Chapter 169: Tough Battle
In the second half, there were no substitutions for either team. Arsenal is now the strongest squad in the team at this stage, and it is more likely to rely on this squad to break the deadlock; Inter Milan are the same as they are in control of the big scoreline, and now they just need to continue to maintain this situation, and qualifying for the Champions League final is not a problem for them. So at this time, the two teams are about to start the decisive battle of Zuihou, and the second half is the stage where they play the most haode; One is an expert in optimizing the attack to the extreme, while the other side is an expert in defensive counter-attack, and this offensive and defensive evolution will naturally be more intense and exciting, because they all have the expectation of reaching the Champions League final.
Mourinho is unruly, but his style of leading the team is very stoic; Although leading by a big score, Mourinho did not lose his mind, he knew that if he wanted to win at the Emirates Stadium, he must not play against Arsenal, only patiently and Arsenal, focus on defense, and do not give the opponent a chance to take advantage of, so as to have a chance to win, Mourinho believes that Arsenal is definitely not as patient as Inter Milan.
Inter Milan hoarded heavy troops in the midfield, using crowd tactics, and ferocious pressing made Arsenal have no place in the front, once Xiao Qing could not get the ball, then Inter Milan also protected their penalty area from interference to the greatest extent.
In the second half, Inter Milan began to enter the state as soon as it started, under the tutelage of Mourinho, Inter Milan's defense was very layered and targeted, the players faced a life-and-death battle, and the performance was also extremely focused, and more importantly, they had a lot of people in the midfield. The number of people takes up a lot of space. Increased the difficulty of Arsenal's passes. It also reduces the difficulty of Inter Milan's defense.
Arsenal's attack gradually became stagnant, and if they started the game like a fish in water, after a few minutes, the water turned to mush, and Arsenal's players became sluggish, their passes slowed down and their mistakes began to increase.
While Arsenal seem to be repeating the same mistakes once again, the doom of Inter's defensive inability in the first half seems to be continuing. But the good thing is that Arsenal don't have much pressure on the defensive side now. Arsenal's tactical arrangement is very targeted, they are firmly focused on Sneijder, Eto'o and Milito, and these three are the players in charge of Inter Milan's attack, Arsenal watched these three, Inter Milan's counterattack did not play too threatening.
The team's own defense now looks like there is no problem, and on the offensive end it continues to be in the poor form of the first half; At this time, Xiao Qing naturally understood what he needed to do. The team's frontcourt and midfield were cut off, and the forwards at the front could not get the ball, which naturally abolished Arsenal's two shijie-level strikers; Even if Xiao Qing has just broken the league goal record now, but there is no ball at his feet, all this is naturally empty talk.
Xiao Qing wants to help the team do better. Then the first thing is to make sure that you can get the ball; Now that the midfield is cut off, then Xiao Qing will be withdrawn. Xiao Qing began to implement the team's tactics more resolutely. Xiao Qing, who retreated, first had to ensure that he could get the ball, and Xiao Qing had to ensure that he could put enough pressure on Inter on the offensive end.
In the fifty-sixth minute of the game, Xiao Qing suddenly retreated to the midfield to get the ball; This really caught Inter's defenders off guard, because Xiao Qing really didn't look like he was going to be a show. Inter naturally attaches enough importance to Xiao Qing, and they have collected a lot of information about Xiao Qing before the game, so they still know Xiao Qing's jishu characteristics.
Xiao Qing's feet jishu is really good, among the forwards, Xiao Qing's feet jishu is definitely outstanding, even compared to many top midfielders, Xiao Qing is not left behind; Perhaps the only obstacle that restricts Xiao Qing from becoming a top midfielder is Xiao Qing's overall view, Xiao Qing will not organize scheduling.
When Xiao Qing retreated, the Arsenal players immediately began their tactics; Diaby sent the ball to Xiao Qing's feet as soon as possible, Xiao Qing hadn't gotten the ball for too long, and now they needed the ball to appear at Xiao Qing's feet. Xiao Qing didn't have any observation of the situation on the field after taking the ball, he was not the core of the organization, his retreat was to be able to tear apart Inter's defense, he didn't need to observe the position of his teammates, because he needed to use his personal ability to open the situation.
Xiao Qing's speed is very good, and when Inter was slightly stunned and hesitant, Xiao Qing had already begun to stride with the ball; Zanetti reacted immediately, and he also pressed directly towards Xiao Qing. Inter's tactics are very simple, even if Xiao Qing is a midfielder now, they also need to encircle Xiao Qing who holds the ball; It's as simple as that, even if Xiao Qing is not in the penalty area, they still can't let Xiao Qing take the ball.
