Chapter 55: The Champions League Situation
At the urging of Guan Peng, the referee also felt that the Arsenal team's celebration time was a little long, so he went to stop Arsenal from continuing to celebrate, and the game restarted, and after the restart, the Dortmund players began to press Arsenal frantically, and we can see that the situation on the field is a little chaotic.
In the 90th minute of the game, the referee made the decision to add three minutes of extra time, and Dortmund took advantage of the remaining minutes to attack Arsenal non-stop, and the Arsenal players could only barely maintain the hope that the game would end quickly, but Arsenal in this high-pressure state was still found by Dortmund.
This is in the 92nd minute of this game, Arsenal's midfielder Alexander Song passed back to Mertesacker's pass was cut off by Guan Peng, Guan Peng cut off the football, directly behind Mertesacker, Lewandowski quickly started, with a good speed successfully ran in front of Mertesacker to control the football.
Arsenal's goalkeeper Szczesny had no choice but to attack, and Lewandowski crossed the ball with the instep behind Mertesacker, where a black figure appeared, Guan Peng, wearing the No. 10 Dortmund away shirt.
“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!! Guan Peng's beautiful powerful shot! Lewandowski's ball is also very beautiful! The combination between the two scored this face-saving goal for Dortmund! Zhan Jun shouted excitedly.
After Guan Peng and Lewandowski hugged, they returned to their own half, after all, the game had been lost, and Guan Peng had no heart to celebrate, not long after Dortmund's goal, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.
Arsenal won the game 2-1 Dortmund and secured the first place in the group ahead of schedule.
Since Marseille lost 0-1 to Olympiacos in this round, Marseille, Dortmund and Olympiacos have 7 points, 6 points and 3 points respectively.
The good news for Dortmund is that Marseille was defeated by Olympiacos led by Valverde in this game, so that the score gap between the two sides narrowed, as long as Dortmund can beat Marseille in the Champions League in the 6th round, Dortmund can join Arsenal to enter the round of 16!
Thierry Henry came to the Emirates Stadium to watch the game and talk and laugh with Federer, but it was not them who were the protagonists of the game, and the Emperor saw his successor Van Persie dominate the field as he did back then.
Robin Man, who is invincible in the Premier League, finally made a big splash in the Champions League, leading the Gunners group to break through after scoring twice. This is also his second Champions League double in three years since the 2008-09 group stage against Porto.
BBC reporter McNulty commented after seeing the starting line-up, "Van Persie failed to start in the last round, Arsenal drew with Marseille, and Wenger can only let the best players play this home closing group stage. The performances of Robin van Persie and Gotze will determine the outcome of the game. As a result, Arsenal's favourite German midfielder went off injured less than half an hour later, and the game became Van Persie's individual performance.
In the first 10 minutes, Van Persie threatened the opponent's goal twice, once from the perimeter and once with a header, but unfortunately he was either out of the way or intimidated by Weidenfeller.
In the 40th minute, he assisted Walcott to score with a wonderful pass, but unfortunately the little tiger was ruled offside. In stoppage time, Walcoat counter-attacked with a cross from the right and Weidenfeller scrambled to save the ball before Van Persie could shoot.
Van Persie scored early in the second half, and Song's breakthrough was thunderous, but Van Persie's outflanking to the back post was also in place. The British media that broadcast the game almost always used the same description: "When you hear the broadcast of Arsenal's goal, who else can it be?" ”
In the 86th minute, it was Robin van Persie who sealed the win for Arsenal when Mikel Arteta headed in a corner from the left, Vermaelen nodded the ball back and Van Persie cut into the back post and scored from close range.
Van Persie has scored 12 goals for Arsenal in the last eight games, bringing his tally to 21 goals in all competitions this season, including 17 for Arsenal and four for the Netherlands.
In 2011, Robin van Persie had already scored 38 goals for Arsenal, while he played just 41 games, averaging 0.93 goals per game.
Van Persie's 17 Champions League goals (excluding qualifying goals) since the 2004/05 season, 15 of which have come at home, are the most reliable patron saint at the Emirates Stadium, and Thierry Henry, who has scored 42 goals for Arsenal in the Champions League, has witnessed the magic of his successor.
Van Persie's form not only surprised the media fans, but also his teammates, and Song, who assisted Van Persie, said: "He's in incredible form, he's a very important ace for the team, and we hope he doesn't get hurt because if he goes wrong, it's going to be very difficult for us." We need him to continue to be in good form. "Who's to say it isn't.
Arsene Wenger also praised Van Persie after the game: "He was always in the right position, the two goals looked easy, the opponent couldn't guard against them, he noticed that there were a lot of crosses on both wings, I think Van Persie is a special player at the moment, we want him to stay fit and play with us through the season." ”
At 3:45 a.m. Beijing time on November 24, the fifth round of the Champions League group stage continued, and another key game, AC Milan, hosted the defending champion Barcelona.
In the first half, Van Bommel gave Barcelona an own goal, Ibrahimovic equalized the score, and Messi scored the first goal against the Serie A side from the penalty spot; In the second half, Boateng and Xavi scored one goal each, and Milan finally lost 2-3 at home to Barcelona.
Talking and laughing, Su Shi's sentence is undoubtedly the best condensation of Messi's performance tonight. In tonight's Champions League away game with AC Milan in the Champions League group stage, the little flea was once again the key to Barcelona's victory, not only did he break his personal cycle of not scoring against a Serie A team with a penalty kick, but also assisted Xavi to decide the victory.
In the face of Messi's wonderful performance, the Spanish media once again praised together, "Daily Sport" praised Messi once again as the key to the game, "Marca" also did not hide its love for this sworn enemy, the newspaper's live game commentator bluntly said after the game, "As long as you have Messi, it is hard to imagine that Barcelona's progress will be stopped".
The praise of the mouthpiece of the sworn enemy is undoubtedly the most representative, according to the official statistics, after scoring today's goal, Messi scored 51 goals in 51 games in 2011, which is undoubtedly a staggering statistic.
That includes 29 La Liga goals, 12 Champions League goals, six Copa del Rey goals, three Spanish Super Cup goals and one UEFA Super Cup score. And it's only November, and according to the schedule, Barcelona still has five games to play this year, as long as he can play at a normal level, it is not a luxury for him to hit 60 goals a year. It was also Messi's 200th win in the Barcelona first team.