Arsenal's battle with Chelsea at the top of the table ended in a draw in the first half.

More intense, less exciting.

The prudence of strong dialogue is vividly embodied.

On the way back to the dressing room, Qin Xiong, Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Pire, and Ljungberg gathered to discuss how to play in the second half, and they each expressed their opinions and summarized the problems found in the first half, including the details of what Chelsea found from a personal perspective.

It's hard to say what kind of status Qin Xiong has in the Arsenal dressing room, he is actually no different from ordinary players, he will not lead his teammates, and he will not rebel against the leadership group led by Vieira.

But at the purely competitive level, he has the right to speak, and the core players and important players in the team will also take the initiative to communicate with him.

After all, football is not basketball or rugby, and it is obviously unrealistic for a head coach to be able to plan every offense and defense for the team with a tactical notebook, and expect the coach to make each player know exactly what to do in a 45-minute game.

Moreover, Arsenal is still a team that is quite creative in attack, their offensive routines are relatively rich, since it is not a stereotyped, fixed offensive routine, then the individual players will play a key role, the idea of group cooperation, the all-round cooperation of the attack group, are achieved by individual players.

If Thierry Henry is a stumbling centre-forward, he will have little support from his team-mates because the ball will hardly reach his feet, and even if he does, he will not have the physicality of Drogba to break out of the encirclement of Terry Carvalho-Thiago Makelele.

So Henry will take the initiative to roam around the perimeter, but that's just a way, not a specific offensive idea.

The five of them returned to the locker room and were still communicating. Before they could think about the results. Arsene Wenger came in the midst of them. "It's going to be a tough game than we expected, if we approach this game with a conventional mindset, it's probably going to be difficult to cause problems for Chelsea, we need to break the rules, each of you has the ability to make the final decision on the game, so try to ignore your role and position and look at your team-mates in attack," he said solemnly. Let's make our offense more active and more elusive. ”

Arsene Wenger's words made everyone nod in agreement.

This concept is not ahead of its time, but it is difficult to form a norm in a mature team.

It's like asking Henry to be a passer, he can do that, and he can do it well.

But here's the thing: Henry is a striker.

No matter how selfless the striker is, if there are no large number of goals, and the goal rate of the striker is used as the basis, the striker's sense of survival will be very low!

However, when it comes to key games, the sacrifices to be made by the players are still for the sake of the big picture.

The most important of this adjustment is Henry.

Because Thierry Henry is the number one defensive target in Chelsea's defence.

As long as Henry changed his offensive thinking and method. Then there is a chance that Chelsea's defence will have the effect of being caught off guard.

Back in the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again.

Chelsea are still confident, they keep their heads high. Hopefully something will come into the second half.

At least Chelsea haven't been destroyed by Arsenal so far, which will boost their confidence.

Arsenal, who are unbeaten in 56 games, doesn't look like an all-powerful ruler!

At the beginning of the second half, Qin Xiong was still moving near the center circle, and in the face of Chelsea's tactics of extreme defense and counterattacking, Qin Xiong was actually very passive from the beginning.

Because he has to react according to Lampard's inertia.

Frank Lampard strengthens his defence and it will be difficult for him to play more, instead he will have more room to play.

Mourinho still has ambitions for the game.

If Arsenal's unbeaten run ends at Highbury, Mourinho believes Chelsea will rise to the throne in one fell swoop!

When Frank Lampard aggressively stepped forward on the counter-attack, Qin Xiong had a bottom in his mind.

Arsenal's defence is not infallible, but with Chelsea committing only a handful of troops, there are no fatal flaws for the time being.

If the full-backs don't step forward, the wingers who defend Chelsea, the two midfielders block Frank Lampard, and the two defenders block Drogba, which is interlocking, close together, and still has a convincing defensive quality.

Qin Xiong still used the timing of Chelsea's counterattack to switch from defense to attack to break out the attacking threat.

He started to move down the flanks and used Vieira as a point of contact in the middle.

