Chapter 396: The Price of Adventure
Porto have a one-goal lead, are very aggressive in defending, have a lot of movement, but are solid in attack, try to pass safely, and reduce the risk of being counter-attacked by the opponent after conceding a goal. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Fernando took a few meters forward, saw the opponent coming to block, and passed the ball to Hulk, Hulk was the same, seeing that the left side was tightly defended, when the opponent came to press, he passed the ball back to Gao Xiaodong, slowing down the rhythm and consuming time as much as possible.
Time is on Porto's side, and the Arsenal are now racing against the clock, and when Porto's players have the ball, they press harder than Porto.
Although Arsenal only put two men up front, the two wing-backs, Nasri and Theo Walcott, pressed very high and were like wingers, and they pressed the defenders with all their might, leaving Porto unable to keep the ball safe at the back.
Under Arsenal's quick pressing, Porto finally lost the passing lane after passing back to goalkeeper Helton, who drove forward with a big kick.
Falcao struggled to compete with Toure, his header was very good, but the height difference was large, the ball was easily pushed by Toure to his companion Julu, Julu stopped the ball and passed to Song, Song passed to Fabregas who retreated to get the ball, Fabregas did not stop the ball and went directly to Walcott, Arsenal continued to attack from the side.
At this time, Sagna had already made a quick assist and involved Meleles.
Cesc Fabregas split the side too quickly and Fernando was a step slow to make up the flank, and Walcott had the chance to single out Sissokoho.
Through the last match, Walcourt knew that Sissokoho's speed was not slow, he did not use his speed to eat, but made a bottom-down move, and suddenly cut cross-cutting behind Fernando, who had just finished the side.
Fernando was shaken, his feet mixed with garlic, and he almost fell to the ground, unable to return to the middle. Sissokoho had to keep running after Walcott.
Van Persie was alert and Walcott returned the ball with his heel to Van Persie.
Seeing Van Persie take the ball, Meleleles gave up Sagna to return to the defense at high speed.
Despite Meleleles' late return, Van Persie had already passed the ball when he flew to intercept.
It was a boccia ball, with Adebayo and Walcott in the middle grabbing the spot, with Porto's two centre-backs splitting the flanks to defend Adebayo and Walcott.
Alves restrained Adebayo well, but Walcott was faster and more agile, and Rolando got stuck in position, but Walcott went around the front to grab the landing.
Walcott took an arc, half a step slower, just rubbed the ball off, missed the spot, and the ball flew off the line against the post.
There were a lot of exclamations from the stands, and just over five minutes into the game, Arsenal created a dangerous chance to shoot, and the Porto fans were a little panicked.
However, after the Porto people panicked, Arsenal fans panicked when they saw Van Persie fall to the ground after just passing the ball and did not get up.
Van Persie injured his ankle last time, injured his knee last time, and the injury was just right, and Arsenal fans have been worried about it for this life-and-death battle, but he didn't expect Van Persie to fall in just five minutes.
"Van Persie won't have a recurrence of the old injury, in fact, he was just hit by Meleles who returned to the defense, the action is really not big, don't get injured so soon, Van Persie is very important to Arsenal's attack, he is Arsenal's Bergkamp. "Porto's on-site commentator said it was a pity, but there was a hidden joy in his tone.
Arsene Wenger's heart lifted into his throat, and he clasped his hands and stared at Van Persie to see if he could still stand up.
It was fine, and after a while, Van Persie rubbed his knee and stood up and re-entered the game, and Wenger breathed a sigh of relief.
The game went on, and the Arsenal attackers, who were in desperate need of victory, played very resolutely.
After Djouh's return, the Arsenal defenders have been more solid at the back and the two full-backs have been more assured.
After Van Persie came on the pitch, with Van Persie's flexible movement and ball, Adebayor was no longer alone, and the forward line put a lot of pressure on Porto.
Five minutes later, in the face of Porto's high pressure, Arsenal, who played well, still controlled the ball and got more and more shots.
In the fifteenth minute of the game, Arsenal played two sides of Porto in a row, and after pulling the edge of Porto's penalty area away, Nasri suddenly crossed the middle.
Fabregas faced Gao Xiaodong's defense, passed the ball directly to Van Persie without stopping, and stepped forward himself.
Van Persie ran outside the box with the ball under Rolando's defence and passed it to Adebayor.
Adebayo was in the penalty area, Alves did not dare to foul, and could only cling to Adebayo.
Adebayor didn't stop the ball either, passing straight to Cesc Fabregas.
Fabregas, under Gao Xiaodong's defense, kept the ball back with his forefoot and passed it to Van Persie.
Although it was a three-on-three defense at this time, Arsenal's successive wall-to-wall cooperation stunned Porto's defense, and by the time Cesc Fabregas passed the ball to Van Persie again, Rolando was out of position and had to take a risk to save.
Van Persie is a left-footed player, and Rolando has worked well, taking risks and making a save, also from the middle to the left, not giving Van Persie the opportunity to shoot from the left.
But Van Persie was a left-footed right-footed man, as he slotted the ball past Rolando with his left foot and followed it up with a right-footed shot.
Just when Van Persie smashed the ball, Gao Xiaodong had already arrived in a hurry, he didn't have time to steal, and directly slammed on the ball shot by Van Persie.
Gao Xiaodong bought volley skills, the timing of the kick was very good, the ball just left Van Persie's feet, and was smothered back by Gao Xiaodong, the ball hit Van Persie's kicked foot, and Gao Xiaodong's strong force on the ball was also transmitted to Van Persie's feet at the same time.
The ball flew out and Van Persie fell to the ground again.
Because Van Persie had fallen to the ground once before, and this time it was equivalent to a kick, everyone didn't care, and the ball didn't fly too far, the players of Arsenal and Porto were in a hurry to grab the ball, and no one cared about Van Persie.
The ball was grabbed by the returning Meleleles, who did not dare to be careless and kicked a big kick out of the touchline.
The ball was cleared, and everyone found that Van Persie was lying on the ground and had not yet gotten up.
Don't get into trouble, don't get into trouble. Arsene Wenger's heart hung in the air again, and every fall of Van Persie and Jolu made his heart skip a beat.
Everyone thought that Van Persie would get up and continue the game like before, but this time Van Persie did not stand up, but sat on the ground and made a substitution gesture.
Wenger's heart suddenly plucked cold, he knew that letting Van Persie play was a risk, but at the moment of life and death, he had to take this risk, he didn't expect Arsenal's luck to be so bad, just 15 minutes after playing, Van Persie was injured again.
But in an instant, Wenger took his anger out on Gao Xiaodong, and when he came on the stretcher, he angrily scolded Ferreira: "You are too savage! ”
Ferreira was angry and shouted angrily at Wenger: "Is that an interception good!
Soon, the big screen on the stadium gave a slow motion of Van Persie's injury just now, Gao Xiaodong was not wrong, it was a match for the ball through the ball, and Van Persie, who had little strength, suffered a loss, causing an old injury.
Wenger sighed, only to consider himself unlucky, and put Bendtner on the pitch to replace the injured Van Persie.
The on-site commentator sighed: "Van Persie's role at Arsenal is irreplaceable, he not only has excellent shooting skills, but also can provide inspiration and imagination, but unfortunately he was injured again, it can't be said that Wenger let Van Persie play is a mistake, the Champions League semi-finals are life and death, any coach will take risks, but ...... That's the price of risk......"