Chapter 401: Reaching the Finals
Arsenal continued to hit the wall to penetrate Porto's dense defense, forming a shot, although no goal was scored, but very dangerous, these two Porto relied on goalkeepers Helton and Gao Xiaodong's courage to block out, what about the next time? There are still ten minutes left in the game, can Porto have such good luck every time?
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And Gao Xiaodong is not interested in Ferreira's iron bucket array Dafa, he thinks that it is better to use the obscene Dafa at this time.
As for Wenger's attack on Gao Xiaodong in midweek, Gao Xiaodong didn't take it to heart, for Gao Xiaodong, winning the game first, everything else is a trivial matter.
"Brothers, lie down and don't get busy, delay a little longer. ”
"If the referee can't see it, he has to foul him, don't let them run so comfortably. ”
"Brother Meireles, you are an old man, how can you play so well, who can give you a spiritual civilization award. ”
Gao Xiaodong shouted to his teammates.
Don't look at Gao Xiaodong's age, except for the captain Alves, he has the highest prestige in the team, and in terms of popularity, Alves, who has a cold face every day, is much worse than Gao Xiaodong.
Under Gao Xiaodong's greeting, Porto not only set up an iron bucket formation and fouled attacking players, but also began to attack Arsenal's off-ball running players, preventing Arsenal from playing smooth coordination at all costs.
Italian coach Rossetti was selfless, and although he was at home to Porto, he did not show any softness in his cards, showing two yellow cards to Porto's midfielder in just a few minutes.
The most wronged is Merreles, the fierce Meireles who has a balanced offense and defense is not good at making small moves, and the referee Rossetti caught him right on the second shot and ate a yellow card, while the habitual offenders Gao Xiaodong and Fernando have no.
The wall-to-wall coordination not only requires a high degree of timing and accuracy of passing, but also requires a player who runs without the ball.
Although Porto's players received two yellow cards, the cooperation of the Arsenal players continued to make mistakes, and Porto was counterattacked by Porto and almost conceded the goal.
On top of that, the mentality of the Arsenal players has been greatly affected, the timing of the pass is either fast or slow, the accuracy has also decreased, and the smooth passing can no longer be played.
Looking at the 85 minutes, the clock was ticking, and the Arsenal players completely abandoned the wall-hitting style of play and switched to the long ball rush that they are not good at.
Porto defended equally tightly on the flanks, and Arsenal had a very difficult time getting down the pitch to cross and simply hoisting the ball into the box to find Bendtner and Adebayor was not effective, as the defenders were facing the ball and the attacking players were facing away from the ball.
The game time is getting shorter and smaller, and the anxious Wenger can't care about his artistic football, so he pushed the central defender Julu to the Porto penalty area, using three 1.9m tall to compete for the top and create a second attacking opportunity.
Porto also has two defenders of 1.9 meters and Alves of 1.88 meters, six people in the penalty area and one stop, no coordination can be played, and it is difficult to find space even for long-range shots, so they can only rely on headers.
In the 88th minute of the game, Cesc Fabregas split the ball to the side, Walcott and Sagna cooperated, and finally succeeded in hitting the bottom line, he quickly Sisokoho slapped his foot and passed the ball to the penalty area.
Arsenal easily got a chance to cross the bottom line, Adebayo, Jurou, Bendtner three desperately scramble for the header, Porto's three tall defenders each marked one, stuck the opponent to prevent the opponent from jumping.
Bendtner's bounce was even better, as he broke free of Rolando and headed it towards goal.
However, Bendtner also missed the best chance to fight for the top after getting rid of Rolando, and he hit the ball on the scalp and flew high into the sky.
All eyes were on the ball falling from the sky, desperately trying to grab the position.
Goalkeeper Helton sensed the ball was too dangerous in the box, so he leapt up from the goal line and slammed his fists into the falling ball.
At this time, Julu also came to fight for the top and knocked Helton, and both Julu and Helton fell in the small penalty area.
After the ball was played, it landed right in front of Cesc Fabregas.
Cesc Fabregas saw the goalkeeper fall, and without waiting for the ball to hit the ground, he hoisted it with the arch of his foot and hoisted it towards the empty goal.
This frightened the Porto-people, goalkeeper Helton fell, and as long as the ball was hung in the goal, it was sure to go in.
Sapuruna rushed to the goal, trying to push the ball out, but Juru secretly pulled Sapuruna's clothes underneath to prevent him from jumping.
Sapuruna watched the ball fly over his head towards the goal, just a few centimeters short of it, but couldn't touch it, and in desperation, he reached out and hit the crossbar.
"Handball!"
"Handball!"
"Deliberate handball!"
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Surprised and delighted, the Arsenal all ran to referee Rossetti to complain to him about Sapruna's handball.
Sapurunard's movement was not loud, but Rossetti saw it, and he immediately blew the whistle, pointed to the penalty spot, and showed Sapuruna a red card.
Sapuruna was not convinced, and protested to Rossetti that Juruul had pulled his jersey, but there was such chaos in the penalty area, where could Rossetti see it, he ignored Saspruna's protest and pointed to the sidelines to tell him to leave the field quickly.
Gao Xiaodong saw that Sapuruna was still reluctant to leave, and went over to Sapuruna and said: "Go out, it's okay, let's lead by two goals, even if they score one, the initiative is still in our hands, maybe Helton saves the penalty." ”
Sapuruna felt a little better, turned away from the pitch, and walked to the entrance of the mixed tunnel to continue watching the game.
At this point, the 90-minute regular game time has passed, and the fourth official has raised a sign to make up for four minutes of stoppage time.
The Arsenal fans in the stands finally let out a long-awaited cheer and applause, and they saw hope that Arsenal could knock out Porto on an away goal as long as Arsenal could score a penalty and score another goal in the final four minutes.
The Porto fans, who thought the big picture was decided, were nervous and chanted the name of goalkeeper Helton at the pitch to encourage him to save the penalty.
Porto's on-field commentator smiled with ease, "Red dot package, if Arsenal score a penalty, the situation will become unpredictable, a lot can happen in four minutes. ”
In the VIP box, Mendes stood at the window, and da Costa poked his head out of the corner where reporters couldn't see, looking nervously at the stadium.
It was Cesc Fabregas who took the penalty and the Porto fans booed heavily to disrupt Cesc Fabregas as he was running.
Under tremendous pressure, in order to ensure the success rate, Fabregas pushed the angle too awkwardly, and the ball actually hit the post and bounced out.
Cesc Fabregas saw the ball hit the post and hurriedly ran over to make up the shot, but Gao Xiaodong took the first step to kick the ball out of the bottom line.
"Oh my God!"
"Great!"
"Long live the goalposts!"
"Alas, this penalty kick is a good one!"
"Cesc Fabregas is hard to do!"
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Cheers, applause and sighs from the stands mingled together, and in an instant the stadium became noisy.
Failing to score a penalty and having to score two goals in the remaining four minutes to advance was an almost impossible task, with Arsenal's youngsters losing confidence and fighting spirit, and with the Porto's tenacious defence, the Arsenal were never able to create a single chance to score.
Beep beep beep ......
In the 95th minute of the game, referee Rossetti blew the whistle for the end of the game, and Porto defeated Arsenal 1-0 and entered the Champions League final with an aggregate score of 2-0.
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