After the 34th round of the league, other Serie A teams received a week's rest, but Fiorentina and AC Milan had to play a more intense and cruel Champions League semi-final in three days.

In the semi-finals, two Serie A teams play against a La Liga team and a Premier League team. In the first leg, AC Milan plays at home and Fiorentina plays away.

The game between AC Milan and Barcelona is a match between giants. In history, the two teams have countless grudges and hatreds and have played many classic games, including the Champions League final in 1994 Milan defeated the popular Barcelona 4-0. Their match was a match between Mars and Earth.

By comparison, the game between Arsenal and Fiorentina is slightly inferior.

Milan and Barcelona won the championship together. A Milan dynasty was established during the Three Musketeers era. Barcelona also had the title of Dream Team in the Cruyff era. No one of them raised questions about them. However, although Arsenal is one of the Gl4, his wealthy family is not so convincing.

Arsenal's record in the Premier League is undoubtedly respectable. They have also created a brilliant history of unbeaten championships in the season, which is only a little worse than AC Milan's 54 unbeaten games. However, Arsenal is an internalist in the civil war and an amateur in the foreign war. In the Champions League, Arsenal has not won a championship yet. Even at the peak of their unbeaten championship, Arsenal has not been able to make any breakthrough in the Champions League.

Not to mention Fiorentina, they have only reached the Champions League final once in history and won only two championships in the league. Their foundation can only be considered a first-class team, and they must not be said to be a giant. From the past five years, Fiorentina after reconstruction is more like a rising grassroots.

If you can enter the semi-finals, have stars like Chen Yu, Tony, Henry, and Fabregas, if it weren't for the starry ones from Barcelona and AC Milan, the match between Arsenal and Fiorentina would definitely attract the attention of fans all over the world. Now, they can only become the background of the War of the Century.

Even though the outside media put the Gunners and Purple Lily in a secondary position, the importance of Fiorentina and Arsenal is unprecedented. Compared with the league, the difficulty of winning the Champions League is another level. If a team wants to win the championship, it must be a perfect combination of time, place, and people and the three. Now, both Fiorentina and Arsenal have come to a critical moment when they are only one step away from Paris. Whoever doesn't want to win the championship is a lie.

Fiorentina rotated in the league, and the main players only played half of the game to maintain their state. Even if they wanted to compete for a seat in the Champions League, Arsenal sent half of the main players and substitutes to the bench, and all their energy was focused on the home game against Fiorentina.

Arsenal valued it very much for home games. They have extremely sharp counterattacks and stable defense. If they can win Fiorentina at home, they will almost guarantee to reach the finals, because when they played against the stronger Juventus in the quarterfinals, Arsenal won 0 at home, played well in the away game, and gave Juventus almost no chance.

The 34th round of the Premier League just ended, and he defeated West Bromvic with a 3:1 win over Juventus, and Arsenal head coach Wenger spoke much harder.

"We are the favorites to enter the finals. Fiorentina is a big dark horse. The outside world sees this way. I believe there is a reason for them to see this way. Our defense line has zero conceded goals in the recent game, because we eliminated Juventus, because we have always been one of the four best teams in the Premier League, and after Fiorentina has rebuilt, the players and coaches have only been together for a year. Their core player Chen Yu is slightly weaker than Henry. They lack experience in the Champions League. However, we are not perfect. We have our own disadvantages. Our defensive line is now the real leader of the defensive line. Ebo, Sendros, Toure and Flamini, the average age of four young players is less than a year old, and the oldest Toure is only just old. The only thing I want to say is that our defense line is very young and has not changed so far because there is no one else.

A young defense means that the rest of the team has to help with the defense, because Fiorentina is well-handled and we have to play smarter, so we need a lot of experience. In the game against Real Madrid and Juventus, my players have been dealing with the pressure well, they are all children with personality. Of course we will need everyone, maybe on Wednesday night, old players like Borgkamp and Pire, I don't know yet, but I will make the right combination."

As long as you play against Fiorentina, Chen Yu is a topic that cannot be avoided, because Fiorentina is Chen Yu's team alone, and Wenger will certainly not mention Chen Yu.

