My uncle is Inzaghi
Chapter 183 Battle for the Championship
"Li Mo's long-range shot won the applause of the San Siro fans. Of course, this has little to do with the excitement of his goals. His goals also completely made AC Milan in the two rounds of the knockout rounds. Ninety-nine percent of the hope has been lost. If AC Milan wants to advance, they can only hope for a miracle."
After the game, some media concluded this.
At the end of the game, the fans at San Siro Stadium were almost gone.
The game after Li Mo scored Arsenal's third goal of the game can be described as "lackluster".
The morale of AC Milan's players has completely collapsed.
Arsenal did not continue to press forward and attack aggressively, but instead defended their own half.
Three to zero, three away goals.
That was enough for Arsenal to secure promotion.
"Arsenal has secured a place in the quarter-finals!!"
The "Daily Mail" published the next day used this headline on its front page.
Although there is still a second leg to play, no one thinks Milan can complete the comeback on the road.
The most famous comeback in the knockout stages of the Champions League is also related to AC Milan.
That was in the 2003-2004 season, AC Milan's peak period.
At that time, AC Milan was definitely one of the strongest teams in Europe, and it was not far behind the current Royal Saren.
In the Champions League quarter-finals that season.
AC Milan and Deportivo meet.
In terms of strength, Deportivo is definitely not Milan's opponent. In the first round, Milan defeated Depor 4-1 at San Siro. Rossoneri coach Carlo Ancelotti is determined to advance. Milan's defense is very good, and the outside world does not think that Deportivo can reverse it. However, Depor players pushed Milan into the abyss under the cheers of the home fans. In the first half, Deportivo equalized the total score. In the second half, Forlan, who came on as a substitute, once again broke through the gate guarded by Dida with a powerful volley. In the end, Depor defeated Milan 4-0 in the second round. The total score was 5-4 to advance.
This is football, you never know what the outcome will be until the last moment.
Therefore, even though AC Milan lost 0-3 at home, you can never say that they will definitely be eliminated.
Therefore, Arsenal, who returned to London, seemed very low-key. When being interviewed, both Wenger and Arsenal players seemed a bit conservative - even though the outside world said that they had advanced to the quarterfinals.
But the players are emphasizing that there is still a second round of the game.
Wenger told his players too.
Don't take it lightly in the second round. The opponent is AC Milan. If such a team's fierce counterattack is not taken seriously, Arsenal will pay the price.
The media was excited, but the Arsenal team was relatively calm.
Since there was a game on the weekend, Wenger only gave the team half a day off.
When they regrouped, the coach's first words were: "Forget yesterday's victory, let's start over."
Because their opponent in the next game is Liverpool.
This is definitely a focus battle in the Premier League.
Moreover, there are quite a few focus battles in this round of the league: Arsenal challenges Liverpool away from home, Chelsea faces Tottenham at home, and there is also a Manchester City derby.
Arsenal VS Liverpool and Chelsea VS Tottenham started at the same time. The Manchester Derby was postponed by one day and will be played on Saturday.
Because they had just experienced a match with AC Milan and had a battle with Manchester United before that, the Arsenal team was exhausted. This time it was an away game. Wenger thought about it.
Even though the game against Liverpool was a head-to-head showdown between title contenders, he decided to rotate some players.
Wenger asked Li Mo if he wanted to rest.
Li Mo answered simply: "I don't need to rest, Dad. I can participate in the game all the time!"
Wenger smiled: "You are not a robot. Okay, I will take you there, but I may replace you at any time."
For Wenger.
Believe in the team's top scorer and fully trust Li Mo.
This is the safest way for Arsenal to win the title.
Now that Li Mo can play, Cazorla and Arteta can rest without rotating Li Mo. Even Sanchez and Wenger plan to put him on the bench.
These are very key players for the team.
Even if the game against Liverpool is important, Wenger does not dare to risk using them.
After all, the recent schedule is too intensive.
One game in three days, or even less than three days.
Either it's Manchester United, it's AC Milan, and it's Liverpool soon. ,
Who can bear this?
Therefore, rotation is a must and players are not robots.
And in this case.
Wenger chose to trust Li Mo more.
