When Henry scored the goal, he turned around like a madman, raised his fist and roared at the visiting fans in the stands!
Even the outside world knew that Arsenal had paid the price of continuously exhausting all the main players in the league last weekend to play this extremely difficult away game. Although they had not won yet, at least Arsenal had not lost. The game was back to the starting point!
As Arsenal's number one star player in recent years, Henry wanted to show the fans and his teammates a strong fighting spirit!
He also felt the exhaustion of his stamina, so he did not waste his energy to celebrate. After the roar, he faced Qin Xiong, who came over. The two hugged and patted each other on the back. It was a kind of encouragement, a kind of persistence that would never give up!
"Arsenal equalized the score! Europe's strongest offensive team and Europe's strongest defensive team, Arsenal and Chelsea played a shocking goal battle in the two legs of the UEFA Champions League 14 final! Compared to the game between Chelsea and Barcelona, the game between Arsenal and Bayern Munich was more exciting!
This was another classic goal by Arsenal's team. Ashley Cole, Qin Xiong, Vieira, Henry, the other players, Pires and Ljungberg's positioning control were also crucial. They created space for their teammates to cooperate. Beautiful football!
Qin Xiong's heel pass and cooperation with Vieira to break through Tiago on a bicycle. This was another wonderful performance by him. And Henry, his smart positioning and the neat way he got rid of Terry in the end. He was really an impeccable great striker!
At Highbury, Arsenal defeated Chelsea by 3: 2.
Now at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea leads Arsenal by 3: 2.
The total score is 5: 5, and the same goes for the away goal. In the 90-minute game, including injury stoppage time, there may not be more than 10 minutes left. Will there be overtime? "
Wenger did not celebrate the goal. He immediately pulled over Bergkamp, who had already warmed up, to make a substitution.
Pires was the oldest player in Arsenal's attacking group. Even if he was just over 30 years old, it was difficult for Pires to play a role on the field under the recent intensive competition schedule.
Even if Qin Xiong and Henry were also exhausted, Wenger did not consider replacing them at all.
Because they were already the backbone of Arsenal!
In a game of this level.
No matter how talented Robin van Persie was, or how amazing Reyes was, they were not in the consideration at all.
As long as Henry and Qin Xiong could fight, Wenger would not consider replacing them. Only when they were on the field, could Arsenal truly be full of confidence!
In the stands at Stamford Bridge, the Arsenal fans cheered passionately. Their beloved team was fighting tenaciously, and they were also full of enthusiasm.
The hearts of the Blues fans were in their throats again, as if the beautiful picture had been destroyed by Arsenal once again!
Mourinho clenched his fists tightly. He had an urge to destroy everything in his heart. He wanted to find someone to beat them up or smash them irresponsibly to vent his anger!
But he knew he could not!
If he lost his composure, the mentality of the Chelsea players would collapse!
There was no doubt.
He was the leader of this team.
Chelsea was able to sweep through the heroes in the Premier League by relying on defense. Their defense was unparalleled!
Arsenal was able to keep pace with Chelsea in the Premier League and take the lead on goal difference at this time. They relied on the team's offensive talent and the world's best offense!
There was no big problem with the defense just now. If Arsenal had been using Ashley Cole to charge into the front waistline to form an offensive routine of displacing the side midfielders, Chelsea would have been able to operate freely after one or two defenses.
But Ashley Cole had always given the impression that he was amazing in the offensive end. He had not really reached the point where he could switch his thinking flexibly to the point where the opponent could not guard against him.
Now Mourinho had to think about how to contain Arsenal's next counterattack.
His heart was beating strongly. He told himself to calm down and hold his breath.
The game was just back to the starting point.
He pointed at Lampard expressionlessly on the sidelines. When Lampard looked at him, Mourinho made a gesture. Lampard saw it and immediately nodded in response.
After the restart of the game, Chelsea changed. He was more conservative!
Lampard used to be a midfielder. Now, he was a defensive midfielder!
Chelsea was playing as a third defensive midfielder!
In this way, it was almost impossible for Qin Xiong to keep pace with Lampard or have the space to get rid of him.
He had to go head-on against Lampard, Makelele, and Tiago!
This was not Mourinho admitting defeat.
It was a strategy.
The big background of this game was that Arsenal's overall physical condition was not as good as Chelsea's!
How could Mourinho, the king of details, throw this big advantage to the back of his mind?
Now he was going to wear down Arsenal!
This approach might not be fully understood by the audience in the stands.
But the players playing in the stadium felt it deeply.
After a long period of running and physical exhaustion, if a player's physical condition cooled down, then he would be dragged down by exhaustion and it would be difficult to mobilize an excited state again. In other words, the more tired he was, the harder it was to mobilize his best physical condition again, let alone explode.
He might not even be able to accelerate!
Mourinho constantly directed the team to do a good defense on the sidelines. He wanted to use the last 10 minutes of the 90 minutes to drag Arsenal into a "cooldown" state. Then, when overtime arrived, he would completely destroy Arsenal in a tug-of-war!
After a short two-minute game, the Arsenal players found that the Chelsea players were slowing down the pace and defending to the extreme. At most, Drogba was left as a fulcrum on the offensive side.
They could not run aimlessly to continue their condition.
To intercept, to attack, to assist in defense, to run positions. No matter what they did, they could only continue their condition by moving purposefully. When Chelsea did not pose a threat in possession of the ball, they could only let the cooldown of their physical condition gradually spread.
Qin Xiong already felt that he was about to be swept away by exhaustion. The possibility of him rushing again was getting lower and lower. This kind of exhaustion was more likely to trigger a negative reaction in his physical condition.
Arsenal had to maintain the pace of the attack. When Drogba's possession of the ball in the front field was successfully robbed by Vieira and Silva in the 89th minute of the game, Arsenal instigated a wave of attacks.
After Bergkamp replaced Pires on the field, he almost played as a double attacking midfielder with Qin Xiong. If he was an inexperienced kid, there was bound to be a conflict between him and Qin Xiong. But Bergkamp had been on the battlefield for a long time, so he still had this little bit of tacit understanding and sacrifice.
He interacted with Qin Xiong with him as a support to activate and liberate Qin Xiong.
In this attack, Bergkamp dribbled the ball in the front field and directly passed to the side after moving horizontally.
Ljungberg's header on the right side returned to the right position in front of the penalty area.
Qin Xiong was there to shoot a volley in the air before Lampard and Tiago!
In order to control the football to fly to the goal and blast it out quickly, Qin Xiong suddenly felt discomfort in his right thigh and calf when he suddenly shot a volley in the air!
The football was directly blasted into the stands by him.
After finishing the shooting action, Qin Xiong fell on the field. If it were not for the pain in his calf and the faint symptoms of discomfort in the back of his right thigh, he was afraid that he would have closed his eyes and fainted.
He felt that once he lay down, he did not want to stand up again.
In the past half a month, there was the FIFA competition, the Premier League and the Champions League two-line intensive schedule. He had overdrawn too much!
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