City's counter-attack came so swiftly and ferociously.

In fact, Manchester City this season is no longer the underdog team that let the giants fish and meat, after they changed the big boss, they invested heavily to invite many strong players, just from Arsenal poached Colo, Toure, Adebayo and Nasri three generals, plus Barry from Liverpool, Tevez from Manchester United, and the former bicycle boy Robinho, goalkeeper new signing Taylor and others, Manchester City has enough confidence to compete with the "Big Four".

What they lack now is only a long-term accumulation of strong self-confidence and the belief to fight for common honor.

In the first 30 minutes of the game, it can't be said that Manchester City played badly, only that Arsenal played too well, no one expected that after the temporary change of formation in the first game at the beginning of the season, Arsenal's players suddenly seemed to be resurrected in the new formation, they relied on this set of 451, which is not uncommon in the Premier League this season, and played all the heroes to be frightened, and scored points one after another, and many people were inexplicably surprised.

And Manchester City's players are clearly one of them.

In the Manchester City team, there are now three players who have come out of Arsenal, and it stands to reason that they should be very familiar with Arsenal, but at the beginning of this game, the three former Arsenal players in the Manchester City team, Kolo. Toure, Bam Adebayo and Nasri all agree that Arsenal has changed too much.

The first is their midfield routine, Arsenal in the past was good at playing 442, especially the two wings paid great attention to, whether it was the era of Pire, Ljungberg, or Walcott, Nasri, Arsenal's wing attack was much more than the middle attack, and most of the goals they have scored have come from the wing. However, at the beginning of the game, Arsenal's three forward midfielders frequently attacked the middle, and there was a momentum of not hitting the south wall and not looking back, although Manchester City learned the bitter lesson of their city neighbor Manchester United, and arranged heavy troops in the middle, and new signings Barry and De Jong were placed in the middle at the same time, but they still could not resist Arsenal's desperate strong burst, in the first 30 minutes, Manchester City's middle was almost scattered, and the two midfielders not only could not organize an effective defense, but even passed the ball forward became extremely difficult.

The other difference is in Arsenal's defence. In the impression of Nasri and others, Arsenal's frontcourt players have never participated in defense, at least in the era of Adebayo, Toure and others, Arsenal's offense relies on Henry, defense relies on defenders, which has almost become a fixed situation, but now it is not the same as in the past, the current Arsenal pays attention to full attack and defense, not only when attacking, not only the front waist is frequently inserted into the position, even the back and back and back are not lagging behind, sprinting back and forth, and when defending, they are all soldiers, The likes of Arshavin and Theo Walcott can even chase back from the front line in order to make a tackle, forming a three-dimensional protective net across the entire field.

Of course, there is still a certain gap between Arsenal's skirmish-like defense and Barcelona's organized and disciplined national defense, but for Manchester City, which is more loosely formed, this is simply an insurmountable gap, and they were stunned to find that not only could not organize an attack in the middle, but even tried to go on the side It became extremely difficult. Song and Denilson, covering a wide range of areas, plus two defenders with good speed and even better Klicy and Sagna, Manchester City had almost no chances at all in the early days.

But is such an Arsenal invincible?

Of course not.

Arsenal also have a problem with their strategy of attacking the middle, which at times looks sharp but becomes a danger when opponents find a way to target xìng.

Where do the hidden dangers come from? Of course, it comes from two wings.

Some people may wonder, didn't you still say that Arsenal's two wing "waists" are active in defense and difficult to penetrate, why did you suddenly change your words now?

Yes, in fact, the two statements are not contradictory, because the previous statement that Manchester City could not get better chances on the wings is actually referring to Manchester City's two wing-backs, namely Robinho on the right and Nasri on the left. These two players are not the kind of people with unlimited physical strength and huge coverage, they are good at breaking and dribbling, but they are not good at defending, so when Arsenal attack, their role in the defensive end is almost none, resulting in Arsenal's two wing-back lines Walcott and Arshavin are like fish in water, and frequently get opportunities to cut inside; On the offensive end, the two Arsenal full-backs will actively return to defend and assist Sagna and Clichy to defend them, so they will feel powerless in attack and defenseless.

However, in modern football, the attack on the wing is not just based on two wing-backs, let's not forget that Manchester City also have two full-backs, Richards and Onooha.

Arsenal's current attacking style is to concentrate on attacking the middle, and this brute force method has caught Everton and Manchester United off guard, and the two teams have been fed 13 goals by Arsenal combined, so it can be said that they were caught off guard by Arsenal's brutal and simple style of play.

However, after four league games, Arsenal's style of play has been first glimpsed by their opponents, especially their complete abandonment of the tactic of two wings and bottoms, which has been remembered by many people who are interested, among these people, Mancini is one of them.

