Hexi Gaomei Stadium

Amadora's home stadium can only accommodate 12,000 people, and even then there are so few seats, because Amadora's results are so poor, the league is rarely full, let alone the cup. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the semi-final of the Portuguese Cup on 23 April was an exception.

As Amadora unexpectedly reached the semi-finals of the Portuguese Cup, they were also able to meet Portuguese league giants Porto, although they were swept by Porto by four goals on the road, but this did not stop the enthusiasm of the fans of Aladom, and the Esade Hexi High American Stadium was full half an hour before the game

You must know that Porto eliminated the defending champion Manchester United in the Champions League and reached the last four, and Amadola's away loss of 4 goals is really not much.

Aladom's hopes of progressing to the final of the Portuguese Cup are very slim, almost zero, and the players are not thinking about qualifying, they just want to put on a good show and see if they can be favored by Porto or other giants.

Although the game is irrelevant, Porto will not be all substitutes in this game, in addition to keeping the main players in shape, Ferreira also wants to practice the formation and style of play against Arsenal.

Although Porto and Arsenal each won at home in the group stage, and Porto also won by one more goal against the Gunners, it was the group stage, Porto won the game against Arsenal, and both sides had already qualified from the group, and Arsenal did not give it their all.

Now that we meet in the semi-finals and are just 180 minutes away from going to Rome, Arsenal will definitely give it their all.

It was easier to play against Arsenal than against Manchester United.

Manchester United is an impact style of play, and the defensive counterattack is not necessarily good, but Arsenal is strong in attack and weak in defense, and Porto's only way of playing is to defend and counterattack.

Weak teams play strong teams almost always play defensive counterattacks, but not all weak teams have succeeded, how to defend and how to counterattack, this is learning, just like Mourinho's defensive counterattack can take Porto to win the Champions League and win the Premier League, and the defensive counterattack of other weak teams can't even keep relegation.

In this game, Ferreira discharged a 4231 formation, with three back midfielders Guarin and Fernando all on the field, Mereles and Hulk on both sides, Gao Xiaodong in the middle, and Tiger Falcao in front.

The game was played easily, Porto was a practice of play, and did not fight hard with Amadora, who had little hope of advancing and did not move much, and it looked more like a training match.

Because Arsenal's main left-back Klich is injured, Gallas, who can play left-back and center-back, is also injured, and another center-back Zhu Luye is injured, Arsenal's left-back has been on the field for a while at 19-year-old Gibbs, and the central defender partnered with Toure is the aging Silvestre, which is Arsenal's Achilles' heel, and Porto is practicing the right attacking style of play, hoping to score a breakthrough goal on the left side of Arsenal.

The game played 30 minutes, Porto led 1:0 away, Gao Xiaodong passed diagonally, Hulk broke through, Falcao rushed to score, this is exactly what Ferreira wants to see, the attack on the right side is very sharp, unfortunately the two midfielders Fernando and Guarin are still a little frizzy, and Gao Xiaodong needs more defense, Gao Xiaodong's defensive ability is undoubted, but this will undoubtedly weaken Gao Xiaodong's attacking power.

"This Guarin is two years older than Gao Xiaodong, why is he even more frizzy than Gao Xiaodong. ”

Ferreira stood on the sidelines and sighed.

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Anfield Stadium

Liverpool and Arsenal are in the middle of the 33rd round of the Premier League.

Liverpool have seen the silver glimmer for the first time this season, with two games more than Manchester United and one point behind United at the moment, and a win against Arsenal would see them move two points above United to the top.

Arsenal have locked up a top-four spot early this season, 10 points more than fifth-placed Everton and 10 fewer than first-placed Manchester United, and the rest of the league has almost become a garbage competition.

However, to Benitez's anger, Arsenal didn't seem to have any intention of giving up the game, and actually played Liverpool with real guns, and Arshavin scored the first goal in the opening 19 minutes.

After Liverpool scored two goals from Torres and Benayoun, Arshavin scored a hat-trick to take the lead again 3-2.

"Damn Frenchman, did you take Ferguson's black gold, and kick us so hard, aren't you afraid of being eliminated from the Champions League by Porto?"

Benitez angrily kicked the water bottle away after Arshavin scored the third goal.

Watching Arshavin score a hat trick, Wenger's eyes were full of tears, the Russians who are in such good condition and have such strong ability have no way to play in the Champions League, damn Champions League qualifications, they should have bought Arshavin in the summer transfer.

Arsene Wenger doesn't want to fight Liverpool in this game, but he doesn't want to lose to his old rivals casually, having just lost 1-2 to Chelsea in the last round of the FA Cup.

However, what Wenger didn't expect was that the players were too young, and after the form came up, they were unstoppable and actually led Liverpool at Anfield.

In the 75th minute of the game, Torres faked a shot, and the aging Sylvester equalized again, and the score became 3:3.

Then Liverpool, who was eager to win, attacked frantically, Wenger saw that Liverpool was fighting too fiercely, and was about to replace striker Van Persie, but at this time, Mascherano made a flying tackle and knocked over Van Persie, and Van Persie fell to the ground and never got up.

When Van Persie was carried out on a stretcher, Wenger's face changed dramatically, and he yelled at Benitez: "You guys are so savage!"

Benitez sneered, turned his face contemptuously, and said in his heart, old fool, don't recuperate to play the Champions League, Nima and I are fighting hard in the league, the main force is all injured, I hope God will let Arsenal be eliminated by Porto, the jealous Frenchman, he can't win the championship, and he doesn't want others to win the championship.

The team doctor then concluded that Van Persie had a recurrence of an old ankle injury and would probably not be able to play in the two Champions League semi-finals.

Arsene Wenger was dumbfounded, he had no idea that this would be the case, and if he had known it would be like this, he would have preferred to come off the bench all the time.

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On April 23, Champions League semi-final opponents Porto and Arsenal each played an inconsequential game, Porto played the Portuguese Cup, and Porto lost 1-2 away, but they still advanced to the Portuguese Cup final with a huge advantage of 4-0 at home.

There is no hope of winning the championship, the first four worry-free Arsenal and Liverpool's game has no impact on Arsenal, and it has a huge impact on Liverpool, but Arsenal unexpectedly drew 4:4 away from Liverpool, Arshavin scored four yuan, one person blocked the progress of the Red Army, so that the Red Army generals after the game were very angry.

And Arsenal were also thankless, they got an inconsequential point, and they also lost the main striker Robin van Persie, casting a shadow over their Champions League semi-finals.

After the game, the media were surprised that Arsenal played so hard in this game, some thought that the professor was brain-dead, some thought that the professor was fair play, and some thought that the professor was instructed by Ferguson to hit Benitez.

Of course, United boss Alex Ferguson was very happy, and he praised Arsene Wenger after the game, saying that Wenger is a great manager with a strong personality and a sense of justice.