Wenger was skeptical of what Ye Qiu said in his pre-match press conference, as he himself had taken a smoke bomb.

Thierry Henry ended up in the starting line-up and joined Reyes in a two-striker pair, while Gilberto Silva was indeed sidelined by injury, and the game was replaced by Flamini, with the young French midfielder and Patrick Vieira forming a double midfield.

The French midfielder, who switched from Marseille last summer, has performed well at Arsenal this season, although he is basically playing as a substitute, but it also shows his potential, although he is young, he is very diligent, very committed on the pitch, running actively, and his skills and awareness are also quite good.

Chelsea also made appropriate changes to the line-up for this game, with Cudicini in goal, Patrice Evra, Gallas, John Terry and McCone at the back, a combination of Essien, Cesc Fabregas and Frank Lampard in midfield, and a trident of Joe Cole, Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney up front.

Judging from this starting list, Chelsea obviously still has the feeling of staying for the Champions League final, at least Ye Qiu did not arrange for the center forward Gudjohnsen, who has performed well recently, to start, nor did he let Deco play, but let Van Persie and Cesc Fabregas start in their place, obviously preparing for the Champions League final.

Wenger stood in front of the Cardiff Millennium Stadium, looking at the Chelsea starting line-up, watching the players of the two teams lined up in front of the players' tunnel, ready to play the English national anthem, but he was thinking about one thing in his mind, what kind of tactics will Ye Qiu adopt in this game? Is it really as he said?

"Chelsea's starting line-up doesn't look like it's about defending," Pat Rice shook his head after watching from the sidelines.

Essien and Lampard are the kind of players who can run and grab and have plenty of physical energy, among them, Essien has also been a substitute at Chelsea this season, with many opportunities to play, and his performance is average, good and bad, but it doesn't feel like a stable midfielder, he belongs to the kind of midfield defender who runs and covers a wide range

Then the problem comes, if Chelsea wants to defend, Ye Qiu's midfield combination lacks a good sense of position, can reassure the back player, Fabregas is biased towards organization and attack, Lampard and Essien's sense of position is more average, you let them run, that's their strength, can let them stand, that's the weakness.

Before Chelsea played Porto, Ye Qiu also adopted the tactics of bombing indiscriminately as soon as he came up, and that game was also because of Makellele's absence, Ye Qiu had to take risks, and this time it is difficult to guarantee that he will not be like this.

"Let them keep an eye on Lampard a little more," Wenger cautiously reminded Pat Rice.

The latter nodded, and Frank Lampard's back-cutting attack has become a label for Chelsea's attack, and the magic lamp is also Chelsea's top scorer this season, and his performance is very eye-catching, as a midfielder, but he is competing with Thierry Henry and other strikers for the league's top scorer, which shows how strong the Chelsea vice-captain's scoring ability is.

Relatively speaking, Chelsea's other players are more average, Van Persie and Joe Cole are all substitutes, Rooney has performed well, but the goal statistics are not very eye-catching, and he is more reflected in the impact of the breakthrough in the front.

Of course, Wayne Rooney has been doing well in recent times, but Frank Lampard is the most dangerous player in relative terms.

For Arsenal, whose current tactical system has been honed for many years, what Wenger needs to do is to adjust the targeted tactics of each game, as well as tell the players to pay attention to the details in the game, such as paying attention to a certain player on the other side.

And when Pat Rice conveyed Arsene Wenger's request to the pitch, referee Sdales blew the whistle for the start of the game.

Fast, responsible, and aggressive, this is the label that Ye Qiu put on the Frenchman Evra

"After the opening we attacked, without hesitation, I asked the defense to press as a whole"

'I'm sure Arsene Wenger must have studied our semi-final away game to Porto and he would have wanted us to play Arsenal like Porto because we lacked a positional defender in midfield and he was adamant that we wouldn't be willing to defend and counter-attack.

"Yes, I am not willing to defend and counterattack, so we started the game and actively played on the wing, especially on the left side, Joe Cole and Evra should cooperate more, try to create a threat through the wing attack, strive to score goals while suppressing Arsenal's side attack, and I also want to give Wenger a false impression that he can and should take defensive counterattacks."

This is the opening strategy that Ye Qiu focused on before the game, Chelsea seems to be attacking, but in fact, it is also very cautious about defensive counterattacks, and there will not be too many troops invested in counterattacks.

As if this time, Evra got a chance soon after the pitch, quickly cut in from the left, Joe Cole won the ball and linked up with Evra, and the French left-back quickly inserted into the left side of the Arsenal penalty area and crossed with his left foot.

The cross landed in excellent place, but the problem was that there were no players up front to follow up, and it was easily plucked out of mid-air by Lehmann, defusing Chelsea's first attack of the game, which immediately caused Chelsea fans in the stands of the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff to sigh in disappointment.

However, after the failure of the first wave of attack, Chelsea did not choose to retreat, but adopted a relatively forward pressing tactic.

Lehmann's goal kick went straight through the midfield, but neither Thierry Henry nor Reyes clearly had the ability to compete for the top in front, especially in front of John Terry and Gallas, who simply couldn't fight for the first point.

