Football: Banned for life, forced to travel to Europe

Chapter 613 Tighten the Fence

Neutral fans are here to watch the excitement, Manchester City fans really think they have a chance.

Since the team announced that Guardiola will take over at the Etihad Stadium next season, Manchester City has played a total of nine games and only lost two games. The team can often score big points, second only to Chelsea.

In the UEFA Champions League, Manchester City defeated Dynamo Kiev 1-3 in an away game. One foot has entered the quarter-finals. The cooperation of De Bruyne, David Silva and Aguero is becoming more and more mature. All members are in excellent condition and beat Chelsea. It's really not an idiot's dream.

After the start of the game, the cheers of Manchester City fans have not stopped, because their team is besieging Chelsea.

Manchester City's offensive is very fierce, Chelsea can only be forced to defend low in the half!

This made the fans of Manchester City very excited, and the cheers were louder and louder.

In fact, this is Mourinho's tactic. He asked the players to take the initiative to hand over possession of the ball, allowing Manchester City to control the ball and besiege them.

This is actually not surprising. Chelsea will do this when they encounter teams that like to attack. Their defense is very tight. As long as Manchester City makes a mistake, they can seize the opportunity to play a deadly counterattack.

Ancelotti is not a fool. Although he wants to leave the team, he will not let go of the honor he should strive for.In response to this situation, Manchester City has also made corresponding countermeasures.

Ancelotti analyzed the reasons for the players' past losses to Chelsea, mainly because they were too impatient.

When Manchester City met Chelsea, they always thought of beating Chelsea to death. This panic caused problems.

They were always pressing high, coming out in full force, and then desperately trying to score, so that Chelsea could spend their time setting up the fence, waiting for the City players to make mistakes, and then using the space behind them to counterattack.

How powerful is the impact of making a wish?How accurate is Cesc Fabregas' pass?Coupled with two fast wingers, isn't this counterattack accurate?

So, siege is okay, but be patient enough.

As long as you don't rush, keep the ball firmly under your feet, keep putting pressure on Chelsea's defense, and strive to organize attacks continuously.

Under constant high pressure, Chelsea players are prone to making mistakes. As long as they make a mistake, Manchester City can seize the opportunity. After all, football is closer to Chelsea's goal.

Manchester City players recalled their confrontation with Chelsea in the past few seasons, it seems that this is indeed the case, based on facts, they have no doubts about Ancelotti's arrangement.

Therefore, when the Manchester City players found that Chelsea took the initiative to withdraw and defended in the penalty area, they immediately followed the tactics arranged by Ancelotti before the game, surrounded Chelsea, mobilized Chelsea's defense line through patient passes, and tried to find out from it. flaw.

As a defensive master, Mourinho certainly has experience in dealing with siege.

He divided a few specific players into a defense zone. When defending, these players can only move in this zone and are not allowed to go out, even if it seems that their teammates are about to lose their support, they cannot move.

Because once a certain player leaves his defensive position without authorization, there will be a gap in his position, and other teammates will need to fill his position, and then a chain reaction will be formed, and the entire defense line will collapse.

Mourinho also arranged Stones and Matic as mobile players, and they are the ones who will assist in the defense.

It may sound complicated, but it is actually a variation of the Italian zone with man-to-man defense. Most English players have trained physically since they were young, lacking tactical training and tactical literacy. This simplified defensive method is more suitable for them.

Of course, this trick can only be used when defending in the low position. To deal with the counterattack of the opponent, it is still up to the players to perform on the spot.

Now that Manchester City is under siege, Mourinho's arrangement is just right.

Manchester City's players passed the ball from the center to the left, then from the left to the center, and then to the right. Chelsea's players were completely unmoved, just watching there, quite a kind of "he forced him Strong, the breeze blows the hills".

Wishing has been stuck near the middle circle, dragging down Kompany and Otamendi. The two of them dare not be careless, and they don't even have the idea to come forward...

After playing like this for five or six minutes, the Chelsea players did not have the idea of ​​rushing out of the penalty area to steal the ball. Wishing had even started chatting with Otamendi about the food in Lisbon, which shows how constipated Manchester City's offense is...

Even the Manchester City fans who were so excited at the beginning couldn't stand it anymore, and there was a burst of boos from the stands.

After hearing the boos, Aguero finally couldn't hold back anymore. He pulled out from the penalty area and asked for the ball. De Bruyne passed the ball to him. Aguero turned around immediately and pulled it out without even looking at it. A long shot.

This kind of lottery-style long-range shot is naturally difficult to pose a threat to Chelsea's goal, and the football was easily confiscated by Courtois.

Before the Manchester City players could react, Courtois immediately jumped up from the ground, kicked a big kick to the frontcourt, made a wish to defeat Kompany in the top battle, and gave the football point to the right side who was plugging in at high speed Sanchez.

The Manchester City players were shocked. They remembered what Ancelotti said before the game, be careful of Chelsea's quick counterattack!

Almost all Manchester City players are running back to the defense quickly, but they can't catch up with the speed of football.

Sanchez took the ball and just kicked it, and then saw Wishing, Perisic and Oscar rushing towards Manchester City's goal.

Wish rushed to the front, Perisic was behind, and Oscar responded at the end. The four formed a very threatening counterattack.

Sanchez took advantage of his speed on the right to force a position away from Clichy, and then sent a high-quality cross, wishing for a screen before Perisic dunked behind, forcing Joe Hart to make a A brilliant save.

In the next corner kick, Chelsea played another wonderful cooperation, wishing to get a chance to compete with Otamendi through the front and rear double screens of Terry and Stones.

There is no doubt that Wishing had the advantage, but unfortunately his header was slightly above the crossbar and failed to break through Manchester City's goal.

Although the goal was missed, it scared all the Manchester City players into a cold sweat.

They remembered the fear of being dominated by the wishing header. Air defense has always been Manchester City's weakness. Although they have a tall and strong Kompany, they only have one Kompany.

Kompany struggled to defend against making wishes. Who knew that Mourinho had another 1-meter Perisic in this game, and Sagna who was facing him was only 86 meters, with a height difference of 1 centimeters. Enough for Perisic to swagger...

For a while, the Manchester City players didn't dare to press casually. Both Clichy and Fernando were dragged in the midfield position, they were afraid that Chelsea would fight back again.

Because of insufficient investment, Manchester City looked even more helpless when facing Chelsea's defense, and they couldn't get in at all.

Manchester City can't attack, Chelsea is not in a hurry, they are still waiting for Manchester City's mistakes.

So the two sides were deadlocked.