Arsenal are aiming for a treble as they look to become United's first treble since 1999, or even greater than the United's original Treble, while Manchester City are hoping to step on the shoulders of Manchester United to claim the club's first trophy in nearly 35 years.

Manchester City will also be missing top scorer Carlos Tevez, with the Beast missing the game due to an injury sustained in the game against Liverpool and a post-match examination confirming a hamstring strain. While the absence of the Beast will make this game a bit less interesting, City will not be affected in attack. Tevez is not Balotelli and Dzeko will be the team's arrow of choice for the striker, and Balotelli in this game is Manchester City's starting striker, he does have a lot of potential, but Balotelli has not been very consistent in the previous games.

Both teams are hungry for a win in this game, they are both hungry; If this game is successfully passed, the FA Cup final will be between Bolton Wanderers and Stoke City, both of whom will be unable to stop either Arsenal or Manchester City, at least in terms of squads.

Arsenal did not choose to attack at the beginning of the game, Arsenal knows the strength of Manchester City, they understand that although it is a bloodless double defeat of Manchester City this season, the strength of this team is really good, and Arsenal will not have any carelessness because of this. Arsenal were cautious and wanted to be consistent from the start. For Arsenal, even if they don't attack, as long as they keep passing the ball and keep controlling the ball, then they will still have the initiative to occupy the game.

Because Arsenal deliberately slowed down the tempo, Arsenal had a slight initiative in ball control under Arsenal's skillful possession. Manchester City, on the other hand, have assembled a heavy force in midfield. But it is not so simple for them to quickly reverse the disadvantage at this time. It's just that under a strong defense like Manchester City. Arsenal also don't have any decent attack.

Arsenal controlled the ball and they were solid; Arsenal did hurt when they lost to Bayern in the previous game, but this time they didn't have any panic, they were not in a hurry to win or lose. Arsenal are eager to beat Manchester City, but they know how to keep their composure at this time, and when Arsenal play their tactical rhythm, they believe another win over Manchester City will not be a problem.

Arsenal's possession of the ball was really good, although Manchester City were aware of Arsenal's possession. Although they have strengthened their midfield defence in a targeted manner, it is still difficult for them to get the football from Arsenal at this time. Although it seems that the game is a little cold and there is no hot attack, although Arsenal does not seem to have too much attack now, Manchester City knows that once Arsenal continues to maintain the rhythm in this way, it will be more and more unfavorable for Manchester City, which is completely Arsenal's rhythm, and in this case, Manchester City will definitely slowly and completely lose the initiative in the game.

Mancini was a little anxious, and he signaled the team to start pressing hard at this time, strengthening the pressing to disrupt Arsenal's rhythm, and striving to disrupt Arsenal's rhythmic rapid reactionary counterattack; This is City's tactic at the moment. It is also the most likely way to quickly seize the initiative in the game.

Manchester City's counter-attack came simply and crudely, and it was obviously unwise to fight with this group of artist-like players at Arsenal. Using the impact to attack Arsenal's defence is clearly simple and effective.

Although Manchester City did not attack at all at the beginning of the game, in the eleventh minute of the game, Manchester City midfielder Adam. Johnson cut inside on the right rib after breaking the ball, and although a long-range shot from 30 yards out did not pose much of a threat, it was also City's first shot of the game.

Arsenal quickly returned the color, originally a tepid pass, but Cesc Fabregas suddenly split the ball to the side; Walcott, a young tiger with excellent explosiveness and speed, ran wildly with the ball on the right side, one-on-one past Barry and then gave a through ball behind him. Xiao Qing, who pulled to the right side, took the ball and continued to cut inside, and he grabbed the Manchester City defenders to form a blockade and directly pulled out his foot and volleyed vigorously.

Although Xiao Qing's shot was higher than the goal, the cheers at the Emirates Stadium at this moment were still quite loud; This is the kind of attack that Arsenal are used to, and Arsenal also played the first more dangerous attack in the game. This is great news for Gunners fans, who believe that as long as Arsenal continue to maintain this pace, then the victory of the game will be a matter of course. Although Arsenal have only suffered a defeat, the mentality of the Arsenal players is still very good, they are not greedy, they still maintain their rhythm of the game.

Arsenal began to increase the intensity of attack at this time, and then Nasri quickly turned on the left side to get rid of Zabaleta and pushed in front of the goal, Xiao Qing deceived the defenders with a beautiful leak in front of the goal; Van Persie tacitly stepped in and fired into the far corner, only for the young Joe Hart to lift the ball over the crossbar with an incredible fly.

