Chapter 626: The Overall Situation is Determined (I)

“GOAL! Chan scored a crucial goal under pressure! The initiative is back in the hands of Florence again! It was just a penalty, but it was too important to score and it was not easy to score, and it was a testament to the fact that Chan is a player with a big heart, a true core and leader......"

The on-site commentator did not hesitate to praise this penalty, but the fans did not have any sense of disobedience to his words, and even felt that what he said could not fully describe the greatness of Chen Yu, because Tony was able to get this penalty, and Chen Yu also contributed to it, without the wonderful pass he gave to Macho, there would have been no subsequent penalty at all.

In the VIP box

When De La Valle saw Chen Yu score the penalty, his hanging heart finally let go, he smiled and stood up and applauded, and then continued to sit down and watch the game.

Now there are only 30 minutes of time, Fiorentina took the lead again after the equalizer, although the situation is almost similar to before the start of the game, but there is not much time left for Arsenal, in this limited time, Arsenal must score, which is why they must take risks, and Fiorentina have Chen Yu and Tony, De La Valle believes that Fiorentina's hope of scoring again must be greater than Arsenal's, and Fiorentina's hope of advancing must be greater than Arsenal's.

In the VIP box also sat Arsenal President Sylwood, he had been in a good mood before, unprecedentedly good, he believes that Arsenal after so many years of accumulation, should also make a difference in the Champions League, Fiorentina is good, can even be said to be excellent, but compared with Arsenal, the background is still a little worse, and give them a few years of accumulation, maybe they are expected to point to the championship, but now it should be Arsenal who enters Paris.

But Chen Yu's penalty kicked Arsenal President Silwood into the abyss, he felt like his heart fell into an ice hole, although there is still time, Arsenal only needs to score a goal to advance, but he saw from this goal Fiorentina's tenacious fighting spirit, calm mentality, and strong attacking power, which shook the chairman's confidence in qualifying, he felt that even if Arsenal may score, but they may not be able to prevent Fiorentina from scoring, in other words, Both teams are equally likely to score, with Fiorentina looking more favourable to defend.

Arsenal president Silwood is not confident, but the Arsenal players on the pitch are not discouraged, they have more advantages before, the opponent has not been given many chances, but through a penalty to take the lead, this penalty is more to provoke their anger, they are not convinced, they want to use more fierce attacks to break the opponent.

The game started again, Arsenal accelerated the rhythm of passing, but also accelerated the rhythm of pressing, this rhythm is honed in the Premier League, which is not available in the other four major leagues, because this kind of whirlwind tactics requires extremely high physical fitness as a guarantee, and the Premier League has many games, there is no winter break, over the years, they have been used to it, after all, the other four major leagues are a lot worse.

Although Fiorentina is waiting for work, and they gave up the league for this decisive battle, but the physical strength and Arsenal are only equal, and now Arsenal is angry and eager to equalize, Fiorentina suddenly felt struggling, and was overwhelmed by Arsenal for a while.

Many fans don't have any feelings about the away game 2:2, and feel that there is nothing to come and go with 1:1, but now the situation is tight, and it is possible to lose the whole game if they are not careful, and they realize that even a slight advantage will play a great role at a critical moment, if the away game is 1:1. It's also 1:1 now, and the pressure on Fiorentina at home is definitely a lot greater, and now the pressure is more on Arsenal's side.

Arsenal is the most attacking team after Barcelona, their all-out onslaught is by no means comparable to ordinary strong teams, Fiorentina defended very hard, except for Tony, almost everyone returned to their own half, the big man in charge of the midfield organization Fiore was also replaced by Prandelli, replaced by Pachenza to strengthen the sweep in the middle, but even this could not stop all Arsenal's attacks.

In the 65th minute of the game, Arsenal in the middle of a continuous short pass match, the ball in the dense crowd like an elf flying around, Fiorentina defenders had no way to touch it, so after passing seven or eight feet in a row, Fiorentina in order to prevent Arsenal from penetrating into the penalty area, had to move closer to the middle, compressing Arsenal's penetration space, although this is equivalent to giving the side to Arsenal, but the lesser of two evils, Fiorentina had to do so, Because Arsenal's biggest weakness is the lack of players who can head the ball and grab the ball in the middle, even if they can pass good balls from the wings, the threat they pose cannot be compared to Fiorentina.

With such a dense crowd in the middle, Arsenal knew that the players who did not grab points in the middle could only distribute the ball to the wings.

The ball passed to the feet of Ashley Cole, the first full-back of the Premier League passed a pass with an excellent arc, goalkeeper Toldo did not dare to come out, and the defender was more troublesome, but Henry, the king of Highbury who grabbed the point in the penalty area, was not able to correct the ball under the close defense of the Fiorentina player, and the ball was pushed over the crossbar by him.

