Xiao Qing was not worried about Braga's strength at all. Although the Portuguese Super League team won the second place in the league and they advanced to the Champions League as a dark horse, being crowned as a dark horse is largely a proof that this team's strength is relatively average. There are really few dark horse teams that can be defeated to the end, because they always have one or another shortcomings, which is also the reason why the dark horse team cannot succeed further. Even last season, the Portuguese Super League runner-up Braga eliminated the Celtics and Sevilla successively and appeared in the Champions League for the first time.

Three days after the fourth round of the league, Arsenal, who had no time to rest, will start their new season's Champions League group stage at the Emirates Stadium. This season is Arsenal's thirteenth consecutive Champions League game, and the team is suffering from large-scale injuries. Van Persie, Walcott, Bentner and Ramsey are still recovering from injuries.

In the history of the European Champions League, Real Madrid once created a miracle of five consecutive championships, and Ajax and Bayern Munich also had the experience of taking turns to make three consecutive draws. However, since the 1991-1992 Champions League was reorganized into the Champions League, defending the title has almost become an unfinished task. In the long history of European football, three teams once reached the finals again in the following season after winning the Champions League championship last season, but they all missed the championship.

In the 93-94 season, AC won the championship with a 4-0 win in Athens. A year later, they were shortlisted for the finals again. Unfortunately, they could only watch Ajax successfully reach the top of Europe in Vienna the following year.

In 1996, Juventus relied on Ravanelli's goal in the final against Ajax and finally tied with his opponent in regular time. In the penalty shootout, the Zebras finally clashed as they wished. A year later, in the final staged in Munich, Dortmund defeated Juventus three-to-one to win the championship.

The third one who was once infinitely close to this record was the Red Devils Manchester United. In 2008, Manchester United won the best in Russia. In 2009, a series of outstanding performances of the team were finally concluded in Rome's final stage by Barcelona led by Guardiola.

Now Arsenal is starting to attack the curse of the European defending champion's failure to defend the title successfully. Although this is a curse that has made European champions in the past twenty years extremely distressed, the Gunners do not think it is an unbreakable record. As much as the record is used to break, and when the dusty record is broken, it can also gain greater achievements and cheers.

Last season, Xiao Qing broke the Premier League goal record and the 47-year Champions League goal record. So now Xiao Qing has begun to sprint towards a new record. He really hopes to hold the Big Ear Cup, so even if there are many difficulties this time, Xiao Qing will still lead the Gunners to win more victories. Their goal in the new season is to achieve more glory, and the Gunners in the new season are to win more championships!

Arsenal's opponents in the Champions League group stage in the new season are average, so the Gunners want to achieve a perfect Champions League start at home; the four consecutive victories in the league have made the Gunners full of confidence. A series of big wins have also helped the Gunners' appetites. They now like big wins, and now they like more goals.

Xiao Qing, who scored fifteen Champions League goals last season, was ambitious. Although he had broken the Champions League single-season goal record, Xiao Qing was not satisfied. Xiao Qing hoped to refresh the Champions League goal record again. He hoped that he could create a goal record that others could only look up to. Although Xiao Qing knew that the record was used to break it. To be honest, Xiao Qing really didn't want a guy to jump out and steal his own glory forty-seven years later.

So Xiao Qing is ambitious now, and it is not an easy thing to score more goals in the Champions League, because in such a cup, it must be guaranteed to get more goals. So when playing against a weak team, this will be a good opportunity to score goals. Xiao Qing is full of expectations for this Champions League, and he is ready to lead the Champions League scorer list again. He wants to make other players desperate from the beginning. The scorer list can only belong to Xiao Qing's battlefield. In the game that Xiao Qing participated, he can only take away the last Golden Boot!

