679 Surprise victory
On the evening of April 2, London, Emirates Stadium. No pop-up windows qi
When the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game, Yang Cheng applauded the players walking down the court with a calm look on his face.
Although Real Madrid did not win Arsenal in this game, but ended up losing to his opponent with a 1:2 small loss, this is not an unacceptable situation for Real Madrid, because Real Madrid, who returns to home, will teach Arsenal a lesson.
The most important point in the Champions League knockout stage is not to be obsessed with the 90-minute game, but how to defeat the opponent in 180 minutes. This is the key to winning the knockout stage, so it is meaningless to be obsessed with the 90-minute loss.
But from this game, Yang Cheng also saw the problems of Arsenal.
Beckham scored a away goal for Real Madrid. In this game, Beckham appeared in the right winger position, more of a retreat, creating conditions for full-back Ramos to insert, while England scored a goal inserted into the penalty area, equalizing the score for Real Madrid.
But immediately afterwards, Beckham pulled Belarus into the penalty area because of the breakthrough by Heleb. He was given a yellow card and a penalty kick from Real Madrid. In the end, Arsenal defeated Real Madrid 2-1 from home.
In this game, Wenger's defense line included a combination of Krish, Galas, Sendros and Toure, but Toure, who has not played right back for a long time, was very uncomfortable and was eaten by Marcelo many times. In addition, Sendros, who is on the right, performed poorly and was played by Villa many times. Yang Cheng had realized the loopholes in Arsenal's defense.
Krish has strong offense and weak defense, and lacks positioning. Toure has many problems on the right. In addition, Sendros, the only reliable Arsenal defense line in the current Arsenal team is Galas, but two fists can't beat four hands. Let's see you again when you return to the Bernabeu!
Of course, Arsenal's game is not that there is no highlight at all. The biggest highlight of the Gunners' game is Van Persie. Although the Dutch striker has many injuries, he still seized the few opportunities in this game and scored the first record for Arsenal.
The Dutch Robins has not really shown his successor to Borgkamp and Henry's substitute, which is inconsistent with the praise and high recognition from the outside world. But in fact, as long as he appears on the court, he can create a threat because he is also a talented player.
Judging from the technical characteristics, Van Persie's advantage lies in his stopping. Many people praised his ability to adjust after receiving the ball. In fact, this is because his stopping is very good and he can stop the ball where he wants it to go according to his own wishes, which creates his illusion of making good adjustments. In fact, his stopping is very good, which is the place where he looks the most similar to Borgkamp.
After stopping the ball, the technical movements look very chic and calm!
When facing the goal, another feature of his is that he can use the smallest leg swing in the narrowest gap to shoot the maximum force, which makes him able to create a threat even in the penalty area where the most crowded entry is. Moreover, this sudden shot will catch the goalkeeper off guard.
This was his first goal in this game. Even though Casillas reacted quickly, he didn't have time to save the ball.
However, compared with Robin, Adebayo has been in a very poor state recently, and his cooperation with Van Persie throughout the game was also very average.
"When we return to the Bernabeu, we must separate them and then stare at them one by one!" Yang Cheng said with a smile.
Compared with Van Persie, who performed well on the front line, Fabregas was suppressed by Mascherano in this game. Argentina entered the strong oppression and targeted defense in the midfield, especially against Fabregas' right foot anytime and anywhere, which restricted him from getting the ball, forcing him to perform very ordinary in the game.
One factor that is good for Real Madrid is that Arsenal will play against Liverpool on the weekend, but Real Madrid can keep their strength in the Champions League in Mallorca, which is something Arsenal does not have. They must now fight for the Premier League championship this season, which makes it impossible for them to stay in the league.
The Premier League championship this season is full of suspense. Currently, it is Ferguson's Manchester United. After a few years of adjustment, Manchester United has re-expressed good momentum this season, but Liverpool, second-placed, third-placed, Chelsea, third-placed, and Arsenal, fourth-placed, followed closely behind.
