When Porto is in the lead of the world, he has a strong defensive advantage and tries to reduce the risk of losing the ball.
Fernando took a few meters forward, saw the opponent coming to block, then passed the ball to Hulk, Hulk is the same, saw that the left side defense is tight, when the opponent came to close, then passed the ball back to Gao Xiaodong, slowed down the pace, as far as possible to consume time.
Time is on Porto's side. Arsenal are attacking against time. When Porto's players control the ball, they are more fierce than Porto.
Although Arsenal only put two men in the forward line, the two wingers Nasri and Walcott are very close to the front, just like the winger. They try their best to fight for the back with the striker, so that Porto can not control the ball safely in the backcourt.
In the Arsenal's fast down, Porto back to the goalkeeper Helton there, and finally lost the pass line, Helton a big shot to the front court.
Falcao and Toure struggle for the top, he header is very good, but the height difference is big, the ball was Toure easy top to partner Zhulu, Zhulu stop the ball and then pass to song, song pass back to get the ball Fabregas, Fabregas does not stop the ball directly to find Walcott, Arsenal continue to attack from the side.
At this time, Sagna has fast assists up, involving Meles.
Fabregas is too fast on the side, Fernando is slow on the side and Walcott has the chance to challenge sissokho.
Through the last game, Walcott knew that sissokho's speed was not slow, he did not use the speed to eat, but made a bottom movement, suddenly cut across to just fill the edge of Fernando's back.
Fernando was shaken and nearly fell to the ground, unable to return to the middle. Sissokho had to keep running with Walcott.
Van Persie was alert to the side, Walcott's heel returned the ball to van Persie.
Seeing van Persie take the ball, Meles gave up Sania and went back to defense at high speed.
Despite Meireles's late defense, van Persie had already passed the ball when he flew to intercept.
It's a ground ball. In the middle, Adebayor and Walcott grab the spot together. Porto's two big and middle defenders defend Adebayor and Walcott separately.
Alves has a good limit on Adebayor, but Walcott's speed is faster and more flexible. Rolando gets stuck in the position, but Walcott goes around to the front to get the landing point.
Walcott walked an arc, slowed down half a step, just rubbed the ball, didn't hit the right part, and the ball flew out of the baseline against the post.
In the stands, there were a lot of exclamations. In the first five minutes, Arsenal created a very threatening chance to shoot. Porto fans were a little alarmed.
However, after Porto panic, to see van Persie just after passing the ball fell to the ground did not get up, Arsenal fans panic.
Van Persie's ankle was injured last time, and his knee was injured last time. The injury was just right. For the sake of this life and death battle, Arsenal fans were always worried. Unexpectedly, van Persie fell down in just five minutes.
"Van Persie's old injury will not recur. In fact, he was just hit by meileles who came back to defend. His action is not big. Don't get hurt so soon. Van Persie's attack on Arsenal is very important. He is the Bergkamp of Arsenal." Porto's live commentator said it was a pity, but there was a hidden joy in his voice.
Arsene raised his heart to his throat. He clenched his hands and stared at Van Persie to see if he could still stand up.
Nothing. After a while, van Persie kneaded his knees and got up to play again. That was a relief for Arsene.
The game went on and the Arsenal man, who was in urgent need of victory, was very determined to attack.
After Julu's comeback, the Arsenal man's back line is more stable, and the two full backs' assists are more reassuring.
After van Persie came on the court, with van Persie's flexible running and making the ball, Adebayor no longer fought alone, giving Porto a lot of pressure on the attack.
Five minutes later, in the face of Porto's high pressure, Arsenal still controlled the ball and got more and more shooting opportunities.
In the 15th minute of the match, Arsenal played two sides of Porto in a row and pulled away the front of Porto's penalty area. Then Nasri suddenly crossed the middle.
Fabregas, facing Gao Xiaodong's defense, passed the ball to van Persie without stopping and pushed forward.
Van Persie runs outside the penalty area with the ball under Rolando's defense and passes it to Adebayor.
Adebayor in the penalty area, Alves dare not foul, only close to Adebayor.
Adebayor did not stop the ball and passed it directly to Fabregas.
Fabregas in Gao Xiaodong's defense, non-stop ball, the forefoot of the ball back, and then passed to van Persie.
Although it was a three-on-three defense at this time, Arsenal's successive wall smashing cooperation made Porto's defense dizzy. When Fabregas passed the ball to van Persie again, Rolando was out of position and had to take risks.Van Persie is a left footed player. Rolando works very hard. He takes the risk of rushing to the left of the middle and doesn't give van Persie the chance to move the ball to the left.
But Van Persie is a good left footed player with a good right foot. He buckled the ball with his left foot, crossed Rolando and shot with his right foot.
Just after van Persie smashed the ball, Gao Xiaodong had already arrived. He didn't have time to steal it and just stuck his foot on van Persie's shot.
Gao Xiaodong bought volley skills, the timing is very good, the ball just left van Persie's feet, was a high Xiaodong stuffy back, the ball hit van Persie's kick out of the foot, Gao Xiaodong put on the ball's strength also passed to van Persie's feet.
The ball flew out and van Persie fell to the ground again.
Because van Persie had fallen to the ground once before, and this time it was like a foot to foot, everyone didn't care, and the ball didn't fly too far, the players of Arsenal and Porto were eager to grab the ball, and no one was in charge of van Persie.
The ball was snatched back by meleres, who did not dare to be careless and kicked out of the sideline with a big kick.
After the ball was cleared, we found that van Persie was lying on the ground and had not yet got up.
Don't have an accident. Don't have an accident. Arsene Wenger's heart is in suspense again. Every time van Persie and Julu fall down, he will be shocked.
Everyone thought that van Persie would stand up and continue to play as before, but this time van Persie did not stand up, but sat on the ground and made a gesture of substitution.
Arsene Wenger's heart suddenly cools. He knows it's a risk to let van Persie play, but he has to take this risk in the current life and death battle. I didn't expect that Arsenal's luck is so bad. Van Persie was injured again after just 15 minutes.
But in an instant, Arsene was angry with Gao Xiaodong. When he came on the stretcher, he angrily scolded Ferreira: "you are so barbaric! Every move of that Chinese is like killing people. "
Ferreira was angry and said to Arsene: "that's a interception, OK! What's wrong with your movements? "
Soon, the big screen of the stadium gave a slow shot of van Persie's injury. Gao Xiaodong was right. It was just that van Persie, who had little strength, suffered a loss through the opposite foot of the ball and caused an old injury.
With a sigh, Arsene can only admit his bad luck and let Bendtner play to replace injured van Persie.
The commentator sighed: "van Persie's role in Arsenal is irreplaceable. He not only has excellent shooting skills, but also can provide inspiration and imagination. Unfortunately, he was injured again. It can't be said that it's a mistake for Arsene Wenger to let van Persie play. It's a life and death battle in the Champions League semi-final. Any coach will take risks, but That's the price of taking risks... "