52, Yellow Dot Package, Tan Xibi's weakness, and the gunman's crisis
At the start of the second half, Tan Xibi noticed that City were more tempo, running faster, passing faster and, more importantly, attacking both sides of their own side more resolutely.
Manchester City's twin strikers Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Jesus are running more wide, and with wingers and more side-pulling David Silva and Kevin De Bruyne, Arsenal's flanks are under intense defensive pressure.
Josep Guardiola's second-half adjustments were fruitful, with the fast pace after kick-off making Arsenal uncomfortable, and Tan Xibi went to the wing to fight the fire only to find that he was entangled by Fernandinho.
Pep Guardiola stood on the sidelines, staring at Arsenal's backfield with blazing eyes, allowing the "Flying Bird" and Tan Xibi to form a match, which was a judgment made by Guardiola from his observation of Tan Xibi in the first half, and the defensive genius did not seem to like physical contact with opponents.
In order to verify his judgment, Guardiola boldly sent the only midfielder on the field to the front court to closely guard Tan Xibi, and sure enough, Tan Xibi was like being splashed with dirty water, far away from Fernandinho.
"Ma Maipi, dead black guy get out of the way!" Tan Xibi saw that Fernandinho was going to have close contact with him, so he couldn't care about supporting his teammates, and he couldn't wait to stay away from this nasty black bald head.
Although Fernandinho couldn't understand Chinese, his originally dark face became even darker when he saw Tan Xibi's very disgusted look and his face as if he was a bunch of yellow Migong.
Without Tan Xibi's support, Arsenal's wide defense was quickly broken by the opponent's fast-paced impact, and in the 49th minute, Silva and Jesus hit the wall with a quick kick in a row to stun Sead Kolasinac and Jack Wilshere, Silva hit the left side of the Arsenal penalty area with a straight kick, Raheem Sterling cut into the box diagonally to receive Silva's ball and rushed to the goal, and Nacho Monreal knocked down Sterling in front of the corner of the small box when he chased back.
Raheem Sterling fell to the ground with his arms outstretched and looked like I had been fouled, referee Michael Oliver pointed to the box and then showed Monreal a yellow card!
"Shrimp? Yellow dot package? Tan Xibi was stunned, this is too fast, only a few minutes into the second half?
Monreal was unconvinced to ask Oliver for an explanation, and Laurent Koscielny also defended his teammates, after all, the Premier League is supposed to be a physical confrontation game, and Sterling was knocked into his body, and Monreal doesn't look like a foul no matter how he looks at it.
"Don't question it anymore, I decide, Arsenal's captain, the number 18 has already been booked, if he is questioning, I will have to show another one." Oliver said with a straight face.
Koscielny shook his head and pulled Monreal aside: "Nacho, forget it, argue with Mr. Referee again, you are going to play." It's okay, even if they score a penalty, we're still ahead. But be careful when defending at the back, you've already got a yellow card. ”
"Is it a penalty? He's faking a fall! Mr! Arsène Wenger opened his arms and shouted to the fourth official.
"Calm down, Monsieur Arsène, please control your emotions and pay attention to what you say." The fourth official frowned.
I can't see if it's fake or not, but how can the penalty decided by the referee be changed, and if the referee's authority is not maintained well, can he still control the game?
"Seyad, is that a foul?" Not seeing the contact between Monreal and Sterling, Tan asked Kolasinac.
"The two of them collided, and the No. 7 fell, whether it was a foul or not, it was Mr. Referee's final say." Kolasinac shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly.
It was Manchester City's top scorer and first penalty taker Sergio Aguero who took the penalty spot, and the Etihad Stadium was quiet, fearing that the sound would affect Aguero.
"Hey, you don't have to look at it to know how to lose the ball." Tan Xibi sighed, he has been keeping an eye on Arsenal, and although Peter Cech has performed well since joining the Gunners, he also won a Golden Glove award last season, becoming the goalkeeper with the most golden gloves in the history of the Premier League. But the 35-year-old Czech's physical function has declined greatly, although he has a wonderful save, but the data on the save point is really sorry for his identity.
Since joining Arsenal, the number of penalty saves has been zero.
Sure enough, Aguero runs, kicks up, and shoots in the lower right corner, Cech pounces in the opposite direction, and the ball hits the post and bounces into the net, 1-2, Manchester City pulled 1 goal back!
After Aguero's goal, the Etihad Stadium erupted into a tsunami, Aguero ran to the stands to celebrate, only De Bruyne ran to the goal to pick up the ball and ran back to the centre circle.
"Keep it up, we'll overtake!" Guardiola clapped his hands nervously and roared, on the other side, Wenger, who was standing on the sidelines, frowned, just now Fernandinho and defended Tan Xibi He saw it, he knew that Tan Xibi's weakness was seen through by Guardiola, and he conceded the ball at the beginning of the second half, which is not a good sign.
Manchester City, who are attacking all the players, is crazy, I am afraid that the whole of Europe will not be able to find a team that can keep its innocence, not to mention that after Manchester City scored early, in the face of the high morale of Manchester City players, the pressure on the Gunners players is greater than the mountain.
"Do you continue to put on defenders to defend with all your might, or do you change Mesut and Alex to increase the power of the counterattack, so that Manchester City don't dare to attack too hard?" Wenger glanced at the countdown on the screen in the stands, substitutions are a science, the substitutions were changed too early, the substitution quota was used up, and once something went wrong, it would be troublesome if there was no substitution.
"Boss, Wall is being specifically targeted, and we are under too much pressure defensively." Steve Boulder worries about authenticity.
"Tell Aaron, Jack, and Francis to pay more attention to the rib area and share the pressure on Wall." Wenger can only hope that others will reduce the pressure on the defense, and Tan Xibi, a weakness that does not like physical confrontation, can only hope that he will find a way to solve it himself.
"you, you have to score another goal to beat their arrogance!" Tan Xibi clenched his fists and said angrily.
The Manchester City players who restarted the game and narrowed the score to 1-2 launched a high-level pressing tactic towards Arsenal with great momentum, but no matter how inferior Arsenal's strength is, it is always a strong team in the Premier League, not to mention, Tan Xibi is not afraid of the opponent's high pressure at all.
His teammates knew that Tan Xibi was very good at defusing high pressing, so they quickly handed the ball to him.
Seeing Fernandinho and Aguero pressing towards him, Tan Xibi, who still lacks the ability to get rid of the spot and advance with the ball, can only play his excellent overall vision and long passes to solve the opponent's high press.
When the ball reaches Tan Xibi's feet, Theo Walcott and Alexandre Lacazette will start to run to the opponent's defense, Manchester City wants to create an offside position, but it is not as fast as Tan Xibi's feet, and my brother Tan has never been a sloppy swinger, oh no, he has never been a procrastinator who loves to touch the ball, what he is good at is to observe the situation in front of him before receiving the ball, and set the direction of the pass and the position of the landing point.
Touching the ball, before the opponent could get close to his one-metre range, Tan Xibi kicked a very dashing long, well-guided long ball that Granit Xhaka, who was sitting on the bench, praised.
Why chic?
Because in the face of the strong oppression of the opponent, my brother Tan did not change his face in the society, and he got up in a hurry, and in the eyes of people, he felt like a chic brother.
Even Guardiola's gaze at the ball in the air is shining, what a ecstasy!