Chapter 163 The Defensive Tactics of Manchester City

Although many media disdain Manchester City, in fact, Manchester City is still a strong Premier League team. Its recent results have not been good, but its lineup is still much better than ordinary small balls.

Among the starting eleven players in this set, there are two big stars, that is, striker Anelka and winger Wright. Phillips, these two players are worth nothing, at least much higher than Don Jack.

Nikolai. Anelka is the trump card of Manchester City's front line. He was born in Váceres, France, on March 14, 1979. He is only 25 years old this year.

In 1997, Anelka came to Arsenal from Paris Saint-Germain for 500,000 pounds and became famous at Arsenal. During his two seasons at Arsenal, Anelka scored a total of 28 goals for the team, which won him the love of many Arsenal fans.

In 1999, Anelka went to Real Madrid, Spain, with a top value of 23 million pounds, but his experience in Spain was like a nightmare for Anelka. He did not perform well in Real Madrid, and he was not even comparable to an ordinary player, which made Real Madrid give up Anelka directly. The following year, in July 2000, Anelka finally left this sad place and returned to Paris Saint-Germain.

It is worth mentioning that in December 2001, during the winter transfer period, Anelka was also loaned to Liverpool for half a year. After leaving Liverpool, he joined Manchester City for 13 million pounds and has been playing until now.

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Anelka is only 25 years old this year. It can be seen from the information that this guy is completely a transfer maniac, and every transfer is basically a big deal.

From Paris Saint-Germain to Arsenal, from Arsenal to Real Madrid, from Real Madrid to Paris Saint-Germain, and then to Manchester City. For a 25-year-old player, so many transactions are really too many, but Anelka still maintains a high value, and it can also be seen from here. The strength of the card has indeed been recognized by most people in Europe.

In addition to Real Madrid, Anelka is the main force of the stable front line in other clubs.

And the other star is the popular Wright Phillips.

Phillips is a midfield right-wing player in Manchester City and England. He is only 23 years old this year, but now Wright. Phillips' fame in England is not as high as Wayne, who has troubled Manchester United until now. Rooney is poor. This summer, Chelsea boss Abramovich wrote a check for 20 million pounds and failed to take him away from Manchester City.

Wright Phillips' family background also has a great influence on his football. He is the adopted son of former Arsenal legend striker Ian Wright. He has a younger brother, Bradley Wright Phillips, who is also a professional player.

Wright Phillips, who grew up in southern London, was abandoned by the Nottingham Forests when he was 15 years old. After that, Manchester City took him in and flew straight to the sky. From 1999 to 2005, Wright. Phillips is playing better and better in Manchester City. He is already the absolute main force of Manchester City and is sought after by many English fans.

In this way, the two players are no worse than Liverpool's big stars. Even the Ligue 1 striker Wang Cise on the field is shorter than these two in England. And Manchester City's other players are not much worse than Liverpool's lineup. Perhaps their only shortcoming is that the midfield does not have the same core as Gerrard.

But players like Gerard are really hard to find with lanterns.

Such players are unattainable, and it is difficult to buy how much money to invest in the transfer market. Its importance and role are self-evident.

Manchester City coach Keegan knows his own advantages and disadvantages. For this game, Keegan's tactics are to focus on the side. He knows that Liverpool's side is slightly weaker, while Manchester City's advantage is on the side, Wright. Phillips's personal ability will have a great impact on the team. Coupled with Anel Katzel in the middle, Fowler's old experience will also highlight the role.

In terms of defense, Keegan's layout is more.

There is no tension in Manchester City's game. They don't have to participate in any UEFA Champions League qualifiers, so Keegan has a lot of time to study his opponents. He already knows that Liverpool has a very young oriental boy with a strong long-range shot.

This is just a public opinion.

After watching several long-range goals scored by the black-haired boy in the video from a professional perspective, Keegan's evaluation of Don Jack is no longer indescribable by the word 'extreme strength'. He thinks it should be 'pervert' to be strong enough.

No matter how much you pay attention to this boy's defense.

Before the game, he watched the video several times and finally analyzed Don Jack's weakness: the position was not integrated into Liverpool's tactics at all...

This is actually not a shortcoming. Many new players have this problem. After all, the styles of the two leagues are different. It must take a lot of time to fully adapt, and Jack Don is only worse at this point.

However, the players who have just come in do not have the treatment of Don Jack. They are just a very ordinary part of the team's tactics. They are not aware of the lineup, and they just delay the rhythm and attack of the team, which is beneficial to the opponent. But Don Jack is completely different. In the case of bad consciousness, his performance is still very strong. This is the point of scoring four goals as a substitute in the two games, so he was paid special attention to by Keegan.

Kigang thought about it and decided to use this defect to defend.

If you want to use this aspect to focus on taking care of the opposing striker, it requires a lot of defensive strength, because even if Don Jack's consciousness is not good, he will have the opportunity if he is in a good position. After all, football is an undetermined sport, and it is impossible not to have any chance in a 90-minute game.

If you want to cut off most of the opportunities, you need at least two defensive players to target the running position to intercept the passing route.

The same is true of Keegan's approach.

Before the game, he especially told the defender to focus on taking care of Liverpool's Oriental boy: "... Remember, don't let him have a chance to shoot. This boy's long-range shooting threat is too big. It's unimaginable. What you have to do is to minimize the number of times he touches. Even if he gets the ball, don't let him get up smoothly!"

This kind of advice is very useful. At least when playing, many Manchester City players look at Jack Don with scrutiny eyes, which makes Jack Don feel inexplicable. He doesn't seem to have offended Manchester City players, right?

After playing, he found the problem and seemed to have been taken special care of.

At the beginning, Don Jack didn't notice it. After five minutes of the game, he found that Liverpool teammates rarely passed the ball to him, and when there was a chance, football was always difficult to pass through the cracks of Manchester City defenders. The success rate of such a pass can be imagined.

Don Jack finally found out the reason.

The Manchester City players around him seem to be doing targeted running positions and look at his position from time to time. They are not close to themselves. They just stand a few meters around them. A player is fine. When two or even three defensive players do this, there will always be an opponent's player between them and the football. No wonder his teammates don't pass the ball to him.

Under such an encirclement, the participating Manchester City players can still find opportunities to defend other Liverpool players. Although there are occasional omissions in such a balance of defense, in general, Manchester City is doing very well.

Don Jack tried to run left and right, but Manchester City did not really make a player to follow Don Jack, but used a regional defense method. Players close to Don Jack independently stuck the passing route, so Don Jack's running effect is not great. Maybe this has increased the number of times he received, but it is disorderly. Running also made Liverpool's offensive formation unstable and affected the performance of teammates.

After a while, Don Jack stopped doing this. He kept thinking about cracking such a defense by himself.

However, the two coaches off the court looked completely opposite to Don Jack: seeing the black-haired boy on the court being killed, Benitez reacted indifferently, and kept laughing and discussing with the assistant coach, and Manchester City coach Keegan was almost angry!