At noon on September 23, in the sixth round of the Premier League, Manchester City faced Everton at home.
Guardiola has formed his strongest formation and is waiting for the arrival of Moyes' team.
The goalkeeper is Courtois, the defense is Leighton Baines, Pepe, Kompany and Zabaleta, and the midfielder is Busquets, David Silva and Toni Kroos.
In the front, the front trident is the combination of Hazard, Sudong and Sanchez.
After the game started, Manchester City took advantage of their home court advantage and the team's overall strength to launch a fierce attack on Everton. Especially Leighton Baines on the left, who was extremely excited against his old club and frequently
Create a threat.
First, he assisted Toni Kroos with a long-range shot that missed, and then he took Hazard's back pass and fired an angry shot from the front of the penalty area, which missed slightly, giving Manchester City the lead.
In the eighth minute, Leighton Bynes passed the ball from the left again. Center defender Jagelka grabbed the first shot, but made a mistake when passing it back to goalkeeper Howard, and Su Dong quickly broke in.
Go up, take the first step and poke the ball past the attacking goalkeeper, and easily push the ball into the empty goal, one to zero!
After Su Dong scored, his speed did not slow down and he rushed straight to the sidelines, smiling from ear to ear.
That's right, anyone suddenly got such a big deal, who wouldn't be happy?
Everton head coach Moyes was furious on the sidelines. He could not accept that his central defender was actually in the back line, especially when facing Manchester City, he was so blindly playing with fire.
Now it’s better, I’m burning my hands!
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After conceding the ball, Everton began to pay more attention to defense, while Manchester City patiently controlled the ball.
In the 35th minute, Hazard broke through from the left and created a corner kick opportunity.
David Silva quickly took a corner kick, causing chaos in the penalty area and was cleared out of the penalty area.
After Zabaleta grabbed the spot on the right side of the penalty area, he made a slight adjustment and passed the ball back into the penalty area again.
Jagelka grabbed the spot and made a header again, hitting the left side.
Marcelo followed up and grabbed the spot again. After a pause, he glanced at the penalty area and passed diagonally with his left foot to the right side of the goal in the penalty area.
Among the chaotic crowd in the penalty area, Su Dong quickly broke out and got ahead of everyone. Before the goalkeeper Howard was in position, he made a diagonal pass to Marcelo.
The ball was pushed into Everton's goal by Su Dong, 2-0!
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After that, Su Dong also shot a cold arrow from 30 meters away, which almost penetrated the Everton goal. However, Howard performed very well this time. He flew sideways and blocked Su Dong's long shot with one hand.
He fought out and resolved a door-breaking crisis.
Su Dong was unwilling to score a hat trick in the first half.
After changing sides in the second half, he still performed very bravely, but he was always just a little short of scoring.
In the 68th minute, Su Dong was on the right side of the front court. After receiving a pass from Sanchez, he turned around and dribbled the ball inward, taking it all the way from the right corner of the penalty area to the top of the arc. He then spotted the opportunity and suddenly cut into the penalty area, completely disrupting the situation.
Everton's defense.
Caught off guard, Everton was in chaos. Su Dong returned the ball. Toni Kroos followed up and pushed the ball. The ball went straight into the lower right corner of the goal. Three to zero!
Su Dong was subsequently substituted because the team had to deal with the second leg of the Champions League group stage in midweek and challenged Inter Milan away.
After Su Dong left the field, Manchester City continued to create opportunities.
Especially in the 89th minute, former Real Madrid player Drenthe made a mistake in passing the ball and was suddenly intercepted by David Silva, who quickly sent a through ball. Sanchez crossed into the penalty area and calmly seized the opportunity with his right foot.
Push shot to score, four to zero!
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After this game, the situation in the Premier League finally changed.
Manchester City won six games in six games and led the way, allowing everyone to once again feel the powerful strength of this rich team that was quickly established with the help of gold and dollar checks.
In this round, Manchester United drew 1-1 with Stoke City away from home, with Crouch equalizing the score for the home team.
As a result, the Premier League has changed from a two-pronged Manchester team to a one-man show of Manchester City.
It's only two points, but it's still a lead.
Just like Moyes criticized his two defenders for playing with fire after the game, causing the team to suffer a huge defeat, Ferguson also accused Manchester United players of lacking aggressiveness and failing to withstand the pressure during the game.
Drawn by Stoke City.
Both Scots were dissatisfied with their team's performance this round.
Ferguson even issued a challenge to Manchester City, saying that Manchester United would reverse Manchester City in the ninth round and reach the top.
Because in the ninth round of the league, Manchester City will be a guest at Old Trafford.
The huge defeat last season is still vivid in my mind. Ferguson is determined to avenge his disgrace and counterattack in the standings.
Another interesting thing is that Courtois almost won this game.
Everton only had two shots on goal in this game, and neither of them posed a threat. Courtois easily resolved them and once again kept the opponent clean.
