Today's Manchester City confirms the saying: standing on the wind, even a pig can fly.
As the team has smoothly gone through the devilish schedule of Christmas and the winter break, and as the team defeated AC Milan 4-0 at home, everyone in Manchester City is full of confidence. Everyone is full of expectations for the future and is looking forward to the next step.
The game is full of confidence.
This good mental outlook is not only reflected in the team's daily training, but also in games.
For example, the FA Cup quarter-final knockout match against Leicester City at home.
Manchester City played with an all-substitute lineup, and all the main players took turns. As a result, the substitute players broke out.
David Luiz opened the scoring, then Hazard scored a goal, then Dzeko scored twice, and finally there was the icing on the cake from Gareth Barry. In the end, Manchester City beat Leicester City 5-1 at home.
The collective outburst of the substitute players not only showed the strength of Manchester City, but also the excellent condition of the players.
Standing on the wind outlet, pigs can fly.
Although this statement makes sense, there is another saying later, that is: when the wind blows over, all those who fall to death are pigs that fly up.
But Manchester City did not fall to death, but flew higher and higher.
All this comes from the strong overall strength of the team and the unity of the locker room.
According to the analysis of the British Times, Manchester City now has the strongest lineup configuration in European football. What is even more frightening is that they are still working hard to strengthen the team's strength. For example, they will introduce Paul Pogba this summer.
De Bruyne recalled from Belgium.
Both of these young talents will greatly enhance Manchester City's overall strength.
In addition, Manchester City is also the Premier League team that has invested the most in youth training in the past few years. Currently, Manchester City's youth team is full of talents, which will provide an endless supply of talents for Manchester City's first team.
The Manchester City dressing room is even more tightly united around Su Dong, and supports coach Guardiola without reservation. This allows Guardiola's tactics to be thoroughly implemented in Manchester City, and then becomes a common force in the European competition.
Unique landscape.
Today's Manchester City, not only in the Premier League, but also in the entire European football world, has a unique and amazing style of passing and controlling the ball.
Especially when Barcelona's doubts about Mourinho are getting louder and louder, Manchester City's passing and ball control is even more pleasing to the eye, winning more and more praise from the media and fans.
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Due to the FA Cup, some games of the 29th round of the Premier League were postponed to midweek.
Manchester City faces Chelsea at home.
New coach Di Matteo chose Torres instead of Drogba, obviously to increase the speed of counterattack, but in the actual game, the effect was not ideal, and Torres continued the slump since joining Chelsea.
Manchester City took advantage of their home court advantage and firmly controlled the ball and rhythm from the start, passing the ball slowly and penetrating.
Only nine minutes into the game, Toni Kroos's long pass from the backcourt was accurately sent behind the defense. Sudong quickly stepped in, got rid of Gary Cahill's defense when receiving the ball, and lobbed at the front of the penalty area.
Shot, the ball went over Cech's head, missed the crossbar and fell into Chelsea's goal, one to zero!
After taking the lead, Manchester City continued to strengthen their offensive.
In the 29th minute, Lampard made a mistake in a cross pass near the center line. Su Dong suddenly grabbed the ball. After successfully stealing the ball, he ran all the way with the ball and went straight to Chelsea's defense. When facing Terry, he scored the ball alone.
After passing, he used his speed to overtake, formed a single shot in the penalty area, and once again broke through the goal guarded by Cech, 2-0!
Scored twice!
Before the end of the first half, Su Dong had another chance.
It was a cross from Zabaleta from the right. Su Dong was near the penalty spot in the penalty area. Without stopping the ball, he directly volleyed sideways and hit a powerful and heavy world wave. As a result, the ball hit the crossbar.
, rebounded out.
Su Dong felt regretful for not being able to score a hat trick.
Not long after the second half started, David Silva sent a pass.
Su Dong was at the edge of the penalty area with his back to Gary Cahill. Facing David Silva's pass, he made a light pass from behind. He turned around and rushed into the penalty area. When he was about to catch up with the ball,
Cech decisively abandoned the goal and grabbed the ball with both hands before Su Dong, resolving another Chelsea crisis.
Facing the astute Czech goalkeeper, Su Dong shrugged helplessly, and when passing by Cech, he even gave a thumbs up.
If Cech hadn't struck decisively, the goal would have happened again.
Being beaten continuously by Manchester City, Chelsea finally had to choose defense.
Not long after, Guardiola replaced Su Dong with Dzeko and let him rest.
Until the end of the game, neither side could score again.
In the end, Manchester City defeated Chelsea 2-0 with Su Dong's brace.
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After the coaching change, Chelsea, under the leadership of Di Matteo, won consecutive victories and performed well. In particular, they reversed Naples and advanced to the Champions League knockout round, which won full applause.
But this time they lost to Manchester City, which made Di Matteo quite frustrated.
At the post-match press conference, Di Matteo said the responsibility for the defeat lay with him.
