i want to be king

Chapter 1001 These players are unreliable!
Time passed bit by bit, and the score remained unchanged.

Manchester City has more than [-]% of the possession rate, while Barcelona has only [-]%. This is extremely rare in previous games. More importantly, Manchester City has more offensive opportunities than Barcelona.

This made the Barcelona fans in the stands feel very complicated.

On the one hand, they sincerely hope that Barcelona can win and repel Manchester City, but on the other hand, they are not satisfied with the current Barcelona team on the pitch.

Is this still Barcelona's home court?
On the contrary, Manchester City on the opposite side looks more like Barcelona.

The contradictions of the Barcelona fans cannot change the trend of the game. Manchester City still controls the ball, but Barcelona also defends very firmly.

Mourinho's defensive formation is still very effective. It has a certain containment effect on Manchester City's midfield possession and penetration. Several counterattacks are also quite threatening, and they are basically initiated by Messi.

The same is true of Manchester City.

Due to the number of midfielders at a disadvantage, Su Dong retreated more to support the series, while Di Maria and Sanchez in the frontcourt failed to seize the opportunity and scored goals, making Manchester City's offense quite a bit thunderous and rainy.

But Manchester City has long been psychologically prepared for this. Even before the game, Guardiola was still repeatedly telling the players to maintain enough patience no matter what, and strive to get a precious goal in the away game.

Su Dong also appealed to his teammates in the same way, and at the same time tried his best to help the team stabilize the situation.

City were waiting for the opportunity for Barcelona to make a mistake.

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The pace of the game was fast and the time passed quickly.

In a blink of an eye, four to ten minutes had passed, and the two sides were still zero to zero.

Seeing that the first half of the game was about to end, the time had just jumped to 41 minutes. Barcelona midfielder Yaya Toure pushed forward with the ball from the center, trying to break the deadlock in the midfield, but was successfully intercepted by Toni Kroos, who had been prepared for a long time.

After the German midfielder broke the ball, just after getting rid of Yaya Toure's entanglement, he glanced ahead and found that Sanchez was on the right, Sudong retreated deeply, but the left side of the frontcourt was empty.

Alves really went forward!
Realizing this, Toni Kroos made a long diagonal pass without thinking.

The ball quickly crossed an arc from the right side of the center circle, and fell to the left side of Barcelona's 30-meter area.

At this time, Barcelona's defense tends to be on its left side, focusing on Sanchez and Su Dong, but it seems a little empty on its right side, especially when it was just now when it was changing from defense to offense, Alves ran in the neutral position and went straight forward.

Di Maria pushed forward to the place where no one was landing, straightened his chest, stopped Toni Kroos's pass in front of him, and started again, sprinting forward with the ball at the fastest speed.

Mascherano came forward to defend at the first time, but Di Maria's speed had already risen. Before Mascherano got close, he kicked the ball directly into the penalty area.

Mascherano desperately chased back and blocked Di Maria's inside, but Di Maria still seized the opportunity and passed a wide-ranging diagonal pass to the right side of the penalty area with his left foot.

Sanchez also arrived at this time, went straight into the right side of the penalty area, and stopped the ball before Puyol.

One on one!

The Chilean winger feinted and was about to drop the ball, but suddenly kicked the ball back and passed it back to the penalty spot.

At this time, Su Dong deliberately slowed down the forward speed just now to confuse his opponent. Suddenly, he accelerated and went straight in front of Pique.

The football went straight to the left of the goal at great speed.

Just now when Di Maria made an assault with the ball, Valdez was on the left side. When the diagonal pass was transferred to Sanchez, Valdez quickly adjusted his position to the right side, but before he could stand still, Su Dong suddenly shot a shot straight to the left side of the goal.

It can be said that Valdez's reaction was not fast enough. He tried his best to save, but he didn't adjust his center of gravity after all, and finally failed to catch up with Su Dong's shot.

The ball flew directly to the left of the Barcelona goal.

The angle is not tricky, but Valdes can do nothing.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!"

"No. 40 In two minutes, Manchester City took the lead in breaking through Barcelona's goal."

"This is an offensive cooperation from Manchester City's front trident, and this is not the first time they have adopted such a cooperation method. For the three of Su and Dong, they are almost familiar."

After scoring the goal, Su Dong turned around immediately and rushed out of the field. He kept turning his head to greet Di Maria and Sanchez, two teammates, and rushed to the sidelines together, celebrating the team's goal under the corner stand where Manchester City fans were.

There were only 3000 Manchester City fans who followed the team to Barcelona in this game, and they were placed in the corner with the worst vision, but their loyalty to the team is unquestionable, so the team will choose to interact with this group of fans after scoring a goal.

