Xiao Qing is not worried about Braga's strength at all, although the Portuguese Super League team finished second in the league, although they advanced to the Champions League as dark horses. But being crowned as a dark horse, this is largely a proof that the strength of this team is relatively average, and there are really few dark horse teams that can be black to the end, because they will always have this or that deficiency, which is also the reason why the dark horse team is destined to be unable to achieve further success. Even last season's Portuguese Super League runner-up Braga eliminated Celtic and Sevilla successively, appearing in the Champions League for the first time.

Three days after the fourth round of league fixtures, Arsenal, who have not had much time to rest, will begin their Champions League group stage of the new season at the Emirates Stadium. This season is Arsenal's thirteenth consecutive Champions League appearance, and the team is suffering from a large number of injuries, with Robin van Persie, Theo Walcott, Bendtner and Ramsey still recovering from injuries.

In the history of the European Champions League, Real Madrid has performed the miracle of five consecutive titles, while Ajax and Bayern Munich have also taken turns three times in a row. But since the 1991-1992 Champions League was restructured into the Champions League, defending the title has become almost an impossible task. In the history of European football, there have been three teams who won the Champions League last season and reached the final the following season, only to miss out on the title.

In the 93-94 season, AC beat Barcelona 4-0 in Athens to win the title, and a year later they made it to the final again, only to watch Ajax reach the top of Europe in Vienna the following year.

In 1996, Juventus relied on Ravanelli's goal in the final against Ajax to draw in regulation time, and the Bianconeri finally won the trophy in the penalty shoot-out. And a year later, in the final in Munich. Borussia Dortmund beat Juventus 3-1 to win the title.

The third one who has come so close to this record is Manchester United. In 2008, Manchester United won the title in Russia. In 2009, the team's series of outstanding performances were finally ended in the final stage of Rome by Pep Guardiola's Barcelona.

Now Arsenal are starting to attack the reigning champions' curse of not being able to defend their title, and while it is a curse that has plagued the European champions for almost two decades, the Gunners do not see it as an unbreakable record. Records are meant to be broken, and when that dusty record is broken, it can also be rewarded with greater achievements and cheers.

Last season, Xiao Qing broke the Premier League goal record and the 47-year-old Champions League goal record, so now Xiao Qing has begun to sprint towards a new record. He really wants to feel like holding the Big Ear Cup, so even if it is difficult this time, Xiao Qing will still lead the Gunners to strive for more victories. Their goal for the new season is to achieve more glory, and the Gunners are aiming for more trophies in the new season!

Arsenal's Champions League group stage opponents in the new season are very average, so the Gunners want to get a perfect start to the Champions League at home; Four wins in a row in the league have given the Gunners a lot of confidence, and a string of big wins has whetted the appetite of the Gunners, who now like big wins and now they like to score more goals.

Xiao Qing, who scored fifteen Champions League goals last season, is ambitious, although he has broken the Champions League single-season goal record, but Xiao Qing is not satisfied; Xiao Qing hopes to refresh the Champions League goal record again, and he hopes that he can create a goal record that others can only look up to. Although Xiao Qing knew that records were meant to be broken, to be honest, Xiao Qing really didn't want a guy to jump out and steal his own scenery after forty-seven years.

So now Xiao Qing is ambitious. Scoring more goals in the Champions League is not an easy task, as more games have to be played in a cup competition like this to get more goals. So when playing against the underdogs. It's going to be a good chance to score goals; Xiao Qing is full of expectations for this Champions League, he is ready to dominate the Champions League scorer list again, he wants to make other players desperate at the beginning, the scorer list can only belong to Xiao Qing's battlefield, Xiao Qing can only take away Zuihou's golden boot in the game!

Braga, who are playing in the Champions League for the first time, did not expect to meet a group of careerists, and the first time they have appeared in the Champions League, Braga is still looking forward to taking on the defending champions. They were runners-up in the Portuguese Super League last season, having knocked out Celtic and Sevilla in back-to-back qualifiers; And, more importantly, in the off-season, they bought a lot of quality players for this Champions League trip. So even if they can't take away the first Champions League win at the Emirates Stadium now, they still need to play their prestige at the Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal don't care about Prague's ambitions, the Gunners now have the confidence of a strong team, and they don't have to worry about other teams causing them problems at this time, especially a team like Prague who are on the lower side. The biggest enemy for the gunners now is injuries, and of course from the gunners themselves; As long as the Gunners don't suffer too serious injuries, and as long as the Gunners can get their attitude right and not be arrogant, then they will definitely be able to perform well this season.

