Football: start copying peak Messi attributes

Chapter 370 Sweeps Arsenal and advances to the quarterfinals of the Champions League
Guardiola just said that he wanted to enjoy football, but only three days later, Manchester City overturned.

On March 3, in the strong dialogue at Anfield Stadium, Manchester City lost 1:2 to Liverpool, which was a regrettable defeat.

It rained heavily shortly after the game started, and the two sides had to fight in the rain.

The wet and slippery ground brought by the rain greatly affected Manchester City's pass and control tactics. The players made many pass errors due to the water on the ground.

On the other side, the Liverpool players who wanted to avenge Manchester City at home played extremely bravely in this game.

They ran and sprinted desperately, regardless of the danger of being slippery and prone to injury, and used counterattacks time and time again to attack Manchester City's defense.

In fact, from the perspective of the scene, Liverpool was very passive on the scene. Their possession rate was only 32%, but their counterattack was very threatening.

Especially the counterattack launched from the wing after the defense is successful, one hit is accurate.

In the 11th minute of the game, Henderson opened the scoring to help Liverpool take the lead.

Although Manchester City was assisted by Lin Quan in the 23rd minute and De Bruyne used a long shot from outside the penalty area to equalize the score, but only 3 minutes later, Liverpool scored again.

This time, there was still a problem on the wing. Coutinho put on a wonderful performance, and after cutting inside, he broke through Navas's ten fingers with a long-range shot that shocked everyone.

In the 75th minute of the second half, Lin Quan successfully countered De Bruyne's through ball and scored a single-handed goal to equalize the score again.

In the next ten minutes, the offense of the two teams could not penetrate the opponent's defense, and it seemed that the game would end in a draw.

However, in the 3rd minute of stoppage time, Gerrard, the legendary captain of the Red Army who has officially announced that he will leave Liverpool after the end of the season, stood up. He used a signature long shot to hit the ball into the dead corner, killing Manchester City.

After completing the lore, Gerrard excitedly took off his jersey, rushed to the stands with the most fans, and celebrated wildly.

His teammates also fell into madness, chasing him one by one, hugging him, kissing him, celebrating this hard-won victory.

As for the Red Army fans at Anfield, it has already boiled over.

Before the game, the outside world was not optimistic about them at all, thinking that they could not be Manchester City's opponents.

However, they slapped everyone in the face with a hearty victory.

Seeing that the team was defeated by the opponent, Guardiola scratched his head, as if he did not expect this to happen.

This luck is too bad, the game will be over in a few tens of seconds, but the Manchester City player defending Gerrard accidentally slipped because of the slippery ground, allowing the opponent to get a chance to shoot.

Guardiola is not someone who can afford to lose, he took the initiative to shake hands with Liverpool's coach.

Manchester City's loss made the outside world very excited. They felt that they had found a way to limit Manchester City's midfielder tactics.

Each of them became eager to try.

In the 28th round of the league, Leicester City was the first to stand up and try.

After summing up Liverpool's victory over Manchester City, they believed that Manchester City's defensive weakness was on the wing.

After the position of the full-back moved forward and became a full-back midfielder, Manchester City's formation became 235 when attacking, with five players on the front line.

In addition to two wingers and a centre-forward, two attacking midfielders will also run forward through the half-spaces, allowing City to have multiple points of attack near the opposition's penalty area line.

The advantage of this is that it increases the difficulty of the opponent's defense. Even if the attack fails, they can rely on the numerical advantage to immediately counterattack the opponent's player holding the ball on the spot, destroy the opponent's counterattack and look for a second attack opportunity.

After Manchester City switched to the side midfielder tactics, they had a very high success rate of counter-robbing at the front of the opponent's penalty area. Many goals were scored after a successful counter-robbing and took advantage of the opportunity of offensive and defensive transitions.

Because they are closer to the opponent's goal, and there are more opportunities for a second attack after counter-robbing on the spot, Manchester City's shots per game are terrifying.

With super shooters like Lin Quan and Aguero in the team, giving Manchester City so many shooting opportunities means conceding a lot of goals.

In the three games before losing to Liverpool, Manchester City defeated their opponents in this way.

However, this trick failed on Liverpool.

The reason is that Liverpool is a wealthy team after all, and their players are much stronger than ordinary teams.

