i want to be king

Chapter 910 The Deadlocked World Wave
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With a long whistle from the Dutch referee Bjorn Keipers, the entire Louis II stadium immediately boiled.

Barcelona, ​​who took the lead in kick-off, kicked the ball to Villa from Messi. The Spanish striker made a long pass directly to the back line and handed it over to Pique.

Led by Su Dong, with Di Maria and Sanchez as the two wings, Manchester City's front trident also rushed towards Barcelona's half at the moment the whistle sounded.

After Pique received the return pass, he quickly handed it to Mascherano.

The midfielder, transferred from Bayern Munich, was placed in the back line by Mourinho during Puyol's absence due to injury, making up for Puyol's loopholes. As soon as he received the ball, he found that his former teammate Su Dong had already killed him.

After the Argentine midfielder stopped the ball, it quickly passed to the right and gave it to Alves.

After seeing Su Dong, he grinned at Mascherano and the Argentine also smiled back, but Su Dong immediately turned around and always adjusted his position between Mascherano and Yaya Toure.

Whether it is the fans in the stands or the audience looking down at the camera, they can clearly see that Su Dong's movement happened to be stuck in a very uncomfortable position for Alves.

The Barcelona right-back simply couldn't pass back.

He knew how fast and explosive Su Dong was, but he had no idea.

When Sudong is always stuck in this position, Alves is very uneasy and not safe enough to pass to Mascherano or Yaya Toure in the midfield.

But if he took the ball forward, Di Maria had already entangled him again, and there was nothing he could do.

Fortunately, at this time, Harvey ran over to respond, and after getting the ball, he quickly knocked back to Alves who retreated and ran out of space, solving the problem of Barcelona's right back, but the ball returned to Barcelona's half.

……

Mourinho scratched his head on the sidelines, turned his head sideways, and looked at Guardiola on the other side of the coaching bench with some surprise, because he found that Manchester City took the initiative to attack and press from a high position.

This is indeed very surprising.

Is this kid crazy?
Mourinho looked back at the coaching bench again, just in time to look at the assistant coach Vilanova, and he turned his head back calmly because he didn't know how to respond.

Did Vilanova really guess right?
Is Guardiola planning to grab a wave at the beginning?Or do you really plan to play against Barcelona?
For the time being, Mourinho has no idea.

Vilanova, who was sitting on the coach's bench, noticed Mourinho's expression and secretly sighed in his heart.

In fact, he really wanted to tell Mourinho that it was actually very easy to crack Alves' pass just now, all he needed was Yaya Toure to move closer to Alves and avoid Su Dong's defensive area.

Yaya Toure leaned over, and after stopping the ball, he looked for Harvey who was in the gap. Alves and Yaya Toure ran into the gap again. Harvey immediately had several directions for the ball.

But why was it forced to pass back in the end?
Xavi was forced to come out of space to meet Alves as Yaya Toure didn't lean in.

Passing and controlling the ball is closely linked. When there is a problem in a certain link in the entire passing and controlling chain, especially when the midfield is delayed, this crucial node, the entire passing and controlling system will bury a huge hidden danger.

This is like the chain of a bicycle. When one of the links is loose, there may be no problem when it is usually easy, but once it is time to climb a hill with a load, it may break at any time.

Yaya Toure was a world-class midfielder, but it just wasn't the right fit.

Too sticky to the ball, lack of sense of position, and limited running support, which led to him being a hidden thunder in the position of Barcelona's midfielder. The one just now was just a mild symptom.

Thinking of this, Vilanova got up, walked to Mourinho's side, and reminded softly: "Manchester City will adopt counter-attack tactics. I guess, the most likely way is to let Su Dong come to grab Yaya Toure. We have to prepare in advance."

Mourinho frowned, and a complex look flashed across his eyes.

Yaya Toure and Busquets, this is the biggest criticism of Mourinho by many Barcelona media and celebrities, especially after Busquets played at Manchester City and was selected for the Spanish national team.

Mourinho chose Yaya Toure, Guardiola chose Busquets, who is good and who is not, how to judge?

At this moment, Vilanova mentioned Yaya Toure, which reminded Mourinho a lot.

To some extent, Yaya Toure represents Mourinho's coaching authority in Barcelona.

"I see." Mourinho said lightly.

Vilanova knew in his heart that Mourinho was very sensitive, which was why he was reluctant to say it yesterday.

But at this moment, Su Dong suddenly grabbed the ball back and passed Alves to Yaya Toure in time, intercepted it from the middle, and quickly handed it to Toni Kroos.

Toni Kroos shifted the ball to the right, Sanchez took the ball straight to the penalty area, faced Abidal one-on-one, pressed every step of the way, and after a series of fake moves, he suddenly started, threw off the French defender, shot a low shot, and hit the goal directly.

