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Chapter 2023 Give respect with strength

Chapter 2023 Give respect with strength

The result of Arsenal's elimination of Schalke 04 did not surprise anyone. It can be said that as early as the end of the first round, everyone no longer paid attention to the second match between the two sides. This is also the case. With the crazy performance of the substitute players, Arsenal once again easily defeated their opponents.

The players of Schalke 04 embarked on the journey home with a sad heart. This season, they used to be full of pride and wanted to prove their strength in the Champions League, but now the Arsenal team let them fully understand what it means to have someone beyond others.

"Sometimes we have to admit that although the Champions League has brought together very good teams from major leagues, there is still a clear gap between these teams. For example, Arsenal's two rounds against Schalke 04 were even easier than their league matches."

After the game, countless reporters and media began to worry. Their remarks and reports made the fans of Schalke 04 extremely uncomfortable. Fortunately, the fans of Arsenal obviously did not pay attention to the opponents who had been eliminated.

In the first round of the match, the Black Cats, who were at home, scored a goal at home with their unyielding momentum to keep the suspense of the game. Now it is their turn to go to Arsenal's home stadium, the Emirates Stadium. Everyone is looking forward to whether they can stage a reversal in the League Cup.

After all, it is foreseeable that it is impossible for Arsenal to play three matches a week with the first-team lineup. They will inevitably put most of their main strength in the league against Manchester United in the third game. This is undoubtedly good news for Sunderland.

Under such circumstances, the players and the coach of Sunderland did not dare to speak harshly in interviews with reporters before the game, for fear of provoking the professor to come up with an all-main lineup to play at home, so that the possibility of the team coming back will be greatly reduced.

"Arsenal is an excellent team. Our main purpose is to learn. Of course, if we can successfully reach the final, this is naturally a very good result. We will work hard for it."

Naturally, such a polite speech will not be hostile to the Arsenal team. The professor and Liu Feng also behaved very gentlemanly when they were interviewed by the fans.

"We welcome Sunderland to the Emirates and we will respect them with our performance on the pitch."

In this way, the pre-match interviews between the two sides ended normally, and soon came the day of the match.

"Our starting lineup today is as follows."

In the conference room of the Gunners training base, the professor quickly announced the starting lineup for this game. With the 433 set, it is true that they show the greatest respect to their opponents at home.

Poldowski served as the starting center, left winger Neymar, right winger Willian, and Liu Feng still did not appear in the starting lineup in this game.

Naturally, this is not a problem with Liu Feng's state, but the professor is determined to let him rest until he directly starts the game against Manchester United.

Faced with the professor's arrangement, Liu Feng naturally had no objection. Anyway, he can still find opportunities when he comes off the bench, and as long as the team can win, it really doesn't matter whether he plays or not. After all, this is just a cup game.

In the arrangement of the three midfielders, Wilshere, Ganso and Granero started the game, and the midfielders on the playing table all rested.

In terms of the four-back arrangement, Alba, Mertesacker, Koscielny and Carvajal formed a half-main half-substitute back line, and the goalkeeper is still the team's second goal Fabianski.

Such a starting lineup is naturally still the result of rotation, but the team's main players have already appeared in it.

Although the professor thinks that Sunderland is a worthy opponent, but they are still at home against them. He doesn't think the team needs to use all their strength.

"The purpose of today's game is the same, and that is to win the game as quickly as possible. I think you also want to have a good rest so that you can play on the weekend?"

"Of course coach!"

"Okay, let's rest now."

Time flies, because the starting lineup was announced in the morning, and the game will start in the afternoon, so the players did not go home, but had lunch at the training base and took a simple rest.

In the afternoon, amidst the cheers of countless gun fans on the streets near the Emirates Stadium, the Arsenal team's bus drove into their home court first.

Not long after, Sunderland's bus also arrived at the Emirates Stadium, and they naturally faced the grand boos of the opponent fans.

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"Okay, CCTV, CCTV, audience friends, welcome to watch the match between Arsenal and Sunderland at home in the second round of the 2013-2014 English League Cup semi-final. I am the commentator Liu Jianhong."

"Hi everyone, I'm the commentator Zhan Jun."

When the voices of the two commentators sounded, the two teams on the court had finished warming up and returned to the locker room to stand up again.

The captains of the two teams quickly engaged in captain guessing, and Arsenal chose the right to kick off at home, which is very conducive to their advantage.

"Shh!!!"

"The game has officially started. Poldolski took the ball. Neymar received the ball and passed it back to Ganso. Arsenal's lineup for this game is a semi-main lineup, but the core positions are all the team's main players."

"That's right, he started to take possession of the ball quickly. Ganso showed a great desire to attack from the beginning, and cooperated with the two midfield teammates to continuously penetrate forward."

As soon as the game started, Arsenal's offensive made the fans excited. There was singing over the Emirates Stadium, and Arsenal's first wave of offense officially started.

"Facing the Gunners' attack and directly shrinking the lineup, Sunderland responded very quickly. At the beginning of the game, their recovery did not give the opponent a chance at all. After receiving the ball, Granero picked and passed it to Poldolski. Before he could score the ball, he was cut off!"

Just when many gun fans were excited and thought that their team was going to create a scene where they scored within 10 minutes of the opening to determine their advantage, their home team's offense came to an abrupt end.

Then, the tone of the game was changed like this. Arsenal began to have to face the iron wall of Sunderland. The Black Cats, who were one goal behind, did not show any eagerness to equalize after the away start. Their stability made Arsenal severely deflated.

On the court, the two teams had to start a tug-of-war.

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