After joining Manchester City for more than a year, Su Dong has experienced firsthand the biggest difference between Guardiola's passing and controlling system and Rijkaard's tactical play.
stable!
It’s so stable!
Stable as Mount Tai!
The outside media and fans only see the team's passing and ball control system, but inside the team, all the players see a set of partially coordinated designs and routines. Through repeated drills in daily training, every player can
Comprehend everything, know it like the back of your hand, and then be able to perform according to the situation on the court.
The former is like a person, and the latter is the capillaries in this person's body.
The final piece of tactics was Manchester City's entire system.
Guardiola's style of play has high requirements for players, which are solid passing and ball control skills, excellent tactical execution, excellent physical fitness, and sufficient patience at all times.
Manchester City looked very unstable last season, but this season, with the thickening of the bench and the improvement of the lineup, everyone has discovered that Manchester City basically makes no mistakes.
Of course, this is not surprising.
Look at Manchester City's ball possession rate this season. The worst is 65%. This is simply incredible, isn't it?
Opponents can't get the ball, especially some weaker opponents who can't even grab the ball. How can they force Manchester City to make mistakes?
If it weren't for the sinkholes like Joe Hart and David Luiz in the defense, Manchester City would probably even concede a lot fewer goals.
In addition, Guardiola has another aspect that is very commendable, and that is the training and transformation of young players.
Javi Martinez only played one game as a central defender with a back three, and won a lot of applause; Douglas Costa also performed well on the wing at Manchester City, but he was a little bit sticky; the teenager Trippier was more
He is making steady progress and has the potential to compete with Zabaleta at right back in the future. Guardiola even often uses him as a defensive midfielder in training.
In addition, young players such as Sterling and Bellerin are not to mention, they are all the targets of Guardiola's key cultivation.
These players are all immersed in Guardiola's tactics. Next, they will gradually enter the first team. As long as they perform well, they can become the main force of the first team. This guarantees Guardiola's tactics.
The style of play continues at Manchester City.
It can be said that in just over two years, Guardiola has created a stable tactical concept at Manchester City.
Maybe many years later, this style of play will be Manchester City's tradition.
Just like what Cruyff did at Barcelona.
Manchester City's passing and controlling style of play is also unique in the high-flying Premier League, and is very popular among fans. After all, everyone likes to control the ball at their feet, leaving the opponent with no ball to kick.
But this style of play doesn't always work, and you may encounter some troubles.
Just like the twelfth round of the Premier League, Manchester City faced Newcastle at home.
Affected by the two weeks of national team matches, Guardiola continued to make substantial rotations for Manchester City, and all international players who participated in the South American national team matches were placed outside the squad.
It's not because of the Champions League game in midweek.
Manchester City has won four consecutive games in the group stage and has already won the championship in advance. The remaining two rounds of the group stage can be won or lost, no one cares.
The real trouble is the next three league rounds.
The twelve rounds are against Newcastle at home, the thirteenth round is against Liverpool away, the fourteenth round is against Arsenal at home, and the fifteenth round is against Chelsea away. All are tough battles, and every opponent is very difficult to deal with.
This is the biggest test for Manchester City.
So much so that Newcastle head coach Alan Padre commented on Manchester City before the game and said that the next three rounds are likely to determine the Premier League championship this season, and against Manchester City they can only rely on defense, but he is not sure that the team will win.
Able to hold on.
"The core of Manchester City is Su Dong!"
"Guardiola's tactics have given Manchester City superior passing, ball control and stable performance, but Sudong is Manchester City's key strength. He leads Manchester City forward alone."
Padreux believes that against Manchester City, one cannot just fight to the death, but must focus on defense, especially on locking down Sudong.
That's what the Magpies' head coach said, and he also did it.
This also allowed Newcastle to block Manchester City's offensive in the first half.
Until the end of the first half.
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When the game reached the 41st minute, Manchester City patiently passed the ball back and forth near Newcastle's 30-meter area.
The Magpies had no choice but to concentrate on guarding and guarding against Manchester City's passing penetration.
But Manchester City still opened a gap on the left.
After receiving the ball, Hazard suddenly started to move away from the defensive player and cut inside to the left side of the front edge of the penalty area.
Su Dong turned his back to the direction of attack, immediately retreated to the top of the arc, and raised his hand to ask for the ball.
Hazard passed the ball over. Sudong leaned on Coloccini and Stephen Taylor with his body. After firmly stopping the ball, he knocked it back to David Silva and turned forward.
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David Silva understood the idea and directly stuffed the ball behind him without stopping the ball.
I saw Sudong turn around and throw away Stephen Taylor, quickly rush into Newcastle's penalty area, stop the ball and use his body to squeeze Coloccini away, adjust slightly, and directly hit the goal.