In the 70th minute, Arsenal continued to get chances on the wings, this time it was Eboue.

Eboue didn't want to pass the ball again, because the chance of the ball going out was really small, even if he passed it well, Eboue passed a boule ball, which was much more threatening to the goal than the bocce ball, but the bocce ball was difficult to pass in, and the ball was kicked out of the small penalty area by the Fiorentina defender.

In the 73rd minute, Arsenal still couldn't penetrate in the middle, the opportunity still appeared on the wing, Ashley Cole swept the bocce ball into the box again, this time Ashley Cole almost hit the ball in with volley footwork, the full-back did not intercept on the line of the big penalty area, and the ball flew into the small penalty area.

This can frighten the Fiorentina fans, everyone understands that this incoming ball is like a bomb, whoever touches it will have problems, but they don't touch it, Arsenal's players must want to touch it, Arsenal's players have to try their best to block Arsenal's point-grabbing players to prevent them from touching the ball.

Players on both sides in the penalty area like wrestling you pull me and pull, both want to squeeze away from the opponent, because Ashley Cole's pass is too fast, Arsenal players have to squeeze away from the opponent to grab points, but the result is not touching the ball, the ball actually flew through the crowd, the most out of the sideline.

Although a few successive crosses from the wing did not work, they also caused Fiorentina a lot of problems, and they were a little better than the short passes that tickled like boots in front, although they were not able to score.

In the 75th minute of the game, there were only 15 minutes left in the 180-minute game, and the Arsenal players were even more anxious, they went all out, desperately attacking, and even the central defenders began to take turns to step forward, ready to split the winner in the last 15 minutes.

For Fiorentina, victory is within the horizon and they will have to stop Arsenal's worst madness no matter what.

At this moment, Arsenal still played to the side through the middle of the pass, and the ball passed to the feet of fullback Eboue, Eboue didn't want to cross again this time, whether it was a bocce ball or a high-altitude ball, he didn't want to pass, there was really no one to grab the point, Eboue gritted his teeth and smashed the ball to the big penalty area.

Eboue is not a fullback who likes to cut inside, he suddenly cut once, Fiorentina defenders are very unaccustomed, Maggio hurriedly wanted to put Eboue outside the penalty area, but the hurried Macho was shaken by Eboue again, Maggio habitually reached out to foul, suddenly remembered that he was now in the penalty area, at this time the foul is a penalty, it is absolutely fatal.

After shaking off Maggio, Eboue has Fiorentina defenders in front of him to make up for it, and it is not easy for Eboue to move forward, and he doesn't want to go anymore after making up for Eboue, he has a big choice to pass the ball in this position, he can pass horizontally in front of the goal, or he can pass back to the top of the arc of the penalty area, which is a very threatening pass.

Eboue, looking at his teammate Gilbert at the top of the penalty area, but also Fiorentina defenders, he passed the ball to his teammates and did not necessarily have a chance to shoot, so he decisively crossed the ball to the goal.

The threat of passing in this position is indeed much more powerful than outside the penalty area, because the ball is in front of the goal after passing out, not to mention grabbing the point, as long as the ball touches someone's leg may also go into the goal, which is indeed more dangerous than the previous few crosses.

Fiorentina's players didn't dare to be careless, they originally planned to get stuck in the position, not let the Arsenal players grab the landing point, let the ball roll out of the sideline, but this time Eboue passed late, Arsenal's players who grabbed the point Many players have already stood in a good position, and they may let go of the Fiorentina defenders helplessly, Pachenza kicked the ball with his foot, he wanted to kick the ball to the bottom line, and give the opponent a corner kick.

But Eboue's pass was insidious, not only fast, but also with a lot of spin, and Pachenza's clearance was already calm, and in order to avoid an own goal, he kicked with the sole of his foot, but the crusty ball still hit his upper and flew towards the goal.

This shocked the whole stadium again, whether it was Fiorentina or Arsenal, everyone stood up, their eyes widened, and they were watching to see if this own goal could be scored.

It was too close for goalkeeper Toldo to do anything, and all he could do was watch the ball fly towards goal.

Seeing that the ball was about to fly into the net, but at this time luck favored Fiorentina again, and the ball actually drew a small arc and hit the post and bounced out.

The cheers of Fiorentina fans resounded in the stands, and the sighs of Arsenal fans were also heard, everyone understands that there are not many such opportunities, such opportunities are not seized, and I don't know what will happen to the road later, because there seems to be such an unwritten law on the field, that is, if you waste opportunities, you will be punished.