Chapter 267: Collapse, Arsenal!

The Gunners were unable to stop their usual March defeat, and the Blues reversed course 2:1 away from home!

Ye Qiu breaks the fate of the Blues and performs a classic comeback at Highbury Stadium!

Chelsea's shadow of terror hangs over London, and the Gunners' legs weaken when they meet the Blues!

Arsenal's best signing of the season has become a laughing stock, and the Blues' defensive steel pillar acts as a savior in times of crisis!

The Gunners' dream was completely shattered, and the Blues reversed course and reached the top!

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The next day, major newspapers in England and Europe published reports on this match, and a large part of them was devoted to introducing Chelsea. Almost everyone was not shy about praising Chelsea, especially It was Ronaldinho's performance in this game.

Although Ronaldinho was not involved in the team's first equalizing goal, everyone could see that Chelsea's turnaround in the second half actually started with the confirmation of Ronaldinho's goal. It started with free possession of the ball, and the Brazilian's offensive ability was fully demonstrated in the second half.

The second goal fully demonstrated the Brazilian's skills and scoring ability. Some media even directly believed that Ronaldinho led Chelsea to defeat Arsenal. The Brazilian superstar's performance was affirmed by all media.

In addition, Makelele's goal also won great recognition. The French midfielder competed with compatriot Vieira in this game, but it is obvious that Makelele is in better shape than Vieira. In order to be outstanding, the latter was seriously out of shape throughout the game, especially in the second half, when he and Gilberto Silva were useless.

When analyzing this game, many professional football people pointed the finger at the thickness of Arsenal's bench. They believed that the most important reason for the players' lack of physical fitness was that Arsenal's bench was not thick enough to guarantee the Gunners' success on three fronts. The war started at the same time, but Wenger obviously did not have this awareness.

“The one with the best bench thickness in the Premier League is Chelsea. In addition to the surprisingly strong first-team lineup, Chelsea’s bench includes Gallas, Joe Cole, Parker, Gudjohnsen, Cudicini, etc., who have already proven in the Premier League. "

"This group of players allowed Chelsea to present a huge lineup with reasonable layout among the three generations of old, middle and young people. But even so, Ye Qiu still safely arranged the team's main front line in the two most important competitions, the Premier League and the Champions League. , for trivial competitions such as the League Cup and FA Cup, youth training players are arranged to play.”

"But Wenger is obviously not. Arsenal are currently neck and neck on three fronts: the FA Cup, the Premier League and the Champions League. This has led to Wenger now facing a dilemma, that is, should he try his best to face Manchester United in the FA Cup semi-finals? beat?"

"There is no doubt that if Arsenal try their best, they have a certain chance of winning, but this will affect the league and the Champions League, but if they don't try their best, it will be a pity, because as long as they can surpass Manchester United, the FA Cup champion It’s at your fingertips.”

"I believe this is not just Wenger who is in trouble, Arsenal players are also hesitant because they found that the team does not have a stable strategic direction this season. Wenger is very ambitious and wants to win any championship, but the ball The team does not have a strong enough lineup to support the consumption caused by multi-line operations.”

"If this continues, Wenger may very well end up empty-handed and gain nothing, just like Bayer Leverkusen in 2002. All three fronts fought to the end, but ultimately gained nothing, creating the tragedy of Sanya King."

After losing to Chelsea at home, Wenger refused all interviews from the outside world and did not answer any questions related to this game or the following games. This made it difficult for everyone to figure out what Wenger was thinking. What.

The first round of the Champions League quarter-finals has ended. Real Madrid, who are also in the top half, defeated Monaco 4:2 at home. The call for advancing to the semi-finals is very high, and judging from the odds revised by the betting company, most fans are more interested. I am optimistic that Real Madrid will face Ye Qiu's Chelsea in the semi-finals. This will be an exciting matchup.

In the second half, AC Milan beat Deportivo 4:1 and Porto beat Lyon 2:0. The home team won both games. Many people also felt that AC Milan and Porto would both enter the semifinals.

For a time, many people were comparing Mourinho of Porto with Ye Qiu, who led Ajax to the semi-finals. In addition to the fact that the Portuguese is European and older, judging from his resume, Very similar to Ye Qiu, they both won the UEFA Cup in their first full season in charge of the current team and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League in their second year.

The difference is that Mourinho won the Triple Crown last season, one more league championship than Ye Qiu.

What the media likes most is this kind of comparison, so they started to speculate, believing that Mourinho has the opportunity to become the second Ye Qiu and lead Porto of the European second-tier league to win the Champions League, but the prerequisite is that he must defeat Ye Qiu. Only Chelsea.

Just as the European media were reporting on the Champions League quarter-finals, the Premier League soon ushered in the 30th round.

Chelsea welcomed Wolves at home, and Ye Qiu made extensive adjustments to the team's starting lineup.

The goalkeeper is Cudicini, the defense is Sun Jihai, Gallas, Terry and Robert Huth, the midfielder is Parker, Cesc Fabregas and Joe Cole, and the frontcourt is Ribery and Gudjohnsen. and Van Persie.

