Chapter 280: Arsenal captures and releases Cao and the bronze boy winners

() After Liverpool advanced to the round of 16 of the Champions League, Bei Bald did not give the team a holiday.

Because the Merseyside derby is just around the corner, all the people who can run up and down the Reds must actively prepare for the battle against their rivals Everton.

However, the focus of this round is not the Merseyside derby between Liverpool and Everton, but the London derby, with Arsenal taking on the Blues Chelsea at Highbury.

Despite the dilemma, Arsene Wenger trusted the criticised Almunia as the starting goalkeeper, who has made mistakes in each of his last three games.

Not only that, but Patrick Vieira was suspended, Gilberto Silva, Edu and Sigan were all sidelined through injury, Cesc Fabregas and Flamini partnered in the middle of midfield, Ljungberg was replaced by Pire with an acute migraine, and Lauren returned to the starting line-up after the Champions League.

However, Muñerio's Chelsea were rested from the last round of the Champions League (qualifying for the previous round), so the boss will be keen to lead this consistent Blues to a league win – Chelsea have not won the Gunners in 15 league games since 1996.

Arsenal took the lead after 73 seconds when Cesc Fabregas played a long ball from midfield, Thierry Henry headed past Reyes from the edge of the box, and the Spaniard headed back to the Frenchman. Carvalho and John Terry were out of position and the unmarked Thierry Henry fired a left-footed volley into the far corner for his 14th league goal of the season.

Henry's volley stunned the crowd, and the gunners present saw the confidence to return to the top of the leaderboard.

Chelsea fought back from behind, dominating the midfield while leading Arsenal waited for an opportunity to counter-attack.

In the 17th minute, the Blues captain made up for it.

Teenager Arjen Robben whipped in a corner from the right and John Terry headed home from six yards out.

Interestingly, when Wenger recalled the ball after the game, he actually mentioned Tang Wu between the lines of regret.

The reason is simple, the ball hit Almunia on his left hand and bounced into the net. With the strength that Tang Wu showed today, if this ball hit Tang Wu's left hand, maybe it would be grasped by Tang Wuyi.

After Chelsea equalised, Arsenal scored a controversial goal in the 29th minute.

Frank Lampard fouled Pire's in front of the penalty area, the Chelsea wall has not yet lined up the human wall, referee Bol was consulting Henry about the handling of the free kick at this time, Henry suddenly bounced the ball into the bottom left corner, Cech who was directing the wall could not react, although he made a save, but the ball still went into the net, Henry also scored his 15th league goal of the season.

Such a favour towards the home team's goals naturally drew displeasure from Chelsea.

Despite being surrounded by a group of blue players, referee Bol insisted on a valid goal and pulled out a topaz card for the young and energetic Robben.

In the final 10 minutes of the first half, Arsenal's struggle to keep Duff and Arjen Robben at bay meant that Chelsea could no longer organise dangerous attacks, with more attention being paid to the fierce battle in midfield.

And just like that, with a score of 2-1, the two sides went into halftime.

Jose Mourinho made changes in the second half, with Didier Drogba and Britsch replacing Thiago and Carvalho respectively, as Chelsea changed their formation from 433 to 442.

Chelsea's substitutions were made to the same effect as the Reds did in the second half of the Champions League. One has to admire Mourinho and Benitez, who deserved to be the champions of the Champions League and Europa League last season.

Chelsea opened the second half just 30 seconds when Frank Lampard's free-kick from the left was crossed. Gara's header was headed back in front of goal, and Drogba nodded at the ball from six yards in front of goal, and the ball flew into the far corner of the goal in a bizarre arc.

In the final moments of the game, Flamini was reasonably bumped into Parker in a scramble and fell into the penalty area, and referee Bol refused to award a penalty.

In this way, the two sides shook hands with a score of 2-2.

A 2-2 score cannot but be said to be a reasonable result.

Although Arsene Wenger felt a little frustrated as his side led twice twice and were tied twice by set-pieces; Although Mourinho is also feeling a little frustrated, because his team has performed better than their opponents more often. But is this result acceptable? Both of them will probably answer in the affirmative.