Although there are many people who say that Mancini is a "big winner in life", and winning the championship depends on luck, but we cannot deny that Mancini, who was very brainy when he was a player, is by no means as useless as everyone thinks, although he won the championship easily at Inter, but he is also a coach from Italy, and he must have his own set of methods for tactics, how to use two vacant fullbacks, this is the biggest variable in Mancini's game.

For this reason, Mancini even transferred the starting right-back De Jong to the midfield, and formed an impregnable back line with the new signing Barry, thus putting the defender Richards, who has stronger assist ability, into the starting lineup, and the left side gave up the veteran Zabaleta and used Onooha, whose defensive ability was almost reduced to scum, in order to use the strong attack of the two of them to make a fuss on the two wings of Arsenal.

Although Nasri and Robinho were held back by Arsenal to open the way for City on either flank, they nevertheless attracted most of Arsenal's attention on both flanks, and after lurking for most of the midfield, Richards and Onooha finally showed their fangs.

City's first goal came on the right flank, with Robinho bursting down the flank. Song and Clichy teamed up, and just when everyone thought he would pass the ball back to the middle, a sky blue figure suddenly crossed Robinho's side like a wind, and then the ball at his feet was also hooked, and broke through the unprepared Clichy.

The player who broke through from the flanks was none other than Richards, a young full-back from Birmingham City who joined Manchester City's youth team in 2001 and can be said to be the product of a blue moon with strong roots in terms of pedigree.

Richards' defensive ability is extremely strong, one-on-one interception ability can at least rank in the top five in the Premier League right-back position, what is even more commendable is that he still has a very fast speed, after two or three years of training in Manchester City, his assist ability has also been explored, even if Manchester City later introduced more big-name stars to form a formidable "oil army", but Richards is still the team's main right-back candidate, whether it is Mills or Boateng, can not shake his starting position.

At this time, Richards has been playing for Manchester City for three seasons, this season is his fourth Premier League season, although he is still young, but the experience is quite old, when Robinho's surprise is blocked, he has already quietly ambushed behind him, waiting for the attention of the two Arsenal defenders to be drawn away by Robinho, and then smashed out from behind to break through the Arsenal defence.

At this time, there was obviously a certain degree of confusion in the Arsenal defense, and Vermaelen, who was originally dragging behind, was ready to rush up to fill the position, but looked at Silvestri next to him, he hesitated or chose to stand on the spot, because the veteran Gala was resting in this game, and Vermaelen's partner in the central defender was replaced by a frizzy Silvestri, Vermaelen was worried that Silvestri's head would suddenly pump again after his attack, which would lead to problems in the back, so he decided to brake statically and not pounce for the time being.

But his decision ultimately came to Arsenal, and although Richards was not good at going far, he was now on the verge of a flat horse, and he had time to gallop straight to the bottom line, and by the time Vermaelen saw his intentions and was ready to rush up to block his pass, he was already comfortable with a good pass from the baseline.

What Vermaelen feared finally came to pass, when Silvestri missed Bam Adebayor, whom he had been marking, and the Togolese rushed in front of goal to blast a header high into the net, which Almunia witnessed almost without reacting.

The goal sent the Blue Moon fans on the sidelines, who were still sweating on the sidelines, singing and dancing and cheering wildly to celebrate the jīng goal, and although the team was still one goal behind, they had already seen hope in the attack.

Sure enough, if the goal was just a wake-up call for Arsenal, four minutes later, Manchester City's left flank blossomed again, and Onooha's assist for Tevez's goal completely activated the atmosphere of the city stadium, and the noise almost pierced the sky overhead with a big hole.

This time the attacking problem was with Arsenal's right midfielder Theo Walcott.

Like Richards' assist, Onuoha's attack was also a chance created after Nasri attracted the attention of Denelson and Sania, but this time it was different, this time Walket specifically thought of the full-back's assist, so when Onuoha stepped in strongly, Walcott also started almost at the same time, rushing out almost side-by-side.

Just when Walcott rushed out, everyone thought that there was no suspense in this attack, because Walcott's defense was not very strong, but his speed was recognized by the whole world, and people almost regarded him as the fastest man on the football field today.

And then the outcome of the matter shattered the glasses of the ground, and in the high-speed drag race with Walcott, Onu Oha, this previously unknown guy, actually won the final victory!

Onu Oha, born on November 12, 1986, was officially joined by Manchester City in 2004, and since then has been up and down between the reserve team and the first team, rarely playing as a starter, only playing for Manchester City in four seasons, scoring 1 goal, most of which came in the Carabao Cup or FA Cup or other inconsequential times, as a full-back, the defense is simply miserable, and there is a hand in assists, He scored a hat-trick of assists against Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup.

