Chapter 390

Beep

With the whistle of Danish referee Larson, the first leg match between Arsenal and Porto in the Champions League semi-final officially opened at the Emirates Stadium.

The first one to kick off is Porto in the away game.

Facing a strong opponent away, Porto coach Ferreira has drawn out a 451 formation, goalkeeper Helton, four guards fusile, Alves, Rolando and sissokho. In midfield, Gao Xiaodong returns to the back midfield position and plays three midfield with guarin and Fernando, Meireles and Hulk play two full backs, and falcauding plays center in front.

This formation has been repeatedly considered by Ferreira and the coaching staff. Arsenal's offensive ability is very strong, Porto is difficult to compete with Arsenal for the right to the ball, and Gao Xiaodong may not have many chances to get the ball when he plays in the midfield.

If Gao Xiaodong comes back to play at the back of the midfield, he can take the ball forward to insert assists, but also can make a long pass to counterattack. If Arsenal press too far ahead, Gao Xiaodong's long pass and Falcao's counterattack will kill Arsenal. The most important thing is that Gao Xiaodong can limit Arsenal's midfield core Fabregas at the back of the midfield.

Let guarin guard the right back is to deal with Nasri, although guarin is a bit impatient, a little unreliable, but Arsenal's left back Gibson is a weakness, assists can not come up, guarin and sissokho two people deal with Nasri should have no problem.

Meireles plays left half in order to limit the extremely fast Walcott with his experience. Hulk plays three on the right to attack Gibson.

Porto thought of it in all aspects, but after seeing the formation put forward by Arsenal, they found that they were wrong. Arsene Wenger, who has been playing a very rigid game, has changed.

Arsenal's starting line-up is also a 451 formation. Goalkeeper No. 1 Almunia is back in action, with four defenders 3-sagna, 5-toure, 18 Silvestre and 40 Gibbs; five midfielders 17 song, 2-diaby, 14 Walcott, 4-fabregas and 8-nasri; and single striker 25 Adebayor It's no different, but Nasri and Diaby changed positions. Diaby went to play left half and Nasri came to the middle to organize with Fabregas.

It's a brain opening change. Before that, Arsenal only played once in the FA Cup match with Chelsea, and the effect was very general. Arsenal were also defeated 2-1 by Chelsea.

Sky Sports Live commentator Martin is an old Premier League, he immediately understood the intention of Arsene Wenger's platoon, "diabyra is estimated that Professor Arsene is worried about the left back Gibson's defense, so that diabyra, who has strong defensive and interception ability, assists in the left avant-garde defense. Nasri comes to the middle, should be guessing that Porto will stare at Fabregas and let Nasri control." However, the effect of this transformation is not good in the FA Cup with Chelsea. Professor Arsene is still using it in this way. Maybe he thinks that Porto's strength is far less than that of Chelsea. The effect against Chelsea is not good. It's not necessarily bad against Porto. The specific effect depends on the competition.... "

Seeing Nasri playing in the middle and Diaby playing on the side, the Arsenal fans in the stands are also talking about it. They don't understand Arsene Wenger's transposition.

Today Porto hit Arsenal on the left side very firmly. After passing the ball in the middle circle, they immediately hit the right side and asked Hulk to attack from the right side.

Today, Arsenal attached great importance to their left side defense. Diaby saw Hulk take the ball and immediately ran to assist in defense.

At this time, fusile also high-speed plug in, Falcao also close to the right, full attack Arsenal's left.

Hulk saw Diaby coming, he passed the ball back to fusile and continued to push forward.

Fuxilai rubs the ball and the ball goes straight behind Gibson, allowing hulk and Gibson to compete for the landing point.

Gibson turned quickly to grab the position with Hulk, but was pushed aside by the strong Hulk. Seeing that Hulk stopped on the instep and wanted to cut into the interior line, Gibson had no choice but to extend his foot and trip Hulk.

Referee Larson whistled and awarded a free kick near the sideline.