Currently, the points gap between Arsenal and Manchester United top ranked is only 3 points. It can be said that the ownership of the league championship is full of suspense. Wenger is determined to make a move, and his opponent is directly winning the championship with Liverpool. Everton, the fifth-ranked leader, also chases fiercely, which makes Wenger dare not be careless.
"Although I don't want to say it, I still have to say that it's really hard for you to win!" Yang Cheng said with a smile when Wenger walked over.
Wenger smiled, "No matter what, we won a home game!"
"But at the Bernabeu, you won't be so lucky!" Yang Cheng said, "Your biggest problem is that your away record has fluctuated too much. At the Bernabeu, I will completely blow up your defense line!" He clenched his fists and intimidated.
Wenger nodded, "Let's come here!"
The biggest problem with Arsenal is also to become younger. As Yang Cheng said when he attacked Wenger, you always keep selling the star, selling Vieira, selling Henry, and selling Ashley Cole. Gradually, you give the team and players an illusion that almost no one in the Arsenal team cannot be sold.
In addition, Wenger is overly stubbornly sticking to his philosophy and adopts a one-year strategy once he is over 30 years old. This is another blow to the players, because they clearly see from this strategy that they have no future at the Gunners. Since they are leaving at the age of 30, I might as well leave early!
Almost every time you lose, Wenger will explain it with lack of experience, but in fact, it is okay once and half. It is always lacking experience, which is a bit unreasonable. Any team in Bijing will mature. Unless you keep selling mature stars and introducing young semi-finished products, you will of course be young forever.
Yang Cheng also told Wenger about this, but France will do its own thing on the 1st day.
In any case, Wenger deserves respect because he is one of the very few idealists in the utilitarian football circle that has been flooded. For this reason, he deserves respect!
……………………………When a week later, when he worked hard to draw Liverpool 1-1 at the Emirates Stadium and met Real Madrid who drew 1-1 away at the Bernabeu Stadium, Wenger had a vague premonition of the ominous feeling.
Yang Cheng's lineup in this game changed from when he was at the Emirates Stadium. The goalkeeper was Casillas on the 1st, and the defense line was Marcelo, Thiago Silva, Ramos and Aveloa, respectively. This defense line is also Real Madrid's defense line at the Emirates Stadium. After Pigeon and Pepe were injured, Ramos was the main central defender.
The double midfielders are Xavi Alonso and Mascherano, which is the same as in the first round, but David Silva, who played the left winger in the first round, was transferred to the right by Yang Cheng, and replaced by Real Madrid youth training young player Mata, who played the main left winger. The front midfielder was Kaka on the 1st, and Villa continued to play single forward.
After this lineup was put on, Wenger realized that Yang Cheng was going to attack the left-wing offensive tactics, and Mata was his surprise soldier.
Although they are both left wingers, Mata and David Silva are actually completely different.
David Silva has stronger organizational skills, more delicate passes, and more imaginative. She can not only control the rhythm, but also get the ball away from pushing and hitting deeper. She also has many assists. She is the assist king in Real Madrid this season, so he looks more like a passer who cuts inside the wing.
Mata has the opposite characteristics. He is a striker, his organization is average, but his skills are very delicate. Like all Spanish small players, he is good at cooperating in a narrow range, has a very outstanding awareness, and can pass the last pass, but he is not as imaginative as David Silvan, but he breaks sharply on the wing and is more threatening in the cross. He cuts in the ball and has greater lethality in the ribs.
Different technical characteristics and different threats are created.
In the first leg of the Emirates Stadium, facing Kloe Toure, Real Madrid's left side relies more on the cooperation of Marcelo and Villa. David Silva often takes the ball to participate in the organization and support, and also breaks through the wing, but the threat is not great.