Although the success rate of Manchester City's on-the-spot counter-robbing is very high, there are times when they cannot grab it.

Once the counterattack fails and the opponent counterattacks, Manchester City's two wingers and even the five players on the front line cannot retreat in time.

Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of one's own goal.

When Manchester City's four defenders and a defensive midfielder retreat, they will shrink inward and form a trapezoidal defensive formation at the front of the penalty area.

The advantage of this formation is that the defense is more layered, and it will not be penetrated all at once.

The disadvantage is that the wing is empty, and when the opponent sends a cross or cuts in from the wing, it is difficult for Manchester City players to stop it immediately.

Moreover, when playing Liverpool, it rained heavily at Anfield, and the conditions of the venue were not good for the more technical Manchester City.

In the end, coupled with Gerrard's extremely lucky lore, this made Manchester City lose their hatred.

However, Leicester City lacked any of these favorable factors.

Therefore, they chose to use Liverpool's tactics against Manchester City, and the result was naturally a very miserable death.

Before the first half was over, the game lost its suspense.

Manchester City has already led the opponent 3:0.

In the second half, Lin Quan, who was supposed to be replaced, was not placed on the bench by Guardiola in the second half.

Lin Quan did not end, which means that Manchester City still did not give up their offense.

So, Leicester City was out of luck.

When Lin Quan was replaced, the score had become 5:0.
Leicester City was beaten into pieces, and all their players began to doubt life.

Why did we play according to Liverpool's correct answer, but it didn't work at all, and instead we lost so badly?
On the sidelines, Guardiola became very happy to see the team get out of the haze of the previous loss with a big victory.

He sat on the coach's bench and communicated with Lin Quan, who had just been replaced.

"The opponent's winger seems to be pretty good?"

Lin Quan took a sip of the energy drink, glanced at the player who Guardiola was referring to and wore the No. 26 jersey of Leicester City, and asked:
"You mean Mahrez?"

"Ok!"

Guardiola nodded, and asked as if he had a heart for talents:
"What do you think of his strength?"

"The strength is good, the technique is fine, the ability to break through and cut inside is good, and he should be able to work as a winger and a full-back. If he grows up, he will be a thigh in a weak team!"

Lin Quan thought for a moment and commented like this.

He remembers that in the year Leicester City won the championship, Mahrez's performance in Fox City was quite explosive.

He scored 17 goals and completed 11 assists, and was elected the MVP of the Premier League that season with a high vote.

Of course, that was Mahrez a year later, and now Mahrez is obviously not that good.

But Guardiola's vision is very good. It can be seen in one game that this guy is not a mortal thing. No wonder he rarely makes mistakes when buying people.

He guessed that the reason why Guardiola fell in love with Mahrez was probably because the opponent's skills attracted him.

A coach like Guardiola has a preference for players with delicate skills at his feet. Except for Harland, all the players he recruits are players with delicate skills and comprehensive skills.

"That's it!"

Guardiola couldn't help thinking.

Manchester City's right winger is Keylor Navas. He is 30 years old, not young, and he often plays as a substitute for Lin Quan, so he has the idea of ​​leaving.

Guardiola wants to re-find an excellent right winger for the team.

The offer for Salah to Chelsea before was intended to buy Salah to replace Navas.

But it is a pity that Chelsea is unwilling to sell people, which defeats Guardiola's intentions.

Now seeing Mahrez, who is about the same age as Salah, Guardiola once again tried to poach people.

Mahrez spent just £50 when he moved to Leicester City last year.

He has performed well in the past two seasons, and his progress has been very obvious, so his worth has also increased.

If Manchester City wants to take him away, Guardiola feels that it should be impossible without 2000 million pounds.

2000 million pounds to buy a player who is still unknown seems to be a big gamble!

So, do you want to buy it?

"You can sell within 3000 million pounds. Of course, it would be better if you can buy Salah!"

Lin Quan saw Guardiola's hesitation, so he spoke.

In the position of right winger, the Egyptian pharaoh was still stronger at his peak.

After a cordial exchange between father and son, Guardiola's hesitant heart immediately became firmer.

buy!
I saved so much money during the winter break, how can I be worthy of myself and Manchester City fans if I don’t buy it during the summer window?

The loss of Leicester City made other teams a little confused for a while, wondering whether they can copy Liverpool's homework.

