Mister Legend

Chapter 553 Locking the Champions League Seat
Such a score, even the die-hard Arsenal fans who were most optimistic about Arsenal before the game, was hard to predict. Therefore, after the game, the media from all over the world reacted very warmly to this result, which can be regarded as a big upset.

Especially the Spanish media, who held that Real Madrid would definitely advance to the Westfalenstadion, the final venue, paid more attention to some controversial penalties in the game. After their unilateral analysis, they directly identified Arsenal as a robber. It is extremely immoral behavior to steal a big victory like this.

In fact, apart from their out-of-the-box controversies, in the first round of the semi-final matchup held at the Emirates Stadium, there are two points that can be regarded as the excuses Real Madrid found for their unexpected defeat.

The first one is that Mbappe once had an excellent chance to score after 0 to 2. Unfortunately, his stab shot hit the Arsenal post, and he was only less than five centimeters away from saving the team. It is very regrettable.

And the second most worthy of the Spanish giants' grievances was the penalty kick made by Jayden Sancho. After multi-angle slow-motion playback afterwards, at least half of the people thought it was a flop, because Varane At that time, the action of extending his feet to intercept had been completed, and the physical contact between the two people seemed to be caused by the English teenager on his own initiative.Just like countless similar incidents in the past on the football field, this can be regarded as a deliberate deception by the offensive player. Unfortunately, the on-duty referee Cargill did not make a penalty in line with the visiting team, and the baseline referee at the time did not give a warning.

At the post-match press conference, when faced with doubts from Spanish reporters, Li Moody failed to confidently claim that it was indeed a no-problem foul, but he still felt that this kind of half-and-half, both sides have a reason The situation ultimately depends on the referee's on-the-spot judgment. If the only possible improper consideration of Cargill is that it almost killed the last possibility of Real Madrid's promotion to the final.Under normal circumstances, when the score difference between the two teams is two goals or more, the referee will deliberately turn the whistle to the side behind, which is also conducive to retaining the final suspense.

But it must not be said that he whistled the penalty at that time, just like the Spanish media slandered Arsenal and received special care from UEFA. Such an absurd reason for consecutive championships in the Champions League.

In short, after this game, the British and Spanish sports media started a war of words that lasted for several weeks. The degree of the situation seemed to be more intense than the competition in the football field, and it was not completely over until the end of the season.

However, the Gunners, who were upset and won a big victory in the European war, did not participate too much, except that they still need to go to Madrid to play an extremely dangerous 10 minutes before they can know whether they can get the second march in team history In addition to the tickets for the Champions League final, it is also because they will face the challenge of the league leader Manchester City at home in five days. This will be related to whether Arsenal can keep their hard-won Champions League seat next season. Get distracted by other things.

Blue Moon lost 1-2 to Barcelona as a guest at Camp Nou on Wednesday. The promotion situation is relatively optimistic, and since they don't have any other competition tasks in the next week, they can rest assured and boldly play on this Sunday. Use all your energy in the league.The best result is naturally to win the away game and reach the top of the Premier League one round ahead of schedule. In that case, they will play as substitutes in the last round of the league to preserve their strength for the second round of the Champions League semi-final confrontation.

Therefore, this penultimate round of the Premier League will obviously be a key match that will determine the fate of many giants. Every team enters their respective venues with the belief that they must win, and the intensity can be imagined.

However, I don't know whether it is really as the outside world jokes, there is an inexplicable rivalry or so-called natural enemy relationship on the green field. Guardiola, who is so majestic in the England field, looks very embarrassed when he meets Li Mudi. There's not much good way to always take the latter.

This is a heavyweight matchup that is highly concerned by football fans around the world and is predicted to be a life-and-death matchup, but a goal appeared in less than 2 minutes of the opening.After being marked by two defenders of the visiting team, Barco had no choice but to take the risk of sending a diagonal pass. After accidentally hitting Casemiro's toes, it turned into a wonderful through assist. The help was unbelievable at first. Beracino, who will fall in the sky, has a golden opportunity to face Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson head-on.

