Chapter 124: Festivals
Xiao Yang's face became solemn, and he pondered for a moment before saying: "I am confident of winning the game at any time, but we did not get an ideal result in the home game, and in the away game, we met an opponent like Arsenal, and no one dared to say that we were sure of winning." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info But the Gosho team and I will do our best to win! ”
In the next day's "Gosau People" newspaper, Christine published an enthusiastic article, in which he first congratulated the Gosau team on the success of defending the Swiss Super League title, and then he counted the growth of the Gosau team along the way, he reviewed all the key battles of the Gosau team on the way forward, many wonderful moments, he wrote that the Gosau team under the leadership of Coach Xiao Yang, thriving and vibrant, their future will be more brilliant, and the Gosau team has the prototype of a dynasty team. Finally, he wished Gosho a victory over Arsenal in the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals.
Christine's article caused a warm response in the Swiss media and also caused a lot of controversy. Does Gosho already have the rudiments of a dynastic team? What should a dynasty team look like? They should be invincible for at least a few years, at least defending the domestic top league title, and they should have one or two European titles with enough weight. In people's minds, there are Real Madrid, which has won the European Champions Cup seven times, AC Milan in the era of the Three Musketeers, Manchester United in the Treble period, and Barcelona in the past few years.
Now Gosau has defended the title in the domestic league and has a Europa League, but the Swiss league championship and the Europa League championship are always a little not enough in people's hearts, so many people believe that Gosau has the potential to become a dynasty team, but to really become a dynasty team, at least one or two Champions League trophies need to be won, and the Champions League semi-finals three days later are their first steps towards achieving this goal.
The Gosau team arrived in London two days ahead of schedule to prepare for the much-anticipated Champions League semi-final. Arsenal are widely favoured for this second-leg tie, but Arsene Wenger will not be on his own as Arsenal have a tough game this weekend as they drew 1-1 in a north London derby away at Tottenham. Each side was sent off by one person, and by the end of the game, there were several players on both sides cramping, although it has been almost a season of competition, and the players' fitness is not very good, but this phenomenon also shows how fierce the two sides fought in this game.
In this game, Arsenal's Cameroonian defender Song also suffered a little injury, although it is not too serious, but it will definitely miss the second leg against Gosau, which has given Wenger a headache, but what makes him even more headache is who the team relies on to attack the city now? Scoring seven goals against Olympiacos doesn't say much about it, in fact, with Arsenal captain Robin van Persie leaving Manchester United this season, Arsenal's attacking power has dropped dramatically. There are a lot of strikers in the team, but none of them can take on the responsibility of attacking the core. Walcott and Albin are only suitable for playing wingers, although Vela can play in the middle, but his characteristics are more suitable for counterattacking, he needs a tall center to help him cover him in the attacking battle to play well, if he is directly exposed to the opponent's heavy defense, he can easily lose himself.
Originally, Danish center forward Bendtner was expected by Wenger, and his physical condition was also suitable as the core of the attack, but he never met Wenger's expectations, the center forward is very talented, but has a grotesque temperament, once clashed with teammates, and took off his sports shorts after scoring a goal in a national team game, revealing his underwear, these things have caused an uproar, and his grotesque behavior has also made him play at Arsenal up and down, very unstable, and even Wenger has loaned him out several times.
Arsene Wenger wants to take his fate into his own hands against Gossau at home and he wants to beat Gossau rather than rely on a desperate hold to get a 0-0 draw and thus advance on away goals. If you want to beat the opponent, you have to strengthen the attack, so Wenger thinks about it, this game can only start Bendtner, partner Vela in the attack, I hope he can play well in this game.
Looking at the list of players in his hand, and then comparing the strong Gosho team, Wenger sighed in his heart, now is indeed the most difficult period for Arsenal, hoping to beat Gosau, and then win the first Champions League title in the club's history in the final, in order to get through this difficult time.
On May 1, International Workers' Day, the second leg of Arsenal's match against Gossau began at the Emirates Stadium. Previously, the other set of matchups had already ended, with Juventus losing 1-2 away to Manchester City in the first leg and beating Manchester City 2-0 at home in the second leg to advance to the final first. The result upset the English media, and the England team's hopes of meeting in the final were dashed. They are now pinning their hopes on Arsenal for the English side.
In this game, Wenger fielded the traditional 442 parallel midfield formation, and the only difference between the line-up and the first leg was that he replaced Song with Bendtner and played as a double striker; Xiao Yang copied Arsene Wenger's tactics in the first leg, he started with Branislav Ivanovic instead of Kautinjo, and started with Sanchez, who had stronger defensive ability, instead of Ribeiro, and also played the tactics of double back and single striker.
Wenger looked at Xiao Yang's formation, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, does Xiao Yang want to treat others in his own way? However, Gosau seems to be more suitable than Arsenal with this tactic, their two wingers are not much worse than Walcott in speed and explosiveness, but their technical and individual combat ability is much stronger than that of Walcott, plus Lima with good technical speed in the middle and a center forward Egerman who is as perverted as a monster and scores goals, Gosau's counterattack will be quite terrifying. Thinking of this, he envied Xiao Yang even more, with the players in his hands, he could completely discharge a changeable lineup, and it would have a good effect, which would cause considerable trouble to his opponents, of course, including himself.
After the start of the game, both teams were very cautious, although the Arsenal players wanted to strengthen the attack, but they were quite afraid of Gosau's counterattack, so they did not dare to invest too many troops in the attack, such an offensive in the face of Gosau's solid back line naturally did not have much effect. Bendtner, who was pinned on by Wenger, was also average due to his long absence from the team.
Gosau's attack is mainly based on four players up front, and it is difficult to get any good chances when Arsenal's defence is very intact.