Chapter 401: Reaching the Finals

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Arsenal broke through Porto's dense defensive line with wall-hitting consecutively, forming a shot. Although they didn't score a goal, they were very dangerous. Porto relied on the bravery of goalkeepers Helton and Gao Xiaodong to block them both times. What about next time? There are still ten minutes in the game, can Porto have such good luck every time?

This kind of fast wall-hitting coordination is difficult to play and requires fast and accurate passing, but it is also difficult to defend after it is played, and it is difficult to completely mark the man. Ferreira simply let the players continue to shrink and become a real player. Iron Barrel Array. 【】

However, Gao Xiaodong is not interested in Ferreira's iron barrel gun, he thinks it is better to use the wretched gun at this time.

As for Wenger's attack on Gao Xiaodong in the middle of the week, Gao Xiaodong didn't take it seriously. For Gao Xiaodong, winning comes first, and everything else is trivial.

"Brothers! Don't rush to get up when you lie down. It will take a while longer to delay."

"The referee will foul if he can't see it. Don't let them run so comfortably."

"Brother Meirelles, you are an old man, how come you play so regularly, who can give you a spiritual civilization award."

Gao Xiaodong shouted to his teammates.

Regardless of Gao Xiaodong's young age, except for the captain Alves, he has the highest prestige in the team, but in terms of popularity, Alves with a cold face every day is much worse than Gao Xiaodong.

Under Gao Xiaodong's call, Porto not only set up an iron bucket formation and fouled the offensive players, but also started to attack Arsenal's off-ball running players, preventing Arsenal from playing smoothly at all costs.

Italian head coach Rossetti is unselfish. Although he is at Porto's home court, he is not soft on his cards. In just a few minutes, he showed two yellow cards to Porto's midfielder.

The most injustice is Meirelles, because Meirelles, a titan with balanced offense and defense, is not good at making small moves, he was caught by the referee Rossetti for the second time and received a yellow card, while the repeat offender Gao Xiaodong and Fernando was fine.

Hitting the wall not only has extremely high requirements on the timing and accuracy of passing the ball, but also has high requirements on players who run without the ball. If something goes wrong in any link, the cooperation will make mistakes.

Although Porto's players received two yellow cards, the Arsenal players' cooperation made consecutive mistakes. Porto counterattacked with consecutive steals and almost lost the ball.

The most important thing is that the mentality of the Arsenal players has been greatly affected. The timing of passing the ball is either fast or slow.

The accuracy also drops, and the smooth transfer coordination can no longer be played.

Seeing that the time has come to 85 minutes, the time is running out. The Arsenal players completely gave up the wall-hitting style of play and changed to the long pass and lob they are not good at.

Porto's defense on the wing is also tight. It is very difficult for Arsenal to get down to the bottom. They can't make a pass from the bottom. Just hanging the ball into the penalty area to find Bendtner and Adebayor is not effective, because the defensive players are facing the pass. , while the offensive player is facing away from the pass.

The game time is getting less and less, and Wenger, who is impatient, doesn't care about his artistic football. He pushes the central defender Julu into the penalty area of ​​Porto, and uses three 1.9 meters tall to compete for the top to create a second attack. .

Porto also has two defenders who are 1.9 meters and Alves who is 1.88 meters. Six players stand in the penalty area, and they can't play any coordination. It is difficult to find space for long-range shots, so they can only rely on headers. 【】

In the 88th minute of the game, Cesc Fabregas sent the ball to the side. Walcott and Sagna cooperated and finally succeeded in hitting the bottom line.

Arsenal finally got a chance to cross from the bottom line. Adebayor, Julu, and Bendtner desperately fought for the header. Porto's three tall defenders each marked one and stuck tightly. Opponent, don't let the opponent jump up.

Bendtner's bounce was better, he broke away from Rolando and headed hard towards the goal.

However, after getting rid of Rolando, Bendtner also missed the best opportunity to fight for the top. He pushed the ball on his scalp and flew high into the sky.

All eyes were on the ball that fell from the sky, desperately grabbing positions.

Goalkeeper Helton felt that the ball was too dangerous in the penalty area, so he jumped from the goal line and punched the falling ball with both fists.

At this time, Zhu Lu also came to fight for the top, and Helton was bumped. Both Zhu Lu and Helton fell in the small penalty area.

After the ball was hit, it fell right in front of Cesc Fabregas.

Fabregas saw the goalkeeper fall, and before the ball hit the ground, he raised his foot and lobbed the ball towards the empty goal.

This frightened the Porto people, and the goalkeeper Helton fell down. As long as the ball hangs within the goal range, it will undoubtedly score.

Sapruna rushed to the goal, trying to push the ball, but Julu secretly pulled Sapruna's clothes from below to prevent him from jumping up.

Sapruna watched the ball fly from the top of his head to the goal, only a few centimeters away, but he couldn't touch it anyway. In desperation, he stretched out his hand and hit the ball over the crossbar.

"Handball!"

"Handball!"

"Deliberate handball!"

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Surprised and delighted, the Arsenal people all ran to the referee Rossetti and complained to him about Sapruna's handball.

Saprunade did not move much, but Rossetti still saw it. He immediately blew his whistle, pointed to the penalty spot, and showed Sapruna a red card.

Sapruna was not convinced, and protested to Rossetti that Julu pulled his jersey, but the penalty area was so chaotic, how could Rossetti see it, he ignored Sapruna's protest, and pointed at the outside of the field to tell him to leave quickly. field.

Seeing that Sapruna was still unwilling to leave, Gao Xiaodong went to Sapruna and said, "Go out, it's okay, we lead by two goals, even if they score one, the initiative is still in our hands, maybe Hull Don saved the penalty."

Sapruna felt better, turned around and left the field, walked to the entrance of the mixing channel and continued to watch the game.

At this moment, the 90-minute regular game time has passed, and the fourth official raised the sign, adding 4 minutes of stoppage time.

The Arsenal fans in the stands finally gave out long-lost cheers and applause. They saw hope. As long as Arsenal can score a penalty kick and score another goal in the last four minutes, they can eliminate Porto with an away goal.

The Porto fans, who thought the overall situation was settled, were very nervous. They shouted the name of the goalkeeper Helton towards the pitch, encouraging him to save the penalty.

Porto's on-site commentator smiled easily, "Red dot package, if Arsenal score a penalty, the situation will become unpredictable, and many things can happen in four minutes."

In the VIP box, Mendes stood at the window, and Da Costa poked his head out from the corner where the reporters couldn't see, watching the stadium nervously.

It was Cesc Fabregas who took the penalty kick. When Fabregas was running up, the Porto fans booed violently to interfere with Fabregas.

Under tremendous pressure, in order to ensure the success rate, Cesc Fabregas pushed the shot at an angle that was too tricky, and the ball actually hit the post and bounced out.

Fabregas saw the ball hit the goal post and ran to make a follow-up shot, but Gao Xiaodong kicked the ball out of the baseline first.

"Ah! Amazing!"

"marvelous!"

"Long live the post!"

"Oh! This penalty kick!"

"Cesc Fabregas is hard to be in charge!"

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Cheers, applause and sighs mixed together in the stands, and the stadium became noisy in an instant.

No penalty kick, two goals must be scored in the remaining four minutes to qualify. This is an almost impossible task. Arsenal's young people lost confidence and fighting spirit. Under the tenacious defense of the Porto people, they played one more The Arsenal man was never able to create a scoring chance again.

beep beep beep...

In the 95th minute of the game, the referee Rossetti blew the whistle to end the game. Porto defeated Arsenal 1-0 and entered the Champions League final with a total score of 2-0.

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