i want to be king

Chapter 782 The devil lies in the details!

The [-]-[-] victory over Blackburn allowed Manchester City to score another three points, but the price paid was that Sudong only played half of the game.

This made the fans at the scene extremely nervous.

Four rounds, seven goals, seven assists, just such a report card, looking at European football, I am afraid that only Drogba can compete. For Manchester City, it can be said to be the core combat strength.

Didier Drogba also scored in the fourth round, but only one.

In other words, now, Su Dong and Drogba are tied in the scorer list, but Su Dong takes the lead in the assist list.

The contest between Sudong and Drogba is undoubtedly the most eye-catching matchup in the current Premier League, and behind the two are Manchester City and Chelsea who also have four consecutive victories.

Among them, Chelsea has maintained the top position in the league standings by virtue of its goal difference advantage.

But there are only two focuses that really attract the media's attention, and that is Manchester City's two goals conceded and Su Dong's injury.

In his post-match press conference, Guardiola was not happy with City's two goals conceded, which he believed could have been avoided.

Not only that, Guardiola also said that he was not satisfied with the goalkeeper's performance.

This has sparked heated discussions in the outside world, because Joe Hart is currently England's national goalkeeper and is recognized as a leader among the younger generation of goalkeepers in England and even European football.

Guardiola is not satisfied with Joe Hart?
Just because of his two goals conceded in this game?
The answer is definitely not.

Inside Manchester City, it has long been clear that Guardiola has particularly high requirements for goalkeepers. He even often called a stop in training to guide Joe Hart, hoping that he can change his way of playing football, especially some inertial thinking.

Guardiola even arranged Shay to be the main goalkeeper many times in training, but Shay's weakness is very obvious.

The 34-year-old Irish veteran is only 1.8 meters [-] tall. He was famous for all kinds of tricks when he was young, and he firmly controlled Newcastle's main goalkeeper position. In the past few years, Newcastle has always been a powerful force that cannot be ignored in the Premier League.

But as he got older, his physical function gradually declined, and now Ji Wen has gradually exposed his weakness. When he was young, he could make up for it by reflexes and physical saves, but now, he can't fight anymore.

More importantly, Guardiola's requirements for the goalkeeper are not only goalkeeping, but also integrated into the possession of the ball in the midfield.

This is also an important part of the Spanish goalkeeper training reform after Van Gaal coached Barcelona. Therefore, a group of short goalkeepers such as Valdes, Reina, and Casillas have emerged in Spain in recent years, which can almost be said to be mass-produced.

But this is still very new in England.

Joe Hart and Shay Wen, these two goalkeepers can't satisfy Guardiola, but the current level of Manchester City can't attract better goalkeepers, such as Bayern's Neuer, this is definitely Guardiola's male god, but can he abandon Bayern and come to Manchester City?

Although Su Dong has a very good relationship with Neuer, it is impossible to do this.

Let alone Neuer, Guardiola once thought about recruiting veteran Buffon from Juventus, but Buffon didn't want to come at all, which made it difficult for Manchester City to make a difference in the goalkeeper position.

As a last resort, I could only continue to use Joe Hart and Ji Wen, and between the two, I chose Joe Hart.

In order to help Joe Hart better adapt to this set of tactics, Guardiola even specially invited the famous goalkeeper coach Wensue from La Liga to Manchester to coach.

Speaking of Wen Suai, this is also Su Dong's old acquaintance.

He was born as a professional goalkeeper. During Cruyff's dream team, he was Barcelona's substitute goalkeeper, but he had hardly been teammates with Guardiola, because after Guardiola was promoted to the first team, Unsue had already left Barcelona.

After moving to many teams, he studied relevant coaching courses and specialized in goalkeeper training. After retiring, Wensue came to Barcelona directly and served as Rijkaard's assistant. This work lasted for five years.

It was also here that Wen Suai met Su Dong.

After Mourinho coached Barcelona, ​​he brought his own goalkeeper coach, and Unsue was forced to leave Barcelona as a result. He served as the head coach of some mid-stream and low-level league teams, but his coaching results were not satisfactory.

Guardiola wanted to bring him to Manchester City as early as [-], but at that time he had the opportunity to coach Numancia, so he politely rejected Guardiola. Until this summer, after he dismissed from Numancia, Guardiola issued another invitation. He joined Manchester City in August and entered Guardiola's coaching team.

But his training of Joe Hart and Shay did not go well.

At the end of the day, both players are set.

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If it is said that the goalkeeper has become Guardiola's most dissatisfied link, Su Dong's injury made Guardiola panic.

Just look at Su Dong's legs to see how violent and aggressive the Premier League is.

