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"Goal in! Bruce Fernandez's clever follow-up shot! He smashed the ball into the goal of Manchester City! Two Portuguese brilliant performances brought this goal! Vardy's shot is also beautiful, of course, if there is no If Du Yue's active running involves enough opponents, Vardy and Bruno may not be able to move so easily in the penalty area! It has to be said that Southampton's offense will always be that all offensive players play extremely well Excellent form!"

Amidst the chanting of the commentator, B Fee began to celebrate, the Southampton fans from afar cheered, but the Manchester City fans were silent.

This feeling of being passive every time you meet Southampton is just too bad.

Guardiola also has a bit of a headache. In terms of tactics and details, he has always been no worse than Ji Ya, but in his lineup, although other positions are no worse than Southampton, or even better, but there is always no Deb. Players like Launet and Du Yue.

Such a gap is too difficult to make up. Although Rodri and Gundogan are both top midfielders, they are still a little worse than De Bruyne.

Such a gap is the easiest to feel hopeless.

However, he was not discouraged. No matter how strong Southampton is, there are loopholes. Only by persevering can we wait for the chance to score.

Under Guardiola's command, Manchester City's players continued to entangle with Southampton in the midfield after the game re-kick-off, and Southampton also began to entangle with them, using their own running and confrontation , suppressing Manchester City's midfielder.

This kind of suppression is very effective. Under their suppression, it is difficult for Manchester City's offense to play out, and they cannot use their accustomed ball possession and passing to find opportunities. Although Southampton also lost a lot of scoring opportunities because of this, However, after all, they seized a chance to take the lead...

After taking the lead, you can entangle and consume with Manchester City more patiently.

Under the pressure of Southampton, Manchester City can only find opportunities through some long passes and set kicks, but Aguero's volley shot and Stones' header are all wide of the goal. Able to threaten the gate guarded by Mendy.

When the whistle sounded for the end of the first half, the fans of Manchester City were a little disappointed. Not only was their team behind, but in the first half of the game, not even a single shot was within the range of the goal frame!

It's not a particularly rare thing for Manchester City to say that they didn't score in the first half, but even the shots didn't pose any threat, which would be a bit surprising.

"Southampton obviously suppressed Manchester City in the midfield. , Manchester City's performance in the midfield is not good." A commentator analyzed.

When Guardiola returned to the locker room, he had already figured out this problem. In this game, he lost power in the middle of the game. Not only did he not perform well enough but the opponent performed well. Puton has enough people in the midfield, coupled with Cancelo's offensive suppression, while involving the defensive energy of the midfielder, it also suppresses the midfielder's offensive performance.

Under such circumstances, it is certainly an acceptable choice to continue to invest in troops and compete with Southampton in the midfield, but the cost performance is not high.

"In the second half, we stepped up our attack, directly passed the midfielder, hit the striker's feet, and then launched an attack to kill them!" Guardiola said in the locker room.

The players expressed their shock.

Isn't that how Liverpool play?This is contrary to the way they are used to playing.

"We can't think about this anymore. We can't lose anymore, otherwise we won't have many chances this season. Southampton is more likely to be defeated by that offensive tactic. We can use it." Guardiola in the locker room explain.

It actually takes courage to make such a choice. After all, it is tantamount to subverting his own traditional tactics, but this is also the characteristic of Guardiola. In many cases, he is not afraid of change and gambling.

"We continue to control the midfield. As long as we can maintain the state of the first half, the victory of this game is ours."

Ji Ya said confidently in the locker room at this time, but what he didn't know was that Guardiola would give him a big surprise in the second half.

He thought he had figured out Guardiola, but in fact he couldn't do it. After all, people will always explode under pressure.

After the two sides played in the second half, Ji Ya immediately realized something was wrong.

"Is this going to be desperate?" Ji Ya thought in his heart with some surprise.

Immediately after the intermission, Guardiola made a substitution, Jesús came on and replaced David Silva!

This is tantamount to directly changing four three three into four two four. Although Seat B and Sterling can both withdraw, but now they are basically attackers on the field, and they can completely pass through Rodri and Jingdo. Ann quickly sorted out to make his offense more directly threatening Southampton's gate.

When the defensive pressure increases, Cancelo cannot attack so unscrupulously. In this way, the pressure on the midfielder and the defense will be reduced.

From this point of view, this is an extremely subtle tactical substitution, which even Ji Ya didn't think of during the intermission.

"What should I do..." Ji Ya thought silently in his heart, now they are still ahead by one ball, but the advantage of this one ball is not considered insurance.

In this way, the second half of the game may be a little troublesome.

However, he still has to find a way to win this game. It is too important to maintain an advantage over Manchester City in terms of mentality. Being able to suppress the opponent in the first half is actually a manifestation of this psychological advantage.

Although the strengths of the two sides are similar, Southampton wins because of the two outstanding cores of De Bruyne and Du Yue, who are a little bit higher than the core players of Manchester City, but they can suppress their opponents by relying on Psychologically, they do have an advantage.

The double play in the league last season, including the almost four kills in the Champions League against Manchester City, is enough for Southampton to have such a psychological advantage.

So no matter how much this game consumes, he must find a way to win, otherwise, the psychological advantage over Manchester City cannot be maintained.

Although Liverpool have been very good in the past two seasons and performed very well, Ji Ya knows that this performance will not last for a particularly long time. After all, their style of play is too crazy, and no one can use this crazy way for a long time. , When their two full-backs start to lose energy and the midfielder starts to get tired, that's when they start to go downhill.

On the contrary, Manchester City's game style can be long-term. From a distance, Manchester City is Southampton's biggest opponent, and so is Guardiola. If such a psychological advantage cannot be maintained, then the next game will be really hard to say.

So there is no problem with Southampton losing a few games to Liverpool, and they cannot lose in important games against Manchester City.