Indeed, Zanetti's experience made Xiao Qing regret a little, because Zanetti was very capable of giving Xiao Qing some trouble, and the raid could not form the biggest threat at this time.
Facing Zanetti's card position, Xiao Qing slammed the ball to the left; Xiao Qing changed direction and fought for speedXiao Qing believed that the 'old' Zanetti was not his opponent. Xiao Qing's unusual path made Inter's defense temporarily have some flaws, because they could not be sure who was responsible for keeping an eye on Xiao Qing at this time.
Taking advantage of Inter's small hesitation, Xiao Qing quickly broke through with the ball on the side; Although Shijie's first right-back McCone was also quickly ready to intercept Xiao Qing, Xiao Qing once again changed direction and began to cut inside. So the fans at the Emirates Stadium were excited, Xiao Qing used his super personal ability to finally make Inter a little unnatural, and Xiao Qing also helped the team create some small opportunities at this time.
Zanetti was nervously chasing back, and McCone was also pressed up in time, but Xiao Qing, who was cut inside, didn't care; Met McConn head-on, Xiao Qing, who had slowed down slightly, stabbed the ball forward. Although Mai Kong's speed is very fast, but using Mai Kong's turn, Xiao Qing uses his speed to eat Mai Kong; Xiao Qing, who was half a body ahead of McConn, entered the penalty area from the right side.
There was some panic in the penalty area, although Inter's defenders began to block it as soon as possible, although Xiao Qing did not completely shake off McConn, but it didn't matter, because Xiao Qing's ability was good enough.
Samuel's timely defensive rush made the originally aggressive Xiao Qing encounter great difficulties, just when Xiao Qing just slowed down, the chasing Mai Conn had already sandwiched Xiao Qing with Samuel. The Emirates Stadium sighed, although Xiao Qing has surprised the Gunners fans countless times this season, but at this time they don't think Xiao Qing can create a greater threat.
Xiao Qing had some difficulty protecting the ball under the bag of Samuel and McConn, and lost the speed advantage, and now naturally he can't talk about raids; The six feet are fiercely competing for the ball, relying on the penalty area to make the defenders a little taboo, so Xiao Qing is also able to face the two top defenders with a good sense of the ball to temporarily protect the ball.
But just when everyone thought that Xiao Qing lost the ball in an instant, when McCone finally poked the ball, Xiao Qing also went crazy. didn't care too much at all, and no goal was Arsenal's death sentence, so Xiao Qing was also very bold to grab the ball when it was not completely out of control. In a small space, Inter's two defenders didn't expect Xiao Qing to tackle the ball at the moment he lost the ball; Xiao Qing's foot stepped on the ball, and this time Xiao Qing and Inter's two defenders were fine.
This time the penalty area was completely panicked, Lucio wanted to get the ball back to clear, and Arsenal striker Van Persie also hoped to step up at this time; So in the face of the ball that lost control, the two players who were almost on the same running line were going crazy chasing the ball. seems to have been awakened by Xiao Qing's previous unreasonable tackle, and Van Persie, who had not thrown off Lucio, painted a gourd in the same way; When there was still more than a meter away, Van Persie also shot directly from the flying tackle.
Arsenal's two major strikers are quite unreasonable, but their unreasonableness is very effective; Van Persie scrambled to tackle the ball first, and in the heart of the box, Van Persie's powerful tackle made the ball roll quickly towards the goal against the turf. Although Inter goalkeeper Cesar also reacted quickly to the ball, the bocce ball is often a goalkeeper's nightmare.
The Emirates Stadium erupted, and when the ball rolled into the goal line, the Stadium erupted in earth-shaking cheers; 1-0, Van Persie helped Arsenal take the lead at home!
After the goal, Van Persie got up frantically and began to celebrate wildly, the game has been limited by Inter's iron bucket formation, and Arsenal, who had no way, took advantage of the chaos to score, and this goal gave Arsenal infinite hope. The big score is now 2-3, and Arsenal, which is only one goal behind, now has a good chance of reversing at home to advance to the Champions League final!
Xiao Qing and his teammates were very excited, and this goal made Arsenal see the hope of qualifying; This is Xiao Qing's first retreat in this game, although it is a great difficulty, but Zuihou's result is unexpectedly good. Xiao Qing seems to see the hope of breaking through the Inter goal, and he now feels that his confidence is bursting, because Arsenal has scored, which means that the defense of Inter Milan, which plagued Arsenal in this game, will still be broken for some reasons, and now Arsenal can use these to create greater results!
1-0, this score gave Arsenal great encouragement, and they all thought that now was the time for the team to launch a tough battle for Zuihou! (To be continued......)