The Manchester City fans in the stands also gave warm applause and cheers.

Although the number is at a disadvantage, the noise made by the Manchester City fans is not small at all, especially when the Barcelona fans become silent after the goal, the shouts of the Manchester City fans are even more obvious.

"Let's take a look at the slow-motion replay of this goal. After Alves advanced, Barcelona's right flank had a defensive vacuum, and was quickly hit to the left of the defense line. Mascherano had to go up. After Di Maria broke through with speed, he passed back to the right with a big foot and handed it to Sanchez. Sanchez then returned to the center. Finally, Su Donghou inserted the final word."

"Su Dong's shot was very calm and very crucial."

"The entire scoring process, first after stealing the ball on the right, Toni Kroos moved to the left with a big foot, Di Maria then passed to Sanchez on the right, and finally Sanchez passed back to the center."

"This kind of pulling the opponent's defense back and forth is one of Manchester City's best offensive methods."

Manchester City's players celebrated their goal on the sidelines, while Barcelona's players walked back to the halfway line in frustration on the pitch, re-positioned and prepared to kick-off again.

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Mourinho was on the sidelines, and when he saw Toni Kroos move his feet to look for Di Maria, he jumped up excitedly.

Seeing Di Maria pass back to the right, Sanchez cross, and Su Dong volleyed to score, he was already furious.

"Damn it! Damn it!"

"Daniel, what are you doing? I've told you many times, pay attention to your position, position, position!"

Mourinho yelled so loudly that his veins burst out, and he was obviously in a hurry.

It's no wonder, because this is a mistake in player positioning.

Barcelona's attack just now was obviously going to the left, and as a result, two players left their positions at the same time.

One is Yaya Toure in the middle. When Mourinho gave him instructions, he was not absolutely sure, and he was never allowed to leave his position, because the defense zone between him and Harvey is very important, and the defense must be protected.

But in the end, it was Yaya Toure who dribbled the ball forward, only to be cut off by Toni Kroos and hit a counterattack.

Another one is Alves.

He saw the team turn from defense to offense and wanted to rush up to get a share of the action. Unexpectedly, Yaya Toure made a mistake and Alves rushed too far forward, exposing the space behind him instead.

"These bastards are so unreliable!"

Mourinho was a little dizzy now, and cursed angrily.

Fortunately, the noise at the scene was too loud, and only he and his assistants could hear his scolding, even the players on the bench could hardly hear it, otherwise, it would probably cause an uproar.

But Mourinho really wanted to catch Yaya Toure and let him take a good look at how Busquets kicked the midfielder.

Damn, can't you save me some snacks?
Don't just keep thinking about dribbling forward all day, okay?
But Mourinho can't do this kind of thing, because it is tantamount to smashing his own job.

Everyone knows that Busquets followed Guardiola to Manchester City because he was not reused by Mourinho in Barcelona.

If he asked Yaya Toure to learn from Busquets now, wouldn't that mean he offended Yaya Toure and slapped himself in the face?
And that Alves, he really forgot everything when he saw the attack.

If there is one in Manchester City, that is Marcelo, but the key is that Pepe can hold Marcelo, and no one in Barcelona can control Alves. .

The result is that when Alves dribbled forward just now, Marcelo returned to his position immediately, and Di Maria didn't even need to follow up to come back, which is why he scored this goal.

When it comes to this goal, the most important thing is Su Dong.

"This kid is too cunning!"

After Yaya Toure dribbled the ball to the center line and was cut off, Su Dong didn't run forward at the first time, but deliberately slanted between Harvey and Pique. When Pique retreated to the penalty area and he reached the top of the arc, he suddenly threw away Harvey and slanted in front of Pique.

Sanchez's pass arrived immediately, and neither Harvey nor Pique could prevent Sudong from stopping and kicking.

Gaving the opponent a valuable away goal, Barcelona's game is really difficult.

The current situation has forced Barcelona to make a choice, should they press out and attack?

Judging from the situation in the first half, if we continue to adopt this style of play, we may not be able to score goals and equalize the score in the second half.

As for the pressure to attack, it may not necessarily score a goal, but the defense line is exposed more and more thoroughly.

How to do?
Mourinho really has some headaches.

If there is no conceded goal, he will definitely continue to defend, even if it is zero to zero, he will defend to the end, leaving the suspense until the second round, and it would be good to grab an away goal then.

But now...

Do you want to keep guarding?

Mourinho hesitated.

Fortunately, the first half of the game ended quickly.

With Su Dong's goal in the closing stage, Manchester City temporarily took the lead [-]-[-].

The Barcelona fans booed Su Dong as he walked off the pitch.

They started to hate the guy who broke the Nou Camp goal again.

(End of this chapter)