Chapter 400: Dying Struggle

Fifteen minutes later, the second half began. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Arsenal, who were down by one goal, made adjustments to Porto's contraction at half-time, and Bendtner, who was sticking the ball on the wing, was finally moved to the middle, using Bendtner's height to allow him to finish the final blow with Adebayor.

It's not enough to set a high point in the box, and without a cross from the wing, the high point in the middle is equal to a set-up.

Arsene Wenger also made changes to the positioning of the midfield four, with Cesc Fabregas behind the two strikers, Theo Walcott and Nasri on either flank, Alexander. Song stood in front of the two centre-backs, turning into a diamond-shaped position.

Porto adhered to the principle of not repairing things if they were not broken, did not make any adjustments to the start of the first half, and continued to resolutely shrink and counterattack, striving to hold the score of 1:0.

In terms of height, Porto's two central defenders are not as tall as Adebayor and Bendtner, once Arsenal has set-pieces and corners, Arsenal's central defender Juroud comes up, then there are three high points of more than 1.9 meters, Porto is a little difficult to deal with high-altitude balls, so try to work on the side to reduce the chance of Arsenal crossing.

Although Arsenal's attack is very strong, Porto has contracted very little, just outside the 30-meter area, such a small space, in the face of Porto's encirclement and interception, their passing and cutting coordination is difficult to play, and they are often tackled or destroyed without passing three feet.

Not to mention that the attack could not be played, Porto's counterattack gave Arsenal even more headaches.

Porto has a Tiger Falcao in the middle who keeps running in front of the two central defenders, and Hulk, a strong man who can take the ball and force Gibson at any time on the wing.

The ball arrived at the feet of the Porto players, not a big foot behind the defender and let Falcao grab it, it was a mid-range pass to find Hulk, and let Hulk fight hard with Gibson.

Ten minutes into the second half, Gibson received a yellow card for a tactical foul on Hulk, which made it more difficult for Arsenal to defend against Porto's counter-attack, not only did Nasri have to return often, but defender Song did not dare to stay in Porto's half for a long time.

The commentator of Sky Sports saw that Arsenal was playing so badly, and couldn't help but say: "Now Porto has retreated all the way, I don't know what Wenger is still doing with four defenders, now it is two goals behind, not one, since Gibson can't play any role at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, then it's better to replace him." ”

Not only Martin said this, but Thierry Henry, who was sitting in a London hotel watching the game live with his Barcelona teammates, also said, "The professor is too stable, it's time to replace Gibson, the last attacking player." ”

Puyol said: "As far as Porto is concerned, two defenders are enough, three are wasteful, strengthen the high pressing, Porto can't play half the game at all." ”

Messi said: "The opponent is like Chelsea, and it is difficult to score goals. ”

Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola said seriously: "If you look carefully, if we can reach the final, the final opponent will be Porto. ”

After another ten minutes, Wenger finally couldn't take it anymore and replaced Gibson with Eduardo, leaving Sagna, Djuru and Toure in the back three and letting go of Porto for almost 30 minutes in the final 30 minutes.

Ferreira also couldn't hold his breath, he replaced Guarin and replaced Sapuruna, playing a back five to increase the height in the box.

Porto fans know that the time has come for the final showdown, and whether they can go to Rome or not, it is in the last 30 minutes.

Led by die-hard fans in the South Stand, more than 50,000 fans all stood and applauded and sang the team anthem on the pitch.

The on-site commentator shouted in his almost drowned voice: "The last 30 minutes! Wenger has used up his final substitutions, they are in a death throes, we have to concentrate! Survive and get to the final, all roads lead to Rome, and now there is only one way to Rome, and that is to beat Arsenal! Fight, Dragon!"

The coach's will was passed to the players through substitutions, and Arsenal, who let go of the game, finally burst out with amazing attacking ability.

In the 68th minute of the game, Walcott suddenly shook off Meleres and cut inside from the wing, passed the ball to Adebayor, and continued to run to the middle.

Adebayo carried Alves and passed the ball to Walcott, who then passed to Fabregas, who kept the ball and passed directly behind the Porto defenders, who lightning-fastened the gap between the defenders and stole the shot.

Porto had two midfielders and three centre-backs at the moment, but at this moment they were pierced by Arsenal's clever three-foot combination against the wall, and when Walcott volleyed, no one reacted.

Luckily, goalkeeper Helton was very focused, he pounced quickly to block Walcott's volley, and the ball bounced off Helton's arm and was kicked off the touchline by Alves.

Arsenal's attack startled the Porto, who thought they were defending with so many players and the defence was impregnable, but they didn't expect this line to be penetrated by the opponent so easily.

Goalkeeper Helton shouted at his teammates in shock: "Concentrate, don't let that kid run around." ”

Alves was also yelling at his team-mate, "Hurry up when you switch defenses, it's better to bring him down from outside the box." ”

Gao Xiaodong also shouted loudly: "Our defense is so dense, we can only use the wall to penetrate, and if we should foul, we will foul!"

Although Theo Walcott's shot was blocked, the Arsenal saw hope of scoring, and after throwing the throw-in, they continued their attacking style, hitting the wall without hesitating mistakes, and using the passivity of the defenders and the late reflexes to surprise the Porto defence.

Emmanuel stood on the sidelines and said to Ferreira: "It's dangerous, don't look at their passing mistakes, but once they cooperate successfully, they can form a great chance to shoot." ”

Ferreira sighed and said, "I also know the danger, but we can't stop their wall-banging cooperation, so we can only continue to compress their space."

In the face of this kind of continuous one-kick or even half-foot passing and cutting coordination, it is difficult to completely block the compressed space, and at most the success rate of the opponent will decrease.

Five minutes later, Nasri cut inside from the flank, Hulk followed him closely, Nasri passed the ball to Cesc Fabregas, who didn't take the ball under Gao Xiaodong's defence, ran straight over and missed the ball and passed it to Eduardo.

Eduardo, under Fernando's marking, made a wall pass to Bendtner, who leaned on Rolando to dial Eduardo's running line.

Eduardo stepped on the ball and took Fernando with him, leaving the ball behind.

When his teammates cooperated, Nasri shook off Hulk, who was distracted from the ball, followed Eduardo at high speed, and saw Eduardo leave the ball behind, and he followed with a shot.

It was another clever and unexpected teamwork as the Arsenal man once again had the chance to open the scoring in the midst of the dense crowd in Porto.

However, Nasri was flanked by people on both sides, and this line led to the goal, and Nasri had no choice but to shoot from this channel.

Goalkeeper Helton was in a good position to block Nasri's shot and it was so close that Helton didn't have time to save and the ball bounced off his leg.

The ball went straight and was coming towards Nasri.

Nasri was overjoyed and raised his foot to make up for the shot, but his foot was just lifted when a big foot came out of the diagonal spur and kicked the ball off the sideline.

It was Gao Xiaodong who cleared the siege, and when Hulk was thrown away by Nasri, Gao Xiaodong, who was very experienced and aware, followed Nasri and cleared the ball out of the sideline in time.