No. 216: The Gunners FA Cup goes one step further

Five to six, Arsenal lost to Barcelona and missed out on the last four of the Champions League.

However, the Arsenal players are not in the mood for grief and remembrance as they face the upcoming league and FA Cup semi-finals.

Arsenal play Liverpool at home at home, Manchester City away next week and Bolton Wanderers at the weekend.

It is now the 32nd round of the Premier League this season, and there are only six rounds of fixtures left until the end of the season. Chelsea are now top of the Premier League with 67 points, followed by Arsenal with 63 points and Manchester United at 63 points.

Fourth in the Premier League is Manchester City with 56 points. Tottenham Hotspur are fifth with 54 points, Liverpool are sixth with 48 points and Everton are seventh with 44 points.

There are still six rounds left, Arsenal is four points behind Chelsea, the first place in the league, the difference of two games, there is still time left for Arsenal, but the chance is not very big, because Chelsea is very strong, if Chelsea does not make mistakes in the later games, it will be difficult for Arsenal to turn the tables.

The 33rd round of the league is just around the corner, with Chelsea taking on West Bromwich Albion and Arsenal taking on Liverpool.

Liverpool are a very strong team, but this season has not been very good, and they are now only sixth in the Premier League.

This season, Liverpool has undergone a change of manager, former Birmingham manager Alex McLeish has become the manager of the Reds Liverpool, and he has also brought in Sturridge and Kevin Prince Boateng, and it stands to reason that the strength of the Liverpool team has increased.

Of course, Liverpool's results this season are better than last season's, but this has not satisfied Liverpool fans and the club's hierarchy.

But even so, the Liverpool team is still a tough nut to crack.

Arsenal are in desperate need of a win right now, and they have to go toe-to-toe with Liverpool in this game.

However, before the game, Liverpool manager Alex McLeish stood up and spoke, saying: "We have only one goal for Liverpool in this game, which is to win, to fight for the top four in the Premier League, to qualify for next season's Champions League, no matter who we are against in front of us, we must win and win." ”

Now Alex McLeish is also at the end of the road, and now his situation is very bad, it is said that now the media and fans of Liverpool are shouting for Alex McLeish to step down, and the Liverpool club side also has this meaning.

Every game is very important for Alex McLeish and he has to make sure he doesn't lose the rest of the game.

Alex McLeish also said before the game: "The strength of the Arsenal team is very strong, I know them very well, of course, I know Dongfang Chen best, he used to play under me, his strength I know very well, if we want to win today, we must keep an eye on Dongfang Chen, do not give Dongfang Chen any chance."

Liverpool are away from home and they arrived in London a day earlier to prepare for the game.

Arsenal, on the other hand, were very tired because they had a hard time with Barcelona in midweek, they wasted a lot of energy, and it was a very difficult game for Arsenal.

However, this game Arsenal team is an all-main lineup, and this game is also very important for their Arsenal team, they want to win the title.

Dongfang Chen naturally appeared in the starting lineup, and he was going to face his old coach's team.

As soon as the game started, Arsenal showed their fatigue, they played a little bit with more than enough to play, and they were besieged by Liverpool.

The Liverpool team was in good shape in this game, and at the beginning of the game, they attacked wildly, besieging the Liverpool team, and it can be seen that they really came to London today to take away the victory.

The Liverpool players performed very well, Gerrard, Sturridge and Kevin Prince Boateng and others were very eye-catching, causing a lot of trouble for the Arsenal team, and the Arsenal fans at the scene were worried.

In the twenty-ninth minute of the first half, the frenzied Liverpool team finally got on the scoresheet, Gerrard's long-range shot from the edge of the box was saved by Fabianski, but he got rid of it and the ball rolled directly to Sturridge's feet.

Sturridge was not polite, and with a gentle push of the football, the football rolled into the empty goal, and the away Liverpool team took a one-goal lead.

In this game, Dongfang Chen's table is not ideal, there are not many opportunities for Dongfang Chen to get the ball in the front court, and the threat is not very great, he threatened the opponent's goal three times after the first half of the game.

After the start of the second half, Dongfang Chen suddenly became active, and the back and forth interspersed attacks threatened the goal of the Liverpool team, which scared the fans of the Liverpool team a lot.