Xiao Qing and Van Persie looked at each other, and the Emirates Stadium also erupted in incredible sighs; This is really a great opportunity, who knew that Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart would have such a brilliant and incredible performance at this time. It's not that Arsenal didn't do well enough, it's that the Manchester City goalkeeper played too bravely.

Joe Hart's performance was a small blow to the already imposing Arsenal, and although the inevitable goal was denied, the Arsenal players readjusted after a little frustration. It was just a shot that was denied, and Arsenal were still confident that they could score in the next game; Joe Hart could make another save, but the Arsenal players were unconvinced that the young England international could keep a shijie save all the time. Xiao Qing is going to fight this guy to the death, but he wants to see if Joe Hart can block his attack or Arsenal can break Joe Hart's ten fingers!

Arsenal took a corner kick, and Xiao Qing's header in the small penalty area was too positive and was directly held in Joe Hart's arms; Xiao Qing turned around and slowly ran out of the penalty area, looking at Joe Hart who opened the ball, Xiao Qing was full of fighting spirit, this was the struggle between him and Joe Hart! There is only one winner in this game, and the one who can laugh to zuihou is the winner!

Arsenal now looks to be completely into the rhythm, which is not good news for Manchester City, so at this time Manchester City is also starting to attack, they can't let Arsenal enter their own rhythm; Manchester City need to score goals, and they need to disrupt Arsenal's attacking rhythm even more. So for a while, Manchester City were on the offensive and they were very aggressive.

In the twenty-third minute of the game, Barry turned in the box and shook Alexander. Song's left-footed shot from 15 meters out went wide of the side netting. Two minutes later, Balotelli's powerful right-footed shot from outside the box was lifted over the crossbar with one hand from Szczesny. In the 29th minute, Adam Johnson took a corner kick from the left, and Lescott fired away from the bottom of the box without interference.

Manchester City played a lot of games during this time, but the Gunners didn't care about these Manchester City attacks at all; Don't look at Arsenal's defensive end, sometimes full of holes, but in the face of such an intensity of attack, Arsenal is still confident to defend. Manchester City is just playing lively, but there are still not many opportunities to really threaten the Arsenal goal; At this time, it will be good news for Arsenal, because Manchester City have slowly become agitated under Arsenal's strong pressure, and they are now a little out of composure and rhythm, and it will naturally be a good opportunity for Arsenal to fight for goals.

In the 33rd minute of the game, Manchester City midfielder De Jong forced a cross, but the poor ball landing point was easily cleared by Arsenal; Mertesacker's header cleared the ball and Arsenal launched a quick counter-attack. Cesc Fabregas picked up the ball from outside the box and sent it straight through the midfield.

In the cheers of the Emirates Stadium, Xiao Qing turned around and unloaded the ball, and before the Manchester City defenders approached, Xiao Qing began to advance with the ball violently; Without giving Yaya Toure a chance to approach at all, with the guarantee of absolute speed, Xiao Qing is naturally confident of impacting Manchester City's defense.

Manchester City's defenders began to make adjustments in a hurry, and Xiao Qing suddenly smashed the ball and changed direction to the side; City's defence began to move to the left at this point, with Xiao Qing forcing Manchester City full-back Kolarov to accelerate inside. Although it was a little left, Xiao Qing directly volleyed vigorously before the Manchester City defenders made up the defense.

Xiao Qing saw that the Manchester City goalkeeper's position was a little far to the left, although he was now a little far away from the goal, although the current angle of Xiao Qing's shot was not very large; But it doesn't matter, Xiao Qing believes in his shooting ability. There was no adjustment or warning at all, Xiao Qing directly volleyed; There was also an exclamation at the Emirates Stadium, Xiao Qing's shot like this was a bit unreasonable and not very reasonable, but Xiao Qing didn't care, he was confident that it was the most reasonable to score a goal!

The ball whistled and flew towards the goal, although Joe Hart was in a hurry to make amends, but although he was tall and arm-long, he was not slow, but he couldn't run the ball at all; Originally, he wanted to block Xiao Qing's shooting angle, but now it looks like he made a mistake.

The ball flew in front of Joe Hart, and he hoped that Xiao Qing would shoot past the goal; But this time his expectations were disappointed, Xiao Qing's shot flew straight to the angle between the column and the crossbar, which is a theoretical dead end!

1-0, Xiao Qing's shot helped Arsenal take a 1-0 lead, Arsenal finally played their own offensive in the game, they seized the initiative in this game, and now they are also close to the FA Cup final! (To be continued......)