Chapter 520: Calm Arsenal

"Figo picks up the box...... Tony takes the ball to the top! It's dangerous! Lehmann made a brilliant save and kept the ball out with one hand! The German goalkeeper has been so good this season that it's no wonder that the head coach of the German national team, Jurgen Klinsmann, is considering using him as the main goalkeeper at the World Cup instead of Kahn! Corner kick! It was Inter's fourth corner of the first half and it was the twenty-fifth minute of the game......"

With the commentator's words, Wenger's brows also furrowed, during this time Inter Milan's attack became more and more violent, they always intercepted Arsenal's attack on the wing, and then quickly launched a counterattack, two strikers and Figo are their main attacking force, and now this set-piece ......

A large number of Inter Milan players poured into the penalty area, although Cordoba was not on the field, but Yaya Toure has a greater height advantage in the penalty area, compared to his brother Big Toure, Yaya Toure is younger, but more powerful.

With him and Materazzi, as well as two high strikers, Arsenal's air defense, while equally strong, is a bit of a trade-off.

Figo took a corner kick, Adriano shook his head in front of the goal, and the ball hit the side netting, shocking Lehmann into a cold sweat.

Wenger couldn't sit still, he shouted twice on the sidelines, telling the players not to concentrate on the left side of the attack - although Maggio seems to be a weakness, but Inter Milan protects this side well, if they continue to attack in this area, it will make Inter Milan's defense more targeted - such a bold arrangement also surprised Wenger, Dick, a young man, does have a lot of ideas.

After Arsene Wenger's roar, Arsenal's attack began to blossom more and more, and although Thierry Henry was more accustomed to attacking from the left, there were also Ljungberg and Rosicky, who were not bad on the right and in the middle.

Cesc Fabregas dribbled forward and passed the ball to Rosicky before Yaya Toure came up to intercept, and Mascherano immediately met him - this is also Dick's intention to send Yaya Toure in this game, sacrificing some organizational skills in exchange for the thickness and interception ability of the midfield, so that Arsenal's midfield duo could not be better organized.

Although Arsenal uses more defensive counterattacks in the Champions Cup, their defensive counterattacks are still very different from ordinary defensive counterattacks, and the ability of several midfielders to control the ball also plays a great role.

At the beginning of the game, the effect seemed to be very average, but as the game progressed, Dick's arrangement began to gradually disrupt Arsenal's attacking rhythm!

"The pace is starting to pick up."

Many people have noticed this, if in the previous game it seemed relatively dull, two or three minutes before an attack was completed, now the pace has obviously become much faster, almost a minute to complete an attack!

Such an increase in the pace at least means that Arsenal can no longer control the slow pace!

To be able to do this, it has to do with Inter Milan's approach to launching a fast attack quickly after interception, once or twice can't drive the rhythm, but what about three or four times, five times or six? Inter Milan's attack is fast, Arsenal's defense must be fast, and when they are down-footed at the back, Inter Milan will be ruthless in the front court, the more it is passed to the front, the more pressure Arsenal players get with the ball, and they can only speed up the pass to avoid being cut off!

Wenger's brows are getting tighter and tighter, Dick's tactics are very simple, what you want to do, I will make you unable to do anything, against other teams with excellent on-the-spot command ability, this approach may not be of great benefit, but in the face of Arsenal, Wenger gives the players on the field the highest degree of freedom among the top coaches in Europe, and his on-the-spot command can be regarded as a shortcoming that is not a shortcoming.

While Arsene Wenger was still thinking, Inter's quick attack finally worked!

In the 36th minute, Yaya Toure forced forward with the ball in the midfield, relying on his physical fitness to break through Rosicky's defense, when Fabregas and Gilberto Silva met him, he raised his foot and passed the ball to Figo, Figo pretended to break through from the right side with the ball, but raised his foot to send a beautiful transfer, the ball fell directly to the feet of Stankovic, Stankovic passed diagonally to Tony at the front of the penalty area, and then he stepped forward, Toni still passed the ball horizontally under Toure's interference, Stankovic, who stepped forward, grabbed the ball in front of Eboue, then picked up his left foot and did not shoot, but picked up a cross into the penalty area!

Adriano rushed from outside the box, and when Senderos interfered with him, he used his strong body to block Senderos from the outside, stopped the ball with his chest, and then picked up his left foot and shot hard in the box!

In the face of such a close-range volley, Lehmann made a save, but he couldn't stop the ball from flying into the goal - the ball smashed into his hand and flew upwards and into the Arsenal goal!

