champion light

Chapter 819 Assist
In the first 10 minutes of the game, Rong Guang was City's best and most active player.

He has also successfully attracted everyone's attention, and everyone will involuntarily turn their attention to him, as if he is everyone's hope.

As an opponent, Nottingham Forest also defended Rongguang very tightly, almost...doing all the strength of the team to stop Rongguang.

Every time Rong Guang takes the ball, it can attract the frantic siege of Nottingham Forest players.

So the most common scene is that Rong Guang is surrounded by Nottingham Forest players alone.

After 10 minutes, Rongguang's performance slowly fell silent, which seemed to be caused by Nottingham Forest's defense of Rongguang.

Billy Davis saw the progress of the game on the sidelines and was a little relieved-it seemed that his targeted tactical arrangement was correct.

Before this game, he had studied Manchester City's game, especially the last game, the first game Benitez led the team to play, and that was the game with the most research value.It's pointless to study Mark Hughes and Mark Bowen's game, because Benitez is the new coach, maybe he will have something new?
After studying Manchester City's away game against Blackburn, he found that Benitez's tactics were no different from those of his two predecessors. He still fully relied on Rongguang.

So Davis came to a conclusion-there is no difference between Benitez and Mark Hughes, both of them even have the same tactics.

In this game, I just need to keep an eye on Rong Guang, and the other Manchester City players don't care at all, they are here to gather numbers...

As for how to defend glory, Davis also has a lot of successful experience to learn from.

In the first half of the season, the Premier League teams made very in-depth research on Rongguang, which is why a large number of Manchester City's opponent teams used foul tactics when defending Rongguang.

Davis intends to do the same.

Encircle and suppress Rongguang.

After 10 minutes of siege, Nottingham Forest finally silenced the glory.

The most intuitive change is that the Manchester City fans in the stands are no longer noisy.

Davis is very satisfied with the performance of the players.

After defending the glory, the next thing to consider is how to break through Manchester City's goal.

With the current situation of Manchester City, they are a group of frightened birds. As long as they lose the ball, the players will quickly lose their fighting spirit. Nottingham Forest can take advantage of the victory to pursue, win the opponent in one fell swoop, eliminate Manchester City, and advance to the fourth round of the FA Cup!
Billy Davis was dreaming, and he didn't even go to the game.

At this time, on the pitch, Manchester City is attacking.

Nottingham Forest's tactic in this game is defensive counterattack-this is the inevitable choice for low-level teams to face teams higher than them.

Therefore, the defensive counterattack tactics that Manchester City practiced in the past two days will not be useful. They must fight positional battles in the game.

There is no room for Rongguang's speed.

Now he was holding the ball at the front of Nottingham Forest's penalty area, surrounded by Nottingham Forest players. At the same time, the Forest team's players shrunk very hard. The penalty area was full of people, leaving no room for Rong Guang to sprint.

Faced with such a situation, he can only shoot from a long distance.

Rongguang's shots in the first 10 minutes were basically long-range shots, and only one was a shot from the penalty area. At that time, he forced a breakthrough into the penalty area, but under the interference of the Nottingham Forest defender, his shot did not exert power. His kick was weak and weak, and he was easily hugged by Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Paul Smith.

"It seems that even Rong can't do anything about Nottingham Forest's defense..."

Mortensen said.

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Rong Guang, who was in the encirclement, swung his right leg and made a motion to shoot from a long distance.

The two Nottingham Forest players standing in front of him half-turned reflexively, intending to block Rong Guang's shot with their bodies.

At the same time, everyone's attention was focused on him.

But after Rong Guang swung his foot down, he didn't shoot the football towards the goal, but suddenly pushed the football forward and forced a breakthrough!
Two Nottingham Forest players who were sideways approached quickly, intending to intercept Rong Guang.

At the same time, the other Nottingham Forest players in the penalty area also turned to glory, like a group of moths to the flame.

When Rong Guang suddenly accelerated and broke through, a black hole seemed to appear in front of the restricted area of ​​Nottingham Forest, sucking all eyes into it!

"Rong breakthrough!" Mortensen yelled.

The fans of Nottingham Forest also tightened their hearts. What they fear most in this team is glory. Other Manchester City players are not afraid, but glory makes them very afraid.So when they saw Rongguang's breakthrough, they couldn't help but get nervous.

