Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid - Chapter 390

c383 It is a pity that you are in the same era as the strongest Chelsea.

“Manchester City still let Chelsea seize the opportunity to counterattack! Manchester City hoarded heavy troops in the middle to strengthen the attack, while Chelsea made a move on the wing. This three-back system is too strong to counterattack!”

“There are also problems with the physical fitness of Manchester City’s players. I said it before when Manchester City and Real Madrid played in the Champions League knockout round. They are fighting on four fronts this season, and the physical loss of the main players is much greater than other competitors.

At the end of the season, Manchester City is actually relying on one breath to hold on. It is not easy to complete a game with a strong confrontation rhythm.”

In the live broadcast room of LeTV Sports, Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu, the golden partner of Premier League commentators, analyzed the reasons why Manchester City lost the ball early today.

The tactical restraint is only one reason. The more important and fundamental reason is that Manchester City is too ambitious this season and has spread the battle line too wide.

There is actually no problem with Manchester City’s three-front battle now. Looking at the mainstream European leagues, the top teams fight on three fronts almost every season.

This has basically become the basic manifestation of the strength of the current European giants.

After all, how can a team be called a strong team if it has no bench depth to fight on three fronts?

But if it wants to open up another front and fight on four fronts, it would be too difficult for Manchester City now.

Fighting on four fronts requires more than just having enough bench depth for a team.

Like Chelsea last season, there were a lot of experienced veterans sitting on the bench.

In addition, the three core midfielders are durable and lucky enough not to have major injuries, which is why they have achieved great success in the season under the four-front battle.

If any of the three main midfielders of Chelsea last season could not hold on and fell in the middle of the season, Chelsea would not have been able to achieve the achievement of winning four championships in a single season.

Manchester City’s bench obviously lacks veterans who can hold the line, and Guardiola’s rotation has problems. At the most critical time point at the end of the season, two core generals in the front and back fields were injured in succession.

In this case, Manchester City is obviously on the edge of the cliff of morale collapse.

Failure in the season is already a highly likely event for Manchester City.

However, before the game officially started, Guardiola and his disciples were still holding their breath, thinking that they could rely on their tenacious will to get through the difficult times.

Unfortunately, the reality is cruel. Li Ang’s goal at this moment completely broke the “luck” in the hearts of all Manchester City players.

Now they really have no way out.

If they lose this game, they will lose everything this season.

Not to mention the FA Cup semi-finals that have not yet started, an FA Cup championship can not make up for the regrets of the Manchester City team this season.

At least Guardiola can’t accept such a season result calmly.

Even if the Manchester City management still has 100% trust in him, they will still give him a green light on the transfer fee.

But only winning one FA Cup championship in three seasons at Manchester City is a symbol of failure for the ambitious Guardiola.

The second place in the league and the quarterfinals of the Champions League are not honors in Guardiola’s mind. Only the championship is his pursuit.

At this time, he seems to have lost his calmness in the past.

As Chelsea’s players celebrated, he rushed to the sidelines and roared to signal the Manchester City players on the field to “wake up” as soon as possible.

They no longer have any excuses or retreats. If they lose this game, what’s the point of winning the next few league games?

They must grit their teeth and fight to the end!

Even if they really don’t have confidence, they must force themselves to believe that they can turn the tables!

Guardiola, who showed the momentum of a “tyrant”, made many Manchester City players on the field shrink their necks subconsciously.

It was uncomfortable for them to be scolded by their own head coach in such a critical match.

But it must be said that Guardiola’s extreme behavior still made them quickly get out of their depressed mood.

It is unlikely to boost morale, but the role of clearing the mind still played a role.

The game soon resumed, and Guardiola quickly made tactical adjustments, signaling Sterling and Nasri to take more balls on the wing to try to break through.

At the same time, he also asked Kolarov and Zabaleta not to have too much psychological pressure and continue to maintain the previous forward insertion rhythm.

Guardiola’s adjustment is still very targeted.

Manchester City must now maintain the rhythm of the attack. It is impossible to retreat to defense, so the focus of the attack should be shifted to the wing.

As long as Manchester City’s wing attack is good and threatening enough, Chelsea’s two wingers must retreat to assist the defenders in defense.

In this way, Chelsea’s wing counterattack threat is mostly gone. Manchester City uses offense instead of defense, which can be regarded as reducing the defensive pressure on the back line.

Mourinho sat in the coaching seat and watched the change in Manchester City’s offensive style, stroking his chin and just smiled.