Braga, who participated in the Champions League for the first time, did not expect to meet a group of ambitious players. Braga, who appeared in the Champions League for the first time, is still looking forward to a good match with the defending champion. They were the runner-up of the Portuguese Super League last season, and they eliminated the Celtics and Sevilla in the qualifiers; and more importantly, they bought a lot of strong players for this Champions League trip during the offseason. So now, even if they cannot take away their first Champions League victory at the Emirates Stadium, they still need to show their prestige at the Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal doesn't care about Prague's ambitions. The Gunners now have the confidence of a strong team. They don't worry about other teams causing them trouble at this time, especially teams like Prague with lower strength. Now, the biggest enemy for the Gunners is injuries, of course, it also comes from the Gunners themselves. As long as they don't encounter too serious injuries, as long as the Gunners can be upright and not arrogant, they will definitely be able to achieve good performance this season.

The Arsenal team has the strongest lineup in the stage. Goalkeeper Amunia; Sania, Koscheerney, Vermalen, and Clich; Midfielder Alexander Song; Midfielder Nasri, Fabregas, Al Shavin; Chamak and Xiao Qing on the forward line.

Braga is ambitious. This dark horse team wants to prove their strength in the Champions League. They have no pressure to face the defending champion. They must score at the Emirates Stadium. Goalkeeper Felipe; Miguel Garcia, Moises, Rodriguez, Silvio on the back line; midfielders include Vandinho, Aguila, and Hugo Viana; three forwards Alan, Mattus and Paul Cesar.

Braga's 4-3-3 lineup caused boos at the Emirates Stadium. Gunners were very unhappy. Braga still wanted to play against Arsenal when facing Arsenal. It seemed that the dark horse team had a complete self-confidence. They might not think that Arsenal's offensive end was terrible. They were full of confidence in their team being able to tear Arsenal's defense at the Emirates Stadium.

Xiao Qing and other Gunners smiled at each other. To be honest, Braga's 4-3-3 attack lineup may be a contempt for Arsenal's defense, but this is Braga's business, and this is their tactic. However, when Braga ships out the attack lineup, this also means that Arsenal will have more opportunities to score goals; since Arsenal cannot intimidate those ambitious teams now, and since Arsenal can still encounter such bold teams on the court, then they really don't mind hitting back hard in the game. The Gunners will prove that their ability on the attack end is not a joke, and Arsenal will teach all teams that want to attack Arsenal to get a lesson.

Arsenal never worry about fighting against opponents, and even the Gunners will enjoy the back and forth between the two sides in the game; but Arsenal really doesn't care about Braga. The Gunners are not worried about this team that can bring difficulties to Arsenal. The Gunners even hope that Braga's tactics can be implemented more resolutely, because the Gunners will attack wildly in the game, and they hope that Braga can stick to their tactics in a series of blows.

Just the third minute of the opening game, the young player Nasri dribbled the ball in the middle to cooperate with Fabregas. When the Arsenal captain cut across the penalty area, he was knocked down by the opponent's defender Silvio, but to Fabregas' surprise, the referee did not give any penalty.

The Emirates Stadium was booed, and gun fans were very unhappy with the referee's indulgence towards Braga. This was an obvious foul, but the referee intentionally or unintentionally ignored the penalty Arsenal deserved.

Although Xiao Qing was a little unhappy with the referee's penalty, he had no choice, because no one could guarantee that the referee's penalty was accurate. Moreover, the game has just begun, so he might be a little relaxed about such a penalty. However, Arsenal did suffer a loss. This is not Xiao Qing's personality, and Xiao Qing is not a person who suffers a loss and does nothing.

So Xiao Qing has to start a counterattack. Since such a foul cannot attract the attention of the referee, Xiao Qing will continue to work hard to create the foul that the referee must pay attention to; since Braga did not realize the offensive energy of Arsenal in the game, Xiao Qing will help this dark horse to recognize the strength of the strong teams in the Champions League.

Although Arsenal has not been able to create a better threat because of his opponent's foul, and although the game has just begun, Arsenal is indeed incapable of suppressing Braga, who has a big attack tactic. But the Gunners are very confident because the Gunners don't need too much adjustment at all, because Arsenal only needs a good opportunity to seize the opportunity.
Chapter completed!