Time passed bit by bit, and the score still did not change.
Manchester City had more than 60% of the ball possession rate, while Barcelona only had 40%. This was extremely rare in past games. More importantly, Manchester City had more offensive opportunities than Barcelona.
This made the Barcelona fans in the stands feel very complicated.
On the one hand, they really hope that Barcelona can win and defeat Manchester City, but on the other hand, they are not satisfied with the current Barcelona team on the court. They play too passively, the scene is not good-looking, and the situation is not good.
Not dominant.
Is this still Barcelona’s home stadium?
On the contrary, Manchester City opposite looked more like Barcelona.
The conflict between Barcelona fans could not change the trend of the game. Manchester City still controlled the ball, but Barcelona also defended it firmly.
Mourinho's defensive formation is still very effective. It has a certain curbing effect on Manchester City's midfield ball control and penetration. Several counterattacks are also quite threatening, and they are basically initiated by Messi.
The same is true for Manchester City.
Due to the numerical disadvantage in the midfield, Sudong retreated more to support the series, while Di Maria and Sanchez in the frontcourt failed to seize the opportunity and scored, making Manchester City's offense quite thunderous and weak.
But Manchester City has long been mentally prepared for this. Even before the game, Guardiola was repeatedly telling the players to be patient enough no matter what and strive to score a valuable goal on the road.
Su Dong also appealed to his teammates in this way, and at the same time did his best to help the team stabilize the situation.
Everyone at Manchester City is waiting for Barcelona to make a mistake.
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The pace of the game is fast and time passes quickly.
In the blink of an eye, forty minutes have passed, and the two sides are still zero to zero.
Seeing that the first half of the game was about to end, the time had just jumped to the 41st minute. Barcelona midfielder Yaya Toure dribbled the ball forward from the center, trying to break the deadlock in the midfield, but was beaten by a well-prepared defender.
Toni Kroos successfully stole the ball near the midline.
After the German midfielder intercepted the ball and just got rid of Yaya Toure's entanglement, he glanced ahead and found that Sanchez was on the right. Sudong retreated deeply, but the left side of the frontcourt was empty.
As expected, Alves moved forward!
After Toni Kroos realized this, he made a long diagonal pass without thinking.
The ball quickly passed from the right side of the center circle, crossed an arc, and fell to the left side of Barcelona's 30-meter area.
At this time, Barcelona's defense tended to focus on its left wing, focusing on marking Sanchez and Sudong, but its right wing seemed a bit empty, especially when switching from defense to offense, Alves was even more neutral.
, insert directly.
Di Maria moved forward to an unoccupied spot, puffed out his chest, stopped Toni Kroos's pass in front of him, started again, and sprinted forward with the ball as quickly as possible.
Mascherano stepped forward to defend immediately, but Di Maria's speed had already picked up. Before Mascherano could get closer, he kicked the ball directly into the penalty area, accelerated and chased it, and used it forcefully.
The speed broke through Mascherano's defense.
Mascherano desperately chased back and blocked the inside of Di Maria, but Di Maria still seized the opportunity and made a wide diagonal pass with his left foot to the right side of the penalty area.
Sanchez had already arrived at this time, went straight into the right side of the penalty area, and stopped the ball before Puyol.
One on one!
The Chilean winger feinted a shot and was about to hit the bottom line, but suddenly he dunked the ball back and passed it back to the penalty spot.
At this time, Su Dong, who had deliberately slowed down his forward speed to confuse his opponent, suddenly accelerated and drove straight in front of Pique. He stopped the ball with his right foot, followed closely, and then caught up with the football.
Just a volley.
The football went straight to the left side of the goal at great speed.
When Di Maria was dribbling the ball just now, Valdes was positioned to the left. When he passed the diagonal pass to Sanchez, Valdes quickly adjusted his position to the right, but before he could stand firm, Su Dong suddenly
Hit a shot straight to the left side of the goal.
Valdez's reaction was not fast enough and he tried his best to save, but he failed to adjust his center of gravity and ultimately failed to catch up with Su Dong's shot.
The ball flew directly into the left side of Barcelona's goal.
The angle isn't tricky, but Valdez can't do anything about it.
"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!"
"In the 42nd minute, Manchester City took the lead in breaking Barcelona's goal."
"This is an offensive cooperation from Manchester City's frontcourt trident, and this is not the first time they have adopted such a cooperation method. This is something that the three of Sudong and Dong are familiar with."
After scoring the goal, Su Dong immediately turned around and rushed out of the stadium. He kept looking back to greet his teammates Di Maria and Sanchez. They rushed to the sidelines together and celebrated under the corner stand where the Manchester City fans were.
The team's goals.
There were only 3,000 Manchester City fans who followed the team to Barcelona for this game, and they were placed in the corner with the worst view, but their loyalty to the team is unquestionable, so the team will choose to
Interact with this group of fans.
