I Want to Be the King of Football

Courtois, Kompany, Pepe, Busquets, Sanchez, Tony Kroos, Sudong, David Silva, Di Maria, Hazard, Xavi Martinez.

Ferguson looked at the Manchester City squad in front of him, and he was very surprised.

Although there is no stance map on the list, and no tactical positioning for each player, but with Ferguson's familiarity with Manchester City, he was able to spot the surprise of the list at once.

That is, there are no full-backs.

Neither Marcelo nor Zabaleta were in the starting lineup, but sat on the bench.

Instead, Pepe and Kompany started at the same time, with Javi Martinez also playing.

According to Guardiola's usage of Xavi Martinez this season, the Spanish midfielder is obviously going to be transformed into a central defender by him. Does this mean that Manchester City will have three central defenders to play in this game?

No full-backs, three centre-backs, this is to replicate the three-back system of Cruyff and Van Gaal?

When Cruyff and Van Gaal coached Barcelona and Ajax, they both used three backs. With the evolution of tactics, this style of play has gradually fallen out of favor. It has been more than ten years and I have not seen it again. Three backs play is very popular.

With the development speed of the current information age, this style of play can be classified into the ancient Qi formation.

Ferguson has experienced the era of Cruyff and Van Gaal, and has seen various types of tactical play, so he immediately remembered, and he guessed that Guardiola wanted to use a three-four-three formation.

But this raises the question, when did Manchester City adopt this style of play?

Ferguson threw the question to assistant coach Mike Phelan, but he also had no access to the data.

Manchester City has never played a back three since Harvey Martinez joined the team. Mike Phelan is a conscientious assistant coach, and he has all the information he should prepare, otherwise he would not have been promoted to right-hand man by Ferguson.

The Dutch assistant coach Rene Meulenstin also nodded again and again. Although he was in charge of training and technology, the preparation before the game was also part of his work, and he was naturally very clear.

Then it's weird. I haven't played in the weekdays, and suddenly changed today? Ferguson was a little puzzled.

Could it be that it was because the psychological pressure was too great that Guardiola had to worry about gains and losses,

Want to take a risk?

Ferguson, who has coached for so many years, is no stranger to this situation.

Many times, fans and the media will accuse a coach of changing on the spot, and even think he is stupid, but these are all layman's words, and in the professional coaching circle, no one really sees it that way.

No one is a fool and no one is weak to be a head coach in the top league.

Just like Guardiola at this moment, he suddenly changed for two reasons.

One is that an unexpected change occurred in the Manchester City team that outsiders did not know, forcing him to follow the change; the other is that he was actually prepared for this.

But considering the past period of time, Guardiola has never played a three-back, it is obviously not the latter, but the former.

What happened to Manchester City? Will it be an opportunity for Manchester United?

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In fact, nothing happened to Manchester City.

Guardiola would suddenly want to play at the back, purely because of his tangled syndrome.

Manchester City's three backs have actually been running in for a long time, but they are mainly used in the team's daily training and have never been used in official games, so the outside world naturally has no way of knowing.

But this style of play was established when Guardiola decided to bring in Javi Martinez.

Manchester City has always insisted on passing and controlling the ball as the core, so no matter how the team's tactics change or how the formation is adjusted, there will be basically no major problems. It always revolves around the passing and controlling play.

Only this time when facing Manchester United, Guardiola suddenly decided to adopt this style of play, which was quite surprising.

The reason is also related to the team's current shortage of full-back manpower.

Bellerin and Trippier are still a little immature, Zabaleta is fighting on multiple lines in a row, so is Marcelo, and Leighton Baines is injured, which makes Manchester City's full-back a little nervous.

Guardiola felt that instead of exposing the wing to the opponent to fight, it would be better to take the initiative to change.

Are there any risks to the evolution?

The three-back play method is equivalent to vacating the wing positions, which will definitely allow Manchester United's Ashley Young and Nani to get more play space, and at the same time, it will also put forward higher requirements for the three central defenders.

As for the benefits, that's pretty obvious.

There is one less person in the back line, and one more person in the midfield and frontcourt, which will give Manchester City more advantage in passing and controlling the ball.

To put it simply, this style of play is more aggressive, depending on the effect.

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Before going on the court, Su Dong stood in the locker room, his eyes slowly passing every teammate around him.

Everyone's faces were filled with solemnity, because they all felt the weight of this game.

The previous Manchester derby didn't carry much weight because Manchester City didn't qualify to challenge Manchester United at all.

But all of this has changed completely since last season's massacre.

In the past, Manchester United looked at Manchester City with disdain, thinking that this was a [noisy neighbor], but now, they really regard Manchester City as a league competitor.

