449. Chapter 447 As long as he is on the court, he can threaten the opponent's ball
449. Chapter 447 As long as he is on the court, he can threaten the opponent's goal!
Author: Thief Cao
Chapter 447 As long as he is on the court, he can threaten the opponent's goal!
"Manchester City's midfield seems to have undergone new changes during this period."
Seven minutes into the game, Zhang Lu suddenly discovered that Chu Zheng's position and responsibilities had changed again. After observing silently for a while, he finally confirmed Manchester City's changes.
Compared with the first 7 minutes, Chu is currently in the left center midfielder position, while Yaya Toure seems to be fixed in the midfielder position.
After being reminded like this, Zhan Jun immediately reacted and said with a smile: "Guardiola seemed to have stood on the sidelines and yelled for a while. Guardiola must have discovered something, so he directly asked Chu Zheng to take the lead.
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"Yeah!" Zhang Lu nodded and continued to watch the game, but he felt that something was not right about Manchester City today.
But since the pace of both sides was not very fast after the game started, he only saw some signs and didn't have much clue yet.
In the 9th minute of the game, Tottenham took a goal kick, but it did not go directly to the midfield, but slowly guided it from back to front.
Aguero and Chu Zheng fought consecutively on the left.
However, Dell and Eriksen, who retreated along the wing to support the backcourt, were very vigilant and did not give them any chance to get close to each other. They both played the ball decisively early.
In the blink of an eye, it develops to near the midline.
Klich actively chased back and caught up with Eriksen after he dribbled the ball across the center line of the wing. Then with Kolarov approaching from the ribs, the two of them intercepted the ball in tacit understanding.
After Kolarov got the ball, he saw Chu Zheng on the center line and passed the ball forward.
Chu Zheng retreated to catch the ball and stopped after getting the ball.
Kane is in front of Chu Zheng, with Eriksen behind him. Davis and Wanyama are also blocked in front and behind the center line of the wing. This is obviously to prevent Chu Zheng from breaking through alone.
Chu Zheng didn't even look at it, and had no intention of going it alone.
After Kolarov and Klich retreated deeper along the wing, he passed the ball back to Kolarov.
Seeing Kane pressing forward, Kolarov turned around very simply, passed the ball back to Bravo in the penalty area, and then quickly pulled to the left outside the penalty area to meet.
Soon the ball was passed by Bravo.
Kolarov quickly moved forward after receiving the ball.
But after running six or seven meters, he was surrounded by Kane who was chasing behind him, Eriksen who was leaning over his ribs to help defend, and Davis and Wanyama who were blocking the front. He was forced to let go.
Slowed down the speed.
But there were teammates on both sides of him in front of him to support him.
On the left sideline is Clichy, and on the right is Chu Zheng leaning from the ribs, a partial four-on-three.
Seeing that Tottenham's encirclement is getting smaller and smaller, and the pressure exerted by Kane who is chasing behind him is increasing, Kolarov knows that he cannot continue to lead, otherwise there is a high probability that he will lose the ball and be hit by a counterattack.
"Give me!"
Just when Kolarov was about to take a big step forward, he heard Chu Zheng's shout, and the pressure was suddenly relieved.
But at the same time, he was also curious about what Chu Zheng wanted to do with the ball at this time.
Kolarov could see clearly that there was an Erikson swimming around Chu Zheng all the time.
As long as Chu Zheng catches the ball, there is a high probability that he will be entangled immediately. When Wanyama in front rushes forward, Chu Zheng will be directly flanked by the two men.
But he soon understood.
Kolarov passed the ball to the right with his left foot. Chu Zheng, who was standing almost parallel to him, did not stop the ball at all. Instead, he directly connected the ball with the instep of his right outside foot and rubbed the ball diagonally toward the center circle.
On the left side of the center circle, Aguero retreated. When he saw the ball coming, he quickly turned 90 degrees to the left, faced the center circle, and caught up with the ball in the center circle area.