The Manchester City fans in the stands also gave warm applause and cheers.
Although they were at a numerical disadvantage, the noise created by the Manchester City fans was not small at all, especially after the goal was scored and the Barcelona fans became silent, the shouts of the Manchester City fans became even more obvious.
"Let's take a look at the slow-motion replay of this goal. After Alves moved forward, there was a defensive vacuum on the right side of Barcelona, and he was quickly hit to the left side of the defense. Mascherano had to grab it, but was disqualified.
After Maria used her speed to force a breakthrough, she passed the ball back to the right and passed it to Sanchez, who then returned to the middle, and finally Su Dong stepped in to make the final impact."
"Su Dong's shot was very calm and very crucial."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "The entire goal process, after stealing the ball on the right, Toni Kroos moved to the left with his big foot, and Di Maria passed to Sanchez on the right.
Finally, Sanchez passed back to the center."
"This kind of pulling the opponent's defense back and forth is the offensive method that Manchester City is best at."
Manchester City's players celebrated the goal on the sidelines, while Barcelona's players walked back to the center line in frustration and disinterest, repositioning themselves and preparing to kick off again.
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When Mourinho saw Toni Kroos moving towards Di Maria on the sidelines, he was already jumping with excitement.
When he saw Di Maria pass back to the right, Sanchez made a cross, and Su Dong volleyed in and scored, he was already furious.
"Damn it! Damn it!"
"Daniel, what are you doing? I've told you many times, watch your position, position, position!"
Mourinho roared so hard that his veins popped out, and he was obviously in a very anxious mood.
It's no wonder, because it was a mistake in player positioning.
Barcelona's attack just now was clearly from the left, but two players left their positions at the same time.
One is Yaya Toure in the middle. When Mourinho gave him the instructions, he was not absolutely sure and would never allow him to leave his position, because the defense zone between him and Xavi was crucial, and the defense line must be protected.
.
But in the end, Yaya Toure dribbled the ball forward, only to be interrupted by Toni Kroos, who launched a counterattack.
Another one is Alves.
He saw the team switching from defense to offense and wanted to rush forward to take a share of the pie. Unexpectedly, Yaya Toure made a mistake and Alves rushed too far forward, leaving the space behind him.
exposed.
"These bastards are so unreliable!"
Mourinho was a little dizzy now and cursed angrily.
Fortunately, the noise at the scene was so loud that only he and his assistants could hear his curses, and even the players on the bench could hardly hear them. Otherwise, it would probably have caused an uproar.
But Mourinho really wants to capture Yaya Toure and let him take a good look at how Busquets plays as a defensive midfielder.
Damn it, can't you just save some time?
Stop thinking about dribbling the ball forward all day long, okay?
But Mourinho cannot do this kind of thing, because it is tantamount to destroying his own job.
Everyone knows that when Busquets followed Guardiola to Manchester City, it was because he was not reused by Mourinho at Barcelona.
If he now asks Yaya Toure to learn from Busquets, does that mean he has offended Yaya Toure and slapped himself in the face?
And that Alves, he really forgot everything as soon as he saw the attack.
If there is one in Manchester City, it is Marcelo, but the key is that Pepe can control Marcelo, and no one in Barcelona can control Alves.
The result is that when Alves dribbled the ball forward, Marcelo immediately returned to his position, and Di Maria didn't even need to defend back, and that's why he scored the goal.
When it comes to this goal, the most critical thing is Su Dong.
"This guy is so cunning!"
After Yaya Toure dribbled the ball to the midline and was intercepted, Su Dong did not run forward immediately. Instead, he deliberately inserted an angle between Xavi and Pique. When Pique retreated into the penalty area, he went to the top of the key area by himself.
At that moment, he suddenly threw away Xavi and crossed in front of Pique.
Sanchez's pass arrived quickly, and neither Xavi nor Pique could stop Sudong from stopping the ball and kicking.
Giving the opponent a valuable away goal, this game for Barcelona was really difficult.
The current situation has forced Barcelona to make a choice. Should they press out and attack?
Judging from the situation in the first half, if we continue to adopt this style of play, we may not be able to score goals and equalize the score in the second half.
As for pressing forward and attacking, it is also not possible to score a goal. Instead, the defense is exposed more and more completely.
what to do?
Mourinho really has a headache.
If he hadn't conceded this goal, he would have continued to defend, even if it was zero to zero, he would have defended to the end and left the suspense until the second round, when it would be good to score an away goal.
But now...
Do you still want to keep guarding?
Mourinho hesitated.
Fortunately, the first half of the game ended quickly.
Manchester City temporarily took the lead 1-0 with Su Dong's goal in the final stage.
Barcelona fans responded with overwhelming boos to Su Dong as he walked off the court.
They began to hate the guy who scored the Nou Camp goal again.
