Chapter 76 One goal ahead
After the game began, the two sides did not immediately start a big attack, but carried out some tests. After all, this game was the first match between the two sides, which was an encounter. Of course, with the qualifications of the Gosho team in European competitions, most of the opponents they encounter are encounters.
Judging from the lineup of Manchester City, they are indeed more defensive. They not only added a defender with excellent defensive ability in the midfield. Cork, and they didn't send Ashley to start more of the left winger. Yang, instead, sent the more defensive Mexican international Guardado to try to curb the side attack of Gosho's specialty.
Although Manchester City put on a defensive posture, Lin Fenglei did not let Goshao attack rashly. He asked the two full-backs to easily not come forward to assist. The task for Antunović was to let him keep an eye on Diego, and there was no need for him to insert an assist. This is because Diego is an excellent midfield commander. If he doesn't stare at him, he has the ability to decide a game by himself. Aguero is also a striker with extremely fast speed, explosive power and good skills. If Gosho's formation is too close, his power in the counterattack is not ridiculous. .
In the case that there are not many troops put into the attack on both sides, the game has entered a stalemate. The tactical organization of both sides is not very smooth, and they can only rely on the personal ability of the attacking players to get the opportunity.
In the 5th minute, Gosho's right-back Gugelman made a long pass in the backcourt. Codingho grabbed the first header and handed it to Egman. Egman took advantage of his physical advantage and forcibly hit the bag defense of two Brazilians, Jeromel and McCon, and broke into the penalty area. In the face of the attacking Hart, Egman With a low shot, the ball dodged Hart's save, but hit the goalpost, bounced back to the middle of the penalty area, and was kicked out of the sideline by Kyle's big foot.
Egman's shot shocked Mancini in a cold sweat. If Gosau scored so early, his tactics would have to be completely overturned, which was very unfavorable to Manchester City.
In the 8th minute, Manchester City's back midfielder De Jong sent a straight plug in the midfield. Diego took the ball behind his back in the front court. He used his skillful little skills to get rid of Antunović's defense and broke through to the 30-meter area of Gosho. Although Antunović still followed Diego tightly, he did not dare to be casual in this location. Foul, because there are many good free kicks in Manchester City, Diego's own free kick is very good. Lin Fenglei also told him not to foul easily at the front of the penalty area.
Just when Antunović hesitated a little, Diego faced Antunović and hit the ball to his left side with his right heel. He shook the angle of the shot and immediately shot with his left foot. The ball flew to the goal like a loaded cannonball. Although Ceccari made a save response, The shot was so fast that he didn't touch the ball at all. However, God seems to be to compensate for the Gosho team's hit on the goalpost. Diego's wonderful long-range shot also hit the goalpost and then popped up the bottom line.
Diego hugged his head and looked very annoyed. Under Antunović's tight defense, even he could not often get such a good shooting opportunity. If he missed this goal, Antunović's defense was bound to be tighter, and it would be more difficult for him to score a goal.
The Gosho fans in the audience made a neat sound of taking a cool breath, and Lin Fenglei also took a breath in his heart. Then he immediately walked to the sidelines and shouted to Antunović, "Zlak, don't let him shoot so easily."
Antunović nodded to him and said, "Head, I know." Then, he got tighter with Diego.
The two sides made the two head coaches more cautious in each of the three minutes, and both sides played carefully in the following games.
Now Lin Fenglei finally realized the meaning of the sentence "the older the world, the less timid". It turned out that when the Goshao team first entered the Ruichao, no matter what kind of opponent he faced, he dared to fight against the opponent. It doesn't matter how many goals he scored by the opponent, as long as he scored one more goal than his opponent; and now Goshao The team's strength is getting stronger and stronger, but its tactics are becoming more and more conservative. Now when playing with a strong team, what I think about is not how to score one more goal, but how to lose one less goal.
Of course, this is also the reason for the situation. It turns out that when the Gosho team has no strength, they can only rely on beautiful playing style to attract fans, so they must play offensive tactics. Now, there are more fans. If you want to retain fans, you have to rely on their achievements. At this time, they can only look for death. Nowadays, the teams with good results in European football are basically balanced in attack and defense. All teams that play well without defense die miserably. Isn't there a world-class central defender like Pike in Barcelona?
