In the two games since the Brazilian left-back returned from injury for nearly two months, especially at home to Liverpool, the injured main left-back Kieran Gibbs came on and performed disappointingly, with a mistake leading to the second goal conceded in the 60th minute of the second half. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Arsenal were quick to score twice in quick succession, but in the end they were held to a 2-2 draw at home, Arsène Wenger was so unhappy that he decided to abandon the 30-year-old Santos and bring in long-standing Spanish left-back Nacho Monreal before the winter transfer window was about to close.

After the winter window closed, the newcomer Monreal had yet to settle into what England had to do for a few days, and just two days after joining the club, he started at home to Stoke and played the full 90 minutes, helping Arsenal to a 1-0 win on his debut to get off to a flying start in his Premier League career.

After 90 minutes on the bench, Santos was not named in the squad for the next game, returning to Brazil's Gremio on loan on 11 February, and leaving Arsenal on a free transfer to join Flamengo in Brazil after his loan expired.

Monreal, who made a good debut, continued to sit at left-back while Gibbs was recovering from injury, and even after Gibbs returned from injury, he still played the next six games as a regular player, except for the home game against Reading.

In the first seven games for the Gunners, Monreal contributed 1 goal and 1 assist, achieving a good record of 6 wins and 1 loss, although he rotated with Gibbs later, but Monreal at the beginning of Arsenal, faintly pressed the momentum of the original Gunners' main Gibbs.

Although not young, but the Premier League newcomer Monreal still did not escape the curse of the sophomore wall, after missing the first league game due to injury in the new season, Gibbs once again became the team's first choice for left back, Monreal can only wait for opportunities on the bench, at the beginning of the new season, he basically played in the last 20 minutes of the second half, replacing not Gibbs in the opposite position, but his teammates in the front, sometimes he played left winger, sometimes he played left back, Gibbs went to play left winger, so intermittently played, Nature greatly influenced his good form. As a result, after Gibbs was injured again, he played the main team in the first home game against Hull City, and the performance was decent, and the team also won the game, after Gibbs returned, in order to cope with the upcoming Christmas devil schedule, the two began to rotate, Monreal sat on the bench in the next game, and in the away game against Manchester City, Arsenal suffered their biggest strength this season, 3-6, and the Premier League sophomores on the left side tasted the suffering of the Premier League powerhouse for the first time.

He had a poor performance in this game, starting five games in a row after sitting on the bench for two games and missing a league game.

However, in the away game against another strong rival, Liverpool, Arsenal were once again bloodied, and the underperforming Monreal was replaced by rival Gibbs in the 61st minute of the second half, and then intermittently substituted and absent from the squad.

This season, although he started again in the final games of the season, these were undoubtedly failures for Monreal, with only one assist in 23 league games, and it is clear that the Gunners boss, who has been asking full-backs to help his team in attack, has been unhappy with his performances this season, while Arsenal fans have also called for the sale of the poor Spanish full-back.

The turnaround came in the third year of the Premier League, and in the opening game of the 2014-15 season, the main left-back was injured in less than an hour after the first game, and Monreal's chance came.

Of course, it is also because Arsenal has no other left-back in the first team except him, although in the next three games, the Gunners drew three times in a row, but Monreal contributed 1 assist, a good performance, Gibbs is still the main force after his return.

Unfortunately, he was injured in the away game against Manchester City, missed twice and sat on the bench for one game.

After that, Arsenal suffered a central defender crisis, after Laurent Koscielny was injured, the central defender was unmanned, in desperation, Wenger arranged for Monreal to play central defender, during the Frenchman's injury, Monreal played five games in a row, with 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses.

Many people, it is in this season to play the experience of central defender, the Spaniard suddenly opened up, starting from the Christmas Boxing Day game, in addition to rotation and physical problems, Monreal has since beaten Gibbs, who has not been open, to become the Gunners' absolute main left-back.

While still goalless in the league (apart from two assists) in an open-ended season, he opened the scoring in a crucial FA Cup sixth round away at Manchester United to help Arsenal reach the semi-finals.

He later cited the goal as his best moment of 2015, the year he won the FA Cup with Arsenal.

The following season, Monreal remained fit after the opening, making 37 Premier League appearances and providing three assists, a new high since joining the Gunners, but he still did not open a goal account until this season's game again in the FA Cup.

"Oxlade-Chamberlain's cross, ah, Monreal, Monreal cuts into the box and shoots! Entered! ”

"In the 71st minute of the second half, Arsenal scored the first goal and led 1-0!"

'This goal could have ended City's FA Cup journey ahead of schedule, because since February, with Arsenal scoring first and almost winning all of them, with less than 20 minutes left in the game, will City equalise?

Regarded as the best left-back since Ashley Cole, Monreal's goal at a crucial moment will go down in Arsenal history for generations to come, and Josep Guardiola made the decision to make a substitution amid the wild celebrations of the Gunners.

Striker No. 72 Kleki Iheanacho replaces Fernandinho, who is on the cards, and midfielder Fabian Delphi replaces Gael Klich.

"It's not that the more strikers, the easier it is to score." Seeing Manchester City's substitution, Zhan Jun shook his head.

Pep Guardiola, you are a world-class coach, why are you not calm at this time?

Calm down?

Hehe, Lao Tzu calm down your face!

It's all this time, don't fight for your life, wait until it's only a few minutes and then fight for your life?

Pep Guardiola knows that a lot of people will have ideas about it, but he just wants to hehe.

Replacing two backfield players with two frontcourt players, the formation became 31125, and Guardiola was going to fight for his life.

Five strikers?

Yes, you read that right, Yaya Toure dropped back to centre-back, Vicente Kompany on the left, Nicolas Otamendi on the right, Delphi in the middle, Jesús Navas on the right wing, Raheem Sterling on the left wing, Sergio Aguero, Heheanacho and Leroy Sane in the front three.

Kevin De Bruyne is behind them, and if the midfielders are also included, plus Delphi, who will definitely press up when attacking, Manchester City has put up to seven attacking manpower, while the back three simply stay at the back to prevent Arsenal from counter-attacking.

What three lines are disjointed, no matter what, even if you squeeze, you have to use the number of people to squeeze through the gate of the Great Wall of China!

"Josep, you madman!" The corners of Zhang Zhetian's mouth twitched.