Arsenal didn't have much time to celebrate after the win over Manchester United, and there was really nothing to celebrate, after all, they had already won the title and their side had only consolidated third place.

Now they only have the Champions League in their eyes!

By now, Arsenal's imperial appearance has become more and more explicit, and everyone believes that they are only one yellow robe away from ascending the throne.

With the exception of a handful who still believe that the La Liga giants can turn the tide against the wind, most believe that Arsenal will meet Borussia Dortmund in the final, and then the Gunners will lift the first Champions League trophy in the club's history on their home turf.

The Times can't wait to publish an article called "If Arsenal win the Champions League this season......".

'If Arsenal win the Champions League this season, what kind of ripple effects will it have?

First of all, Arsenal will end the embarrassing situation of not winning a title for eight years, the new Champions League status will further strengthen their attraction to big-name stars, and the generous Champions League bonuses will also give them more funds to recruit more good players, in short, the Gunners will be greatly competitive, and once again become one of the most powerful forces in today's football;

Secondly, Arsene Wenger will become the second active manager in the Premier League to win the Champions League, and he will become the totem of the century-old club and one of the greatest managers in the history of the Premier League.

In the end, the 17-year-old Lin Yun will be the favorite to win the Ballon d'Or, and he may even break the record set by Ronaldo and Owen at the age of 21 and become the youngest winner in the history of the Ballon d'Or, well, he will only be 18 years old at that time. ”

The Sun has also begun to help Arsenal calculate how much they will gain.

According to their estimates, if the Gunners were to lift the Big Ears Cup on their doorstep, the most immediate bonus would be $75.25 million, not counting other improvements such as influence, commercial value and player value.

In short, the entire Fleet Street has managed to create an atmosphere that Arsenal is a crime not to win the title!

Before the race, Arsene Wenger collected all the newspapers and trampled them under his feet in front of the players.

"Before the start of the season, they said that qualifying from the group was already the limit for us, and now they say that we are the favourites to win the title......

While I agree with that, it's not based on bullshit reports, it's based on trust in you.

Now, let's forget about these newspapers, forget about the 4-1 scoreline, and go to Barcelona with a brave and cautious heart to play our penultimate Champions League game of the season. ”

Ferguson's departure has left Arsene Wenger feeling a sense of crisis.

He didn't know that one day he would suddenly get tired of it, or even be swept away.

He doesn't want to wait until the day he leaves, and the biggest regret of the Champions League is still in the honor book.

With the high expectations of gun fans all over the world, the whole Arsenal team went to Barcelona.

Before them, Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund started the match.

The Arsenal players watched the match live from their hotel in Barcelona.

I thought that Dortmund, who had a three-goal lead in the first leg, would be a sure thing to advance as long as they played cautiously in this game, but they didn't expect the Hornets to play extremely thrilling in this game, and even almost capsized in the gutter.

Lewandowski's shot hit the bar, Gundogan's inevitable shot was saved by Diego López, and although Dortmund missed two good chances in a row, Real Madrid has not been able to knock on Dortmund's door.

Just when everyone thought that Dort would advance to the Champions League final smoothly and steadily, the situation changed suddenly at the end of the game.

Benzema and Sergio Ramos scored back-to-back goals to make the aggregate score 3-4.

As long as one more is scored, Real Madrid will be able to fight back with the advantage of away goals!

Fortunately, the Nerazzurri managed to hold on to their victory in the end, and advanced to the final first.

This game was also a wake-up call for the whole Arsenal team.

4-1, no insurance......

The next day, the game began.

Having experienced the experience of the Allianz Stadium and Juventus's home stadium, Lin Yun originally thought that he could step into the Camp Nou calmly, but when he really walked into this stadium and was surrounded by red and blue, he was still deeply shocked.

Cheers, boos, and incomprehensible Spanish were everywhere, and as far as the eye could see, everyone seemed to be waving red and blue scarves, and everyone seemed eager to swallow them in their stomachs.

"You're the third, along with the Bernabeu, Old Trafford, Stamford Bridge, Anfield, San Siro, Meazza, West**......"

"Players from both sides are on the pitch!

In the first leg, thanks to Lin Yun's hat-trick and Theo Walcott's goal, Arsenal temporarily led Barcelona 4-1, and the La Liga giants have been pushed to the brink, and for them, the worse news is that Messi will miss this crucial game due to a recurrence of an old injury. ”

"Arsenal is full of personnel, just defeated the Premier League champion Manchester United four days ago, the current momentum is like a rainbow, the state is hot, the main scorer Lin Yun is even more hot, the goals continue, plus a 3-goal lead, it can be said that one foot of the Gunners has stepped into the Champions League final!

However, they can't be careless, because this is the Camp Nou after all, Barcelona just completed a shocking 4-0 home thrashing of AC Milan here, and they are unbeaten in 21 consecutive home games, the last defeat at Camp Nou was 1-2 to Rubin Kazan on October 20, 2009, so it is widely believed that Wenger should play conservatively today......

"There were 96,636 fans at the Camp Nou today, and the atmosphere was quite hot! We also saw a lot of familiar faces in the stands, Pep Guardiola, Ronaldinho, Bergkamp and many more! ”

"Look at the starters.

