When Descartes showed off his new free-kick skills, Chelsea's defence was in a dilemma, and while no one dared to pat their chests and say that their own free-kick would be won't be scored, no one could guarantee that someone else's free-kick would not be scored, right?

Chelsea's two-stage dispersion was based on blocking Arsenal's passes and breaks, and when Arsenal came up with their other weapon, set-pieces, it was in fact a ruthless dismantling of Chelsea's defence.

So Scolari could only sigh helplessly, Chelsea's defense returned to the normal normal, with two midfielders and four defenders, giving up the means of high blocking.

When Ballack dropped back from a midfield position to Essien's side, Cesc Fabregaston, who had been trapped for more than 80 minutes in the half, began to shake off Frank Lampard's frequent advances and into the front of the pitch, and with him providing fire in midfield, Arsenal's attack suddenly became violent.

At this time, the Arsenal fans in the stadium also felt the change in the situation, especially when Arsenal began to attack around the Chelsea goal in turn, their cheers became louder, as if they had never been broken, wave after wave, shaking Scolari's face in the dugout.

The goal finally came just before the end of the game, and in the 92nd minute, Van Persie received a through pass from Cesc Fabregas, which was the only one of the game for the French to send into the box, and then he slipped past the onrushing Cech and fired home from a tight angle.

When the goal was scored, the Chelsea players crossed their backs. Standing there gasping for breath, their eyes were no longer confused, but numb, in fact, by the time Descartes scored the first goal, they had already vaguely seen the end.

During the Three Kingdoms, Lu Su once said something very famous to Sun Quan: "Everyone can surrender to Cao, but the general cannot." "It is to the effect that if Sun Quan's horse boys demote Cao Cao, it will be a big deal to change their names and continue to be officials, but if Sun Quan demotes Cao Cao, he can only be an idle marquis with no power at most, and he can't even save his life if he doesn't do it.

This sentence actually fits well with Scolari and the Blues now. Lost this game. There's no way Abu can kick all the players out, right? The boss will definitely not admit that it is his fault, so he has to find someone to come out and carry the black pot, who is more suitable for this candidate than Scolari?

So the Blues want to win. But it doesn't have to be desperate. Scolari, on the other hand, had to gamble his future and fate on this bunk.

It turns out. He lost the bet.

Football is an increasingly cold workplace, willing to gamble and lose, when this game is over. Scolari immediately handed in his resignation, and after two minutes of "careful consideration", manager Abou accepted his resignation. Clement was promoted to first-team firefighting coach on an interim basis.

The news was certainly more interesting to the media than Arsenal's win over Chelsea, and the next day's newspapers and news were filled with the backs of the former five-star Brazilian boss Phil who had left Stamford Bridge, with few noticing that Arsenal were getting closer to their first trophy in five seasons.

Their next opponent is Everton, who won a surprise home game against Manchester United.

The match will not take place until May 30 and will be played in Manchester, 3,000 miles away from the two teams.

This is the FA Cup's consistent rule, all matches are played in a single round-robin knockout format, the venue is determined by the draw of lots between the two sides of the game, the drawn side as the home team, if the first leg of the two sides do not decide the winner, then the two sides will play the second leg at the home of the other team, if the second leg draws again, there will be extra time until penalties.

Only the venue for the final will be held on a neutral stadium, which is equally fair to both teams.

May 30 is a distant concept for Arsenal right now, as they have to return to the Emirates Stadium after their win over Chelsea to continue facing Champions League knockout rivals Villarreal.

In the first leg of the game, Pire's actions after scoring touched almost half of the world's fans, and even many Arsenal fans were full of nostalgia and gratitude, so in this game, the No. 7 shirt with the word Pire's words printed on it appeared in the stands of Arsenal, and there were many words of thanks to Pire.

I don't know if it was the return to his hometown that made Pire's mood not fully settled, or whether the friendliness of the Arsenal fans in the stands weakened his heart, and his performance in this game was significantly lower than the first leg, so he was replaced by Manuel Pellegrini on 64 minutes.

But as he walked to the sidelines, he heard the tsunami of shouts at the Emirates Stadium, and Pire silently lowered his head, and the camera camera keenly captured that at the moment he lowered his head, an elite light dripped from his face onto the turf.

Pire was not alone, Villarreal's overall form in this game was not satisfactory, and Caraso was defeated by Alexandria. Song was stubbornly entangled, and Nihat, who was as quick as a cunning rabbit in the previous round, also fell into the fast lane of Chlich, and the only one who could pose a threat was their high school striker Llorente.

But Llorente is not Drogba after all, at 1.84 meters, he can't take much advantage of Silvestri and Vermaelen, and in the end, Arsenal relied on the goals of Descartes, Nasri and Vermaelen to successfully advance to the Champions League semi-finals 3:0.

In front of them, it happened to be the old rival Manchester United.

When the matchup table came out, the world was in an uproar, because Arsenal was only 4 points behind Manchester United in the league standings, and met the Red Devils unexpectedly in the Champions League.

However, compared to Manchester United, Arsenal's closing journey was much more bumpy, with a break from April 22 to May 24 in the Premier League. Arsenal's league opponents include Liverpool, Myburgh, Portsmouth, Chelsea, Manchester United and Stoke City, while the Red Devils are only against Wigan Athletic, Tottenham, Myburgh, Manchester City, Arsenal and Hull City.

Such fixtures definitely give United the upper hand, and the only opponents to worry about are Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur, while their remaining three meetings with Arsenal this season are scheduled for April 30 (Champions League), May 6 (Champions League) and May 16 (league) respectively, so to speak, as long as they cross the hurdle for Arsenal. Their league title this season is largely worry-free.

