Chapter 563: Locking in the Champions League Spot

Such a score is difficult for even the most optimistic Arsenal die-hard fans to predict before the game, so after the game, the response of the media from various countries to this can be regarded as a big upset is still very enthusiastic.

In particular, the Spanish media, which held that Real Madrid would definitely advance to the final venue, the West** Stadium, paid close attention to some controversial penalties in the game, and after their unilateral analysis, they directly determined that Arsenal snatched a big victory like a robber, which is extremely immoral.

In fact, aside from a few controversial points that they made out of nothing, in the first leg of the semi-final at the Emirates Stadium, that is, two points can be regarded as the excuse that the Real Madridians found for their unexpected defeat.

The first is that Mbappe had a great chance to score after 2-0, but unfortunately his stabbing shot hit the post of the Arsenal team, and it was only less than five centimeters away from saving the team, which is a real pity.

And the second most worthy of the Spanish giants to feel aggrieved, is the penalty made by Jadon Sancho, after the multi-angle slow-motion replay, at least half of the people think it was a fake fall, because Varane has completed the action of stretching his foot to intercept at that time, and the physical contact between the two people seems to be caused by the England youngster on his own initiative. Like countless similar incidents on the football field in the past, this can be seen as a deliberate deception by the attacking players, but unfortunately the referee on duty, Kargil, did not make a decision that matched the away team, and the referee at the time did not say anything to warn him.

At the post-match press conference, Li Mudi failed to claim that it was indeed a problematic foul when faced with questions from Spanish reporters, but he still felt that this half-to-half, justified situation on both sides ultimately had to rely on the referee's on-the-spot judgment to determine, if the only thing that Cargil might have had some misconsideration was to almost kill the last possibility of Real Madrid advancing to the final. Under normal circumstances, when the score gap between the two teams is two goals or more, the referee will deliberately bias the whistle in favor of the backward side, which is also conducive to preserving the final suspense.

But it can't be said that he blew the penalty at the time, as the Spanish media did to slander Arsenal for being taken care of by UEFA, and the reason is not that everyone wants to see Real Madrid continue to win back-to-back Champions League titles.

In short, after this game, the sports media in England and Spain engaged in a war of words that lasted for weeks, and the level of the situation seemed to be more fierce than the competition in the football stadium, and it was not completely over until the end of the season.

However, the Gunners, who won a big European game, were not too involved, except that they needed to play a dangerous 90 minutes in Madrid to know if they could get their tickets to the Champions League final for the second time in their history, and because they will face the challenge of league leaders Manchester City on their home turf five days later, it will be about whether Arsenal can retain their hard-won Champions League place next season, so naturally everyone can not be distracted by other things.

The Blues suffered a narrow 2-1 defeat to Barcelona at Camp Nou on Wednesday and are relatively optimistic about qualifying, and with no other tournaments to do next week, they can confidently and boldly use their full energy in this Sunday's league campaign. The best outcome would be an away win to lift them to the Premier League one round earlier, in which case they will be able to come off the bench in the final round of the league to save their strength for the second leg of the Champions League semi-final.

Therefore, this penultimate round of the Premier League will obviously be a key battle to determine the fate of many giants, and each team enters their respective venues with the belief that they must win, and the intensity can be imagined.

However, I don't know if it's really as the outside world jokes, there is an inexplicable relationship or the so-called natural enemy relationship on the green field, and the majestic Guardiola in England is particularly embarrassed when he meets Li Mudi, and he always doesn't have too many good ways to take the latter.

The game, which was highly watched by football fans around the world and predicted to be a life-or-death heavyweight matchup, was scored less than two minutes into the game. Balco's reluctant diagonal cross, which was unexpectedly touched by Casemiro's toe under the watchful eye of two defenders, turned into a brilliant through assist that gave Belasino, who at first couldn't believe it would fall from the sky, to a golden opportunity to face Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson alone.

Thankfully, the home striker brought his focus back on the pitch in time, taking advantage of the early start to get into the visitors' box before Laporte could get back in action, and when Ederson came out near the penalty spot, he curled a shot and sent the ball into the top right corner of the opposition goal with precision to open the door to victory.

suffered a blow to the first blow at the beginning, and Gua Shuai's face naturally won't look good, and he worked hard for a whole week to develop a perfect tactical plan, but he was caught off guard, although he can't talk about giving up his efforts, but he can't let the players implement it step by step.

Fortunately, there was still a long time left, enough for City to look for an opportunity to change the passive situation, so after a brief period of panic, the league leaders returned to calm. However, their attack was a little more intense than expected, not quite in line with the strategy of focusing on stability described by Pep Guardiola in his pre-match press conference, and it was clear that the unexpected goal conceded temporarily changed their strategy.

Kevin De Bruyne has continued his career-best form over the past two years, and although he has dropped in assists from the previous two years (although he remains at the top of the Premier League assists chart this season), he has strengthened his desire to score goals, and has now scored a new personal best with 18 goals in all competitions.

Under the premise that the major stars have played evenly this season, as long as he can lead the Belgian national team to play a good result in the Qatar World Cup, then the chances of winning the World Footballer of the Year are still very high.

Therefore, with such a world-class striker in charge, Guardiola will be relieved and bold to hand over the command of on-the-spot judgment to his players, but in order to prevent the Gunners' sharp counterattack, he still deliberately emphasized that the fullbacks on both sides should not step forward to assist too deeply, and they must remain vigilant at all times.

However, his thinking changed after ten minutes, because Li Mudi thought that Manchester City, who were acceptable to draw today, would not strengthen their attack from the beginning, so he sent high school striker Chuma in the starting center forward position. But who knew that the balance of the score would be broken so quickly, and it was not only the backward visiting team that was disrupted by this accident, but also the Arsenal side that suffered a lot of interference.

