Chapter 610: Capture of Highbury (Part II)

With a score of 1:1, the advantage is still on the side of Fiorentina, Chen Yu's away goal gave Fiorentina a reassurance, they didn't have the idea of winning away from home, a draw with a goal is Fiorentina's goal, and a small loss with a goal is Fiorentina's bottom line.

Henry's equalizer did not have much impact on Fiorentina, and the draw with a goal was acceptable to Fiorentina, but it had a big impact on Arsenal, although Henry's goal did not allow Arsenal to reach their goal, but it greatly relieved the psychological pressure of the Gunners, improved the morale of the team, and allowed them to play their level normally.

The last ten minutes of the first half were Arsenal's world, in the cheering of the home fans, Arsenal played the most brilliant wave of offensive football after the opening, the ball was passed at the feet of the Arsenal players, and the Fiorentina players had no way to stop Arsenal's football except for fouls.

However, Fiorentina is an Italian team, although they are passive, but there are not too many loopholes, although Arsenal has a lot of time to possess the ball, but it does not create too many shooting opportunities, even if there is a chance to shoot, because Fiorentina's defenders are not completely out of position, and they can also interfere with the shooting players, so it looks like Fiorentina is like a lonely boat in the storm, which may capsize at any time, but in the end it still did not let Arsenal break the goal, Later, referee Prouz blew the whistle for the end of the first half as Thierry Henry's shot went wide of the post.

Hearing the whistle, the players who were fighting fiercely relaxed mentally and physically, and everyone stopped running, took a few breaths, and slowly walked towards the locker room.

With two goals scored in the half, the game was not dull, which was not easy for a semi-final, and the fans of both sides were satisfied with their team's performance in the first half, with the Fiorentina fans and Arsenal fans giving their players a round of applause.

Although the players were a little tired, both physically and mentally, and the mental fatigue was even worse, and the players were eager to go back to the dressing room for a good rest, but at this time the players did not forget to thank the fans who supported them, and they applauded their fans as they walked.

The on-site commentator, who was summarizing the first half of the game, praised: "...... Fiorentina and Arsenal have a lot of quality players and are able to thank the fans after 45 minutes of intense confrontation, which is commendable, and it also shows that the two teams have a good relationship with the fans, which is probably one of the reasons for their excellent results...... Well, let's continue to talk about the first half of the game, both sides played their own characteristics, and both played well, and the goal was also the ace of both sides, indicating that the two teams did not put defense in the most important position at the beginning, especially Fiorentina, they wanted to get away goals very strongly, only after Chen Yu scored, they put all their energy on defense, but after Henry's goal, Arsenal's state came up, although it was a broken iron bucket formation, but it was not ugly......"

At this moment, in the dressing room of the home team, Wenger is urgently making tactical arrangements for the second half, the first half of both sides scored a goal each, and the performance on the field is not much different, Arsenal's advantage is not much, this is a failure for Arsenal, they are fighting at home, and they can't even get a draw, how can they eliminate Fiorentina and reach the final. “…… It's not our last Champions League knockout game, but it's the last Champions League knockout game at Highbury Stadium, and I'm sure it's going to be talked about a lot for a long time to come, so I won't say much, you should know what you have to do. ”

At this point, Arsene Wenger paused deliberately to allow his players to digest what they had said, and then continued: "...... In the first half, everyone played what we trained and arranged before the game, and scored a goal, but it was not enough, because the opponent also played their things and scored, which shows that on an occasion like the Champions League semi-finals, it is not enough to play your own things, you have to perform better than the opponent, limit the opponent's goals when you score, that is to say, to achieve a balance between attack and defense, Fiorentina does not have Toney, their attack point is only Chen Yu, if we can't all watch, the next game is in Frankie, Tony is definitely going to return, if the next game is still the situation where we break the iron bucket formation, I believe that the difficulty of defense will only increase and will not decrease, so if we want to get a ticket to Paris, we must play the 45 minutes of the second half, offensively, we must score at least one goal, in defense, we must not let Chen Yu score again, 2:1, this is our minimum requirement, if we do not achieve such a goal, there is not much hope for the next round of Qu Frankie Stadium, Fiorentina have only lost one game there against Barcelona so far, and that was a game that Fiorentina strategically abandoned in the group stage......"

