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Chapter 939 Manchester City Alone

After joining Manchester City for more than a year, Su Dong has experienced the biggest difference between Guardiola's pass control system and Rijkaard's tactical play back then.

stable!
It's so stable!

The kind of stability that is as stable as Mount Tai!

The outside media and fans only see the team's pass and control system, but inside the team, all players see a set of partially coordinated designs and routines. Through repeated drills in daily training, every player can master it and understand it well, and then be able to perform on the court according to the situation.

The former is like a person, and the latter is the capillaries in the human body.

The final patchwork of tactics is Manchester City's entire system.

Guardiola's style of play has high requirements for players, that is, solid passing and ball control skills, excellent tactical execution, excellent physical fitness, and sufficient patience at all times.

Last season, Manchester City looked very unstable, but this season, with the strengthening of the bench thickness and the improvement of the lineup, everyone found that Manchester City basically made no mistakes.

Of course, this is not surprising.

Look at Manchester City's ball possession rate this season, the worst is 60.00% five, this is simply amazing, 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 probably would have conceded a lot less goals.

In addition, Guardiola has another very commendable place, and that is the training and transformation of young players.

Harvey Martinez only played a three-back central defender, and he won all the applause; Douglas Costa also performed very well on the wing of Manchester City, but he was a little sticky to the ball; the teenager Trippier is making progress and stability, faintly competing with Zabaleta for the right back in the future.

In addition, not to mention young players such as Sterling and Bellerin, they are all targets of Guardiola's key cultivation.

And these players are all immersed in Guardiola's tactical play, and then they will enter the first team one after another. As long as they perform well, they can become the main force of the first team, which ensures the continuation of Guardiola's tactical play in Manchester City.

It can be said that in just over two years, Guardiola has created a stable tactical concept in Manchester City.

Maybe many years later, this style of play will be Manchester City's tradition.

Just like what Cruyff did in Barcelona back then.

And Manchester City's pass and control style of play is unique in the Premier League, which is played high and high, and is very popular with fans. After all, everyone likes to control the ball at their feet, leaving opponents with no ball to play.

But this style of play doesn't always work, and there are some troubles.

It's like the No. 12 round of the Premier League, Manchester City sits at home against Newcastle.

Affected by the two-week national team competition, Guardiola continued to carry out a substantial rotation for Manchester City. All international players participating in the South American national team competition were all placed outside the squad.

It's not because of the Champions League midweek.

Manchester City has won four consecutive group matches and has already won the championship ahead of schedule. No one cares about the remaining two rounds of group matches.

The real trouble is the next three league rounds.

The twelfth round is against Newcastle at home, the No.13 round is away against Liverpool, the No.14 round is against Arsenal at home, and the No.15 round is away against Chelsea. All are tough battles, and every opponent is very difficult.

This is the biggest test for Manchester City.

So much so that Newcastle's head coach Alan Padrew commented on Manchester City before the game, saying that the next three rounds are likely to determine the title of the Premier League champion this season, and against Manchester City can only rely on defense, but he is not sure that the team will be able to defend.

"The core of Manchester City is Su Dong!"

"Guardiola's tactics brought Manchester City super pass and control and stable performance, but Su Dong is the key force of Manchester City. He led Manchester City forward alone."

Padrew believes that against Manchester City, you can't blindly smash, but focus on defense, especially imprisoning Sudong.

The head coach of the Magpies said so, and he did so at the same time.

And 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 progressed to No. 401 minutes, Manchester City patiently passed back and forth around Newcastle's 30-meter area.

The Magpies have nothing to do about this, they can only concentrate on guarding against the deadly defense, and beware of Manchester City's pass penetration.

But Manchester City still made a gap on the left.

After getting the ball, Hazard suddenly started, threw off the defender, and cut inside to the left side of the front of the penalty area.

With his back facing the attacking direction, Su Dong immediately retreated to the top of the arc and raised his hand for the ball.

Hazard passed the ball, and Su Dong leaned against Coloccini and Stephen Taylor with his body, stopped the ball firmly, knocked it back to David Silva, and turned around to go forward.

David Silva understood, and directly stuffed a ball behind him without stopping the ball.

Su Dong turned around and threw away Stephen Taylor, and quickly rushed into Newcastle's penalty area. While stopping the ball, he squeezed Coloccini away with his body, adjusted slightly, and kicked directly to hit the goal.