Such a large-scale substitution adjustment brought turmoil to Chelsea, especially after the opening, Wolves took the lead in launching a fierce attack on Chelsea with a rough and aggressive style of play, especially in the 21st minute, Robert Huth made a fatal mistake and cleared the opponent's out-of-bounds ball into his own penalty area. Terry was unable to clear the ball, and the opponent's penalty area scored a goal, opening the scoring for Wolves.

But soon, Van Persie swapped positions with Gudjohnsen, retreated to get the ball and knocked it back to Joe Cole. The Englishman made a very imaginative through ball, and Gudjohnsen scored a goal in the penalty area, equalizing the score, 1:1!

This score was maintained until the end of the halftime, but in the second half, Chelsea's situation did not improve.

In the 51st minute, Wolves took advantage of a corner kick opportunity, and Cudicini made a mistake in attacking, expanding the score again.

This goal pushed Chelsea to a dead end, and Ye Qiu finally made a substitution, replacing Fabregas with Lampard and replacing Robert Huth, who performed poorly, with Maicon.

After two consecutive substitutions, Chelsea's attack was completely stimulated.

First, in the 61st and 62nd minutes, Chelsea created three shooting opportunities with two consecutive attacks, but Gudjohnsen failed to seize the opportunity. Ye Qiu felt sorry for this and adjusted the positions of the players, letting Gudjohnsen sit in the middle to press and pass the ball, and Van Persie fixed on the right, with Lampard's back-up attack as the main focus.

The Dutch teenager's ball-handling skills are very good, but his ability to get rid of the defensive players after getting the ball on the right is also unique. What is more regrettable is that due to his age and experience, his cooperation awareness is not strong enough, and he is not suitable to play as a central forward, which is also related to his weak physical confrontation ability.

The middle of the front court is definitely a veritable meat grinder. Anyone who has been there knows it.

This adjustment made Chelsea's attack more threatening. First, Van Persie got rid of the cross pass after getting the ball on the right, and Lampard kicked directly from about 25 meters away from the goal, equalizing the score again, 2:2!

Less than 5 minutes later, Joe Cole made a straight pass, Lampard got Gudjohnsen's knock back, and again in the position of the first goal, he shot hard, and scored a long shot from 25 meters away, 3:2!

After overtaking, Chelsea's morale was high. In the 85th and 91st minutes, Joe Cole and Lampard scored two goals respectively. Lampard scored a hat trick, and finally helped the team beat the visiting Wolves 5:2, and won another crucial victory.

After the hat trick, Lampard's throne as the top scorer in the Premier League was consolidated again. Everyone saw the toughness of this bloodthirsty Blues captain, and he did not have any injuries this season and attended all league and Champions League games.

After the game, the outside world gave high praise to Chelsea's performance, believing that the Blues could show such a crazy scoring momentum under pressure, showing the courage and determination to win the championship. Although they lost two goals, the team still gave people hope, and Lampard was also selected as the best player of the game, and believed that he was qualified to win the best player of the Premier League season.

However, some media believe that Lampard's biggest obstacle to winning the Premier League Player of the Season is his teammate, Brazilian Ronaldinho, who is not inferior to Lampard in both the Premier League and the Champions League. He has already scored double-digit goals and assists in the Premier League this season, and has repeatedly saved the team from danger in the Champions League.

Ye Qiu's two substitutions in the second half completely activated the team's offense and once again won the media's affirmation and praise.

On the contrary, Arsenal's Wenger was tied by Manchester United at Highbury Stadium.

In the first 15 minutes of this game, the two sides played very fiercely and it was exciting. Both teams were not conservative at all. Wenger obviously wanted to use the start to directly swallow Manchester United and win a typical victory in one fell swoop, but he didn't expect that Manchester United would not give in. Both sides entered the fast lane and attacked fiercely, but no one took advantage.

The game was always in a stalemate, but the tempo was fast. Ferguson, the old fox, really made a fuss about Arsenal's lack of physical strength and decisively accelerated the tempo, making this game a very rare and intense game in the Premier League that was always kept at a fast tempo.

In addition, when Manchester United encountered Arsenal, there was always a confrontation of strength and body, and the explosive contest between Keane and Vieira was inevitable, and there were also some red cards and penalty disputes, which was very tragic.

Even though Henry opened the scoring for Arsenal in the 50th minute, and Wenger started a conservative defensive counterattack tactic afterwards, Arsenal's weakness of lack of physical strength made the Gunners almost suppressed by Manchester United in the last 20 minutes, and the scene was very embarrassing. In the end, Saha's goal helped Manchester United equalize the score.

Arsenal drew, but Chelsea won. The points gap between the two teams widened to 6 points. Wenger criticized the referee Boll after the game, saying that Boll obviously missed a penalty for Arsenal. It happened near the end of the first half. Henry dribbled past Sylvester and was tackled by Carroll in the penalty area, but Boll did not award a penalty.

Ferguson also responded to this, saying that in the 53rd minute of the second half, when Giggs broke into the penalty area, Campbell chased back and pulled Giggs, but Boll also did not award a penalty.

