Defeating Blackburn 4-2, Manchester City once again scored three points, but the price paid was that Su Dong only played half the game.
This made the fans at the scene extremely nervous.
Four rounds of games, seven goals and seven assists. With such a report card, looking at European football, only Drogba can compete. This is the core strength of Manchester City.
Drogba also scored in the fourth round, but only one.
In other words, Su Dong and Drogba are now tied in the scorer list, but Su Dong takes the lead in the assist list.
The contest between Su Dong and Drogba is undoubtedly the most eye-catching showdown in the Premier League at the moment, and behind them are Manchester City and Chelsea, who have also won four consecutive games.
Among them, Chelsea has maintained its top position in the league standings with its goal difference advantage.
But there are only two things that really attract the media's attention, namely Manchester City's two goals conceded and Su Dong's injury.
At the post-match press conference, Guardiola was not satisfied with the two goals conceded by Manchester City, which he believed could be avoided.
Not only that, Guardiola also said that he was not satisfied with the goalkeeper's performance.
This has triggered heated discussions in the outside world, because Joe Hart is currently England's national goalkeeper and is recognized as the leader among the young generation of goalkeepers in England and even European football.
Guardiola is not satisfied with Joe Hart?
Just because he conceded two goals in this game?
The answer is definitely not this.
Within Manchester City, it has been known for a long time that Guardiola has particularly high demands on goalkeepers. He often even calls timeout in training to coach Joe Hart, hoping that he can change his way of playing, especially some inertial thinking.
Guardiola even arranged for Given to be the main goalkeeper many times in training, but Given's weaknesses are very obvious.
The 34-year-old Irish veteran is only 1.85 meters tall. He was famous for his various amazing saves when he was young. He firmly controls Newcastle's main goalkeeper position. In the past few years, Newcastle has always been a force that cannot be ignored in the Premier League.
Powerful force.
But as he gets older, his body functions gradually decline, and Ji Wen has gradually exposed his weaknesses. When he was young, he could rely on his reactions and physical saves to make up for it, but now, he can no longer save.
More importantly, Guardiola's requirements for goalkeepers are not just goalkeeping, but also integrating ball control in the midfield and backfield.
This is also an important part of Van Gaal's reform of Spanish goalkeeper training after taking charge of Barcelona. Therefore, a group of short goalkeepers such as Valdes, Reina, Casillas and others have emerged in Spain in recent years, which can almost be said to be mass production.
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But this is still a very new thing in England.
Joe Hart and Given, these two goalkeepers cannot satisfy Guardiola. With Manchester City's current level, they simply cannot attract better goalkeepers, such as Bayern's Neuer, who is definitely Guardiola's hero.
, but can he abandon Bayern and come to Manchester City?
Although Su Dong has a very good relationship with Neuer, it is impossible to do this.
Not to mention Neuer, Guardiola once thought about recruiting veteran Buffon from Juventus, but Buffon didn't want to come at all, which made it difficult for Manchester City to make a difference at the goalkeeper position.
As a last resort, I could only continue to use Joe Hart and Given, and between the two, I chose Joe Hart.
In order to help Joe Hart better adapt to this set of tactics, Guardiola even specially invited the famous goalkeeper coach Unzue from La Liga to coach in Manchester.
Speaking of Wensuai, this person can be regarded as an old acquaintance of Su Dong.
He is a professional goalkeeper. During Cruyff's dream team, he was Barcelona's substitute goalkeeper, but he and Guardiola were basically teammates because after Guardiola was promoted to the first team, Unzue became a substitute goalkeeper.
Already left Barcelona.
After moving to many teams, he took relevant coaching courses, specializing in goalkeeper training. After retiring, Unzue came directly to Barcelona and directly served as Rijkaard's assistant. He worked there for five years.
It was also here that Wensuai met Su Dong.
After Mourinho took charge of Barcelona, he brought his own goalkeeper coach. As a result, Unzue was forced to leave Barcelona and served as the head coach of some mid-to-lower and lower-level league teams, but his coaching results were not satisfactory.
Guardiola wanted to bring him to Manchester City as early as 2009, but at that time he had the opportunity to coach Numancia and politely rejected Guardiola. Until this summer, after he was dismissed from Numancia, he
Guardiola extended the invitation again, and he joined Manchester City in August and joined Guardiola's coaching team.
But his training with Joe Hart and Given did not go well.
At the end of the day, these two players are already established.
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If the goalkeeper is the aspect that Guardiola is most dissatisfied with, Su Dong's injury makes Guardiola panic.
How violent and aggressive the Premier League is, just look at Su Dong's legs.
