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After this epic battle in the Champions League, the coaches of Chelsea and Liverpool Hiddink and Benitez not only affirmed the performance of their players in the post-match interview, but also praised their opponents!

After the UEFA Champions League final 4 series, the coaches of both sides maintained their demeanor after the game, instead of intrigue like the interviews before the game! "Do whatever it takes" for the team's victory!

We are opponents on the field, but we are friends off the field! It's like most of the red and blue players worked hard on the field before, but at the moment the game whistle sounded, most of the players would let go of their previous suspicions, shake hands, and talk in twos and threes!

After the game, whether Hiddink will invite Benitez to have a drink in London is something that some tabloid media need to chase!

It's just that Chelsea's players are destined not to be able to celebrate the total score of the two rounds to the fullest!

Hiddink was in the locker room after the game, but he emphasized that the players are absolutely not allowed to relax too much after the game! What staying overnight in a nightclub and drinking a lot of alcohol is strictly prohibited by Hiddink!

The Chelsea players, facing the "firefighting" coach who is deeply trusted by Abramovich, dare not wrestle with him! If he was suspended by the coach in the final stage of the championship, it would really be worth the candle!

The continuous tight game time does not allow Chelsea players to relax too much. They will compete with the Gunners Arsenal at Wembley Stadium in 3 days later, competing for the first championship honor of the season, the FA Cup!

For the future of the Champions League, Hiddink does not know whether Chelsea can really get his wish! After all, in a competition of this level in the Champions League, any team that has entered the semi-finals of the Champions League has no underdogs, and they should all have the opportunity to compete for the "Big Ears" Cup!

No team, at this time, dare to say that they will be able to defeat their opponents, be invincible in the Champions League, and win the final championship!

Compared with going through 2 Champions League semi-finals to determine the final place! Chelsea, who have easily reached the final of the FA Cup, are determined to win this championship at this time!

There are still a few rounds left in the league, and the stable Manchester United should be hopeless! The English League Cup was given up strategically earlier! The Champions League will not resume in a few weeks! The FA Cup championship is what Chelsea cares most about at this stage! Even if your team has just finished playing in Europe, your physical fitness may not be at your best! But the FA Cup final opponent Arsenal, the time of the second round of the Champions League is one day later than Chelsea. In theory, Chelsea is actually the more dominant side!

That's right, Chelsea's opponent in the FA Cup final, coincidentally, is Chelsea's arch-enemy in London, the Gunners Arsenal!

Compared with Abramovich who has spent a lot of money since he took over Chelsea, he has continuously strengthened the lineup for Chelsea and pursued higher honors!

Arsenal, which competed with Manchester United in the Premier League, put the agenda on the new stadium and started building it. It has embarked on the road of continuously training players and selling them to make money, and it is still on this road. Back to the trend!

Arsene Wenger, head coach of Arsenal, is targeting athletes over the age of 30 with a one-year signing strategy to ensure that some players who are in decline can be replaced at any time to ensure the team's immediate combat power and salary level!

This kind of strategy, with the capital investment of major European clubs in the past two years, has caused countless experienced veterans, even players trained by Arsenal themselves, to be chilled by the operation of their own clubs, and to switch to other teams in search of better results. wage protection! This also makes Arsenal this season can be called the Home Alone!

But I have to admit! Arsenal's boss is extremely stingy, and the investment for the purpose of making money makes Arsenal doomed to be unable to compete with other giants in lineup strength. However, Professor Wenger can always use his insightful insight to find the best seedlings for Arsenal's youth training, train his own youth training players, and use limited players to create pretty good goals Team strength!

This also makes, although Arsenal are always known as the giants with the least investment, they spend every penny on the cutting edge, always get high-quality and cheap players, and always maintain a competitive position in the league. Four competitiveness to ensure not to lose the biggest money-making platform of the Champions League!

Wenger still has a hand in the training of the team and the construction of the team lineup! Especially for the team's offensive training and personnel reserves, under the limited transfer funds, Wenger has almost achieved the ultimate!

Although the prestige of the "Temperature Signature" has been circulating since then, most of the players that Wenger actually signed have achieved their worth, especially the offensive players!

There will be a loss of players almost every season, but the substitutes at that position, or the purchased supplementary players, will fill the vacancy at that position in time!

Arsenal's strikers this season are full of talents! Although they are not the kind of top superstars yet, but looking at the names, you can know that Arsenal poached players to train them in the era when their worth was not obvious. Wenger's vision is so poisonous!

Adebayor! Van Persie! Bendtner! And Arshavin who just bought in Dongchuang!

The four outstanding strikers can be said to make Arsenal's forward attack group changeable, and no one can make targeted arrangements before the game!

Especially the Russian "tsar" Arshavin, who is still at his peak, and Bendtner, who is also the top young talent in this era, are all excellent supplements to Arsenal's offensive end!

As for Arsenal's midfield, there is Nasri, who is an excellent wing breakthrough attacker, and Fabregas, an excellent midfield organizer, delivers ammunition to the forward group. Diaby is responsible for covering the backcourt and intercepting. The midfielders are all produced by Arsenal's youth training, but they are all outstanding players!

On the defense line, French internationals Sarnia, Clichy, Kolo Toure, Alexander Song and others not only guard the team's defense line, but can also give the team excellent offensive supplements when necessary!

It's just that in terms of goalkeepers, since this season's starting goalkeeper Spaniard Ribeiro was injured in the previous game, Arsenal will send No. 2 goalkeeper Fabianski to play in this FA Cup!

Perhaps at the beginning of this season, due to too many new aids, Arsenal's tactical coordination has declined, which in turn affected Arsenal's record at the beginning of the season. Nana has returned to the top four of the league and has also reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League. There is a high chance that it will eliminate the La Liga team Villarreal and enter the semi-finals!

Therefore, Hiddink is also very afraid of this Arsenal that is getting stronger and stronger! Chelsea must treat this Arsenal team with the most rigorous attitude towards the game!