Some teams backed down, but others didn't believe in evil.

The 29th round of the Premier League kicks off.

Ranked second to last in the Premier League in terms of points, Burnley, who desperately needed 3 points to save their lives, chose to copy Liverpool's homework at home.

Then there is no more.

At the end of the game, the score of 4:0 made the Burnley people want to cry without tears.

This is the result of Manchester City replacing a large number of main players after the start of the second half and retaining their strength in order to prepare for the Champions League knockout match in the middle of the week.

A massacre would have been inevitable had they opened fire.

In this round of competition, there is a direct contest between top Chelsea and fourth ranked Southampton.

However, surprisingly, Chelsea failed to win the game when Diego Costa scored at the beginning.

Matic's foul in the penalty area gave the opponent a penalty kick and helped Southampton retreat at Stamford Bridge.

After the tie, Chelsea took advantage of Manchester City's loss to Liverpool to re-open their lead and shrunk to 1 point. The originally good championship situation began to become precarious again.

To make matters worse for Chelsea, in the second round of the Champions League, Chelsea, who played at home, were tied by Paris Saint-Germain.

For Chelsea fans, this game is bound to make them lose sleep.

Their team struggled to break through the opponent's goal in the 81st minute of the game. The goal at this time point gave them hope of winning.

However, David Luiz's goal in the 86th minute extinguished the dreams of the Blues fans, and the two sides drew 1:1.

Since Chelsea's home game in Paris also ended 1:1 with their opponents, both sides had the same number of goals and away goals.

So the game was dragged into overtime.

Chelsea once again took the lead in the overtime period. Hazard's goal made the Blues fans at Stamford Bridge completely boiled, and Mourinho also roared excitedly in celebration.

However, another PSG defender stepped up.

Thiago Silva once again helped Paris equalize the score in the 114th minute of overtime!
The two sides fought to a 2:2 tie, but the fatal point for Chelsea was that the opponent had two away goals.

In the final stage of the game, all the soldiers of the blue army desperately attacked the opponent's goal, but they returned without success under the strong defense of Paris.

Finally, with the referee's whistle, the game ended.

Chelsea was eliminated at their home court and watched their opponent advance to the quarter-finals, but they once again fell to the quarter-finals in a humiliating manner.

"Mourinho is having a hard time at Stamford Bridge!"

"Haha, who made him so crazy before!"

"With Abramovich's temper, if Chelsea can't win the league title this season, I bet fifty cents that Magic Bird will definitely be fired!"

"Sacked by Real Madrid and Chelsea one after another, I don't know what other teams will want him!"

"I think it's better to go to Manchester United. Van Gaal has done worse than Mourinho at Manchester United!"

"Good idea, support Mourinho and then go to Manchester United to completely destroy Manchester United!"

After Chelsea was eliminated, the outside public opinion was very unfavorable to Mourinho.

When he returned to the Blues, he made promises to the fans, and now it seems that none of them have been fulfilled.

Since Chelsea won the Champions League, they fell to the group stage once and fell to the top [-] twice. The team's record can be described as going from bad to worse.

The current Chelsea does not seem to be on the right path, but instead looks shaky.

And it has been 5 years since their last league championship.

If there is no gain, then I am sorry for their rich status.

This makes the Blues fans very worried. They don't want to see their team without a championship for ten years like Arsenal!

The concerns of Chelsea fans are not felt by Manchester City fans at all.

In the second round of the Champions League, Manchester City sat at home and easily defeated Arsenal 2:0, advancing to the quarterfinals with a total score of 5:1.

Since their breakthrough in the Champions League last year, Manchester City's luck in the Champions League has suddenly improved.

Last year they faced the three most powerful clubs, Huangsa Ren, in a row, but this year, not only did they get into a very weak group, but even their opponents in the first round of the knockout round were easy to play.

Arsenal know the basics of Manchester City, and the position is still very close. Playing them is not the kind of hard work. After the game, the team's consumption is not great, and there is no consumption of the League Cup and the FA Cup.

Manchester City can meet their opponents in the next round in the best condition!

Except for Chelsea in this round, there were no upsets.

Bayern, Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Juventus and other strong teams have reached the quarterfinals.

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With so many top teams in the top eight teams, the outside world is looking forward to a strong showdown where sparks hit the earth!
(End of this chapter)