"Oooo The ball is in! Adriano! The Brazilian's ninth goal in the Champions League this season! This allowed him to tie the previous No. 1 Shepchenko for the top spot in the Champions Cup scorer list! Arsenal's record of not conceding a goal in the knockout rounds ended in the fifth game! In the face of Inter Milan, which has extremely strong offensive ability, even Arsenal has not been able to do it at home without conceding a goal! This is a huge blow for Arsenal! The end of the record of not conceding a goal is only a small quarter, but in the first game of the two-legged match, the home team conceded a goal, which is not a good situation! ”

"Inter Milan have basically won the games where they have scored first this season, only a few draws have been made, and they are all unbeaten! If this record continues, it will not be good for Arsenal, because Inter Milan will be good for them even if they return to the Stadio Meazza with a draw, as they have already scored valuable away goals in the game! In a game like the Champions Cup semi-finals, an away goal can play a big role, and Inter Milan should be deeply touched by this, when they reached the Champions Cup semi-finals three years ago, they were eliminated by AC Milan because of an away goal, and they missed the final! ”

The commentator's words were a stab in the heart of the Inter Milan fans, but at this time they couldn't care about the sadness, this goal gave them the lead away from home and won an away goal, and there is no doubt that they have already taken the lead in the semi-finals of the Champions League!

Arsene Wenger has not made any adjustments, believing that his tactics and players on the pitch are the best at the moment, and although Inter Milan have scored a goal at a faster pace, Wenger is confident that his side will be able to score goals if they play in their own way - of course, it is still unknown whether they can win or not.

His calm behavior on the sidelines calmed down the Arsenal players - Wenger has indeed worked hard this season to make Arsenal show as calm as Juventus on the pitch - even in the history of the final, the goalkeeper was sent off in the first ten minutes, Arsenal is still calmly entangled with Barcelona, and relied on a set-piece to take the lead, if it were not for the substitute Larsson with two assists to create a reversal, Arsenal's performance in the final is a classic.

So at this time, Wenger did not move because he trusted his players, and his players deserve his trust.

At least this season, Arsenal have been strong, so strong that in such an adverse situation, they have been able to counter-attack quickly without being affected by the goal conceded.

After the restart, Dick looked at the Arsenal players who were silently attacking, and frowned slightly.

He knows that Arsenal's performance in this season's Champions Cup is extremely stable, but to be stable to this point, he did not expect, you must know that Arsenal has won a blank Champions Cup in history, and Wenger has won many championships, but his number of victories in European history is also a zero - he has led Monaco and Arsenal to the Cup Winners' Cup and the League Cup finals, but they all lost in the final, and now in such an important semi-final, the home team can not be affected by conceding a goal first, It's no fluke that they reached the final of the Champions League this season.

However, Dick didn't make any moves, at this time he was the same as Wenger, very calm, after all, the advantage was on his side, even if he was equalized by Arsenal, the situation was still in his favor, away 1-1, and away 1-0, in fact, there is not much difference.

Henry took the ball and cut inside from the left, Maggio was still thrown away by him despite keeping up with his pace, after the breakthrough, Henry passed the ball into the penalty area, Cannavaro flew in front of Ljungberg to shovel the ball out of the bottom line, Cesc Fabregas took a corner kick, Senderos and Gilbert grabbed the goal in the penalty area twice in a row, and the Inter Milan players who returned to the defense struggled to block it with their bodies!

After withstanding Arsenal's counterattack, Inter Milan also proved their toughness with their attack, Figo made a long pass near the center circle, Toure made a mistake in clearing, Adriano took the ball on the left side of the penalty area and crossed, the ball crossed Lehmann, but unfortunately the follow-up Toni was a step slower, the ball slid past his feet, and then slid out of the bottom line!

Just when the Arsenal fans were frightened by this attack, the Arsenal players silently launched the attack again, and it was Henry who forced a breakthrough along the side and then planned to cut inside, and Maggio, who returned to the defense, struggled to shovel the ball out of the bottom line, a corner kick.

Henry personally took a corner kick and was pushed out by Materazzi, but under the interference of Senderos, he failed to push the ball to the front, but to the side, Henry controlled the ball again, and slowly broke through to the penalty area.

Rosicky dribbled the ball diagonally, raised his foot to pass the ball to the middle before Maggio came to defend, and the follow-up Toure rushed to the ground in front of his brother and tackled, Cesar fell to the ground a step too slow, and the ball rolled into the door of Inter Milan from the near point!

Five minutes after Inter Milan's goal, Arsenal equalised from a set-piece!

The Emirates Stadium immediately turned into a sea of joy, and after the previous suffocating silence, to be able to see such a goal undoubtedly gave Arsenal fans great hope!

Manchester United won the Champions Cup, Liverpool also won the Champions Cup! Now it's our turn!

With this in mind, the Arsenal fans let out a frantic shout, and they kept shouting at the stadium, hoping that Arsenal could continue to take the lead, even if there were only a few minutes left in the first half......