At this time, on the sidelines, Liverpool's head coach Alex McLeish was also very nervous, he knew how powerful Dongfang Chen was.

Alex McLeish has been reminding the Liverpool players on the sidelines to pay attention to defense, pay attention to defense, and never give Dongchen a chance.

However, in the sixteenth minute of the second half of the game, Dongfang Chen shot from a distance of 39 meters from the goal, and the football shot towards the goal of the Liverpool team like lightning, and the goalkeeper of the Liverpool team Reina could not react, and the football flew into the goal.

1-1, Arsenal equalized with Dongfangchen's goal.

After that, both sides worked very hard, attacked wildly, and both wanted to win the game, but in the end no one scored, and the result of the game was 1-1.

Arsenal have only managed to draw one game at home stadium and have not won a game, which is definitely not a good result for Arsenal and will not please the Arsenal fans and players.

Of course, the result was not satisfactory for Liverpool, and Alex McLeish was even more unhappy. They had more chances in this game, they threatened Arsenal more often, they deserved to win this game, but unfortunately they were unlucky.

Failing to win this game has made Alex McLeish's situation even more embarrassing, and now the voice calling for Alex McLeish to leave class is getting louder and louder, and it seems that the day of Alex McLeish's dismissal is getting closer and closer.

The Arsenal players were in a very bad mood after the league game as their rivals Chelsea won the game with a 3-1 win away at West Bromwich Albion to pick up the three points.

At the end of this round, Chelsea now have 70 points, while Arsenal have 74 points, and they are now six points behind Chelsea, although there is still only a two-game difference, but the gap is indeed very huge, even insurmountable.

If Chelsea don't make mistakes in the next league games, Arsenal really don't have much chance.

In fact, Arsenal fans are still more fortunate now, because their other rivals, Manchester United, were also very unlucky in this round of fixtures, they drew 0-0 away to Newcastle United. Fortunately, Manchester United also drew this game, otherwise, Arsenal would not even be able to keep the second place in the league and would be pried by Manchester United.

Now the second place is still Arsenal, they have 64 points, and the third place is Manchester United, they are also 64 points, Manchester United is chasing very closely. If Arsenal are not careful, they will not even be able to retain second place in the league.

After this round of league games, the FA Cup semi-finals are about to start, and Arsenal are travelling to Manchester to play the team. The other FA Cup semi-final was Bolton Wanderers against Stoke City.

In the other FA Cup semi-final, neither team is very strong, which is a huge advantage for Arsenal, no matter who they face, and the Arsenal players and fans are convinced that they can beat either of the opposing teams with confidence.

In other words, as long as they can beat Manchester City in the semi-finals, Arsenal will win this season's FA Cup.

On this day, a lot of Arsenal fans went to Manchester to cheer on the Arsenal team, and they were expecting Arsenal to beat Manchester City and qualify for this season's FA Cup final.

In this game, the Arsenal team is naturally the main force, and in order to win the FA Cup, the Arsenal team is fighting.

From the beginning of the game, the Arsenal team played very aggressively and attacked wildly. The players of the Arsenal team are in very good shape in this game, and Dongfang Chen's state is even more good, only fifteen minutes into the game, Dongfang Chen has three shots on goal, and every time there is a threat.

The players of the Manchester City team are nervous and worried, and the players of the Manchester City team are a little frightened when they see such an Arsenal team.

Sure enough, towards the end of the first half, Arsenal attacked the Manchester City goal. It was not Dongfang Chen who scored the goal, but this goal came from Dongfang Chen's assist, Dongfang Chen nodded the ball back in front, and Van Persie in the middle hit the goal with a header.

Arsenal broke the deadlock to take the lead before the end of the first half, and the second half began with a ferocious attack from a Man City side who were unwilling to lose, but it left them empty at the back.

In the 31st minute of the second half, Dongfang Chen sent a delicate pass, Van Persie received the ball and faced the goalkeeper Joe Hart of the Manchester City team directly, Van Persie dribbled directly past Joe Hart, and sent the ball into the face of the empty goalkeeper, and the Arsenal team sealed the win 2-0.

In the end, Arsenal beat Manchester City 2-0 away to qualify for this season's FA Cup final.

The FA Cup final will not be played until after the Premier League and Arsenal will now be fully focused on the league.