It's a verdict, one without cruelty.

Decide who is stronger, not who is better, and both teams leave the pitch thinking they are the best; Deciding who will win, not who is prettier, neither team will see the 90 minutes as a drinking party, but as a war.

In this game, the gunner took off his dress and changed into a military uniform. High concentration and teamwork were used to deal with the visiting Blues.

This is undoubtedly a very positive sign.

It symbolizes that today's Premier League is not the world of the Gunners alone.

Despite the continuation of history, Chelsea are yet to claim a win in Highbury in the league. But Jose Mourinho and his Chelsea undoubtedly saw hope after the game, and for Mourinho and Didier Drogba, they proved once again that they were special.

Speaking to the camera after the game, Drogba said: "Jose Mourinho once told me that I am one of the three strongest strikers in the world today. The other two are Henry and Ronaldo. ”

A draw did not change the Premier League's first and second places, but it made the Premier League even more stalemate.

Manchester United and Newcastle both see hope of a second runner-up finish in the second half, with Liverpool and Everton even seeing a chance of winning the title.

On 11 December, there was a buzz outside the Anfield stadium.

It's packed with fans, all from Liverpool. It's just that some of these Liverpool fans are Liverpool fans and some are Everton fans.

Just as the players of both sides were warming up, the Italian newspaper "Torino Sport" announced the winner of the "Golden Boy Award".

In this year's Golden Boy Award, Lu Xiaopang defeated teammate Xiao Xiaoluo, Atletico Madrid goalscorer Torres, Chelsea's Robben, Inter Milan's Martins, Anderlecht's Kompany and Liverpool's Tang Wu and others, and won the Golden Boy Award with a high score of 233 points.

Second place goes to Ronaldo, also from Manchester United, who is only 40 points below Wayne Rooney.

The duo deserved their best results, both for club and country.

Since the selection of the Golden Boy Award is jointly scored by 30 well-known European media, the maximum score of each player is 10 points. Interestingly, Italy's "Milan Sport" and "Roma Sport" both gave Rooney a perfect score, but Spain's "Marca" and "As" both gave Rooney a score of 0, presumably because of Rooney's poor performance in the Spain vs England friendly not long ago.

The Golden Boy and Silver Boy deserved their name, but the bronze boy in third place really surprised some fans and the media. But after thinking about it carefully, I think it makes sense.

Because the young player who won the third place turned out to be Tang Wu.

He is only less than 10 points lower than Xiao Xiao Luo.

Since Tang Wu's position is a goalkeeper, he is congenitally inferior to a player like a striker in the competition. Therefore, many media have expressed their opinions, and it is fortunate that Tang Wu can be selected into the top 20, and most of them are even due to Liverpool's good defense in recent days.

Some media even predicted that Tang Wu's final score result was either the penultimate or seventeen or eighteen.

But who would have thought that Tang Wu's barb shot stunned all the media and fans in Europe, and they saw the figure of the world's top striker on a goalkeeper for the first time.

Maybe Tang Wu used to play as a striker, but that was all about the Year of the Monkey Ma Yue Chen Sesame Rotten Grain. And with Tang Wu's current physical data and mastered skills, if he plays as a striker, he is only a domestic striker at best, and he will not be elegant in Europe at all.

This is the consensus among all the media and coaches in Europe.

But in the same way, no one can deny that Tang Wu was at the moment of the barb, I am afraid that even Ronaldo could not achieve a good body stretch, and Barty could not play an extremely powerful shot in that posture.

At that moment, Tang Wu's 10,000 percent was worthy of the words "the world's top striker". Of course, only for that moment.

When the news reached Liverpool, there was jubilation again inside and outside the Anfield stadium.

The top three of the Golden Boy Award are all Premier League players, not to mention, Tang Wu also won the third crown as a goalkeeper, how to make the fans not excited?

In front of the main entrance of the stadium at Anfield, a journalist from the BBC received the news in a headset.

In order to gain popularity, the reporter randomly "caught" an old man on the side of the street and stepped forward to ask: "Hello, are you a Liverpool fan or an Everton fan?" ”