In the 54th minute of the game, Qin Xiong made a two-one collision with Piree on the left side, he ran to the bottom line to receive Pire's pass and pulled Ferre away, and then sent a cross on the side, the football spun inside to bypass the central defender and flew straight to the back of the goal, Ljungberg grabbed the back but was stuck by Gallas and failed to form a shot.

The biggest change in Arsenal's attack is Thierry Henry.

Qin Xiong's left-leaning is just a smoke bomb.

When Henry coordinated with Pire on the left side in the 58th minute of the game, his versatility was perfectly reflected, after attracting Thiago to defend, Henry and Qin Xiong made a wall cooperation, past Thiago, Makelele pounced on Qin Xiong, Henry directly kicked the goal after receiving Qin Xiong's pass!

Once again, Cech has made a difference.

It wasn't a world-class save, but it was brilliant as he took Thierry Henry's shot straight into his arms.

Jose Mourinho looked grim on the sidelines.

Arsenal's attacking creativity was very threatening and he didn't expect Thierry Henry to make such a change.

Looking at this attack statically, Arsenal can almost be said to have no central striker, and Thierry Henry cuts through the middle in the role of winger.

In the 61st minute, Qin Xiong passed the ball back to Vieira, who was inserted in the middle, Vieira passed straight ahead, Qin Xiong ran to the right, and to the surprise of Chelsea's double midfielders, Ljungberg came to the middle of the front waistline.

Ljungberg didn't have the ability to play as a midfielder, so he didn't dare to keep the ball, and the first touch of the ball was to the right side, where he should have been.

Qin Xiong dribbled the ball along the side, made a cross feint in front of Gallas and flicked the ball behind Gallas, and then used acceleration and Gallas's defensive prediction mistake to rush past him, and the ball was divided!

Qin Xiong, who cut into the bottom line, slowed down the pace of dribbling, and then waited for Gallas to return and pass the ball back behind him, Ljungberg made a one-two with him, and Qin Xiong cut inside the right side of the Chelsea penalty area.

Carvalho, Makelele, Gallas behind him, Qin Xiong fell into a three-fold sandwich, and he didn't have time to control the ball and hit the ball with one kick.

The ball rolled behind Henry.

Thierry Henry's running provided cover for Pire, who met the ball from the left outside the box and fired a furious shot!

The football flew into the stands.

Two minutes later, Henry retreated to the midfield to dribble the ball, he gave Pire a good ball, Pire then picked up the left rib space in the penalty area, Qin Xiong quickly stepped forward to stop the ball with his chest and volleyed directly.

Perhaps because he used his left foot, the quality of the shot was very poor, and it was a full two metres away from the goal.

Despite this, Arsenal's attacking momentum during this period of time has made Chelsea's heart flutter.

Which of them is the lethal point of attack?

Arsenal's attacking groups cover and contain each other, making their attacking points unpredictable.

Such an attacking threat also forced Chelsea to wake up, and the opponent was Arsenal, who were unbeaten in 56 games!

Unable to figure out who is the biggest threat to the opposition, Chelsea can only slow down Arsenal's attacking tempo, and fouls are a good means of delaying.

In the 71st minute of the game, Qin Xiong was put to the ground by Makelele, and the referee blew the whistle to signal that Makelele had fouled, and Arsenal won a free kick.

After Qin Xiong stood up and set the ball up, Makelele also stood in front of the football to avoid Qin Xiong's quick free kick.

Qin Xiong stepped forward and walked towards Makellele, not only blocking Makelle's view, but also squeezing Makelle backwards with his body.

The place where Makelle himself stood was a violation, and he should have stepped back, so Qin Xiong's move to squeeze him, he could only symbolically resist it at most, but he couldn't resolutely resist it.

Just as he took a step back, the football behind Qin Xiong was quickly kicked out by Vieira.

Thierry Henry latches onto Makelele's pass and smashes it straight into the Chelsea box!

Arsenal's free-kick quick-start tactics are done! (To be continued......)