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Chapter 379 The second stage of the Champions League
The novel tactics of the Arsenal team have attracted the attention of British football professionals. At the same time, their wonderful cooperation in the game has also refreshed the audience of the Premier League. The cooperation made the British audience feel the charm of technical football.

But these have nothing to do with the Arsenal players, they have to prepare for the second stage of the Champions League immediately after the match against Middlesbrough.

In the first stage of the group stage, Arsenal's draw was obviously unlucky. They were assigned to the top group in the first stage of the group stage. Fiorentina and Barcelona were not easy opponents, and Solna also had Geographical advantages, the severe cold weather will make many teams uncomfortable, but the Arsenal team played well in the first stage of the game, beating "Jade City" away, and then beating Barcelona at the Nou Camp, It can be said that other European teams are impressed.

Although Liu Han's departure later caused Arsenal to encounter some dangers in the next game, but in the end they survived the danger and advanced to the top [-] of the Champions League with the second place in Group E.

After the restructuring of the UEFA Champions League, in order to enhance the popularity of the UEFA Champions League in Europe, UEFA specially set up a second round of group matches. The teams that entered the top [-] were divided into four groups again for home and away double-round matches. To decide the quarter-finals, this kind of competition system can be said to benefit the small clubs to a certain extent, but for the big clubs, this means that they will play four more Champions League games, which is for many third-tier or even fourth-tier players. What the team means to fight is self-evident.

Arsenal's luck in the second stage of the draw has improved. They were assigned to Group A. The opponents in the same group are Porto in the Portuguese League, Valencia in La Liga and Bordeaux in Ligue [-]. It can be said that it is a relatively good group. Only Valencia is outstanding in the group. As for Porto and Bordeaux, Portugal and Ligue [-] have not been the mainstream leagues in Europe.

Arsenal's first opponent will be the Porto team in the Portuguese League. Although the overlord of the Portuguese League is quite famous among South American players, it is aimed at the less famous South American stars. Generally, the famous South American stars are Directly log into the five major leagues, and the South American players in the Porto team are mainly Brazilian players who also speak Portuguese.

Arsenal, who ended the game with Middlesbrough, played at home against Porto three days later. Their home game was still arranged at Wembley Stadium in London. The reason was that the auditorium at Highbury was too close to the stadium. No, it does not meet UEFA safety requirements.

For the Arsenal team, which was once far away from the European arena, Porto is a new opponent. They have hardly played against Portuguese teams before, but fortunately, now that the information is abundant, Wenger was able to find the recent Porto game video.

Wenger can see Porto's style from the game video, consistent technical football style, the lineup mainly composed of Brazilian and Portuguese players is full of romantic attention, but at the same time it also means that their tactical execution ability is not outstanding. More depends on the outstanding personal ability of the players.

For such a team, maybe Wenger in the past would have been worried, he was afraid that his old defense line would be shattered by the opponent, but now Wenger is not worried at all, with Liu Han , Wenger can completely block the Porto team in the midfield, plus Vieira, two strong men who can't run will make Porto's frontcourt attack collapse.

And Arsenal's opponent Porto is also studying its own opponents. For Porto's young coach Antonio Oliveira, Arsenal is not an easy opponent to deal with, especially Liu Han, the tall oriental in the game. The strength shown made Antonio quite worried. His team's defense line dominated by Brazilian players is estimated to be difficult to stop the super center striker's attack. It seems that he has to fight against the opponent.

Unfortunately for Antonio, the video he studied on Arsenal was the video of their Champions League game. He didn't even know that Liu Han had already changed his position.

Wembley Stadium, with the whistle of the referee, the second stage of the UEFA Champions League group stage in the 99-00 season officially started.

The Porto team launched a fierce attack on the Arsenal team from the very beginning, but their attack was smashed by Liu Han and Vieira's midfielder like waves rushing towards the sea cliff.

Porto coach Antonio did not expect that Arsenal would let Liu Han play the midfielder in this game, and the 352 formation also made Porto's previous arrangements useless.

Because the strikers are mainly dexterous types, Porto's offensive arrangement in this game is mainly based on penetration in the middle. Unexpectedly, the Arsenal team seemed to know Porto's arrangement and penetrated the opponent's center. Total restraint.

After returning to the midfielder position, Liu Han spared no effort to run to block Porto's attack, while Vieira sat in the middle and filled in for Liu Han. The two cooperated tacitly, which made Porto's attack fail repeatedly.

Under such circumstances, Arsenal’s usual quick offensive and defensive transitions played out. Their counterattacks were simple and efficient. Like an orthodox center forward.

At the 10rd and [-]th minute of the first half, Liu Han steals the ball from the backcourt and makes a long pass directly. Henry in the frontcourt leans on the Portuguese defender to stabilize the ball, and then suddenly sends the ball to Borg with a clever heel pass. Kemp, the latter did not stop the ball on the penalty area line and scored with a low shot. Arsenal got off to a good start.

The first half ended with Arsenal leading.

Entering the second half, Porto continued to strengthen their offense, but they were attacked by Arsenal at the beginning of the second half.

Liu Han headed straight to the front at the beginning of the second half. After Ljungberg made a cross from the wing, Liu Han overpowered the opponent's three defenders and scored with a header, making the score [-]-[-].

In the next game, Wenger dispatched troops, Arsenal's formation changed to 442, Liu Han retreated to the midfield, Henry was replaced, and Su Ke was replaced. Arsenal slowed down and played against Porto. Control the ball.

Facing the increasingly seasoned Wenger, Antonio still seemed immature. Not only was his tactical play guessed by Wenger, but he was also restrained by the tactics arranged by Wenger throughout the game.

In the end, the first match of Group A of the second stage of the Champions League group stage ended with Arsenal's victory.

In another match in Group A on the same day, Valencia beat Bordeaux 3-[-] at home. The French made good red wine, but the football league was much worse.

There were also two games in Group B that day. Manchester United was once again in a group with Barcelona after being in a group with Barcelona last season. Manchester United beat Rotterdam 4-[-] away and Barcelona drew with Hertha Berlin away.

(End of this chapter)