The ball was pushed back into midfield by John Terry, Lampard headed it to Cesc Fabregas nearby, and then rushed forward quickly, running relatively to the right, Rooney was also quickly plugged in, and Van Persie pulled directly out of the box, seemingly to respond.

Cesc Fabregas immediately stabilized after winning the ball, but Vieira rushed to the Spaniard quickly for the first time, the tall Vieira was like a heavy tank car, rampage on the field, bringing huge psychological pressure, and Fabregas saw Vieira approaching, immediately passed the ball to the left.

Evra rushed forward quickly, after winning the ball, he went forward vigorously, directly with Arsenal's right midfielder Ljungberg on the wing, and after entering the Arsenal defensive area, Joe Cole leaned over and raised his hand to ask for the ball, and the French left-back also quickly passed the ball to Joe Cole, who avoided Lauren's knock back to the bottom line.

'A beautiful one-two, Chelsea broke down the Arsenal defence from the left again, and it was up to us to see if Evra could catch up with the ball, with Patrice stopping the ball on the left side of the box and Kolo Toure blocking on the edge of the box.

"Beautiful, a stoppage to break through, Evra shook off Kolo Toure and crossed"

Patrice Evra's cross landed in the box, but it was clearly a little further out than the first cross, probably on the edge of the small penalty line, and it was clever that it was a low cross that deliberately bounced off the ground in front of goal.

Because Kolo Toure blocked on the left side of the penalty area, Campbell pulled to the middle to stand, so Evra's cross fell right between Campbell and goalkeeper Lehmann, and if there was no touchdown rebound, Campbell could easily clear the ball, but with this touchdown rebound, Campbell made a mistake in judgment

However, Campbell reacted very quickly, immediately turned around, and saw that Evra's cross just now was not Rooney, nor Lampard, both of whom deliberately put Ashley Cole and Flaminira on the right side of the penalty area, and the middle showed a flaw, and Van Persie, who had just retreated out of the penalty area, suddenly rushed back to the penalty area at this time.

Patrice Evra's cross was quick and quick, and when Campbell reacted, experience told him that the only thing he could do was wait for Van Persie to stop, and if the Dutchman did, he would have a chance to get close.

What he didn't expect was that Van Persie's left foot was obviously ready, and without waiting for the ball to land again after landing and rebounding, his left foot directly met the incoming ball and gently rubbed it, and after the ball was rubbed high by him, with a fierce spin, after crossing an arc, it was almost a goal that hit the upper right corner of the goal.

“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

The on-site commentator at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff pulled out a long sound, which was accompanied by a scene of Chelsea players rushing out of the pitch at a rapid pace, celebrating with great excitement.

'Chelsea opened the scoring less than a U-minute into the opening kick-off, with French left-back Patrice Evra cleverly passing through the middle of the box and Dutch striker Robin van Persie opening the scoring for Chelsea's goalkeeper, 0'

'It was a very beautiful goal, Evra broke down the left side twice in a row and crossed, both of which were smoothly hoisted into the Arsenal penalty area, but the two crosses landed at different points, the first time he chose a high ball, which was also close to the goal, which was directly confiscated by Lehmann, and the second time he chose near the small penalty line.

"Van Persie's shooting is also very beautiful and spiritual, Ye Qiu once praised the Dutch striker, saying that he has the ability and potential to become a player like Thierry Henry, and we do see that Van Persie's performance at Chelsea has been very good, especially this season, and his performance has been rising."

The Chelsea players rushed to the sidelines after the goal, hugging Van Persie to celebrate, a goal that could be said to have come very suddenly, but it opened the door to victory for Chelsea and opened up a situation.

"It's really surprising, we all thought that after Chelsea didn't have Ronaldinho, Drogba and Gudjohnsen, Ye Qiu should rely more on Frank Lampard and Rooney's scoring ability, but in fact, Ye Qiu's attack after the start was obviously around Van Persie."

Through the slow-motion replay, it can be clearly seen that Lampard and Rooney have consciously pulled Arsenal's defensive attention to the right side, while Van Persie has been paying attention to Evra's movements after retreating from the penalty area.

Ye Qiu stood on the sidelines, and after Van Persie's goal, he smiled and applauded, cheering for Van Persie's goal.

"If Wenger thinks that I still have to play the defensive front pressure and fight with him in the midfield, then he really misunderstands me, I don't have the idea of fighting in the midfield at all, because that is too risky for me" Ye Qiu said to his assistant with a smile.

Tengkat on the side is a little sympathetic to Wenger, Ye Qiu's arrangement is indeed bold and surprisingly winning, but more importantly, Wenger's Arsenal style is too single, there is hardly any big change, all 44 are that set of teams, all are that set of tactics.

Ye Qiu doesn't fight in the midfield, it doesn't matter, he takes the side, receives the ball with fast and concise passes, and lets the ball go directly around the middle of the midfield, more on the side, and the focus of Chelsea's game is on the offensive and defensive side of the side, the right side defense, the left side attack, are very resolute.

