Chapter 302 Advance to the Champions League finals
After winning Fulham 2-0, Arsenal won both league games, with six points in the league. Because of five goals and none of them conceded, they temporarily ranked first in the standings.
This is not a rare thing for Arsenal. In recent years, Arsenal has often opened high and closed low, and often fell behind since the middle of the league and never climbed up again in the later stages.
Therefore, although the team's current situation is gratifying, no one on the team is too excited and excited.
The next game is the second leg of the UEFA Champions League qualifiers, which will be held four days later, so the opponent will naturally still be Fenerbahce.
Since Arsenal scored 3-0 away in the first leg and had a huge advantage, Wenger naturally had confidence in this second game.
He adopted a rotation system, rotated some of the main players and restored their state, and arranged some of the substitutes to start, which not only trained the team but also cultivated the tacit understanding between the team members.
Of course, what is cultivated is the tacit understanding between the team members and Zhang Xu. As for Zhang Xu, he does not need to be trained at all, because he has been cooperating with his teammates in the virtual training mode for more than two years, and there is no cooperation problem at all.
At this time, Wenger had to sigh at Zhang Xu's perverted physical fitness. He played for six consecutive games, and Zhang Xu's fatigue was not revealed at all. After the club's sports medicine expert conducted a physical examination on Zhang Xu, he came to a conclusion that made Wenger stunned: This kid's body is so strong that he doesn't look like a person, but a star monster! Physical ability? Are you kidding? When have you ever seen the star monster lacking physical fitness? Just tossing him for two more seasons, I guess he will still be alive!
After Wenger was stunned, he immediately felt ecstatic!
This made him not excited. What does a team core like a perpetual motion machine mean? It means that the team will never lack a strong heart! It will never be missing!
In this way, the team will maintain a relatively stable state without the chaos of frequent formation changes and constant tactic adjustments.
This is particularly important for Arsenal, because its stable formation and tactics can allow Arsenal to successfully pass the most difficult mid- and late stages of the league, laying a solid foundation for winning the league championship.
Of course, there are other championships, and Arsenal will actively participate in the competition. They will no longer have to give up some events because the team's bench depth is insufficient and the team members are exhausted in physical fitness.
Now, the first thing Arsenal needs to strive for is to successfully enter the finals of the European Champions League!
At 7:45 pm on August 27, 2013, the second leg of Arsenal against Fenerbahce officially began.
From the first minute of the game, Zhang Xu led the team to launch a fierce attack on Fenerbahce!
Why do this? Zhang Xu has his own considerations.
By establishing the advantage of the score as soon as possible, the team can calmly switch players and take turns to the court. Whether it is to restore its state or save its physical strength, Wenger can choose calmly.
He is no longer an ordinary player. He is already the new captain of Arsenal. What needs to be considered not only how to lead the team to win the game, but also many issues that are not related to the game.
And now, he just wants to make the team stronger!
Under the leadership of Zhang Xu, Arsenal's offensive was very rapid. In the five minutes of the game, three threatening shots were formed. If the opponent's goalkeeper had not performed his bravely today, the score would have been rewritten long ago.
However, no matter how brave the opponent's goalkeeper performs, it will not change the situation where the team is completely at a disadvantage.
In the seventh minute of the game, after Zhang Xu got the football near the center line, he immediately ran forward.
Seeing Zhang Xu breaking through, Fenerbahce immediately arranged three players to attack from the front and back. They had a thorough understanding of Zhang Xu. This guy who could help the team defeat him at his hell-level home court was not allowed to be careless.
Facing the opponent's desperate beating, Zhang Xu was not panicked. He had rich experience in this, so he poked the ball directly with his toes to Casorla's feet on the right, and he completely exploded his speed of 99 points, directly over the opponent's two players and arrived at the next receiving position.
The football naturally came over at the right time.
Now, Zhang Xu has established a certain WeChat message in Arsenal, and most players basically obey Zhang Xuyan.
This situation occurred not because Zhang Xu served as the captain of the team, but because Zhang Xu showed unparalleled midfield organization skills in the previous few games, and also had strong defensive and offensive abilities!
Such an all-round captain and core, such a teammate who can always bring victory to the team, even if the opponent is only 22 years old, his teammates still give Zhang Xu a high degree of trust.