Basically, after every game, he has to hang the lottery.

The bloodshed against Blackburn was only slightly worse.

But even so, Guardiola still criticized Blackburn's brutal foul in the post-match press conference.

"The most unbelievable thing for me is that the referee didn't even call a foul for many actions that should be awarded a card."

Not only Guardiola, but also technical director Begiristan also came forward to criticize the weakness of the referee, thinking that for a player of Sudong's level, more protection should be given instead of allowing him to be violated by defensive players.

Having said that, but today's Manchester City people speak lightly, who will listen?
If Ferguson came forward and yelled, the referee would probably be more afraid, but Guardiola and Begiristan didn't have this amount.

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Sudong's injury prevented him from training the next day of the game, and he also did not travel to Austria in the middle of the week. In the starting lineup against Salzburg Red Bull, Santa Cruz replaced Sudong as the team's starting center forward.

But the result is very depressing.

Manchester City was not attacked by the Salzburg Red Bull in the away game. When the Dutch coach Stevens faced Manchester City, he still focused on defense, allowing Manchester City to control the game and create opportunities frequently.

But all the opportunities created by Manchester City were wasted.

David Silva, Di Maria, Sanchez, Santa Cruz, Gareth Barry...

Throughout the first half, City's attack could have been turned into a collection of missed chances.

On the contrary, the Salzburg Red Bull did not pose much substantial threat to Manchester City.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that Manchester City's defense line is a bit too big, frequently pressed, and the defense also has flaws.

Before the end of the first half, Salzburg player Schaja lobbed a shot from the outside of the penalty area and lobbed the ball past the goalkeeper Joe Hart who was standing in front of him, letting the ball fall into the goal and opening the scoring for the Salzburg Red Bull.

Manchester City entered the half-time break with a score of zero to one.

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In the dressing room of the visiting team at the Red Bull Stadium, Guardiola's face was livid, and the word anger was almost written all over his face.

He was very, very dissatisfied with the performance of the team in the first half.

Thirteen shots, at least five chances to score, none of them!
"You guys make me feel like a group of kids who can't play football at all. I don't even know what to say!"

Guardiola was really anxious.

The first official European game is also the first official European game of Guardiola's coaching career. Even if it is only the Europa League, the opponent's strength is not weak, but Manchester City played like this. How can Guardiola accept it?
Players are similarly depressed.

They did try their best, but they always played awkwardly.

It's a very strange feeling.

This season's smooth sailing has created an illusion for them, as if the team's offense has been well-adjusted, and everyone knows how to cooperate and how to play, so how to play offensively will work.

Especially attackers like Di Maria, Sanchez and David Silva, they feel that they seem to be in very good condition.

But in tonight's game, they found that they hit a wall everywhere and everything went wrong.

Just like Di Maria, he missed an excellent opportunity in the first half.

Is that his problem?
When Di Maria stepped in, Santa Cruz passed the ball back. The two had a sense of cooperation, but the problem was that it was not enough to cooperate with each other. Under the interference of the defensive players, Santa Cruz slowed down the pass to Di Maria, and at the same time did not pass to his best left foot.

The result of that is that after Di Maria caught up, he couldn't fight directly, and had to stop and adjust.

It was this stop that made Di Maria miss an excellent opportunity. It seemed that he stopped the ball deliberately and missed the opportunity.

In fact, he was wronged too!

This is true of Sanchez, David Silva and others.

Gradually, they all figured it out.

The devil is in the details!

In the first few games, the team played smoothly because of the existence of Su Dong.

Su Dong led them to play, not only sharing the most defensive pressure for them, but also constantly creating opportunities for them, and they were all very good opportunities. Every pass was given in place and very comfortable.

In contrast, Santa Cruz struggled to deal with the two central defenders of the Salzburg Red Bull. What good balls can they pass?
Sometimes that's the case.

When I have it, I don’t feel that I have anything, and I don’t know how to cherish it. I feel that everything is taken for granted, and I even feel that it doesn’t matter if I don’t have him.

But only when they lose, will they understand how important he really is.

It's just being taught how to be a human being, it's really uncomfortable!
But this group of Manchester City players were obviously hit.

After all, Stevens is a famous coach in the Netherlands, and his defensive organization is quite strict, which severely frustrated Manchester City's spirit.

Because of this, when Su Dong was called into the locker room by Estiat, he obviously felt that the atmosphere of his teammates around him had changed.

After finally wearing the captain's armband, Zabaleta immediately took off the captain's armband on his arm like a hot potato when he saw Su Dong coming in, and stuffed it directly into Su Dong's hand.

This action caused a burst of laughter in the locker room.

(End of this chapter)