Now they need to focus on defensive counterattacks, but they seriously lack speed on the front line, Belasino's explosiveness is okay, but the maximum speed ability is very unsatisfactory, Balko is also based on dexterity, long-distance running is not his specialty, plus the height of 1.9 meters, it is not realistic to want him to run faster, this lineup really can't bring much containment to Manchester City's defense. Pep Guardiola quickly lifted the seal on Algerian right-back Jusayi and Edouard Mendy, allowing them to cross the midfield line and participate in the attack.

With their assistance, attackers such as Raheem Sterling, Leroy Sane and Gabriel Jesus, who were already enough for the Gunners defence, became more and more powerful, and with Casemiro and Gundogan taking turns to get forward, Tintin's playmaking ability exploded to the maximum. The home team's goal once encountered a dangerous situation, and the fans did not dare to cheer loudly, for fear that it would distract the players and lead to tragedy.

In the 17th minute, Sane, Gabriel Jesus and De Bruyne played a wonderful succession of passes, and finally let the latter get a direct opportunity to attack the goal on the line of the central penalty area, but Ndidi interfered in time, forcing the opponent to change the angle slightly, and finally made the ball fly out of the range of the goal frame, but also shocked Leno in a cold sweat.

Four minutes later, Edouard Mendy delivered his trademark pinpoint cross down the left flank, which flew over the heads of two of the home team's centre-backs and quickly fell to Leroy Sane, who slotted forward at high speed on the other flank. The German winger showed his skill to be no slouch for his speed, unloading the ball and swinging his leg into the near corner of the net to force a world-class save from his international team-mate to keep the score 1-0 unchanged.

However, these two dangers were enough for Li Mudi to make a targeted arrangement, and he made his first personnel change less than 25 minutes into the first half, replacing Chuma with French striker Moussa Dembele, in a move to strengthen the team's deterrence on the counter-attack and force Manchester City to reduce their investment in attack.

Although this trick seems simple and crude in the past, it seems too utilitarian, but the actual effect is very ideal. When Torreira cut off Raheem Sterling's personal dribble and fed Balco in front of him, who then sent a diagonal pass to Dembele to the right side of the visitors' penalty area and a quality shot from Laporte's defence, Guardiola reluctantly opted to drop the two full-backs into his own half, otherwise the second goal could have been conceded at any time, and the game would have become more difficult.

As a result, after this substitution, there was a stalemate on the field, although the away team in control of the ball was still able to occupy some advantages, but in the face of Arsenal's solid defence, they could not create too good team cooperation for a while, and could only try to score goals through super individual skills. Kevin De Bruyne's long-range strike and Raheem Sterling's solo strike came close to levelling for City, but Leno and his team-mates kept their hopes from being achieved.

It wasn't until the 64th minute of the second half, when Guardiola brought on Bernardo Silva and veteran Sergio Aguero in one go, that the balance of the game was upset, and the visitors launched a fierce attack that led to the situation starting to heat up.

And Li Mudi also saw the move, replacing Belasino with Lacazette, who had returned from injury, and switched to the super counterattack tactics of a two-speed striker. Wilshere replaced Balko in order to ensure the defensive and thickness of the midfield, while increasing the accuracy of long-distance passing, the small threat can now send a very stable long ball in the midfield, reducing the steps of dribbling so that the ball can appear more quickly in the opponent's dangerous area when counterattacking.

The tempo of the game quickly accelerated to dizzying proportions, and although both sides had players with strong possession of the ball, the deliberate pursuit of high-impact tactical arrangements made the ball a little chaotic. It's just that under this extreme offensive and defensive rhythm, there are not many teams that can play this kind of quality, and if there is really that kind of team that can play perfectly in such a fast pace, it is estimated that it is not far from completely dominating football.

The clash has now become a contest for who will be the first to score the next goal, with City winning and the two sides returning to the same running line likely to return to a steady pace in the future, while the Gunners will have to continue to push the game to the end.

It turned out to be a favourite for the home side, as Dembele's 76th-minute breakthrough resulted in a foul on John Stones, with the England international sent off for accumulating two yellow cards. Taking advantage of the opportunity to play with one more man, Arsenal knocked on the opponent's goal again through a tactical free kick, Kolasinac received Torreira's cross and kicked a world-class long-range shot from the left outside the penalty area, Ederson was interfered with by a number of players and could not make a timely save, unfortunately becoming the background board of the Bosnian and Black people.

With two goals down and one man missing, City's predicament was clearly not something that could be overcome with perseverance alone, and even if Kevin De Bruyne scored a stunning direct free-kick in the 88th minute, he was unable to do anything to save the team's fortunes.

In the end, the Blue Moon suffered a 1-2 defeat at the Emirates Stadium, not only failed to win the championship in advance as expected, but was narrowed to one point by Liverpool, who won this round. Fortunately, they will be at home to the underdogs Stoke City in the final round, and the odds of winning are still infinite, otherwise it is really possible to create an epic Jedi counterattack for the Reds.

A week later, the 2021-22 Premier League season came to a close, with all 10 matches kicking off at 17:30 on Saturday 16 April. With the exception of Tottenham, who had no chance of changing their position, sent a group of youngsters to draw with Southampton, the rest of the Big6 teams have all won.

Among them, Arsenal defeated the desireless Wolves by one goal away, occupying the fourth position of the club with 24 wins, 9 draws and 5 losses, accumulating 81 points, and firmly getting the ticket to the Champions League next season.

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