City came close to scoring again in the 68th minute when Leroy Sane headed in a corner from the left, David Silva crossed in front of the post and Gabriel Jesus stabbed a shot that was saved on the goal line by a quick-reacting Petr Cech.

This corner kick defense once again exposed Arsenal's old problem of watching the ball and not looking at people when defending set-pieces.

"Whether you can't keep it, or find a way to score is the last word." Tan Xibi, who sees everything on the periphery, knows that Arsène Wenger's team has always been bad at defending, otherwise every time he meets a strong team, the minimum cost is 1-2 goals.

This is what he suggested at the beginning that Arsene Wenger should change his formation and create an attack-oriented formation and tactics, no matter how many goals he concedes later, as long as he scores more goals than his opponent.

After changing the formation of 433, the away game against Everton has achieved initial results, but Ronald Koeman's team is already in crisis, lacking many main players due to injuries, and is vulnerable in front of Arsenal with Tan Xibi.

However, this time against the Blue Moon, who is in hot form this season, the Gunners, who are still running in a new formation, exposed the weaknesses in the player configuration combination in addition to the lack of individual ability of the players (except for Tan Xibi, the new thigh Alexandre Lacazette and the three high-priced bandits on the bench).

The first is the midfield trio, Tan Xibi is the main midfielder in Wenger's mind for the present and the next ten years, the other two, Wenger is interested in being extremely athletic, likes to run, has a striker's sense of smell to find space Aaron Ramsey and the blood of the Gunners, the future Arsenal captain Jack Wilshere, has already introduced the three midfield technical characteristics complement each other, as long as these three do not have too many injuries, they will be stable.

The problem now is that the three of them only started at the same time for the first time in this game, and the tacit understanding can only be said to take a long time to run in, so the game lasted for more than an hour, and only Tan Xibi was brilliant in the three midfielders, and Ramsey and Wilshere's performance in this game can only be said to be unsatisfactory.

Then there are the three strikers, and we know that the five strikers in the Arsenal first team (Alex Iwobi does not count, Chewba Akpeng does not have many chances in the first team, which can be ignored) are considered world-class, as far as Alex Sanchez and Lacazette are concerned, as for Oliver Giroud and Danny Welbeck are internationals, the veteran Theo Walcott cannot play in the team. It seems that although there are many and each has its own characteristics, it is a little strange that these strikers are always unable to pinch into a whole, and cannot play the effect of one plus one is greater than two.

Although when playing with a back three, Arsenal's front court looks like a three-striker, in fact, strictly speaking, when Sanchez and a central striker play together, they can only be regarded as two strikers, and Mesut Ozil or Iwobi play as a wide midfielder.

In fact, Wenger's main trident for Sanchez and Ozil after the departure of Arsenal is the combination of center forward Lacazette and bilateral strikers Walcoat and Welbeck, Giroud's positioning, or a super substitute, and Josep Guardiola's selection criteria on the forward line are similar, Wenger actually tends to be a small and fast type of player in the trident combination, in fact, throughout Wenger's 21-year Gunners coaching career, he does not pay attention to the high striker who is good at heading, So the center forward in his tactics is only used as a fulcrum or as a pawn for strains depending on the situation in the second half.

With no way of knowing which type of striker will be chosen to replace them after the two thighs are gone, the trident of the French and the British will be the best option at the moment, Walcott's speed, Lacazette's sense of smell and archery, Welbeck's athleticism and maneuverability, on paper, the trident seems to be perfect.

But as mentioned earlier, 433 is Arsenal's first time playing, and many tactical details need to be run in through a long period of training and games, so how can Arsenal not pay a huge price for insisting on using an unfamiliar formation and a strong Manchester City kick this time?

At this time, it takes someone to step up, turn the tide, and become a hero against the giants.

However, before you can become a hero, you have to be in a more difficult situation.

Therefore, in the 74th minute, an accident became a turning point in the madness of this game.

In the 72nd minute, Arsenal and Manchester City made a second substitution at the same time.

Manchester City replaced Raheem Sterling with No.8 Ilkaj Giuan and No.20 Bernardo Silva for Leroy Sane.

Arsenal brought on Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil for Theo Walcott and Francis Coquelin, and Arsene Wenger's substitution was a correction of the misconception of holding the score with a stubborn defense, coming on with two thighs to give a signal that he was fighting with the hosts.

In fact, at the 70th minute, Manchester City's physical strength has reached a critical point, replacing the winger is because of physical strength, and replacing JD is to change Kevin De Bruyne to the wing, and maintain the formation with the B seat who also plays winger, and maintain the offensive suppression of Arsenal.

But the risk of Pep Guardiola doing so is huge, Sanchez and Ozil are on the pitch, and they will cause huge problems for City's defense when they are full of energy, so B and De Bruyne also have a function that neither winger has, the ability to drop back to defence.

However, an offensive attempt after the substitution made the game sour, and many people put the introduction of video replay technology back on the agenda afterwards.

De Bruyne took the ball on the right side of the corner of the penalty area to attract two Gunners players and passed a through ball, D seat seized the opportunity to be pulled out by De Bruyne at high speed to plug in and receive the ball and then turned around and inverted triangle cross, the Gunners defender who raised his hand did not follow the unguarded Jesus in the middle, the Brazilian received the ball and directly pushed the goal, 3-2, Manchester City overtook the score and lead!

"Mr. referee, this is offside!"

"Can't you see such an obvious offside!"

"It's offside!"

Emotional Gunners swarmed around Michael Oliver, pointed out that the D seat was offside when he received the ball, and pointed to the big screen for Oliver to watch the replay.

Oliver waved his hand to signal the Arsenal players to calm down as he spoke into the microphone.

Tan Xibi quietly watched everything in front of him, although the anger in his heart was burning, his face was quiet.

Especially seeing that Oliver still signaled that the goal was valid, and showed yellow cards to the emotional Wilshere and Kolasinac, Tan Xibi did not laugh angrily.

"I've long heard that the Premier League is magically blind, it's really better to see than to hear." Tan Xibi slowly walked to the kick-off point of the halfway line, took a deep breath, and looked directly at the Manchester City goal opposite.

"I want to vent, my anger."