31. Substitute appearance, back to the water

There is still a problem with the defense, otherwise he would not have replaced Tan Xibi at the beginning of the second half.

Although the League Cup is for substitutes and youth team players, the further you go, the more opportunities there are for young people to practice.

What's more, Arsène Wenger will need to dig wingers from within to avoid the loss of attacking power when both thighs are gone in January.

Rice Nelson's performance in the first half of this game was a bit disappointing, with a back three consisting of full-back Mathieu Debich, midfielders Mohamed Elneny and Rob Holding, in addition to Holding's regular central defender, the other two were guest central defenders.

What's more, the defensive ability of the defender Francis Coquelin has dropped sharply, and the goal conceded in the first half was because the opponent shoveled the ball from behind to a teammate when chasing the ball, and then passed a through ball to tear through the Gunners' defense to form a one-on-one goal.

Arsenal also got a lot of chances in the first half, but the usual lack of official games of the substitutes does not seem to be very smooth, low-level teams in the cup Arsenal will always show a completely inconsistent combat effectiveness, especially the goalkeeper, often like a chicken blood, such as the door god down to earth, how the Gunners shoot is not able to score, a perfect interpretation of what is called the weak team out of the football classic saying.

In order to avoid conceding goals again, it is necessary to defend solidly, so Tan Xibi replaced Ke Kirin before kick-off in the second half, and then Arsenal's formation changed dramatically, 3421 changed to 433.

Left wing-back Eisley Maitland Niles dropped back to left-back, Elneny and Holding partnered in central defence, Debich played at right-back, right wing-back Nelson moved forward to play the good right winger, Theo Walcott, the captain of the game, played left winger, and Jack Wilshire and Alex Iwobi dropped back to form a double midfield.

Tan Xibi naturally stood behind Wilshere and Iwobi, when he came on the field, Norwich's players found that the Gunners' aura had changed, although it was them who were ahead, but the Norwich players felt that the Gunners players in front of them were full of confidence, as if they were falling behind.

Norwich coach Daniel Farke from Germany has a vague sense that it is this young man who wears the number 28 and faces in the East who has brought about this change.

Tan Xibi, Wall Tan, known as the "sigh of the Bi", became famous after freezing Lionel Messi in the Champions League, won the best on the spot in the first Premier League appearance in the league last weekend, 1 goal and 1 assist data can not cover up the defensive data that crushed the whole field, steals, interceptions, clearances, tackles, first in the team, the number of passes in the team, and the pass success rate is also the first in the team.

Although there was a mistake that caused the team to concede a goal, the flaw was not hidden, and the game-high 9.6 points were the highest rating for the first player to make his debut in the history of the Premier League.

You can send a special person to mark the opponent's ace player, this kind of player is generally a front-court attacker, no one will specifically mark a midfielder, Ronald Koeman, who was recently dismissed, is the opposite example of failure, and Everton's only first-team Idrissa Gueye was sent off for consecutive violations of Tan Xibi, which shows that it is not advisable to mark the back midfield.

Fortunately, his team is ahead, even if the team's attack loses threat after Tan Xibi comes on the field, as long as he maintains a one-goal lead, it is enough to enter the quarterfinals of the League Cup.

Tan Xibi's play is naturally to release the team's maximum potential in attack power under the condition of ensuring that the team's defense is worry-free, equalizing and even surpassing.

So at the beginning of the second half, Arsenal launched a fierce attack on the Norwich position, Niles and Debihi flew on the wings, Nelson and Walcott kept crossing to feed the ball to high school striker Oliver Giroud, Iwobi and Wilshere kept moving forward, and behind, only Tan Xibi and two central defenders stayed near the halfway line to prevent the opponent from counterattacking.

Nelson, who had no defensive worries, let go of his hands and feet to devote himself to attacking, returning to the right winger position that he excelled at, and Nelson's sharp breakthrough forced Norwich left-back James Hursbend to call back to help defend with Josh Murphy, the hero of the first half.

In the ten minutes of the second half, Nelson delivered four crosses from the right, one by Giroud's header over the crossbar, once by a defender, once to the back post, where Walcott was unsteady in receiving the ball and the last time was flown off by the excellent Norwich goalkeeper Angus Gunn.

Falke immediately made adjustments after seeing Tan Xibi play, and the whole team retreated to swing the bus, so although Arsenal continued to attack, Norwich took advantage of the numerical advantage and compressed the space at the back, and Arsenal could not get more threatening opportunities.

Even if Wilshere looks for a frontcourt combination, he can't tear apart the opponent's defense at all under the dense defensive density of the opponent.

Fortunately, after the failure of Arsenal's attack, Norwich's counterattack was basically stifled by Tan Xibi, and the pass during the counterattack was basically intercepted by Tan Xibi, who had excellent prediction, plus Holding and Elneny concentrated on defense, so Arsenal's defense did not have all kinds of dangers like the first half.

"Thankfully, Wall came on and steadied the defense, so we were able to play with our hands and feet." Steve Boulder said to Arsène Wenger.

"Let Chuba and Edward warm up and get ready to play." Arsene Wenger said.

Boulder was stunned, he was going to be replaced so soon? And it's still a change of striker?

Glancing toward the court, Boulder thoughtfully got up and walked to the bench.

"Damn, unlucky!" After hitting the plane with a long-range shot, the corners of Tan Xibi's mouth twitched and scolded a few times.

Breaking dense defense, long-range shots, center forwards, set-pieces, all tried, but it still doesn't work, Norwich is iron-hearted to defend to the end.

When Norwich replaced their front-line players and brought on two centre-backs, it was harder for Arsenal to score.

Tan Xibi's contribution to the offensive end is long-range shooting, but when the long-range shooting is ineffective, Tan Xibi can only watch his teammates struggle in front of him in the dense crowd of opponents, not to mention scoring goals, and it is difficult to pass the ball.

In the 66th minute, Nelson kicked the ball on the side and kicked the opponent's foot on the side and bounced off the sideline.

At this point, the fourth official raised his substitution card and Arsenal made a substitution.

No.32 Chewba Akpeng and No.62 Edouard Nketiah replaced Niles and Iwobi respectively, and at the moment, there were three strikers and two wingers on the pitch, showing the Gunners' determination to turn around and win.

"Muhammad, take it easy, you already have a Topaz card." Tan Xibi patted Elneny's shoulder and said seriously.