However, in the first round, the trouble Marcelo caused to Kroo Toure gave Yang Cheng hope, so in this game he took advantage of Beckham's suspension and transferred David Silva to the right, let Mata hit the left, and used Mata and Marcelo to attack the area where Kroo Toure was stationed.
Although Wenger was considering the safe side of the away game, he gave up Adebayo, chose Van Persie, and played a 451 tactic. He arranged three players in the middle, Fabregas and Diaby, but on the 1st, he was still firmly suppressed by Real Madrid using their home advantage after the opening.
In the 11th minute, after Xavi Alonso and Marcelo teamed up to break the ball from Ebue who was playing right forward, Spain hit the ball directly behind Ebue. Marcelo got the ball and passed it straight.
Mata retreated and turned around after getting the ball, Fabregas leaned over from the side, and Kloe Toure also stared at the Real Madrid young player.
According to the responsibilities Yang Cheng gave Mata to this game, he could decide freely on the wing whether to break through or cut inside according to the situation. So when he turned around, he noticed that he was still a certain distance from Fabregas, and suddenly started his highest speed. His sudden rush caught Fabregas off guard. It was too late to speed up and block it. He wanted to pull him, but he didn't catch the jersey.
Mata suddenly accelerated, shortening the distance between himself and Kollo Toure. Côte d'Ivoire immediately posted it, but Mata stopped with a sudden change of direction and led the ball to the left of Kollo Toure.
Mata, who was not tall, was like a loach. In the double-layer defense between Kloe Toure and Fabregas, he squeezed out a gap and dribbled the ball to attract Sendros on the left side of the front of the penalty area. He passed the ball straight and passed it behind the defense line. Villa inserted it at high speed and scored one shot, 1:0!
"goallllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!"
"In the 11th minute, Real Madrid youth training young player Mata made a straight pass after breaking through continuously on the left, assisting Villa to open the first record!"
"2:2, Real Madrid tied Arsenal in the total score. The current situation is extremely unfavorable to the Gunners, because Real Madrid has a away goal in hand, which forces Arsenal to press forward, otherwise, continue to maintain this score, and the one who laughs to the end is Real Madrid!"
"Arsenal players are too tired. They have played three tough games in a week, two against Real Madrid and one against Liverpool, which are not to be missed. Fabregas and Kloe Toure are obviously unable to keep up with Mata's pace and rhythm, they are not excited enough, and they cannot play in a state, especially in terms of speed."
After scoring the goal first, Real Madrid continued to maintain their existing tactics and continued to launch a round of attacks on Arsenal's left.
In the 33rd minute, David Silva got the ball from the right and passed it to Kaka. Brazil moved to the left again. Mata forced his way through Kloe Toure on the left, earning a corner kick for Real Madrid.
Several players in Real Madrid with excellent heading skills have all come up. With Pepe absent, Real Madrid's high ball ability has never had much advantage, only Ramos, so after Xavi Alonso drove the ball out, handed it to Kaka. Brazil made a curved ball and fell straight to the back point. Ramos threw away Sendros who was marking the defense, and headed the ball to the goal, winning another goal for Real Madrid, 2:0!
"3:2, Real Madrid completed the reversal in the total score!!"
"Sendros is responsible for this goal loss. He obviously focused all his attention on Ramos, and did not notice Kaka's cross, so that after he was thrown away by Ramos, he did not get stuck in front of Spain in time, allowing the latter to easily head the ball to score."
"This goal has completely put Arsenal in a passive position. They now have to counterattack Real Madrid at the Bernabeu Stadium to be able to qualify, but this is obviously a very difficult thing!"
After scoring two goals in a row, Real Madrid began to patiently look for opportunities and began to consciously let Arsenal push up, but the Gunners didn't have this idea in the whole first half.
It was not until the second half that Van Persie took advantage of the goal to get Real Madrid's left to catch up, and successfully counterattacked and successfully swung past Thiago Silva on the left side of Real Madrid's penalty area, passed the ball low to the goal, and Diabi, who was inserted behind, scored a goal for Arsenal.
