The days of playing football with Da Luo

Chapter 607

After the kick-off, Ricardo was not in a hurry to lead the team to launch an offense, but first stabilized and took control.

Manchester City is not in a hurry to press high. QPR takes possession of the ball and they withdraw their formation, allowing QPR to control the ball in the midfield.

QPR played very cautiously. If there is no good opportunity, they would rather go down first than rush to send a through ball.Ricardo and Modric both retreated deeper today to strengthen their control of the midfield.

Yes, this is a game that must be won, but if you want to win, you have to stop the opponent from scoring first.

Manchester City's offensive power is not weak. The short pair of Tevez and Aguero have speed, impact, good skills, and good shooting skills. QPR dare not give them too many opportunities.

Ricardo was mainly marked by Yaya Toure and Sabaletta today.

Zabaleta is easy to deal with, but Yaya Toure is a shrewd bull. Ricardo doesn't want to confront him head-on, so he would rather retreat a little deeper.

It doesn't matter if he can't score goals himself, as long as he can assist his teammates to score, he can also win.

So Ricardo tried to retreat to bring Yaya Toure out, but Yaya Toure was not that stupid, he only came close when Ricardo was in the front position, and usually maintained a good defensive position.

On the contrary, David Silva and Nasri would sometimes give up their offense and come to defend Riccardo.

Therefore, the defensive resistance Riccardo encountered was actually quite large.

Moreover, the Manchester City players also made a lot of defensive moves against him today, and Ricardo must beware of injuries.

If he is injured early, as he was against Manchester United, there is no guarantee that QPR will not collapse.

So in the locker room, Simeone told Ricardo that "it is important to complete your tactical duties, but it is more important to ensure that you are not injured. I don't need you to fight every ball, I just want you to play 90 minutes healthy. "

You must know that Simeone's coaching style is very dirty, and the style of QPR players is very aggressive, but he does not demand this from Ricardo.

In Simeone's view, anyone in this QPR team can have a substitute, except for Ricardo.

If Modric is not there, Borja Valero can also use it; if Nainggolan is not there, so can Arda Turan.Fernandinho can't play, Thiago Motta can fill in... There are qualified substitutes in every position.

Only Riccardo, he is irreplaceable by Callejon, it can even be said that Callejon can't even achieve half of his role.

Of course, Ricardo doesn't want the whole season to fall short because of his injury.

But he will not deliberately avoid physical confrontation.

Football is a highly confrontational sport. Players who always engage in physical confrontation may not necessarily play well, but players who avoid physical confrontation will certainly not be able to perform well.

For example, Messi is only 1 meters tall and short. He looks so thin in front of those giants who are often 7 meters and 1 meters.But he wasn't afraid to physically confront those giants.

Of course, he wouldn't be so stupid as to always bump into those giant men with his thin and thin body, but if the opponent looked for a chance to physically confront him, he would definitely be able to withstand it once or twice.

The same is true for Riccardo, he will not take the initiative to physically confront a muscular man like Yaya Toure, he will play with his mind to reduce the number of direct physical confrontations.

But when physical confrontation came, he never flinched.

In the 9th minute of the game, Ricardo took the ball from the left and cut in. Yaya Toure immediately came to defend and rushed over aggressively, like a tank trying to knock Ricardo away.

Ricardo immediately dribbled the ball and changed lanes. Although it was inevitable that he collided with Yaya Toure, it was not a head-on collision after all. He staggered and continued to dribble forward.

Yaya Toure is tall and has long legs, and his running speed is not slow. He was not thrown away by Ricardo. He has been trying to squeeze Ricardo with his body, slow down Ricardo's speed, and wait for an opportunity to steal the ball.

But Ricardo protected the ball very well. When he reached the front of the penalty area, Ricardo kicked a half-high arc ball with his left foot, and the football flew straight to the goal.

Ronaldo didn't touch the ball, but the ball circled back just as it was about to fly off the baseline. Arda Turan narrowly stopped the ball and swung Clichy to pass again.Ronaldo turned around and volleyed, but unfortunately the kick was flawed, and the football flew limply out of the baseline.

It was QPR's first shot of the game.

Of course, Manchester City, which occupies the home court, only completed one shot, which shows that both sides played more cautiously.

From the perspective of possession time, QPR's possession rate in the first 10 minutes reached 59%, but most of the possession was concentrated in the midfield and their own half, and did not create much threat.

This development of the situation is not beyond the expectations of QPR players.

In fact, there is now a contest of patience on both sides.

Because the two teams are in the same situation, they must win if they want to win the championship, and a draw cannot be accepted.

However, the one who takes the lead in launching the offensive must leave space behind to give the opponent a chance to counterattack.

If the attack is not successful, but the opponent counterattacks and steals one, the rest of the game will be difficult to play.

So Simeone predicted before the game that Manchester City will definitely be stable after the start.He was right.

The core of QPR's guidance is also the word "stability".

In today's competition, we can't open and close, but we must read the article in the subtleties.

In the 12th minute, Manchester City tried a long shot from Nasri. The quality of this long shot was quite high. Handanovic failed to save the ball, but the football slid out of the goal.

One minute later, Manchester City attacked again, Tevez made the ball with his back, Silva strode the ball over Alderweireld, shot with his unaccustomed right foot from a small angle, and the ball hit Feeling limp, Handanovic threw him.

Soon QPR retaliated. Ricardo suddenly picked a pass in the counterattack. Ronaldo and Kompany were neck and neck. In the end, Ronaldo took the lead in touching the ball. He cleverly poked the ball with his toe. But also slightly wide of the goal.

The commentator said: "Both sides invested very little troops in the offense and played very cautiously. Although there were hot scenes in the game, they were more than intense and not exciting enough. Ricardo's position is too late today. His retreat Strengthened the Rangers' possession advantage, but he rarely directly threatened the Blue Moon's goal."

"Manchester City, the two small forwards still caused some problems for QPR's defense. Vertonghen and Alderweireld are both tall and tough defenders. Slow. In fact, many people predicted before the game that Mancini would use Dzeko with Aguero, but Mancini’s choice was unexpected, but it achieved good results.”

"Looking at the performance of these two teams, it is likely that there will not be too many goals in this game. I personally think that the final score should be 1:0. As for who can win? I can only say that both sides have a chance. "

(End of this chapter)