The two famous Premier League coaches directly exchanged blows in the media pages. After 30 rounds, Chelsea and Ye Qiu, who were supposed to be in the limelight, have now retreated to the background. Instead, Ferguson and Wenger have become the focus of major European media. The focus and object, the duel between the two aroused great interest from fans and media.

In the past few years, the bitter rivals Wenger and Ferguson have staged one or two good shows almost every season. However, this season, with the strong rise of Chelsea and the decline of Manchester United, there is no sense of gunpowder between the two. Although he was so strong in the past, Ye Qiu became the third party between them.

But now with the arrival of the league and FA Cup semi-finals, the head coaches of the two teams have obviously felt the pressure and directly exchanged fire. In addition to the head coaches, the players have also entered the battle circle. For a while, about these two teams The news appeared in front of the media all over the world, and it was very exciting.

Not only at the competitive level, Manchester United's chief CEO David Gill took the lead in breaking down Manchester United's financial situation in the first quarter of this year when time entered April. He believed that Manchester United's current finances are very healthy. On the contrary, Arsenal, because of the construction of Because of the new stadium, the team will bear a heavy debt burden of 300 million pounds.

"Many people like to say that the Manchester United dynasty has collapsed, but I think it is too early to say whether Manchester United has collapsed, because we have a strong economic strength that no other opponent has. On the contrary, Arsenal has a debt of 300 million pounds. What a joke, his destruction is clearly ahead of ours!"

Ferguson also cooperated with David Gill and said that he would consider making several signings this summer.

"We will not blindly follow Chelsea's almost nouveau riche-style transfer operation model, because that will destroy a healthy team, but we are not like Arsenal, who are too poor to recruit due to debt. We don’t have any funds, so we will come up with a suitable transfer budget and introduce the right players to ensure the team’s combat effectiveness.”

As for his signing budget this summer, Ferguson did not directly disclose it, but made it clear that it will be very, very generous.

"Arsenal's biggest advantage this season, and also their biggest luck, is that they rarely have injuries. This is the reason why they have been able to remain unbeaten so far, and it is undeniable that they have been the best performer so far this season. One of the best teams, but I don’t think they have a chance to win.”

"Whether it's from the Champions League or the Premier League, Arsenal have clearly lost hope of winning the championship. Chelsea have more stamina and are hungrier than them. Arsenal's players are now close to physical exhaustion, which is very dangerous! "

Ferguson deliberately said such words before the FA Cup semi-finals, obviously to stimulate Wenger and Arsenal, and he publicly admitted that Manchester United has lost the league title this season, and the team will do its best Defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup and eventually win the FA Cup.

"We are used to ending the season with a trophy. Without a championship trophy, this will make us very uncomfortable!" Ferguson said jokingly.

Compared with the ease of Manchester United and Ferguson, Wenger's pressure is huge. Not only him, but also the pressure on Arsenal players is also huge, because after they beat Manchester United, they soon ushered in another FA game. The Cup semi-final showdown with Manchester United, although it was still a home game, their physical fitness was nearly exhausted due to continuous fighting.

Ye Qiu personally took Tencart to Highbury Stadium to watch this game because he also wanted to know whether Wenger would continue to play with the entire main lineup. The result really did not surprise him.

The goalkeeper is Lehmann, the defense is Clichy, Campbell, Kolo Toure and Lauren, the midfielder is Pires, Edu, Vieira and Ljungberg, and the forwards are Henry and Bergkamp.

Manchester United also played a full lineup in the same game. The goalkeeper was Carroll, the defense was O'Shea, Sylvester, Brown and Gary Neville, and the midfielders were Giggs and Roy. Keane, Scholes and Cristiano Ronaldo, Ruud Ruud and Solskjaer form a double forward.

The game was very intense from the beginning, and the two sides made the game very heated from the first minute. Silvis used a very bad tackle to knock down Henry to open up the game. It was the prelude to the conflict between the two teams, and what made Arsenal even more annoyed was that Sylvester escaped punishment.

But Arsenal's anger failed to transform into the team's strength. Manchester United's physical advantage ensured that the Red Devils continued to launch a fierce attack on Arsenal from the beginning of the game, and in the 32nd minute, Giggs passed the ball to Scotch Charles, who took the lead in scoring Arsenal's goal.

No matter how Arsenal counterattacked, Manchester United always maintained an unbreakable defense and maintained the 1:0 score until the end. They successfully defeated Arsenal in the FA Cup semi-finals and allowed Wenger to win the Triple Crown. The dream was completely shattered, and it once again dealt a severe blow to Arsenal's confidence and fighting spirit.

Ye Qiu was not interested in knowing who lost or won the game, but he clearly saw the scene he wanted to see during the game, which was the conflict between the Arsenal players. The most obvious scene was Henry facing each other. Lauren roared loudly, which made Ye Qiu very, very sure that the huge pressure within Arsenal finally caused the players to have psychological problems.

This also made Ye Qiu more confident about the upcoming schedule, because he already knew that Arsenal was collapsing!