Chapter 119: The Champions League reunion of old enemies

The league was forced to draw by Middlesbrough, and it can even be said that it was difficult to force Middlesbrough, such a result is very unfavorable for Arsenal. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

After 25 rounds of the league were forced to draw by Liverpool and this one, Arsenal, who were originally five points ahead of Manchester United, are now only one point ahead, with one round of the league remaining and the Champions League is about to enter the knockout round, and accidents can happen at any time.

Wrapping up their game against Middlesbrough, Arsenal are back in their current squad for Portugal, where they will take on Porto away.

Although this game is not about the big picture, Wenger believes it is a good opportunity to develop young players, after the last game against Middlesbrough, Wenger has clearly identified the shortcomings of the young players in the Arsenal Academy, and he feels it is necessary to let these young players grow up as soon as possible, bringing in excellent defenders from the outside is obviously not in line with the financially strapped Arsenal, unless they can go to the end of this year's Champions League.

Porto will be aiming for a home game as they will have to win at home to Arsenal if they are to have a chance of qualifying, so they can have a chance to play Valencia in their final game.

In the face of the proactive Porto team, the Arsenal team adopted a more conservative tactic in this game, Liu Han retreated as a central midfielder, the forward midfielder was Bergkamp, only Henry was on the front line, and Ribery served as the right midfielder.

Porto were determined to win and tried to attack Arsenal's goal at the start of the game, but Arsenal's young backline, who already had a first-team game, did not make the same mistake as before, and although they could not completely limit Porto's attack, they still managed to keep the goal intact.

Arsene Wenger put on a player he trusted on the central axis, which allowed the Arsenal team not to lose control of the game, and Liu Han controlled the tempo of the game well in the midfield, a job similar to what he used to do with the Lakers in the NBA.

As the first half drew to a close, Arsenal took advantage of Porto's rush to score a goal and played a very sharp counter-attack.

After Vieira broke the ball in the backfield, he passed to Liu Han who responded in front of him, Liu Han did not bring more, and directly made a long pass to Henry, Henry hit behind Porto in an offside position, and the opponent was eager to attack, and the defense line was pressed very forward.

After receiving the ball in front, Henry did not take credit, but directly crossed the middle, and the outflanking Ribery scored his first goal in the Champions League.

Porto were careless and Arsenal took the lead.

At half-time, Arsene Wenger praised the young players' performance.

After the start of the second half, the Arsenal team with the lead played more and more relaxed, while Porto was burdened with the burden of wanting to win and being afraid of losing, and played more and more impatiently.

In the end, Porto ruined their Champions League campaign at their home turf, failing to win against a youngster-saged Arsenal side and instead allowing them to win the game.

After participating in this Champions League game, the Arsenal team had a rare five-day rest.

While the last two games have been very tough, Arsene Wenger can finally breathe a sigh of relief now as at least their veterans get a respite.

Five days later, Arsenal are at home to the second leg of this season's league fixture, the North London Derby.

In the 14th round of the league, the Arsenal team came to the home of Tottenham Hotspur, and they especially Liu Han received a "warm" welcome here, which made Liu Han completely explode in the game, playing Tottenham Hotspur both lost and lost.

Now that the second leg of the "North London Derby" is here, Arsenal fans and Liu Han's supporters will not let go of this good opportunity to taunt their opponents.

Facing the derby rivals, Arsenal sent all the main players, and the previous rest allowed the veterans to be relieved to a certain extent, and at the same time allowed some young people to gradually adapt to the rhythm of the game, although the result was not too good, but at least they are still ahead of Manchester United in the standings.

Against old rivals, Tottenham have put on a strong attacking line-up and they will also want to beat their local rivals on the road.

But Arsene Wenger's arrangement is still slightly higher than Graham's. Originally, Graham was very familiar with Arsenal's backline, but in this game, there was an unexpected candidate in Arsenal's central defender position, that is, Liu Han.

After the game against Middlesbrough, Liu Han's performance in the central defender position made Wenger's eyes shine, although the team's attack is very important, but Wenger feels that Liu Han can play a role in some special games.

Facing the Arsenal backline led by Liu Han, Tottenham's strong attacking lineup fell into embarrassment, and Heraham originally planned to use the speed advantage to break through the defense of Arsenal's aging defense, but now they met Liu Han, and they didn't even have time to start to meet Liu Han's pressing.

Tottenham's attacking woes have also been porous in their defence, with Thierry Henry and Bergkamp becoming more and more compatible, and with the addition of midfielders Overmars and Ljungberg breaking through, the Tottenham defence is not too resilient.

Arsenal scored a goal each in the first and second halves of the game, with Thierry Henry netting a long-range strike and Bergkamp netting a penalty.

Arsenal won again in the second leg of the 'North London Derby'.

The win in the 29th round of the league also allowed Arsenal to maintain their lead at the top of the table.

After winning the 29th round of the league, Arsenal welcomed the last opponent of the second stage of the Champions League group stage with a pure substitute lineup, Bordeaux, which has long lost hope of qualifying, and Arsenal's position as the top of the group is unshakable.

In such a game, both sides played calmly, Arsenal are now focused on the league, and Bordeaux is also playing a difficult game in Ligue 1, so the game ended 0-0 quite smoothly.

Arsenal finished top of the group with five wins and one draw from six games, while Valencia finished second after victories over Porto and Bordeaux, and the two teams advanced to the last 16 of the Champions League together.

Arsenal and Valencia are in Group A and will face each other as second and first in Group B.

In the final round of Group B on the second day, Barcelona at Old Trafford won 3-2 against Manchester United, thus ending the Group B competition completely, with Barcelona second and Manchester United second.

That means United will play Arsenal four times this season, with them having to play Arsenal home and away games next, with old rivals reuniting in the knockout stages of the Champions League. (To be continued.) )