Chapter 388

At the weekend, the five major leagues will play another round with Portugal.

Porto and Arsenal both came out with a lot of substitutes, but they also beat their rivals easily.

After the game, Porto manager Ferreira and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger talked about the upcoming Champions League semi-final.

Arsene Wenger first stressed that Porto is not a weak team, it is a strong opponent with rich experience in the Champions League, but also said that he prefers to play Porto than Manchester United.

"No one thought that Porto could knock out Manchester United before the game, but football is so amazing, everything is possible."

"Porto is definitely a better opponent than the powerful and experienced defending champion Manchester United. But we don't underestimate Porto. They have won the Champions League twice and have rich experience in Europe. They will pay a price if we underestimate them."

Then he talked about injuries and Gao Xiaodong.

"Injury is our biggest problem. Clichy and Zhulu will miss the first leg of the semi-final. Van Persie will be absent for both games. Centre back William Gallas and front waist Rosicky will not be eligible to play in the league. Fortunately, we have Fabregas, Walcott, Eduardo and goalkeeper Almunia The competition. "

"Gao Xiaodong is the most dangerous player in Porto. He is strong, quick, crafty and has all-round skills, but we will not give him another chance. It is impossible for him to play as casually as in the group match Yes, last season we had the chance to sign Gao Xiaodong, but we didn't succeed in the end. However, we have many outstanding new stars like Gao Xiaodong, such as Walcott, Bella, Nasri, Fabregas and so on. They will stage a youth storm this season

In the end, Arsene Wenger expressed his confidence in reaching the final.

"Last time we knocked out Villarreal for the Champions League final. This season we knocked out Villarreal again. This time I believe we will reach the final again."

"At the beginning of the season, I was worried about the morale and confidence of the team, but now they are dealing with it very well and the whole team is very strong in spirit. This young Arsenal has gone through the running in period, we will not "brake" in the more important Champions League, as long as we keep enough vigilance, full confidence and sense of responsibility, I think this season we can create miracles

Ferreira's speech was as calm and steady as ever.

"At the beginning of the season, our goal is to win the league and make it into the last eight of the Champions League. Now we have achieved our goal and won the Portuguese Cup. Next, we hope to go further and win the Portuguese Cup and make it into the Champions League final."

"We are not the favourites for promotion. Arsenal are. Let alone the two Champions League titles we won, they are all in the past. Let alone the group stage. The group stage and the knockout stage are two different things. Arsenal are very young, but we are also very young. Falcao, Hulk, Fernando, Rolando and sissokho are only 22 years old, and Gao Xiaodong is less than 20 years old. If we want to go through, we have to fight against each other. If we can score at the Emirates Stadium, I think we have hope

"Compared with Arsenal, we don't have an advantage. If we can barely say the advantage, it is that we have never lost to England at home, whether it is Manchester United, Liverpool, or Chelsea or Arsenal. This will give us confidence. In addition, our lineup is complete and there are no injuries. This is another advantage."

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There was no grudge between Arsenal and Porto, but in the Champions League group game, Arsenal beat Porto 4-2 at home in the first leg. Gao Xiaodong, who did not admit defeat after the game, told reporters that "see you at the Dragon Stadium". Then he did a 3-0 job at the Dragon stadium in the second leg. After that, the young people of Arsenal all held back their anger and thought that they could not vent in a short time Came out, did not expect is really a narrow road, the semi-finals actually met.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has a refined personality. He didn't mention it before the game, but his players are a group of 20-year-old or so young people, one by one full of blood. In front of such a big game, of course, we have to vent our last breath.

Fabregas, the youngest captain of Arsenal, was the first one to stir up a war of words. After his comeback, he made five assists in the last four games, which made Fabregas more and more famous.

On Porto coach Ferreira's speech, Fabregas said impolitely on Facebook: "Porto is constantly showing weakness. In fact, they are making excuses for their iron barrel formation. In fact, if there are any excuses, they will send eight or nine players to follow the ball, fight back if they can't get it, and retreat to defend if they can't get it. As long as we can control the ball right, play speed and cooperation, make full use of the width of the court, we can easily beat the opponent

Walcott, the little tiger, made great contributions to the elimination of Yellow Submarines and the promotion to the final four. In the match with Porto, Walcott said on Facebook: "although we have a lot of injuries in the back line, we never win by defense. We lose one in the back field and we can score two in the front. I believe as long as we score more goals than our opponents, we can advance to the final."

French genius Nasri said that the last group game, the two sides staged a goal war, this time is no exception, Arsenal will use attack to beat Porto people, compared with the prediction of points, Nasri guessed that they will be home 3:1, away 2:1, total score 5:2 to advance to the final.Arsenal launched a provocation, Porto's young people certainly will not show weakness.

Porto's youngest Deputy Gao Xiaodong took the lead.

After the Champions League eliminated defending champion Manchester United, Gao Xiaodong's Twitter fans surged to 50000, and there are tens of thousands of fans on Facebook. Now he is also a influential figure on social media. He said on his own Twitter: "after the group game, I once told Professor Arsene Wenger that I hope we can see each other in the last eight, but I didn't expect that Arsenal were in the last four. It's really a narrow road, It's good for Arsenal to attack, but we won't let them attack comfortably. We just want to defend and counterattack, don't quibble and score when we have the ability

Fernando is Gao Xiaodong's little suck, and Gao Xiao has set up a target. He fired the map gun at once. "I thought Villarreal would knock out Arsenal. I didn't expect them to give up this task so much. We love the Premier League team compared to the west side. We won the Premier League last time. There is no exception. Arsenal are no better than Manchester United. Manchester United have been eliminated by us, not to mention Arsenal

Captain Alves also impolitely counterattacked Fabregas and Walcott, he told reporters: "we are two Champions League champions, Arsenal do not have a Champions League champion, a group of hairy children have what qualifications to look down on us, we will see, we will seal them proud of the attack."

Forward Hulk is Gao Xiaodong's good basic friend. The vice-president of the team and his opponent fight with each other. Brazil's Hulk is duty bound to help, "what's so great about Arsenal? They haven't won the championship for many years. Do they know what it's like to win the cup? We are no worse than Arsenal in the last ten years' Champions League performance. This time, we will beat them like a group match and win the championship We're going to see them through

The players are talking about the water battle on TV and newspapers, the fans are also fighting on the Internet, the game has not started, the atmosphere has been hot, it is said that the worst ticket at the Emirates Stadium has been more than 200 euro, although it is not as hot as Barcelona and Chelsea, but with the popularity of Arsenal and Porto, it has been very unexpected.