Give him more tactical responsibility.
If Cazorla and Sanchez don't play, Wilshere can play as a left midfielder, and Kaka can play as an attacking midfielder. Kaka is a stronger threat to the goal than Cazorla, but he is not a pure offensive organizer. .
therefore.
Li Mo needs to retreat more and participate in the team's frontcourt offensive organization passing.
This is for Li Mo to share part of Cazorla's tasks - with his football intelligence, he can also do this.
February 22, the twenty-seventh round of the Premier League.
Arsenal challenges Liverpool away from home, and Chelsea plays Tottenham Hotspur at home. This game starts at the same time.
Arsenal, Liverpool, and Chelsea all need to compete for the championship, and Tottenham also have ambitions. They must at least keep fifth place and wait for four. As long as any of the four teams competing for the championship falls behind, they will have the opportunity to substitute. Go up and get a Champions League qualification.
Therefore, these teams have reasons to win.
Liverpool scored 61 points after 26 league rounds, only three points behind Arsenal, ranking third in the league.
And their offensive firepower is super strong.
The total number of goals scored by Suarez, Sterling, and Sturridge in the league reached 45, second only to the total number of goals scored by Arsenal's Sanchez, Li Mo, and Walcott trident.
However, considering that Li Mo alone has scored 34 league goals, Liverpool's offensive trident is still very strong in offensive firepower, especially their midfielders and defenders also often score goals, and their offensive firepower is relatively high. Arsenal are spread out, their goal total and goal difference are even higher than Arsenal's.
This means.
If Liverpool wins and Chelsea, currently ranked second, cannot defeat Tottenham, they can climb from third to first!
It is precisely because of this.
The excitement at Anfield today is astonishing. ,
"Do they think this is a Premier League final?"
Wilshere stood next to Li Mo and complained.
; "They are just too hungry for the Premier League title."
Li Mo pouted.
After all, one of the biggest clubs in England has not won the top league championship for more than 20 consecutive years, which is indeed a torture for their fans.
Now Liverpool has a chance to climb to the top of the list, and Liverpool fans are as enthusiastic as if they can win the championship as long as they defeat Arsenal.
in this warm atmosphere.
The game begins.
The commentators here have just finished introducing Arsenal's new coach Wenger.
Wenger had just finished shaking hands with Liverpool head coach Lidgers and sat back on the coaching bench.
His assistant coach told him helplessly: "Chelsea scored!"
"So fast?!"
Wenger was stunned.
"Yes, it was Hazard who scored the goal. The Belgian is in great shape entering the second half!"
Wenger's assistant coach Bald said with some gritted teeth.
Hazard has really broken out this season.
At his current position, he is the second player besides Li Mo to have both goals and assists in double figures: In the Premier League, Hazard has scored 13 goals and also had 10 assists!
With his performance this season, Hazard has become another superstar worth close to 100 million in the German transfer market.
"What the hell." Wenger muttered.
But at this moment.
Something happened that made Wenger's head buzz.
Liverpool, playing at home, got a free kick at the edge of the penalty area at the beginning.
Brazilian midfielder Coutinho took the penalty.
The free kick bypasses the wall and goes straight to the blind spot!
"Coutinho!!!"
The commentator roared in a long voice.
Anfield was abuzz.
"What the hell!"
Wenger couldn't help but curse.
It's been a long time since he felt the pressure of competing for a championship.
As a veteran coach, he also believes that his psychological quality is good enough.
But here comes the moment.
Even a head coach with a lot of life experience like Wenger feels great pressure.
Four teams compete for the championship at the same time!
Even Wenger has never experienced such a scene.
Arsenal's state is indeed not good.
After all, three days ago, they were in Italy.
And what about Liverpool?
They have no European war missions, they are just waiting for work!
One can imagine the pressure Arsenal encountered at Anfield.
Fortunately, Arsenal's players have experienced and practiced it after a series of hard battles.
While ensuring a solid defense, they also launched an attack on Liverpool's goal.
But facing Liverpool's defense, they failed to create many good opportunities.
At the end of the first half, Arsenal failed to break through Liverpool's goal.
The two sides entered the halftime break with a score of one to zero.
And the other side.
