Glory Greenery

Chapter 348

After the halftime break, players from both sides entered the field and the second half began.

At this time, everyone found that Mazari made a large-scale replacement of Naples' formation in the second half.

In addition to Cavani, Pandev and Lavezzi, the two offensive players in the frontcourt, were all replaced.

The players on the court were all defensive players in the midfield. The players who were originally biased towards defense became more conservative in the second half.

Mazari's plan can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye. It is nothing more than wanting to save this goal and win the game.

After successfully restraining Yang Mo at all costs in the first half, Mazari felt that as long as he did a good job in defense, the victory of this game was within easy reach.

On the other hand, Manchester City, Mancini just replaced Milner, who performed so well in the first half, with Nasri, and transferred Yang Mo from the left to the right.

As for Manchester City's tactics, of course they continued to attack.

Returning to the Champions League after a lapse of 43 years, Manchester City is definitely not reconciled to being defeated by their opponents at home in the first Champions League game.

If today's game is really lost, it is very likely that it will directly affect Manchester City's qualifying for the group. Mancini has to pay attention to this point.

Although Mansour, the financial backer of Manchester City, did not ask Mancini too high in the Champions League, such as letting him enter the Champions League for the first time, he will win the championship or something, but if Manchester City is eliminated in the group stage, then welcome Manci Ni's will definitely not have any good results.

In addition to Mancini, there is another one who is also unwilling to fail, and that is Yang Mo.

With the highest net worth in the world and the highest salary in the world, if he is defeated by Naples in this game, he doesn't even have to guess how the "elites" on Fleet Street in the UK will mock him.

The most important thing is that he can't accept that he lost this game. Naples is not invincible.

If his teammates at this time were those from Bayern, Yang Mo absolutely believed that the score would definitely not be like it is now.

Of course, he doesn't mean that Manchester City's players are inferior to Bayern.

On the contrary, in terms of ability and technology, whether it is offensive or defensive, Manchester City is no weaker than his teammates in Bayern.

But the biggest problem is that these mercenaries of Manchester City lack the will to fight for the team and lack the professionalism that a player should have.

In Bayern's team, many players such as Muller and Badstuber are from Bayern's youth training. The desire to fight for the team far surpasses these Manchester City stars who came for money.

However, all this is not unchangeable, as long as his teammates can see the hope of victory, then he believes that no one will refuse the honor.

In this world, I don't know how many professional players want a league championship, but they can't get a Champions League championship.

In Manchester City, as long as there is honor, Mansour, the big money lord, will not be stingy with money.

So after the start of the second half, Yang Mo's offense was more active and vigorous than in the first half.

Although Naples still tried to contain Yang Mo in the first half, but Yang Mo knew that they couldn't stop him for too long.

In terms of physical fitness, these Naples defensive players spent far more energy than he did in order to catch up with him.

In addition to physical fitness, the other most embarrassing thing for Naples is the foul problem of the defensive players.

If you want to stop Yang Mo, sometimes you can't do it simply by defending. When necessary, fouling becomes something you have to do.

At this time, almost all of the defensive players had a yellow card, so he had to be timid when defending Yang Mo.

In the second half, Mazari replaced Naples with two defensive players, perhaps considering this reason.

In fact, it is not just Naples. The teams that have played against Yang Mo in the Premier League in the last few games have all paid a high price to defend Yang Mo.

As a result, instead of winning the game against Manchester City, the foul problem directly affected the subsequent games.

Take Tottenham in the third round of the Premier League game as an example. In that game, in order to defend Yang Mo, two main players were sent off for malicious fouls.

Subsequently, the FA discussed and decided that because Tottenham committed an intentional foul and was of a bad nature, in the case of a one-match suspension, they will be fined two more games, and a total of three games will be suspended.

In order to prevent Yang Mo from fouling maliciously, Tottenham knew that the appeal was useless, so they chose to accept it.

After the lack of two assistant defensive players, Tottenham's defense should have been affected, and they lost all the last two games.

This is the result of applying foul tactics to Yang Mo.

Naples watched the game and defended Yang Mo, but like other teams in the Premier League, it was an act of drinking poison to quench thirst.

This is enough to prevent Yang Mo. If he can't defend, not only will he lose the game, but the subsequent games will also become more difficult due to the accumulation of fouls.

Recently, in the public opinion circle of British football, many experts have begun to deny this approach.

Instead of putting all their eggs in one basket to deal with Yang Mo in the league, those weak teams might as well give up the game and focus on games that are more sure of scoring points.

After all, the league is not a cup game, and it is not the win or loss of a game, but the situation of the entire season.

