Volume 1 Chapter 270 Collapse, Arsenal!
The Gunners struggled to stop a habitual March rout, with the Blues coming back from home
Ye Qiu broke the fate of the Blues, and Highbury Stadium performed a classic reversal
Chelsea's shadow of terror looms over London, with the Gunners softening their legs at the Blues
Arsenal's best signing of the season became a laughing stock, and the Blues' defensive pillar played the role of a savior in danger
The Gunners' dreams were shattered as the Blues came back from behind to the top
The next day, the match was covered in the newspapers of England and Europe, and a large part of it was devoted to Chelsea, with almost everyone not shy away from praising Chelsea, especially Ronaldinho's performance in the game.
Although Ronaldinho was not involved in the team's first equaliser, everyone could see that Chelsea's turnaround in the second half actually began with the confirmation of Ronaldinho's free possession of the ball in front, and the Brazilian's attacking ability was also on full display in the second half.
The second goal was a thorough reflection of the Brazilian's skill and scoring ability, and some media even directly believed that it was Ronaldinho who led Chelsea to defeat Arsenal, and the performance of the Brazilian superstar was affirmed by all the media.
On top of that, Claude Makellele's goal also won a lot of recognition, with the French midfielder taking on compatriot Patrick Vieira in this game, but it was clear that Makelele was in better form than Vieira, who was badly out of form throughout the game, especially in the second half, when he was even more indifferent to Gilberto Silva.
When analyzing this game, many professional football people have pointed the finger at Arsenal's bench thickness, believing that the most important reason for the lack of physical fitness of players is that Arsenal's bench thickness is simply not enough to ensure that the Gunners play on three fronts at the same time, but Wenger obviously has no awareness of this aspect
"In addition to the surprising first-team squad, Chelsea have on the bench stars such as Gallas, Joe Cole, Parker, Gudjohnsen and Cudicini who have already proven themselves in the Premier League, as well as rookies such as Franck Ribery, Robin van Persie, Cesc Fabregas, Messi and Robert Hout.
"This group of players has made Chelsea present a huge squad with a reasonable layout of the three generations of the old, middle and young generations, but even so, Ye Qiu still safely arranges the team's main front in the two most important events, the Premier League and the Champions League, and arranges youth players to play in chicken ribs such as the League Cup and the FA Cup."
"But Arsene Wenger is clearly not, Arsenal are currently on three fronts in the FA Cup, Premier League and Champions League, which has led to Wenger now facing a dilemma, that is, should they try their best against Manchester United in the FA Cup semi-finals?"
'There's no doubt that if Arsenal play as hard as they can, they have a chance of winning, but it will affect the league and the Champions League, but if you don't do your best, it would be a shame because you can get the FA Cup past Manchester United.
"I believe that it is not only Wenger who is struggling, but also the Arsenal players, because they find that the team does not have a stable strategic direction this season, Wenger is very ambitious, wants to win any title, but the team does not have enough squad to support the consumption caused by multi-front operations."
"If this continues, maybe Wenger is likely to be empty-handed and gain nothing, just like Leverkusen in the year, three fronts were killed to the bottom, but in the end nothing was achieved, and the tragic king of Sanya was achieved."
After the home defeat to Chelsea, Arsene Wenger refused all interviews and did not answer any questions about this game and the rest of the game, leaving everyone unsure what Wenger was thinking.
After the first leg of the Champions League knockout round, Real Madrid, who were also in the top half, defeated Monaco 4 at home, and the call to advance to the semifinals is very high, and judging from the odds modified by the bookmaker, the vast majority of fans are more optimistic about Real Madrid's encounter with Ye Qiu's Chelsea in the semifinals, which will be an expected matchup.
In the second half, AC Milan beat Deportivo La Coruna 4l, Porto beat Lyon 0, and the home team won both games, and many people also felt that AC Milan and Porto would both enter the semi-finals.
For a while, many people have compared Porto's Mourinho with Ye Qiu, who led Ajax to the semi-finals, except that the Portuguese is European and older, from the perspective of resume, it is very similar to Ye Qiu, they are all in charge of the current team in the first full season to win the League Cup, the second year to reach the Champions League semi-finals.
The difference is that Mourinho won the treble last season, one more league title than Ye Qiu.
The media likes this comparison the most, so they began to hype it, thinking that Mourinho has a chance to become the second Ye Qiu and lead Porto in the second tier of Europe to win the Champions League, but only if they beat Ye Qiu's Chelsea.
Just as the European media were reporting on the knockout rounds of the Champions League, the Premier League soon ushered in the 30th round.
Chelsea host Wolves, and Ye Qiu made extensive changes to the team's starting line-up.