The score was also one to zero.
It's just Chelsea who are leading the way.
At halftime, Mourinho seemed a little unbelievable when he learned from his assistant Hall that Arsenal were one goal behind: "Are they really behind?!"
"Yes! There seems to be something wrong with their offense."
Hall also took the time to watch Arsenal's game before.
Mourinho grinned: "Great, now we can play the second half with peace of mind."
It would be great to overtake Arsenal in the standings.
The fifteen minutes of halftime passed quickly.
The two sides changed sides and fought again.
Arsenal launched a fierce attack on Liverpool's goal, hoping to equalize the score as soon as possible.
But what no one expected was that
Not long after the second half started, it was the same situation as the first half.
Liverpool got off to a fantastic start again.
They launched a quick counterattack, and it was full-back Glen Johnson who finally put the ball into the goal.
He received an inverted triangle pass from his teammate at the front of the penalty area and directly volleyed the ball into the goal.
Two to zero!
Liverpool takes a two-goal lead at home!
"Ahhh! Johnson!! This goal may be a turning point in the entire Premier League championship!"
"Arsenal is so unlucky. They conceded another goal just at the beginning of the second half. They are already two goals behind. The impact of the Champions League game on Arsenal is still too great."
The television broadcast gave close-up shots of several Arsenal players.
Under the close-up shots, most of the Arsenal players were a little dazed, obviously unable to believe that they were actually two goals behind against Liverpool.
At this time, the real-time score was played on the TV screen.
Chelsea leads Tottenham 1-0 at home.
Arsenal trailed Liverpool 2-0 away from home.
If it ends with this score.
Arsenal remained at the top of the table for most of the season and were about to be overtaken by Chelsea.
"They're two behind!!!"
Hall told Mourinho the great news with an excited face.
Mourinho couldn't help laughing after hearing this.
He couldn't help but look forward to this season.
If Arsenal falls apart at a critical moment in the title race.
Then Chelsea really has a chance to win the championship!
Because after entering the second half of the league, Chelsea's main framework has basically taken shape.
Mourinho basically put the team together, and in the second half of the season, Chelsea's performance was stable.
Chelsea now has a strong main frame and a solid substitute lineup. Now facing the strong Tottenham at home, it also has a great advantage.
Mourinho is confident that once Chelsea completes the lead in the standings.
He won't give Arsenal any chance!
"We're going to do something!"
Assistant coach Bald looked solemn.
"Yes, yes, I know, I know"
Wenger whispered.
He forced himself to calm down.
After calming down, he still analyzed many problems.
The team's current offensive organization is not smooth because the team is too tired.
Continuing to organize complex offenses and asking players to increase their running is tantamount to forcing others to do something difficult.
That being the case
Then we can only put all the treasure on Li Mo!
Wenger thought of Li Mo's deterrent effect in the penalty area many times, his grabbing points, his headers, and his accurate judgment of weaknesses.
Taking advantage of a dead ball opportunity, he called Li Mo over.
"Press into the penalty area and let the wingers step up the crosses. Let's make it simpler! Let Kaka also press forward to attract firepower for you!"
"Understood!"
Li Mo nodded repeatedly.
He also knows that his teammates are not in good condition right now.
And now that we are two goals behind, everyone's morale is low. In order to reduce mistakes, it is easier to pass the ball directly into the penalty area.
After making adjustments, Arsenal quickly completed a very successful attack.
After Li Mo got the ball at the front of the penalty area, he passed the ball back to Xhaka, then he pulled it to the side, turned around, and Xhaka's pass just reached his feet.
At this time, Li Mo was already facing the goal. Facing Xhaka's pass, he simply took a long shot!
boom!
The next second.
The football had already hit the net.
“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!”.
"Arsenal pulled one back! Now they are only one goal behind! There is still hope! There is still hope! The game has only started fifty minutes, and Arsenal still has hope!"
The Anfield stadium was quiet for a second because of Li Mo's sudden shot.
But the next moment.
There were even louder boos.
This is Anfield.
"Arsenal pulled a goal back and it was the scorer"
"It's Li." Mourinho shook his head before his assistant finished speaking.
Hall nodded.
