If you don't watch football, you won't understand: heaven and hell, only in the line.

Theo Walcott, who is Arsenal's 'old' player, feels this phrase the most.

It was heaven to start his first league start of the season.

A corner kick mistake shortly after the opening kick caused the counterattack to almost concede the goal, like falling into hell.

This is heaven and hell, just a line between them.

The every move of a professional player is infinitely magnified on the court, and as long as there is the slightest mistake, it will be under the pressure of all kinds of criticism from the outside world.

Don't look at the scenery of professional players in front of people, who can know that the bowl of professional football is not easy to eat, one is not good, it is depressed, and it is not handled well, just like the two international players in Germany, Sebastian Deisler and Robert Enke, one retired at the golden age of 27, and the other committed suicide by lying on the rails.

Since joining Arsenal and leaving Thierry Henry, the No. 14 shirt has been expected by Gunners fans to become the successor to the Gunners.

Unfortunately, the higher the hope, the greater the disappointment, it may be that the mind is not open, it may be that he has been playing on the wing for a long time, it may be that he has been suffering from too many injuries, the 28-year-old Walcott has not been able to become the new gun king, and even when he was mixed with the Saints, he was not as successful as his teammate Gareth Bell was more successful than him, although Bale lost his former courage at the Bernabeu in the past two years due to the "soleus muscle" problem.

Originally, Arsène Wenger was in the planning of this season, Walket was the main force in the cup, but Mesut Ozil and Alex Sanchez are very likely to leave in the winter window in January, plus the team changed to 433 tactics, and the three forwards required two wingers, which gave Walcott hope that he was expected to be the main force in the league, after all, in the Gunners' first team, only he and Sanchez were orthodox wingers.

The reason for starting such an important game this time was Arsene Wenger's decision to play against Manchester City, allowing him to form a fast-horse combination on the right with Héctor Bellerin to challenge Fabian Delph, a non-full-back cameo left-back.

However, after Tan Xibi opened the scoring in the fifth minute of the first half, Arsenal was besieged by Manchester City for a long time, and Walcott, who had no chance to attack, could only assist Bhelmerin to do a good job of defending, patiently waiting for Tan Xibi to give him and Alexandre Lacazette the opportunity to counterattack.

In the 35th minute, Nicolas Otamendi entered Arsenal's defensive third, and Tan Xibi waited for an opportunity to steal and cut off Sergio Aguero's ball.

In the 36th minute, Tan Xibi took two or three steps forward with the ball and kicked a long ball to the right side of Manchester City's backfield before Otamendi got close.

Josep Guardiola turned his head to look at his own backfield, his face changed, and his pupils constricted.

"Kyle, you go to the middle, John goes to the side!" Pep Guardiola danced his arms on the sidelines and shouted excitedly.

Arsène Wenger slammed to his feet, clenched his fists and his eyes sparkled.

On the pitch, Alexandre Lacazette and Theo Walcott rushed towards the Manchester City backfield like two bolts of lightning.

How did Manchester City respond to Arsenal's counter-attack?

The answer is, John Stones chasing Walcott and Kyle Walker chasing Lacazette.

City's five fastest players, Leroy Sane, Raheem Sterling, Walker, Danilo and John Stones, had four on the pitch.

The fastest in the Arsenal team, the starters are Walcott, Bellerin, Seyad Kolasinac, Lacazette who plays as a center forward is a striker with mobility, ball handling and shooting skills, but his absolute speed is not fast, right winger Alex Iwobi is known for his skills and is not a fast horse type of African player, so this counterattack and pursuit battle depends on who runs faster.

Since Benjamin Mendy's injury, Delph from the back has replaced him at left-back, in Guardiola's tactical system, Delph is more like a midfielder in attack, standing in the middle, and Walker will wait until Delf on the left side presses, he will retract and play right central defender, Otamendi will move to the middle, and Stones will move to the left side accordingly to fill in for Delph.

The advantage of this is to directly stifle 80% of the opponent's counterattack in the cradle, and Manchester City's 1-0 away defeat against Chelsea is a classic show.

However, Otamendi's forward pressure left City with only two people at the back, and Stones had to juggle both the middle and the left, so he would not be very close to the left, so Walcott was running on the right, and Stones could only block his inward route when he was chasing back.

What's more, although the little tiger is not small, the tiger is still there, and the absolute speed is still above Stones, so he surpassed Stones by more than a half when he was without the ball, and after getting Tan Xibi's long pass, he paused a little and then advanced with the ball, and he was almost a position ahead of Stones.

As for Lacazette in the middle, he was half a body ahead of Walker, but he was smart enough to slow down slowly, and since he couldn't outrun the opponent, he tried to get rid of Walcott's cross and run out of the open space.

A two-on-two counterattack, which looked like both sides were equal in number, in reality, the defending side was always passive, and Stones couldn't outrun Walcott, but he stuck the opponent's inside line.

Lacazette can't outrun Walker, but he can move into Walker's blind spot, after all, Walker is keeping an eye on Walcot's movements while keeping an eye on him, and can't concentrate on keeping an eye on a person.

Theo Walcott drove the ball to the edge of the box and then slowly pushed into the box, so that the pace naturally slowed down and Stones got closer and closer behind him.

Walcott was criticised for being too hesitant to cross from the wing, resulting in the cross either hitting the player who was returning to the defense and bounced off the bottom line or being cut off by the opponent who followed the defense.

But at this time, Walcott cherished this rare starting opportunity, and in order to make up for the mistake of the corner kick, he swept a midfield, gritted his teeth and vigorously crossed the low flat ball.

John Stones was too late to make a block, so he had to turn his head to look into the box and pray to his team-mates to clear the cross.

Walker, who has been eyeing the wide flanks since entering the box, intends to intercept the opponent's cross so that he does not need to focus on the opponent who flanks in the middle.

But I didn't know that Lacazette deliberately slowed down, but fell behind him by one position, that is, accurately judged the landing point of Walcott's cross.

Joining the Gunners for a record-breaking transfer fee this summer, wearing the cursed No.9 shirt, Alexandre Lacazette's performance proved worth the £52 million spent.

Because he is the killer in the penalty area that Arsenal need the most, and it is also the striker that the Gunners most need to turn opportunities into goals.

A successful terminator will not miss one opportunity after another, and Lacazette is such a terminator.

When Walcott's cross was accurately grasped by Lacazette, he broke through Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson with a very simple push and hit the ball into the bottom left corner of the goal.

The miscalculation of the landing of the cross was wrong, and Lacazette, who was outflanked in the middle, easily opened the goal, and Walker had no shame to see his teammates.

I saw Tan Xibi, who ran all the way to Lacazette's side, put one hand around his neck, and raised his arms and shouted with the other, and Daniel Katz, a reporter from The Sun who watched the game, and others.

Unscientific! Playing at home, how could Manchester City, which has won 8 consecutive victories, swallow two bombs in the first half?

If Tan Xibi knew what they were thinking, he would definitely touch his nose very stinkily, and pointed at himself with a smile: "Because I am Tan Xibi!" ”