin Xiong saw that Finnan retreated and wanted to block the bottom line space for the first time, he immediately dribbled sideways, and Finnan was stunned. Unexpectedly, Qin Xiong suddenly stopped bottoming!

Qin Xiong moved the ball sideways quickly and frequently, Gerrard had no time to return to defense, only Alonso was on the back line, and Carragher didn't dare to step forward at the back line, he couldn't judge the best time to intercept.

Alonso retreated quickly, trying to cut the ball across from Qin Xiong.

When he rushed over, Qin Xiong suddenly stopped the rhythm, and then watched Alonso rush over the head while protecting the ball. When Alonso braked to turn around, Qin Xiong passed him again!

Change to the direction of the restricted area!

Qin Xiong passed the ball short to Bergkamp when he was only three meters away from Bergkamp.

Bergkamp leaned on Pellegrino with his back, and gently moved the ball across with the arch of his foot. Pellegrino couldn't reach it. Qin Xiong turned into the penalty area as if he had made a half-circle from the side to meet Bergkamp. Pu's cross pass goes forward, solo!

Facing Dudek, Qin Xiong didn't hesitate at all, and didn't even think about hitting the far corner, and just blasted out with one kick!

The football went into the goal from the upper corner inside the near post!

The crowd in Highbury cheered, Qin Xiong had a cold and proud expression on his face, he beat the team badge on his chest with his right hand, and kept nodding to the fans in the stands, as if announcing the arrival of the champion!

Countless Arsenal fans laughed proudly.

In their eyes, this kid has become an indispensable soul of the team! (to be continued~^~)