The first half ended with a 1-0 lead. At the beginning of the second half, Manchester City launched a fast-paced offensive.
First, he stole the ball on the right and then launched a counterattack. Zabaleta passed the ball diagonally from the right to the right side of the center circle. Toni Kroos passed the ball directly behind him without stopping. Sanchez moved forward at great speed and got the ball all the way.
Advance to the right side of the penalty area and pass to the penalty area.
The previous series of collaborations were very beautiful, but the last pass came too close to the goal. Goalkeeper Weidenfeller attacked and took the ball away one step ahead of Su Dong.
After missing a good scoring opportunity, Dortmund quickly launched a quick counterattack.
After continuous passing and cooperation, Lewandowski retreated to the outside of the penalty area to receive the ball, got rid of Busquets, and sent a through ball. Grosskreutz inserted into the left rib of the penalty area and started from a small angle.
Kick the door with your feet.
Goalkeeper Courtois fell down and held the ball firmly in his arms, giving the Dortmund players no chance.
The Belgian goalkeeper got up from the ground, still holding the ball firmly with both hands, and slowly walked towards the outside of the penalty area.
At this time, Manchester City's formation was pressing forward quickly.
Courtois glanced ahead and naturally fell on Su Dong, who was obviously ready.
The Belgian goalkeeper directly kicked the ball forward near the penalty area line.
At the front of Dortmund's 30-meter zone, Su Dongzheng judged the landing point of the ball, accurately blocked the position, took the lead, jumped high, headed the ball to the first landing point, and knocked it back to Toni who came from behind.
·Cross.
The German midfielder stopped the ball, dunked it to the right, adjusted it and then passed it with his right foot.
It was the same overhead pass as before.
Sanchez ran all the way and once again got ahead of everyone and caught up with Toni Kroos' pass.
But this time, Schmelzer returned to his defensive position in time.
The two were one-on-one, and Sanchez made a clever fake move, deceiving the defensive player, and then passed directly down the bottom.
Subotic grabbed the upper hand and headed the ball out of the penalty area.
Just as Sven Bender was about to stop the ball, he was entangled by Toni Kroos and intercepted the ball first.
The ball was still at Manchester City's feet and passed back to Busquets to reorganize.
Busquets passed the ball forward to David Silva. The Spanish midfielder pushed the ball forward and suddenly distributed the ball to the left.
Marcelo stepped in from the back row, and when receiving the ball, he shook off Gotze who was chasing after him. He cut diagonally inward, attracted Shinji Kagawa's attention, and then suddenly spiked the ball to the left sideline and took the ball to the left side.
Later, taking advantage of the defensive loophole between Shinji Kagawa and Kyle, he dribbled the ball into the penalty area and passed the ball to the back point.
Su Dong, who was already ready to go, stepped in at high speed, overwhelmed Subotic and headed the ball towards the goal.
The ball was blasted directly into Dortmund's goal by Su Dong, 2-0!
"Two goals!!!"
"Su Dong scored twice!"
"Wonderful cooperation from Manchester City, Marcelo passed three people beautifully."
"Oh my God, the Brazilian left back showed incredible footwork. Three Dortmund defenders couldn't stop his breakthrough. It was simply amazing."
"Every Manchester City player has good foot skills and superb passing and receiving skills."
When everyone rushed to the sidelines to celebrate the goal with Su Dong, Su Dong did not forget to raise Marcelo's hand high and tell the Manchester City fans that the number one contributor to this goal was actually the Brazilian left back.
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So, all the players congratulated Marcelo one after another.
In fact, everyone within Manchester City has long known that Marcelo has footwork and superb skills that are not inferior to other players in the team. This is why Guardiola values him so much.
How many full-backs are there in the world who are as skilled as wingers?
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With Su Dong scoring again, Manchester City took a 2-0 lead.
This was a big blow to Dortmund.
Subsequently, Manchester City continued to control the passing and possession advantages and continued to organize waves of attacks against Dortmund.
In the 60th minute, there was another long pass from the backcourt. Sudong once again grabbed the first spot and headed the ball to David Silva. The Spaniard passed the ball diagonally behind him, and Sanchez made a diagonal pass.
On the right side of the penalty area, he received a pass from David Silva and formed a single goal. However, he tried to pass Weidenfeller who was attacking, but failed and the ball was intercepted.
After missing the scoring opportunity, Sanchez himself was upset.
Klopp quickly made substitutions, replacing Grosskreutz with Perisic, and replacing old captain Kyle with Gundogan. This was a very obvious signal to strengthen the team's offense.
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After leading by two goals, the opponent made two substitutions in a row. Manchester City stabilized the rhythm slightly and focused on stability. This allowed Dortmund to launch a wave of offensive, but failed to create any opportunities.
