i want to be king

Chapter 868 Su Dong, have you seen it?

When the game progressed to No. 12 minutes, Stoke City got a chance for a throw-in on the right side of the front field.

When Marcelo returned to the defense, he shoveled the ball out of bounds.

Stoke City's right back Wilkinson quickly ran to the front, picked up a football from the ground, put it in the jersey on his chest, and wiped it carefully to remove the water stains on it.

The players of the visiting team pressed forward quickly, especially the high center forward John Carew. He even went directly to the bottom line on the left side of the penalty area and blocked Pepe behind him with his burly body.

This is Stoke City's signature tactic, the throw-in grenade tactic.

With the whistle of the referee, Wilkinson quickly raised the ball over his head and threw it into the penalty area with all his strength.

Both of Stoke City's full-backs have practiced this trick, throwing it far and well.

John Carew leaned on Pepe and kept leaning back.

As far as Pepe's body is inside the central defender, it is considered very top-notch, but he is a bit shorter than John Carew, and he does not have an advantage in strength, and he has to block between him and the goal, so Pepe can only retreat.

Although John Carew is a high center forward, his footwork is also very good.

Wilkinson threw the ball directly into the left side of Manchester City's penalty area. After landing in front of John Carew, the Norwegian center stopped the ball to the baseline. Pepe behind him tried his best to block the position and prevent Carew from turning around.

But when the two were engaged in a physical confrontation, Joe Hart didn't know what to think, and even abandoned the door and attacked.

If you really want to attack, you rush to attack when the ball is thrown into the penalty area, and take the ball out of the air, that's okay, but you wait until the ball hits the ground, and you just pounce on the air, what's the matter?

You attack a lonely ah!
Pepe was shocked and desperately tried to stop John Carew from kicking.

But the Norwegian center had already turned sideways, saw Joe Hart, and immediately poked the ball directly by virtue of his height and long legs.

Although Carew fell in the penalty area because he lost his balance, the ball passed through Joe Hart's crotch and headed straight for the goal.

Kompany behind him kept chasing back, trying to clear the ball in front of the goal, but in the end he dribbled the ball and shoveled into his own goal.

There was a burst of exclamations mixed with loss from the entire Etihad Stadium.

Zero to one!

John Carew jumped up from the ground, roared, rushed out of Manchester City's penalty area excitedly, ran all the way, kept roaring, as if telling everyone that he scored a goal!
Su Dong, did you see it?I scored! !

"Very surprising, it was Stoke City who scored the first goal!"

"Manchester City once again exposed problems in this throw-in defense, especially goalkeeper Joe Hart. His timing of attacking was very poor. Even if he had simply stood in front of the goal, I believe Pepe would have been able to stop Carew. After all, Carew's shot was not from a wide angle."

"But who would have thought that Joe Hart would abandon the goal and attack the ball, which is simply incomprehensible."

"One to zero! With the goal of Norwegian high center Karou, Stoke City temporarily leads the away game."

Amidst the boos of the audience, Pepe looked at Joe Hart, who fell in the penalty area, failed to hold his legs in time, and was pierced by Carew, and really wanted to yell at him.

With such a small shooting angle, you just need to keep close to the goal post. What do you attack?
It doesn't matter if you attack, anyway, you pounce on the ball!

In terms of physical confrontation, facing Kalu, Pepe really can't take advantage of it, but he tried his best to push Kalu to the bottom line, so that Kalu doesn't have much shooting angle, and the shooting is basically the situation of hitting the goalkeeper's arms.

But now it's all right, it's been pierced.

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While Manchester City was temporarily behind Stoke City [-]-[-] at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester United was playing an away game against Blackburn at Ewood Park in Blackburn, north of Manchester.

The two games were almost at the same time, and now Manchester United and Blackburn are zero to zero.

Ferguson stood in the command area in front of the coach's bench of the visiting team, chewing gum, watching the game intently.

Blackburn's 19-year-old centre-back Phil Jones was in good form, impressed Ferguson, deflected United's attack on several occasions and looked promising.

Assistant coach Mike Phelan has just received a phone call, and immediately went to Ferguson's side.

"Goal over there!"

Ferguson's eyelids twitched, so fast?
"Su Dong?" Ferguson blurted out.

"No, it's John Carew." The assistant coach chuckled, "Using their signature throw-in grenade tactics."

Ferguson was overjoyed immediately, and laughed out loud.

You can come here for whatever you want!
He has been waiting for the news of Stoke City's goal, but he didn't expect it to come.

"Tony Pulis is still very good. He can bring a lineup like Stoke City to eighth in the league. If he can beat Manchester City tonight, it may not be possible to go further." Ferguson was in a good mood. "By the way, didn't Manchester City defend this tactic?"

"It was defended, but Joe Hart took the initiative to attack, but he missed the ball and exposed his crotch instead."

After finishing speaking, the assistant coach couldn't help laughing.

