Chapter 347: Paris Saint-Germain
After two consecutive wins, Arsenal have 91 league points! Still far ahead of the other major Premier League giants. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In second place is Liverpool, with 74 points, a staggering 17 points behind Arsenal! That's a little more points for Arsenal to lead five games!
Now, the league has been played for thirty-two rounds, and there are only six games left until the end of the league! In other words, if Arsenal win one more league game, then Arsenal will win the league early!
And Arsenal's next league opponent is Everton, now it depends on whether Everton can successfully stop Arsenal!
However, Everton is not seen much by all of them, and in their opinion, Arsenal have basically locked up the league title this season!
In fact, Arsene Wenger also thinks so, six games, can't win a single one? It's just too unlikely! What's more, the current Arsenal is strong, and there is a magical Chinese Zhang in charge, Arsenal is not afraid of any opponent!
Now for Arsenal, the focus has begun to tilt towards the European Champions Cup!
And the quarter-finals of the European Champions Cup at 7:45 p.m. on April 2 are a very important hurdle for Arsenal!
In this game, Arsenal will challenge Paris Saint-Germain away from home!
Paris Saint-Germain Football Club (PSG) is a football club located in Paris, the capital of France, with the 49,000-seat Parc des Princes stadium (Parc des Princes), currently playing in the French First Division.
As of the 2014/15 season, they have won Ligue 1 five times and won the European Cup Winners' Cup once.
The best player in team history was voted by the authoritative French football magazine is the team's all-time assist leader, midfielder Safitt Susic. In the 80s and 90s of the last century, Paris Saint-Germain contributed to the continental competitions, and selected such as the national goalkeeper Butz, the 1985 French domestic footballer of the year, the organization's central midfielder Luis Fernandez, the central midfielder Daniel Buhavo, the French team's all-time World Cup assist champion 1986 French legion of honor winger Rochetto, striker Rai, Ronaldo Jr. 1984 European Championship, 1994, 2002 World Cup winners, and 1992, 93, 94, 95 French domestic footballer of the year? Alan Roche, Ginola, Bernard Dramar, Vincent? Gailan.
1995 European Footballer of the Year George? Weah retired successfully.
The 1985/86 season saw an unprecedented league title win and the team went from being a young club born in 1970 to a rising star and a place among the country's powers. In the 1993/94 season, the second trophy was a consolidated identity, and in the 1994/95 season, after Reims, Saint-Etienne, Bordeaux, Marseille and Monaco 93-94 in the Champions League, the sixth French club lost to the Champions League semi-finals. From 1992 to 1997, he lost in the semi-finals of the Champions League, the League Cup, and the Cup Winners' Cup four times in five years, thus marking one of the top European teams on the continent and upgraded to a second-tier European powerhouse. It is similar to the capital's powerhouses such as Atletico Madrid, Roma, Lazio, Lokomotiv Moscow, Sparta Prague, Anderlecht, and Rapid Vienna.
In the face of such a French giant, Arsene Wenger directly sent all the main lineup: it is still a 3-2-3-2 double back formation: the goalkeeper is No. 1 Szczesny; The back line is No. 3 - Sagna, No. 6 - Koscielny, No. 28 - No. 4 Merdesak; At the back are No. 18 Zhang Xu and No. 8 Arteta; Up front are No. 16 - Ramsay, No. 10 - Wilshere, No. 11 - Ozil; Up front are No.14 Theo Walcott and No.12 Olivier Giroud.
At the beginning of the game, Arsenal quickly launched a fierce attack under the leadership of Zhang Xu.
In the third minute of the game, Zhang Xu received a return pass from Ozil in the middle and shot directly with his foot! The shot from nearly 30 yards out of the goal flew straight into the top right corner of the goal like a cannonball!
The Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper reacted in a timely manner, holding the ball up with his fingertips, hitting the crossbar and then bouncing off into the box.
Walcott grabbed the first point and shot again!
As a result, the shot went slightly off the post and flew off the bottom line!
Although the goal was not scored, it scared the players and fans of Paris Saint-Germain into a cold sweat!
In the seventh minute of the game, Zhang Xu made a comeback, and after breaking through with the ball outside the penalty area, he suddenly made a direct pass, directly tearing apart the Paris Saint-Germain backline, passing through two opposing defenders, and coming to the right side of the penalty area.
Giroud shoots with a shot! It's a pity that the opponent's goalkeeper pounced again! The soccer ball flew off the line against the goal post.
Ozil took a corner kick, Zhang Xu successfully grabbed the point in the middle, but after being interfered with by the opposing defender, he could not hit the right angle, and the football was high above the crossbar.