After Zhang Xu got the football, he did not continue to drive the ball as Fenerbahce players and coaches imagined, but instead gave the football directly to the lighthouse Podolski in front.
The pass was very accurate. The football just passed over the top of Fenerbahce's central defender's jumping up, and then it hit Podolski's head comfortably!
Podolsky didn't even have to jump, but just stretched his head forward, and the football hit his forehead and then bounced back to the goal.
Fenerbahce's goalkeeper finally did not perform magic again this time. The football hit the goal line and then bounced and flew into the goal!
1:0!
Although he led by one goal, Zhang Xu was not satisfied. In his opinion, this was not a very safe score, even if the total score had reached 4:0.
Another goal is needed! Zhang Xu said to himself silently.
So, he took advantage of the opportunity when the opponent's morale fell and launched another lightning-fast attack.
Fenerbahce's forward had just driven the ball out and passed it back to the front midfielder behind.
Fenerbahce's front midfielder lazily took the ball and turned around, preparing to continue passing the football back to the team's back midfielder, but at this time he heard his teammates' loud reminder: "Oh, my God!"
"Damn, when did he come? Be careful!"
"Damn it, be careful behind you! Be careful of the Chinese behind you!"
Just as Fenerbahce was screaming in anger, the front midfielder immediately felt a powerful force coming from his feet, and directly poked the football under his feet. Then a gust of wind blew, and a red figure passed by him, piercing straight into the rear of the team like lightning.
This figure is naturally our Zhang Xu. He directly raised his speed to the highest level as soon as the opponent kicked off the ball.
When the football rolled to Fenerbahce's front midfielder, he had already crossed the center line and rushed towards Fenerbahce's front midfielder who was holding the ball.
As a result, the other party really noticed Zhang Xu's movements. Just as he turned lazily, Zhang Xu had approached his body less than three meters away.
Just when his teammates reminded him, Zhang Xu directly stretched out his right foot, poked the back of the football with his toes, and then quickly chased him for two steps, and directly controlled the football.
Other Fenerbahce players, especially those in the midfield and backcourt, were shocked when they saw Zhang Xu breaking the football from his teammates so easily. Two players immediately rushed towards Zhang Xu, and other defenders also compressed their formations to prevent Zhang Xu from breaking them one by one.
Zhang Xu pushed the ball with his right foot and passed the football past the two players who rushed over, then directly activated the "fast horse whip" skill, and passed the two Fenerbahce players like a ghost and caught up with the football.
At this time, he had reached a distance of less than forty yards from the goal! It can be regarded as Zhang Xu's long-range shooting range.
However, it was the first time Zhang Xu shot at this distance. He was really not sure, but so what if he was not sure? Long shots were never sure! Moreover, he really had no teammates to choose to pass and play, because now, the teammates closest to him are all about five meters behind Zhang Xu.
So, without any hesitation, he swung his thick thighs directly, and slapped hard on the back of the football in the eyes of countless fans!
With a loud "bang!", the football flew directly to the upper right corner of the goal like a shell that was out of the borehole!
Fenerbahce's goalkeeper still has great experience in saving for such long shots. He moved two steps to the right side of the goal, then jumped up quickly, stretched out his arms and rushed towards the flying football.
He has enough confidence to get to the football!
But what he didn't expect was that Zhang Xu's shooting would be so powerful!
The football was indeed pounced by him, but it did not change the trajectory of the football's flight. The football changed its direction a little, and still plunged head to the upper right corner of the goal! The ball net made waves!
The ball went in! 2:0!
Zhang Xu himself was also very satisfied with this goal. He waved his fists and waved them twice in the air!
The Arsenal fans at the scene were even more excited. They screamed and shouted in the stands to express their inner excitement and excitement.
Even Wenger felt a little stupid. He could not have thought that Zhang Xu's long shot was so amazing!
However, he was more excited and proud, proud that he could recognize the pearl with keen eyes and snatch Zhang Xu to the Emirates Stadium first!
After 2-0, the game lost its suspense.
Wenger began to switch personnel in a planned manner and take turns to play.
In the last game, Arsenal scored another three-to-zero, and the next goal was scored by Podolski assisted Walcott.
Chapter completed!