"The game was very difficult and our players worked very hard, but our opponents were indeed stronger. As the head coach of the team, I lacked a clear enough understanding of this and I am willing to take responsibility for this defeat."
Di Matteo also explained the reason why he arranged for Torres. He believed it was because Drogba needed to rest.
"Against Manchester City, I think our team needs flexibility. Torres has been in good form recently, so I made a decision."
"I don't have any problems with Drogba. We have a good relationship. He is still one of the most important players in the team. I believe that he can continue to contribute to the team in the next games.
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Three days later, in the 30th round of the Premier League, Manchester City challenged Stoke City away from home.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Stoke City, who played at home, performed extremely tenaciously. Even at their home court, they formed a 4-5-1 formation to defend tightly.
Facing Manchester City, the players moved quite a bit.
Crouch was left in front of the center. The center backs were led by Shawcross and Robert Huth. The goalkeeper Begovic performed well. This central axis brought huge trouble to Manchester City.
Throughout the first half, the two sides played to a zero-0 draw, and Manchester City failed to score Stoke City's goal.
But not long after the start of the second half, Manchester City's attack entered the Stoke City penalty area and was blocked by goalkeeper Begovic.
Just when Manchester City was about to press forward, Begovic suddenly made a long pass directly into the frontcourt.
Crouch fought for the first point and passed it to Pennant. The latter grabbed the second point on the right and headed the ball back behind the Manchester City defense. Crouch stepped in and volleyed straight into the air.
Lob shot.
The ball flew into Manchester City's goal at great speed, one to zero!
Joe Hart turned around and looked at the football in the goal line with helpless eyes, and lost the ball again!
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After conceding the ball, Manchester City launched a fierce attack on Stoke City, continuously threatening Stoke City's goal, but failed to score, which made Guardiola on the sidelines very anxious.
Before he had no choice, he could only use his last weapon again.
Change to Su Dong!
In the 70th minute, Su Dong replaced Gareth Barry.
At this time, Dzeko and Aguero were still on the court, and Manchester City suddenly pushed all the forwards forward.
Obviously, Guardiola does not want to suffer his first defeat of the season here.
After coming on the field, Sudong moved more freely and actively retreated, looking more like he was trailing behind, while Aguero and Dzeko were still at the forefront, suppressing Stoke City's defense.
Only four minutes into the game, Leighton Baines made a cross pass from the left. Su Dong stopped the ball and turned around. After getting rid of the entanglement of the defensive midfielder, before Shawcross came up, he volleyed with his right foot and kicked.
He fired a long shot that was a full thirty-two meters away from the goal.
This long-range shot clearly had an arc. When goalkeeper Begovic flew to save it, his fingertips only touched the ball slightly, but he still could not prevent the ball from entering the net.
One to one!
World wave!!!!
But Su Dong had no time to celebrate and ran straight back to his own half, signaling his teammates to get down quickly and seize the time so that the game could start again.
Su Dong's momentum has greatly boosted the morale of Manchester City players.
Subsequently, Dzeko, Aguero, Hazard and other players continued to pose threats to Stoke City's goal. Manchester City pressed almost all the way, forming a half-time suppression of Stoke City, but they were still unable to open the door.
The defense line of Tok City.
Manchester City has never been able to break the deadlock on the field. Stoke City stayed in front of the goal and never gave Manchester City the slightest chance. This made the Manchester City players on the field become more and more anxious.
Many people are even mentally prepared for a draw.
Especially after entering overtime, seeing that he could not break the deadlock, Guardiola shook his head helplessly on the sidelines, apparently beginning to accept the result of the draw.
After all, Manchester City's unbeaten season is still maintained.
But at this moment, in the third minute of stoppage time, Hazard got the ball on the left, suddenly threw away the defensive player, passed the ball low in front of the left baseline, and sent the ball to the small penalty area.
The left corner area.
Aguero was more alert, ran over, and shot with his left foot without stopping the ball, but he failed to hit the ball with any force, and the ball was saved by goalkeeper Begovic who reacted quickly.
Because the shot came so quickly and suddenly, Begovic failed to catch the ball and instead let it go.
Dzeko and Robert Huth both chased after him at the same time. As a result, the German central defender kicked the ball out first, but he couldn't kick it far and landed at the top of the penalty area.
Just when everyone in Stoke City breathed a sigh of relief and thought the ball had been cleared, they saw a majestic figure appear at the top of the arc and stopped Robert Huth's clearance ball with his feet.
, without waiting for the surrounding defensive players to react, he took advantage of the situation and struck again with his left foot.
The scene only heard a bang, and saw the ball flying out like a cannonball, passing through the gap in the penalty area and entering the right side of Stoke City's goal.
Goalkeeper Begovic had just stood up from the ground at this time. How could he make a save in time?
At the last moment of stoppage time, the referee's whistle suddenly sounded to confirm that the goal was valid.