Regarding this Chinese star who is late for a late age and has a rise of comparable speed to the Comet, Wenger said: "Chen Yu is like Henry, and is an all-round player. With Chen there, it will be difficult to keep people at the same time. He is the kind of player. He can do whatever he wants, pass, shoot and break. It is impossible to completely limit him, just like Fiorentina wants to completely limit Henry. Of course, we will not let Chen Yu leave the horse free on the court. We will put a bridle on the dark horse, let them run slower, and let him know where he can't go."

In the end, Wenger also reduced the pressure on his favorite player Henry. He said that this game was not a contest between Chen Yu and Henry, it was a style battle. "The pace of the Premier League is fast, Serie A is relatively slow, and likes defense and control, while La Liga is delicate. The three leagues have their own styles. If we want to defeat Fiorentina, we must play as we did in the game against Juventus, and we must fight tenaciously after conceding the ball, and we must rush to them and constantly hit them behind them. Of course, we must organize the defense well and then launch a counterattack as quickly as possible. We must do the same as in the league. Serie A does not have our playing style, and I believe we will make them very uncomfortable. They are not used to the other party keeps rushing to him, constantly hitting behind him, or the pace is very fast. What they are not used to is exactly what we want to do."

Wenger is very gentle and nicknamed as a professor. Everyone thinks that compared with other top coaches in the world, the poorest thing is the on-site command ability and the lethality of pre-game battle of words.

You should know that among the four giants in the Premier League, Manchester United coach Ferguson once scolded his opponent. Mourinho's battle of words will make his opponent furious and lose his mind. Although Benitez's ability to fight words is average, he has never been affected by his opponent's battle of words. Relatively speaking, Wenger's level of battle of words is a bit low.

However, before the battle with Fiorentina, Wenger's saliva was very important, and he hid his needles in the cotton. He not only flattered himself, suppressed his opponents, but also encouraged and encouraged his players.

Henry was under a lot of pressure before the game. As the king of Highbury, Henry was so popular in the Premier League, and almost no one could stop him. However, in the Champions League, he failed to achieve any good results. Henry performed well this season. He almost brought the Gunners to the semi-finals alone with a group of ghosts. His performance was unparalleled, but Arsenal's opponent Fiorentina has a player who performed better than Henry, that is Chen Yu.

Chen Yu and Henry are similar in age, but Chen Yu debuted much later. However, after Chen Yu debuted, he began to create miracles all the way. This season is Chen Yu's first Champions League season, but Chen Yu's performance even surpasses superstars like Henry and Ronaldo. The 13 goals in the Champions League also make it surpassed Van Nisstruy to become the player with the most goals in a single season, and this record is likely to continue to expand.

Which is stronger, Chen Yu or Henry? Who is the best forward? Who is the greater leader? This is a hot topic of discussion between the British and Italian media. Although the media is more optimistic about Arsenal's victory and promotion, few media think that Henry's performance will surpass Chen Yu.

Wednesday night is Hembley's last European match and the first semi-finals of the Champions League in Arsenal's history. Henry, who attended the press conference with Wenger, did not avoid the topic of comparison with Chen Yu. The Gunners said frankly: "I am a little similar to Chen Yu. We don't like to stay in the same position. We all like to be free in the frontcourt. We are all very fast, but we are not the same striker. Chen Yu's range of activities is larger than mine, and he can even do it.

To play midfielder. Fiorentina is Chen Yu's team alone. If you stare at Chen Yu, Fiorentina will basically be finished, but Arsenal is not our team alone. We are a group. Even if Fiorentina is staring at me, we still have Pire, Borgkamp, ​​Van Persie, Reyes, and Lyonberg. We have many world-class and top-notch players. They are our guarantee for our advancement to the finals. Football is a collective sport, and this will always be correct."

Henry said it very skillfully, avoiding who is stronger than Chen Yu, and talking about who is stronger than Arsenal or Fiorentina. However, the British media hyped that Henry was afraid of Chen Yu, because looking at the Champions League this season, if both teams stopped in the semi-finals, it was obvious that Chen Yu's performance was stronger than Henry. However, the Italian media said that Henry looked down on Chen Yu and believed that Chen Yu was not a team player.
Chapter completed!