Football: The king of midfield, Guardiola is crying with envy

Without saying too much about this topic, Zhan Jun immediately introduced the starting lineups of both sides.

"Let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides."

"For the visiting team Arsenal, Arteta arranged a 541 formation."

"The one who rushed forward was Aubameyang."

"The four midfielders are Saka, Xhaka, Smith Rowe and Odegaard."

"On the back line, from left to right, it is Tierney, Kolasinac, Holding in the middle, Chambers and Cedric Suarez on the right."

"In the goalkeeper position, Leno continues to start."

"Arsenal's start this season is very bad. Let's see if the Arsenal will have a good performance today."

"For Manchester City, Guardiola arranged a 433 formation."

"Three forwards, Grealish, Ferran Torres and Jesus."

"Midfielders are Chen Chen, Rodri and Bernardo Silva."

"In the first game, Chen Chen appeared on the right, but today he came to the left."

"The four defenders from left to right are Cancelo, Laporte, Ruben Dias and Kyle Walker."

"The goalkeeper is Ederson!"

"Now we see that the starting players of both sides have stepped onto the court. Let's see who will win the game today!"

In the center of the court, players from both sides took their positions on both sides of the referee.

Today's referee is Martin Atkinson.

VAR video referee is Darren England.

They are all old acquaintances.

"Beep!"

Soon, with Atkinson's whistle, the focus of this round officially started!

Manchester City, who is at home, got the right to kick off.

As mentioned before, it was a cloudy day in Manchester today, otherwise it would be too hot to play football in the afternoon.

After all, it is the end of August and summer is not over yet!

In fact, the FA's policy of arranging early games has always been disliked by local fans, but there is no way. Compared with the international football market, local fans are more important than the international football market.

The reason why the Premier League has become the most profitable league among the five major leagues is also for this reason.

The viewing time is more friendly to international fans, and the game is also intense enough.

In contrast, the Spanish national derby is often in prime time in Spain, but it is early morning in Asia.

Although it is very enjoyable to watch, there are really few people who can stay up late.

On the court, Ferran Torres kicked the ball to Chen Chen behind him, and Chen Chen passed the ball to Rodri.

Rodri controlled the ball for a long time.

Today, Arsenal played a 541 defense, and neither Aubameyang nor Saka chose to come up to force Rodri.

The broadcast camera was on Guardiola and Arteta on the sidelines.

Today was a battle between master and apprentice.

Tazi's expression was very serious. The poor performance of the two consecutive defeats at the beginning made the former Arsenal player a little overwhelmed.

Fortunately, Kroenke was famous for his stinginess, and it was impossible for him to fire Tazi.

After all, he would have to pay the penalty if he fired him. Would he be willing to do that?

Of course, it was a good thing that he didn't fire him, otherwise Arsenal really couldn't find a better coach.

Rodri kicked the ball to B席 to the right, and then B席 took the ball across the half court.

Seeing B席 coming up, Saka and Tierney rushed over.

B席 was not in a hurry, but knocked the ball horizontally to Chen Chen who was diagonally inserted into the middle!

After Chen Chen received the ball, he made a straight pass!

Find Torres in front!

Torres got the ball, but unfortunately he made a mistake in the subsequent shooting choice.

He made too many adjustments, which allowed Holding to easily cooperate with Kolasinac to steal the ball successfully!

Chen Chen showed a look of regret, then he clapped his hands and said to Torres,

"Ferran! You did a good job, but don't be too slow, just shoot directly, we will have many opportunities! Don't be afraid of wasting!"

Ferran Torres nodded, then trotted back to defend.

Arsenal wanted to counterattack, but Manchester City's defensive speed was very fast, and the Arsenal could only control the ball first and then attack forward.

The ball soon came to the feet of Swiss midfielder Xhaka.

Switzerland lost to Spain in the quarter-finals of the European Cup this year, and Switzerland lost that game.

But to be honest, if Arsenal midfielder Xhaka had not been suspended due to a red card, the result would not be certain.

After Xhaka got the ball, he turned right and passed the ball to the right area very smoothly.

Norwegian Odegaard was sprinting forward quickly!

"Odegaard!"

"Odegaard got the ball!"

"There is a threat in the left area of ​​Manchester City, Cancelo is defending Odegaard."

"Oh! Chen Chen is very skilled and brave!"

"He stretched his legs to grab the ball! This is a back-end interception!"

"If Chen Chen doesn't control it well,This is likely to give Arsenal a set-piece in the frontcourt! "

"Now it's Manchester City's turn to counterattack!"

On the court, Chen Chen grabbed the ball and immediately passed it to Cancelo, who took advantage of the situation and made a forward pass!

Manchester City attacked, was counterattacked by Arsenal, and then Manchester City counterattacked in return!

In this situation of back and forth pulling, the defenses on both sides were a little bit overwhelmed.

But Manchester City will be better, after all, they are now on the offensive side.

Arsenal was a little at a loss.

Because although Tazigo arranged a 541 formation, in the attack and counterattack, the two full-backs, Tierney and Cedric, will move forward to the back waist and rib area to release Xhaka and Odegaard's offensive desire!

And now Cancelo's pass was directly given to Grealish in front, Cedric C is desperately trying to defend!

At the same time, he pulled with his hands!

Unfortunately, the thing that Shaker is least afraid of is pulling with his hands.

Guardiola bought him because he saw Grealish's ball-protecting passing and the threat of going down the bottom.

Soon, Grealish carried Cedric and brought the ball to the bottom line area.

Chambers came to help defend together.

Seeing this, Grealish stopped and passed the ball back to Chen Chen who followed.

Chen Chen did not hesitate, and decisively chose to kick the ball after receiving the ball!

Straight pass!

Find Ferran Torres who broke out from the back line again!

This time the young Torres did not waste the opportunity!

Seeing the ball rolling over, Torres directly sideways to let the ball pass, and then kicked the bottom of the ball!

Close-point explosion!

"Bang!"

Leno has already prepared a defensive posture, but what's the use?

"Grealish goes down the bottom!"

"Pass to Chen Chen."

"Chen Chen chooses to find Torres! ”

“Jesus is also outflanking at the back post.”

“No problem! The ball is in!”

“A shot from the young Spanish striker!”

“Ferran Torres!”

“Manchester City got off to a dream start!”

“Arsenal has created an embarrassing team record again.”

“They created an embarrassing record of losing the ball first in the first three league rounds after the start of the season!”

“Facing Manchester City, although Arteta arranged a 541 formation, he still wanted to fight for a counterattack opportunity in his bones.”

“It’s a pity that Arsenal failed to seize this counterattack opportunity! Manchester City scored first! "

The Blue Moon fans at the scene suddenly burst into a thunderous roar!

How can a disciple be better than his master?

This is an eternal truth!

Ferran Torres, who scored the first goal for the team, slid to the team's bench in a handsome way!

Chen Chen followed closely behind, he jumped up and jumped onto Torres' shoulders.

Then a group of people rushed up to celebrate passionately!

People's joys and sorrows are not the same.

The Arsenal players on the field were dejected and embarrassed.

The time on the big screen had just passed the third minute.

This start to lose the ball is really a morale-damaging thing for Arsenal, who have already lost two games in a row!