champion light

Chapter 1185 Hiding in the Team
After the glorious goal, the entire Manchester City Stadium was full of shouts and cheers from Manchester City fans.

Manchester City fans are very excited because they feel that they have great hopes of successfully qualifying for the final this time.

When they played against Inter Milan in the semi-finals last season, almost every one of the various unfavorable conditions predicted that Manchester City would not have a good result.

But this time, in the semi-finals, they met their rivals from the same city. In recent seasons of the Premier League, Manchester City and Manchester United have met many times, and they are already very familiar with this team.

Against Manchester United, Manchester City fans have nothing to worry about.

Now that Rongguang has opened the scoring for the team again, many people feel more at ease.

Rongguang's goal is being replayed on the monitor. From Rongguang retreating to the midfield, receiving a pass from Leighton Barnes, and finally he hit the football into the goal, the whole process is completely presented in front of everyone.

Alan Hansen looked at the goal and said with emotion: "Such glory is terrible!"

John Mortensen nodded and said, "Of course, it's very scary."

But Alan Hansen shook his head and said: "No, I'm not talking about how good this goal is. In fact, in terms of the wonderfulness of the goal, this goal can't even enter the top [-] among Rong's career goals. But I think it is this kind of Rong that is more terrifying, because he hides himself in the entire team..."

As Alan Hansen said, John Mortensen next to him also understood.

"Yeah, when he dropped back, there were two people around him. But when he passed the ball, Carrick stopped following him and went to defend David Silva."

"Exactly. Rong used two ordinary passes to make Manchester United's defensive players relax their vigilance. It seems that David Silva and Sneijder are the main tasks of Manchester City's attack. How did Rong do it in the past? He showed his sharpness alone, attracted all the defensive players to his side, and then made them mess up. Finally, after passing the goalkeeper, he shot the football into the goal..." Alan Hansen expressed it very vividly, which made the fans in front of the TV think of it Glory to those individual heroism goals.

"I'm not saying it's not good to play like this. Rong can always score such goals, which proves his strength. It's very difficult for ordinary people to score a goal like that, but Rong can keep scoring goals like that. But because Rong's talent and ability are outstanding, I think he should be given more expectations and stricter requirements. For Rong, it's not enough to just show off by himself. Although his way of scoring goals is beautiful, it is very risky...I'm not talking about the risk of not scoring, I mean the risk of him being injured because of it." ... There is no guarantee that a madman will suddenly lose his mind on the pitch, just like Rorrick Cana back then..."

Alan Hansen speaks eloquently.

"What makes me happy with this ball is that Rong has learned to hide him in the team, so that the opponent's defensive focus is not on him, and he can do a lot of things. I think a really great player must be able to perform well not only with the ball at his feet, but also without the ball at his feet. I am very happy to see that Rong is making progress in this area..."

"That's right, Alan. A general who can hide himself in the team is more terrifying. Just like a sniper who hides himself in the jungle under camouflage, it will be more difficult for his opponent to defend!"

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While the two commentators were discussing Rong Guang, the game had restarted.

After conceding the goal, Manchester United faced a very difficult situation.

Ferguson stood on the sidelines, frowning and staring at the court.

The timing of this goal is really bad.If a goal must be conceded, Ferguson hopes to concede it towards the end of the first half.In this way, I can make adjustments during the halftime break to stabilize the team's morale.

But now that halftime is over, he lost his best chance to adjust.

Now he can only adjust through substitutions and yelling from the sidelines.

But such an adjustment is doomed to be just a minor repair, with limited impact.

This kind of on-the-spot adjustment can still be used against other teams.But for the glorious Manchester City, Ferguson believes that such adjustments are not strong enough...

After Manchester City scored a goal, the morale of the whole team rose, and they also firmly gained the upper hand on the scene.

They formed a siege against Manchester United's goal.

Although Manchester United played a defensive counterattack in this game, they hope that Manchester City will besiege their goal.But now, facing the siege of Manchester City, Manchester United can't even make it through halftime, let alone counterattack at all...

During this time, Manchester United played very passively.

Fortunately, they got through in the end and didn't continue to concede the ball - conceding the ball in a short period of time after conceding the ball, this is the situation that many teams against Manchester City are most afraid of encountering.

Because Manchester City has such an ability, they are very good at completely crushing their opponents in a short period of time.

This was the case in the last city derby.

This time Manchester United survived.

Not only did they not concede a goal within 5 minutes, they also did not concede a goal in the sixth and seventh minutes.

This is also thanks to Ferguson's decisive adjustment. After losing the ball, he asked the whole team to quickly strengthen the defense. During this period, don't think about counterattacks. The main thing is not to lose the ball.

For him, a 0:1 away loss is actually acceptable.

If you really can't score an away goal or something, then don't force it.

Forcing often means thinking too much, and thinking too much is often a tragedy.