In the thirteenth minute of the game, it was still Zhang Xu, who made a beautiful steal in the backfield, directly took down the opponent's through ball, and then directly made a long pass over the top, hoisting the football over the half court and coming to the left side of the court.
As soon as Walcoat got his hands on the football, he raced forward, cut inside on the left edge of the penalty area, and then fired a right-footed shot at goal!
The shot was so sudden and at a tricky angle that the Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper couldn't save it at all, so he could only watch the football fly into the goal in despair!
1 to 0! Arsenal take the lead away!
After conceding the goal, PSG's morale did not fall but rose, and the intensity of the attack increased greatly. However, at this time, Zhang Xu was basically in control of the game, so although Paris Saint-Germain attacked frequently, it failed to pose any substantial threat to Arsenal's goal.
In the twenty-eighth minute of the game, it was Zhang Xu again, after he received a pass from Medsak, he suddenly stepped forward, and then a beautiful ball was divided, plus a Marseille roundabout, and he shook off two players from Paris Saint-Germain and came to the outside of the big penalty area!
Paris Saint-Germain had long been deeply afraid of Zhang Xu's long-range shot, so two defenders immediately pounced viciously.
However, Zhang Xu didn't entangle with them, he directly picked up his right leg and pumped it the football!
After a loud bang, the ball flew in a straight line, past the two PSG defenders who pounced, and flew lightning into the top right corner of the goal!
This time, the goalkeeper of Paris Saint-Germain was obstructed in his vision, so when the football flew out of the crowd, he saw the football in the air, and at this time he had no time to react, and could only watch the football go into the net!
The ball is in! Two to zero! Arsenal lead by two goals away!
This goal hit Paris Saint-Germain harder. It's acceptable to concede one goal, but conceding two goals is very bad for the rest of the game.
What's more, in the next leg, Paris Saint-Germain will play away from home, which will be even more disadvantageous, because Arsenal have two away goals! Unless PSG can overtake the aggregate score!
But at Arsenal's home turf, it is not ordinarily difficult to beat Arsenal! Countless giants have been planted at the feet of Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium!
The first half was over soon after Arsenal led 2-0 heading into the break.
In the second half, Arsenal's attacking momentum did not relax with two goals.
In the 57th minute, Wilshere and Mesut Ozil played a couple of wonderful combinations up front, and then suddenly made a diagonal pass and hoisted the ball to the right edge of the penalty area.
Giroud grabbed the first point, but his shot was out of angle, so he simply passed it back!
Wilshere, who stepped forward, received his return pass and fired a direct volley!
Although he had a lot of power and was close to goal, the angle of the shot was so good that the ball hit the Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper in the stomach and was easily confiscated.
In the 61st minute of the game, after Ramsey received Zhang Xu's pass, he ran all the way along the right sideline, quickly inserted forward to the bottom line, and less than a meter away from the bottom line, he quickly got up and crossed!
Walcott managed to grab a spot down the middle, but was squeezed by a defender and his header was deflected off the post.
In the 69th minute of the game, Zhang Xu crossed the middle line with the ball, and then quickly stepped forward, and after being blocked by two players on the opposing side, Zhang Xu pushed with his right foot and distributed the football to Ozil on the left.
After Ozil got the ball, he took two steps and stabbed the ball to Wilshere, who was answering! Wilshere turned around with a beautiful pull ball, shook off a Paris Saint-Germain defender who came up to attack, and then suddenly made a diagonal pass! Sent the ball to the edge on the right side of the penalty area.
Giroud slapped his horse and rushed to shoot angrily!
The ball flew straight towards the bottom right corner of the goal! It's just that Giroud's shot was too much for the angle, and the football actually hit the post! And then the rebound flew out of the bottom line!
Another missed chance to rewrite the score!
Missed opportunities are often punished! This was soon fulfilled!
In the seventy-eighth minute of the game, after Zhang Xu received Wilshere's pass in the middle, he shot directly! The football was blocked by the opponent's goalkeeper, and the opponent's defender reacted in a timely manner, grabbed Walcott before him, and directly cleared the football with a big foot.
It has to be said that Paris Saint-Germain's luck is indeed good, Medsak was unsteady on his feet when receiving the ball, and as a result, the football was missed by him.
If you miss it, forget it, but it was taken by the opponent's striker, and then directly formed a single knife!
In the face of the attacking Szczesny, with one push, he penetrated the Arsenal door!
The ball is in! Two to one!
This unexpected goal immediately aroused the morale and fighting spirit of Paris Saint-Germain, and in the later games, they played very actively.
Zhang Xu was not in a hurry about this, dealt with it calmly, and easily defused the opponent's crazy attacks again and again!
In the end, in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the European Champions Cup, Arsenal won 2-1 smoothly and entered the next leg with a more favorable score! (To be continued.) )