September 25th afternoon, Manchester City stadium.
This is undoubtedly the heavyweight match since the new season. Both sides had a lot of rotation in the Carling Cup in the middle of the week.
As a result of the rotation, Manchester City, with a thicker bench, continued to advance, while Chelsea were eliminated.
It also led to some pressure on Chelsea before the game.
In the morning of the game, the major British media are warming up for the game one after another. The first thing to bear the brunt is the war of words between alpine and Scolari. Media reporters are competing to report and interpret.
There is no doubt that Scolari''s remarks have gone too far. He not only pointed at Manchester City, but also ridiculed Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United. This is in line with Scolari''s character and also reflects his unfamiliarity with European professional football.
As a result of this, Ferguson responded to Scolari''s comments in a telephone interview with the media that night, believing that in this Manchester focus game, alpine will undoubtedly laugh to the end.
"There''s no gold in winning the first five games in a row. If Scolari wants to prove himself, he has to show something about Manchester City."
This is Ferguson''s original words, and also interpreted by the media as the first army of Scolari.
Coupled with the psychological war before the cold, Scolari should regret his original remarks.
But even if there is regret medicine in the world, he will not have time to take it.
In this game, Scolari played as much as he could.
The goalkeeper is Hilario, the defensive line is Ashley Cole, Terry, Alex and Ivanovic, the three players in the midfield are Essien, Lampard and Ramirez in the middle, the Trident in the front, Robinho on the left, Anelka on the right and Falcao in the middle.
Gao Han had already guessed Scolari''s intention when he got this starting list of Chelsea.
Facts have proved that his judgment is correct, Scolari mouth loud, but in fact the heart of the pursuit is a draw.
Does that mean that psychological warfare on behalf of high cold is useless?
Not necessarily!
It''s not only Scolari but also the players of Chelsea who are reported in the news. Will they be affected? Who doesn''t want to win?
Especially when the situation on the pitch is good for you.
Manchester City are still in three, four and three formation in this game. The goalkeeper is Cech and the back line is kompani, Harvey Martinez and Mascherano respectively. The combination of the three defenders has been running in better and better this season and is very solid.
Xabi Alonso is in the middle of the midfield, David Silva and Milner are in the middle, Modric is on rotation because of a little injury to his foot, Kaka is in the front waist position, the Trident in the front is unchanged, but Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema and Sanchez are still in the middle.
The tactical formation adopted by both sides has not changed much, and they know each other well, so the focus of the competition lies in the starting tactics and on-the-spot play of both sides.
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At the beginning of the game, both sides played with reservation, did not directly enter the state, and were still testing each other.
Manchester City are not as aggressive as they used to be, but consciously keep the three line formation compact and let Chelsea, who is the first to kick off, control the ball and not grab it.
The most obvious thing is that city''s defense did not press down, but stayed in their own half, and Xabi Alonso also came back, leading to the main battle field after the two sides started in the middle line.
It''s a bit of a weakness, especially at home.
After all, in the past Games, Manchester City did it as soon as they came up. No matter what happened, they scored first. But today they suddenly played like this, which is not right.
Especially in the first few minutes, it was unreasonable for Chelsea to control the ball.
What should I do?
Chelsea are a little confused.
But after testing for three or four minutes, they finally couldn''t help it.
Now that the opponents are showing weakness, let''s do it!
As a result, the overall formation of Chelsea slowly forward pressure, began to try to attack Manchester City''s defense.
The three midfielders of the blues, whether Lampard or Ramirez, lack the ability to push the ball to the front court independently. In the past, they needed Drogba to organize the attack around the Ivorians by using Drogba as the fulcrum in the front court.
But after using Falcao, the whole attack system is totally different. Drogba''s system doesn''t work.
So we need Robinho and Anelka, who can actively withdraw from the midfield and effectively carry the ball to the front court, but in this way, there will be another new problem, the lack of width in attack.
In the past, when he was in charge of Chelsea, the solution to this problem depended on the forward assists of two full backs. In the period of Jose, Ashley Cole also played an important role in the attack system of Chelsea.
In this match, Sanchez not only focused on the England left back, but also arranged Milner in the midfield to defend and intercept, especially to cut off the connection between Ashley Cole and the midfield.
Results shortly after the opening, Milner had already had two successful interceptions, both of which were due to the mistakes made by Chelsea in passing and receiving the ball.
One was a midfield break, another was Ashley Cole''s left cross, which Milner intercepted.
In the seventh minute of the game, Robinho pulled back to receive the ball, which was also successfully snatched by Milner and passed to Xavi Alonso. The Spaniard made a long pass and Cristiano Ronaldo rushed to the front court quickly. However, after receiving the ball, Terry and Alex actively returned to the defensive position. The Portuguese hurriedly shot from a long distance, too far away, and didn''t hit the right goal.
