Qin Xiong's expression was serious, and he solemnly looked at every Real Madrid player who walked in front of him, probably due to the turmoil within Real Madrid, the players were stingy to reflect more to the outside world, as if everyone was strained and just wanted to create a state of surging fighting spirit.

"The first leg of the Champions League 1/8 finals, the match between Real Madrid and Arsenal is about to begin, let's take a look at the starting lists of both sides.

Real Madrid started 451.

Goalkeeper: Casillas.

Defenders: Sicinho, Ramos, Woodgate, Carlos.

Midfielders: Beckham, Guti, Graveson, Zidane, Robinho.

Forward: Ronaldo.

Arsenal started 451.

Goalkeeper: Lehmann.

Defenders: Eboue, Toure, Senderos, Flamini.

Midfielders: Ljungberg, Cesc Fabregas, Qin Xiong, Silva, Pire.

Striker: Thierry Henry. ”

With the referee's whistle, the first half of the game began.

Real Madrid kicked off first.

Arsenal's overall formation is not pressing, it seems to be even, but it is ready to shrink at any time.

Playing away against Real Madrid, Arsenal naturally still played defense, and it was more conservative than the general defense, Ljungberg simply retreated to the area between the full-back and the midfielder to protect the back line and right wing-back Eboue.

Zidane, who has been famous for a long time, has a similar offensive tendency to Henry: left-leaning!

Therefore, this side must strengthen its defense, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.

Real Madrid did not start aggressively and controlled the field with steady back and forth. La Liga teams have a technical advantage that no other league can match. Not to mention the giants Real Madrid.

It's time to test the mentality of Arsenal's defence.

They maintained absolute calm. They will never rush up, compress the defensive space, and wait for Real Madrid's attacking impact.

In the 3rd minute of the game, Real Madrid instigated an offensive by the right midfielder Xiaobei, but Ronaldo, who had begun to decline significantly, did not grab points on the front line, or even grabbed points, after all, if the high-altitude ball could not bypass the defender, grabbing the header was not something Ronaldo was very willing to do. He's better at attacking with the ball at his feet.

Arsenal had just done a good defense, thinking that the opportunity to counterattack had arrived, but they didn't expect the ball cleared by Betoure was cut off by the brave Guti, who immediately passed the ball to Zidane.

Zidane dribbled forward, Qin Xiong predicted the direction of Zidane's breakthrough in defense, and he guessed correctly!

However, Zidane's stop-and-break smash from the other side during the ball ride really surprised Qin Xiong.

Zidane's realm no longer has to deceive the opponent's center of gravity, but even if the opponent predicts correctly, he can immediately change the change in the direction of the dribble, and the football seems to be one with him.

Qin Xiong, who failed in defense, was not discouraged. He is facing a master figure in today's football world, and he is also the uncrowned king of football!

He immediately retreated to protect the back line before retreating into the box. Zidane did move forward along the left flank, and Ljungberg immediately connected with Eboue to defend Zidane, and Zidane seemed to send a clever pass in the middle of a stroll.

Robinho got the opportunity to cut down the wing, because he was too close to the bottom line, Ronaldo wanted to grab the point in front of the goal, but Toure and Senderos defended him well, Robinho did not cross, but dribbled the ball outside to shake the angle to shoot himself.

Just as he dribbled a step outside, Cesc Fabregas poked the ball out of the line in front of him.

Real Madrid won a corner.

Once again, Arsenal disrupted Real Madrid's attack.

It wasn't until this corner was cleared by Senderos' header that Arsenal had a chance to attack!

After the football cleared out, it fell at the feet of Henry, he did not turn forward, but looked behind, the Arsenal players who rushed out from the penalty area were well distributed, and Henry immediately chose to pass the ball to Qin Xiong after seeing Qin Xiong.

When the ball rolled in front of Qin Xiong, Ramos, who was diagonally behind, tried to intercept and press directly, and he obviously underestimated Qin Xiong, who deliberately changed his speed in running and dribbling.

The moment he touched the ball, Qin Xiong stepped forward and made a significant acceleration.

This caused Ramos to attack Qin Xiong's line to deviate, and it was impossible for him to speed up the pursuit at the first time, because he had to adjust the direction slightly.

And Qin Xiong took advantage of this opportunity to get rid of him.

Guti had just taken two steps back, but found that Qin Xiong's speed of dribbling forward was too fast, and he immediately moved sideways to defend Qin Xiong.

Just as he was moving sideways from Qin Xiong's right front to Qin Xiong's front, Qin Xiong suddenly moved the ball to the right front, just behind Guti and broke through diagonally.

At this time, he has come to the midfield midline, and there are Real Madrid players from all sides to chase and intercept Qin Xiong, and under the heavy encirclement, Qin Xiong passed the ball to the left side of the front court with a long pass over the top.

Pire entered Real Madrid's half unmarked, Beckham went to take a corner, at this time the far water could not save the close fire, and another full-back Siciño was dragged in the middle of the corner attack, he just went to defend Qin Xiong head-on, and his defensive area was completely blank.

Qin Xiong's pass made Arsenal's counter-attack very simple in front.

2 to 2!

Pire, who had successfully received it on the wing, immediately ran towards Real Madrid's penalty area.

Gravison was the first to return to the centre-back position in the middle and then pitched out to defend Pire one-on-one when he had a tendency to cut inside.

Pire decisively sent a through ball to Thierry Henry.

The man who has been on the lookout next to Henry is Brazilian full-back Roberto Carlos.

Pire's through ball was a little deep, and Henry found it difficult to shoot directly as he rushed forward, and Carlos was not slow and consciously tried to hinder Henry's sprint.

Casillas abandoned the goal and rushed to the football as well.

In the case of Henry's first touch, Carlos directly slid to block Henry's shooting angle, Henry had to stop the ball and shake Carlos, but in this short period of time, Casillas had come to a position less than 2 meters in front of Henry, when Henry flicked the ball to the right to avoid Carlos who was sliding past him, Casillas, who made a choice in the last step, calmly moved sideways, and then got closer to Henry, Henry tried to shoot directly by surprise, anyway, as long as he could penetrate the ball through Casillas, He's absolutely sure that this goal will be scored!

However, Casillas decisively fell to the ground to block Henry's shot, and held the ball firmly in his arms.

Henry looked at Casillas who blocked his shot in front of him, and there was a trace of unwillingness in his eyes!

Maybe a pick-up would be better, right?

It's useless to think about that!

Casillas' save sent thunderous applause at the Bernabeu. (To be continued......)