Chapter 385
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"Chelsea! Chelsea has made history! They have entered the UEFA Champions League semi-finals! This is a new record in the club's history! They had never entered the Champions League semi-finals before. Today, they did it! After an earth-shattering 10-goal game in two legs, they had the last laugh through the penalty shootout!
Mourinho rushed into the field and excitedly hugged his disciples. Deafening cheers erupted from Stamford Bridge. This was a festival for the Blues fans. During the ups and downs of the game, the hearts of the fans must have been tormented. Now, they could celebrate to their heart's content and revel in their victory!
Arsenal made people feel sorry and sympathetic. They showed the strongest offensive firepower in Europe. Falling in the penalty shootout was a disappointing result. They did their best! They deserved respect!
Henry was originally the penalty taker in the fifth round of the penalty shootout, but he did not have the chance to stand in front of the penalty spot. Now he stood in place with his head down. We could not see his expression, but he must be extremely depressed. He was like a lonely king who had done everything he could, but the team was struggling in the Champions League. We could not use reason to analyze why Arsenal was eliminated in the end. If Ljungberg and Fàbregas had scored from the penalty shootout, then maybe the one who had the last laugh would have been Arsenal. Football was not a reasoning game. There were too many unpredictable contingencies. Maybe the key to victory or defeat was strength, or maybe the key to victory or defeat was the technical play at a certain moment. If you played well, you could win. If you did not play well, you would lose.
Qin Xiong walked into the stadium and slowly walked to the penalty area. It looked like he was ready to comfort Fàbregas, who had missed the crucial penalty shootout.
Qin Xiong had also done everything he could in the two rounds of the competition. Moreover, he had definitely done more than everyone had expected!
He had four direct assists and a goal. What else could be expected from him?
He was not even 20 years old!
With the future Champions League semi-finals, the top four teams would be more cautious. So now Qin Xiong could almost be declared the king of assists in the Champions League this season! He had 13 assists! Nearly 80% of Arsenal's goals in the Champions League this season were related to him. It was either his assists or his goals. Now he had to taste the feeling of being eliminated. It must be very uncomfortable, but he still planned to comfort his teammates. He was a star player with a big heart!
Fàbregas is very unlucky. He is younger than Qin Xiong and has a promising future, but in the end, he has not experienced many key battles. Moreover, the pressure of the penalty roulette is unprecedented. I believe that no Arsenal fans will blame him for missing the penalty. He symbolizes the future of Arsenal after all! "
This season's Champions League campaign was over.
Qin Xiong seemed to have lost his hearing. As he walked towards Fàbregas, he saw the fanatical Blues fans, the dejected Gunners fans, his teammates who were scared out of their wits, and his opponents who were roaring and laughing heartily.
Was it a pity?
Of course!
But in the end, he had to taste it himself.
He stood beside Fàbregas, who was lying on the ground with his hands covering his face. Tears seeped through his fingers.
When he came on as a substitute, he did not have to be a hero, nor did he have the mentality of not wanting to be meritorious.
He just wanted to win with everyone and do his best to make everyone's efforts worthless!
Arsenal, who pursued beautiful football with a thinner lineup than Chelsea, should be rewarded enough in his eyes. They deserved something.
But he did not expect that he would end up being the "sinner"!
The blow was too big. It was as if he was isolated from the world. Everything around him was subverted and turned into an invisible weight that poured down on him, making him breathless and unable to open his eyes to face it. He did not know what he should say to his teammates and did not know what kind of expression he should have.
He had failed to live up to everyone's expectations and let down every teammate!
Just as he was blaming himself endlessly and immersing himself in all kinds of negative emotions, his shoulder was gently pushed by someone. He raised his right hand and opened his eyes that were blurred by tears. He saw Qin Xiong bending down beside him and reaching out to him.
Qin Xiong's expression was normal as he calmly watched Fàbregas.
For some reason, Fàbregas seemed to understand Qin Xiong's colorless expression at the moment.
We can be knocked down, but we will never be defeated!
Stand up!
Raise your head and let's go together!
Fàbregas held back his tears of guilt and reached out to shake Qin Xiong's hand. Then he stood up. Qin Xiong reached out and put his arm around his shoulder. Then he walked slowly in the direction of the players' tunnel with his chin held high.
Fàbregas gritted his teeth and the tears in the corners of his eyes were decreasing. He and Qin Xiong walked step by step to the sidelines. The complacent Chelsea fans in the nearby stands jeered at them!
Qin Xiong held his head high and was unmoved. He walked firmly with his arm around Fàbregas's shoulder toward the players' tunnel. The closer they got, the louder the jeers. But his expression did not change. His eyes were calm and firm!
They had lost the game and their ticket to the Champions League semi-finals had been snatched away.
But this was not enough to destroy Qin Xiong's fighting spirit!
He always believed that nothing in this world could destroy him!
Before entering the players' tunnel, he looked back at the Stamford Bridge stadium.
No matter how many people outside would criticize Chelsea's conservatism, criticize them for playing ugly football, or that their utilitarian philosophy was regressing football.
But Qin Xiong still had to pay attention to Chelsea in his heart, as well as a trace of respect.
Different paths did not work together.
But in the end, football was a stage for a hundred schools of thought to contend. Chelsea was walking their own path, and they had walked their own wonderful and unique path.
Such an opponent was worthy of respect.
This was probably the most significant defeat he had encountered so far in the European football world, and he would remember today.
.....
After the game, Wenger did not want to comment too much on the content of the game. It was meaningless. Chelsea had advanced. It was as simple as that.
As for any remarks he made to criticize Chelsea, it would be a show of ungentlemanly behavior.
Therefore, Wenger only praised Arsenal's performance. He believed that Chelsea's performance was worthy of praise for being able to play such a game and almost get a ticket to the Champions League semi-finals with the advantage of Chelsea having a few more days of rest than Arsenal and no consumption of energy. Arsenal's performance was worthy of praise!
Mourinho only praised the performance of the Blues after the game and did not mention the content of the game.
For him, the two games with Arsenal were "unbearable to look back on."
Five goals were conceded in the two games.
That was almost 40% of the number of goals Chelsea had conceded in the 32 rounds of the Premier League.
And Chelsea had always played defense and counter-attack in the game, and it was no exception at home. They had also changed the formation of three defensive midfielders. They were just short of the whole team returning to defend the bus. Mourinho, of course, would only talk about the outcome and not the process.
In short, it was a proud work of his, eliminating Arsenal, Europe's strongest offensive firepower!
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