Manchester City are now second in the table, one point above Arsenal, followed by Tottenham Hotspur who will take on Sunderland away before Liverpool host Aston Villa.

Arsenal will have to win this game if they are to finish in the top three.

In this game, Xhaka and Wilshere continued to partner in midfield, Bellerin and Kolasinac flanked the side, Sun Xiang and Cazorla stepped forward, and Lacazette was a single striker.

Manchester City continued in a 4-3-3 formation, with Otamendi and John Stones at centre-back, and Delph and Kyle Walker at wing-backs. JD.com, Fernandinho and De Bruyne in the middle; Leroy Sane, Sergio Aguero and Raheem Sterling play in the front three.

The two teams, which played with all the main forces, were in attack at the beginning of the game.

However, most of the players in the squad on both sides are new members of the national team, and the fatigue of the extensive journey has made their bodies a little overwhelmed.

Twenty minutes later, both sides noticeably slowed down their attacks.

'The international break seems to have a big impact on the players and the attacking battles at the start of the game are no longer visible.

"Maybe it's the player's sense of self-preservation. Exertion can make them hurt. Alan Smith explained.

Perhaps, as he said, the players slowed down for self-preservation.

In the 28th minute, the storm on the finally calm court changed abruptly. Manchester City launched a wave of attacks from the left side of the field, De Bruyne passed the ball to the left baseline, Sane received the ball and shook off the angle of a cross, and Aguero in the middle grabbed the ball to the goal, 0:1, Manchester City took the lead at the Emirates Stadium.

The sudden loss of the goal left the Arsenal crowd too late to react, and the first half was over in a hurry. At half-time, Arsene Wenger regrouped his players, cheered them on and re-emphasised tactics.

As soon as the second half came up, Manchester City called for a substitution.

Leroy Sane, who provided the assist in the first half, was replaced by Spanish midfielder Silva.

With this substitution, City's possession of the ball up front has improved by a level, which has forced Arsenal's defence to focus on Silva on the left.

In the 63rd minute of the game, Manchester City scored another goal.

Silva was brought down by Mustafi at the top of the box on the left, and then De Bruyne's free-kick deflected off the defender's wall and into the far corner, leaving Cech to look at the ball.

At 0-2, Manchester City basically bagged the win, and as long as they didn't make a mistake in the next half hour, they could walk away at the Emirates Stadium.

'The situation is very passive for Arsenal, not fit enough, down the scoreline, which is the worst-case scenario. And Sun seems to be sleepwalking in a sleepwalking situation the whole game, and you can't even find him in the stadium. Martin Taylor said.

"Indeed, Sun was very obviously limited by the opponent this time, and almost couldn't get a chance to touch the ball, Guardiola abandoned the attacking Fernandinho and let him follow Sun throughout the whole process, which everyone can see."

"This is the criticism of Wenger's tactics, as long as Sun is restricted, then his whole set of tactics has no core, which makes the game very passive." Alan Smith analyzed through Martin Taylor's words.

Arsene Wenger frowned on the sidelines, and although he found this shortcoming, it is not realistic to replace Sun at the moment.

Overall, the most effective way is to keep Sun away from the opponent's goal, so that Manchester City will have a lot less control over Sun Xiang.

So in the 67th minute of the game, Wenger replaced Wilshere with Ramsey and retreated Sun Xiang to the middle of the midfield.

Sure enough, after this substitution, Sun Xiang became active again on the court.

He and Xhaka and Cazorla tore Manchester City's right side through the triangle pass in midfield, Gundogan and Walker formed a local three-on-two, and then Sun Xiang shifted the ball to the right after another ball, and Manchester City, whose center of gravity shifted, threw Bellerin's side.

The pace of the Spanish full-back was well known, and in the face of Delph's defence, he overtook the inside straight from the sideline and then went to the outside touchline again when Delph was chasing back.

Swinging back and forth, it directly slowed down Delph's speed, and Bellerin was able to go down with ease.

His cross was headed into the box and Alexandre Lacazette headed it over, but City goalkeeper Moraes reached out first to smash the ball out.

The ball flew in the direction it was played to the left side of the penalty area.

The Manchester City backline, which was defending as a whole, did not contain the ball too much, allowing Ramsey to easily get possession on the wing. Little by little, the Welsh midfielder moved towards the line of the penalty area and Walker focused on preparing for the defence.

Suddenly, Ramsey swung his calf and sent the ball back into the corner of the box.

Seeing this, Walker quickly shifted his attention to Sun Xiang, who was holding the ball, but he was afraid that the two of them would kick the wall two by one, so he didn't save too far.

However, Sun Xiang did not continue to observe the movement of Ramsey in the box before getting the ball, and it seemed that he was planning to go it alone.

"Kyle, go up! The Chinese intend to go it alone! Otamendi commanded that Sun Xiang's shooting threat in this position was too great, and they had learned it before.

Walker was not there, he moved along Sun Xiang's center of gravity, and also began to block to his left, thinking that he must not be given space to shoot with his feet.

But Sun Xiang didn't seem to be cut in according to his own ideas, and Sun Xiang didn't mean to do it alone from the beginning.

He knew that if he passed the ball directly, he would probably be cut off by Walker or some other defender, so he had to play a time gap.

In fact, there is also an element of luck in this, if Walker does not move in advance, then even if he wants to play like this, there is no chance.

Sun Xiang let the football to his right side, then stepped on the ball with his left foot and gently pulled it back, followed by the rotation of his body, and swung his right leg with the inertia of turning, making a pass similar to Marseille's slalom, just so that the ball rolled over the side of Wall's dragging leg.

This passing method Sun Xiang just played casually by himself in addition to training, but he didn't expect to use it in the official game today, and it was really successful.

Ramsey, who has been running, was overjoyed when he saw the ball appear in front of his eyes, and his running was actually basically to open up the space for Sun Xiang, who was holding the ball, so that the latter could go straight to the penalty area, but he didn't expect him to pass the ball to himself. Now he has only Moraes and most of the goal in front of him.

"Fantastic pass! Ghostly passing! It's hard to imagine that this is a Chinese player. Martin Taylor sighed as he sat in his seat with his head folded.

"Normally this kind of pass only happens in La Liga or the Americas, it's a Brazilian pass, it's beautiful! Sun is simply a magician! ”

Ramsey then fired into the far corner from the onrushing Moraes, who was down in time and the ball raced past his feet and into the goal.

1:2, they pulled a goal back!

Ramsey didn't have time to celebrate after the goal, he quickly ran to the goal and took out the ball, and on the way back to the field, he high-five Sun Xiang: "Beautiful pass! ”