On the contrary, in the 71st minute, Manchester City counterattacked again. Su Dong received a pass from his teammate and passed the ball diagonally to the left without stopping. Di Maria inserted into the left side of the penalty area as quickly as possible and dunked when stopping the ball.
After passing Santana, it became a one-on-one shot. When he hit the goal with his right foot, he didn't hit the goal with enough force, and was directly blocked by Weidenfeller.
After missing two single-handed goals in a row, Manchester City's two wingers were so regretful that their intestines were blue.
It wasn't until the 77th minute that Manchester City made their first substitution.
In the 86th minute, seeing that the situation was set, Guardiola replaced Su Dong with Dzeko.
At this moment, more than 40,000 Manchester City fans in the entire stadium stood up and gave Su Dong the warmest applause and cheers.
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I don’t know if it was due to the pressure caused by losing Su Dong, but Dortmund launched a wave of fierce offensives at the last moment of the game.
First, in the 87th minute, Perisic created a corner kick opportunity on the left, causing a melee in the Manchester City penalty area. Among the crowd, Subotic keenly seized the opportunity and scored on the small penalty area line.
Take a shot with your foot.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At this moment, everyone in Manchester City was shocked into a cold sweat. Even Su Dong and others who were sitting on the bench were so frightened that they stood up.
At the critical moment, Courtois reacted astonishingly, falling to the ground to make a save with almost divine speed, miraculously grabbing the shot that was so close at hand, and breaking Dortmund's inevitable goal.
The entire Etihad Stadium burst into wild cheers.
Entering stoppage time, after Dortmund stole the ball in the backcourt, Subotic sent a long pass.
After Lewandowski fended off Kompany in the frontcourt, he quickly broke in and won a valuable one-on-one opportunity.
But just when the Polish center dribbled the ball into the penalty area, Courtois had already abandoned the goal. Near the penalty spot, just when Lewandowski wanted to hit the goal, he relied on his skill
Long, Courtois fell to the ground to make a save and blocked the ball.
No one expected that this inevitable scoring opportunity would be defused by Courtois once again.
The ball was also hit out of bounds by Pepe who returned to defense in time.
The Etihad Stadium once again burst into warm applause.
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Su Dong was on the bench and never sat back down after standing up.
After seeing Courtois' outstanding performance, he applauded as hard as the fans in the audience.
In recent times, he has felt that Courtois is becoming more and more confident and more general-like as he participates in more games and accumulates experience.
With Joe Hart's unsatisfactory performance, Courtois is gradually occupying the team's main position.
If before the start of the season, he was more favored by Guardiola and was not convincing, then after this month's performance, Courtois has handed over a satisfactory job, which can even be said to be satisfactory.
It's a stunning answer.
With this performance, he suppressed Joe Hart and won the main position of Manchester City, which is convincing enough.
Especially in this battle tonight.
According to the original plan, Joe Hart should be the one tonight, but the England national goalkeeper performed too much in the previous European Super Cup, so Guardiola temporarily adjusted to Courtois.
This is actually sending a signal, that is, if Courtois performs well, he will get more game opportunities and even directly occupy the team's main position.
If Courtois's performance tonight is not ideal enough, Joe Hart will still have many opportunities. But judging from the current situation, Courtois can no longer be described as very good, he can simply be described as good in front of the goal.
To describe it as a Dinghai Shenzhen, he saved several must-goal opportunities for Dortmund.
You know, although Dortmund's lineup is not as strong as Manchester City, after their outstanding performance last season, the level and worth of the Hornets' players are quite good.
For example, the talented midfielder Gotze, this young player was seduced by Wenger this summer and is known as the best assister and the most dangerous player in Germany. He almost assisted Lewandowski to score in the opening game. His strength
It's obvious.
In order to get him, Wenger even offered a sky-high price of 40 million euros to poach this genius, but Dortmund rejected it.
There is also Shinji Kagawa, who was the best player in the Bundesliga half of last season and is worth 20 million euros.
In addition, two players like Grosskreutz and Lewandowski are also worth more than 10 million euros.
In other words, Dortmund's attacking combination is worth as much as 80 million euros. Even if you look at European football, except for the top giants, this attacking combination is actually quite luxurious.
Manchester City was able to withstand Dortmund's counterattack test tonight. In addition to the outstanding performance of the defense players led by Pepe and Kompany, Courtois's performance was also crucial.
Without him, whether Manchester City could get three points tonight is still unknown.
Therefore, Sudong can be very confident that after winning tonight's game, Courtois's main position in Manchester City can be considered stable.
As long as he can maintain stable performance without making major mistakes or sudden decline in form, it will be difficult for Joe Hart to shake his position.
At least in terms of pass success rate, Courtois is improving every game and now exceeds 80%.
This is much better than Joe Hart.
I believe that after tonight, everyone's expectations for Courtois will be even earlier, and he will be worthy of his reputation as the next goalkeeper.
