533 Falling apart
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Just when Qin Xiong broke through the opponent's back line and came to Villarreal's penalty area with the football at high speed, all the Arsenal fans in the stands couldn't help but stand up.
Their hearts were looking forward to it with great intensity.
Henry now runs diagonally from the right side of the penalty area to the middle of the box.
Arsu and Alvarez are two centre-backs who are not top defenders at all, and Villarreal are a team that is even thinner than Arsenal's squad, and when neither of the starting two centre-backs can play, the two substitutes are prone to nervousness and mistakes at this level.
Arsu subconsciously targeted Henry, while Alvarez planned to defend Qin Xiong head-on.
But Qin Xiong also changed his yearning for the middle dribbling in front of the penalty area!
Henry ran three meters in front of Qin Xiong, he rushed through the gap between Arsu and Alvarez, he turned his head to look at Qin Xiong, his eyes were extremely hot, he was also looking forward to it.
Looking forward to Qin Xiong sending him a straight stopper, then as long as he continues to run forward, he will get a chance to shoot.
But at this moment, Qin Xiong was still dribbling, still moving diagonally.
Unexpectedly, Arsu, who was in a misplaced and cross-running position between Qin Xiong and Henry, suddenly stopped, but was stunned to find that his legs were not long enough, so Qin Xiong rushed diagonally with the football from a position next to him!
Qin Xiong, who entered the penalty area, faced the goal diagonally, and goalkeeper Barbosa just wanted to abandon the goal, but Qin Xiong's shot suddenly attacked!
A powerful volley from above the near corner of the goal blasts out!
Barbosa didn't make any save, and the ball blinked past his body in front of the left side of the goal into the near corner!
"Arsenal open the scoring! Super Qin Xiong once again stood up at a time when Arsenal needed heroes the most! Henry's run made cover for him. Let him be able to walk on the ground in front of the Villarreal back line! He scored another crucial goal. He has made a big difference to Arsenal's Champions League journey! ”
Arsene Wenger looked ecstatic on the sidelines. Manuel Pellegrini wiped his face, and the two centre-backs who were hard to really trust plus the substitute goalkeeper were wrongly conceded?
It doesn't seem to be wronged at all.
He just had a lot of complaints about Riquelme, and he told Riquelme countless times to participate in the defense in the midfield, and not to let Qin Xiong play unscrupulously in the frontcourt.
The result?
Riquelme did work hard when attacking.
But when defending, you can't see his people at all!
Highbury roared with joy, and in the stands in the direction where Qin Xiong rushed to, many fans collectively made a gesture of worship!
When Qin Xiong became the hero of the team again and again. It is natural for the Gunners fans to bow to him, and in their eyes, Qin Xiong is undoubtedly the future leader of the arsenal!
Henry suppressed the doubts in his heart and ran to Qin Xiong, not only to celebrate the team's goal, but also to congratulate Qin Xiong.
He actually wanted to ask Qin Xiong, why didn't he pass the ball at that opportunity just now?
Changed to the usual Qin Xiong, he must have passed, because Henry had already run out of the air, and he could shoot as long as he made a slight adjustment to the through ball. It was not difficult for Henry to show his own characteristics in front of Arsu and Alvarez.
But consider that I missed at least two great opportunities today. Henry couldn't ask Qin Xiong what he was thinking.
Qin Xiong did have the right to fire, which was also recognized by Henry.
So when he hugged Qin Xiong, there was only one thing in his heart: it's good to score, it's good to lead, and it's good to be able to take a step forward towards the peak of the Champions League.
After the goal, Arsenal's mentality was noticeably more stable.
Stepping into the semi-finals of the Champions League for the first time, many players in the team are actually playing under pressure.
A little nervousness was inevitable, but now it's much better, with the score leading and a lot of relief from the tension.
Even manager Arsene Wenger is no exception.
After conceding the goal, Villarreal went on a frenzied attack, but they didn't let the formation press down sharply, but played directly to the front line with long balls to see if strikers Forlan and Mari could get a good chance to form a direct threat to the Arsenal goal.
Riquelme was a little frustrated, he was difficult to show his skills in this game, Qin Xiong seemed to hold his seven inches, and defended against his slow speed and weak opponents, which was very effective.
La Liga teams themselves are technologically oriented, and when they start to create chances with long balls that they are not good at, it reduces their attacking efficiency.
Don't look at them for a long time without being able to penetrate Arsenal's defence, it seems that there is no threat, but maybe if they break through the defense once, Arsenal may concede a goal.
The visual sense of the scene of the long pass rush is that football can often fly into Arsenal's dangerous area, as if the attack can frequently create a threat, but in fact, Arsenal is very experienced in dealing with the opponent's long pass and hanging, the most traditional and popular in the Premier League, isn't it a long pass and a hanging?
Defending is a routine for Arsenal.
Manuel Pellegrini stood on the sidelines and looked like water, and he couldn't imagine that the team he was training would become unrecognizable when they were just one step away from the top of the Champions League.
Was it collapsed under strong pressure?
Or is it falling apart after the opponent freezes the core?
When Villarreal tried to shake up Arsenal's defence in this way, the Arsenal defence actually became more stable.
In the 77th minute of the game, Forlan lost to Senderos in a scramble for a header in the penalty area, and the ball cleared by Senderos fell at the feet of Cesc Fabregas, who sent the ball to the front of Pire's running position with a long diagonal pass.
Arsenal launch a counterattack!
Pire stepped forward, keeping his way down the flank, with full-back Venta's eyes wandering.
Because not far from the parallel position of Pire, Qin Xiong was also speeding up.
He wasn't sure if Pire would pass the ball to Qin Xiong.
It was that defensive attention that allowed Pire to easily break through Venta on the flanks and then cross the ball into the box.
Henry forced the middle of the goal, he took Alvarez and Arsu to squeeze in the small penalty area in front of the goal, Henry waited for Qin Xiong's pass, but Qin Xiong kicked the ball back when Tacinadi rushed to defend, he looked up and looked at it and then passed the ball diagonally to the other side of the penalty area.
Villarreal's defender turned his head to look at this time and saw Ljungberg, who cut into the penalty area from the side, unmarked to the right side of the penalty spot in the penalty area, and the ball sent by Qin Xiong just rolled in front of him, and he directly swung his legs and kicked the goal!
Ljungberg, who feels terrible in front of the goal this season, almost made Qin Xiong want to scold because the flight path of the football is obviously off the goal!
However, the football that would go out of the bottom line itself hit the leg of defender Alvarez and flew into Villarreal's goal! (To be continued......)