There is a dream called football

Chapter 340
Villarreal's home stadium has a nice name - the Love Song Stadium.

But in fact, the Love Song Stadium is a small stadium even in Spain, and this is also because of the small population here.

During the pre-match training, Villarreal’s Argentine goalkeeper Mariano Barbosa was practicing picking high-altitude balls. This should be done on purpose. The head coach must have asked him to control the high-altitude balls more precisely, which means that in this game, the goalkeeper’s attack is very important.

The Love Song Stadium was full of seats, all filled with yellow, and there were only a few hundred Arsenal fans from the visiting team.

No exaggeration, it's really only a few hundred, because you can't book a hotel.

After the game started, Arsenal had the ball and Pellegrini did nothing like what he said in the press conference.

Before the game, he said that he would not pursue 1-0, but what he showed on the court was not like that. Instead, he really focused on defense. Of course, Wenger expected this. Under normal circumstances, if there is one sentence in the head coach’s mouth that is true, it would be good.

But in this game, Wenger also has a secret weapon, and that is the midfielder Diaby from Côte d'Ivoire. He plays the midfielder, but his height is 191, so if the situation cannot be opened, then Wenger is going to let him hit the forward line.

In this game, Wenger also made adjustments in the defense. Senderos did not start. Wenger began to revise his judgment on Senderos. He originally thought that Senderos was Arsenal's star of tomorrow, but now it is increasingly found that Senderos' ability is overestimated. Maybe he is just a Premier League player, not a European player.

So in this game, Wenger arranged a combination of Toure and Campbell, with Clichy on the left and Eboue on the right.

Li Qiao's side is Eboue, but the Cameroonians don't dare to come up to assist, and Wenger doesn't need him to go up to assist.

As long as Li Qiao on the right plays normally, the pressure on the opponent is enough.

After the last game, Wenger carefully studied the running positions of Jose Mari and Forlan, and found that their fishhook running was very obvious, that is, running back first, then suddenly running forward, running around the defensive player with a fishhook feeling, this is fishhook running.

This kind of running position can throw off the defensive player, the so-called don't stand dead.

When the midfielder passes the ball, he is most afraid of the striker standing beside the defensive player stupidly, he cannot pass the ball at all, and this kind of back and forth pulling, then Riquelme can use his skill of passing master.

The key to breaking this kind of running position is that the defender should press out and prevent the opponent from turning around.

Campbell pressed out, and the moment Jose Mari took the ball, he followed. In this way, it was impossible for Jose Mari to turn around.

"You don't want to turn around."

Jose Mari swayed left and right, and finally had no choice but to pass back to Senna.

This one time was enough. After several times, Pellegrini knew that something was wrong. The opponent obviously prepared carefully, and the forward's fishhook running position was a bit unplayable, but Pellegrini was not worried. His usual training tactics were not only this one, but also others!
Soon, the two forwards gave up the fishhook running, but Jose Mari pulled out to play the ball for Forlan. In this way, Riquelme passed the ball to find Jose Mari.

Wenger was also surprised. This is indeed a top striker. Forlan and Jose Mari are players with very high football intelligence. They can understand Riquelme's passing language well enough, and Riquelme is like a clever puppeteer, using passing to control the progress of the game.

Wenger is not surprised by this. He has already experienced the ball in the game. Villarreal's team plays very fast and they all play the ball with one kick, so he can only increase his defensive attention.

Wenger is worried about Villarreal's offense, and the opponent is also worried about Arsenal, but the fast break, especially Henry and Li Qiao, every time they counterattack, these two people can rush to the front line at the fastest speed.

Facing the ball from the backcourt, Henry jumped up and shook his head to Li Qiao, who took the ball from the side and ran forward.

The ball was intended to be returned to Henry, so before Sorin pressed on, the ball under Li Qiao's feet was thrown to Henry, and the latter immediately sent a straight line. The ball was thrown behind Sorin.

After some speed competition, Li Qiao was the one who got the ball first, and Sorin was also very smart, he didn't tackle the ball, Li Qiao stopped, Sorin also stayed, Li Qiao shook, Sorin was unmoved.

At this moment, Li Qiao saw Sorin's crotch, so he was about to pass through the crotch, but the ball really passed.

As if he had been insulted, Sorin kicked Li Qiao directly.

yellow card.

Sorin's yellow card again means that even if Villarreal finally reaches the final, Sorin will not be able to play.

Pellegrini crossed his arms and comforted himself, don't think about the final, but think about the game first.

A free kick into the penalty area was scored by Arsenal players, but it was still too high and failed to score.

After 20 minutes in the first half, two Villarreal players stood up and warmed up. One was Roger Garcia from La Masia, who played as a midfielder, and the other was Mexican striker Franco, who played very well in the last game.

This is Pellegrini's demonstration, which means that I also belong to someone, so don't underestimate me.

However, Wenger doesn't care about this for the time being. Even if there is a duel, it will only happen in the second half. It should be fine now.

At this moment, Arsenal's defense made an unfathomable mistake. When Toure and the opponent's midfielder were fighting for a header, Toure won the ball first. It was amazing that he turned to his side, which happened to be given to Forlan in front of him.

Maybe the happiness came too suddenly. The Uruguayan thought he was offside, but when he thought about it, it was the opponent who pushed him over, so there was no such thing as offside, so he went it alone.

The Love Song Stadium is boiling, this is a big gift from the opponent, and Arsenal's Clichy is chasing back, and only he can stop Forlan, Lehmann slowly attacks, what he can do with this ball is very limited, he can only stop the opponent as much as possible, other than that, he has nothing to do.

Pellegrini turned away, afraid to look because he wanted too much to score.

(End of this chapter)