But at the same time, behind him is Alderweireld who continues to defend, and on the left front is Wimmer who is grabbing the ball in the middle.
If Aguero stopped the ball at his feet, he would almost certainly miss it.
Although Aguero's status has been up and down recently, his vision and football intelligence are absolutely nothing to say.
The next second, Aguero passed the ball across the ball without stopping, pushed the ball directly to De Bruyne who was inserted in the middle, and then immediately turned around and moved forward.
De Bruyne was even more straightforward on his side. He was very aware of Chu Zheng's sudden intention to speed up, so he also did not stop the ball and directly hit the ball through the middle at the kick-off point.
At the same time, Sterling saw Wimmer on the right side of the center circle, causing a gap in the middle of Tottenham's defense. He immediately accelerated and rushed over diagonally.
In the 30-meter area in the middle, Sterling successfully met the ball.
At this time, behind him is Alderweireld, and on the right is Danny Rose.
The moment he touched the ball, he stepped forward vigorously, continued to accelerate, and rushed towards the left rib area at the top of the key.
Danny Rose was slightly at a speed disadvantage, but when he saw Sterling's choice, he was so happy that he almost lost his temper. Fortunately, Sterling did not choose to eat him alive with his speed in the middle.
When Sterling entered the penalty area from the left rib at the top of the arc, Danny Rose in the center also positioned himself in time.
At the same time, Vertonghen also followed Aguero all the way, and the two came to the right area at the top of the arc.
When Chu Zheng followed up and saw this scene, he knew that Sterling had led him into a dead end again, and he felt extremely depressed.
Sure enough, as soon as Sterling entered the penalty area slowly, he was forced little by little by Danny Rose to the bottom line outside the small penalty area on the left, completely losing his shooting angle.
On the baseline, Sterling, who had nowhere to go, forced an inverted triangle pass.
As a result, Danny Rose blocked the ball and bounced up, allowing Alderweireld to successfully clear the ball with a header.
Seeing this scene, Guardiola was so angry that he turned around and shook his hands fiercely.
Guardiola is so angry that his liver hurts!
It was obvious that the third time he touched the ball in the penalty area, he could directly hit the far corner, but he didn't hit it and had to resort to the trick of fake shooting.
Just play! Te meow, can you be more realistic?
"A very threatening attack, an excellent scoring opportunity! It's a pity that it happened in Sterling's hands again!" Zhan Jun said with regret in the live broadcast room.
"Sterling made consecutive wrong choices from the moment he caught the ball!"
"He made a mistake when he received the ball from the 30-meter area. The angle when he stepped forward to the left was too big, so that he completely lost his speed advantage."
"After entering the rib area of the penalty area, Sterling actually had time to directly hit the lower corner of the far side goal. Because at this time, Danny Rose, who returned to the penalty area, had not yet fully established his footing and was not completely close to him. He was completely
He had time and space to hit the door with his kick, but he ended up doing a fake shot."
"If you want to dunk, switch to your right foot and be decisive. Otherwise, just cross the ball directly. Aguero has no chance, but he doesn't. It's just in that ink mark. He can't hit or pass.
"I don't know what I'm thinking at all." Zhang Lu's tone was a bit hateful.
"At the beginning of this season, when Manchester City was winning six games in a row, Sterling gave people the impression that he was completely different and had increased his goals. However, I didn't expect that he would fall back again during this period." Zhan Junbian
He said while shaking his head.
On the sidelines, Pochettino was frightened. If he conceded the ball first, the game would not be easy to play.
Chu Zheng's sudden increase in pace is really terrifying. Coupled with De Bruyne, who is also a world-class midfielder, it is a double blow.
But what Pochettino is most afraid of is Chu Zheng, because Chu Zheng's passing predictability is better than De Bruyne's.
In other words, as long as he passes the news like this, there is a high probability that what will happen next will be within his expectations. This is the most terrifying thing about Chu Zheng.