The ball slides out.

At this time, Su Dong was chasing to the back point. When he saw Sanchez hit the goal by himself, he raised his hands helplessly.

The Chilean winger hastily raised his hand in apology.

If the ball is passed, Su Dong is the lore!

Although it failed to form a killing intent, Manchester City's counterattack was very fast this time. From stealing the ball to transferring, it was all passed with one kick. Only Sanchez broke through Abidal. There was a slight delay, but it was only a matter of a second or two.

This attack can be regarded as a wake-up call to Barcelona, ​​especially Mourinho.

……

The game is still going on.

After the opening of the game, Manchester City did not adopt the tactic of defending and counterattacking, but maintained the offensive situation uncharacteristically.

Especially in the opening wave of high-position pressing and oppression, Barcelona played very awkwardly.

It is not that they have not experienced opponents' high pressing and oppression. For example, when they played against Manchester United in the Champions League final, Ferguson also wanted to grab a wave and adopted such a style of play, but it is also high pressing and oppressing. Manchester City is obviously different from Manchester United.

City are more organized and at the same time more targeted.

This pressure on Barcelona is unmatched by Manchester United's pressing.

Sudong's activity area is also different from the past.

When his own side is defending, he always puts his position in the area of ​​​​the two central defenders and the midfielder Yaya Toure. The purpose is to be able to press the central defender and the midfielder at any time.

This is also the tactical task Guardiola gave him.

Yaya Toure is tall and strong, with active feet and a strong ability to drive the ball, which makes him able to break the situation once he rushes up, but his weakness is also very obvious, that is, he is not active in running and responding, and often leaves his defensive position.

Guardiola is also aiming at this point, so let Su Dong focus on grabbing his area.

And once he switched from defense to offense, Su Dong would immediately change his position.

During the period when Manchester City was pressing high, Barcelona also counterattacked for a while, passing the ball into Manchester City's penalty area for the first time.

It was after Iniesta dribbled forward and cooperated with Messi. The Argentine superstar directly kicked a pass and passed it behind the defense line.

In just over three minutes, the two teams played against each other several times, especially the back and forth of the possession of the ball.

This makes the game look very exciting, and it is also quite smooth.

Despite being counterattacked by Barcelona once, Manchester City still did not flinch, continued to press high positions, and continued to suppress Alves' side, making it clear that the horses and horses wanted to abolish Barcelona's right attack.

This also made Mourinho quite nervous on the sidelines, frequently suggesting that the players on the field should pay more attention to supporting Alves, especially Yaya Toure and Mascherano, these two players are closer to Alves.

But even so, in the 5th minute, Manchester City still seized the opportunity and successfully intercepted the ball on the left.

After Marcelo intercepted Alves' pass, he completed a two-for-one cooperation with David Silva. After he stopped the ball on the left side of the perimeter of the penalty area, he was forced by Alves and was blocked on the left line.

Seeing that there was no chance for a forced breakthrough, when Di Maria suddenly slanted into the baseline, Marcelo suddenly dunked the ball back. Before Alves could react, he quickly crossed the ball to the left corner of the penalty area.

Su Dong pulled to the left corner, facing the attacking direction sideways, facing Marcelo's pass, he blocked Mascherano with his body at that time, turned around after stopping the ball, and dribbled the ball horizontally.

Pique, who was behind Mascherano, turned pale with fright, and immediately rushed to Su Dong to help defend.

Facing the menacing Pique, Su Dong paused suddenly, and made a gesture to smash the ball into the penalty area. Pique was so frightened that he quickly blocked it, but Su Dong suddenly moved the ball sideways, and his whole body quickly started.

The sudden stop and quick start made Pique unable to keep up with the sudden speed change, and Su Dong directly opened a defensive gap, and Su Dong seized the opportunity, and at a position far to the left of the top of the arc, he shot directly.

The shooting angle is not big, but the ball hits the lower left corner of the goal in a straight line at an extremely fast speed.

Valdés had been mentally prepared and reacted in time, and directly flew sideways, trying to block the ball with one hand.

He is still sure of saving Su Dong's shot!
But what he never expected was that Su Dong kicked the ball quickly and urgently, but when he entered the small penalty area, there was a rebound on the ground.

After the Barcelona goalkeeper threw the whole person out, he fell to the grass.

The ball crashed into the side netting of the goal behind him.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!"

"Only 5 minutes into the game, Manchester City opened the scoring for the first time!!!"

"Su Dong broke the deadlock for Manchester City first with a wonderful world wave!"

"One to zero!!"

"Barcelona was at a disadvantage in this wave of confrontation after the opening and was scored by Manchester City."

(End of this chapter)