The weak team plays the strong team, the set piece is the magic weapon, Gao Xiaodong comes to the sideline to take the free kick, Porto's centre back Alves and Rolando come to Arsenal's penalty area to fight for the header.

Alves was very careful to get the ball out of the penalty area, but Alves and Arsenal's striker also got the ball out of the penalty area.

After the ball came out, it was grabbed by Fernando, who was delayed. Seeing that Arsenal rushed to grab it, Fernando immediately returned to goalkeeper Helton and asked for the ball from the side.

Arsenal's counterattack is very fast, some players are chasing Fernando, others are going to press for goalkeeper Helton.

Helton dare not be careless, a big foot to open the ball to Arsenal's penalty area.

The ball was taken directly by Arsenal goalkeeper Almunia, who threw it to Fabregas and launched a quick counterattack before Porto's defenders were fully in place.

Fabregas turns around to catch the ball and is about to speed up to dribble forward. Guarin rushes back to the defence and gives him a flying shovel in the slant.When Fabregas received the ball, he saw everything around him. He buckled the ball to avoid the flying shovel that guarin gave him.

But Fabregas has just dodged GuaLin's shovels, and Gao Xiaodong's shovels are here again.

Fabregas just recovered from injury and returned to four rounds. He didn't dare to take the risk to control the ball. He had to jump up and avoid Gao Xiaodong's slide shovel.

Qiu was destroyed by Gao Xiaodong and fell to Diaby's feet.

Diaby pushed forward with the ball, but Hulk caught up with him without running a few steps.

Diaby stopped and dribbled past Hulk to push on to Porto's bottom line.

However, Diaby's speed is not fast, and soon was caught up by Hulk, this time and fuxilai formed a trap for Diaby.

Diaby saw the situation and immediately passed the ball to Nasri in the middle.

It was a good time to share the ball, but the ball was too fast. Nasri started early and didn't touch the ball. The ball was snatched by Porto defender Alves again.

The ball was passed to Gao Xiaodong. Gao Xiaodong took the ball and turned around. Without waiting for Arsenal's push, he went to the right side to find hulk and beat Arsenal's left side.

Although Arsenal are guarded by Diaby on the left, Porto's right back fusile is very bold in attack. Guarin prefers to assist. In addition to Hulk in the front, Diaby can't defend on the side and Alexander in the back. Song had to defend to the side and block Porto's attack.

Diaby's transposition to the flank did not protect full back Gibson and had to ask for the help of back song.

After Nasri changed to the Middle Road, he was forced by Gao Xiaodong, Fernando and guarin, so he couldn't play the role of holding the ball to organize the attack.

Arsenal can only hit the ball to the right to find Walcott, trying to use Walcott's speed to find a breakthrough in Porto's left.

However, Porto's left back sissokho is strong and fast. Ronaldo doesn't take advantage of him. Today, he doesn't have much offensive task. He defends in his own half and has Meireles's help. Walcott has no way to take sissokho.

After more than ten minutes of opening, Arsenal couldn't open the attack from the right side, and the penetration from the middle side was rudely intercepted by Gao Xiaodong and Fernando of Porto. The left side was too busy to attack, and the attack was completely paralyzed. Only Fabregas completed a long-range shot with a free kick.

The start made the Arsenal fans very dissatisfied. They thought it was the failure of Arsene Wenger's transformation. Nasri and Diaby didn't play their due role. They were self defeating.

is also broadcasting live this forum on the Internet Forum. Fans on the Internet make complaints about it:

, God! How did Diaby get to the left? "

"Can Diaby play on the side?"

”Is there anything worse than Diaby playing on the sidelines

"Yes! Worse than Diaby on the left is Nasri in the middle

"Professor, what's the matter? The league is full of ideas and the Champions League is full of confusion

"Alas! Old fool

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Although we can see that Diaby and Nasri do not perform well, Arsene is not ready to make a change. He stubbornly believes that it will be more difficult to change back. Diaby still plays on the side and Nasri plays in the middle.