538 Highbury Farewell Battle
"The 37th round of the Premier League is about to begin. The defending champion Arsenal will face the middle of the rankings in Heibury. The atmosphere of Heibury today is beyond imagination. The whole stadium is flying with Arsenal's flag. Every gun fan shows a fanatic side, because today is the curtain call of Heibury. After this game, Heibury will completely enter history. Arsenal will move into a new stadium next season, and a new era will come!
After 37 rounds, Arsenal occupies the leading position in the standings. They have been leading from the first round of the league to today. It can be said that since the first day of the league's long-distance running, they have been making the teams behind them despair one by one!
Now they are leading Chelsea, which ranks second, by 4 points. If they can win this game, Arsenal will announce the successful defense of the title one round ahead of schedule! Arsenal won three consecutive league championships in the Premier League era!
This is definitely an amazing achievement, but no one is sure that Arsenal will definitely win the game today. Many Wigan Athletics players were interviewed before the game and have shown that they will not let Arsenal easily on the podium!
Arsenal today is 451.
Goalkeeper: Lyman.
Defenders: Ebue, Toure, Campbell, Ashley Cole.
Midfielders: Lungberg, Fabregas, Qin Xiong, Silva, Pire.
Forward: Henry.
Today's Arsenal is the strongest Arsenal in the lineup. This game may be the last challenge before the Champions League final. If we cannot win today, it may have a negative impact on their psychological state, because winning the championship in the last round rather than winning the championship in Highbury. It should be something unexpected.
Wigan Athletics today 442.
Goalkeeper: Polit.
Defenders: Zimbonda Dejeu, Henkutz, Barnes.
Midfielders: Teyal, Brad, Francis, Mahon.
Forward: Roberts, Kamala.”
Basically, no team dares to come to Highbury to form a double striker formation, but this is also a matter of situation.
Just like today, Wigan Athletics has two forwards, but their offense and defense system is actually an arrangement for 8 people to defend and 2 people to attack, which means that they did not allow midfielders to actively participate in the offense.
Wigan Athletics dragged the back line and midfield line from the opening to defend, compressing the space in the dangerous area and avoiding the penetration of Arsenal's direct pass through the defense line as much as possible.
But Arsenal's offense has not been too difficult to hinder.
In the second minute of the game, Qin Xiong got rid of Brad horizontally in front of the penalty area, then swayed skillfully in front of Frances, and then continued to pivot the ball horizontally out of the goal. He seemed to ignore the defense of Wigan Athletics and directly shot out a signature long shot!
The football flew towards the goal of Wigan Athletics with a strong rotation. Goalkeeper Polit was in a cold sweat. He predicted it from the beginning. It seemed that Qin Xiong's long shot was more like an S-shaped track!
Bang!
The football hit the crossbar and bounced back!
"Qin Xiong almost broke through the opponent's goal for Arsenal at the beginning! What a pity, his extremely wonderful long shot was turned away by the crossbar! Listen, there are already war songs praising Qin Xiong in the stands! Arsenal fans' recent love for Qin Xiong has simply risen. Qin Xiong, the newcomer king last season, has made a leap this season. Now I have to admit that he is already a superstar!"
Qin Xiong ran towards the center and backcourt without changing his face and began to defend.
The two midfielders of Wigan Athletics defended Qin Xiong, Brad and Francis looked at each other and felt helpless. It seemed that both of them sighed in their hearts in tacit understanding.
When Qin Xiong first came last season, everyone thought he was a rookie and would definitely not be able to adapt to the fierce confrontation of the Premier League, so they fell into lost in this modern football birthplace.
But when the second season came to the final stage, Qin Xiong not only had already adapted to the Premier League, but also became stronger here, and performed easily on the court, which even made many defensive players of Premier League teams feel frightened!
Can't defend!
Wigan Athletics played the traditional British long pass and did not consider the midfield line to advance to the frontcourt.
In the 6th minute of the game, Lungberg launched anti-aircraft guns from a long distance outside.
Three minutes later, Qin Xiong crossed the ball from the right side in front of the penalty area, and Pirey grabbed the arch and shot the goal difference.
In the 16th minute of the game, Henry responded to Qin Xiong's pass from the left side of the midfield and started a single-soldier raid.
The King of Hebry used the difference in the dribbling rhythm to change direction. Teyal and Zimbonda were successively accelerated by Henry to break through. However, when he turned into the middle penalty area, Henry's shooting space and angle became very small, and he put the ball back to the top of the penalty area.
Brad and Francis, who were closely guarding Qin Xiong, followed him like a shadow, but did not expect that Qin Xiong chose to miss the ball when the football rolled.
The two looked at Qin Xiong in shock and rushed into the penalty area without looking back, but the football rolled to the back.
When the two looked back, they saw Fabregas, who was running up from behind!
The Spanish genius directly shot the ball, and the football flew directly into the penalty area, but was blocked by defender Henkutz with his body.
Qin Xiong had just run forward because he knew that Fabregas would follow up in the back row for a long shot. He rushed into the penalty area to find a chance to attack the second time.
At this time, the football blocked by Henkutz happened to bounce in front of Qin Xiong. He subconsciously blocked the ball with his stomach, rushed past Henkutz while running forward, and directly formed a single-strike force!
Goalkeeper Polit abandoned the goal without any hesitation and rushed towards Qin Xiong. Qin Xiong shook his ankle, and he kicked the football in an understatement to the lower left corner of the goal!
When the football rolled into the goal, Qin Xiong was about to run to celebrate the goal, but he saw the referee running from behind and signaling that the goal was invalid!
And he called Qin Xiong for a foul in the penalty area.
"Qin Xiong's goal just now was blown off! Why did the referee foul the whistle sign a foul? Oh, he was referring to Qin Xiong's handball in the penalty area. When he smashed the ball forward from Henkutz, he was suspected of handball. However, we saw through slow motion replay, Qin Xiong's hand did not touch the football, which should be a misjudgment!"
Wenger put one hand on his hips on the sidelines and gestured with his other hand, protesting to the fourth official indignation.
Qin Xiong smiled and communicated with the referee.
He did not explode the powder barrel at all.
The situation just now was indeed a bit difficult to judge. After all, his hands were very close to the side of his belly when the football hit him, and his movements were very coherent, which inevitably made people feel like he was handballed.
After friendly negotiations with the referee, Qin Xiong regained his serious expression and walked towards the backcourt.
The Arsenal fans in the Highbury stands refused and began to boo the referee. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!