If you lose to Manchester City, you will lose one game, but for Manchester City, the next few games will not be played smoothly, so the gain is not worth the loss.

And after seeing this situation, many Premier League teams really began to think, is it really worthwhile to do everything possible to avoid Manchester City?

Of course, the league has just begun, and it is still unknown how other teams will deal with Manchester City in the end.

But now, the unafraid of the giants in the Premier League team still makes Manchester City very uncomfortable.

After talking about the foul, let us turn our attention back to the first match of the Champions League.

After the start of the second half, Naples stepped up their defense and tried to continue to block Yang Mo.

But Yang Mo saw the hidden dangers of Naples' defense, and continued to execute according to what he thought in his heart, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.

In the 72nd minute of the second half, after most of the game, Yang Mo took advantage of a Naples throw-in, found Dzeko and began to give instructions.

"After a while, you try to walk into the penalty area, and I will find a way to help you get involved in the defense and then pass the ball."

Hearing Yang Mo's words, Dzeko frowned and asked, "Can it work?"

In Dzeko's view, Naples' defense in this game was indeed very good. Although the state of his teammates also had problems, Yang Mo was indeed restricted.

Yang Mo looked at Dzeke firmly and said, "Believe me, they have reached their limit."

"OK then."

Now that Yang Mo said it, Dzeko can only believe it. After all, in today's Manchester City, Yang Mo is still a veritable core.

Whether it's strength or fighting spirit, what Yang Mo showed in this game is far stronger than him and his teammates.

In the 704th minute of the first half game, after Manchester City's players passed through the midfield, Silva passed the ball to Yang Mo with a diagonal plug in the frontcourt, and Manchester City once again launched an attack from the right.

Yang Mo moved forward with the ball, but the speed was still so terrifying that all the Naples players couldn't catch up at all, so many people could only cast a net to encircle him.

But this time, the "net" surrounding Yang Mo seemed to be unable to keep up with Yang Mo's speed.

When the ones in front can't be blocked and the ones behind can't catch up, then the effect of this "net" is destined not to be that great.

On the sidelines, Naples coach Mazzarri frowned tightly when he saw this.

Mazari understands that it's not that his players don't work hard, but that they are really unable to do what they want.

Throughout the game, Yang Mo ran very actively in the frontcourt, but Naples could not let go of the defense against Yang Mo, allowing him to receive the ball without any worries.

Moreover, Yang Mo is fast and confrontational. One or two players can't stop him at all, so he can only cast a net to defend and hunt.

These players were able to contain Yang Mo for more than half of the game when the speed confrontation was inferior to Yang Mo. In addition to fouls, the defense regardless of physical strength was also the main credit.

But this kind of pursuit regardless of physical strength is destined to consume more physical strength. When the game reaches the last moment, this kind of hidden danger is bound to explode.

Now, it is clear that this phenomenon has emerged.

Originally, Mazari thought that this kind of situation would not happen until the last time, but now the players in Naples defending Yang Mo, who have been involved by Yang Mo, can't stand it anymore.

On the right, Yang Mo dribbled the ball all the way to the right side of the penalty area, surrounded by five Naples players.

If these players had sufficient physical strength just now, Yang Mo might have been besieged while dribbling the ball, and in the end it would be difficult to even pass the ball.

But now, in the face of these players whose physical fitness has been somewhat unable to keep up, Yang Mo suddenly accelerated and stopped to make room for him.

At this time, Yang Mo's eyes swept across the Naples penalty area, and he directly rubbed a cross with his right foot.

In the empty penalty area where Naples defended Yang Mo, facing the falling football, Dzeko leaped high and shook his head like a lion, and the football flew directly towards the back point.

Naples goalkeeper De Santis tried his best to throw the ball back, but the distance was too far, and he could only watch the football fall into the goal weakly.

"Dzeko...a header...a goal!"

"In the 74th minute of the second half, Manchester City scored an equalizer goal. This goal is too critical for Manchester City. After all, if they lose the first game of the Champions League, it will also be a very heavy blow to the team's mentality!"

"We can see that although Dzeko scored this goal, at least 70.00% of the credit for the goal belongs to Chinese star Yang Mo."

"Yang Mo alone attracted five defensive players from Naples on the right side of the penalty area. When he made this cross, Naples didn't even have as many players in their penalty area as Manchester City."

"And what I have to say is that Yang Mo's cross is very beautiful, as if he knew Dzeko was there in advance."

"The entire game, when all Manchester City players were in a sluggish state, only Yang Mo did not give up and finally created this goal!"