In the current Premier League situation, neither Manchester City nor Manchester United can give up this derby.

As Ferguson said though, it's not a three, it's a six.

Everyone! Su Dong shouted in a deep voice, I hope everyone can show their best form tonight and try to teach Manchester United a painful lesson at Old Trafford. In this way, I believe , From now on, they will no longer dare to despise us.

Let's use another hearty victory to tell Manchester United and tell everyone that we are not noisy neighbors, we are Manchester United's sworn enemy!

The players in the locker room all cheered in unison.

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With the referee's whistle, Welbeck kicked the ball to Rooney, and Manchester United took the lead.

After Rooney got the ball, he did not pass it back to his own half. Instead, he dribbled the ball directly into Manchester City's half, trying to get close to Manchester City's lineup, but Hazard, who was the first, pressed Rooney for the first time. come over.

The England striker quickly kicked the ball to his right and handed it to Nani.

Nani stopped the ball on the wing and was about to dribble the ball forward when he found that David Silva was already pressing up. Together with Di Maria, they trapped Nani on the wing and kicked the ball directly. out of bounds.

Smalling stepped forward and, after receiving the ball on the wing, threw it hard with both hands and threw it to Fletcher.

Fletcher stopped the ball, Di Maria was already near him, Manchester City pressed hard in the midfield, forcing Fletcher to pass the ball back to Evans in the center back.

But in the middle, Su Dong was like an arrow, quickly approaching Evans, forcing him to pass back to goalkeeper De Gea.

After Evans returned the pass, he tried to avoid Su Dong to meet De Gea, and immediately ran to Manchester City's right, which is his own left, along the line of the penalty area, opening the distance between the two central defenders, which was convenient for Germany. Hea passes the ball.

Su Dong did not continue to entangle Evans, but suddenly accelerated and rushed directly to the big penalty area.

De Gea received a pass from Evans on the left side of the front of the small penalty area. As soon as he stopped, before he had time to react, he saw Su Dong suddenly speed up and approach him, which made him pale and turned the ball horizontally to the left With two steps, the left foot directly long pass.

Su Dong stepped out and tried to block, but he was a beat too late.

Failing to grab the ball, Su Dong was not discouraged, grinned at De Gea, and ran back quickly.

He couldn't let himself be in an offside position.

Under the interference of Su Dong, De Gea's pass did not pass far. It just landed on the periphery of his own 30-meter area, and was snatched by David Silva, who was catching up. A positive.

After David Silva grabbed the ball, he immediately took it forward, and two players, Fletcher and Nani, approached him at the same time.

Di Maria saw that Su Dong was on the left side, he immediately ran to the middle, took the defender away, and at the same time prepared to receive a pass from David Silva, and Su Dong just ran out of the offside position, and the man happened to be standing. In the left corner of the penalty area, he immediately stretched his finger to the middle, ready to receive a pass from David Silva.

Following the defense of Fletcher and Nani, David Silva just took two steps and was caught up, but before passing the ball, he saw Su Dong's gesture and immediately Passed the ball to the left side of the frontier of the penalty area set up by Su Dong.

I saw that Su Dong, who was originally in the left corner of the penalty area, suddenly threw off Smalling, sprinted horizontally, and before Ferdinand, who was on top, stabbed David Silva's pass to the middle.

This stab was very light, and while avoiding Ferdinand, he also adjusted the ball.

After Su Dong fended off Ferdinand with his body, he caught up with the football on the left side of the top of the penalty area.

After kicking this shot, Su Dong flew out of the air.

He almost used all his strength.

The ball flew past Evans with lightning speed, and without waiting for De Gea to make any saves, it went straight to the right side of United's goal.

At this time, it was only thirty-six seconds before the kick-off of the game!

GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!

too fast!!!!

Manchester City scored Manchester United's goal in just 36 seconds!!!

My God, this is unbelievable!

One to zero!

It took only thirty-six seconds for Su Dong to score Manchester United's goal and he amazed us all!

Manchester City took a step-by-step pressing tactic against Manchester United after the opening game, and De Gea was also pressed by Sudong, and he made a mistake in passing the ball and passed the ball directly to David Silva. Gives City this opportunity to fight back quickly.

Once upon a time, the goalkeeper was Manchester United's strongest position, but now, De Gea has become the weakest weakness in Manchester United's squad. We even suspect that Manchester City has developed a pressing strategy specifically for De Gea, which forced the Spanish goalkeeper to make mistakes. , which in turn created a chance for Manchester City to score goals.

Manchester United conceded the goal less than a minute into the opening.

How will Ferguson deal with this situation next?

The Manchester derby finally has a taste!