90. Frozen Bi

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Leo Ferdinand, Paul Scholes, Martin Keown, Owen Hargreaves, Ian Wright, Glenn Hoddle, Alan Shearer, seven former England internationals gathered together, so many people crowded in the studio, Gary Lineker, who was the host of the commentary on the key battle between Arsenal and Manchester United, felt a headache.

I don't know what the leaders of BT Sports think, in order to set a record rating, they actually invited so many commentators to attract the attention of the audience, so they are not afraid of many people, and after a game, everyone can say a few words?

Hua Guo, Pi Phi Video Studio, Zhan Yingjun and Zhang Heilu unsurprisingly continued to partner to explain this strong dialogue, the two of them have similar opinions to Sky Sports ace commentator Martin Taylor, both believe that the outcome of this game is five or five, and the final result may depend on Tan Xibi and Paul Pogba's on-the-spot performance.

The impeccable defense, comparable to the heavy artillery of England's double Germany, the more and more ecstatic accurate long passes, a series of phenomenal performances and team achievements after Tan Xibi landed in the Premier League, and the huge Chinese fan market behind it, the FA and the Premier League regard this talented defender as Huaguo Xiaobei, and try their best to squeeze his commercial value.

Needless to say, Pogba, a world-class all-round midfielder, last season's Premier League standard, and the official publicity before the game, regarded the duel between the two as the biggest selling point of this game.

Of course, every country has the psychology of protecting calves, Chinese fans basically unanimously support Tan Xibi on the Internet, and cheer for him, even Manchester United fans in China have a rare "mutiny" to temporarily join the camp of Arsenal, no way, who is called Tan Xibi is the first person to stay abroad in Chinese football, and he is the only player in the history of Chinese football who can be among the world's first, Manchester United? Pogba? Sorry, we're Arsenal fans at this moment!

An hour before the game, the starting lists of the two sides were released, Tan Xibi, who had been rested for the midweek game, unsurprisingly appeared in the starting midfield, and the Arsenal goalscorer Alexandre Lacazette, who was considered to be absent from this game in midweek, actually appeared in the starting lineup, which made people have to sigh that Arsène Wenger is getting more and more able to put smoke bombs.

Arsenal continue to field their strongest squad with the following list:

Goalkeeper: 33 Peter Cech

Defenders: No. 6 Laurent Koscielny (c), No. 20 Schöderland Mustafi, No. 18 Nacho Monreal

Defenders: No. 28 Tan Xibi, No. 8 Aaron Ramsey

Wing-backs: Héctor Bellerin 24, Sejad Kolasinac 31

Wingers: No. 11 Mesut Ozil, No. 7 Alex Sanchez

Forward: No.9 Alexandre Lacazette

Subs: 13 David Ospina, 4 Per Mertesacker, 29 Granite Xhaka, 10 Jack Wilshere, 17 Alex Iwobi, 12 Oliver Giroud, 23 Danny Welbeck

Manchester United, like Arsenal, have the same back three.

Goalkeeper: No. 1 David De Gea

Defenders: No. 2 Victor Lindelof, No. 12 Chris Smalling, No. 5 Marcos Rojo

Defenders: No. 31 Nemanja Mazic, No. 6 Pogba

Wing-backs: 25 Antonio Valencia (c), 18 Ashley Young

Wingers: No. 14 Jesse Lingard, No. 11 Anthony Martial

Forward: No.9 Romelu Lukaku

Subs: 20 Sergio Romero, 17 Daley Blind, 36 Matteo Damian, 21 Ander Herrera, 8 Juan Mata, 39 Scott McTominay, 19 Marcus Rashford

"Mustafi made a mistake with Lingard on the pass!"

"Lukaku pulls sideways and plugs it through!"

"Anthony Martial! Anthony Martial receives the ball with his back and passes it to Jesse Lingard in front! ”

'Lingard is straight to Cech! Dangerous! ”

"Tan Xibi! Tan Xibi! Tan Xibi's beautiful tackle! ”

"Tan Xibi's crucial tackle ruined Lingard's chance!"

"Hehe, Tan Xibi's tackle is too crucial! That's right, Mr. Zhan. ”

"That's right! If you are two goals down so early, Arsenal will be very passive! ”

"Phew!" Tan Xibi got up from the ground, took a sip, looked at Lingard who was holding his head and was annoyed, and scolded secretly, "Gay of the dog!" I'm not interested in you! ”

On the sidelines, Wenger wiped a cold sweat and glanced at Jose Mourinho, who was just hugging his head and being annoyed on the sidelines, frowning slightly.

He didn't expect the solid back three to fall off the chain in this game, and before Mustafi made a mistake, Koscielny's long lateral ball led to the opening goal being opened by Manchester United's Valencia less than four minutes into the game.

What he didn't expect was that Lingard, one of the three strikers, became a dog skin plaster on Tan Xibi, and while not leaving, he also used running and pressing to cause his team's back three to make frequent mistakes.

Valencia's goal was first credited to Jesse Lingard, as it was his immediate pressing after conceding the goal that led to Koscielny's misplaced long pass.

However, two lateral passes from Valencia and Paul Pogba led to chaos at the back of Arsenal, and the goal basically exposed the problems of Arsenal's defence - the lack of a strategy in the face of lateral containment.

Originally, Pogba's position when he assisted should have been Tan Xibi's area in charge, but he was stared at by Lingard, and Tan Xibi didn't expect Manchester United's frontcourt pressing after the opening to be so ferocious, nor did he expect his teammates' state to be so slow and there were problems in defense.

In the 10th minute, Arsenal repeated the mistake of the first goal, but fortunately, Lingard, who was not far from him and did not let him touch the ball, stepped forward to participate in the attack, allowing him to predict the opponent's counterattack route after the steal in advance, so that he could destroy Lingard's shot at a critical moment, which can be regarded as a vicious anger of being close to this guy like a dogskin plaster.

"It's a shame." Mourinho shook his head and sighed, if Jesse Lingard had scored, he would have been able to swing the bus to maintain the two-goal advantage until the end.

It's a pity that Lingard is not Herrera who sat on the bench in this game, and when the opportunity arises, it is difficult for Lingard not to give up marking Tan Xibi to participate in the attack, but the result of this is that Tan Xibi has become an indestructible sigh again, and the defense that destroyed Lingard's shot just now made Mourinho secretly cheer in his heart.

Yes, it was precisely because of Tan Xibi's lethal counter-attacking long pass and terrifying long-range shooting ability in front of the penalty area that Mourinho used the marking tactics in the 33rd round of last season to let Herrera target Eden Hazard's final victory over last season's Premier League champion Chelsea.

"Jesse!" Mourinho shouted to Jesse Lingard on the pitch, "Your job is to keep an eye on him, you don't have to get involved in the attack!" ”

Looking at Lingard, who followed wherever he went, Tan Xibi frowned.

"Manchester United are going to kill Wall." Gary Lineker said.

Leo Ferdinand said: "Wall is the engine of Arsenal, as long as he turns off, the Arsenal cannon will not start. ”

Martin Keown snorted coldly: "Don't think it's okay to stare at Wall, we still have Mesut and Alex." ”