After the press conference, Wenger and Zhang Xu took Ozil to meet the remaining teammates of the team. After that, Ozil hurried to the national team to prepare for the German team's match.

Zhang Xu, who was idle, returned to his previous two-point and one-line life, except for the training ground and home. Such days continued until the national competition finally ended, and his teammates returned to the team one after another.

What made Zhang Xu confused was that in this national team competition, several teammates were injured to varying degrees. Among them were defenders, midfielders, Rossick, Cassorla, forwards Podolsky, Chamberlain, etc., who were all injured more or less.

As a result, the team's injured players reached eight, which had a great impact on the team's strength.

Fortunately, the team has also added some players recently, such as Ozil and Flamini, which are more or less helpful to the team's strength.

The next game is the fourth round of the league: challenge the Black Cats Sunderland away!

Sunderland Association Football Club is an English football club for the Premier League team.

Founded in 1879, the home is located on the newly built stadiumflight on the riverside of Sunderland, northeastern England. Sunderland won six Group A titles, but the most recent one was 1936, but they are still the last team to win the English League title in a sword shirt.

They also won two FA Cup championships, the most famous one was in 1973 when they defeated Leeds United, which was the most prosperous team in 2018.

At about 3:00 pm on September 14, 2013, a focus game in the 4th round of the 2013/14 English Premier League was held at Sunderland's home court, the Stadium of Light.

Arsenal's starting lineup is like this, and it is still a 3-2-3-2 double-middle formation: the goalkeeper is No. 1 Szesney; the back line is No. 3-Sania, No. 6-Koscheerney, No. 28-Gibbs; the back midfield is No. 18 Zhang Xu and No. 20 Flamini; the front is No. 16-Ramzie, No. 10-Wilshire, No. 11-Ozil; the forwards are No. 14-Walcott and No. 12-Girou.

Ozil made his first appearance for Arsenal, and Sania and Flamini were in rotation to start. The team also had good news, that is, the back-defense back-stalker Fermalen recovered well in injury and sat on the bench today.

Arsenal has won away games in the league in the past two seasons, but in the 2012 FA Cup, he was eliminated at the Bright Stadium. Arsenal has lost only one of the last 19 league matches between the two sides, and has won 11 wins and 7 draws in the remaining 18 games.

The two sides have 24 matches in the Premier League in history, with Arsenal having the upper hand in 13 wins, 8 draws and 3 losses, of which 5 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses away. The two sides have 144 matches in history, with Arsenal having a slight advantage in 55 wins, 39 draws and 50 losses.

At the beginning of the game, Zhang Xu did not play cautiously because it was a away game, but instead launched a fierce offensive against Sunderland without hesitation.

Because it was Ozil's debut, Zhang Xu paid special attention to strengthening his cooperation with Ozil and giving Ozil more opportunities to excel as much as possible.

In the third minute of the game, Zhang Xu made a steal and directly blocked the pass from Sunderland No. 11 Johnson, and then stabbed the ball to Ozil with one kick.

Ozil ran towards the ball. When the football was about to stop at his feet, he suddenly stopped and started in reverse, and threw the Sunderland player who was following him behind and successfully formed a breakthrough.

Ozil immediately accelerated, quickly stepped forward, and quickly approached Sunderland's defense. After being intercepted by the opponent's defender, he didn't even look at the situation in the middle, and directly hooked his left foot and sent the football to the middle.

Zhang Xu arrived at the right time, put the arch of his right foot on his right foot and controlled the ball steadily, then pulled and pushed the ball with one push, avoiding the opponent's right foot.

Then he quickly started, crossed the intercepting player, pulled a position open, and passed it straight with his right foot!

The football immediately passed through two Sunderland defenders and came to Walcott's feet!

Walcott made a quick decision and without waiting for the opponent's defender to destroy it, he directly pulled his feet and shot angrily!

The football flew towards the lower right corner of the goal. Sunderland goalkeeper Westwood reacted quickly. Seeing that he had no time to pounce the ball with his hands, he fell to the ground and poked the football flying against the ground with his left foot.

He was lucky, the football hit his left toe and then rebounded and rolled out of the baseline. Arsenal got a corner kick.

Ozil ran over immediately and prepared to take the corner kick.

Ozil trusts Zhang Xu's heading ability very much, so the corner kick he took directly was Zhang Xu's point.

Zhang Xu did grab the first point, but his body was hit by two Sunderland defenders, and his body was a little tilted. He could no longer make a complete header, so he had to use his forehead to point the football to Walcott who was waiting for a chance.

Walcott shot again!

Unexpectedly, Sunderland's goalkeeper performed very bravely today, and even blocked the shot that was close to him!

However, although these consecutive shots failed to score, they still played a certain momentum and suppressed Sunderland's offense. Zhang Xu gradually controlled the rhythm of the game in his hands.

In the eleventh minute of the game, after Zhang Xu received a pass from Gibbs in the backcourt, he suddenly passed it straight through the gap between the four players and came directly to Ozil's feet.

