i don't want to be king

Chapter 584 Balance Breaker

Monaco's players were shocked by Jardim's setup at half-time.

The Portuguese said decisively: "Everyone, we must make changes in the second half, otherwise it is impossible to realize our wish if we continue like this!"

He clearly requested that Li Liang no longer retreat to his own half for defense during the second half of the game. At the same time, he also arranged for Lemar and Bernardo Silva to retreat, focusing on the containment of Xiwa.

It's not like Yardim has made such an arrangement before. When facing some opponents who are similar in strength or weaker than him, this arrangement has been tried and tested.

But now they are facing the strongest opponent, Manchester City, once again pinning the hope of opening the situation on Li Liang?
Caldeira understands that Li Liang's current style of play has become more and more reasonable than before, and he is more willing to play for the team than before.

This kind of arrangement is equivalent to going back to the beginning, using the rest of the players to run more to create attack opportunities for Li Liang!
Although several teaching assistants disagreed with such a risk, they really couldn't think of a better plan.

Seeing Li Liang successfully get rid of Bird's marking for the first time in half-time, Monaco's bench became excited, and Caldeira couldn't help shouting: "Come on, Thomas (Lemar), hurry up Ah, Bernardo (Silva)!"

Stones blocked Li Liang's advance head-on, but he didn't dare to act rashly, because he knew that if he was broken by this dangerous No. 17 again, everything would be completely irreversible.

Guardiola desperately waved his hands and called his disciples to return to the defense, because he saw not only Lemar and Silva on both sides, but even Mendy on the left had fully started and was plugging in at high speed!
The reason why Guardiola also arranges high-position oppressive tactics in the away game is not only to use offense instead of defense, but also an important reason is to compress the movement space of Monaco players.

Now Li Liang's breakthrough in the midfield not only attracted the attention of the midfielder and central defender, but more importantly, it also restrained the defense of the two wings and had to protect the center, thus creating a dangerous gap for Monaco's wing attack!

Li Liang didn't shake Stones who was standing still - he didn't intend to continue to break through forcefully. When the bird was chasing him, he suddenly lowered his center of gravity and smashed the ball to the right. Immediately followed him to move horizontally, De Bruyne also rushed over, Li Liang was about to be surrounded by three people!
Guardiola has shouted out: "Be careful--"

He suddenly saw that Li Liang was definitely feinting!
Henry and Grimandy were stunned to see in the stands that Li Liang almost swayed his right foot on the spot and sent a beautiful long pass to the left when he was completely surrounded!

His efforts in the face of Stones and the seemingly desperate crosscut just now are all for Mendy who is waiting for him!

The four former England internationals in BT Sport's studio all exclaimed!From the live broadcast, you can see how difficult it is to pass the ball with the back of the foot!
He Wei looked at Mendy who ran into the screen from the lower right corner and shouted: "Great opportunity!"

Mr. Zhang couldn't help blurting out: "It's so good!"

All the Italians in Lippi's room stared wide-eyed, staring intently at the TV screen——

The ball accurately landed closer to Mendy's route. In desperation, Kolarov ran to the right side at the same time as Sania according to his instinct of playing as a full-back for many years. Shouting, Kolarov still didn't realize that Bernardo Silva had rounded around from behind him!
Clichy, who was originally defending against Mbappe, had no choice but to rush out of the small penalty area and chase Silva.

Mendy has observed the chaos in Manchester City's defense. After he calmly controlled the ball, he took a strong diagonal shot with his left foot directly on the left side of the small penalty area!

With a bang, the ball hit Kolarov, who had fallen to the ground and was blocked. Silva quickly appeared in front of the ball and took control of the ball. Draw to the goal again!
The angle is too small and there are already several people gathered in front of the goal. The Portuguese intends to make miracles vigorously, wanting to refract the ball or make it better to create better opportunities for teammates.

In the blink of an eye, Asuka and Stones had already rushed back to the penalty area, and Mbappe suddenly took a step ahead of others, stretched out his right leg and kicked the ball firmly forward!
At a distance of less than 3 meters from the goal, because of Mbappe's grab for the ball, he suddenly changed direction and rushed towards the goal!

