When Qin Xiong stood in the imposing passage of the Emirates Stadium, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but raise a smile.

He remembered the question that reporters bombarded him before the game: what would it be like to face Arsenal?

His answer was: it's just an ordinary game.

But in reality?

His mood was a little complicated.

He doesn't want Arsenal to take a sharp turn after a glorious era like Ajax.

At least Arsenal's performance as Premier League leaders this season has been impressive, a far cry from last season's struggles and on the brink of falling apart.

Qin Xiong stepped forward, beside him, Arsenal's starting generals had already lined up and stood up, Qin Xiong did not turn his head to look, but always kept smiling.

Arsenal players, regardless of whether they have played alongside Qin Xiong in the past or not, will cast their eyes on Qin Xiong's back when they see him walking by.

That's a special part of Arsenal's success as the king of Europe!

To this day, there are still Arsenal fans who say that the club made a huge mistake back then and should not let Qin Xiong go!

Time cannot be turned back, life goes on.

Qin Xiong can never go back to Highbury, and Arsenal has stepped into the era of the Emirates Stadium, which allows him to be less sad when facing Arsenal, and more naturally go to the battlefield that he has defended and squandered in the past.

Henry and Raul stood side by side at the top of the two teams, Henry glanced back at Qin Xiong, and Fabregas behind him held his head high and didn't look at Qin Xiong at all.

Fabregas, who has played well this season and officially became the core of Arsenal's midfield, has a close relationship with Qin Xiong, but when the two are already opponents and want to face each other directly, he is stubborn, and what he wants is not to complain about why Qin Xiong left back then, but to let Qin Xiong see an Arsenal that is not inferior to before!

Now the backbone of Arsenal. He and Henry joined forces to hold it up!

Under the leadership of the referee team, the starters of Real Madrid and Arsenal walked into the Emirates Stadium together.

Qin Xiong once again felt the familiar cheering atmosphere of the Premier League, crazy and persistent!

"The first leg of the 2007-2008 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals will be played at the Emirates Stadium, with Arsenal hosting Real Madrid, a key battle between the Premier League leaders and La Liga leaders, who were champions of the Champions League last season. Real Madrid are the most attacking team in Europe this season, and Arsenal are trying to take beautiful football to the top under Arsene Wenger's tutelage!

Let's wait and see what this game is, it won't be a conservative contest.

Let's introduce the starting line-ups of both sides.

Arsenal started 442.

Goalkeeper: Almunia.

Defenders: Toure, Senderos, Gallas, Klich.

Midfielders: Eboue, Cesc Fabregas. Flamini, Hleb.

Forwards: Thierry Henry, Bam Adebayo.

Real Madrid started 442.

Goalkeeper: Casillas.

Defenders: Ramos, Cannavaro, Pepe, Heinze.

Midfielders: Arjen, Diarra, Guti. Ned.

Forwards: Qin Xiong, Raul.

All right. The game is about to start and Real Madrid will kick off first. ”

When the referee blew the whistle, Raul touched the ball lightly, and Qin Xiong directly started the ball forward from the side!

Perhaps the change of the game from static to dynamic was too drastic, and no one thought that Qin Xiong would go directly to the ball, which made the Arsenal generals feel unprepared.

When Adebayo also rushed towards Qin Xiong. Qin Xiong flicked the ball to the right, Henry and Adebayo were about to form a defensive situation, and Qin Xiong knocked the ball behind him with his right foot without looking back.

The football that rolled behind him was kicked out by Raul, and the football rolled between Adebayo and Henry, and returned to the feet of Qin Xiong, who was rushing forward.

Qin Xiong quickly dribbled the football to the danger zone forty yards away from the goal.

Arjen Robben rushes forward on the wing. This made Hleb dare not rush to help the middle.

Flamini was just about to come to defend Qin Xiong head-on, but he saw Qin Xiong making a gesture and was about to shoot from a distance!

Flamini subconsciously wanted to raise his leg to block Qin Xiong's long-range shot, because he knew Qin Xiong's strength in his heart, and he had fought side by side in the past, for fear that Qin Xiong's sudden kick would really defeat Almunia!

However, Qin Xiong's right foot fell from behind him, and at the same time, he completed the change of direction and broke through to the left side of Flamini's body.

Cesc Fabregas also had to follow up to intercept, Qin Xiong repeated his old trick, this time with his left foot to hit the goal!

In order to prevent Qin Xiong from changing the direction of the ball diagonally, Fabregas decisively expanded the defensive area, and directly put the shovel to block Qin Xiong's shooting line with his body, even if Qin Xiong did not shoot and chose to change the direction of the oblique dunk, his sliding inertia will also allow him to follow closely to complete the destruction of the ball at Qin Xiong's feet.

But he didn't expect that Qin Xiong's left foot didn't touch the ball at all, and in an instantaneous reaction, Qin Xiong chose to continue to dribble forward along the trajectory of the football.

Cesc Fabregas misses the tackle!

Eboue rushed over from the side to help defend the middle, and Qin Xiong waited for Fabregas to pass before choosing to dunk the ball diagonally back to the middle, passing his right foot, and at the same time resisting Eboue's pressing with his body.

In the more than a year since leaving Arsenal, Qin Xiong's confrontation ability has continued to grow.

Maybe Real Madrid doesn't pay attention to strength training for physical confrontation, at least the club itself doesn't want the players to be muscular power factions, but Qin Xiong will still add strength training under the arrangement of a personal trainer.

Now after resisting Eboue, he burst out with acceleration and dribbled the ball to the right front, and Eboue's pressing also failed.

Arsenal fans in the stands looked nervous.

That crazy Qin Xiong is back!

Unfortunately, he is back as an opponent, in other words, he is an enemy of Arsenal!

And he is now wreaking havoc on Arsenal's defence!

Since there were no teammates in front of him, Qin Xiong became the target of the encirclement and suppression of the Arsenal back line.

Qin Xiong, who was about to come to the front of the penalty area, knew that he could not continue to dribble, otherwise he would miss the opportunity to shoot.

In the right position outside the penalty area twenty yards away from the goal, Qin Xiong decisively chose to shoot from a distance this time!

The ball flew from under his feet like a meteor into the Arsenal penalty area.

The Arsenal crowd immediately looked back, nervously watching the trajectory of the ball towards the goal.

Almunia scrambled towards the right-hand post, and halfway through the run, he breathed a sigh of relief and gestured to his team-mates to signal that he was fine.

There was a chorus of shouts from the stands at the Emirates Stadium.

The ball grazed the outside of the post and flew off the baseline, hit the billboard solidly and bounced back into the pitch.

Qin Xiong turned his head and walked back, his calm expression evoked the best memories of Arsenal fans, but also made their hearts fall into the ice cellar now.

Qin Xiong, it's back!

It's a pity that this is a reunion of swords and soldiers! (To be continued......)