If you're going to search for this guy's information, that's probably all you can find, and you won't be able to get any more information about him.

But in fact, in Manchester City's internal file, there is also a report on Onooha's physical tests, in which the number on his 100-meter speed is 10.7 seconds.

Yes, Walcott, who is known by everyone as the 100m flyer on the football field, has a stat of 10.5 seconds on Arsenal's intra-team 100m test report.

That is, this is a hundred-meter speed that is hardly inferior to Walcott's Nirìlia!

If this alone explains why Onuoha defeated Walcott in the 100-meter speed competition, it is obviously biased, in fact, this is also related to the current physical state of the two, Walket has been running up and down for the first 30 minutes, sprinting frequently, his physical fitness has obviously declined, and Onuoha has been raising jīng to accumulate sharp, so he has taken a big advantage in terms of physical fitness.

This was the main reason why Walcoat was defeated.

But even so, Onooha pulled away Walcott, who is known for his speed, in the 100-meter sprint, which still greatly stimulated millions of viewers on the scene and in front of the TV, and no one could have imagined that a guy who had never been prominent in Manchester City could defeat Walcoat in his most proud area without any suspense!

Where did this guy come from?

Not to mention many viewers in front of the TV, I am afraid that even many Manchester City fans on the scene do not understand too much, as a player who is more involved in games such as the FA Cup or League Cup, Onooha obviously cannot attract as much attention in the team as "his own people" such as Richards, especially his defense in the reception of Manchester City legend Rodney. After the bad comments of Marsh and others, many people have already regarded him as a garbage that is about to be swept out of the house, and they ignore him even more.

But there is a good saying, often in the deep mountains no one asks, once famous all over the world, just after this short sprint of dozens of meters, Onooha suddenly became the focus of attention of the world's media, this guy who can beat Walcoat in 100 meters, how fast can he run?

While such doubts were still circling in everyone's minds, the situation on the field had already undergone a fundamental reversal, and Manchester City scored two goals in a row in just 5 minutes, instantly pulling the score back to the same running line!

Because of these two goals, Mancini, who had been preparing to commit suicide by seppuku every minute, suddenly came to life, he rushed to the sideline excitedly and waved his fist high, as if he didn't think it was too much, and turned back to the Manchester City fans in the audience to incite, and under his gesture as if he was directing a symphony, the Manchester City fans sang their team anthem, "Luemoon".

This is a lyrical song that is completely different from the passionate atmosphere of Manchester United, Milan and other teams, but under the unison interpretation of more than 60,000 Manchester City fans at the scene, it exudes an unexpected pathos and majesty. ”

Yes, Manchester City fans have long called this game "City Stadium Defense", in the season Arsenal started almost crazy strong, no one can think that the nouveau riche Manchester City is enough to withstand the gunners' firepower, just 5 minutes ago, even Manchester City fans themselves thought that the team was dead, but there is no end to the road, Manchester City players miraculously equalized in just a few minutes, so next, can they have more to look forward to?

Unlike the resurrection seen by Manchester City fans, more Premier League coaches on TV at this time are seeing another question that makes them even more ecstatic: Arsenal's attack is not unsolvable, and they are quite flawed!

Magical Mancini, great Mancini! At this moment, I don't know how many Premier League coaches who were originally worried silently thanked Mancini in their hearts, if it weren't for his tactics on both wings, I'm afraid many people would not be able to see through Arsenal's paper tiger face, yes, the tragedy at Old Trafford has made many coaches feel weak before they met Arsenal, they have almost decided that Arsenal this season is invincible, but the stunned Mancini, forced to tell them with such a half-time reversal, Beneath Arsenal's formidable surface, there are also huge holes.

So the next time we meet Arsenal, wouldn't we be able to give them a bite to do?

And as the score on the field was quickly reversed, Wenger on the sidelines quickly frowned, Arsenal's 451 has such a huge hole, didn't Wenger know before? That is of course impossible, and as an experienced coach who has been in the game for two or three decades, how could Arsene Wenger not know the strengths and weaknesses of his team?

But before this, Wenger still had a certain amount of luck, he originally thought that Arsenal's problems would be seen by the managers of other teams for at least a while, but he didn't expect that it was this Mancini from Italy, who he was not very familiar with, who actually saw through Arsenal's details so quickly, and hit Arsenal's soft underbelly in one fell swoop through the strong assists of two full-backs, causing the team's problems to be exposed to the public so quickly.

It seems that I always thought that this guy was a lucky wild road leader, but he was still too light on the enemy!

Wenger turned his head and glanced at the bench on the sidelines, his mood instantly stabilized again, hum, do you think that Saint Seiya only has such a move as Pegasus Meteor Fist? (To be continued.) )