And Ye Qiu did not adopt the tactics of pressing forward the defensive line, because Essien and Lampard in the midfield have excellent running ability, so Ye Qiu deliberately created an illusion of pressing forward the defensive line, so that Wenger thought about how to counterattack, but in fact, Chelsea really did not invest many troops in the attack, coupled with the focus on defense on the right side, Arsenal's counterattack was difficult to work.

In the words of the Chinese Art of War, this is a soldier, and it is also treacherous

Of course, Arsenal are not without the ability to fight back.

Less than three minutes after Chelsea's goal, Arsenal seized a chance to counter-attack

In this game, Reyes, who was moved by Wengela to the left, forced his speed and skill on the left side, forced past McCone on the side, quickly cut into the penalty area from the left side, and passed straight to Henry, but this time Terry firmly blocked Henry and cleared the ball with one kick.

As if having tasted the sweetness and saw hope, Arsenal began to consciously strengthen their attack on the left side, especially using Pire and Reyes to hit McConn, and soon he got another chance to quickly get rid of McCone from the left and cut inside, but this time Lampard was fouled after chasing back and was shown a yellow card by the referee.

Ye Qiu saw this scene on the sidelines, and immediately signaled Rooney to retreat appropriately, galloping to help the midfield defense, and at the same time let Lampard's position be on the right to support McCone and freeze Arsenal's attack on the left.

So far, it is obvious who is attacking and who is defending, but the pace of the game is very fast, and the ball of both sides is converted frequently, but if you look carefully, it is not difficult to find that Arsenal's attack looks very chaotic.

After the first taste of the sweetness of the attack, Reyes pulled to the left to attack Chelsea's right flank, which was indeed a very good option, Pire naturally pulled to the middle, but in the middle, the distance between Essien and Cesc Fabregas and the defence was kept tight, so that neither Pire nor Ljungberg got too many chances, and there was no expected effect.

Arsenal's attack is mainly aimed at the penetration and impact of the ribs, Henry and Reyes are both good players of this type, but the problem now is that Reyes was forced to the side by Chelsea, Henry was isolated in front of him, unable to constitute an effective attacking impact, and even the connection between the midfield and the forward line was cut off by Chelsea.

On the other hand, Chelsea's signs of playing defensive counter-attacks are becoming more and more obvious, especially after the opening goal, it seems to be rushing to press, but with Arsenal's counterattack, it gradually retreats, maintains a compact formation, and then once it gets the ball, it immediately takes the initiative to play on the left side, with Evra, Joe Cole and Van Persie forming a counter-attacking formation.

Joe Cole and Robin van Persie were excellent on the ball and passing, and Patrice Evra had the pace and impact on the wings, and the counter-attacking duo of the trio had few chances but were both dangerous.

And Arsenal is different, because Ye Qiu deliberately gave up the right side to play for Arsenal, and even took the initiative to seduce Arsenal out to play, intentionally or unintentionally, specifically letting you attack on the left side, so that Arsenal, who are eager to equalize, seems to have created a lot of opportunities on the left side, but in fact, there are very few really threatening opportunities.

As if this time, Henry couldn't wait for an opportunity in front of him, quickly retreated to help, Pire passed the ball to Henry's feet, the French striker turned and shook off Fabregas's direct pass into the penalty area, Reyes quickly inserted into the box from the left rib, and Reyes barely got up under the bag between McCone and Terry, who was in the position.

Such an opportunity was actually very reluctant at all, and Reyes's shot also hit the side netting directly, and the fans were shocked to see it, but after Ye Qiu saw Terry and McCone complete the bag, he knew that Reyes had no choice.

With two defenders in the middle of the pack, and in such a small and dense space in the penalty area, even Ronaldinho may not dare to say that he can succeed, let alone Reyes?

There are many other opportunities for the same, so Chelsea look a little passive, even embarrassed, but in fact they are very stable, patiently waiting for the opportunity for Arsenal to show their flaws again.

It's the same with all teams, it's easy to show flaws if you don't attack for a long time, and for a team like Chelsea with great attacking ability, you don't need to show fatal flaws, often as long as you show flaws and let me play a counter-attack, I can turn a counter-attack into a goal.

As for when to score, Ye Qiu had no way to say, so he could only wait.

Therefore, after the game entered the situation he wanted, all of Ye Qiu's next adjustments were made to stabilize the current situation, and Arsenal was eager to score goals, and secondly, this team has always been known for attacking, so they are handy in attacking.

As the game ticked by, Chelsea held their nerve and Arsenal started to get a little impatient, and finally in the 36th minute, there was another problem.

Thierry Henry tried to find Ljungberg, but Essien broke the ball and handed it to Gallas, who cleared the ball with a big foot, Flamini missed the header, and Joe Cole won the ball and bounced back to Evra on the left, who turned and slotted in quickly.

At this time, Joe Cole and Van Persie rushed forward as soon as possible, and Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney were also quickly plugged in, both of whom were patiently waiting for their chances, as long as they were given a chance, they still entered the penalty area.

Patrice Evra, on the other hand, was quick to dribble down the left flank and Chelsea launched another wave of counter-attacks.