Arsenal, who saw the dawn of hope, began a fierce attack, but less than 6 minutes later, Real Madrid once again made a counterattack on the left. After Matara got the ball in the middle, he passed it to Marcelo, who quickly dribbled the ball on the wing and forced himself to surpass Kloe Toure, passing the ball in front of the penalty area.
Kaka inserted it back, leaned against Sendros with his body, and swept the ball into the goal guarded by Amunia with his left foot, expanding the score again.
Just now, he saw hope, but was once again ruthlessly harvested. Arsenal's morale was bleak. Wenger lowered his head on the sidelines, put his hands on his waist, and walked slowly, looking very disappointed.
Since Campbell, Arsenal has always lacked a stable front-facing defensive player. It’s not that Wenger doesn’t want to, but that he can’t find a suitable one. He originally wanted to use the combination of Kollo Toure and Galas, but Sarnia’s injury disrupted Wenger’s plan. He was worried about Ebue playing the full-back, so he let Kollo Toure move right.
Unexpectedly, this step not only made him lose a steady central defender, but also made him lose his right.
If Yang Cheng cunningly used the 90 minutes of Emirates Stadium to test Arsenal, then when he arrived at the Bernabeu Stadium, he began to show his real killer weapon. At least the left combination of Juan Mata and Marcelo created a huge threat, completely turning Arsenal's right into Real Madrid's exclusive lane.
Another thing worthy of Wenger's warning is that when Arsenal finally got a goal back, the players were a little out of control. They were suppressed by Real Madrid for a long time and finally broke free from the constraints. They began to rush to reverse the total score, but ignored that they were at the Bernabeu Stadium and faced the most offensive Real Madrid in Europe this season.
After all, Arsenal's bench thickness is not enough. At least Wenger is not like Yang Cheng. He can combine his own different skills and tactics according to different opponents at will. At critical moments, Arsenal lacks surprises to win, and what Yang Cheng said at the Emirates' stadium was also confirmed.
Juan Mata, this game became the surprise soldier in Yang Cheng’s hands!
As the game is approaching the end, Arsenal, who is already in a disadvantaged situation, has become more passive on the scene.
In the 85th minute, Xavi Alonso made a straight pass from the middle, and Kaka took the ball with his back against Fabregas, and used his physical advantage to suppress Spain's entry and passed the ball sideways to David Silva who was inserted on the right. The latter passed it straight and tore through Arsenal's defense.
Villa leaned against Galas and passed by the French defender on the left side. After receiving David Silva's pass, he shot with his right foot and almost brushed the post on the right and rolled into Arsenal's goal, 4:1!
This goal completely established the victory, especially in front of Arsenal players who are already in a physical condition and cannot keep up with the pace of the game. The gap between the total score is 5:3. They must score two goals in the last few minutes to ensure qualifying. This is undoubtedly impossible.
Although Wenger finally took the initiative to replace Diabi with Adebayo and further strengthened his attack, he was unable to perform a miracle of reversal at the Bernabeu Stadium. Real Madrid finally eliminated Arsenal from the Champions League quarterfinals with a total score of 5:3 with a total score of 4:1 at home!
In another game at the same time, Chelsea defeated Fenerbahce 1:2 away and defeated his opponent 2:0 at home, and two midfielders Barack and Lampard made great contributions to Chelsea's establishment.
One game later than Real Madrid, Barcelona lost 3:1 at Anfield Stadium when they tied with Liverpool 1:1 at home, and were eventually eliminated from the Champions League quarterfinals. Manchester United sent away Serie A powerhouse Roma with a total score of 3:0.
As a result, all four teams in the Champions League semi-finals were newly released, namely Liverpool faced with Manchester United's mortal hostility and Chelsea and Real Madrid's revenge battle!
(To be continued)
Chapter completed!