Basically, after every game, he loses the lottery.
The bloodshed against Blackburn was only slightly worse.
But even so, Guardiola still criticized Blackburn for his brutal foul at the post-match press conference.
"What makes me most unbelievable is that the referee didn't even call a foul for many actions that clearly should have resulted in a card."
Not only Guardiola, but also technical director Begiristain also criticized the referee's weakness, believing that players of Sudong's level should be given more protection instead of allowing him to be violated by defensive players.
Having said that, if people in Manchester are talking softly these days, who will listen?
If Ferguson had come out and shouted, the referee would probably be a little more wary, but Guardiola and Begiristain don't have the capacity.
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Su Dong's injury caused him to miss the training on the next day of the game, and he also did not go to Austria in midweek. In the lineup against Red Bull Salzburg, Santa Cruz replaced Su Dong as the team's center.
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Manchester City did not suffer an attack from Red Bull Salzburg in the away game. When the famous Dutch coach Stevens faced Manchester City, he still focused on defense, allowing Manchester City to control the game and frequently create opportunities.
But all the opportunities created by Manchester City were wasted.
David Silva, Di Maria, Sanchez, Santa Cruz, Gareth Barry...
Throughout the first half, Manchester City's offense could be made into a highlight reel of missed opportunities.
On the contrary, Red Bull Salzburg did not pose much substantial threat to Manchester City.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this that Manchester City's defense is a little too big, they press frequently, and there are also deficiencies in the defense.
Before the end of the first half, Salzburg player Shikaya lobbed a shot from outside the penalty area, lofting the ball past goalkeeper Joe Hart who was standing in front of him and letting the ball fall into the goal, giving Salzburg a chance to win.
Red Bull Zburg opened the scoring.
Manchester City entered the halftime break with a 0-1 deficit.
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In the visiting team's locker room at the Red Bull Arena, Guardiola had a livid face, with anger almost written all over his face.
He was very, very dissatisfied with the team's performance in the first half.
Thirteen shots were taken, at least five scoring opportunities, but not a single goal was scored!
"You guys make me feel like a group of kids who don't know how to play football. I don't even know what to say!"
Guardiola was really furious.
The first official European game, and also the first official European game of Guardiola's coaching career. Even if it is only the Europa League, but the opponent is not weak, Manchester City plays like this. How can Guardiola accept it?
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The players were equally depressed.
They did try their best, but they always played awkwardly.
This is a very strange feeling.
This season's smooth sailing has given them the illusion that the team's offense is well-tuned and everyone knows how to cooperate and how to play, so the offense can be done however they want.
Especially attackers like Di Maria, Sanchez and David Silva, they feel that they are in very good condition.
But in tonight's game, they found that they were running into obstacles and everything was not going well.
Just like Di Maria, he missed a great opportunity in the first half.
Is that his problem?
When Di Maria stepped in, Santa Cruz passed the ball back. The two people's awareness of cooperation was there, but the problem was that just the awareness of cooperation was not enough. Under the interference of the defensive players, Santa Cruz gave
Di Maria's pass was a little slow and did not reach his best left foot.
The result is that after Di Maria catches up, he cannot fight directly and has to stop and adjust.
It was this stop that caused Di Maria to miss an excellent opportunity. It looked as if he stopped the ball deliberately and missed the opportunity.
In fact, he was wronged!
This is true for Sanchez, David Silva and others.
Gradually, they all figured it out.
The devil is in the details!
In the previous few games, the team played smoothly, and that was because of Su Dong's presence.
Su Dong led them to play, not only sharing the most defensive pressure with them, but also constantly creating opportunities for them, and they were all very good opportunities. Every pass was given well and very comfortably.
In contrast, Santa Cruz struggled to deal with Red Bull Salzburg's two central defenders. What good ball could they pass?
That's how it is sometimes.
When I have him, I don’t feel like I have anything, and I don’t know how to cherish it. I feel that everything is taken for granted. I even feel that it doesn’t matter if I don’t have him, that I am still great and can do just fine.
But only when they lose him will they understand how important he is.
It’s just hard to be taught what it’s like to be a human being!
But this group of Manchester City players were obviously hit.
After all, Stevens is a famous Dutch coach, and his defensive organization is quite strict, which severely dampened Manchester City's spirit.
Because of this, when Su Dong was called into the locker room by Estiarte, he clearly felt that the atmosphere of his teammates around him had become different.
After finally wearing the captain's armband once, when Zabaleta saw Su Dong come in, he immediately took off the captain's armband from his arm like a hot potato and stuffed it directly into Su Dong's hand.
This action caused a burst of laughter in the locker room.