Chelsea’s quick counterattack will indeed be restricted by Manchester City’s targeted attack, but so what?

They have now achieved their half-time game goals set before the game.

They have taken the lead and greatly consumed the physical strength of Manchester City’s midfielders.

What if the counterattack threat is restricted?

Mourinho can fully accept the current situation. If you can’t counterattack, just squat and defend directly. What a simple thing.

Glancing at Guardiola who was calling on Sane on the bench to warm up, Mourinho decisively made his own tactical adjustments.

Cross, who was close to the coaching bench, first received Mourinho’s tactical instructions, and then he went directly to Li Ang to relay them.

So before Manchester City could change their tactics and launch an attack on both wings, Chelsea shrunk their formation and assumed a defensive stance.

However, Chelsea’s squat defense is not like ordinary teams that gather in front of their own penalty area, directly leaving the entire midfield to let the opponent calmly organize the offense.

Li Ang, the retreating Hazard and De Bruyne formed the first line of defense, blocking the top area of ​​the center circle and constantly strangling the organizers of Manchester City’s midfield.

Kroos and Matic protect the areas on both sides of the penalty area, and Li Ang will drop back at any time to help them defend.

This defensive system made Manchester City’s entire midfield and frontcourt offense quite uncomfortable.

Not to mention the effort of the offensive organization, it was rare to break through Chelsea’s first line of defense and had to face the blockade and interception of at least two Chelsea midfielders.

It’s really difficult to break into Chelsea’s penalty area!

And looking at Li Ang flying up and down, seemingly appearing in every area of ​​Chelsea’s midfield and backcourt, Manchester City’s offensive players felt even more helpless.

But no matter how difficult it is, they must persist in attacking now, and they must work hard to find their status in the detailed offensive rhythm.

Guardiola looked at the grim form of the game off the court and frowned.

He could see that Manchester City’s frontcourt offensive players were already working hard to find offensive opportunities, and they did not make too many mistakes.

But facing Chelsea’s backcourt players who are more active in running and very oppressive in defense, Manchester City’s offense at this moment is not quite up to par.

Guardiola actually knows what Manchester City’s shortcomings are on the offensive end.

They need faster pass transfer, faster running support, and faster assault speed.

But all this requires abundant physical fitness to support it, but what Manchester City lacks most right now happens to be physical fitness!

Guardiola knows how to solve the team’s existing offensive problems, but this is a dead end.

Manchester City’s players can only last for a short time just by playing chicken blood. How can they last for a full 90 minutes of game time? !

The sullen Guardiola watched as his disciples failed to attack Chelsea’s defense again and again.

The game time is still passing ruthlessly, and the situation on the court has never tilted towards Manchester City in the slightest.

Finally, amid the lamentations of many Manchester City fans, the referee on duty blew the whistle to end the half-time game.

Guardiola also turned around and walked towards the player tunnel immediately at this moment. He seemed to have figured something out and seemed to have made some determination at this moment.

In sharp contrast to him, of course, is Mourinho, who is smiling all over his face at this time.

Lao Mu waited in the locker room for his disciples to come in, all chatting and laughing. He praised all the main players without any hesitation in his words of praise.

Then he quickly arranged his team’s tactics for the second half of the game.

The scope of tactical adjustments is still relatively large, but in the final analysis, Mourinho’s requirements are still to “run” and proactively fight a “war of attrition.”

To deal with the current tired Manchester City, there is actually no need for too many complicated tactical arrangements.

Just to defeat them!

When Manchester City’s midfielders are stretched to the limit of their physical fitness, Chelsea can easily complete the harvest of the game.

Li Ang has the same idea as his head coach. He has personally played against Manchester City players on the court, and naturally knows better that his opponents have indeed reached the critical point of physical fitness at this moment.

Therefore, continuing to fight a war of attrition with Manchester City is undoubtedly the most correct decision.

This approach seems a bit rogue, but who made Manchester City reveal its fatal flaw…

At the beginning of the second half, Chelsea’s style suddenly changed. They no longer defended the half-court, but took the initiative to seize control of the midfield with Manchester City.

Chelsea’s game of rushing to start the game is actually very common. The entire Manchester City team seemed to have expected it and soon started to play the tactic of controlling the ball in the backcourt.

When Manchester City used this tactic against Chelsea for the first time, Mourinho made a tactical compromise, and Chelsea eventually made peace with Manchester City.

But today, once again faced with Manchester City’s attitude of luring the enemy deeper, Chelsea very resolutely chose to press high!