However, to Pochettino's expectation, the subsequent development of the situation on the field completely deviated from his prediction.
After this attack on the field, as time went by, Manchester City played more and more crazily, the formation became more and more advanced, the rhythm became faster and faster, and the press and attack became more and more fierce.
In the frontcourt, Sane, Aguero and Sterling concentrated on dealing with Tottenham's three central defenders.
De Bruyne and Chu Zheng took turns connecting in the middle and increased Manchester City's attack speed and frequency.
And Yaya Toure, who was dragging behind, was not idle either. This guy hung behind Chu Zheng and De Bruyne, providing the final option and insurance for Manchester City to control the ball in the midfield and frontcourt.
Under Manchester City's continuous pressure, Tottenham not only failed to grab the ball, but also lost position one after another.
In addition, Sane and Sterling, two fast wingers, seemed to be following Guardiola's orders today, using speed to speed up the tempo of the game and frantically attacking their defensive formation.
Pochettino frowned. He had never expected that Guardiola, who had always been stubborn, would change his past strategy of penetrating the ball and controlling the game, and played with him this way of playing fast and fast, with the whole audience rushing.
Wild road.
Just as Pochettino was thinking about how to deal with Guardiola's tactics today, Tottenham faced another dangerous situation on the field.
In the 23rd minute of the game, Manchester City sent a throw-in from the right side of the frontcourt.
De Bruyne threw the ball to Sterling who ran across from the upper right corner of the penalty area.
But Eriksen followed closely, and Sterling was unable to turn around after taking the ball, so he had to take advantage of the situation and hit De Bruyne back.
Seeing that this half was tightly blocked by Tottenham, De Bruyne quickly crossed the ball to the other half.
In the ribs of the 30-meter area in the left half, Clichy unloaded the ball after he was in place. Wanyama quickly positioned himself in the ribs to defend, and Ben Davis also pressed out from the penalty area line.
At this time, on the end line of Tottenham's penalty area, with Dembele positioned in the back line, five Tottenham players lined up in a long formation, keeping a very good distance between each other.
On Manchester City's side, there are four people from left to right at the top of the arc. Sane, Aguero, De Bruyne, and Zabaleta are sandwiched between Tottenham's two defense lines.
Clichy took a few steps forward, but he really didn't have the vision to find the passing line.
Seeing Ben Davis in front of him getting closer, he turned around and knocked the ball to Chu Zheng behind him.
As soon as Chu Zheng got the ball, Wanyama rushed forward as if he had taken a shot of gunpowder. It was obvious that he had been told by Pochettino before the game not to let Chu Zheng pass the ball forward easily.
Seeing Wanya coming right away, Chu Zheng felt happy. He quickly moved the ball to his left foot with his right foot, then swung his leg on the spot and directly passed the ball through his ribs.
Chu Zheng's passing speed is extremely fast and penetrating, and it looks like a shot.
Wanyama failed to keep up with the frequency of Chu Zheng's movements. He extended his foot a beat slower and could only watch the ball leap behind him.
In the rib area on the left side of the arc, Aguero and Sane, who are standing parallel to each other, perform their respective duties.
Especially Sane who was in front of the upper corner on the left side of the penalty area. He ran very smartly and immediately penetrated the ribs behind Aguero who received the ball with his back.
This movement not only brought Dier, who was standing in the upper left corner of the penalty area, towards the ribs, but also restrained Alderweireld, making this guy afraid to go up.
So Aguero, who was extremely focused, perfectly deflected Chu Zheng's powerful pass without any interference, and then turned around calmly.
It was at this time that the impact of Vertonghen's injury was exposed.
In the left rib area at the top of the arc, Dell and Alderweireld had a tacit understanding problem.
The two guys actually followed Sane's movement at the same time, and no one came up to put pressure on Aguero.
This tacit understanding problem only occurred for a brief second or two, and Alderweireld reacted quickly and went directly to the top, but it was already too late.
