Manchester City Stadium, located in the eastern outskirts of the city, can accommodate 47,620 people.

The stadium was originally planned to be used to bid for the 2002 Olympic Games, but later it lost to Sydney, Australia's Olympic bid, and planned to be still in the womb, and changed to bid for the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

After 2002, the stadium was leased to Manchester City at an extremely low price as compensation for the demolition of Manchester City's old home court, Maine Road Stadium. Manchester City then renovated the new stadium and became one of the most advanced stadiums in the Premier League facilities.

After Thaksin acquired Manchester City, it once proposed to expand the city stadium and make it the best home court in the Premier League, but it was unsuccessful for various reasons. Now, with the Abu Dhabi consortium taking over, Manchester City's plan to renovate a new stadium has surfaced again.

The wealthy Abu Dhabi consortium not only brought new stadium expansion plans to Manchester City, but also brought a large number of stars, Robinho, Elano, Zabaleta, Wright Phillips, Kompany, and Jo...

The head coach also changed from the original Swedish Eriksson to the British local Mark Hughes. The latter's coaching performance in Blackburn made him a rising local coach in the UK and is highly favored.

So far this season, Manchester City has played six league rounds, three wins and three losses.

It was not surprising that he lost to Aston Villa two-to-four away in the first round. Villa Park is a well-known devilish home court in the Premier League. Manchester City has just reorganized, and then defeated West Ham United 3-0 at home and 3-0 away to Sunderland, making Manchester City shine.

The two consecutive wins made Mark Hughes's team start to miss their position and actually tried to attack Chelsea at home. In fact, they did do it, leading for an hour, but in the end, Chelsea scored three goals in a row and lost one-to-three.

But soon, Manchester City defeated Portsmouth 6-0 at home, washing away depression in the previous round, while in the last round, he lost to Wigan Athletic 1-2 away.

Looking at the first six games of Manchester City this season, it is not difficult to see that with the joining of strong players such as Robinho, Mark Hughes's overall strength has been greatly improved, full of competitiveness, and even has the atmosphere of a strong team.

But in the strong dialogue that really faced the test, this team was not a cohesive whole.

Mark Hughes' tactical characteristics still continue his previous style in Blackburn. He was rough and fierce, aggressive and active in fighting. From the beginning of the game, he tried his best to suppress his opponents and restrict his opponent's performance, and then created an offensive threat through the personal abilities of midfielders.

It has to be said that this style of play is still very effective in the Premier League, especially when facing teams that are not strict enough in defense and have weak ball-taking ability, so Manchester City is the second second most in the Premier League offensive ability this season after Liverpool.

But once you encounter a team that is meticulous in defense or does not make mistakes easily, this style of play will expose serious problems.

After the team came to Manchester and challenged Manchester City away, Benitez and the coaching staff had a comprehensive understanding of Manchester City's overall tactical style and repeatedly reminded players to pay attention, especially when the opponent's fierce pressing, try to avoid mistakes, but Manchester City's pressing is too fierce.

Facing Liverpool, Manchester City obviously forced themselves to be more fierce and ruthless than other teams.

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Overall, Liverpool's defensive team is fine.

The key factor that causes two goals conceded is the player's mistakes in the on-the-spot performance, which is inevitable for any head coach and any tactic, because people will make mistakes.

The first time happened in the 19th minute. Wright Phillips made a cross from the right. If he got the ball in the penalty area, Harvey Alonso decisively kicked out the ball, but the ball was still on the right side of the penalty area. Wright Phillips made another cross.

But this time, Aveloa made a mistake when clearing the ball and did not directly clear the ball, which resulted in the ball being grabbed by Manchester City player Ellander and directly hit the ball.

Aveloa's mistakes were personal, but also pressure from Manchester City's full-game press, which made Liverpool feel uncomfortable, and this soon made another mistake before the first half was over.

When Gareth Bale returned to defense, he fouled Wright Phillips at the front of the penalty area, giving Manchester City a good opportunity to have a free kick in the frontcourt. Garydo calmly took the penalty and expanded the score for Manchester City.

In fact, this foul by the Welsh player is unnecessary, because Liverpool had completed the offensive and defensive transition at that time, and even if Manchester City attacked, it would not easily cause a threat.

But sometimes, when players are pressed by opponents on the court, misjudgment will inevitably occur under high pressure.

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Leaving behind zero to two, returning from the court to the locker room, Liverpool players all looked a little depressed.

So far this season, they have played smoothly. Although they have fallen behind, it is the first time they were led by their opponents by two goals in less than the first half, like tonight.