The goalkeeper is Cudicini, Son Jihai, Gallas, John Terry and Robert Hout at the back, Parker, Cesc Fabregas and Joe Cole in midfield, and Franck Franbery, Gudjohnsen and Robin van Persie up front.
Such a wide range of substitutions and adjustments have brought turmoil to Chelsea, especially after the opening, Wolves took the lead in launching a fierce attack on Chelsea with a rough and brutal aggressive style of play, especially in the L minute, Robert Hout made a fatal mistake and cleared the opponent's throw-in into his own penalty area.
But soon, Van Persie switched positions with Gudjohnsen, retreated to get the ball and knocked it back to Joe Cole, and the Englishman made a very imaginative through ball, Gudjohnsen grabbed the penalty in the box and equalized, L
The scoreline remained until half-time, but in the second half, Chelsea's situation did not improve.
In the 5l minute, Wolves took advantage of a corner kick opportunity, and Cudicini made a mistake to extend the score again.
The goal put Chelsea to the brink and Ye Qiu eventually made a substitution, bringing on Frank Lampard for Cesc Fabregas and McCone for the underperforming Robert Hut.
After two successive substitutions, Chelsea's attack was fully energized.
First, in the first minute of the U-19, Chelsea created three shots in two consecutive waves, but Gudjohnsen failed to grasp the opportunity, Ye Qiu regretted this, and also adjusted the position of the player, allowing Gudjohnsen to sit in the middle to press and make the ball, Van Persie fixed on the right side, with Lampard's back insertion attack.
The Dutch youngster's skills on the ball are very good, but his ability to get rid of defenders after taking the ball on the right side is also superb, and it is a pity that he is not strong enough to cooperate because of his age and experience, and he is not suitable for playing as a central striker, which is also related to his weak physical confrontation ability.
In the middle of the front field, it is definitely a veritable meat grinder, who has been in knows the road.
The change made Chelsea's attack more threatening, first with Robin van Persie picking up the ball on the right and getting away from a cross before Frank Lampard slotted home a kick from just around the mark to equalise again.
Less than five minutes later, Joe Cole crossed through and Lampard got Gudjohnsen back to knock back, and again in the position of the first goal just now, he volleyed hard, and scored with a long-range shot from a meter away.
Chelsea were in high spirits as they scored twice in the 85th and 9th minutes through Joe Cole and Frank Lampard, with Frank Lampard netting a hat-trick to help them beat visiting Wolves and secure another crucial victory.
Frank Lampard's title as Premier League top scorer was cemented again after a hat-trick, and everyone got to see the bloodthirsty Blues captain who has been injury-free this season and has featured in all league and Champions League games.
At the end of the game, Chelsea's performance was highly praised for their ability to show such crazy goalscoring momentum under pressure, showing the courage and determination to win the title, conceding two goals, but still giving hope to the team, and Frank Lampard was voted Man of the Match and believed he deserved the Premier League Season of the Season.
However, some media believe that the biggest obstacle for Lampard to win the Premier League season of the season is his teammate, Brazilian Ronaldinho, who is not inferior to Lampard in both the Premier League and the Champions League, and has already scored double-digit goals and assists in the Premier League this season, and has repeatedly saved the team in the Champions League.
Ye Qiu's two substitutions in the second half completely activated the team's offense, and once again won the affirmation and praise of the media.
Conversely, Arsenal's Arsene Wenger was held to a miserable draw by Manchester United at Highbury.
In the first 15 minutes of this game, the two sides played very intensely, which can be described as wonderful, the two teams are not conservative at all, Wenger obviously wants to use the opening to swallow Manchester United directly, a typical victory in one fell swoop, but I didn't expect that Manchester United also played without concessions, the two sides can be said to have entered the fast lane directly, and attacked fiercely, but no one took advantage.
The game has always maintained a stalemate, but the pace is fast, and Ferguson, the old fox, really made an article about Arsenal's lack of fitness, and decisively pulled up the tempo, making this game a very rare game in the Premier League, always maintained in a fast-paced state.
In addition, Manchester United's encounter with Arsenal is always indispensable for the confrontation of strength and body, as well as the gunpowder contest between Keane and Vieira, and some red cards and penalty controversies, which can be described as very tragic.
And even though Arsenal opened the scoring in the 50th minute by Thierry Henry, and Arsene Wenger began a conservative defensive counterattack tactic after that, Arsenal's lack of physical weakness made the Gunners almost pressed by Manchester United in the last minutes, and the field was very embarrassed, and Saha's goal helped Manchester United equalize.
Arsenal drawn, Chelsea won, and the gap between the two teams widened to U-points, which made Wenger lash out at referee Bol after the game, believing that Bol had clearly missed a penalty for Arsenal in the game, which happened near the end of the first half, when Henry smashed the ball past Silvestre and was brought down by Carroll in the box, but Bol did not award a penalty.