Fortunately, the forward of the home team pulled his focus back to the football field in time, took advantage of the first start to rush into the penalty area of ​​the visiting team before Laporte returned to the defense, and hit the ball near the penalty spot when Edson attacked At that time, he decisively kicked an arc to attack the goal, and accurately sent the ball into the upper right corner of the opponent's goal, helping the Gunners open the door to victory.

Gua Shuai suffered a blow at the beginning of the game, and Gua Shuai's face would naturally not be good-looking. He worked hard for a whole week to formulate the perfect tactical plan, but he was caught off guard. It is also impossible to let the players execute step by step.

Fortunately, the remaining time is still long enough for Manchester City to look for opportunities to change the passive situation, so after a short period of panic, the league leaders returned to calm.However, their offensive was more violent than expected by the outside world. It did not fit Guardiola's pre-match press conference. Changed strategy.

De Bruyne has continued the peak state of his career in the past two years. Although the number of assists has declined compared to the previous two years (but still ranks first in the Premier League assists list this season), he has strengthened his personal progress. Ball Desire, has scored 18 goals in various competitions so far, setting a new personal best record.

Under the premise that all the stars have performed equally this season, as long as he can lead the Belgian national team to a good result in the World Cup in Qatar, the chances of winning the World Footballer are still very high.

That's why with such a world-class midfielder sitting in charge, Guardiola will safely and boldly hand over the command of on-the-spot judgments to his players. However, in order to prevent the Gunners from sharp counterattacks, he still deliberately emphasized the two sides Defenders cannot advance too deep for assists, and must remain vigilant at all times.

However, his thoughts changed after 10 minutes, because Manchester City, which Li Moody thought a draw would be acceptable today, would not strengthen their attack at the beginning, so they sent high center forward Chuma as the starting center forward.But who knew that the balance of the score would be broken so quickly. It wasn't just the lagging visiting team who were disrupted by this accident. Arsenal also suffered a lot.

Now they need to focus on defense and counterattack, but they seriously lack speed on the front line. Beracino's explosive power is not bad, but his top speed ability is not satisfactory. Barco also focuses on dexterity, and long-distance running is not his specialty. Coupled with Chu Ma, who is 1.9 meters tall and it is not realistic to want him to run faster, this lineup really cannot bring too much restraint to Manchester City's defense.So Guardiola quickly lifted the seal of the two full-backs, Algerian right-back Husay and Mendy, allowing the two to cross the midfield line to participate in the offense.

With their assistance, attackers such as Sterling, Sane, and Jesus, who were already enough to drink a pot for the Gunners' defense, became even more powerful, plus Casemiro and Gundogan's turns. Inserting, Ding Ding's organizational ability exploded to the greatest extent.The home team's goal once encountered a dangerous situation where there was a lot of noise, and the fans did not dare to cheer loudly, for fear of distracting the players and leading to tragedy.

No. In the 17th minute, Sane, Jesus and De Bruyne played a wonderful continuous passing cooperation, and finally let the latter get a chance to directly attack the goal in the middle of the penalty area. Fortunately, Ndidi interfered In time, he forced the opponent to change the angle slightly, and finally made the ball fly out of the range of the goal frame, but it also shocked Leno into a cold sweat.

Four minutes later, Mendy sent his signature precise cross from the left. The ball flew over the heads of the two central defenders of the home team and then fell quickly. It was caught by Sane who advanced at high speed on the other side.The German winger showed his skills not inferior to his speed ability. After unloading the ball steadily, he quickly swung his legs and volleyed the near corner of the goal, forcing his national team teammates to make a world-class save to save 4. The score of 1 has not changed.

However, these two dangerous situations were enough for Li Moody to make targeted arrangements. He made the first personnel adjustment less than 25 minutes into the first half, using French striker Moussa Dembele as a substitute. After getting off the Chuma, this move is to strengthen the team's deterrence in counterattacks and force Manchester City to reduce their investment in the offensive end.