In the first six rounds, Liverpool only conceded two goals in total. Unexpectedly, they lost two in the first half today, which made many players feel uncomfortable and even felt a little panicked.

Many people looked up and looked around the locker room, sighing in their hearts.

Yang Yang is not here!

I don’t know when it started, but Yang Yang’s role in Liverpool is becoming more and more obvious, and everyone’s dependence on him is getting bigger and bigger, so when the team cannot start the situation or is at a disadvantage, they will think of him.

There were thousands of people in the locker room. Before this game, the team played very well. There must be many people who didn't say anything on the surface, but they secretly complained in their hearts that the coaching staff and the locker room gave Yang Yang too much power.

For example, his free fire power, such as he can not put pressure on his opponent.

As a player on the same team, who doesn't want to get such privileges?

But why is it him Yang Yang?

But now, they are all beginning to realize that Yang Yang's role has been so smooth in the past period of time.

In this game, Liverpool still lined up 433, with goalkeeper Reina, defense line Aurerio, Scotter, Carragher and Aveloa, and the midfielder was still Mascherano and Xavi Alonso's double midfielder. Gerrard broke out, and Crouch and Kuyt from the trident in the frontcourt were both there.

It was to replace Yang Yang from the left winger with Gareth Bale.

But this change made Liverpool seem very passive on the court, and even Gareth Bale made a mistake, giving the opponent a chance to have a direct free kick, resulting in a second conceding.

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The Welsh sat there silently without saying a word.

At the end of the first half, Yang Yang walked to the sidelines to comfort him and encouraged him to continue to work hard in the second half. However, when he entered the player channel, he saw head coach Benitez and assistant coach Yesterdam talking to Yang Yang there.

The two coaches have not returned to the locker room yet, so I wonder if they are telling Yang Yang what they are asking.

Gareth Bale looked up and glanced at the locker room door. He was very worried that he would see two coaches bringing Yang Yang to push open the door and walk in.

This is not surprising at all, because he knows very well how bad he played in the first half.

Zabaleta played very well in La Liga, with Mica Richards next to him. Gareth Bale didn't expect that facing these two opponents would be forced to be so embarrassed. Not only did he fail to play on the offensive end, he made a mistake when he took the initiative to retreat to defend, causing the second goal to be lost.

He felt guilty, frightened, and uneasy.

Everyone in the locker room also knew his mood at this moment, and many people even felt dissatisfied with his performance in the first half, because if they did not lose the second goal, Liverpool's situation would be much better.

So, except for the big brothers such as Gerald and Carragher, no one came forward to comfort him.

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Just as the locker room was in silence, the door of the locker room was pushed open from outside.

Gareth Bale looked up and saw Paco Yesterdam and head coach Raphael Benitez walking in one after another.

The door opened and closed, but the Welsh people kept paying attention to the door.

Finally, it never opened again.

This made Gareth Bell suddenly feel relieved.

Yang Yang didn't come!

But it doesn't make sense. From the performance in the first half and the situation where the two coaches talked to him during the halftime break, they all seemed to have to arrange for him to replace him during the halftime break, so why didn't they come in?

Benitez and Yesterdam summarized the team's performance in the first half. He was satisfied with the team's overall defense and also expressed his understanding of the players' mistakes. He hoped that everyone could cheer up and continue to work hard in the second half.

The team's tactics in the second half were mainly focused on two points, one was the offense on the wing.

Benitez believes that the team's wing offense in the first half did not show any characteristics, especially the left side with traditional offensive advantages.

"Wright Phillips suppressed our fullbacks on this side, Sabaretta, Kompani and Mica Richards are all on this side, which does put more pressure on our left offense, but I believe we should play more aggressively and more aggressively."

The Spanish coach also mentioned Manchester City's physical fitness and believed that Manchester City fought very fiercely in the first half, which would inevitably lead to problems in their physical fitness in the second half. Therefore, Liverpool should make a fuss about this.

"We should play more aggressively and more aggressively. Manchester City's physical fitness will definitely be problematic, and this is our opportunity to take the initiative to attack, this is the case on the left and the right, and we can even do a little work in the middle."

"There is no doubt that after Manchester City introduced many strong players, the overall strength of the midfield and frontcourt is indeed good, but their defense is still very weak. Kompany is not suitable for playing as a midfielder, and the central defender combination of Micah Richards and Dunn is not reliable. These are our opportunities."

Then, the coaching staff rescheduled the task for everyone.

After completing these, it is almost time to return to the stadium.

Before leaving the door, Yesterdam came over and encouraged Gareth Bale with a smile, hoping that he would continue to work hard.

"Yang Yang told us that he still believes in your strength and perform well in the second half."
Chapter completed!