Aguero has started dribbling the ball laterally.
After successfully trapping Alderweireld behind him, Aguero did not continue to cross the ball, but suddenly passed the ball across the ball, then turned and advanced towards the center of the penalty area.
His intention was very obvious, which was to cooperate with De Bruyne in a pass and cut, and he wanted to get rid of Wimmer in the top area of the arc.
Eriksen blocked the line between Aguero and De Bruyne, but Aguero's corner kick had a small advance and just escaped his interception.
The next second, De Bruyne made another non-stop pass from the penalty arc on the right side.
At this time, Tottenham's defense was completely in disarray, and their position had been lost to Scotland.
Especially when Tottenham retreats to the middle of the defense behind the end line of the penalty area, because Wimmer's position has moved forward, the area in front of the penalty spot and on the left has been completely vacated.
Fortunately, Zabaleta appeared in this position and was too heavy with Aguero.
Facing De Bruyne's scalpel-like through ball, Zabaleta quickly followed up.
But Alderweireld was so fast that he came back the moment before he started to shoot, stretched his foot from behind and poked the ball out of the baseline.
"oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
In an instant, the Etihad Stadium was filled with exclamations of surprise.
Seeing Zabaleta miss this opportunity, countless Manchester City fans held their heads in anger.
On the sidelines, Pochettino almost knelt down in fear. At this time, all he could see were the fatal defensive mismatches just now. It was chaos, everything was chaos.
Before the game, he knew that Vertonghen's injury would definitely have an impact on the defense, but he never imagined that the impact would be so great.
Guardiola next to him was so angry that he turned back on the spot, then squatted down and hammered the soft turf. This time his liver didn't hurt but his stomach hurt. Another opportunity was wasted.
On the court, Chu Zheng covered his face. He wanted to tell Zabaleta that you should be the free man!
It’s so amazing!
Can you believe that a right back can actually take over the position of a true forward?
But I have to say that this is a major feature of Manchester City now. This extremely flexible and wide-ranging movement makes it difficult for opponents to mark.
After Zabaleta missed the goal, he stood up, spread his hands and protested loudly, indicating that Alderweireld had just kicked him and it was a penalty kick.
But the referee Marriner ignored him completely and gave Zabaleta a look like "Do I look like a blind man?"
In the LeTV live broadcast room, Zhang Lu and Zhan Jun are watching the slow-motion replay.
After watching the replay, Zhang Lu smiled and said: "This ball is not for De Bruyne, but for Aguero."
"It's just that the reaction was a little slow. If Aguero was replaced, Alderweireld might not have a chance to stretch his legs."
"Chu Zheng's offensive planning is really amazing. A direct pass completely disrupted Tottenham's defense, which then caused a series of chain reactions."
"Tottenham's defense requires each other to cover each other's positions. One has to rush out and the other has to quickly fill the gap."
"When Chu Zheng was holding the ball just now, Wanyama stepped forward. As a result, Dembele behind him was not in position, but on the back line."
"So this no-man's space allowed Aguero to escape."
"Then first Dell and Alderweireld made mistakes in their understanding, and then you looked at Danny Rose in the right rib area at the top of the arc, and he didn't follow Zabaleta."
"I have to say that Zabaleta ran really smart. In order to avoid offside, he entered the penalty area and then retreated, just in time to hit De Bruyne's through ball."
Zhan Jun smiled knowingly and said: "This is a major feature of Chu Zheng's attack planning. It is extremely purposeful and has clear directionality. Often a seemingly ordinary pass can cause a series of chain reactions, and ultimately
Let the opponent's defense be defeated."
"Yes!" Zhang Lu nodded, "No matter where Chu Zheng is, as long as he is on the court, no matter how far away from the goal he is, he can threaten the opponent's goal. This is the scary thing about Chu Zheng, plus the people around him
With a group of equally excellent teammates, his advantages will be infinitely amplified and he will become even more threatening."