Hexagonal monster crushing European football

In the fifth round of the Premier League, Manchester City challenged Crystal Palace away.

Compared with the other teams in London, Crystal Palace is indeed a complete soft persimmon.

In recent years, they have even been relegated to the English Championship, which is really disappointing.

Crystal Palace fans are completely different to Everton fans.

Manchester City went to Goodison Garden and were scolded by Everton fans.

The fans of Crystal Palace are not so extreme and difficult to deal with.

In the stands, they kept clapping and shouting to cheer for their team, but they did not boo the away players.

This makes Zhao Yi have a good impression of the fans of this team.

Crystal Palace also played very hard. Facing top-ranked Manchester City, the entire team's players were full of energy.

Crystal Palace's tactical play is very simple, similar to Everton.

More concise than Everton.

Everton has Lukaku.

Crystal Palace has the London champion Zaha.

(Note, Hazard is the number one goal scorer in London and Zaha is the number one goal scorer in London)

At the beginning of the game, Crystal Palace even almost took advantage of the counterattack opportunity and scored a goal.

Unfortunately, Zaqiuwang's shot missed the goal post.

Joe Hart could no longer save this ball. If he missed it by just a few centimeters, he would have hit the post and scored.

Manchester City's 3241 tactics also struggled against Crystal Palace.

The reason is simple, Crystal Palace has a stronger counterattack ability than Watford.

A few of Manchester City's defenders are of good quality, but playing three central defenders is still a bit inferior.

This gives Guardiola a headache.

Offensive players in the frontcourt can use their talents and football intelligence to quickly form a tacit understanding with their teammates.

And the players he bought are all very talented players, so it is easy to achieve results.

The situation is different for the backcourt players. Any mistake in movement may cause serious problems.

The defensive end needs more understanding in training and games.

The three-back and four-back systems are constantly changing, and the requirements for players are very high.

It cannot be made up for by talent and basic skills.

In fact, when Guardiola used the 3241 tactic for the first time against Chelsea, Manchester City had a big accident.

It's just that Chelsea is different from Crystal Palace. They are the defending champions and their players still have strong self-esteem and do not just defend and then fight back.

Therefore, Manchester City was given many opportunities.

If they had followed Mourinho's tactics exactly, Manchester City would probably have been riddled with holes.

The Crystal Palace is different.

Their posture is very low, just defending and waiting for opportunities to counterattack.

Manchester City's three defenders will also find it difficult to adapt to being rushed by Zaha.

If Manchester City does not improve its defense and learn from Crystal Palace's style of play when encountering some strong teams in the future, Manchester City will have big problems.

So although Manchester City has a brilliant record now, Guardiola knows that once they get to the Champions League, the 3241 strategy will be finished.

And their first game in the Champions League was against the most defensive team in Europe, Juventus.

Guardiola looked at the situation on the field and was already thinking about the Champions League game.

In this game, because of Crystal Palace's targeted play, it was indeed not easy for Manchester City to win.

2: 1.

Manchester City won the game without any danger thanks to goals from Aguero and Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi and Aguero both sent assists to each other at the same time.

The two of them both scored one goal and one assist.

Although the relationship between Aguero and Zhao Yi was very subtle at the beginning of the season, with Zhao Yi's efforts, the relationship between Aguero and Guardiola eased.

This makes the relationship between Aguero and Zhao Yi very harmonious.

Now in the entire Manchester City, the most popular combination is Zhao Yi and Aguero.

And Demichelis, who had been waiting for the sparks to hit the earth between Aguero and Zhao Yi, was extremely disappointed.

At the beginning of the season, Demichelis encouraged Aguero to take care of Zhao Yi, but now...it's backfired.

After the 272 likes incident, Demichelis has been half-abandoned by Guardiola. Now Demichelis has offended Zhao Yi, and his relationship with Aguero has deteriorated sharply.

Basically we are not far away from leaving the team.

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After the game against Crystal Palace, Manchester City won five consecutive Premier League wins.

And Zhao Yi has improved his passing attributes to 95.

What he is looking forward to most now is the first match of the Champions League with Juventus!

The Champions League is a bit of a curse for Manchester City.

In the past few seasons, Manchester City also had times when they made great progress in the league and finally won the championship.

But in the European competition, Manchester City was simply miserable.

They even had an embarrassing moment when they failed to qualify for the Champions League group after winning the Premier League title.

This is also the point where Manchester United fans can attack Manchester City unscrupulously.

Even if Manchester City can defeat Manchester United and win the championship, in the Champions League, Manchester City is still not as good as Manchester United.

After Guardiola took charge of Manchester City, he made drastic reforms to the team.

This first match of the Champions League is obviously the top priority.

Manchester City needs this game to prove themselves and prove that they are not an expert in civil wars but an outsider in foreign wars.

And Zhao Yi also needs to prove himself with good performance.

The stronger the league, the more harshly you will be scolded if your performance in the Champions League fails.

In the entire Manchester City, the only one who does not need to prove himself in the first game of the Champions League is probably Guardiola.

Before the game, the media naturally had very high demands on Manchester City, which has performed well in the league this season.

"With [-] million euros spent in the summer window, it's time for Manchester City to prove themselves!"

"Can Manchester City break the curse of the Champions League this year and advance to the quarterfinals?"

"Super Zhao has become the most talked-about and popular supernova in the Premier League. Can he continue his magical performance in the Champions League?"

"If Manchester City loses to Juventus, this season's summer transfer signing will be a failure!"

"I hope Manchester City will not continue to fight against each other. The time has come to prove themselves!"

It can be said that among the Manchester City players, except Zhao Yi, other players are a little nervous.

Especially Aguero and team veterans like Kompany.

Manchester City's performance in the Champions League has been poor.

The crazy winning streak in the league has made Manchester City players worried about their first Champions League game.

Once they lose, there will inevitably be a public criticism, as well as crazy ridicule and online violence.

Zhao Yi was the only one who was gearing up and full of joy.

Not only because this is his first time playing in the Champions League, but also because he got a card with full attributes against him.

He can push his physical resistance to 100!

In the Champions League, he will knock Juventus's second oldest defender into Alzheimer's disease!