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

Chapter 162

The tactical arrangement in the first half proved that it was a correct arrangement to let Chen Chen play as a front midfielder and two defensive midfielders to coordinate.

So Guardiola did not make any adjustments.

He emphasized that the flank area should pay more attention to defense, and then strengthen the ability to control the ball in the midfield.

The second half changed sides and started again.

The two sides reappeared on the court.

Brighton kicked off.

Trossard's condition was a little better than Maupai today, but only a little.

If the team had no other strong strikers, Potter would definitely replace Trossard and Maupai together!

But can this be blamed on Trossard?

No.

It is difficult for a weak team to play against a strong team. In addition, the opponent has two defensive midfielders and two high center backs. Who can rush up?

Even the three Red Arrows can't rush up.

The 51st minute of the game.

Manchester City's offensive!

"Blue Moon has launched an attack."

"Chen Chen made a straight pass to Grealish on the left!"

"Grealish and Chen Chen didn't cooperate much in the first half, but there was a little more in the second half."

"Grealish chose to kick the ball and cross it!"

"Dunk headed the ball back!"

"In the area of ​​​​competing for high balls, the advantage of high center backs is very obvious."

The ball was headed to the front court.

Soon the ball was at Chen Chen's feet again.

Today, Chen Chen is the center of Manchester City's formation. Basically, 80% of the passes between the backcourt players and the frontcourt players are made through Chen Chen.

The other 20% are the full-backs who directly advance to the wingers.

Brighton certainly knows that Chen Chen is difficult to deal with.

But what's the use of knowing?

Can you hold it?

No.

Because Chen Chen is not a player who can be watched by one person, you need two or three people.

Okay, you are now playing with more people against fewer, and you have indeed restricted him.

What about the others? Give up defense?

This was also the focus of the discussion between Liverpool legend Carragher and Manchester City legend Ali Benabia when they were guests on Sky Sports before the game.

But the discussion was fruitless.

Because none of the guests and commentators could come up with an effective method to target it.

Looking at the commentators who were thinking hard, Benabia had already begun to look forward to the scene of the Blue Moon conquering the Parc des Princes under the leadership of Chen Chen!

On the court, Chen Chen chose to split the ball after getting the ball.

This time it was on the right.

Jesus was running with the ball.

Cucurella reacted quickly and immediately blocked Jesus' possible dribbling route.

Seeing that the opponent had blocked the route, Jesus did not continue to choose to break through.

Turning around, Jesus passed the ball to Rodri who was behind.

Rodri and Gundogan made a wall-to-wall match and easily passed Mwep who was pressing forward.

Then Gundogan tried a long shot from the outside of the penalty area.

This shot was extremely powerful!

The ball was very fast!

Fortunately, Robert Sanchez was very focused, he jumped up immediately and lifted the shot over the crossbar!

"Oh wow! Gundogan's sudden kick was very beautiful this time!"

"This is a shot close to the crossbar!"

"Of course Sanchez's save was also very beautiful, Manchester City got a corner kick."

Gundogan felt very sorry holding the back of his head.

After passing Mwepe with a two-pass pass, there was no Brighton player behind the Zambian midfielder to fill the position immediately, which gave Gundogan space to kick.

It's a pity that this good opportunity was not seized, otherwise if it was 3-0, the result would be certain!

Chen Chen trotted over to prepare for the corner kick.

"Beep!"

After the referee blew the whistle, Chen Chen put his arm down, and then---

pushed a short pass at a close point!

Dunk is 192, Feltman is 184. Brighton is not at a disadvantage when competing for the header in the penalty area.

So Chen Chen chose to push a short pass to mobilize the players on both sides in the penalty area, and there will be more opportunities for the active penalty area to cross.

And more importantly, the opponent can't set an offside trap.

Because everyone has different ideas. Your central defender wants to create an offside, but does the full-back think so?

Unless everyone secretly discussed it at the beginning, or the offside strategy was determined before the game.

Just like Saudi Arabia played Argentina in 22 years, Saudi Arabia will not fight for set pieces, and run forward to create offside.

Chen Chen passed the ball to Gundogan, and then Gundogan passed the ball back, and Chen Chen got the ball again.

Chen Chen was not offside in the middle.

At the moment when they saw Chen Chen was about to kick the ball into the penalty area, Dunk and Feltman hurried to the goalkeeper!

Solly March, who returned to the right back position, jumped forward to expand the defensive area. He wanted to block Chen Chen's cross!

But heIt was not blocked.

Because Chen Chen kicked the ball very high, the ball simply passed Solly March, and then flew over the heads of Feltman, Grealish, Dunk and Ruben Dias, and arrived at the back post!

In the eyes of all the fans, Kyle Walker at the back post headed the ball!

Sanchez rushed to the left immediately!

Unfortunately, he couldn't touch the ball!

"The ball went in!"

"Kyle Walker aimed at the middle and headed the ball!"

"Manchester City's corner kick tactics worked!"

"The high defenders of both sides became spectators in this wave of corner kick attacks!"

"It was so easy!"

"Manchester City scored the third goal of the game at the Yuntong Community Stadium!"

"0-3! The game is over!"

"Everyone in the Manchester City team is in good shape, Coach Zhang, I am now looking forward to the second match between Manchester City and Paris!"

Zhang Lu chuckled twice and said,

"I am looking forward to it too!"

Kyle Walker, who scored the goal, did not run to the corner flag area, but ran to Chen Chen, and then jumped directly onto Chen Chen's back!

Walker was still muttering,

"Chen! You gave me a great goal!"

"I feel like this ball is meant for me!"

"You're just an asshole! So fierce!"

Chen Chen said with a smile,

"Worship me! Kyle!"

"I only worship God!"

"Then I am God!"

The two laughed and cursed at each other.

Then Walker jumped down, hooked Chen Chen's shoulder and ran to the corner flag area to celebrate!

The score of 0-3 made the Seagull fans fall into silence and pain.

On the other side, the Blue Moon fans went crazy!

They turned the tables at the Yuntong Community Stadium, and the passionate cheers resounded over the stadium!

Seagull?

I'll turn you into French fries today!

With this goal, the suspense of this game is gone.

After winning away, the Blue Moon's record in the new season will reach 8 wins and 1 draw, and they have achieved an excellent result of not losing in the first 9 league rounds!

Manchester City fans and Manchester City players on the bench were very excited.

Guardiola didn't feel anything special. If you ask why, it was mainly because he expected to win the game.

Guardiola simply clapped his hands to celebrate, and then quickly asked several players on the bench to warm up.

He was going to make substitutions.