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With the Danish referee Larsson's whistle, the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals between Arsenal and Porto officially kicked off at the Emirates Stadium. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The first kick-off was played away from Porto.

Facing a strong opponent away, Porto coach Ferreira put out a 451 formation, goalkeeper Helton, four defenders Fucile, Alves, Rolando, Sissokoho, midfield, Gao Xiaodong returned to the back position and Guarin, Fernando played three backs, Meireles and Hulk played two wingbacks, and Falcao played center forward in front.

Putting out this formation is something that Ferreira and the coaching staff have repeatedly considered, Arsenal's attacking ability is very strong, it is difficult for Porto to compete with Arsenal for the ball, and Gao Xiaodong may not have many opportunities to get the ball when he plays in the front midfield.

If Gao Xiaodong also pulls back to play in the back, he can take the ball forward to assist, and he can also counterattack with a long pass, if Arsenal presses too forward, Gao Xiaodong's long pass and Falcao's counterattack can kill Arsenal, the most important thing is that Gao Xiaodong can limit Arsenal's midfield core Fabregas in the back.

Letting Guarin guard the right midfielder is to deal with Nasri, although Guarin is a little frizzy and a little unreliable, but Arsenal's left-back Gibson is a weakness and can't assist, Guarin and Sissokoho should have no problem against Nasri.

Merreles played left midfield to limit the incredibly fast Walcoat with his experience, while Hulk played a three-three on the right to force Gibson.

Porto thought of it in all aspects, but after seeing the formation of Arsenal, they realized that they were wrong, and Wenger, who has always been very rigid in his style of play, actually changed the formation.

Arsenal's starting lineup for this game is also a 451 formation, goalkeeper No. 1 Almunia is back in the fire line, four defenders 3-Sagna, 5-Toure, 18-Silvestre, 40-Gibbs, five midfielders 17-Song, 2-Diaby, 14-Walcott, 4-Fabregas, 8-Nasri, single striker: 25-Adebayor

Although Arsenal's starting line-up was no different from Porto's speculation, Nasri and Diaby switched positions, with midfielder Diaby playing at left midfield, and Nasri coming to the middle to play with Cesc Fabregas.

It was a mind-blowing change, as Arsenal had only played once in the FA Cup against Chelsea to average effect, and Arsenal were beaten 2-1 by Chelsea.

Sky Sports' on-site commentator Martin is a veteran of the Premier League, and he immediately understood Arsene Wenger's intentions in this arrangement. Diabi is estimated to be Professor Wenger's concern about the defense of left-back Gibson, so that Diaby, who has a strong defensive interception ability, assists in the left midfield, Nasri to the middle, should guess that Porto will stare at Fabregas, let Nasri control the ball and break through, but the effect of this change of formation is not good in the FA Cup with Chelsea, Professor Wenger still uses this, probably because he feels that Porto's strength is far inferior to Chelsea, and the effect against Chelsea is not good, and it is not necessarily bad against Porto. The specific effect depends on the ...... of the game."

Seeing Nasri playing in the middle and Diaby playing on the wing, the Arsenal fans in the stands also talked about it, and they didn't understand Wenger's change.

Porto were very resolute in their attack on Arsenal's left flank today, and after the ball was passed in the center circle, it immediately hit the right side, looking for Hulk and letting Hulk attack from the right.

Arsenal took their left side very seriously today, and Diaby saw Hulk get the ball and immediately ran over to help.

At this time, Fusile also plugged in at high speed, and Falcao also moved closer to the right, attacking Arsenal's left side with all his might.

Hulk saw Diaby running over, and he passed the ball back to Fusile to continue to cut forward.

Fusile squeezed the ball and it flew straight behind Gibson, leaving Hulk and Gibson to fight for the spot.

Gibson turned sharply to grab a position with Hulk, but was squeezed aside by the strong Hulk, and saw Hulk stop the ball with his instep to cut inside, Gibson had no choice but to stretch out his foot and trip Hulk.

Referee Larsson blew the whistle and awarded a free-kick near the touchline.

Weak teams play strong teams, set-pieces are the magic weapon, Gao Xiaodong came to the sideline to take the free kick, Porto central defenders Alves and Rolando both came to the Arsenal penalty area to compete for a header.

