Four Watches -

When Arsenal face the game with a more cautious attitude, they will hardly give their opponents any chance.

On the back line alone, they have two world-class top defenders, Campbell and Ashley Cole, Toure is definitely a first-class level now, as for the inconspicuous Lauren, in terms of defense alone, he is definitely world-class, but unfortunately the strength of the fullback evaluation should not only consider the defense, but also consider the ability to assist, so he is slightly inferior in attack and makes him not very conspicuous, but only in terms of defense, Arsenal's back line is extremely reassuring.

Not to mention that there is a world-class star Vieira in the back position, Flamini played the starting position today, and he was extremely excited, but he always reminded himself to be calm, Vieira will pay more attention to help him defend and fill the position, plus PSV Eindhoven is weak in the middle of the attack, in fact, the probability of problems in the back is not high.

This makes PSV Eindhoven, who are biased towards the main attack, very uncomfortable, even if Lee Young-pyo assists, they try to play fast, and when they come to the front line to play a fierce battle with the Arsenal defense system on the offensive end, it is still obvious that it is difficult for them to create a great chance, Park Ji-sung can pass a ball in the front waist area at best, no more, no chance, control the ball, first ask Vieira if he agrees.

Farfan's skills are good at his feet, but his running awareness and ability to find opportunities are weak, he can dribble the ball to instigate attacks, but if Heselink is the only one in the middle penalty area to run, the Arsenal defender will block Heselinck very lightly.

Qin Xiong did his job well after the opening.

He delivered cannonballs to Ljungberg, Pire, and Henry. Leisurely strolling in the middle of the field to organize the work.

During the transition between attack and defense. Qin Xiong's organizational talent is vividly reflected.

Left wing-back Lee Young-pyo went up if the assist. Then when Arsenal attack, Qin Xiong will focus on passing the ball to Ljungberg, and if Li Rongpyo can return to defend in time, Qin Xiong will pass the ball to Pire.

He didn't push forward too much, and Arsenal's attack was actually rather monotonous.

There are almost three people up front for each attack.

Either Qin Xiong Henri Ljungberg or Qin Xiong Henri Pire.

And most of the attacks ended at the feet of Thierry Henry, most of the time he was surrounded and conceded the ball, which made Arsenal's attack fail.

Qin Xiong was very patient. I wasn't nervous at all.

He is like a beast hiding in the shadows waiting for an opportunity, ready to burst out to hunt.

PSV PSV Eindhoven look desperate, attacking flanks frequently and at a faster pace, and they hope to take advantage of the opportunity after Arsenal's attack failed to turn around and hit Arsenal by surprise!

But Arsenal has Qin Xiong, the midfield commander, who also listened well to Wenger's pre-game tactical requirements and did not blindly pursue a fast pace.

Therefore, when he controlled the rhythm of Arsenal's attack and defense, no matter how fast PSV Eindhoven unilaterally increased the speed, Arsenal did not respond, and always played at a slow and tepid pace.

This is a demonstration of the commander's ability to master the rhythm.

The effect is obvious. Arsenal aren't messing around!

The distance between the players on the field and the three-line formation is kept very reasonable.

No matter how fast PSV Eindhoven is, it can't shake Arsenal's defence.

When the game came to the 37th minute. Qin Xiong saw Lee Young-pyo striding forward along the left side, Park Ji-sung passed the ball to his fellow countryman, Lee Young-pyo couldn't get up and cross at 45 degrees, he hesitated, he wanted to pass the ball to Park Ji-sung again, but unfortunately Vieira stuck his passing line steadily, and it was around Park Ji-sung, and Flamini rushed up bravely to intercept him.

Lee didn't concede the ball in this hesitation, he reacted smartly to continue to dribble the ball to the baseline, and then when he was close to a dead end, he could only cross.

The cross was cleared by Campbell's header, which was really far enough to bounce off the ground and almost close to the halfway line.

Qin Xiong is here, there is no one around him, but he does not possess the ball, he thinks this is a very good attacking opportunity, the groundwork of the previous brewing offensive has been completed, combined with the defensive form of PSV Eindhoven this time, the opportunity has appeared.

He knocked the ball back to Patrick Vieira, who slotted it straight down the right flank.

Qin Xiong ran forward after passing the ball, he didn't look at Vieira at all, when he turned his back to Vieira and didn't look back, the meaning was already obvious, he didn't want Vieira to pass the ball to him, he had no intention of answering.

