"Wall was in great shape today." Steve Boulder smiled at Arsène Wenger.

Watching Wall play the pitch with ease, Arsene Wenger nodded slightly, but a hint of worry flashed in his eyes.

He made a mistake a little, he didn't expect that after Tan Xibi came back from the United States, his skills at his feet improved so quickly, and he didn't dare to move forward with the ball before, but now he will be brought from the back court to the front court when he has the opportunity to choose to divide the ball or shoot from a distance.

What's more, Tan dominated Mesut Ozil's possession, making him feel a bit of a fussy for much of the first half, and could only be noticed from set-pieces.

In order to save the physical strength of the trident, Wenger asked the trident before the game to harass the defenders of Tottenham Hotspur with the ball when the opponent attacked, and when the Tottenham defenders did not have the ball, they did not need to withdraw to the backfield to participate in the defense, but basically stood in a parallel line with these defenders, the purpose is very simple, keep the physical strength and be ready to counter offside at any time.

The defensive work was handed over to three central defenders, two wingbacks and two midfielders, Aaron Ramsey behaved like a defensive midfielder in this game, covering the entire backfield with his good running ability, and together with Tan Xibi, the Gunners' previous stubborn problem of defending in the middle was solved, no matter how the opponent lured, the Welsh captain who restrained the desire to attack just stuck to his post and did not come out, and the position was as strong as Heimdall guarding Asgard.

Ramsey has shown that he can become the pure defensive midfielder that everyone has always wanted if he wants to.

Arsenal have as many as seven men in defence, and with the reasonable positioning of the three central defenders compressing the space at the back, Rao is more aggressive than Harry Kane, and wants to take away Arsenal's central defenders and give them more space to shoot, but first someone has to pass the ball to their feet.

But Tottenham's problem is precisely in the offensive organization, the two backs called Musa are like two bulldozers, advancing from the back to the center circle to the front 30 meters of the penalty area, and then they hit the indestructible sigh, can't hit it, can only retreat, how to organize the attack?

In desperation, Christian Eriksen could only retreat and directly hit Kane and Ali in the middle with long passes, and the result was that Arsenal's three central defenders continued to clear and intercept data, coupled with the high reception of Peter Cech's father, so although Tottenham's attack looked lively, most of the attacks were, Kane run, duang! Laurent Koscielny clears.

Ali breakthrough, duang! Crash into a Bosnia-Herzegovina tank that is stronger than him.

Erikson plugged in, duang! duang！ duang！

Nima, Tan Xibi and Ramsey everywhere.

The offense is weak, and you should be careful of the opponent's anti-offside sneak attack.

Don't look at the long pass master Granit Xhaka sitting on the bench, in addition to Tan Xibi, Koscielny and Schkoderland Mustafi are both good at long passes among the defenders, although the accuracy of long passes is not as good as Xhaka and Tan Xibi, but they only need to play directly long passes behind Tottenham's wingbacks, so that the wide fast horse teammates have already trident to chase.

Don't look at Alexandre Lacazette, Alex Sanchez and Ozil are not fast-horse type forwards, but the short-distance explosive sprint, the short distance of ten or twenty meters is no different from the sprint trapeze, and more importantly, the three brothers are all skilled at the feet, can pass and shoot, if you have fewer defenders, just hold the white flag and surrender.

Arsenal's style of play of giving up possession and hitting the opposition wing-backs further highlights Tottenham's problems on the wing, with Danny Rose averaging 2.8 and 1.2 tackles per game last season and Kyle Walker 2.2 and 1.2 per game.

Looking at Tottenham's main wing-back this season, Ben Davies's figures in this regard are 1.2 and 0.6 respectively, and Kieran Trippier's 1.3 and 0.4 are not an order of magnitude at all.

So the second goal conceded by Tottenham was the loss of the wing, in addition to Tan Xibi's clever interception, the main thing is that Davies faced Héctor Bellerin alone, and only had the life of being blown up.

It turns out that Tottenham's wing can no longer support the explosion with the opponent, and it is urgent to strengthen the control of the wing, but the wingback is really unavailable, and Tottenham can only play in the winger position.

Of course, these adjustments can only wait until the second half, after all, the first half is almost over.

"Maybe the departure of Mesut and Alex won't cause too much damage to the team." Wenger touched his chin and said secretly.

There are still Jack Wilshere, Alex Iwobi and Danny Welbeck on the bench, Theo Walcott and Oliver Giroud are not in the squad due to injury, plus Xhaka and France, Egypt two Mesozoic midfielders, Wenger suddenly feels that there is a combination of Xhaka's long pass, Sanchez's dribbling and Ozil's creativity, and the departure of Ozil and Sanchez may not be a bad thing.

What's more, as a disciple of Andrés Pirlo, will there be a lack of Ozil's lethal pass up front?

Arsenal does not have the Champions League this season, in the absence of large-scale injuries of the main force, there is no need to make up for the winter window, the league strives to enter the top four, the Europa League group stage has been qualified, Tan Xibi can sign up for the European competition in January, whether the Europa League wants to compete for the championship, and then it will be determined according to the league ranking, so before the Europa League knockout round, Arsenal's main task is only one, to enter the top four and consolidate the top four.

"With a healthy Wall, maybe this season will be a great one." Wenger suddenly had this thought, this 18-year-old Chinese genius was getting heavier and heavier in his heart.

When Tan Xibi once again advanced to the 30-meter area of Tottenham's backfield, a fake shot and a real pass rubbed a half-high ball through the Tottenham defense, and finally Sanchez's shot was saved by Tottenham's father Hugo Lloris to end the first half, and the whole stadium rang out "Wall!" Cheers.

You know, if the crowd cheers for a player's name, it means that the player has conquered them.

"53 touches, 49 passes, including 18 long passes, all successful, 9 key passes, first in the team, needless to say shots, goals scored with only one shot, needless to say, the statistics of the defense are not to mention, it is still the first in the team. Wald's voice was raised by the audience. Martin Taylor lifted the glasses on the bridge of his nose, looked at Tan Xibi, who left the arena with his arms raised and applauding, and said with bright eyes.

"This is not the Wall of the last game," Thierry Henry said with a beaming face, "this is the new Wall, the Wall who has shown dominance on both ends of the floor!" ”

"He's improving again, and he's improving so fast!" Josep Guardiola's eyes flashed.

'Arsene Wenger certainly won't sell him.' Manchester City CEO Ferren Soriano shook his head and smiled wryly, "Even if you give the price at which Manchester United bought Pogba." ”

Pep Guardiola smiled slightly, with his hat-trick at the Etihad Stadium last time out, and this dominant performance, Tan Xibi is definitely worth £89 million.

It's a pity that he is not for sale in Wenger's heart, and if you want to take him, I'm afraid you have to wait until Wenger leaves Arsenal.