Gao Xiaodong drove the ball to Arsenal's penalty area and looked for Alves, but Arsenal was also very cautious about the defense of set-pieces, Porto's high points Alves and Rolando, and striker Falcao were more than one player, and the ball was grabbed by Toure and pushed out of the penalty area.

After the ball was cleared, Fernando grabbed it, and seeing Arsenal's quick save, Fernando immediately passed back to goalkeeper Helton, and ran to the side to ask for the ball.

Arsenal fought back quickly, with players chasing Fernando and players pressing goalkeeper Helton.

Helton didn't dare to be careless and drove the ball towards the Arsenal penalty area with a big kick.

The ball was directly picked up by Arsenal goalkeeper Almunia, who tossed the ball to Cesc Fabregas and launched a quick counter-attack before the Porto defenders were fully in position.

Cesc Fabregas spun around after receiving the ball and was about to accelerate forward to dribble forward when the returning Guarin rushed over and gave him a flying tackle in a diagonal stab.

Cesc Fabregas saw everything around him when he received the ball, and he slammed the ball away from Guarin's flying tackle.

However, Fabregas had just dodged Guarin's flying tackle, and Gao Xiaodong's oncoming flying tackle arrived.

Cesc Fabregas had just returned from injury for four rounds and did not dare to risk possession of the ball, so he could only jump up and avoid Gao Xiaodong's sliding tackle.

Qiu was destroyed by Gao Xiaodong and fell to the feet of Diabi.

Diaby took the ball and pushed forward, but didn't take a few steps before Hulk caught up.

Diaby made a quick stop to flick the ball past Hulk and continue to push towards Porto's baseline.

However, Diaby's speed was not fast, and he was soon caught up by Hulk again, and this time he formed a bag for Diaby with Fusilai.

Diaby saw that the situation was not good, and immediately passed the ball to Nasri in the middle.

This time the timing was good, but the ball was too fast, Nasri started early and did not touch the ball, and the ball was grabbed by Porto defender Alves again.

The ball was passed to Gao Xiaodong, Gao Xiaodong received the ball and turned around, and without waiting for Arsenal's pressing to be in place, he passed to the right side to find Hulk and beat Arsenal's left side.

Although Arsenal has Diaby on the left side, Porto's right-back Fusile is bold in attack, Guarin prefers assists, plus Hulk in front, Diaby can't hold on the wing, and Alexander at the back. Song had to help defend to the flanks and block Porto's attacks on the flanks.

Diaby's switch to the wing did not protect full-back Gibson, and he had to ask for the help of defender Song.

After Nasri switched to the middle, he encountered the pressure of Gao Xiaodong, Fernando, and Guarin who were like wolves, and they couldn't play the role of organizing the attack with the ball at all.

Arsenal could only play the ball to the right to find Walcott and try to use Walcott's pace to find a break on Porto's left.

But Porto's left-back Sissokoho is strong and fast, Ronaldo didn't take advantage of him, and today he didn't have much offensive tasks, just defending in his own half, and with the help of Meireles, Walcot also had nothing to do with Sissokoho.

After playing for more than ten minutes in the opening game, Arsenal's attack on the right side could not be opened, and the penetration in the middle was roughly intercepted by Porto's Gao Xiaodong and Fernando, and the left side was too busy to take care of itself, and the attack was completely paralyzed, and only Cesc Fabregas used a free kick to complete a long shot.

This start has made Arsenal fans unhappy, who believe that it is a failure of Wenger's change of formation, and that Nasri and Diabie have not been able to play their due role, and that they have lost their skills.

At this time, the game was also broadcast live on the Internet forum, and fans on the Internet complained one after another:

"Oh my God, how did Diaby get to the left?"

"Can Diaby play on the wing?"

"Is there anything worse than Diabi playing on the wing?"

"Yes! What's worse than Diabi playing on the left is Nasri playing in the middle!"

"Professor, what's wrong? In the league, my brain is in water, and the Champions League is muddy. ”

"Alas, old fools!"

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Although it was seen that Diaby and Nasri were not doing well, Wenger was not ready to make changes, he stubbornly believed that it would be more difficult to switch back, and still Diaby continued to play on the wing, allowing Nasri to play in the middle.