The Nottingham Forest players were more nervous than them. As soon as Rongguang started, they rushed forward and wanted to surround Rongguang.As a result, the forbidden zone, which was still full of people before, is now concentrated in one place, and the other places are suddenly empty.

Just when everyone thought that Rong Guang would forcefully break through and shoot again, Rong Guang swung his right foot and shot again?Or is it a fake shot like last time?

The Nottingham Forest players defending Rongguang stared at the football and Rongguang's right leg, while their minds were running fast, thinking of countermeasures.

At this moment, Rong Guang swung his right foot and hit the football.But it wasn't a shot, nor did it throw the football out, but...a cross pass!
The football went between two Nottingham Forest players!

This surprised the players of Nottingham Forest. They were stunned to see that the glory of football was no longer under their feet, and their brains couldn't keep up. They didn't understand what happened...

Isn't it just a pass?
Yes, just a pass.

But Rong Guang actually made a pass, which surprised them—from their research, Rong Guang seldom passed the ball when he reached the front of the penalty area or broke into the penalty area, and he would choose to come by himself.

He seems to have super confidence in his own shooting, or conversely, he is not very confident in his teammates-of course, during the period when the league just started, he often sent passes to his teammates, but whether it was Berbatov or Robinho, his passes were wasted, especially Robinho.

So it is understandable for Rongguang to do so...

But now, after Glory broke through and attracted all the Nottingham Forest players to his side, he passed the ball!

This is something that the Nottingham Forest players did not expect.

It's not just the Nottingham Forest players who didn't expect it.

Neither the commentator nor the fans reacted.

"Rong, shoot—" Mortensen let out a long hiss before realizing something was wrong!

The football didn't fly to the goal!

"It's a pass! He passed it!" Alan Hansen shouted.

Who is football for?

Everyone's eyes are following the football.

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Berbatov was on the edge of the box, he was watching a show.

According to his experience of working with Rongguang for half a season, Rongguang will hardly pass the ball when he gets there. He will definitely shoot himself. He has such scoring ability, so there is nothing to say.

Berbatov just needs to raise his hand and cheer.

He saw Rongguang forcefully break through, surrounded by Nottingham Forest players in crimson jerseys, almost couldn't see Rongguang, but Berbatov believed that Rongguang would be able to solve the problem, look, it won't be long before the football will suddenly rush out of the crowd and head straight for the goal!
Huh?
Just thinking about it, I saw the football rolling towards me...

Got a kick?

The first year Berbatov saw this scene turned out to be a glorious one...

But as a shooter, his instincts allowed him to make the most correct moves.

He adjusted his body to face the football, then swung his right foot and kicked it towards the football. His right ankle was twisted outwards, and the ankle was opened. It was not a volley or a push shot, but... a rubbing shot!
The football was kicked by him, and then drew an arc in the air!
Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Paul Smith was not prepared enough for Berbatov's kick. He adjusted his orientation and position following Rongguang's pass, but he didn't expect Berbatov to play so resolutely. He didn't stop the ball and shot directly!

Seeing Berbatov shoot, he jumped up hastily, and it was too late.

The football flew over his hand, drew a very obvious arc in the air, and then under everyone's gaze...flyed into the goal by scraping the angle between the crossbar and the far goal post!
"The goal is scored! The goal is scored! Dimita Berbatov! He opened the scoring for Manchester City in the game!" Mortensen just mentioned that Berbatov scored the goal, and then turned his attention to Rongguang. He began to talk about the role of Rongguang in this goal for the audience.

"90.00% of the credit for this goal should be credited to Rong! If it wasn't for his sudden breakthrough that attracted the attention of all Nottingham Forest's defensive players, how could Berbatov get such a good shooting opportunity? When he shot, there was no Nottingham Forest player around him. He was even easier than practicing shooting in training!"

"Manchester City still has to rely on Rong. Rong is the well-deserved core of this team..." Alan Hansen added on the side. "Berbatov's shot, in this position, anyone can score it with that opportunity. It would be strange if he couldn't score..."

From Alan Hansen's point of view, there was nothing to say about this goal. The glory has attracted the attention of all Nottingham Forest players. What happened to Berbatov's goal?
This goal can't explain anything. In the previous game, Manchester City didn't score first. What was the result?Did you win in the end?

The same did not win!

(End of this chapter)