In the first half, it was Li Ang who took the lead in defense and disrupted Manchester City’s offensive rhythm. At this moment, it was Li Ang who took the lead in pressing forward and constantly pressuring Manchester City’s ball-handlers. It was still Li Ang who disrupted Manchester City’s ball control rhythm!

He seems to have never-ending physical fitness, supporting the team’s tactical tasks on both offense and defense.

Fabregas could only cast envious glances at Li Ang at this moment.

His physical ability is not as outstanding as Li Ang’s. At this moment, his ability is limited by his physical ability, and he can only use 80% of his strength at most.

The same goes for most of the rest of Manchester City’s players.

After playing Real Madrid, they were exhausted physically and mentally. As a result, they had to fight a life-or-death battle with Chelsea before they could get enough rest time.

It’s easy to shout out the last slogan, but it’s so difficult to actually do it.

Just after the 60th minute of the second half, Manchester City once again showed the same embarrassing state of being overwhelmed and unable to do so in the second half of the first half.

Upon seeing this, Guardiola could only play his tactical trump card and substitute Sane and substitute midfielder Delph.

Nasri, who he had high hopes for, did not show his past strength in today’s game.

In the end, he could only transfer his hopes to the young Sane.

Delph’s appearance further demonstrated Guardiola’s resolute attitude at the moment.

Fernandinho left the field, and Manchester City directly changed to 433.

They only had Gundogan, a defensive midfielder, on the field, Delph and Fabregas played as central midfielders, and Sterling and Sane were also pushed to the front line.

The horn of Manchester City’s counterattack has been blown at this moment, but something unexpected happened soon.

Chelsea did not choose to retreat and park the bus again, but continued to compete with Manchester City with a high-pressure tactic!

This allowed Manchester City’s frontcourt players to see more offensive opportunities, but correspondingly, Manchester City’s defenders also had to bear more defensive pressure at this moment.

Mourinho chose the most un-Mourinho tactical play at this moment, and the game really entered a white-hot stage!

The opportunities for both teams are truly equal at this moment.

If Manchester City can score the equalizer first, they can continue to “survive” in this game.

Manchester City players who constantly squeeze their physical potential bet everything!

They finally ran again. At least on the field, they were evenly matched with Chelsea and were not at a disadvantage.

Manchester City fans also had hope again. They prayed, yelled in front of the TV, or gritted their teeth and kept cheering their players in their hearts, hoping that they could hold on!

But after the chicken blood effect gradually faded, the team’s momentum was played but it was slow to turn it into a goal, the exhausted Manchester City main players finally lost to reality.

They couldn’t beat Chelsea!

The smile on Li Ang’s face at this moment seemed a little ferocious.

After completely running down Manchester City, the game came to its real end.

In the 77th minute of the second half, Li Ang took the ball and accelerated to pass Fabregas and Gundogan who intercepted him.

At the moment of entering Manchester City’s defensive third zone, he smoothly passed the ball to Hazard who cut inside to respond.

Zabaleta wanted to block Hazard outside the penalty area in advance, but the Belgian winger dribbled the ball twice and changed direction after getting the ball, and directly shook off Zabaleta’s defensive position!

Hazard, who successfully broke into Manchester City’s penalty area, went all the way to the bottom, and Mangala had no choice but to lose his defensive position to block Hazard’s shooting angle.

But Hazard, who noticed Li Ang’s follow-up run, quickly chose to pass back in an inverted triangle.

Li Ang, who was advancing to meet the ball, did not choose to shoot at the first time, but passed the ball horizontally at the moment Otamendi came to defend!

At this moment, Suarez, who was at the back of Manchester City’s penalty area, suddenly advanced, met the ball lightly, and sent the football into Manchester City’s goal again before Bravo saved it!

After scoring this goal, Suarez excitedly took off his jersey directly, and held it in his hand and waved it ostentatiously!

All Chelsea players, including Oblak, excitedly rushed to the corner flag area of ​​Manchester City’s half!

After Li Ang “furiously rubbed” Suarez’s hair, he roared directly to the live camera:

“It’s over!!!”

Yes, it’s over!

Not only did this game end early, but the entanglement between Chelsea and Manchester City this season also ended early!

Mourinho and Holland hugged passionately on the sidelines, and the Chelsea players on the bench also rushed out at this time, rushing towards the large group they gathered near the Manchester City baseline.

Li Ang took a last look at the frustrated Manchester City players before celebrating with his teammates.

This is a group of strong opponents.

They are good and hard-working, but it’s a pity…

They are competing with the strongest Chelsea at the same time!