Wenger's tactical arrangement is mainly focused on marking Chen Yu, Arsenal is an attacking team, with Henry, Pire, Ljungberg, Fabregas and other attacking geniuses, Wenger does not need to worry too much about the team's ability to score goals, he is mainly worried about defense, although Arsenal has not conceded in the previous eight games, but from the first half Chen Yu's goal, their back line problems are not many, in the face of Juventus and Real Madrid did not concede goals, it is because Arsenal put down their bodies and played a defensive counterattack, If it really played against Juventus and Real Madrid, Arsenal would have conceded a goal long ago.

In the dressing room of the away team, Prandelli, who has always liked to blow the wind, did not say anything, played well in the first half, the scene fell a little down, but the score was the same as the opponent, stumbling to win the game, this is the tradition of the Italian team, the second half as long as the strategy of the first half is continued, if you can steal one, you can steal one, and if you can't steal, you will keep the current situation, which has been played many times in the Champions League, and there is no point in saying more, it is better to let the players rest a little more.

15 minutes after the break, after a 15-minute break, the players of Arsenal and Fiorentina walked out of the dressing room in high spirits, and the fans who had been waiting for them to give applause to their players again, for the fans, they were not satisfied with the score in the first half, and they all hoped that they could score more goals in the second half, defeat the opponent, and it was best to decide the ticket to Paris in one game.

"Forced", the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game, and after the Arsenal player who kicked off the ball passed back, he quickly cut into the Fiorentina half, launched a fast attack on Fiorentina, and tried to catch Fiorentina off guard.

Henry, who has not found a shooting opportunity at the edge of the penalty area in the first half, suddenly appeared at the top of the penalty area this time, which scared the Fiorentina players, who knows how powerful Henry is, if he gets the ball in such an important position, the threat to Fiorentina is very deadly, almost at the same time, Fiorentina's double back and double central defenders contracted together, stuck Henry in the middle, and didn't even let him catch the ball.

However, Henry's appearance at the edge of the penalty area was just a cover, and Fabregas, the big man of the midfield organization, was supposed to misplace Henry and prepare to run to the side, and when he saw the double central defender and the midfielder to wrap Henry, the ribs were empty, and he immediately cut to the ribs.

Arsenal's attack is terrible because their players have a tacit understanding, whoever runs into position, teammates can pass the ball over immediately, Fabregas has not yet run into the box, Hleb passes the ball in front of him, so that Fabregas can follow up and hit the goal.

It was a clever tactical combination, it looked like Fiorentina had exposed the empty net and was caught by Arsenal, but the Fiorentina players were quick to make up for it, and when Cesc Fabregas ran to the ribs, the centre-back Ujfalusi cut inside to make up for the defense, Hleb's ball passed, and Ujfalusi also flew to tackle it.

Cesc Fabregas could continue to shoot, but this shot could have hit the body of Ujfalusi who was coming from the tackle, or it could have been tackled by Ujfalusi after the shot, at which point Fabregas opted for a more secure soles to pull the ball away from Ujfalusi.

Cesc Fabregas dodged Uj Falusi and wanted to shoot again, but the second defender Jorgensen also arrived, Fabregas dodged Jorgensen again, Fiorentina's defenders were all in place, Fabregas had lost his best chance to shoot, and fell into a positional battle again.

A good scoring opportunity turned into a positional battle, which made the commentator on the scene very dissatisfied, he said that it was Wenger's mistake to let the young Fabregas play, in fact, he has a lot of experience, but the physical Bergkamp should start, or replace Bergkamp at halftime, there is Bergkamp, such an opportunity may have been seized.

Wenger is also speechless about Fabregas's choice of hitting more and more people, Fabregas is a genius, but the experience is still too little, thinking of experience, Wenger looked at his bench, and decided to let the ice prince Bergkamp go up to play a dozen, and use his experience to find the flaws of Fiorentina, it really can't work, so let the little tiger Walcott, the wonder soldier, go up and rush.

Bergkamp warmed up on the sidelines and prepared to play, and the Arsenal fans in the stands cheered the name of the Ice Prince in unison, and the aging Ice Prince's prestige among the fans remained undiminished, and his appeal was still full.

After experiencing a thrilling assault by Arsenal in the opening game, the game became a situation where Arsenal attacked Fiorentina, and Arsenal's offensive was so good after the first half, but in the end they were unable to score, and now Fiorentina is full of energy, and Arsenal fans dare not have too many extravagant hopes, and they all pin their hopes on Bergkamp, who warmed up on the sidelines.