There were four changes to Barca's starting line-up compared to the first leg.

Adriano replaced Jordi Alba, who had accumulated yellow cards, at left-back, Alexandre Song replaced Sergio Busquets, who had a pubic injury, in the middle, Messi came to the bench after a relapse, Cesc Fabregas replaced him, and Villa replaced Alexis Sanchez up front.

Goalkeepers: 1-Valdés;

Defenders: 2-Alves, 15-Baltra, 3-Pique, 21-Adriano;

Midfielders: 25-Alexander Song, 6-Xavi, 8-Iniesta;

Forwards: 4-Cesc Fabregas, 7-Villa, 17-Pedro.

Arsenal have almost completely retained their line-up for the first leg, replacing Giroud with veteran Rosicky, and Arsene Wenger is clearly looking to tighten up his defence and cement his three-goal lead.

Goalkeepers: 21-Fabianski;

Defenders: 25-Jenkinson, 4-Mertesacker, 5-Vermaelen, 17-Monreal;

Midfielders: 7-Rosicky, 8-Arteta, 19-Cazorla, 10-Wilshere, 14-Walcott;

Forward: 11-Lin Yun. ”

Even Cesc Fabregas was forced to the front line, which shows what is the core of Barcelona's tactics this time.

Get on the bayonet and fight for the future!

Wenger did not play a stabbing formation like in the first leg, but rather a low-key and pragmatic two midfielders, and although Wilshere still sits in the middle of the field today, the defensive task given to him by the professor is actually not light.

In this way, they almost have no frontcourt pressing, and the only offensive routine is Cazorla and Walcott to cooperate with Lin Yun and let him eat raw with his personal ability.

Facts have proven that this set is very popular.

has only been debuting for more than two months, but Lin Yun's style has undergone a transformation.

At the beginning, I shot with my feet raised, and almost how to play, and rarely missed, but after returning from the national team training, everyone found that this ancestor had evolved again.

The accuracy of the shot has not changed, but the style has changed.

Able to dribble the ball, adjust, and even learned to dribble defenders and goalkeepers before hitting empty goals.

Of course, the ancestral skill of catching the ball and kicking it has not been forgotten, and the ability to charge with the defender has become more and more perfect.

Virtual, real, soft and hard, which defender can withstand it?

"Beep!"

"Okay, after the whistle blows, the game begins!"

"Barcelona kick off first!"

Barcelona started with an onslaught.

The two teams have a fairly similar style of play, both of which are mainly pass-and-control, but the difference is that Barcelona always feels a little slow and clear, while Arsenal are fast and sharp, without dragging their feet in the slightest.

But this game was completely reversed.

As if pressing the fast-forward button, Barcelona were never shy about advancing the attack, and the ball was hit into the heart of Arsenal with three passes and two passes.

Andres Iniesta took the ball and pretended to break through, but after shaking off Jenkinson's center of gravity, he suddenly sent the ball to the middle of the Arsenal penalty area with a second pass over the top.

Villa successfully countered offside, inserted the ball comfortably and then raised his foot to hit the goal.

In the face of this kind of close and late push corner, the goalkeeper is basically helpless, Fabianski has accepted the penalty, but at the critical moment, Mertesacker is like a god soldier, from the side and a sliding tackle, just touch the ball out of the bottom line.

Villa hid his face with his hands, then punched the air in hatred.

“…… Andres Iniesta passes, Villa! Single-handed! Ouch, Mertesacker's clean tackle destroys the ball off the line! A god-level siege breakout! ”

"Barcelona are in great form, Arsenal have to be careful!"

The corner kick was taken to the goal, and it was whipped out of the box by Fabianski.

Wilshere grabbed the first point and headed the ball over to Walcott, but before the tiger could take a step, Alves shoveled him out of bounds with a vicious flying tackle.

The referee hesitated and didn't blow the whistle......

"Ouch, this tackle is very vicious, but the referee didn't blow for a foul and only gave Arsenal a throw-in."

Wenger didn't shout, just spread his hands in place and made a helpless expression in front of the camera, the meaning is quite obvious: This is not blowing?!

Arteta threw the ball out, but after a few scrambles, the ball fell to Barcelona again......

In the first ten minutes, Arsenal was basically pressed like this, but fortunately, the midfield was strong enough to survive the difficult ten minutes.

It wasn't until the 12th minute that Arsenal had their first real threat.

Monreal stepped forward on the flank, received Arteta's diagonal pass from the middle, and did not hesitate to hoist the ball into the Barcelona box.

Pique and Baltra didn't dare to create an offside position, but turned to chase the ball quite tacitly.

Lin Yun was only half a step behind, and he broke in between the two of them, jumped high, and stopped the ball with his chest.

Pique and Baltra moved behind him, and he was actually reluctant to stop the ball, jumping forward after the ball hit the ground, and he himself staggered forward, ready to fall to the ground.

In a hurry, he could only casually kick the football in front of him before falling to the ground and send the ball to the stands.

