Dominance from the Moment He Took the Field, King Fly! Inside Arsenal's midfield dressing room, Wenger looked calm, without the slightest hint of impatience or dissatisfaction.
He acknowledged the players' defensive stability and Possession Control rhythm in the first half, while also pinpointing the team's problems.
Against a packed defense, the team lacked sufficiently sharp off-the-ball runs, explosive bursts, and finishing ability in front of goal.
And all of that happened to be Li Yufei's specialty as he waited on the bench.
Wenger made an adjustment on the spot. At the start of the second half, he sent Li Yufei on as a substitute, replacing a wide player whose stamina had been heavily drained.
He had Li Yufei and Suarez reunite as a peak two-striker partnership, joining forces to assault Manchester City's exhausted defense line.
When he learned that he would be coming on in the second half, Li Yufei remained calm, without any showy excitement.
After observing the first half, he had already figured out Manchester City's defensive patterns, positional weaknesses, and defensive habits.
Even though he had not trained systematically for half a month and had been away from the pitch for some time, his Football IQ, finishing instinct, and attacking intuition were still etched into his bones.
Rest, adjustment, warm-up, activation—he waited quietly to take the field in the second half, break the deadlock with one stroke, and dominate the match.
The brief halftime break ended, and the players of the two teams returned to the pitch as the battle of the second half officially began.
All sixty thousand Gunners fans rose to their feet in an instant. Their cheers shook the stadium as everyone waited for that man to appear.
In the forty-sixth minute of the second half, Arsenal made a substitution!
Li Yufei slowly rose