"We scored at the right time in the first half, and then scored again at the beginning of the second half. It was very difficult for Manchester City to fall behind by two goals in the away game. Regarding the team's defense today, I have to say
To give praise, it was precisely because of our solid defense that we achieved the final victory and the performance was perfect.》——Koeman
"In many games, we have created enough scoring opportunities, and it was the same today. However, as long as the opponent hits the goal, they can score, and the second time the opponent hits the goal, they can still score. For the players
For us, this is a fact that is difficult for us to accept. However, this is also the reason why we need to work hard and continue to improve our strength.》——Guardiola
"This is a strange game. Guardiola's team seems to have been cursed by God. From a statistical point of view, Manchester City has an overwhelming advantage. In the entire game, Manchester City touched the ball 886 times and passed 703 times.
times, the pass success rate was 88%, the ball possession rate reached 70.5%, the number of shots was as many as 19, 9 shots were on target, but the number of goals was zero.
On the contrary, Everton touched the ball 457 times, passed the ball 286 times, with a passing success rate of 68% and a ball possession rate of only 29.5%. However, Everton shot 6 times and scored 4 goals on target. Guardiola suffered a tragic loss.
Bloodbath for old friend Koeman!》——Marca
"Bravo is the main culprit for Manchester City's bloodbath! The Manchester City goal he guarded has been shot on target nearly 22 times, and he has scored 16 goals. His save success rate is only a pitiful 27.27%, which is the highest save success rate in the Premier League this season.
The lowest goalkeeper. It is precisely because of Bravo that Manchester City has conceded the ball on the opponent's first shot in seven games. The magical Chilean goalkeeper, how did he do it?》——French Football
"It's a very simple thing to score Manchester City's goal, you just need to shoot on target!" - Manchester Evening News
"Stones brought two own-goal assists to his old club and a transfer fee of 50 million pounds. He can walk out of Goodison Park with his head held high and proudly say: I have lived up to Everton's training!" -
—BT SPORT
"Before today, Guardiola repeatedly emphasized that he was very satisfied with the team's lineup. I don't know if he is still satisfied now!" - BBC
After the game, Manchester City, who were brutally beaten 4-0 by Everton, was immediately put in the limelight by major European media. This is the disadvantage of the lineup being too luxurious and the head coach being too famous.
This game really exceeded everyone's expectations. It was completely unexpected that Manchester City would be bloodbathed 4-0 by Everton.
For a time, Manchester City became the laughing stock of European football, and various spearheads were pointed at Manchester City.
As the team's head coach, Guardiola is the first to bear the brunt.
Manchester United's legendary defender Ferdinand even claimed in a BTsport live broadcast that Manchester City's defeat at Goodison Park was a typical tikitaka football defeat.
Guardiola relied on this tactic to lead Barcelona and Bayern to defeat the invincible opponents in La Liga and Bundesliga, and won 21 championship trophies in 7 years. However, in the Premier League, this tactic is obviously not adapted to the local environment, and can even be said to be a bit outdated.
In fact, Guardiola has also reflected on tikitaka's difficulties in the Premier League.
In the BBC's face-to-face interview column some time ago, Guardiola publicly stated that the traditional long pass and lob play in the Premier League and the control of the second landing point of the ball limit the performance of tikitaka football.
Judging from today's game against Everton, Guardiola still seems to have failed to find an effective way to deal with it.
But Manchester City fans don't have too many complaints about Guardiola, who suffered the biggest defeat of his coaching career in the league.
Because whether it is the post-match statistics or the on-site situation of the game, Guardiola's tactics have shown extremely powerful offensive capabilities.
Manchester City fans believe that the reason why the team was bloodbathed by Everton is, on the one hand, because Everton was unlucky today, and on the other hand, it is because Aguero, Sterling and other forwards spent so much on Chu Zheng and De Brau
Opportunities created within.
They feel that they lost because their team was too lazy and their defense was too bad. The players have to bear greater responsibility. The problem does not lie at the tactical level.
But there is also a small group of Manchester City fans who are criticizing Guardiola.
It's not that these people think there's something wrong with Guardiola's tactics, they just have some criticisms of Guardiola's deployment of troops in this game.
Because after Everton scored the second goal in the second half, Guardiola seemed a little quiet on the sidelines.
After replacing Iheanacho, the team's offensive efficiency remained unchanged. Then Guardiola made no follow-up actions and only made one substitution. The three substitution quotas were not used up.
They didn't know whether Guardiola, who had no reaction on the coaching bench, would reflect on the situation or give up the game.
They are simply dissatisfied with Guardiola's negative attitude towards the game and feel that with Guardiola's ability, they should think of another way.
This time, Manchester City fans did not let Bravo, Stones and others off as easily as last time.
In this game, strictly speaking, Stones only had one own assist.
Although Manchester City conceded the second goal because of Stones' interception, the ball fell to Barkley's feet. The latter pushed it to Mirallas and scored in one fell swoop. Strictly speaking, Stones did make a mistake, but he was not the main culprit and lost the ball.
The main culprit is Clichy who did not provide him with a replacement.
If Clichy had not taken a walk there, but had filled in immediately, whether he had been able to prevent it or not would have been another matter, but Miralas would never have been able to hit the goal so easily and calmly.
Perhaps with a little interference, Miralas could miss his mark.
As for Bravo, Manchester City fans were particularly angry this time. A large number of fans even publicly shouted for the Chilean goalkeeper to get out of here as far as he could because Manchester City did not collect trash.
Bravo is the goalkeeper appointed by Guardiola.
Before the transfer market closed last summer, Guardiola was so decisive in hiding Joe Hart that the latter switched to Serie A Turin.
The confidence behind Guardiola is his understanding of Bravo.
But in fact, the two have no intersection.
Bravo joined Barcelona in 2014, when Guardiola had already left Camp Nou.
But this does not prevent Guardiola from being optimistic about Bravo.
As a goalkeeper, he is 1.83 meters tall. In front of the tall Premier League defenders, he does not have any height advantage, but his advantage is his quick reaction and strong ability to play the ball. He is considered to be the perfect goalkeeper in Guardiola's tikitaka tactical system.
But now, the hard facts prove that Guardiola was wrong.
Bravo failed to shoulder Guardiola's trust, and his performance can no longer be described as unsatisfactory. It can simply be said to be a mess, a perfect bullshit goalkeeper.
The goalkeeper's job is to act as the team's last line of defense.
If the opponent shoots more than 20 times throughout the game, perhaps losing the goal may be a non-combat crime for the goalkeeper, and it can be said that he has tried his best.
But the opponent's first shot went in, and then he scored as long as he hit the target. Once or twice, it can be said that it was luck, but it happened every time. In the past 22 times, 16 goals were scored, which is surprising.
One has to doubt Bravo’s true level.
For the angry Manchester City fans, they felt that the special-bolted Huskies might be able to block a few on the goal line.
But that’s how Bravo is, that’s how evil he is.
Every Manchester City fan couldn't help but feel angry after watching the Bravo save data released by opta after the game.
It's really shocking. I've never seen such an incompetent goalkeeper. It's simply an unforgivable crime. He just kicked his net worth from 20 million to 200,000.
The goal conceded against Burnley in the last round was caused by this guy's mistake in cooperating with his teammates. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be even more excessive this round, as if it was made of paper.