This made the British media very emotional.
Is Courtois just too lucky? Or is Joe Hart too bad?
Otherwise, how to explain this phenomenon?
Su Dong believes that opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared.
Everything in a football match is inevitable.
Courtois seemed to win on his own, but in fact it was inseparable from the close cooperation between him and the defense.
Joe Hart is indeed not as good as Courtois at this point.
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From taking office on June 24 to being fired on September 21, there were only ninety days in charge, making Gasperini the third shortest-lived head coach during Moratti's tenure at Inter Milan.
After firing the underperforming Gasperini, Inter Milan quickly changed coaches and welcomed the famous Italian coach and tinker Ranieri.
Changing coaches is like changing swords. After taking over, Inter Milan immediately defeated Bologna 3-1 in the away game.
In the middle of the week, we ushered in the second round of the Champions League group stage.
After losing to Villarreal away from home in the first round, the home game against Manchester City is particularly important.
There is no need to say more about the strength of Manchester City. Everyone at Inter Milan knows it very well.
Ranieri said before the game that he would learn from the experience of AC Milan's match against Barcelona. He believed that when facing ball-possessing teams like Barcelona and Manchester City, he must not go head-to-head with them, but must use his own strength.
Strengths.
Tinker said that he does not think Inter Milan has the ability to compete with Manchester City now.
"As we all know, they are one of the strongest teams in Europe. We must find their weaknesses and loopholes and attack them, instead of blindly trying to overwhelm them."
In order to better restrain Manchester City, Ranieri adopted Italy's traditional 4-4-2 formation and arranged for central defender Lucio, who was transferred from Bayern, to partner with Samuel to deal with Sudong.
The Tinkerers adopted a defensive strategy, with two forwards, Pacini and Milito, pressing and counterattacking.
This style of play brought a lot of trouble and pressure to Manchester City at the Meazza Stadium.
Neither side could score, especially Manchester City.
The advantage in possession of the ball is very obvious, but they have never been able to find an effective way to break through Inter Milan's defense.
Sudong also encountered trouble under the joint restriction of two world-class central defenders, Lucio and Samuel, which made it difficult for Manchester City's offense to threaten.
Breaking the density is a problem for all teams around the world.
For Manchester City, how to break the density when Su Dong is restricted is also a big trouble.
In this way, the game remained deadlocked for nearly eighty minutes.
Until the 78th minute, when Su Dong retreated to receive Moutinho's pass, he turned around and dribbled the ball to start. Samuel was tripped and fell to the ground. The referee gave Manchester City a penalty.
A free kick taken at the front edge of the penalty area, 24 meters from the goal.
This made Ranieri very angry on the sidelines and made everyone at Inter Milan feel like they were facing a formidable enemy.
Everyone knows how sharp Su Dong's free kicks are.
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Su Dong didn't need to discuss with anyone. After getting up from the ground, he carried the football to the penalty spot.
At this time, Inter Milan had already set up a human wall.
Five people!
And Lucio, the tallest player in the team, is also there, which shows how nervous Cesar is about Su Dong's penalty.
For any team facing Manchester City, the head coach will definitely tell you before the game to try not to foul outside the penalty area.
To a certain extent, this can be regarded as assisting Manchester City.
After placing the ball, Su Dong slowly backed away, put his hands on his hips, and waited for his opponent to form a wall.
"He gives me the feeling of being very confident now, as if he is looking at the wall and saying, 'Set it up, set it up better, whatever you want, if you don't get the penalty, I lose!', this should be what Ranieri is most worried about now.
matter."
"All teams facing Sudong will encounter this problem."
"When you use all your means to limit him and defend him, in the end you will find that he still has some ways to score goals that you can't stop at all. This is quite frustrating and also demoralizing."
"Inter Milan defended very well tonight. Although they only had 26% of the ball possession rate and even had three shots, at least they successfully defended the score of 0-0."
"But now, Su Dong still found a very good scoring opportunity for Manchester City, just look at this free kick."
As the referee pushed away, a whistle blew, indicating that Su Dong could take the penalty.
Su Dong looked at Inter Milan's wall and had an estimate in his mind. After quickly running forward, he came to the ball and quickly kicked a curve ball with his right foot.
The ball climbed up at an extremely fast speed, passed near Lucio, just over the head of the wall, and then dropped rapidly with an obvious and strange change of direction, which caused goalkeeper Cesar to misjudge.
By the time the Brazilian goalkeeper judged the path of the ball and dived sideways, the ball had already taken the lead and penetrated into Inter Milan's goal.
Cesar jumped out of the way and fell heavily to the grass. He was so angry that he beat the grass hard.
Su Dong flew excitedly to the sidelines, running wildly all the way, shouting and celebrating the goal.
Everyone at Manchester City was extremely excited.
After eighty minutes of attacking, the steel fortress that could not be breached was finally captured by Su Dong!
