437 is a heavy price!
Stamford Bridge was a grim reaper, dead silent.
Blues fans were in disbelief to see the Chelsea goal dropped.
Gunners fans didn't react, and the game that had been unexciting happened in an instant!
After reacting, the Gunners fans suddenly boiled over in the away team fan stands!
They cheered, roared, and sang war songs!
YES, IN BRITISH FAN CULTURE, WHAT THEY SING IN THE STADIUM IS NOT A SONG, NOT A SONG, BUT A CHANT, WHICH HAS THE MEANING OF A WAR SONG, A HYMN, A HYMN.
Fans couldn't help but sing their time-honored anthem "This is Arsenal!" Shouting over and over again "We are by far the greatest club in the world", even though the song is often plagiarized by fans of other clubs, changing the name of the team to praise their own team, Arsenal fans protested and finally accepted the reality.
They were praising the team, and changing the other lyrics of the song slightly, Qin Xiong's name kept coming out in the stands, spreading in all directions!
"World waves! World Wave! Qin Xiong scored the first goal of the game! It's a world wave about 35 yards from the goal! The ball was fast and the angle was tricky, Terry couldn't block the ball, Cech did what he could, let's see again, oh my, Cech's vision was blocked, after Qin Xiong had already shot, Cech obviously saw the football before he started to move, he moved like a fly, but in the end he was only a little bit away from Qin Xiong's goal!
After scoring Arsenal's first goal of the season in the opening game of the Premier League, Qin Xiong scored another stunning goal in this strong dialogue! Arsenal are now ahead at Stamford Bridge! What should Chelsea do? ”
After Qin Xiong saw the ball fly into the Chelsea goal, he ran to the visiting fans' stands with his arms outstretched. Glide on your knees when you are still 10 meters from the sideline. Straight back up after sliding out of the sideline. Make fists with both hands and roar!
The excited teammates around rushed over and quickly surrounded Qin Xiong, hugging Qin Xiong and waving their fists to the fans in the stands!
Arsene Wenger clapped in celebration with joy and then kept throwing his fists.
Mourinho's face was gloomy and he was gesturing on the sidelines, and at this time he was already forced to attack.
He couldn't accept a home defeat, considering that last season Chelsea and Arsenal drew over two legs in the league and lost the league title. If we lose three points at home today, God knows if it will be those three points that will be the fatal factor in deciding the title when we look back on the season at the end of the season.
On the way back to the half, Qin Xiong and his teammates encouraged each other, although they were ahead, but the game tactics and posture could not be changed, the more the top competition, the score change must not affect the mentality, whether leading or behind!
Chelsea have stepped up their attacking edge, while Arsenal have been more conservative in defending since the goal.
This also weakens their anti-counter power. Maybe it's because they care too much about the opponent being Chelsea.
Arsene Wenger saw the sign on the sidelines and felt something was wrong.
Don't put pressure on your opponent to fight back after taking the lead. Then the shape shì will continue to be bad.
Just as he was about to tell his team not to drag the defence too far behind, a change of events occurred on the pitch that caught Wenger off guard.
Arjen Robben was a bit of an unscrupulous sign, and he was unsuccessful on the inside today, so he began to "do whatever he wanted" and kick wherever he wanted, so he created a dilemma on the wing that made Ashley Cole almost break his waist.
In the 78th minute of the game, Ashley Cole turned quickly to destroy the ball at Robben's feet after Robben made a gesture to go inside but suddenly stopped and went down to the bottom.
He succeeded, but he caused his own injury!
He limped with a bitter face and walked out of the field accompanied by the team doctor.
With this change, Arsenal can only focus more on defense.
Flamini came off the bench and defended at left-back.
Qin Xiong began to control the field to see if Chelsea would lose his mind and press it by a large margin, and at this point, Chelsea did not let him succeed.
Chelsea's positional battles didn't have many good ways to get the attack fluid and delicate up front, so they had to use wide crosses.
In the 85th minute of the game, Joe Cole took the ball to the penalty area, Campbell and Drogba competed for a header, the two collided in the air, the football bounced into the penalty area, and Silva drove the ball directly out of the sideline.
As soon as the clearance was successful, the Arsenal players came back to their senses, only to find Campbell on the ground and not getting up.
After colliding with Drogba and losing his balance, he sprained his foot when he landed, and he looked very strict, and most of the players who are already heavy will not be lightly sprained.
Arsene Wenger's expression was as if he had just attended the funeral of a loved one!
Arsenal, which already has a thin lineup, folded two main forces in the second round of the Premier League!
And corresponding to this game, Wenger gritted his teeth and paid such a high price, if he couldn't win the game, he would definitely go crazy!
So Wenger replaced Campbell with Senderos and used up the last substitution.
Eboue, who was promoted to the first team this year and is getting better and better, replaced Pire.
Arsene Wenger had to use more defensive strength to contain Chelsea's goals, leaving the attack to Qin Xiong and Thierry Henry.
It would be too difficult for Chelsea to score goals with four or five players in attack.
Arsenal control the dangerous zone in front of goal, and if Chelsea press it hard, then there is room for Qin Xiong and Thierry Henry to play.
Jose Mourinho also made a last-ditch gamble, with Crespo, Gudjohnsen and Duff coming on to take off Gallas, Ferreira and Joe Cole.
Despite this, the backfield defense has a minimum of 4 men.
Chelsea's hanging bombardment created their biggest threat of the game, Duff crossed, Drogba headed back Senderos, Lampard shot from distance in front of the box covered by Gudjohnsen, but the ball bounced off Flamini, who used his body to block Chelsea's inevitable shot on the goal line!
When the game came to the 91st minute, Arsenal had a very good chance to counter-attack.
Cesc Fabregas sent the ball to Qin Xiong, who took the initiative to pull the side, with a long diagonal pass from the backfield.
Qin Xiong drove straight into the ball, and Chelsea had almost no defense on the wing, and the defense was dense in the penalty area.
Qin Xiong observed Henry's running position, in fact, it was difficult to find a better running line.
Terry, Carvalho, Makelele, Essien are not brainless, the position is not rigid, they formed a defense line of 3 defenders and 1 back, and gave up the side defense, that is, not to give Qin Xiong a chance to break through, and at the same time to play crosses, Henry first has no air dominance, even if they make it easy for them to defend.
Seeing that this shape was not good, Qin Xiong simply did not create a chance to shoot on goal, he took the ball to the corner, and then defended the ball against the insults of all the Chelsea fans in the nearby stands to delay the time. (To be continued......)