399 is getting closer
After scoring this direct free kick, Qin Xiong opened his arms and ran along the sideline with all the Arsenal people who came to the scene cheering and boiling.
Arsenal fans, teammates, and coaches applauded Qin Xiong, seeing his passionate attitude of running and spreading his arms, as if setting off a gorgeous wind on the field, the rookie king of the previous year in European football is spreading his wings and soaring!
Lehmann whipped his right fist and roared, Campbell and Toure hugged and laughed, Ashley Cole jumped and jumped on the sidelines, and Van Persie, Bergkamp, Ljungberg and Vieira chased Qin Xiong.
The players at Birmingham City were frustrated.
I can't prevent it!
Bruce grimaced and walked back to the dugout and sat down.
It's not that he doesn't want to snipe at Arsenal.
But Arsenal have already scored 94 points this season!
That means they have won 29 matches, with only seven games ending in a draw and their only defeat!
Birmingham does not have the confidence to compete with Arsenal in hard power, even if Arsenal has main players who cannot play, but Arsenal is too strong in momentum!
Just three minutes after Arsenal's goal, at St James' Park, Chelsea also scored!
Mourinho's expression on the sidelines remained unchanged after Didier Drogba's goal against Newcastle United and he was informed that Arsenal were ahead of Birmingham City.
At this time, both teams are ahead, in the real-time standings, Arsenal and Chelsea are both 97 points, the goal difference is irreversible, now it is up to who can withstand the pressure and firmly control the victory in their own hands!
St Andrews Stadium. Arsenal after the goal. Qin Xiong took the initiative to retreat slightly. Start taking control of the field and slow down the tempo.
It seems that Arsenal have become more cautious and unwilling to give Birmingham a good chance to counter-attack.
Birmingham were reluctant to start grabbing, and the space at the back gradually expanded.
In the 39th minute of the game, Qin Xiong and Vieira were neck and neck in the midfield, and after the two collided with the wall once, Vieira passed the ball straight to Bergkamp in front, and at the same time, Qin Xiong firmly diagonally inserted into the right side of the penalty area.
Good one Bergkamp. With his back to the penalty area, he faced the incoming ball, shoveled the ball with his toes, and the football was picked up by him, and then with his back to the penalty area, he volleyed the ball to the left behind him, which was the line of Qin Xiong's running.
Qin Xiong has no doubts that Bergkamp will be able to pass the ball to him, he is determined to run, and just as Henry trusts him, he trusts every team-mate.
An impossible task in the eyes of outsiders, Arsenal players have this ability to turn decay into magic!
Qin Xiong, who had successfully countered offside, saw goalkeeper Taylor abandon the goal and rush towards him, and he knew that he had no chance to stop the ball. There wasn't even a chance to volley, so when Taylor was a metre away from him. He jumped straight up!
Header ferry!
Taylor raised his hand to block the angle of the shot, he didn't expect Qin Xiong to have no header on the goal!
If Qin Xiong heads the goal, it is very likely that he will be blocked by Taylor.
But if it was a header ferry, Taylor couldn't block it at all.
He even reacted extremely quickly to make a volleyball smash!
I wanted to rack the ball out, but it was noticeably slow!
After Qin Xiong's header was ferried, his eyes kept looking in the direction where the football was flying.
Van Persie ran to position at the back of the net and he was facing an empty goal!
But at this moment he was a little nervous, in the face of the flying football, the height of the landing point was very embarrassing, the header, too low, shot with his foot, and high!
In the end, he could only instinctively use his body to pool the ball!
His thigh pushed the ball into the net!
The moment he saw the ball fly into the goal, Van Persie was relieved and fell into ecstasy at the same time.
He screamed and rushed to the sidelines, where he knelt to celebrate his goal.
Qin Xiong high-fived Bergkamp fiercely when he ran towards Van Persie!
St Andrews was plunged into an earthquake-like.
Arsenal fans can't help but chant "Premier League champions"!
"Van Persie extends the lead for Arsenal! 2:0! Fantastic goal, Arsenal style goal! Qin Xiong and Vieira broke through Dunn's defense in the middle of the one-two, when Vieira passed directly to Bergkamp, Qin Xiong had already begun to sprint, when he passed past Bergkamp, Bergkamp showed the demeanor of a master, he deftly picked the ball behind him, accurately passed the ball to Qin Xiong, who was successful in the anti-offside position, Qin Xiong headed the ball again, and the unmarked Van Persie hit the ball into the goal! Oh my God, this is Qin Xiong's 35th assist of the season! He is already 10 more than the previous Premier League assist record holder Thierry Henry's 25 assists in a season! ”
When the news of Arsenal's two-goal lead over Birmingham reached St James' Park, it was clear that Chelsea's morale had taken a huge hit!
They are still 1-0 ahead of Newcastle United, while Arsenal have two goals in their hands and look set to be getting farther and farther away from the league title.
At the end of the first half, Arsenal led by two goals.
At halftime, Wenger emphasized the team's tactical discipline, focusing on Qin Xiong as the core, and the tactics with Qin Xiong as the rhythm vane were required to be persistently implemented!
Before the second half, the whole Arsenal squad roared in unison in the dressing room once again as they went through the remaining 45 minutes to lock the title in their hands!
Back in the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again.
In fact, since the birth of the first goal, Arsenal's tactics have become to control the field and lure the enemy!
The opponent has to defend to the death, whatever, Arsenal does not attack wildly.
The opponent wants to come out to counter-attack, and Arsenal will take advantage of the opponent's exposed space to play a pass and cut a surprise attack.
Birmingham still insisted on counterattacking at the beginning, but seeing that Arsenal let time pass to control the rhythm of the game, they couldn't find a good counterattack opportunity at all, so in the 60th minute of the game, they could only fight hard with Arsenal.
In the 67th minute of the game, Qin Xiong sent a fatal through ball in the front, Ljungberg got a half-single chance from the right side of the penalty area, and the diagonal tackle of fullback Melchiott directly put Ljungberg to the ground, and the referee blew the whistle to signal Arsenal to get a penalty!
'Melchiott made a mistake, is the former Chelsea player taking revenge on his former club? After Jose Mourinho took charge of Stamford Bridge, Melchiott, who had been with Chelsea for five years, was ruthlessly abandoned, and when Chelsea and Arsenal won the title at the last moment, Melchiott gave Arsenal a penalty! 2:0 and 3:0 are definitely completely different shapes, two goals behind, Birmingham may still have the hope of sniping Arsenal, but if three goals are behind, with the current Arsenal, I am afraid that the opponent will not give any chance, after all, this season can face Arsenal in 90 minutes to break the Arsenal goal three times The team is really a handful! (To be continued......)