Caballero subconsciously made a blocking action, but it was too late.The ball brushed Caballero's hand and flew into the net!

In an instant, the stadium of Louis II was shaken, and the audience burst into cheers!

Including Kolarov and Caballero who fell to the ground, all Manchester City players raised their hands to indicate that this was an offside ball!Guardiola also yelled, and the assistants and substitutes behind him stood up at the same time and all waved in protest!

The referee quickly observed the line referee and the baseline referee, and then firmly whistled and waved to indicate that the goal was valid.

1:0, Monaco finally took the lead in breaking the deadlock in the 59th minute when the situation was passive!

Mbappe was so excited that he almost cried. He first ran to the bottom line, jumped up and screamed, and then turned back and hugged his excited teammates tightly!
He struggled to find Li Liang among the crowd, hugged Li Liang tightly and roared, "I f---ing did it! I really did it!"

The big screen has already shown the multi-angle slow-motion back defense at the moment of the shot just now. At the moment Silva touched the ball last, Mbappe who was starting was still half a body behind the bird that was dragged at the end-this It was a good shot without a doubt.

Seeing the frustrated Manchester City players stop complaining, Lineker said: "Man, Monaco is amazing!

A beautiful breakthrough and a wonderful pass, and then 1 consecutive shots finally knocked on the door of Manchester City!

Will this be the turning point that changes the game? "

Gerrard continued: "Well, this is by no means the end of the world for Manchester City, but the distance is not far away. If Monaco continues to play like this, the result will be difficult to predict..."

Ferdinand answered: "It's No. 17 again! He played a decisive role in this attack!

Manchester City paid the price for their carelessness! "

Xiao Yu and Talon hugged each other excitedly, Falcao got up and cheered and clapped vigorously with the excited home fans around.

Henry and Grimandy were also applauding desperately, and Grimandy leaned close to Henry's ear and shouted, "It's really Li and Killian, you're right!" Henry nodded vigorously.

Thiago had gone back to his bedroom to sleep, and Messi laughed in front of the TV alone. His big dog Hulk raised his head in doubt, not understanding why the master was so happy.

He Wei and Xue Yang's speech speed was like machine guns, and they explained excitedly to the playback screen, unable to hide their huge surprise at all.

Godino suddenly became angry: "How is it? Am I right?
I still support Monaco! "

The meeting room of the Hurricanes was full of jubilation. Grandpa Zhang sighed: "Good guy, how many years will it take us to produce one player like No. 29 (Mbappe)!"

Chu Xianyun laughed loudly and said, "Mr. Zhang, haven't we already had a good son?!"

The old man clapped his hands and laughed, saying yes again and again.

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Watching the playback on the big screen, Guardiola walked back to the bench in pain and sat down heavily.

He couldn't accept such a situation from the bottom of his heart, and the last thing he wanted to see happened.Reality's defense against Li Liang failed, and then there was a leak on the side, and then Kolarov lost his position and finally relaxed his defense against Mbappe in the penalty area.

I have strongly emphasized these points, and I am very confident in the execution ability of the disciples on the field, but these small probability events happened at the same time!

The tactical system he carefully built collapsed in an instant, and Guardiola quickly figured out the reason.

It wasn't that the players made mistakes, nor was there a problem with the execution of the tactics. There was only one explanation—Monaco's No. 17 broke the balance on the field with his own personal ability!
Tactics are based on personal abilities, and effective tactics must be based on personal abilities that are similar or have no decisive gap between the two sides.

Guardiola has already acknowledged Li Liang's strength in Ittihad, but he has always stubbornly believed that the ability of Manchester City's existing players and his own tactical design are enough to minimize Li Liang's threat.

Now he finally understands that he made another error of judgment and paid a heavy price.

Jardim was obviously excited, and he said loudly to Caldeira: "I have already said that no matter which side-as long as there is a goal, it will become a completely different game!

Our chance finally presented itself! "

Jardim's judgment was not wrong. After a short thought, Guardiola responded decisively. He returned to the sidelines and called the players to set up.

The Spaniard still firmly believes that only by continuing to attack can Manchester City get out of the immediate crisis.

(End of this chapter)