By the end of the season, most teams with more or less important players will not be able to play, regardless of bench thickness, with injuries or physical exhaustion being the biggest contributing factors.

Arsenal have important players absent from the game, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, no one can come up with the strongest and complete squad.

May 8th.

Arsenal and Liverpool play the 37th round of the Premier League in Highbury.

Benitez sat calmly in the coach's seat waiting for the game to start, today's game, he will still let Liverpool play defense, but what it will be like, he himself has no bottom in his heart, after all, it is almost impossible to prepare two key games in a week!

Just after Chelsea and facing a strong Arsenal, Liverpool is already a one-line battle, how to fight against the sky in a two-line battle?

Moreover, they themselves are not involved in the competition for the league title, and now there are only two opponents, Bolton Wanderers and Everton!

It's very different from Arsenal in a competitive league environment.

The importance is similar, with Arsenal as champions and Liverpool as Champions League qualifiers.

Thierry Henry and Piret still sat hand in hand in the stands to watch the game.

Arsenal and Liverpool players began to enter the field, Highbury was thunderous, the enthusiasm of the fans is undoubted, everyone knows that the biggest obstacle on the road to Arsenal's defense of the league title, the last obstacle, is today's battle!

"The penultimate round of the Premier League is about to begin, and fans familiar with the Premier League may think that Arsenal have won the title early if they see Arsenal with 91 points in the table, but look at how many points Chelsea have in second place. Then the fans must be very surprised. That's right. Chelsea also have 91 points! Arsenal are only at the top of the table on goal difference!

Although Liverpool reached the final of this season's Champions League, they still have to fight for a Champions League qualification place, and the most unbearable thing for Reds fans is that the team in front of them is actually the sworn enemy Everton!

It's a game that both teams have to win, and it's going to be a great one!

Here's a look at the starting line-ups for both sides.

Arsenal 433.

Goalkeeper: Lehmann.

Defenders: Lauren, Toure, Campbell, Ashley Cole.

Midfielder: Silva. Vieira, Cesc Fabregas.

Forwards: Ljungberg, Bergkamp, Qin Xiong.

Liverpool 442.

Goalkeeper: Dudek.

Defenders: Finnan, Carragher, Pellegrino, Volnock.

Midfielders: Colwill, Alonso, Gerrard, Reese.

Striker: Cisse. Morientes. ”

In fact, after seeing Liverpool's starters in the player tunnel, Qin Xiong found an opportunity to communicate privately with his teammates.

Pellegrino has been famous for a long time. It was no surprise that Rafael Benitez was a veteran of Valencia's time and played at centre-back, and his presence was normal when Hyypia was unavailable.

And Morientes, who joined Liverpool in the winter, is also Qin Xiong's previous opponent, and the Real Madrid man played for Monaco last season.

The only thing that made Qin Xiong curious was that Volnock.

Cesc Fabregas is also asking his team-mates about the man.

England international Ashley Cole gives them a solution.

Wolfnock is a Liverpool Academy graduate who plays at left-back.

There was a burst of muttering between Qin Xiong and Fabregas.

"I want to play on the right side from the start, playing Volnock!"

"No, Sesk, that's right for you! The opponent must also know that the weakness of the defensive line is Volnock, and they will definitely strengthen the defense on that side. ”

"And what do you mean?"

Fabregas still trusts Qin Xiong's views in terms of strategy.

Qin Xiong whispered to him for a while, Fabregas nodded frequently, and finally the two reached an agreement.

After the start of the game, it was clear that Liverpool were running at a lower pace than Arsenal, and they were mainly good at defending.

From the very beginning of the game, Liverpool focused on the left side of the defence, and they were really worried that Volnock would be blown up by Ljungberg!

Benitez frowned on the sidelines, his prediction was wrong!

He thought Arsenal would play on the left side of the pitch with Robin van Persie or Reyes!

Then the more effective side impact will be on the right Ljungberg, who has a little bit of an idea of luring the enemy deep in today's formation.

Put a very conspicuous point for Arsenal to attack, induce Arsenal's main force to attack there, and then deploy the defense on the back line around this point, which seems to be weak, but in fact, all the surrounding defenses are ready.

When Arsenal can't open the game, Liverpool's counter-attack will come into play.

But Benitez didn't expect that Arsenal was not only Qin Xiong on the left side of the front, but also almost paranoid when Vieira and Cesc Fabregas delivered shells to the front after the opening!

That is, let Qin Xiong and Ashley Cole make waves on the left side!

Finnan was frequently beaten by Qin Xiong and Ashley Cole, but the quality of the cross to find Bergkamp or Cesc Fabregas on the back of the cross was not satisfactory.

Liverpool's several counter-attacks were also unthreatening.

Arsenal were clearly more active and flexible than Liverpool's overall movement, and after the opponent's counter-attack came out, Arsenal's backfield defence adjusted, and the players did a very successful job of pressing and marking.

It's not that Arsenal are faster.

It's Liverpool that's slow!

Just like Arsenal went to Chelsea with exhaustion, they were completely out of the same rhythm as their opponents!

In the 19th minute of the game, Ashley Cole ran across the half of the pitch again, Cesc Fabregas split the ball, and Ashley Cole did not dribble the ball again this time, but passed straight ahead.

Qin Xiong almost frightened Fennan, as soon as Qin Xiong touched the ball, Finnan had a tendency to retreat, he had robbed three times before, two of the three were directly broken by Qin Xiong, and once it was Ashley Cole who went down, and Qin Xiong sent a through ball.

In short, in less than 20 minutes, his defense was completely blown out!

After Qin Xiong had an insight into Fennan's retreat and wanted to block the bottom line space as soon as possible, he immediately dribbled horizontally, Fennan was stunned, but he didn't expect Qin Xiong to suddenly stop bottoming out!

Qin Xiong's pace was fast and the ball moved laterally, Gerrard was too late to return to the defense, there was only Alonso on the back line, and Carragher on the back line did not dare to step forward at all, he could not judge the best time to intercept.

Alonso quickly retreated, trying to cut the ball off in front of Qin Xiong.

When he rushed over, Qin Xiong suddenly paused in his rhythm, and then guarded the ball to watch Alonso rush over his head, and when Alonso braked to turn around, Qin Xiong passed by him again!

Change to the direction of the forbidden area!

Qin Xiong played a short pass to Bergkamp when he was only three metres away from Bergkamp.

Bergkamp leaned back to Pellegrino, the arch of his foot lightly made the ball sideways, Pellegrino stretched out his foot and couldn't reach it, Qin Xiong turned into the penalty area as if he went around half a circle from the side, and received Bergkamp's cross to go forward and make a single knife!

Facing Dudek, Qin Xiong did not hesitate at all, nor did he think about hitting the far corner, and directly shot out!

The ball runs into the net from the top corner of the inside of the near post!

Highbury cheered, Qin Xiong had a cold and proud look on his face, his right hand gently beat the team emblem on his chest, and constantly nodded to the fans in the stands, as if announcing the arrival of the champion!

Countless Arsenal fans laughed proudly.

In their eyes, this kid has become the indispensable soul of the team! (To be continued......)