Although this move seemed simple and crude in the past, it seemed too utilitarian, but the actual effect is very ideal.When Torreira cut off Sterling's personal dribbling pass to Barco in front, the latter immediately sent a diagonal pass to help Dembele go into the right side of the visiting team's penalty area with long legs, and Laporte After completing a good-quality attack under the special defense, Gua Shuai still reluctantly chose to let the two full-backs retreat to their own half, otherwise the second goal may appear at any time. The game will become more difficult.

As a result, after this substitution, a stalemate formed on the field. Although the visiting team in control of the ball can still have some advantages, facing Arsenal's solid defense line, they can't create a good situation for a while. With the cooperation of the team, we can only try to score goals through super personal skills.De Bruyne's long-range shot and Sterling's solo pass almost equalized the score for Manchester City, but the excellent performance of Leno and his teammates still made the opponent's wish unfulfilling.

It wasn't until the No.604 minute of the second half that Guashuai stepped on Bernardo Silva and veteran Aguero in one breath, and the balance of the game was broken. The visiting team launched a violent attack and the situation began to develop in a white-hot direction. up.

And Li Moody also saw the tricks, replacing Beracino with Lacazette who had returned from injury, and switched to the super counterattack tactics of a double-speed forward.Wilshere replaced Barko in order to ensure the defense and thickness of the midfield while increasing the accuracy of long-distance passes. Small threats can now send long passes with extremely high stability in the midfield, reducing the risk of passing. The step of the ball makes the ball appear in the opponent's dangerous area faster when counterattacking.

The rhythm of the game quickly accelerated to a dizzying level. Although both sides had players with strong ball control ability, under the tactical arrangement of deliberately pursuing high impact, the movement of the ball seemed a little chaotic.It's just that under such an extreme offensive and defensive rhythm, there are not many teams that can play this quality. If there is such a team that can play perfectly in such a fast pace, it is estimated that it is far from completely dominating the football world. Not far away.

This duel has also evolved into a competition for who can score the next goal first. If Manchester City succeeds, the two sides returning to the same starting line may return to a stable rhythm in the next period of time. If it is the Gunners If there is another victory, Blue Moon can only continue to carry out the strong attack to the end.

As a result, the home team got what they wanted. Dembele's breakthrough in the No.706 minute caused a foul by Stones. The England international was sent off for accumulating two yellow cards.Taking advantage of the opportunity to play one more player, Arsenal once again knocked on the opponent's goal through a tactical free kick. Kolasinac received a cross from Torreira and kicked a world wide far from the left position outside the penalty area. After shooting, Ederson was interfered by many players and failed to make a save in time. Unfortunately, he became the background board of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Two goals behind and one person missing, Manchester City's predicament is obviously not something that can be overcome only by perseverance. Even if De Bruyne scored an amazing direct free kick in the No.808 minute, he was unable to do it again. Jiangong saved the fate of the entire team.

In the end, Blue Moon suffered a 1-2 defeat at the Emirates Stadium. Not only did they fail to win the championship early, but Liverpool, which won this round, narrowed the point difference to one point.Fortunately, they will sit at home against the underdog Stoke City in the last round, and the chances of winning are still infinite. Otherwise, it is really possible to create an epic counterattack by the Red Army.

A week later, the 2021-22 season of the Premier League ushered in the final game. The ten games will be kicked off at 4:16 on Saturday, April 17. Since most of them are strong and weak duels, there is no result. Something unexpected happened.Except for Tottenham, which has no possibility of change in ranking, sent a group of teenagers to be tied by Southampton, the rest of the Big30 teams have won.

Among them, Arsenal defeated the desperate Wolves by one goal in an away game, occupying the fourth place of the club with 24 wins, 9 draws and 5 losses with 81 points, and firmly won the ticket to enter the Champions League next season.

(End of this chapter)