After half an hour of dull game, the Gosho team finally scored the first goal. In the 40th minute, Gosho made a corner kick. Manchester City's central defender Kyle pushed the ball out of the penalty area. Horensten on the side received the ball and immediately passed it to Ivanovic in the middle. Ivanovic got rid of a defender in place, and then stuffed the ball directly to the unguarded Kodinho, who retreated to the front of the penalty area. Huo made a slight adjustment and immediately took a long shot. The shot was very powerful, and he quickly rushed into the corner of the goal against the turf, Joe. Hart fell to the ground at the fastest speed, but it was still a step slower.
Duan Xuan's roar sounded: "Ko Dinghuo, Kao Dinghuo shot and scored the ball!!!!!! Now Gosho leads Manchester City 1-0. This is a wonderful world wave, Manchester City goalkeeper Joe. Hart has nothing to do with this shot. The current situation on the field is very unfavorable for Manchester City. They have to suppress the attack.
The fans of Gosho were cheering, and they shouted the name of Kao Dinghuo.
Mancini sat on the coach's bench and did not stand up, but his face was very ugly, which still exposed that his heart was not calm.
Because Egman, the chief striker of Gosho, has scored goals and is in full swing in the past two seasons, the defensive focus of Manchester City has been on him. In addition, Egman's form today looks very good. He hit the goalpost in the first 5 minutes, so Mancini asked for his own defensive ball. The members will stare at Egman to death at all costs. Unexpectedly, in the following game, although Egman was stared to death, due to the relaxation of other people's defense, another Kaodingho scored a goal, which really pressed the gourd and floated up.
But now Mancini doesn't have time to regret it. If he doesn't stare at Egman to death, maybe he is the one who scored the goal now? Mancini is thinking about how to get the score back.
When Manchester City's midfielder De Jong looked at Mancini, Mancini made a gesture to him, signaling the team to continue to defend, and De Jong nodded. Now it's only 5 minutes before the end of the first half. If you rashly turn the defense into an attack, you may mess up and give the Gosho team a chance to expand the score. Mancini will not make such a mistake.
Similarly, Lin Fenglei did not let the players take advantage of the momentum after the goal to try to expand the score. The two teams played the remaining few minutes tacitly, and then entered the halftime.
At halftime, Lin Fenglei told everyone about the tactics of the second half in the locker room: "In the second half, Manchester City will definitely change their tactics and strengthen the attack, so Ninad (Ivanovic) returned to the back position in the second half to strengthen the defense in the middle. In addition, other players will Pass it to Ninard and let him be responsible for distributing the ball. When there is such an opportunity, Mitchell (Avanzini) and Claudio (Holensten) you have to plug in at full speed. Don't worry about wasting physical strength. We have enough substitutions, and a successful counterattack may bring a goal at a time. Does everyone understand?"
The players nodded. Lin Fenglei's tactic is to shape Ivanovic into a midfielder like Pirlo, using his long pass ability to organize Gosho's attack, and if successful, Ivanovic will be a midfielder with stronger defensive ability and running ability than Pirlo. Then he will contribute more to the team than Pirlo.
After the second half began, Mancini replaced Leo with Tevez. Cork played the offensive tactics of the 442 diamond midfield, and Manchester City's two wingers and two full-backs have more assists.
In the 47th minute, Manchester City's right-back McCon assisted with the ball to the front court. After making a two-to-one cooperation with Gurkuf, he dribbled the ball and passed it to the bottom. Gosho's central defender Chevally grabbed the first head in front of Tevez and pushed the ball out of the penalty area. Manchester City's midfielder De Jong grabbed the second landing point, outside the penalty area. The non-stop ball came directly with a volley, slightly higher than the crossbar.
In the 51st minute, Macon made a comeback. This time, his cross made Tevez grab the first point, but under the interference of Chevalley, Tevez's header missed the left post.
In the 54th minute, it was Maicon again. This time, after shaking Ribeiro, he cut inside and suddenly made a long shot in the corner of the penalty area. The shot was very threatening. Fortunately, Checarelli concentrated his attention and saved the shot out of the bottom line.
Maicon's continuous breakthrough also made the commentators from various countries at the scene exclaim that the world's number one right-back came back.
Maicon also felt very happy. In the first half, due to Mancini's strict order, he rarely came forward to assist, and in the second half, he was finally able to get through the addiction of attack. It should be said that the Brazilian players had offensive blood in their bones.