362 Kings and kings
The Champions League 1/8 finals have just ended, and the results of the quarter-finals draw have also been released, and the meeting between Arsenal and Chelsea is expected.
Both teams are catching up in the Premier League and both are expected to break the Premier League points record, which is highly anticipated by the outside world!
Who will be the winner?
Who would have worked hard for another season and ended up with nothing?
On the fourth day after the end of the Champions League 1/8 finals, Arsenal moved to the Reebok Stadium, and the FA Cup 1/4 finals kicked off.
Qin Xiong, along with Henry and other key players, sat on the bench and watched the game with solemn expressions.
Arsenal travel to take on Bolton.
Bolton have been trained by Sam Allardyce this season, and have brought Bolton into the upper reaches of the Premier League with a group of veterans, and it is no exaggeration to say that Bolton is making club history every round.
Because they have never been ranked so high and have picked up so many points in the top flight in the same period.
They can't turn the Premier League upside down, but they're going above and beyond.
Many fans thought that Arsenal's unbeaten run ended at the hands of Bolton Wanderers, but when you consider the changes that Bolton have been improving every week this season, and Arsenal are at the end of the game after the New Year's Express campaign, it is not surprising that Arsenal's record was ended.
Football is never about taking the strength of two teams on paper and comparing them to determine who wins and who loses.
Because Arsenal's unbeaten streak was broken by Bolton, even though Arsene Wenger sent a large number of substitutes to play, the team showed no signs of taking it lightly, and today itself was the FA Cup quarter-final. Passed this hurdle. It's the Final Four! There are only two races left until the championship!
Arsenal did not fall behind on the field. Cesc Fabregas's progress this season has been clear, and he has a vague sense of a general, but he can't yet become the key to the victory.
Bolton is determined to play defense, their group of defense veterans, if they don't play defense, the back line shuttles up and down, and it is estimated that it will collapse in 60 minutes.
Campbell will take five weeks to return to the team, much to the worry of Arsene Wenger and his Arsenal team-mates.
Because when Campbell returns. Both legs of the Champions League quarter-finals have been completed
Senderos was tasked with the task and the Swiss youngster was unfazed and played more and more bravely, knowing that this was his chance to beat Nishioka first and then usurp Campbell or Toure in the main position!
Based on a wealthy family, how can you do it without ambition!
With the excellent play of Senderos Toure Flamini at the back, Arsenal's backline was not destroyed by the counter-attacking threat.
The questions in front of Arsenal are clear: Henry, Henry, Pire. When Qin Xiong is not on the field, who will score?
Cesc Fabregas has shown plenty of organisational prowess. But he can't contribute more on this basis, and Qin Xiong's distance from him has been more concrete when he comes to the end of the season.
The score remained unchanged and the deadlock remained until the 75th minute of the match.
At this point, Arsenal are going to make a substitution.
"Arsenal are going to make substitutions, Van Persie and Edu are replaced, and Henry and Qin Xiong will appear at the same time!"
Qin Xiong, who was standing on the sidelines and still moving his body, walked into the stadium together, and Bolton's players' expressions suddenly changed, and their spirits became highly nervous.
Sam Allardyce pondered from the sidelines what Arsenal would do with the two lethal stars.
Fabregas thought that Qin Xiong would replace him as the midfield commander, and he retreated to do defensive and offensive and defensive overwork, but he didn't expect Qin Xiong to say to him after he came on the field: "You continue to organize attacks in the middle, first play the left side, and then the right side!" ”
According to Bolton's style of play, there is no need for Arsenal to play as a double midfielder.
So when Bergkamp was on the field, Henry also appeared, and now Bergkamp and Henry play double striker, Reyes plays on the left, and Qin Xiong goes to the right.
Cesc Fabregas could hear Qin Xiong's words of encouragement in his words, proving that his performance on the pitch pleased Arsene Wenger.
He surged up infinite fighting spirit and began to actively organize and dispatch.
Arsenal have tried to attack on the left many times, but it was Robin van Persie who was there and now Reyes has been on that side.
Reyes may not be convincing against big clubs, but he is still a very dangerous player for the most of the game, and his delicate dribbling skills will make him a tough guy to be seen by opponents.
Cesc Fabregas gave back-to-back touches down the left and Reyes fed Henry forward from the wing.
Thierry Henry went solo twice, once failing and once forming a shot on goal, but was blocked by the opposition and at least Arsenal's substitutions began to have a positive effect.
However, it wasn't until the 84th minute of the game that Cesc Fabregas suddenly made a diagonal pass through the midfield that Arsenal really made an explosive attacking threat.
Qin Xiong sprinted from the outside to eat Barnes, and when both of them rushed into the inside line to compete for opportunities, Qin Xiong took the initiative to hit Barnes with his arm and touched the ball first!
After more than half a year of reasonable and scientific training, Qin Xiong's muscle strength and explosiveness have increased significantly compared to before.
He dribbled straight to the bottom line and then picked the ball up at the back of goal when he attracted the veteran Hierro to rush over.
Henry rushed past Campo and cushioned the ball back into the middle of goal with the arch of his foot in front of the baseline.
With Qin Xiong and Henry tearing up the void in the box for Bergkamp, Bergkamp certainly didn't waste a good opportunity, and he directly volleyed the ball into Bolton's goal!
As Bergkamp rushed to celebrate the goal, Qin Xiong, who was trotting behind him, and Henry high-fived them with indifferent faces.
"Arsenal's substitutions worked wonders! The appearance of Henry and Qin Xiong made Arsenal's attacking threat change qualitatively, Qin Xiong received Cesc Fabregas's through ball from the side and cut into the inside, and then picked up the pass from the bottom line to the back point of no man's land, Henry rushed up to make the ball back to the middle of the goal, Bergkamp volleyed and knocked on Bolton's goal! Another brilliant goal from 'Made in Arsenal'! ”
Wenger nodded lightly on the sidelines, Arsenal needs to win at the minimum cost, now the end of the season is also the sprint stage, fitness, injuries, state, and other aspects of control are extremely important, it seems that Arsenal is possible, but maybe every qiē is in vain!
It's all about control.
The whole Bolton team was extremely frustrated, and there was not much time left in the game, so they had to press hard to create a miracle.
But Arsenal has long been confident in the face of such an opponent's counterattack.
In the 88th minute of the game, Cesc Fabregas went straight to the backfield, Henry and Bergkamp each attracted defenders, and Bergkamp, who was the most promising to touch the ball, leaked the ball in Hierro's entanglement, and when the football rolled over Bolton's back line, the audience was surprised to see Qin Xiong get rid of Barnes from the side and cut straight to the middle, and successfully went to the meeting in a flat anti-offside position!
After the goalkeeper abandoned the goal in advance, Qin Xiong calmly and calmly shot the goal outside the penalty area, and the football flew up lightly and fell into the goal after going around the goalkeeper's head!
Arsenal sealed a 2-0 win at Reebok Stadium, not only got a ticket to the FA Cup semi-finals, but also avenged the unbeaten record ended by Bolton!
When the game was over, Qin Xiong and Henry were still in good shape, and the picture of the two walking in the middle of the team and leaving the field became the cover headline after the game.
"The king and the king of the arsenal!" (To be continued......)