Regardless of who scores and who concedes, Manchester United are happy as long as Stoke score.

As long as Manchester City loses this round, Manchester United will have a chance to comeback in the last round.

More importantly, Manchester United this season is also fighting on three fronts. On the one hand, they reached the final of the Champions League against Mourinho's Barcelona, ​​and on the other hand they also reached the final of the FA Cup against Guardiola's Manchester City.

If it can be reversed in the league first, it will be a great boost to Manchester United.

After Ferguson heard the good news, he was refreshed, and he pointedly said: "Manchester City's biggest problem now is the goalkeeper. Their frontcourt is weak at best, but the goalkeeper has made too many mistakes, which is too demoralizing."

"Many people say that we need a goalkeeper, but that's when Van der Sar is about to retire. Even so, Van der Sar is very reliable, but Manchester City is different. No one knows when Joe Hart's brain has a twitch. Something bad happened."

Mike Phelan also laughed straight away, agreeing with Ferguson's statement.

The introduction of a high-level goalkeeper has become the most proposed proposal for Manchester City by the outside world.

Joe Hart has indeed made enough mistakes this season, and he is completely unworthy of the main goalkeeper position of the Premier League championship team.

Of course, this is also related to Guardiola's tactics.

"Manchester City is behind, we should work harder!"

Having said that, Ferguson walked to the sidelines and yelled loudly at the Manchester United players on the field: "Cheer up, we need to score goals, attack me!"

The Manchester United players on the pitch immediately cheered up when they heard Ferguson's roar, and many players also got the information they wanted to know from Mike Phelan's gestures on the sidelines.

Manchester City lost the ball!
As long as Manchester United wins their opponents, there is still suspense about the ownership of the Premier League champions.

Thinking of this, the Manchester United players on the field suddenly played more vigorously.

Rooney even called on everyone in the team to press up and frantically pressed Blackburn in the half-court and beat them hard.

Unlucky violent ones, they are usually the ones who murder others, when have they been so violent?
But Manchester United's players are all like wolves and tigers, and they look so ferocious.

Finally, in the No. 20 minute, after Rooney got the ball from the right, he forced a breakthrough and made a pass. Hernandez shrewdly ran to the goal and scored a header from close range, breaking Blackburn's goal for Manchester United.

In an instant, the shouts of Manchester United players came from the entire stadium.

The head coach Ferguson on the sidelines raised his arms high, his face flushed with excitement, and he kept roaring.

Finally scored!
As long as one goal is scored, Manchester United will take the initiative in their hands!

"Put it all together, take advantage of the victory and pursue the attack!"

Such a thought popped into Ferguson's mind.

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In the north at Blackburn, Manchester United scored!

Word soon reached the Etihad Stadium.

The players on the court are still passing the ball patiently, controlling the ball and the game, and patiently organizing infiltration. They don't know what happened to Blackburn in the north, but the coaching staff on the sidelines and the fans in the stands know it.

They all let out an uneasy restlessness.

The movement was naturally conveyed to the court.

The players are not stupid, they are also paying attention to the movement in the stands and on the side of the court, and they are naturally aware of the problem.

They guessed that Manchester United should be ahead.

City behind here, Manchester United ahead over there, can there be a worse situation than that?

Is the scene that Ferguson sketched out before the game really going to become a reality?
With this messy mind, there are also problems with the passing and possession cooperation of Manchester City players on the field.

Some players started to worry.

Originally, he was supposed to pass another pass, but he was so eager for success that he hit him directly.

Needless to say, if the fire didn't come, he must have been frustrated, and even got a counterattack from his opponent.

Guardiola also realized the problem on the sidelines, and kept calling on the players to be calm, calm, and don't worry.

But things like emotions are really not something that can be controlled casually.

Even if it is a professional player, it is about his own personal interests and the success or failure of a season of hard work, who can not care?

Manchester City's players were in a hurry, but Stoke City continued to defend and counterattack.

Tony Pulis also knew the results of the battle in the north, and immediately defended more firmly.

Cunningly, he was waiting for Manchester City to take the initiative to make a mistake, and then sent a fatal murderous opportunity.

Su Dong was also aware of the problem. After an unsuccessful attack, he appealed loudly to his teammates to calm down, don't worry, there is still a lot of time, and this is only the first half.

He has a high prestige in the team on weekdays, but in the ever-changing game, such appeals are not very effective.

Once the attack started, the players became anxious again.

Everyone knows that Manchester United is ahead and Manchester City need to score at least two goals to maintain their advantage.

Can Manchester City score two goals against Stoke City?

Guardiola's tactics are a little bad. They have high requirements on the players' mentality. Be patient, and impatience is easy to make mistakes.

Therefore, to a certain extent, Guardiola's passing and possession style of play is more suitable for long-term league games, rather than one or two cup games that determine the outcome.

But now, Manchester City is playing in the league, but they are forced to fall behind in the knockout round.

(End of this chapter)