Ozil leaned his right foot, pulled his right back with the trend, turned right quickly, and threw the opponent up to guard his player behind him, then pushed his right foot, accelerated immediately, and quickly underground!

As he approached the defense line, he suddenly kicked a beautiful cross with his left foot!

Giroud successfully scored the goal in the middle, and at 14 yards away from the goal, he shot calmly and immediately penetrated Sunderland's goal and entered the net from the lower left corner of the goal.

The goal scored! 1:0! Arsenal led by one goal away!

Seeing the football flying into the goal net, Giroud immediately ran all the way to the south stand and burst into a crazy roar.

Giroud is indeed quite excited. His goal efficiency has been much lower than Walcott this season, which has always been very entangled. This is not Zhang Xu's biasedness. Zhang Xu has also given him many beautiful goals, but he has not grasped it. Now he has finally scored a goal, which can be regarded as a way to clarify his reputation!

After taking the lead with one goal, Sunderland was obviously stimulated and the offensive momentum suddenly became fierce. Arsenal played without any rushing or impatient after scoring the goal. As a result, the two sides were back and forth, and the scene gradually became more intense.

In the 15th minute of the game, Ozil made a straight pass, and Walcott shot with a one-on-one shot from 16 yards on the right side of the penalty area was rescued by Westwood.

In the 18th minute of the game, Sunderland Roberg passed the ball, and Artidor was disturbed by Zhang Xu, and failed to cause trouble for Szesney.

In the 20th minute of the game, Zhang Xu made a straight pass in the backcourt. After Wilshire received the ball, he quickly made a diagonal pass, and Ramsey's diagonal shot from the left side of the penalty area missed.

In the 22nd minute of the game, Zhang Xu saw Will Sheer suddenly step forward, and immediately understood and passed the ball with a diagonal pass. When Will Sheer received the ball, he was tripped by the opponent's guard and fell in the Sunderland penalty area, but the referee did not give a penalty.

In the 26th minute of the game, Sunderland Altidore made a handball foul, and Ozil's free kick from 25 yards on the right was confiscated by Westwood from the near corner.

In the 28th minute of the game, Zhang Xu and Ozil cooperated twice in a row and suddenly made a straight pass. Walcott's shot from 12 yards on the right side of the penalty area was saved by Westwood again.

In the 43rd minute of the game, Zhang Xu rushed to the frontcourt, cooperated with Giroud and made a precise pass. Undefensive Walcott jumped to the top at 12 yards on the right side of the penalty area, but the ball went out of the close corner.

After wasting countless opportunities, the first half finally ended, and Arsenal led the way into the second half with one goal.

However, Sunderland almost made a sneak attack at the beginning of the second half.

In the 48th minute of the game, Sunderland attacked, and No. 11 Adam Johnson broke into the right side of the penalty area from Koscheerney's side. Facing the goal close to Szesney and attacking, Johnson made a quick decision and directly pulled his feet and shot angrily!

The football was thrown by Szesney, but it did not change the direction of the football, and the football still rolled towards the goal!

"Hurry up!" At this time, Zhang Xu chased after him like a flash of lightning and broke the football from the goal line!

"I'm sorry! It was my fault that made him a breakthrough!" After seeing Zhang Xu clear the football, Koscheerny lowered his head rarely and apologized to Zhang Xu.

"Haha, what does this matter? I often make mistakes, just correct me! I believe you can do it!" Zhang Xu patted Koscheerney on the shoulder and said with a big laugh.

"Thank you! I will learn from my lesson!" Koscheerney nodded fiercely and said seriously.

Zhang Xu smiled again, then ran straight away.

After this danger, Koscheerney's condition improved significantly and his defense seemed very stable, which also relieved Zhang Xu of a lot of defensive pressure and allowed him to free up more energy to strengthen the team's offense.

In the 51st minute, Ramsey made a cross from the right and Giroud headed the ball missed.

In the 58th minute of the game, when Zhang Xu dribbled the ball in the frontcourt, he was directly dragged by Sunderland's defender. The opponent received a yellow card, and Arsenal received a free kick with a good position.

Zhang Xu gave Ozil the opportunity to free throw. Ozil nodded at Zhang Xu, and then directly shot a curved ball and hung directly on the upper left corner of the goal.

However, because he was too pursuing angles, the ball was slightly higher than the crossbar and flew out of the bottom line.

In the 67th minute of the game, the score was finally rewritten again.

After Zhang Xu cooperated with Will Sheer on the right and directly formed an effective breakthrough, he passed the ball to the middle with a big foot. Ramsey, who swapped the ball with Zhang Xu, immediately volleyed into the net at 16 yards away from the goal!

2:0!

In the 70th minute of the game, Walcott, Wilshire, Ramsey and Ozil passed the ball continuously, Giroud made a straight pass, and Ramsey pushed the ball from 10 yards on the left side of the penalty area to score!

3:0! Ramsey also successfully scored twice!

Arsenal also secured the victory!
Chapter completed!