But a minute later, there was a long pass from the middle and back. Cristiano Ronaldo succeeded in anti offside. After catching the ball on the left side of the penalty area, he wanted to pass it to Benzema in the middle. In the end, Hilario took it off decisively.
Two minutes later, it was a local counterattack after Manchester City broke the ball. Ivanovic finally couldn''t resist the foul, pulled the Portuguese, got a yellow card, and gave Manchester City a chance to set pieces in the front court.
Cristiano Ronaldo took the penalty personally with high quality, but he was saved by Hilario, and the corner didn''t create a threat.
In the first ten minutes, Manchester City seemed to concentrate on defending and counterattacking, while Chelsea took the initiative to attack. However, there were a lot of mistakes in passing and controlling the ball. Manchester City seized the opportunity to strike a sharp counterattack one after another. On the contrary, the blues themselves didn''t even shoot. It was until the eleventh minute when Anelka crossed from the right that he sent the ball into Manchester City''s restricted area for the first time.
After Falcao stopped the ball, he wanted to turn around and volley. As a result, Harvey Alonso, who came back to defend, took the lead and released the ball.
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Scolari guessed the result of the game right, but he guessed the course of the game wrong.
He knew that Manchester City would soon build up an advantage, shoot first and create threats first, but what he didn''t expect was that Manchester City would give up the ball and choose to defend and counterattack.
This is too much bullshit!
Everyone in the world knows that Gao Han takes the ball right more important than his life. How could he choose to give up?
But in fact, that''s what he did.
As a head coach who attaches great importance to defense, Scolari can see that Gao Han is very confident in Manchester City''s defense system and is really well organized. Mascherano and kompani have strong ability to fight alone, and they will take the initiative, even when Robinho and Anelka withdraw.
After the two centre backs are pulled apart, Xavi Alonso will take the initiative to approach Xavi Martinez. The two Spanish players look more like the two centre backs in front and back.
Just now, when Anelka hit from the right, kompani was pulled out of the big restricted area. At that time, Falcao had the chance to head the ball directly, but Harvey Martinez seized the advantageous position, forcing Falcao to give up the direct attack and stop the ball. However, this stop gave Harvey Alonso the chance to return to his defense.
Manchester City''s players are very skillful with tacit understanding, leaving a deep impression.
That''s why Alpine dares to give up the ball.
Because for Chelsea, possession is a hot potato, but you can''t use it well.
But it''s not the way to go on like this. Manchester City players have strong personal ability and it''s not good for Chelsea to take the initiative to attack.
As a result, Scolari quickly went to the edge of the field, shouting to the players on the field, indicating that they all hold the formation, don''t press on easily.
But at this time, Manchester City once again broke the ball in the back court. After receiving the ball, Xavi Alonso turned around and made a long oblique pass to the ground, passing the ball across the middle line to Sanchez on the right.
The Chilean winger picked up the ball on the right and took advantage of it to the middle.
Ashley Cole kept up with him for the first time. Terry was behind him and was ready to help. Essien and Lampard came at the same time to make a pass, but Sanchez just took two steps and saw Cristiano Ronaldo pointing in front of him with his right foot.
The ball went over Alex''s head and landed in Chelsea''s penalty area.
Alex was attracted by Benzema and didn''t notice the approaching Cristiano Ronaldo. When Sanchez rubbed the ball, he immediately responded and quickly turned to chase back, while Ivanovic was also chasing the Portuguese.
After entering the penalty area, the two defensive players did not dare to do action easily, for fear that careless penalty.
But Cristiano Ronaldo grabbed the most powerful position, blocked Ivanovic behind him with his body, jammed Alex, raised his right foot to stop Sanchez''s pick pass in front of him, and then accelerated away from Alex to catch up.
Goalkeeper Hilario made a decisive attack, but Cristiano Ronaldo caught up with the ball at the front of the small penalty area and made a direct push with his right foot. The ball passed Hilario''s side and directly hit the bottom of the net.
“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL！！！！！！！”
"Cristiano Ronaldo!"
"Goal in a row this season!"
"In the first 13 minutes, Manchester City broke the deadlock with a quick counterattack after the ball was broken, 1-0!"
"Crazy Portuguese, his performance this season is absolutely shocking!"
The whole city stadium was shouting the name of the Portuguese superstar. Cristiano Ronaldo quickly ran out of the stadium after the goal and made a sucking action on the sidelines.
"Everyone knows that he just announced that he had a child this summer, but he didn''t disclose who the child''s mother was. This season, his celebration of goals has become a pacifier, full of the love of a father."
"More importantly, his performance this season has become more mature and steady, which makes people feel that he is in the golden period of his career
"This goal is just a continuation of his excellent form so far this season."
"One to zero, now Chelsea have to be careful