Seeing Dzeko's goal, Liu Jianhong's voice was quite excited.

Of course, this is also a normal thing. After all, this game went from two o'clock in the morning to three o'clock in the morning. Not to mention the dull game, Manchester City, where Yang Mo is located, is still behind.

Not only the fans, but also the commentators are not happy.

Now that he finally scored a goal, even though Yang Mo only assisted, what Liu Jianhong said was not deliberately bragging about Yang Mo.

After all, everyone can see that if Yang Mo didn't attract the attention of the defense in this goal, and that precise pass, Dzeko alone would definitely not be able to break through Naples' defense.

After Liu Jianhong finished speaking, Duan Xuan next to him continued.

"After scoring this goal, we can already announce that Naples has carefully constructed the defense against Yang Mo from the beginning, and it has failed at this time."

"At this point in the game, Naples' fouls and physical sacrifices in order to defend Yang Mo are time for a collective explosion."

"In previous games, it's not that no team tried to use this tactic to deal with Yang Mo, but it was okay to defend in the end, but once Fang couldn't defend, he often collapsed suddenly in the later stage."

In the end, Director Tao also followed suit and said, "It must be said that, regardless of whether Manchester City wins or draws in this game, Manchester City must face up to their own problems."

"In today's game, except for Yang Mo, the other Manchester City players did not show their professional attitude at all."

"The defense is lax and the offense is disorderly. If Yang Mo didn't rely on Yang Mo's impact again and again and finally found an opportunity, Manchester City would never have won the game."

"The most correct thing Manchester City has done this season is to buy Yang Mo!"

While several commentators from Yangma's five sets were talking about this goal, the Blue Moon fans who had been suppressed for a long time in the Etihad Stadium of Manchester City finally saw the dawn of victory from this goal and began to cheer for the goal. The players expressed their support.

On the field, after scoring a goal, Dzeko ran up to Yang Mo, slapped Yang Mo on the shoulder vigorously, and said loudly: "Yang, your pass is really beautiful."

"How about it, don't doubt what I just said now!" Yang Mo joked.

"Of course not, I will never doubt what you say in the future!"

Scoring his first goal in the Champions League in Manchester City has already made Dzeko extremely excited, and he admires Yang Mo so much.

The players on the field were celebrating, the fans were cheering, but the Manchester City coach Mancini on the sidelines was relieved.

He looked at Yang Mo who was surrounded by his teammates on the court, and said softly: "You really did it..."

Faced with the team's backwardness and the fact that Yang Mo was restricted by the opponent for most of the game, Mancini still insisted on launching an attack with Yang Mo as the core.

His trust in Yang Mo is not insignificant, and Yang Mo also repaid his trust with his unremitting efforts.

At this time, watching the goal made the players on the field excited, Mancini remembered the idea he had in midfield again, and the change of this idea became particularly strong.

Manchester City's celebration is over and the game restarts.

After Naples gradually failed to defend Yang Mo and encountered the first goal, they began to lose control of the scene.

In the 10th minute of the second half, Yang Mo dribbled the ball in from the right and rushed into the penalty area with flashes and wobbles all the way.

In order to block Yang Mo's goal, Naples defender Paulo Cannavaro reached out and grabbed Yang Mo's jersey, trying to block Yang Mo slightly.

At this time, feeling the pulling force from the clothes behind him, Yang Mo had a thought, and simply fell backward exaggeratedly, as if being pulled.

And the good news is that just now, Paul Cannavarola did pull Yang Mo's clothes, and even raised them up, which was caught by the referee.

"I didn't use any force at all! He's just pretending!"

Hearing the referee blowing his whistle, Cannavaro tried his best to explain that he did pull Yang Mo, but that kind of force is absolutely impossible to pull Yang Mo to the ground.

After the game, Cannavaro really learned about Yang Mo's physical strength, not to mention the pull just now, even if he threw himself directly on Yang Mo, he might not be able to hold Yang Mo.

Although Cannavaro was telling the truth, Terah's action of pulling people was clear.

Cannavarola, Yang Mo fell to the ground, the referee no longer needs to think about how to make a penalty.

He took out a yellow card first, because Cannavaro already had a yellow card in the first half, two yellows turned into one red, and Cannavaro was sent off.

After Cannavaro was sent off, the referee directly awarded a penalty to the slow car.

Amidst the cheers from the Blue Moon fans, Yang Mo stood in front of the penalty spot with a relaxed expression.

Start, run-up, swing, a daring scoop ball.

2-1, Manchester City overtook the score!

(End of this chapter)