Fiorentina had the advantage of the scoreline, and most people thought that Fiorentina would definitely stick to the end and would not take the initiative to attack, but after Cesc Fabregas had just missed an attacking opportunity, Fiorentina suddenly launched a fast attack.

This fast break was actually launched by chance, Fiorentina was quickly wrapped by Arsenal after the ball was broken in the midfield, and the back could not pass the ball forward, open the big foot, the front was Di Natale, not Toney, he couldn't earn a header, so he distributed the ball to the side to his defender Pasquier, Pasquier took the ball, Hleb pounced, and was shaken by Pasquier, Pasquier ran forward with the ball a few steps, trying to hit Arsenal's counterattack, but Arsenal defended quickly, Pasquier saw if there was a chance to counterattack, and was ready to pass back, but at this time, Chen Yu pulled to the side to ask for the ball, and Pasquier immediately passed the ball to Chen Yu.

Chen Yu did not have a solid possession of the ball, but quickly attacked along the flanks and launched an attack on Arsenal's half.

Pasquier was ready to go back after passing the ball, and when he saw Chen Yu rushing forward, he could only follow up, otherwise if Chen Yu's assault was blocked, there would not even be anyone behind him.

Although Chen Yu was not a big threat to win the ball on the wing, the Arsenal players did not dare to be careless, and the midfielder and defenders moved to the right side of Lu, ready to form a big net and trap Chen Yu on the side.

Most of the defenders on the flanks were less than in the middle, and Chen Yu passed through the half-time dish to meet Pire, the first interceptor.

Pi Lei was too old to compete with Chen Yu with speed, so he was ready to block the foul when he came up, and rushed directly towards Chen Yu.

Chen Yu looked at Pire's posture and knew that if he changed direction, Pire would definitely reach out and pull his jersey, of course Chen Yu was unwilling to get a free kick in this position, he knocked the ball back, and rushed forward around Pire.

Pasquier and Chen Yu have a very tacit understanding, he did not stop the ball, directly rubbed the back pass, and gave Chen Yu an overhead ball over the head of Pire.

Arsenal's full-back Eboue was very alert, and when he saw Chen Yu's return pass, he immediately rushed up, ready to intercept Pasquier and give Chen Yu a reverse cut.

Eboue's judgment was accurate and his defensive awareness was good, but he underestimated Chen Yu's speed, and he was a step later than Chen Yu, Chen Yu dropped the ball and headed past Eboue.

Chen Yu's series of actions caused cheers from Fiorentina fans, and the return pass to the defender and the header were all very imaginative and pleasing to the eye.

Although Chen Yu's breakthrough on the side is beautiful, the Arsenal people at the moment are not afraid, after all, Chen Yu is still near the sideline, and the players in the middle of Arsenal are basically back, Chen Yu broke through the side at most is a cross, and the player in the middle of Fiorentina to grab the point is only Di Natale, there is nothing to be afraid of.

However, at this time, a shocking scene happened, after Chen Yu's header passed Eboue, he did not continue to go down, he stopped the ball on his chest, and without waiting for the ball to land, he directly pumped the ball to the penalty area with the outside of his right foot.

Seeing Chen Yu's action, everyone, including the Arsenal goalkeeper, immediately went to find the position of Di Natale who grabbed the point, because this can only be a pass, and it cannot be a shot.

When everyone noticed that Di Natale was not only a long way from the penalty area, but also that there were at least two players in front of him, they realised that it might not be a pass.

Is it a shot?!

After Lehmann glanced at Di Natale, he suddenly realized that his position was on the left, just now he saw Chen Yu breaking through on the side, he was going to intercept the cross and move to the side, if Chen Yu shoots, then the back corner is a big hole.

The ball did go to the back corner of the goal!

But when Lehmann wanted to intercept the ball, he was desperate to find that the ball shot by Chen Yu was very spinning, almost drawing a semicircle, and he was in the center of the circle, no matter how far he attacked.

Lehmann used all his strength to move towards the back corner of the net, but when he leapt to make a save, the ball whizzed into the net.

2:1

Chen Yu shot through the Arsenal goal for the second time with a bizarre curling ball.