Actually, at the beginning of the season. People thought that Manchester United, without Cristiano Ronaldo, would usher in a low point this season, but Ferguson proved with facts that Manchester United can do without anyone, as long as he is still there. This is the Red Devils who never say die. Even Mourinho was in Italy at this time and praised the old man: "I believe you can pick 11 people at Old Trafford to give him. He can still take this team into the Premier League title race. ”

With 22 years of consistent performance, Lord Ferguson has permanently engraved himself on the name of Manchester United.

Although the next opponent was not easy, it was a relief for Arsenal. The FA Cup competition has come to an end, and the three-day intensive schedule has finally come to an end, with most of the next games interspersed with one or two Champions League games in the league, as long as you grit your teeth, you can get through the season.

But if they still have the title to play, the next league game against Liverpool cannot afford to lose.

At this time, Arsenal up and down felt a tense atmosphere in the Kearney training base, although Wenger has 3 crowns in hand, but now the group of players who follow him are fledglings with no experience in the Premier League, although Vermaelen and others have the title of the Eredivisie or other league champions, but as Premier League newcomers, they still feel a sincere awe of the "world's first league" crown, thinking that this season will be possible to touch this honor, Even the muscles of their bodies tense.

This mentality quickly caught on and became contagious within the team, and when Arsene Wenger realised the seriousness of the problem, his side simply collapsed against Liverpool.

36 minutes, 3 goals behind, this is the first half record of Arsenal at Liverpool's Anfield Stadium, all the Arsenal players seem to suddenly become unable to play, their movements are stiff, their thoughts are completely unable to concentrate, and even stopping the ball is a frequent mistake, in the Liverpool players are puzzled and with joy, Arsenal swallowed three bombs in the first half, Anfield's Reds fans were bad, they held up the red scarves in their hands, and sang undisguised sarcasm to Arsenal while jumping: " It's going to crash again, oh, you're the crash champions of every season! ”

Arsene Wenger turned around and walked back to the dressing room without waiting for the whistle at the end of the first half, and the Arsenal players on the pitch were also confused, they couldn't understand why they were still dreaming of the title before the game, but after the first half, the team seemed to have fallen into a cold abyss.

The shadow of the collapse looms over all Arsenal players, in fact, they have experienced this embarrassment every year for the past three seasons, no matter how good they are at the beginning of the league, at the end of the season, they are always getting farther and farther away from the title, what is wrong with this team?

None of the Arsenal players who returned to the dressing room spoke, they all sat quietly in their seats, some wrapped their heads in towels, some looked at the ground with blank eyes, and the whole dressing room was frozen in silence.

The sound of Arsene Wenger tapping the tactical board woke the players who were in a state of confusion, and his face was not entirely angry, but rather a little alarming: "I know you're all disappointed, and I know it's not like you're not doing your best. ”

The professor's first words calmed the players' mood a little, at least it wasn't a criticism of them.

"But we have to find the problem and work together to solve it." Arsene Wenger subconsciously tapped twice on the tactical board: "I think you are overly nervous right now, the pressure of the championship has made you forget how to play. ”

He glanced at the players, some of them had a bright light in their eyes, others were still thinking.

"These are very normal emotions, and to be honest, I'm nervous right now." Arsene Wenger's voice remained steady and calm: "It's just that I'm a little more experienced than you, so I know how to control this emotion, and you also need to learn how to control it now." ”

"Take it easy, you should think about it, it's just one of 38 league games, we've played so many games, why bother with one of them? Liverpool are a strong opponent but we have beaten them before, so we don't have to fear them, we have to believe in our quality and as long as we put on a normal performance, Liverpool are not our opponents at all! ”

Arsene Wenger's words lit up in the eyes of most of the players, but there were still some who had questions in their hearts: "Boss, but we are three goals behind now, what should we do?" ”

"Forget him!" Arsene Wenger's tone was resolute and unquestionable: "Forget those three goals, when we played, we should think like this, there are 45 minutes left in the game, as long as we can score a goal every ten minutes, we will win in the end, don't care how many goals the Liverpudlians score, you just have to tell yourself that as long as we can keep scoring goals, we will win." ”

Arsene Wenger's psychology degree was not in vain, and when the Arsenal players were on the pitch in the second half, they were completely different from the first, and although the pressure was always on to go down by three goals, the players were clear about the goal of the game, which was to score at least one goal every ten minutes, and if they could do it, they would still be the winners.

Sometimes it's a very happy and powerful thing to have a specific goal, if you tell the players in general terms that we have to win this game, we have to reverse it, then the players may be drummed down because the goal is not clear, but when Wenger is specific to what to do at each stage, the players will try to execute according to the requirements at each stage, and the implementation is much more motivated.

Is it hard to score a goal every 10 minutes? Of course it's difficult, the most common scores in football games are 1:0, 2:0, and it is possible to score one or two goals in the whole game, and if there is a team that can score a goal every ten minutes, then they can be called invincible.

But scoring a goal every 10 minutes isn't as hard as you might think, and the shortest hat-trick in world football comes from English second division side Bonemouth's James Brown. Heyter, he scored 3 goals in a total of 2 minutes and 20 seconds!

Even in the Premier League, Defoe, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Fowler and others have also staged a record of "hat-tricks" in 7 minutes, so from this point of view, as long as you catch up a little, it is not so difficult to score goals.

Of course, this kind of record is not more likely to occur than buying a lottery ticket, but if you expand this kind of thing from one player to one team, then the record of scoring four goals in 45 minutes abounds.

Didn't Liverpool also score three goals in 36 minutes in the first half?

All Arsenal have to do is replicate what the Liverpool players did in the first half and then score one more goal than them in the crucial moments, and this game is not without chances.

The question is, when will their first goal come? (To be continued.) )