The poor little Argentine lion king was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of height and strength. After being squeezed away by Su Dong, he used both hands and feet to try to hold Su Dong and prevent him from scoring, but Su Dong kicked directly.

The ball entered the lower left corner of the goal in a straight line.

Goalkeeper Krul faced the shot that was close at hand, he could only look at the ball and sigh, powerless.

One to zero!

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!"

Su Dong rushed straight out of the court, ran all the way to the bottom of the chairman's stand, kissed the ring on his left hand vigorously, and held it high above his head.

At this moment, more than 4 Manchester City fans in the entire Etihad Stadium were all shouting Su Dong's name, and many fans even played slogans congratulating him on his marriage. They had obviously gotten the news from the media.

"Sudong revealed for the first time in an interview before that he will get married after the end of the season."

"Since he joined Manchester City, his fiancée has appeared in almost every home game of Manchester City. The two are praised by Manchester City fans as a match made in heaven, and they are also dubbed by the media as Manchester City's Beckham and Victoria."

"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, who is favored by many of the world's top law firms. No matter in appearance or talent, he is 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 4 minutes after breaking the deadlock, that is, when the game just entered stoppage time, Manchester City once again launched a wave of offensive. After Douglas Costa on the right took the ball and advanced to the right corner of the penalty area, he was chased and intercepted by the opponent.

Su Dong ran to meet, got the ball and passed it back to Toni Kroos.

The ball is still under the organization of Manchester City, but advanced to the front of the penalty area.

Toni Kroos passed to David Silva, who, after getting rid of the defender, passed the ball to Su Dong who ran from the right to the center and raised his hand for the ball.

Su Dong didn't stop the ball and directly accelerated. The ball went forward, and just used the speed to break through Coloccini's defense. On the right side of the arc top of the penalty area, he sent a diagonal pass with his left foot and gave the ball to the left side of the penalty area.

I saw Hazard crossing into the penalty area from the left rib, and after stopping the ball, he dunked the defender, and then hit it directly with his right foot.

The ball quickly got into the right side of Newcastle's goal, two to zero!
The Belgian winger was so excited that he jumped up on the spot and rushed to the sidelines to celebrate.

Su Dong and other teammates quickly followed, laughing and celebrating his goal.

"In less than five minutes, Manchester City scored two goals in a row."

"In the first four or 10 minutes, Newcastle's defense can be said to be very solid, but as the game progressed, the consumption increased, and Newcastle's players began to be unable to keep up with Manchester City's rhythm and pace, which made them passively behind in the game."

"Manchester City played very patiently, maintained their most familiar rhythm, and kept organizing and launching offensives towards Newcastle. Only then did they explode in the final stage."

"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 one pass and one shot, Manchester City led by two goals and ended the first half of the game.

After changing sides to fight again in the second half, Newcastle finally took a breath and reorganized an effective defensive formation.

But Manchester City still controlled the ball and rhythm slowly, and was not in a hurry to fight the opponent.

That's where Manchester City's stability comes in.

Holding more than 70.00% of the ball possession rate, slowly engaging in a war of attrition with Newcastle. In the end, Newcastle must be unstoppable, while Manchester City is patiently waiting for the opportunity.

Until No. 707 minutes, David Silva's through ball was given to the right. Douglas Costa broke into the penalty area with the ball, fell to the ground after being fouled by the opponent, and the referee clearly awarded a penalty kick.

Aguero, who replaced Su Dong, made it overnight and made another victory for Manchester City, [-]-[-]!
By this time, the game had completely lost its suspense.

But in the final stage, Manchester City had an attack, Aguero almost scored, but unfortunately it was slightly wide.

Newcastle, on the other hand, took advantage of Manchester City's defensive omissions and created a kicking opportunity in the penalty area.

When Demba Ba rushed forward and shot an angry shot, the goalkeeper Courtois struggled to save it, and the ball fell to the feet of Gosling, who came off the bench on the right.

With two consecutive world-class saves, Courtois showed his amazing strength.

Especially when there was not much threat throughout the game, it was even more rare to be able to make such consecutive top-level saves at the last minute.

Even Guardiola on the sidelines couldn't help applauding Courtois.

The position of the Belgian goalkeeper is becoming more and more secure.

(End of this chapter)