In the starting lineup, Arsenal sent the strongest squad at this stage, goalkeeper Almunia; The back line from right to left, Sagna, Koscielny, Vermaelen, Klichy; Defender Alexander Song; midfielders Nasri, Cesc Fabregas, Arshavin; On the forward line, Chamak and Xiao Qing.

Braga are ambitious and a dark horse side looking to prove themselves in the Champions League, and they will have no pressure against the defending champions to get on the scoresheet at the Emirates Stadium. goalkeeper Felipe; Miguel García, Moisés, Rodríguez, Silvio at the back; In midfield, Van Diño, Aguila, Hugo Viana; Striker three Allan, Mateus and Paul Cesar.

Braga's 4-3-3 lineup caused a boo at the Emirates Stadium, and the Gunners fans were very unhappy that Braga still wanted to play against Arsenal when facing Arsenal, it seems that the self-confidence of this dark horse team is completely bursting, they may not think that Arsenal's attacking end is terrible at all, they are full of confidence that their team can tear apart Arsenal's defense at the Emirates Stadium.

Xiao Qing and the other Gunners smiled at each other, to be honest, Braga's 4-3-3 attacking line-up may be a disparagement of Arsenal's defense, but this is Braga's thing, this is their tactic. It's just that when Braga discharges the attacking lineup, it also means that Arsenal will have more chances to score; Since Arsenal can't deter those ambitious teams right now, and since Arsenal can still meet such bold teams on the pitch, then they really don't mind hitting back these teams hard in the game, the Gunners will prove that their attacking ability is no joke, and Arsenal will teach all the teams who want to play against Arsenal a lesson.

Arsenal are never worried about going head-to-head with their opponents, and even the Gunners will enjoy the back-and-forth of the game; It's just that for Braga, Arsenal really doesn't care, the Gunners are not worried that this team can bring difficulties to Arsenal, and the Gunners even hope that Braga's tactics can be implemented more resolutely, because the Gunners will attack wildly in the game, and they hope that Braga can stick to their tactics in a series of blows.

In the third minute of the opening game, the youngster Nasri dribbled the ball in the middle to cooperate with Cesc Fabregas, and the Arsenal captain was brought to the ground by the opposing defender Silvio when he cut into the penalty area, but to Fabregas's surprise, the referee did not give any penalty.

There was boos at the Emirates Stadium and the Gunners fans were unhappy with the referee's indulgence of Braga, which was a clear foul, but the referee intentionally or unintentionally ignored the penalty Arsenal deserved.

Although Xiao Qing was a little unhappy with the referee's penalty, he had no choice, because no one could guarantee that every referee's penalty was accurate, and now the game had just begun, so he might be a little relaxed about such a penalty. However, Arsenal did suffer a loss, this is not Xiao Qing's character, Xiao Qing is not a character who does nothing.

So Xiao Qing is going to start fighting back, since such a foul cannot attract the attention of the referee, then Xiao Qing will continue to work hard to create a foul that the referee must pay attention to; Since Braga didn't realize Arsenal's energy in attack during the game, Xiao Qing will help this dark horse Haode to recognize the strength of those strong teams in the Champions League.

Although Arsenal were unable to create a more threatening threat for the time being due to the opponent's foul, although the game had just begun, Arsenal was indeed unable to suppress Braga, who played a lot of attacking tactics. But the Gunners are confident because they don't need to adjust too much because Arsenal just need one good chance to take it.

Now the game is slowly tilting towards Arsenal's advantage, because Braga is still very confident in attacking, because their squad is more open. This is the Gunners' chance, and the Gunners will soon teach the dark horse Braga a lesson, playing attacking football at the Emirates Stadium is really not a very good choice; Maybe playing attacking football can bring some difficulties to Arsenal, but that is based on the premise that the overall strength of their own team is relatively good, otherwise it will be a disaster to put yourself on the pillar of shame! (To be continued......)