Chapter 382 Wenger's Brain Is Flooded

Hexi Gaomei Stadium

Amadora's home stadium can only accommodate 12,000 people. Even with such a small number of seats, because of Amadora's poor performance, the league is rarely full, let alone the cup.

However, the Portuguese Cup semi-final on April 23 was an exception.

Since Amadora accidentally reached the semi-finals of the Portuguese Cup, they were also able to meet Porto, the overlord of the Portuguese Super League. Although they were swept away by Porto with 4 goals in the away game, this did not hinder the enthusiasm of the Ala Doma fans. Hexi Gaomei Stadium was full at the hour

You must know that Porto eliminated the defending champion Manchester United in the Champions League and reached the top 4. Amadora lost 4 goals in the away game, which is really not much.

Aladoma's hope of qualifying for the Portuguese Cup final is very slim, almost zero, and the players have never thought about qualifying. They just want to perform well and see if they can be favored by Porto or other giants.

Although the game is irrelevant, Porto's game is not all about substitutes. In addition to keeping the main players in shape, Ferreira also wants to practice the formation and style of play against Arsenal.

Although Porto and Arsenal each won their opponents at home in the group stage, and Porto also won the Gunners by one more goal, but that was the group stage. Porto won the game against Arsenal, and both sides had already qualified for the group stage. Arsenal did not Didn't try my best.

Now meeting in the semi-finals, just 180 minutes away from Roma, Arsenal will definitely give it their all.

It's easier to play against Arsenal than Manchester United.

Manchester United is an offensive style of play, and defensive counterattacks are not necessarily good, but Arsenal is strong in offense and weak in defense, and Porto's only style of play is defensive counterattack.

Weak teams almost always play defensive counterattacks against strong teams, but not every weak team has achieved success. How to defend and counterattack is knowledge, just like Mourinho's defensive counterattacks can lead Porto to the Champions League and win the Champions League. The Premier League champions, the defensive counterattacks of other weak teams can't even keep relegation.

In this game, Ferreira formed a 4231 formation. The three midfielders, Gualin and Fernando, all played.

The game was played very easily. Porto just practiced their style of play and did not fight hard with Amadora. Amadora had little hope of advancing and did not move much. It looked more like a training match.

Because Arsenal's main left-back Clichy is injured, Gallas, who can play left-back and center-back, is also injured, and another center-back Zhu Luye is injured. Arsenal's left-back has been played by 19-year-old Ji in recent times. Booth,

The central defender with Toure is the old Sylvester, which is Arsenal's Achilles' heel. Porto practiced the attacking style on the right, hoping to score a breakthrough goal on the left of Arsenal.

After 30 minutes of the game, Porto took a 1-0 away lead. Gao Xiaodong made a diagonal pass, Hulk made a breakthrough, and Falcao scored a goal. This is exactly what Ferreira wanted to see. The attack on the right was very sharp, unfortunately. What's more, the two midfielders in the middle, Fernando and Gualin, are still a bit frizzy, and Gao Xiaodong needs to defend more. Gao Xiaodong's defensive ability is beyond doubt, but this will undoubtedly weaken Gao Xiaodong's attack power.

"This melon forest is two years older than Gao Xiaodong, why is it even more frizzy than Gao Xiaodong?"

Ferreira stood on the sidelines and sighed.

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Anfield Stadium

The 33rd round of the Premier League battle between Liverpool and Arsenal is in full swing.

For the first time this season, Liverpool has seen the dawn of winning the championship. They have played two more games than Manchester United and are currently one point behind Manchester United. As long as they win Arsenal, they will be able to surpass Manchester United by two points and reach the top.

This season, Arsenal locked in the top four positions early, 10 points more than fifth place Everton, 10 points less than first place Manchester United, and the following leagues have almost become garbage events.

However, what made Benitez angry was that Arsenal seemed to have no intention of giving up the game at all. They actually played against Liverpool, and Arshavin scored the first goal in the opening 19 minutes.

After Torres and Benayoun scored two goals for Liverpool, Arshavin performed a hat-trick to overtake again 3:2.

"Damn the Frenchman, did he accept Ferguson's black gold and kick us so hard, won't he be afraid of being eliminated by Porto in the Champions League?"

Benitez kicked the water bottle angrily after Arshavin scored the third goal.

Watching Arshavin perform a hat-trick, Wenger's eyes were full of tears. The Russian in such a good state and ability can't play in the Champions League. Damn the Champions League qualification. I should have bought Arshavin if I knew it would be a summer transfer. .

In fact, Wenger does not want to fight against Liverpool in this game, but he does not want to lose to his old opponent casually. He just lost 1:2 to Chelsea in the last round of the FA Cup. If he loses again this time, he will be under a lot of pressure , and also affects morale.

But what Wenger didn't expect was that the players were too young, and when their form improved, they were unstoppable and even led Liverpool at Anfield.

In the 75th minute of the game, Torres took a false shot and passed the old Sylvester to equalize again, and the score became 3:3.

Then Liverpool, who were eager to win, attacked wildly. Wenger saw that Liverpool was fighting too hard, and was about to replace the striker Van Persie, but at this moment, Mascherano made a flying shovel and shoveled Van Persie, Van Persie He fell to the ground and never got up again.

Van Persie was carried out on a stretcher, Wenger's face changed drastically, and he yelled at Benitez: "You are too barbaric!"

Benitez sneered, turned his face away contemptuously, and said in his heart, an old fool, he does not recharge his energy to play in the Champions League, Nima and I are shopping in the league, and all the main players are injured. I hope God will let Arsenal Eliminated by Porto, the jealous Frenchman can't win the championship himself, and doesn't want others to win the championship.

Then the team doctor gave a conclusion that Van Persie's old ankle injury had recurred, and he might not be able to play in the two Champions League semi-finals.

Wenger was dumbfounded. He had never expected such a result. If he had known this would happen, he would rather all be on the bench.

...

On April 23, the Champions League semi-final opponents Porto and Arsenal played an originally insignificant game. Porto played in the Portuguese Cup. Porto, which was trying to train, lost 1:2 away, but they still relied on the home game 4: 0 to advance to the final of the Portuguese Cup.

There is no hope of winning the championship. The match between Arsenal and Liverpool, who have no worries in the top four, has no impact on Arsenal, but has a huge impact on Liverpool. However, Arsenal unexpectedly drew 4:4 away from Liverpool. Arshavin scored four goals and blocked it alone. The progress of the Red Army made the generals of the Red Army very angry after the game.

And Arsenal was also thankless, they scored an insignificant point, and lost the main striker Robin van Persie, casting a shadow over their Champions League semi-finals.

After the game, the media were surprised that Arsenal played so hard. Some thought the professor was brainless, some thought the professor played fair and upright, and some thought the professor had been entrusted by Ferguson to beat Benitez.

Of course, Manchester United coach Ferguson was very happy. He praised Wenger after the game, saying that Wenger is a great coach with a strong personality and a sense of justice.