That's redundant, and if Vieira needs to pass it back to him, then why would he pass the ball to Vieira? It's good to turn around and dribble by yourself.

He was trying to lower his sense of existence.

The best way to get the ball out in front of Vieira's eyes is naturally on the right side, Lee Young-pyo is still far away from returning at full speed, and Ljungberg has the best environment to receive the ball, which is also unmarked.

Ljungberg led the ball down the right side of the pitch and dribbled straight forward.

He didn't hesitate to turn inside the box after stepping on a 45-degree cross.

Li Rongbi is not there, and Koku, one of the three back midfielders, must help defend the side, but this time Ljungberg is too fast, making Koku also weak.

Left central defender Bouma will definitely pull the side to help the defense!

This brings up the problem that the defensive distance between PSV Eindhoven's defenders has increased, after all, there are three defenders.

Hiddink, who was standing on the sidelines, was still as calm as before.

Of course, he had foresight for such a scene.

Therefore, the defender Vogel retreated to the back line at the same time for the first time, making the back line of PSV Eindhoven become four people, who is defending?

Ljungberg?

No!

Ljungberg doesn't have the strength of a dragon.

But beware of Henry stepping forward!

If no one retreats back to the back line to narrow the parallel defensive distance, Henry's anti-offside speed explosion will be a nightmare for PSV Eindhoven!

This defensive strategy, which has been used by PSV Eindhoven since the opening kick-off, has worked well, cutting off at least two occasions when Pire and Thierry Henry are linked up in attack.

But this time, they didn't expect Henry to go to the anti-offside position at all, he retreated instead!

Henry withdrew from the penalty area, Alex did not dare to step forward to press, fearing that Henry would suddenly accelerate forward again, and Van Bommel had to defend Henry.

Ljungberg played the ball steadily before getting caught between Cocu and Bouma, and Henry ran from the left to the right in front of the box to meet Ljungberg's pass.

Alex and Van Bommel flanked Henry back and forth, but Henry was on a diagonal trajectory, so Vogel was also ready to step up and form a three-sided encirclement with his teammates to cut off the ball at Henry's feet.

At this moment, from a distance of about four meters to Henry's right, a galloping figure rushed by.

Qin Xiong!

Just as Vogel stepped forward, Henry gently slipped the ball through the gap between Vogel and Alex.

Qin Xiong, who passed by Vogel, took advantage of the situation to flick the ball forward with his left foot, and his personal speed did not slow down into the penalty area!

PSV Eindhoven defense is broken!

Qin Xiong, who was calm, saw goalkeeper Gomez abandon the goal and run towards him, he didn't make any other superfluous movements, ran forward and slightly sideways with the outside of his right foot to shoot.

He didn't expect that the kung fu of rubbing and passing the ball with the outside instep that he had recently strengthened his training would consciously use it for the first time in shooting!

Gomez stopped when he saw Qin Xiong's shot, he didn't make a save, the two still had a certain distance, and the direction in which the football flew out after Qin Xiong's shot made him predict that it would be useless for him to make a save at the first time.

It's just that he was shocked in his heart: this ball doesn't seem to score!

So he turned his head and looked to the left side of the goal.

The speed of the football is not fast, but it has a strong rotation, and the angle between Qin Xiong and the goal makes this ball have a strong sense of internal rotation.

In the first half of the flight, the ball is flying outward, but after going around the arc, it is spinning in the direction of the goal!

The ball bounced into the goal with a strong internal spin after bouncing off the ground in the six-yard box, and the ball that looked dangerous and could have missed a second ago was in fact almost a metre away from the left post when it crossed the goal line, so there was nothing to worry about after drawing a small arc.

Hit the bull's-eye!

Arsene Wenger applauded Qin Xiong happily on the sidelines, and Qin Xiong's teammates also ran to Qin Xiong to celebrate.

When Qin Xiong jogged to the sidelines to celebrate with a smile on his face, he was surprised to see some non-Arsenal fans cheering for him in the stands.

It was a group of Chinese fans.

They seemed to be more excited than the Arsenal fans, with someone holding up a poster of Qin Xiong and a striking banner that surprised Qin Xiong.

When he scored, some of these people roared wildly in the stands!

The words he screamed were the slogans on the conspicuous banner.

"Eindhoven, your Emperor is back!" (To be continued......)