184 Dark Horse

With Pizarro plus the advantage in hand, Deschamps is not an inflexible person, on the contrary, he hopes to slow down the tempo of both sides in this game, so that Arsenal's fast attack is impossible, on the one hand, it depends on the control ability of the midfield, and on the other hand, it has to rely on the rapid arrival of the defensive system to form a defensive density, as was done in the first leg.

It's much better to rely on control to achieve your goals than to defend alone, and Arsenal's frontcourt players have the ability to change Trapani's defensive positioning system, and it's not always good to be beaten passively.

Arsene Wenger will take that anticipation into his own mind, and his response will be patient, looking for Trapani's negligence in the transition between attack and defence, and Gilberto will be responsible for pressing Pizarro very tightly and limiting Pizarro's possession.

But in the first 20 minutes, Gilberto's task was not done very well, Pizarro always calmly controlled the ball, Trapani's possession rate was even higher than Arsenal's, Deschamps allowed Pizarro to return the ball more, and his pass success rate was higher, and the pass success rate was as high as 95% in more than 20 minutes.

Ribery is now thinking about his life, Giorgio is beautiful and respects his opinion, in fact, he knows very well what it means, but he has changed his mind now, a little reluctant, he watched the news, Trapani obviously has a big move in the summer, the strength of the team next season will be stronger than now, why do you want to leave in a daze?!

Juventus and Inter Milan are not as good as Trapani!

Here's the team he's more familiar with!

Ribery is entangled, the club does not hide his meaning, to be precise, Hugo has, but Deschamps disagrees, Messi is just an eighteen-year-old boy, too much responsibility is not suitable for him!

Deschamps hopes that no matter whether Ribery goes or not, he should be in the team's planning at this stage, and he needs Ribery to help!

Ribery has been away from the Champions League stage for a while, and today he got the starting position, quite hard, and the transfer was temporarily left behind him, but he was in average state positively, and he couldn't pass Eboue's pass twice with the ball!

"Frank! Frank! Don't try to force it! Be patient and slowly get back to your state! Deschamps couldn't resist shouting at Ribery from the sidelines with his palms rolled up into a megaphone.

It's important to be able to reduce your unforced mistakes!

Twenty minutes later, Arsenal's situation was much better, Gilberto was back in form, and Pizarro was more urgent, Pizarro had a hard time getting the ball, and on several occasions he retreated to the defence to get the ball, so that Trapani was much less of a threat.

Arsenal took the opportunity to play a couple of good combinations, scrambling from close range and pinpoint long-range shots from the edge of the box, but they still lacked some luck in the end.

Deschamps has always said that it is himself who controls his own destiny in such a knockout game, but the necessary luck is also indispensable, Trapani slowed down in the first half, Messi and Ribery's number of explosive points have also decreased a lot, Deschamps's tactical thinking affects the whole team, if this is a single game and a showdown, Deschamps will not hesitate to hope to deal with the opponent with Trapani's specialty attack, but this is a knockout round, obviously has a great advantage, the team is in a state of exhaustion during this time, they are gritting their teeth and insisting on it than Juventus, why fight with your opponent?!

Deschamps himself has to be glad that the return of the injured is very timely, otherwise the team is very likely to collapse, the players are also people, and people will be tired, such a long season, coupled with the impact of the World Cup and the late start of the league, the schedule is intensive, and it is difficult for young players to adhere to the belief of the championship.

Juventus may have to be in such good form thanks to Sheikh Trapani, and without Trapani's form, they may not be in such good form.

The score of the first half ended 0-0, Arsenal seemed to perform better, Trapani did not have many bright spots, and Messi and Ribery played two good games with three people, but in the end did not create a scoring chance!

Hugo is not particularly satisfied with the game, Deschamps is a little conservative, it may be that coaching Monaco to the final will grow a trench and grow wise, and Deschamps will also be flexible!

Morek and Giorgio, Sailly and others went to the locker room at halftime, but Hugo did not, Hugo said to Lu Fan that he was afraid that he would add too much pressure to the players, and he hoped that the players could relax!

He was wrong, the players were calmer than he expected, the advantage of three away goals was huge, and they managed to hold the first half, even if the players in the front field did not like Deschamps's slightly conservative tactics, they were willing to obey orders and help defend!

A good team has to be like this, and it needs to be sacrificed for tactics! Everyone works hard to win the championship!

If everyone wants to show themselves, then it will be difficult to win this championship, unless this team has Messi, Ronaldo, Zidane, Ronaldo and the like!

With a fifteen-minute break, the second half of the game began quickly!

Neither Arsene Wenger nor Didier Deschamps made any personnel changes.

There were some changes in Arsenal's tactics in the second half, first of all, the formation must have been a little forward in the first half, and it was Wenger's fault in the first half.

On the Italian side of the TV, Paulo. Rossi said Arsene Wenger should also move the formation forward and shorten the distance between the midfielders and the midfielders and forwards, so that they can press high and counter-attack on the spot.

The second is that the passing is more direct and concise, and now it is still a circle with a hairy circle!

From the first minute of the second half, with Arsenal's tactical adjustments, the rhythm was completely driven by Arsenal, and the high pressing was even worse, of course, they are now showing a lot of gaps.

The two sides began to fight against each other, Deschamps was in a hurry, which was not what he wanted, but Pizarro was forced to turn around several times, and he couldn't find the way to the ball!

Deschamps nervously directed his players to position on the sidelines, and had to give way to Pizarro's pass, otherwise it would be a problem sooner or later.

Unable to find a good way to do it, he also began to let Trapani use direct transitions, Ribery and Messi to pull apart, use width to open up the Arsenal defence, and then let Klose operate.

This is how the offensive battle between the two sides was played, and the stadium became a place to compete against the quality of the players, especially the quality of the defensive players.

The intensity of the confrontation between the two sides was also much higher than in the first half. Taylor's praise for Trapani was the same, and Trapani's defensive players were not bad, with several tackles on both wings to make successful interceptions.

On the contrary, the defense on Arsenal's side, especially the wing, seems to be not enough to see, and the number of breakthroughs by Ribery and Messi began to increase, and in the 70th minute, Trapani ushered in the best opportunity in the pre-game stage, Messi's cross, Toney unloaded the ball and shot very chic, but it hit the post.

Arsenal's luck finally came, in the 78th minute, Barzagli made a mistake when intercepting and was cut off by Henry, Henry took advantage of a very awkward position to shoot, Kameni was caught off guard, saved and got off, Hleb stabbed and helped Arsenal pull one back!

The time of the game was running out, Deschamps simply made substitutions, replacing Messi with Maggio, replacing Ribery with Cesar, and then replacing Toni with Li Tie, with an iron-hearted defense!

Arsene Wenger also made a substitution, replacing Senderos with Bam Adebayo, offering a two-centre-forward tactic and reducing one centre-back.

The impatient Arsenal players began to frequently get high crosses, but Adebayo got a poor chance, this guy is tall and strong, and there is a lot of small movement from Trapani.

It's just such a siege situation, the general physical confrontation in the penalty area, and it is difficult for the referee to give a penalty with small actions!

In the end, Arsenal won the game, but were eliminated!

The Arsenal players were eclipsed, they died in front of the biggest dark horse!