It's another midweek when everyone can rest, but Manchester City has to work overtime to play.
The 18th round of rematch postponed due to the Club World Cup. Even more miserable than Manchester City is Tottenham. They have to accompany them, and they are still in Manchester.
Tottenham are also unlucky. Just because of the adjustment of the match date, they have to play against Manchester United, Liverpool, Manchester City, and Arsenal in the league in February. No one with any conscience can be so desperate.
Tianliang’s race.
In the 25th round, with Eriksen's opening lightning strike and Phil Jones' goal, Tottenham defeated Manchester United 2:0, and Manchester City benefited.
In the last round three days ago, Salah scored twice at Anfield, but Kane's goal in stoppage time allowed Tottenham to draw with Liverpool 2:2. Manchester City is still the fisherman.
The team's injury situation has improved. Today, Lao Gua made Kompany and Prince Foden sit on the bench. The center backs were Stones and Otamendi, Walker on the right, and Laporte on the left.
Laporte is 1.91cm tall and has the highest height in the Manchester City team. Moreover, he is quite fast and can turn quickly. He has a strong sense of position and is skilled in controlling the ball with both feet.
Although his left foot is his dominant foot, both feet have good passing ability. These characteristics ensure that Laporte is a very good left back when he plays a guest role in La Liga, which is what Guardiola favors.
One of his important reasons.
In fact, in the summer of 2016, 'Crazy' Bielsa, whom Lao Gua respected very much, recommended Laporte to him. After observing Lao Gua, his eyes lit up and he indeed recruited Laporte, whose contract with Biba was about to expire.
Walter.
Bielsa coached Biba from 2011 to 2013, and it was he who promoted Laporte in the echelon. Bielsa allowed the 17-year-old Laporte to enter Biba's first team, and he started playing games at the age of 18.
Become the main force.
In 2016, Bielsa, who was raising birds at home, did not forget to recommend Laporte to Guardiola.
As a result, Laporte was willing to move to Manchester City that year, but he did not want to transfer on a free transfer. This would be a disservice to Biba, who trained him, and even after renewing his contract with Biba, he was still a kind and loving young man.
Until last month, Manchester City acquired Laporte by paying full liquidated damages, which was actually the result of his cooperation with Biba.
Midfielder Fedinjing, trident Zhuo Kun B. Sterling's empty goal four days ago was really disgusting to Guardiola. The old guard had to put him on the bench first to let himself go.
Stones was kept out of the game for two games by Guardiola because of a fire in his backyard. Although Guardiola was strict in his military management, there was no reason to ban him for a long time because of household matters, unless Millie Savage hit him with a straight punch.
On the eye circles.
This is the first official match between Manchester City and Tottenham this season, and the other princes have already gone on dates.
However, the 5:0 game in the United States in the preseason made both Uncle Bo and Tottenham very depressed, and it can be regarded as a small grudge.
Last summer, Tottenham spent heavily to buy Colombian defender Davidson Sanchez from Jiafu and Ivory Coast right back Serge Aurier from Paris Saint-Germain.
In the winter window that just passed, Brazilian winger Lucas Jr. was bought from Paris Saint-Germain. But these three players are all on the bench today, and Tottenham still have their old lineup.
Goalkeeper Lloris, defense line-up Trippier, Dier, Verhentong, and Rose. In front are Eriksen, Moussa Dembele, Harry Winks, Alli, Son Heung-min, and Kane.
After 26 rounds of the Premier League, Tottenham, who have one game less, are temporarily ranked fifth in the standings, 4 points more than Arsenal and 1 point less than Chelsea. For Tottenham, they seem to know that they have no chance of winning the championship, but for them,
The desire and persistence of the top four will never lose to Arsenal.
At the beginning of the game, Tottenham showed no sign of weakness, and Manchester City, who were playing at home, had no reason to retreat. Both sides invariably adopted a high-position press to oppress their opponents.
The two teams that ranked top two in the Premier League in terms of ball possession rate did not advance step by step, and both were ranked second.
But if you look closely, you will find that both Manchester City and Tottenham have different focuses on high-position pressing.
Tottenham are obsessed with chasing goalkeeper Ederson and the defense, and simply don't want them to get the ball. Manchester City, on the other hand, are not so cruel to Lloris and Verhentong. Zhuo Yang leads the Trident in chasing Tottenham.
Double defensive midfielder Dembélé and Winks.
Kane and Son Heung-min's pursuit of Manchester City's defense was not very effective. Ederson, Stones and Aymeric Laporte were all fearless masters, and even Walker and Otamendi were considered high-quality.
Kane and Son Heung-min fought very actively, but the scene was that the Manchester City defense was just walking around.
The effect of Zhuoyang's persecution of the double defensive midfielders is very obvious. Dembele and Winks are like footballs with hot feet, they dare not take them at all, as if there is a ghost in front of them, and they can't hit the ball.
Five minutes later, Eriksen had to retreat in front of the defense to help get the ball. As a result, the Manchester City Trident was not polite at all and directly grabbed him together.
Ten minutes later, Ali was forced to take it back, but even with him, Tottenham's midfield could not flow smoothly.
Manchester City's corner kick in the 14th minute was snatched away.
Eriksen was blocked by Fernando and could only pass back, and the same was true for Dembele. Zhuoyang was betting on him.
But Dembélé's return pass didn't seem to be as fast as Zhuo Yang's. Weir Hengtong hurriedly passed the ball, but Zhuo Yang's toe changed the direction.
Just look at how fast seat B is.
Trippier and Dier tried their best, but they didn't even care about the penalty area. They made consecutive tackles and destroyed the ball in the B seat out of the baseline.
Guardiola is not a head coach who pursues the height of the defense. In his philosophy, many factors of the defender must be ranked before height, and even height is somewhat irrelevant.
But I have to say that having big men in the team really helps sometimes.
Ding Ding kicked off the ball quickly and lobbed into the penalty area. Stones and Laporte rushed towards the front point from the outside center and in front of the goal, while Zhuo Yang, who was at the front point, twisted his head and drilled back to the center.
Tottenham have many more big men than Manchester City. Not to mention Vergentong and Dier, even Son Heung-min was hooked by those two guys and swarmed forward.
So when 172-year-old Danny Rose found himself alone guarding Zhuoyang and the flying football, he was actually quite confused.
Zhuo Yang barely took off, he just tiptoed like Yao Ming, and then he hit his head with a standard hit that bounced off the ground very fiercely.
Loris fell to the ground very quickly, but not fast enough. After all, he still had to follow human limit settings.
1:0, Manchester City leads.
Zhuoyang's goal is very meaningful. He has scored in 24 consecutive games before, and he has scored in the first round. Except for Tottenham, Zhuoyang has touched every other team this season. Today, he made up for the gap in Tottenham.
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This goal means Zhuo Yang has scored against all opponents in the Premier League this season.
No one has ever achieved all the kills in a single season in the history of the Premier League. Looking at the entire five major leagues, only Messi has achieved this in the 2012-13 season when he completed "21 consecutive kills".
Chapter completed!