The poor young Argentine Lion King was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of height and strength. After being squeezed away by Su Dong, he used his hands and feet to try to hold Su Dong back and prevent him from scoring, but Su Dong immediately got up.
foot.
The ball entered the lower left corner of the goal in a straight line.
Goalkeeper Krul could only watch the ball and sigh, unable to do anything when faced with the shot that was so close.
One to zero!
"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!"
Su Dong rushed out of the stadium, ran all the way to the chairman's stand, kissed the ring on his left hand vigorously, and raised it high above his head.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! At this moment, more than 40,000 Manchester City fans in the entire Etihad Stadium are shouting Su Dong's name, and there are even many fans
They all issued slogans to congratulate him on his marriage. They had obviously gotten the news from the media.
"Su Dong revealed for the first time in a previous interview that he will get married after the season."
"Since he joined Manchester City, his fiancée has appeared in almost every home game of Manchester City. The two have been hailed as a match made in heaven by Manchester City fans, and have also been jokingly called Manchester City's Beckham and Victoria by the media."
"Of course, there are many people who are not convinced, because Su Dong's football skills are better than Beckham's, and his fiancée is a top student from Oxford University Law School and is favored by many of the world's top law firms, both in appearance and talent.
, obviously better than Victoria."
"So, we are more willing to admit that he belongs to Manchester City, an enhanced version of Beckham and Victoria."
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Less than four minutes after breaking the deadlock, when the game had just entered stoppage time, Manchester City once again launched a wave of offensive. Douglas Costa on the right took the ball and advanced it to the right corner of the penalty area, but was chased and intercepted by the opponent.
Su Dong ran over to receive the ball and passed it back to Toni Kroos.
The ball was still under Manchester City's organization, but it advanced to the front of the penalty area.
Toni Kroos passed to David Silva, who got rid of the defender and passed the ball to Sudong who ran towards the center from the right and raised his hand for the ball.
Su Dong accelerated the ball without stopping, passed the ball forward, and just used his speed to break away from Coloccini's defense. On the right side of the top of the arc in the penalty area, he sent a diagonal pass with his left foot and passed the ball to the big goal.
The left side of the penalty area.
I saw Hazard slanting into the penalty area from the left rib, dunking past the defensive player when stopping the ball, and then hit it directly with his right foot.
The ball quickly went into the right side of Newcastle's goal, 2-0!
The Belgian winger was so excited that he jumped up on the spot and rushed to the sidelines shouting to celebrate.
Su Dong and other teammates quickly followed suit, laughing and celebrating his goal.
"In less than five minutes, Manchester City scored two goals."
"In the first forty minutes or so, Newcastle's defense could be said to be very solid, but as the game progressed, the consumption became greater and greater, and Newcastle's players began to be unable to keep up with Manchester City's rhythm and pace. This made
They were passively lagging behind in the game.”
"Manchester City played very patiently, always maintaining the rhythm they are most familiar with, constantly organizing and launching attacks towards Newcastle, and this was the last stage of the explosion."
"Su Dong passed and shot, once again proving that he is an indispensable key link in Manchester City's offense."
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With Su Dong's pass and shot, Manchester City took a two-goal lead and ended the first half of the game.
After changing sides and fighting again in the second half, Newcastle finally took a breath and reorganized an effective defensive position.
But Manchester City still controlled the ball and rhythm slowly, and were not in a hurry to fight with the opponent.
This is where Manchester City is stable.
With more than 75% of the ball possession rate, they slowly started a war of attrition with Newcastle. In the end, it was Newcastle who couldn't hold it back, while Manchester City was patiently waiting for the opportunity.
Until the 77th minute, another through ball from David Silva was sent to the right wing. Douglas Costa dribbled the ball into the penalty area and fell to the ground after being fouled by the opponent. The referee clearly awarded a penalty penalty.
ball.
Aguero, who came on to replace Su Dong, scored instantly and gave Manchester City another victory, 3-0!
By this time, the game had completely lost its suspense.
But in the final stage, Manchester City had an attack, and Aguero almost scored, but unfortunately he missed it slightly.
Newcastle, on the other hand, took advantage of the omissions in Manchester City's defense and created a kicking opportunity in the penalty area.
When Demba Ba moved forward quickly and fired furiously, goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois fought hard to save the ball. The ball fell to the feet of Gosling, who came on the right as a substitute. When the latter hit the goal again, he was knocked to the ground and got up to save again.
Courtois blocked it with one hand.
With two consecutive world-class saves, Courtois showed his amazing strength.
Especially when there was not much threat throughout the game, it is even more rare to be able to make such consecutive top-notch saves at the last moment.
Even Guardiola on the sidelines couldn't help but applaud Courtois.
The Belgian goalkeeper's position is becoming more and more secure.
