As the referee's whistle blows, the game begins.

Sure enough, as Pan Yi expected, Arsenal started with a ball-possession style of play.

The four men in the middle, Rosicky, Alexander Song, Ramsey and Arteta, lined up and kept the ball firmly at their feet.

Van Persie and Theo Walcott up front will drop back from time to time before looking for an opportunity to push forward.

At the back, the two centre-backs, Vermaelen and Koscielny, are basically only responsible for a downturn and not pressing too forward.

The two full-backs, Gibbs and Sagna, would often get forward in search of low crosses.

This style of play is almost Wenger's most commonly used routine, and it is also what Arsenal is currently best at.

Possession of the ball, short passes, passing and running to pull the gaps, and finally straight into the box.

It's just that today they seem to have encountered a little trouble with this routine.

Because their opponent, AC Milan, took the initiative from the beginning and began to press high.

This put the race into a high-speed pace from the start.

And once the ball moves faster, and the intensity of scrambling and physical confrontation increases, Arsenal's possession becomes more and more errors.

So, after a flurry of people on the pitch, Milan gradually mastered the rhythm of the game.

They began to take advantage of the situation and attack Arsenal's position.

In desperation, Arsenal could only retract the formation a little bit and began to resist Milan's waves of attacks.

……

On the bench for the away team.

Arsene Wenger began to zip up his coat.

This action has been going on for several minutes.

Mainly because the current game scene has caused Wenger to feel that there are some problems, which has caused him to not be able to concentrate on fighting the coat zipper.

AC Milan were also a little too fast-paced.

This kind of fast-paced attack and defense, let alone the Serie A team in Wenger's cognition, has never been seen even in the fierce Premier League.

Moreover, it would have been nice if there were more mistakes on both sides in such a fast-paced game, but now it seems to be one-sided.

The Milan players are still very good at running and cutting together, and the success rate of passing and stopping the ball is also very high.

This shows that the AC Milan players are very used to playing at this pace, and they have long been used to it.

But Arsenal's players are different.

They prefer to keep the tempo of the game at their feet and then decide whether to speed up or slow down depending on the situation on the field.

But now that the tempo has been taken to a frequency that is not their own, the Arsenal players are a little at a loss.

Moreover, in the current situation where Milan is the main attack and Arsenal is the main defense, it is difficult for Arsenal to play an effective counterattack.

Because once Arsenal catches the mistake of the Milan player and grabs the ball, the Milan player closest to the ball, no matter who it is, will start to counter-attack as soon as possible.

And when it comes to counter-robbery, it is often swift and efficient.

Two or three people formed a group and directly surrounded Arsenal's ball-handlers, so that he did not have time to see the position of his teammates to deal with it reasonably.

After one of Rosicky's dribbles and another tackle, Wenger shook his head and unzipped his coat in his hand.

Under such high-intensity pressing and pressing by the opponent, let alone the ball, he couldn't even control the rhythm of his game.

Arsenal fell into a passive response, having to deal with wave after wave of attacks from their opponents.

Ten minutes into the game, Arsenal didn't even have a decent shot on target.

If this continues, Arsenal will definitely lose.

And now, Milan have attacked again after this break.

The ball has been passed to the left.

Left-back Zambrotta dribbled forward with the ball, while left winger Sadio Mane also ran along the touchline towards him, looking like he was about to make a catch.

The Arsenal players thought Milan were about to start attacking along the left flank, so three players also leaned over to defend themselves.

But at this time, Zambrotta suddenly made a long diagonal pass and sent the ball to the right side of the front field with precision.

That's why Milan started with Zambrotta.

Although he is older and inferior to the younger Desiglio in terms of physical fitness and other physical indicators, he is much better in passing skills.

At this point, the attention of the Arsenal players there was also on the other side, and there was no one to defend right winger Salah.

Salah picked up the ball and started to sprint, and soon advanced more than ten meters.

Arsenal's back line was also quick to react, with Koscielny getting back in place in time to block in front of the penalty area.

At this time, Salah was still carrying the ball, and he approached Koscielny step by step.

At this time, Aubameyang in the middle has also rushed over from behind and met in the middle.

Salah turned sideways as if to prepare to pass the ball to Aubameyang.

Koscielny, the France international defender, had already anticipated Salah's movements, and reached sideways to cut off Salah's pass.

However, Salah predicted Koscielny's prediction!

He didn't really choose to pass the ball.

Seeing that Koscielny had lost his center of gravity with his outstretched foot, Salah twisted his ankle and slid the ball forward, accelerating sharply.

"Smack!"

Koscielny didn't know what to do, and his brain told him to turn back to defend, but his body rejected the proposal, and he fell into the box.

By this time, Salah was close to Arsenal's six-yard box and he was ready to shoot.

But at this time, Arsenal's other central defender, "High Priest" Vermaelen, has also been put in place.

He jammed the angle of Salah's advance and shot.

Salah didn't hesitate too much and opted for a right-footed cross!

In front of the goal, Aubameyang in the middle also stepped in for the first time to follow up, and was about to make a tackle.

At the critical moment, Poland's international Szczesny made a decisive leap of action, grabbed ahead of Aubameyang, and reached out sideways to block the ball.

The ball flew straight out of the six-yard box, but Milan's back-row attack immediately followed.

N'Golo Kante in midfield had already rushed up and fired a volley from the line of the box.

Szczesny's second reaction was quick, he quickly fired off the ground and leaped to his feet, touching the underside of the ball with his fingertips again to lift the ball over the crossbar.

Corner kick.

Milan took a corner and Van Dijk's header went wide of the far post, ending Milan's barrage of attacks.

Although he didn't score, he attacked beautifully, defended beautifully, and played very excitingly.

Moreover, Milan's series of offensives also made a storm in front of the Arsenal goal, and it made the Milan fans at the San Siro Stadium addicted.

They waved red and black battle flags and sang war songs in support of Milan, and they were all excited.

The passion on the pitch also drives the passion of the fans!