Football: The king of midfield, Guardiola is crying with envy

Chapter 222

Now!

Having gained the space to move, Chen Chen stepped to the right and made a feint, then immediately changed direction and ran to the left front!

Stones understood, and the England central defender immediately kicked the ball towards the bottom line!

Hoibel gritted his teeth and chased after him.

Foden saw Chen Chen start and cut diagonally to the middle, taking away Doherty who was defending him.

In addition, Grealish, who was originally standing in the middle, and Mahrez at the far end were heading into the penalty area. They had to stand still and create a receiving point for Chen Chen to cross from the side!

Before Hoibel could get started, Chen Chen, who caught up with the ball, directly swung his left leg and hung it into the penalty area!

Grealish jumped up quickly!

But goalkeeper Lori hit the ball before him, and then Lucas in front of him took over and cleared the ball to Manchester City's half.

"Chen Grealish has already run to the position!"

"Chen Chen also understands! He kicked the ball! Passed to the penalty area!"

"Lori chose to attack! Cleared with one fist!"

"What a pity, this should have been a good opportunity to pass from the wing."

Grealish, who missed a great opportunity, opened his hands with a helpless look on his face.

At this moment, Shake wished that he was ten centimeters taller!

Guardiola, who was sitting on the bench of the visiting team, sighed, and Guardiola also felt very sorry for this.

He naturally understood that the team's forwards were weak, no, it should be the problem of "weak center forward".

After Aguero left the team, Manchester City has been lacking a genuine center forward, and with Ferran Torres leaving Manchester City to join Barcelona in the winter window, the Blue Moon urgently needs a center forward to lead the front line.

This is very difficult to stretch.

Barcelona is no longer short of center forwards, but Manchester City is starting to lack them.

In the summer window, Manchester City quoted a price for Kane, but Kane failed to come.

Then when the winter transfer window started, Manchester City made progress on multiple fronts. In addition to contacting Haaland and Alvarez, they also contacted Vlahovic, the striker of the Purple Lilies.

There were not many people who would compete with Manchester City for the little spider, but there were many people on Vlahovic. Arsenal and Chelsea both wanted him, and Man Tiao was also raising his hand.

Who intercepted him later?

Intercepted by Juventus!

Facts have proved that Ronaldo's departure from Juventus is a lose-lose situation!

The Juventus strikers in the post-C Ronaldo era are not as good as Ronaldo.

Morata, Dybala, Keane, Chiesa...

So Juventus tried their best!

Vlahovic, who transferred from Belgrade Guerrilla to Fiorentina for 3.2 million euros in 2018, will transfer to Juventus for nearly 85 million euros!

Seeing Juventus so crazy, Manchester City and Chelsea did not follow suit.

That is to say, although the winter transfer window (January 1-January 31) has not started yet, in fact, the Blue Moon's winter transfer work has been completed, and they will only buy Alvarez.

This is also the reason why Guardiola is a little "sighing" now. The Spanish coach is considering the possibility of keeping Alvarez instead of renting him out.

The little spider was originally scheduled to continue to play in River Plate, which is considered a loan period.

But considering Manchester City's tight schedule in the second half of the season and the troubles of various championships, he may not stay in River Plate.

Although the River Plate without Alvarez may be slightly inferior to its opponents Boca Juniors, Athletic, Hurricane, and Atlético Tucumán in the championship, the old saying is good, it is better to die than to die with a friend!

So Guardiola immediately turned around and discussed with his assistants the possibility of Alvarez staying in the team in the second half of the season and a subsequent adjustment in the team's tactics.

Compared with the league and Champions League battles in the second half of the season, today's League Cup game seems a bit lackluster for Guardiola.

Of course, it would be best if we can win, but it doesn't matter if we can't.

For Manchester City, they don't need a League Cup to decorate the medal display room.

At White Hart Lane, after a back-and-forth battle in the middle, the game time broke through the 60-minute limit and came to the 61st minute.

Tottenham pushed the ball to Manchester City's half.

Son Heung-min on the left attracted a lot of attention from the players on the right side of the Blue Moon.

However, Tottenham didn't want to play on the left, they made a plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain, and the ball quickly came from the left to the right.

Before the Blue Moon players had time to return to defense as a whole, Hojbjerg, who received the ball, decisively gave the ball to Lucas Jr. who was active near the right sideline.

The latter directly kicked the ball and passed it to the middle!

The ball flew over the heads of Chen Chen and Stones who returned to defense and came to the air above the penalty area.

This is one of the tactics that Tottenham are good at this season. Son Heung-min and Lucas Moura cross the ball to each other on both sides, and then Kane stands in the penalty area to compete for the high point.

Of course, thanks to the flexibility of Son Heung-min and Lucas Moura,With speed ability, when the side pass can't open the situation, such as when encountering a tall player like Van Dijk, they will also choose to use short passes to break through.

"Sun Kai connection" is like this.

Kane quickly jumped on the spot.

However, he failed to head the ball this time, and Ruben Dias shook his head forward and cleared the ball outside the penalty area.

Stones on the periphery controlled the ball at the first time, and then took a step and faked it, deceiving Skipp who was intercepting closely.

Then Stones hurriedly ran forward with the ball!

Manchester City blew the horn of counterattack!

There were too many people in the middle, and Stones couldn't carry it, so he quickly pushed the ball to Foden on the left.

Foden didn't say anything, and directly kicked behind Dale. He wanted to find Grealish and Mahrez who was running quickly on the right!

But unfortunately, his pass was seen through by Dell. The tall and strong Dell did not bother with Grealish at all and kicked the ball directly out of bounds.

He would rather give Manchester City a throw-in than fight with the shaker here.

After all, what if it was intercepted?

If it was intercepted successfully and scored, then Dell would be the biggest sinner of Tottenham today!

James McCarty quickly ran to the outside of the boundary and picked up the ball.

Before the opponent was fully positioned, McCarty quickly threw the throw-in!

Manchester City continued to attack with the ball!

Chen Chen silently gave McCarty a thumbs up in his heart.

Who said this young player was young and inexperienced!

This young player is great!

Mahrez turned around to receive the ball.

However, his turning space was blocked by Reguilon. There was no way, the polo king could only choose to pass the ball back.

Laporte, who had made a forward run, passed the ball from his right foot to his left foot, pretending to knock it horizontally to the middle.

The Blue Moon had a feeling of wanting to change to the left.

But considering that if the ball was really sent to the left, the opponent would definitely return to defense.

So, Laporte did not choose to transfer the ball immediately, he was thinking.

Soon, Laporte made a decision!

The offensive window period is fleeting, and it is difficult to have it again after it passes. Now it really cannot be conducted in a formulaic way!

Although there is a risk of being intercepted by the opponent and then counterattacked when kicking the ball now.

But! The bigger the wind and waves! The more expensive the fish!

So Laporte did not hesitate any more, he gently pushed the ball forward, opened up a little distance, and then swung his arms and legs!

"Bang!"

The ball drew an arc in the air and came straight to the Tottenham penalty area!

Grealish aimed at the landing area and quickly jumped up to compete for the header!

"Ah!"

With a scream, Grealish fell straight down from the air, then collapsed to the ground and wailed!

The referee Kavanagh blew the whistle quickly.

At the same time, he pointed to the penalty spot!

Manchester City got a penalty!