Ferguson countered the blow, believing that in the 53rd minute of the second half, when Ryan Giggs burst into the box, Campbell chased back to Giggs, and Bol also did not award a penalty.
The two Premier League coaches exchanged fire directly on the media page, which made Chelsea and Ye Qiu, who should have been in the limelight after 30 rounds, but now they have retreated into the background, but it is Ferguson and Wenger who have become the focus and object of major European media, and the duel between the two has aroused great interest from fans and media.
In the past few years, Arsene Wenger and Ferguson, a pair of bitter rivals, have played a good game or two almost every season, but this season, with the strong rise of Chelsea and the decline of Manchester United, the gunpowder between the two is not as strong as in the past, but Ye Qiu has become the third party between them.
But now with the arrival of the league and FA Cup semi-finals, the managers of both teams have obviously felt the pressure and exchanged fire directly, and in addition to the head coach, the players have also thrown themselves into the battle circle.
Not only at the competitive level, Manchester United's chief CPO David Gill took the lead in breaking Manchester United's financial situation in the first quarter of this year in April, believing that Manchester United's finances are very healthy now, but Arsenal, because of the construction of a new stadium, the team will be burdened with a heavy debt burden of 300 million pounds
"A lot of people like to say that the Manchester United dynasty has fallen, but I think it's too early to say whether Manchester United will fall or not, because we have a lot of economic strength that no other opponent has, but Arsenal, with a debt of 300 million pounds, is not a joke, and his fall is clearly ahead of us."
Ferguson has also joined David Gill and said he will consider making several signings this summer.
"We're not going to blindly follow Chelsea's almost nouveau riche transfer operation because that would ruin a healthy team, but we're not like Arsenal, who are so poor that they don't even have the money to bring in reinforcements because of debt, we will come up with the right transfer budget, bring in the right players, and make sure the team is fighting right."
As for what his recruitment budget will be this summer, Ferguson did not give a direct disclosure, but made it clear that it will be very, very generous.
'Arsenal's biggest strength this season, and their greatest luck, is that they have had very few injuries, which is why they have been unbeaten so far, and there is no denying that they are one of the best teams so far this season, but I don't think they have a chance of winning the title.
'Whether it's the Champions League or the Premier League, Arsenal have clearly lost their hopes of winning the title, Chelsea are more motivated and hungry than them, and Arsenal's players are now close to running out of fitness, which is very dangerous'
Ferguson deliberately said this before the FA Cup semi-finals, apparently to provoke Wenger and Arsenal, while he publicly admitted that United had lost the title race this season and that the team would do everything in their power to beat Arsenal in the FA Cup and eventually win the FA Cup.
'We're used to finishing the season with trophies and not having trophies, so it's going to be very unpleasant for us,' Ferguson joked.
Compared to the ease of Manchester United and Alex Ferguson, the pressure on Wenger is very high, not only for him, but also on the Arsenal players, because after playing Manchester United, they soon ushered in an FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United.
In this game, Ye Qiu personally took Ten Carter to Highbury Stadium to watch the game, because he also wanted to know whether Wenger would continue to play with the full main lineup, and the result really did not surprise him.
The goalkeeper is Lehmann, with Klich, Campbell, Chlo Toure and Lauren at the back, Pire, Edu, Vieira and Ljungberg in midfield, and Thierry Henry and Bergkamp up front.
United also played with an all-out squad in the first game, with Carroll in goal, O'Shea, Silvestre, Brown and Gary Neville at the back, Ryan Giggs, Roy Keane, Paul Scholes and Cristiano Ronaldo in midfield, and Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in attack.
The game was intense from the start, with the game going hot from the first minute, with Silves kicking off a clash with a very nasty tackle that brought down Thierry Henry, and to Arsenal's annoyance, Silvestre escaped punishment.
However, Arsenal's anger could not be translated into strength, and United's physical superiority ensured that the Red Devils continued to attack Arsenal from the very beginning of the game, and in the first minute, Giggs cleverly passed Scholes to open the scoring for Arsenal.
After that, no matter how Arsenal counterattacked, Manchester United always maintained an unbreakable defense, stubbornly maintained the score of 0 to the worst, and successfully defeated Arsenal in the FA Cup semi-finals, which completely shattered Wenger's dream of a treble, and once again dealt a painful blow to Arsenal's confidence and fighting spirit.
Who loses and who wins the game, Ye Qiu has no interest in knowing, but he clearly saw the scene he wanted to see in the game, that is, the conflict between the Arsenal players, the most obvious scene is Henry roaring at Lauren, which makes Ye Qiu very, very sure that Arsenal finally caused the players to have psychological problems because of the huge pressure.
This also made Ye Qiu more confident about the next schedule, because he already knew that Arsenal was collapsing