529. Small win over Everton
When Moyes was there, Everton's style was tough and he liked crossing from the wings. The role of the two wings was very different from that of Martinez. Moreover, the freedom of the frontcourt was higher under Martinez's account. But today Martinez basically returned to the routine of the Moyes era, and the players in the frontcourt must strictly implement defensive discipline.
Manchester City played very hard, and they created some opportunities after halftime, but unfortunately they were not sure. As their physical fitness declined, the offense in the second half also seemed relatively slow. In the 70th minute, Wen Sheng replaced Costa with Lampard and used him to play the front midfielder position. Then, in the fine adjustment, Silva and De Bruyne retracted, which actually formed a three-mile front midfielder pattern. The full-backs on both wings forward support and oppressed more. This style of play is very risky, but Wen Sheng had no choice but to defeat Everton.
He was happy to take this bet.
With a center like Suarez, the three front midfielders can interact in the middle to attract the opponent's defense, and then Everton will be stretched to defend on the wing. This is the advantage of Manchester City. Their players are more capable and have a lot of room for adjustment in tactics. Of course, Wen Sheng's repeated training in daily training is also indispensable.
Such a change of moves did get good results. In the 78th minute of the game, Manchester City finally pried open Everton's goal. After a series of cooperation between the front midfielders, Lampard found the shooting space and shot hard near the penalty area line. The ball hit Stones and the change direction refracted into Everton's goal.
Stones is still a Manchester City player. He is currently on loan at Everton. Some clubs like to set terms for not playing against the home when they are on loan. Wen Sheng did not do so, so he played against Everton Stones several times.
Stones' performance at Everton is still remarkable, but the head coach's tactical problems put a lot of pressure on their defense line, so he suffered along with it. As the main player this season, he has also been criticized by many media. This time he was accidentally forced to own the game again, and he is probably criticized again after the game.
Martinez looked embarrassed on the sidelines, feeling uncomfortable and confused. In this game, it can be said that he dealt with Manchester City with a compromising attitude, but in the end he failed. He was already confused about how to play against Manchester City.
Shortly after Manchester City scored, Silva fell to the ground and was injured in the opponent's fight. Wen Sheng had to replace him with Cuadrado. The team returned to the winger tactics, and he also began to make the team work. There was no way to be too tired. In fact, the opponent Everton's bench lineup was even worse. They were actually unable to counterattack after Manchester City scored. Lukaku performed very positively today, running constantly, tearing down Manchester City's defense line. At this time, he was completely silent, and his physical confrontation was at the bottom.
In this way, Manchester City finally won a difficult victory at Goodison Park Stadium. When the whistle sounded, Wen Sheng was relieved.
For Martinez, such a game was so hard to accept that he said after the game that his team deserved a penalty.
The suspected "penalty shot" he mentioned happened in the 41st minute of the first half. Lukaku dribbled the ball into the penalty area and forced Kompani to take Kompani. Kompani was quick-eyed and fast-footed. When Lukaku broke through, he tackled the ball from the back and broke the ball out of the baseline, and also brought Lukaku down. Today's referee is Atkinson, one of the Magic Four Blinds. He watched it very carefully and had physical contact, but Kompani took the lead in tackleing the ball, so he did not support the penalty.
"That was a back tackle, Kompany had lost his position, he should get a red card, and we should get a penalty too!"
Losing this game, Everton only won 5 wins, 6 draws and 10 losses in the 21 league rounds. This result has already made him on the verge of being dismissed. For a team like Everton, this result is indeed a bit bad, and no wonder Martinez is very anxious.
Wen Shengze denied that it was a penalty kick, "Martinez said it was a penalty kick?! I suggest he go back and have a good look at the replay! I think?! Of course I think Atkinson made the right penalty!"
Although he was unreasonable to Martinez and used Kompany's good ball to talk about it, when the reporter asked about the rumors that Martinez was dismissed, Wensheng still expressed his support.
"He is a good coach, a very thoughtful coach! I think he has the ability to lead Everton well! But that's the case in England, and he lacks patience with the coaches!"
In another game played at the same time, Chelsea defeated Newcastle 2-0, without giving Manchester City a chance to further narrow the points.
Wensheng said to this: "They did a good job! I have to admit that Chelsea performed too stably this season, which puts a lot of pressure on our defending champions! But until the last moment, we will definitely not let go of our catching up!"
Wen Sheng is not the first Manchester City man to express this view. After the game, the players also knew that Chelsea won again, but Kompany and others expressed their determination not to give up. Interestingly, Lampard was also asked about Chelsea. Lampard said: "I am a Manchester City player now, and I definitely hope Manchester City can win the championship! But Chelsea is an opponent that cannot be ignored! We will definitely work hard!"
Speaking of Chelsea’s match against Newcastle, it was considered by the outside world to be very suspense before the game, and the possibility of Newcastle’s upset at Stamford Bridge is very small.
Why?! Because Newcastle's leader Padue resigned, he finally couldn't stand the stingy Ashley, the local coach who led Newcastle to create the top five results left voluntarily.
Speaking of this, it is very interesting. After Pris left Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace was looking for a new coach. I don’t know how to know that Padu was not satisfied with Newcastle, so he finally got into it. Of course, there is another very important factor here. Alan Padu is actually an old Crystal Palace man. He played for Crystal Palace for several seasons when he was a player.
Newcastle is completely unprofitable. Ashley has always wanted to sell the club, so he is very stingy in the transfer market and the financial restrictions are very serious. After leaving Newcastle, Padu also mentioned Newcastle's financial situation. His general idea is that Newcastle actually gave him decision-making power in terms of transfers, but Newcastle was not happy to pay money. Padu finally established Newcastle with the French Gang as the core and achieved quite good results. However, Newcastle began to sell people again.
I couldn't stand Padu finally left.
Wensheng thought that Padu was really a strange guy. You know, this guy actually signed an 8-year long contract with Newcastle, and he really regarded himself as Ferguson of Newcastle!
It is precisely because of Padu's resignation that Newcastle has no leader that the media are unanimously optimistic about Chelsea, and the result is that Chelsea wins!
Chapter completed!