Soccer Card System

Chapter 617 Both sides!
Chapter 628 Opening the bow left and right!
"Red card?!"

Letkinson didn't actually see what happened on the field. People's attention had been on Kompany's header before, ignoring the quarrel between Balotelli and Fonte.

Until the referee took out the red card, the matter was irreversible.

"Less than 2 minutes into the game, Balotelli was sent off with a red card! Manchester City will face the unfavorable situation of ten players at the beginning of the game, which is quite an unacceptable situation for Manchester City!"

Balotelli walked off the field in a sad face, but Gao Bo did not go to comfort him, he was still angry.

Manchester City's players were also very frustrated. Their offense was very sharp at the beginning of the game. Seeing a good start, there was no problem at all. Balotelli's calm behavior made Manchester City fall into a passive position!
The opponent is always a top-level league team. One less player means that Manchester City's players have to pay more running and physical exertion to maintain the game.

On Southampton's side, the coaches on the bench all smiled.

In away games, if there is a time when Southampton can beat Manchester City, it is now!

With one more player fighting early, Southampton saw the hope of winning the away game! !
Gao Bo stood on the sidelines, he shook his head.

It was indeed a mistake to let Balotelli play, but this game cannot be lost because of it!

He shouted at the players on the sidelines and made a gesture of pressing his hands down to signal everyone to stabilize.

"Do you want to change?"

Moya asked while frowning.

Gao Bo thought for a while, then shook his head.

"No!! Anyway, the focus of this game is not on the center forward. Even without the restraint of the center forward, we can still open up the situation through both sides!!"

Gao Bo gestured left and right: "Hazard and Griezmann are like two fists. We can knock down opponents even without a center forward!"

"The focus now is not to let the team mess up!!"

As Gao Bo spoke, he called Kompany to his side.

"Go back and tell the players that the tactics formulated before the game will not change, we will still play both sides!!!"

Kompany nodded, returned to the field, and passed the coach's latest arrangement to all the players.

When the game resumed, Southampton wanted to take advantage of Manchester City's lack of one player to attack Manchester City's defense. They found that Manchester City did not panic because of one less player. Southampton's offensive failed.

Two midfielders, David Silva and Eriksson, joined forces to control the ball. With the cooperation of other Manchester City players, Manchester City's attack was methodical.

In the 8th minute of the game, after Manchester City first focused on the left for a while, they attracted Southampton's defense to the left, and then David Silva transferred a long pass to Griezmann's feet!

After Griezmann took the ball, he cut in and shot!
The football bypassed the defenders in the penalty area, hit the back post under the terrified gaze of Southampton goalkeeper Davies, and bounced into the goal! !

"GOOAL!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!"

"Griezmann!!! Mr. 1.5 million opened the scoring and scored his first goal in the Premier League!! Manchester City, with one player less, leads [-]-[-]!!!!"

"Even though there was one player missing on the field, Manchester City still controlled the situation. They attacked the left side, emptied the right side and then suddenly shifted the ball to the right side. Griezmann succeeded one-on-one and cut inside!!!"

The commentators applauded Griezmann's goal one after another. After the goal, Griezmann didn't celebrate much. He ran to the sidelines and enjoyed the thunderous cheers of the fans.

Manchester City's players rushed up, and near the corner flag area, the players hugged together.

Gao Bo on the sidelines also shook his fist, and then gave high-fives to the assistants behind him.

This time the offense completely played out the arrangement of the coaching staff.

The embodiment of the personal ability advantages of both sides helped Manchester City score a goal!

On the Southampton side, they were still overwhelmed because of the superiority in numbers before, but now a pot of cold water is pouring down to make them realize that Southampton, who is playing away, is still far behind Manchester City in terms of strength!
Atkins came to the sidelines with some headaches. Griezmann's goal made him realize that the personal abilities of Manchester City's players are beyond the reach of Southampton.

Now the game has only started less than 10 minutes, and Manchester City scored first. If the game situation continues like this, consecutive conceding goals can be expected.

Now Southampton's advantage is that they play one more player, but this advantage is not obvious when both sides are physically strong.

Atkins directed his players to re-stabilize and return to the front of the box to defend.

For Southampton, one goal behind can be recovered, and if two goals behind, it is really powerless.

Atkins' calculation is to wait until the second half, when the physical energy of the Manchester City players is almost exhausted, and Southampton will rush to the impact. As long as they score a goal and get a draw at the Etihad Stadium, it will be a victory for Southampton, whose goal is relegation.

Now Southampton's strategy is to consume first, to exhaust Manchester City's physical energy and then play it by ear.

It has to be said that Atkins has coached in England for many years, and his experience is still very rich. For Southampton, the most realistic idea is to score a point away.

Being able to score a point against Manchester City is already a good result for Southampton. As a newly promoted horse, the most realistic consideration is relegation.

However, Manchester City has no intention of slowing down the offensive rhythm because of scoring a goal.

Southampton's recovery defense just hit Manchester City's arms.

The next game completely turned into a bombardment of Manchester City.

Southampton's situation is becoming more and more passive.

In the second minute of game No.30, in the anticipation of Manchester City fans, the second goal finally came!
This time it was Hazard who scored.

The scoring routine was the same as the previous one. Manchester City first concentrated their forces on the right side. When Southampton had to concentrate their defensive forces, Eriksson made a precise long pass transfer and passed the ball to Hazard's feet!

Hazard cuts inside and shoots directly!
Manchester City has used this kind of offensive routine several times, but Atkins did not have time to think of a way to deal with it.

Therefore, when Hazard's shot hit Wundt's foot and created a sideline, goalkeeper Davis had nothing to do.

The football flew into the goal from the other end of his defense!

Manchester City lead [-]-[-]!
(End of this chapter)