"Shh~~"

Wenger couldn't bear it anymore this time and ran to the fourth official, "This is not a foul?!" Everyone is in the forbidden area! ”

The fourth official shook his head helplessly, indicating that he couldn't be the master either.

"Lin Yun fell in the penalty area, the referee didn't blow the whistle, let's see if Pique and Baltra have any behind-the-back pushes...... Well, Lin Yun rushed very violently by himself, almost violently knocking into the two defenders and receiving the ball, but Pique does seem to have a little movement in his hands, it's hard to say, it's hard to say......"

Pique just wanted to squat down next to Lin Yun and ask him to stop performing, but he didn't expect Lin Yun to stand up with both hands.

This one was indeed he rushed too hard to contain it, but Pique and Baltra's hand movements also played a role in fueling the flames, since the referee didn't blow him, there was no way, but the beep still had to beep twice.

"Mr. Referee, I'm sorry, can you help me see if I have two big paw prints on my back? Because I feel like something just pushed me hard, ah no, it's two, or I take it off and look at it myself, you're not going to give me a yellow card, are you? ”

Referee: "I'll blow the whistle if they foul, I'll give you a yellow card if you take off your clothes, it's as simple as that." ”

"Well, it seems that you can only take half of your word for it."

“……”

When the game started again, Barcelona consciously slowed down the tempo, but it didn't expect to have an immediate effect.

Xavi patiently passed to each other with Andres Iniesta and Cesc Fabregas to play the iconic Tiki Taka.

When Arsenal's midfield was dazzled by their dazzling passes, Xavi slotted the ball away with a cold kick.

Villa was clever again, flicking the ball forward with the inside of his left foot, running straight past Mertesacker and then calmly slotting his right foot into the field.

Fabianski made the first save, but couldn't touch the football.

“GOAL！！！！ In the 14th minute of the game, Villa opened the scoring! 1-0, 2-4 on aggregate, Barcelona are now only two goals behind and they see hope again! ”

"It's a typical Barça-style goal, relying on quick short passes to disrupt the opponent's defensive deployment, and then suddenly picking up the speed and finally making the final decision! Of course, the tacit understanding and ability of Xavi and Villa are also the key, this is the world's top midfielder and top striker! ”

Villa ran into goal, picked it up and raced back into midfield, while Xavi came to the sidelines, kept raising his hands and signaling the home fans to be louder.

Arsenal are starting to feel a little bit bad and are caught up in the thick of what they are getting to lose.

Lin Yun returned to the midfield one step ahead of Villa and came to the center circle to stand up.

When the game started again, Lin Yun passed the ball back, and Villa, Pedro, and Cesc Fabregas immediately rushed past him and pounced on Arsenal's midfield.

Wilshere hurriedly passed the ball back again, and Rosicky calmly controlled the ball at his feet, looked in the direction of Cazorla, and made a passing motion.

Cesc Fabregas arrived in a frenzy and immediately stretched out his feet to intercept.

Rosicky unhurriedly pulled the ball back before popping it out and giving it to Walcott on the other side.

Walcott didn't stop the ball, stabbed the ball forward and then rushed past Alves with the ball.

"Walcott is up to speed! He was running along the side with the ball, Lin Yun had already run in advance and was receiving from the middle to see if Arsenal's attack could be successful! ”

Pique and Baltra set up nets in the penalty area and waited for Lin Yun to drill, Alexander. Song was guarding outside the penalty area, and when Lin Yun was about to run past him, he hit him hard, but he knocked himself to the ground.

Walket took a look at the situation in the penalty area and did not go further to the baseline, but quickly went inside everything, from the fallen Alexander. Song flew past him.

Lin Yun took the initiative to go to the side and took Pique away.

Adriano, on the other side, quickly entered the penalty area and guarded Lin Yun with Pique.

Bartra was about to meet Walcott, but Walcott had already quickly opened his bow and fired a powerful volley from about two meters in the penalty area.

The ball flew past Baltra's ear, and before Valdés could even react, the ball hit the crossbar with a "bang" and bounced out.

It was at this moment that Lin Yun started and rushed towards the football.

Pique and Adriano immediately followed, flanking left and right.

When the football fell, Lin Yun gently picked the ball with his left foot, and the football immediately flew up obediently, and it flew behind him.

Pique and Adriano were caught off guard and hurriedly turned around, but Lin Yun was one step faster than them, jumping high while turning around, hanging the golden hook upside down!

“GOAL！！！！ Walcott's shot hit the crossbar, and Lin Yun made a contribution with a barb! ”

Less than two minutes after Villa scored, Lin Yun penetrated Barcelona's goal again, with an aggregate score of 5-2! The gap between the two sides has become 3 goals again! And it was a valuable away goal! Even if Barcelona equalized on aggregate, it would only send the game to extra time......"

"Lin Yun's 11th goal in the Champions League! He is just three goals away from Messi's single-season Champions League goal record set last year. ”

"Before the first half of the game passed, the main center forwards of both sides made their own contributions, this is a war between the center forwards! There is still suspense in the game, who is the sharpest sword on the court today, Villa and Lin Yun, let's wait and see! ”

(End of chapter)