There are too many defeats against Manchester City because the opponent thinks too much. When they can lose less points, they think about equalizing the score, and when they are tied, they think about winning.

The result is miserable...

Ferguson now feels that from a strategic point of view, it is very cost-effective to lose only one goal in the first round away game.

So he quickly adjusted the team's tactics, and will focus on defense for the next time.

Trying to keep the score behind this goal-it seems a bit awkward to say this, but this is really Ferguson's idea.

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On Manchester City's side, after attacking wildly for a while, they failed to score a goal. They also made adjustments and slowed down the speed of the game appropriately.

However, the whole Manchester City team can slow down the pace, and Glory does not, because if he also slows down the pace, then he will really not be able to threaten Manchester United's goal, which is the situation that Manchester United most wants to see.

When the tempo of the whole Manchester City team slowed down, Rong Guang must be fast, because he wanted to give Manchester City the possibility to speed up.In addition, his quickness can also disrupt Manchester United's defense-now he is running with Park Ji-sung and Carrick in the frontcourt.

Rong Guang's running position is still very erratic, sometimes in the frontcourt, sometimes in the midfield, sometimes running to the front, sometimes going to the left and right sides.

Both Park Ji-sung and Carrick have outstanding running abilities. If they were replaced by other people, they might be dragged down by Rong Guang.

But now these two people are a little bit too much.

Carrick's breathing was already heavy, and his speed slowed down.

And Park Ji-sung was still able to keep up with Rongguang's footsteps, but it was also very difficult.

It's just that it's not very obvious in him, because Park Ji-sung uses his tenacious willpower to make up for this defect.

"Rong's physical fitness is simply limitless..." Manchester United's assistant coach Whelan couldn't help feeling emotional when he saw this scene.

Sitting next to him, Ferguson chewed gum, expressionless.

"It's rare for me to see Park running so hard in a race..." Coach Mullenstein, who was sitting next to Whelan, also shook his head.

They are right, Park Ji-sung has a nickname called "Park Sanlung", which means that Park Ji-sung can run very well.He can be favored by Ferguson precisely because of his excellent running ability. He is not an absolute main player in Manchester United, but he has many opportunities to play, which has a lot to do with his running ability.

When defending Glory, Park Ji-sung's running ability came in handy.

But even so, Park Ji-sung made it difficult for Rong Guang to keep up...

They didn't know that Rong Guang had been running through the mountains since he was a child, so not only was he fast, but his physical strength was also his strong point.

He never seemed to know what being tired was...

And Glory is not just running. He keeps receiving passes from his teammates while running, and then keeps passing the football. Sometimes he also chooses to shoot by himself, or break through with the ball, but you don't know whether his next action after receiving the ball is to break through, pass or shoot.So no matter where he is, Carrick and Park Ji-sung must follow him.

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Under Rongguang's tireless running, Carrick was the first to withdraw, and he suffered from cramps in the second minute of No.70.

Ferguson replaced the exhausted Carrick with Anderson.

After Anderson played, he still followed Park Ji-sung and Rong Guang.

But perhaps just playing, Anderson has not had time to enter the game state.

Maybe Park Ji Sung's physical strength has been exhausted...

In short, these two people's defense against Rongguang is not as strong as before.

Rong Guang seized this opportunity and used a sudden acceleration to temporarily break away from the close marking of the two men.

And Sneijder's pass was just right, and he arrived like a tacit understanding...

Of course, for a player like Rongguang, it is naturally impossible for Ferguson to just arrange Anderson and Park Ji-sung to follow his defensive plan.

There will inevitably be other Manchester United players who will come up to defend.

So even if Sneijder passes the football to Rongguang, Rongguang may not have a chance to score.

But what if Rong Guang didn't think about scoring goals by himself?

Facing the ball passed by Sneijder, Rong Guang didn't stop the ball, nor did he shoot. Instead, he turned around and kicked the football to the other side!
The football slipped past Manchester United centre-back Rio Ferdinand, who came up to defend him.

In fact, the speed is not fast, but Rio Ferdinand's body became stiff due to inertia, and he could only watch the football pass by his feet, but he was powerless...

He turned his head and followed the football, wanting to see whose feet it ended up at.

At this time, he saw David Silva cut into the penalty area from the wing, and then swung his left leg against the football!
"David Silva—!!"

The football was slammed solidly by David Silva and flew towards the goal.

Although Van der Sar had already made a save, he was also attracted to the other side of the goal by Rongguang before. He turned around and rushed back when he saw Rongguang pass the ball. After catching David Silva, he shot the football in the direction he was before. The football passed him by.
"2:0! 2:0! Beautiful goal! David Silva expanded the score for Manchester City!"

The cheers at the Manchester City Stadium were loud enough to overwhelm all other voices. With a two-goal lead in the first leg, Manchester City fans felt that they had entered Wembley ahead of schedule!

(End of this chapter)