Mourinho looked towards the pitch.
Although there was some regret in his heart, he still said calmly: "It doesn't matter, we just need to focus on our game, and we can't care about other people's affairs."
Mourinho looked calm, as if he really didn't care about Arsenal's game.
In fact, he still cares about it in his heart.
After all, this is a game related to whether Chelsea can overtake Arsenal and reach the top.
If Arsenal loses and Chelsea wins, Chelsea can overtake Arsenal by 1 point.
He really, really wants Arsenal to lose.
But Li Mo helped Arsenal regain a victory so quickly.
There are still forty minutes left in the game.
This is really too long.
Mourinho can't wait for the two referees to announce that these two games are over now
Stop kicking.
Lao Mu had some bad premonitions in his heart.
The boos at Anfield never stopped.
Because after the game resumes.
Liverpool tried to attack, but the ball was quickly won back.
Then Arsenal immediately launched an attack!
They abandoned their previous offensive routine.
He chose a very simple, very direct and very rough attack method.
Take the side road! !
"Wilshere...long pass!! Beautiful! Beautiful stop by Walcott!!"
The commentators in the commentary box shouted.
‘Walcott broke through along the sideline and made a cross! ’
All eyes are firmly fixed on football.
Following the flight of the football, everyone's eyes came to the center and to Liverpool's small penalty area!
"plum!!!"
In the narrator's elongated roar.
Li Mo once again became the highest jumper.
Liverpool's defenders are completely incompetent in front of his height.
"God, he was taking off vertically."
In the media gallery, many reporters couldn't help but sigh when they saw this scene.
At this time, Li Mo was invincible.
Liverpool goalkeeper Mignolet raised his hands and rushed over, but was unable to block Li Mo's header.
Before he could throw the ball away, Li Mo shook his head and hit the goal.
But when the football flies into the goal.
Mignolet's hand rushed over and hit Li Mo on the head.
But by this time it was too late.
"The ball went in?!"
Many commentators were a little surprised.
But they reacted quickly.
"Arsenal equalizes the score!! Two to two!!"
After scoring the goal, Li Mo pushed away the goalkeeper Mignolet who was leaning on him, clenched his fists, and screamed to the sky!
The crazy stadium at Anfield seemed to be frightened by the crazy Li Mo at this moment.
The Arsenal fans who came to the away game finally let out their own cheers.
"Incredible! Ahhh! Two minutes! In less than two minutes, Arsenal equalized the score. Li Mo scored two goals in two minutes! It only took them two minutes to go from two goals behind to equalize the score! Amazing!"
"Liverpool's players were a little confused. They encountered black for two minutes. They were leading by two goals two minutes ago, and they were equalized two minutes later."
"Poor Liverpool fans, they were celebrating their victory two minutes ago, and now they have no choice but to accept the equalization."
"Azar!!!"
There was jubilation at Stamford Bridge.
The cheers of more than 70,000 fans shook the entire stadium.
In the cheers of the mountains and the tsunami.
Azar was running with his arms stretched out.
He is celebrating his goal.
Before five minutes.
Tottenham center back Vertonghen was sent off with a red card.
Tottenham, with one less player to play, completely lost their ability to resist at Stamford Bridge.
Five minutes after they got the red card.
Hazard cut in from the left and volleyed the ball into the goal from the penalty area.
This goal came so naturally.
Chelsea leads Tottenham 2-0 at home and is about to win this crucial London derby.
Chelsea players are celebrating on the field.
Mourinho also celebrated wildly on the sidelines.
When he returned to the coaching bench, the excitement on his face had not faded.
And his assistant Hall was hesitant to speak.
"What's wrong?"
Mourinho noticed something strange about his assistant.
"Um. Jose, do you really not pay attention to what's going on over there?"
"how?"
Mourinho was stunned.
"Arsenal equalized and it was Lee who scored the goal."
The smile on Mourinho's face froze.
He stared at his assistant coach and confirmed: "I remember you told me that they scored one just two minutes ago?"
"That's right, Li scored two goals in two minutes." Hall was helpless.
"damn it!"
Mourinho simply didn't know what he should say.
"This kid is a monster!"
Mourinho muttered.
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