36. Appearance

The superstitious media and fans felt bad before the game, because every time Arsène Wenger was in charge of 100 games, Arsenal's results were terrible.

Arsenal haven't won since losing 1-0 to Chelsea in their 500th game.

The 600th game was a 0-1 defeat to PSV Eindhoven, a 2-0 defeat to Porto in the 700th game, a 0-2 defeat to Birmingham City in the 800th game, a 3-3 draw with Norwich City in the 900th game and a 6-0 slaughter by Chelsea in the 1000th game.

Fortunately, in the 1,100th game, that is, on January 30 last year, the FA Cup was defeated at home to Burnley 2-1, shattering the curse of "sadness".

Although the game was just over an hour away, and despite Arsenal conceding only one goal, reporters and fans watching the game were still worried that the professor's 800 Premier League games would be another cup.

In the 27th minute, Seyad Kolasinac fired a low left-footed shot wide.

In the 40th minute, Samuel Klukas' left-footed shot went off target.

A minute later, Kolasinac and Alex Sanchez combined on the left side of the box and took a few steps with his right foot to shoot hard, but Lucas Fabianski, who was in good position, struggled to save the ball.

Seeing Sanchez's wonderful shot saved, the whole audience let out a cry of regret, on the bench, Jack Wilshere and Tan Xibi stood up when Sanchez hit the goal, staring at the direction of the goal, seeing that the shot was unsuccessful, Wilshire hugged his head in annoyance and sighed, Tan Xibi shook his head and sat back in his chair.

This is football, it's exciting, you can't calm down.

In the 45th minute, Arsenal's defense made a mistake, Per Mertesacker was stuck in position, blocking Jordan Ayew behind him, but he did not clear the siege decisively, hesitated, was robbed by Ayew who grabbed it, Mertesacker's body lost balance and fell to the ground, Ayew faced the attacking Peter Cech, ignored his teammates who were in a better position next to him, forced the goal, and was blocked by Cech to the bottom line.

"Damn, what the hell is the captain doing." Tan Xibi frowned, fortunately he spoke Chinese, and his teammates around him couldn't understand it.

"It's dangerous!" Towards the end of the first half but almost conceding a goal, Steve Boulder wiped the cold sweat from his head and said to Arsene Wenger with a look of grief.

Mertesacker's toda scared the fans into a cold sweat, and if they conceded another goal in the first half, it would be difficult for Arsenal to reverse.

As Swansea's corner kick was cleared by the Gunners, the referee on duty blew the whistle for the end of the first half, and the Gunners walked to the tunnel with their heads bowed to the elated shouts of the Swansea fans.

"Wall, use the break to warm up and get ready for the second half." Arsene Wenger shouted at Tan Xibi.

"Okay, boss!" Finally able to play football, Tan Xibi shouted happily, took off his coat, and put on shin guards.

Seeing Tan Xibi warming up on the court, Emma Jessica waved and shouted happily.

However, unless you have a loud voice or you take a loudspeaker, it is possible to reach Tan Xibi's ears, not to mention that Tan Xibi is concentrating on warm-up activities, and his mind is full of reviewing the first half of the game, and he is deaf to the voices of the outside world.

Speaking of which, Tan Xibi's debut at the Emirates Stadium was not as good as last weekend's away game, at least he appeared as a starter.

In the Carabao Cup in midweek, he came on as a second-half substitute to make his debut at the Emirates Stadium, which was a bit of a fly in the ointment, but unfortunately he fell ill a few days ago and failed to complete his wish to make his home league debut.

However, Tan Xibi didn't take these vain things to heart, he devoted himself to professional football for three major goals.

Earn money, play for his idol Arsene Wenger, and win the Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer of the Year, two of the highest personal honors for professional footballers.

One of them has been reached, and if you make money, it will take time, after all, villas, luxury cars and beautiful women are not very important at the moment, and there is time to complete them.

As for the Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year, since the turn of the millennium (2001), the 16 Ballon d'Or winners, with the exception of Pavel Nedved and Fabio Cannavaro, have all been attackers in the front court, especially since 2008, when the Ballon d'Or has become a duo of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.

And the World Footballer of the Year, like the Ballon d'Or, both belong to the same person, and there is no such thing as one winning the Ballon d'Or and the other winning the World Footballer.

And since 2010, the Ballon d'Or and Mr. World Footballer have been merged, and there is only one highest individual honor for professional players.

Although Tan Xibi is confident, he is not conceited, don't look at the Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer of the Year are the unparalleled double pride, and both are terrifying goal machines, but he believes that it is because in the past decade, no midfield star has reached the heights of Nedved and Cannavaro.

As long as he achieves, oh no, surpasses Nedved's strength, Tan Xibi believes that he will definitely be able to accomplish this seemingly impossible task.

The break passed quickly, and the two sides changed sides again, and before kick-off, Arsenal took the lead in making substitutions, and the substitutions were two.

No. 28 Tan Xibi replaces Mertesacker and No. 10 Wilshere replaces Granit Xhaka.

Mertesacker went off the pitch and the captain's armband was naturally worn on the arm of the team's second captain, Laurent Koscielny. After Tan Xibi came on, Arsenal's formation also changed to 433, Nacho Monreal played left central defender, two wing-backs also retreated to full-back, Tan Xibi played in the back, Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey formed a double midfield.

Seeing this substitution, Simon Thomas, the host of Sky Sports' live studio, immediately expressed his confusion to the two guests: "I can understand Wall's appearance, he can strengthen Arsenal's defense. But Jack came out and replaced Xhaka, which is incomprehensible. Do the two guests know what's going on? ”

Jamie Carragher said: "I don't understand Wenger's substitution, could it be because Mr Southgate was there? ”

Gareth Southgate is the head coach of the England national team, and this game is sitting in the stands of the Emirates Stadium, needless to say, the Three Lions coach is here to inspect the players, and interestingly, as the home team, Arsenal started eleven in this game, which can be called an international column, and none of them are English players. On the other hand, the opponent's starting line-up had five English players.

What's even more interesting is that although there are no Englishmen in the start, Arsenal have four English players on the bench, and only Wilshere, a member of the Three Lions, has not been able to start the league.

Although he has played three full 90 minutes since returning from injury, and has shown good competitive form, and he has expressed his eagerness to play in the league, Arsene Wenger has been worried about Wilshere's health, so he is very cautious about his use.

Now he has replaced Tan Xibi and Wilshere in one go, in addition to strengthening the team's defense, freeing up Ramsey and the two full-backs to put more energy into the attacking end, but also to take advantage of this opportunity to play against strong teams next weekend, and practice the new midfield iron triangle combination of Tan Xibi, Wilshere and Ramsey to see if this combination can meet his expectations.

Therefore, Southgate is not on the scene, and the midfielder has nothing to do with Wilshere, and Wenger will not deliberately curry favor with the England coach who has nothing to do with him.

"Aaron, Jack, on!" Tan Xibi waved and shouted like a commander on the battlefield, drawing a roll of the eyes of Ramsey and Wilshere.

Tan Xibi's arrival fired the cannon of Arsenal's reversal, and also showed the world his rapid progress.