Being an assistant coach at Manchester City is not an easy job.
I usually take the U23 youth team with me.
Leading the team towards the U23 championship, he is Guardiola's right-hand man.
Now he has issued the first instruction, which is to replace the hard-working Sane with Foden.
This was only the first half, and as soon as Guardiola stepped into the stands, he removed Sane.
Guardiola stared at Foden replacing Sane, his eyes narrowed.
He really didn't expect Maresca to do this and replaced Foden in the first half.
This does not fit with his football philosophy.
He felt that his authority was slightly challenged.
But now that he is away, Mareska will be left in the coaching chair...
Of course, Sane's performance is indeed bad enough, and there is no big problem in replacing him.
But Emery was surprised by such a decisive substitution.
Foden came on as a substitute in the last match and caused huge trouble for Arsenal. Foden was almost killed by him alone.
This young boy can be said to be a shining star. His actual combat ability is quite strong and he cannot be careless at all.
He was even more worried about Lichtsteiner, who might have a huge defense problem on the right.
But what can be done? There is no one available on the right now.
Or we can only let Lichtsteiner take the lead.
Let’s take a look again…
His worries were not unnecessary. After the game resumed, young Foden showed his extraordinary ability.
He was very alert in his running on the left, using a roundabout way to make Lichtsteiner lose his position when running without the ball. De Bruyne's pass was delivered in time, and Foden was able to complete the first kick.
Cross!
The mid-high ball passed through Arsenal's penalty area. As a result, Papastathopoulos almost scored an own goal. Although he stretched his legs to get ahead of Aguero and successfully cleared the ball, the ball almost rolled in.
In the goal, it just slid past the left post and out of the baseline.
When De Bruyne ran to the corner flag to take the corner kick, he suddenly passed the ball to Foden. Foden immediately rushed to the edge of the penalty area with the ball, stepped on his bicycle and feinted twice. Lichtsteiner
I almost lost my waist!
When he turned around to chase back, Foden had already dribbled the ball towards the baseline and completed the cross again with his left foot. Lichtsteiner's defensive action was too slow, and Foden passed the ball too easily!
The ball roared towards the small penalty area line again, but this time the speed was faster than last time. No one touched the ball, not even goalkeeper Martinez reacted.
Sterling at the other end did get the ball, but his cross went directly out of the baseline. This comparison is far different.
"Alas!"
"It's a little worse..."
"The two moments Forden came up immediately created two threats."
"Sterling's pass was disgusting. How could this ball pass the baseline?"
Despite this, Foden was given a huge round of applause from the stands. The fans' eyes were sharp and they could see who performed well and who performed poorly.
Emery quickly called Saka over and told him to come back in time to fill the position and not let Lichtsteiner face Foden alone.
This guy created two threats as soon as he came on the field, and there will be so much time after that.
High blood pressure...
Not long after, Foden also played a huge role on the defensive end. Van de Beek originally passed the ball to Saka. Saka wanted to knock the ball across to Harland, but Foden made a flying tackle in the middle.
He suddenly broke the ball by force.
After getting up, he immediately handed the ball to De Bruyne, who immediately sent a through ball.
But Sterling on the right was pulled down by his opponent while overtaking.
Koscielny received a yellow card.
"I feel this ball is probably Van de Beek's problem. He passed the ball to Saka. Saka couldn't stop the ball and took a hasty shot."
"Van de Beek has not yet integrated into this Arsenal team, and his personal abilities feel overestimated. He cannot play the core role in the midfield, nor can he become an engineer. This is a bit difficult. Sometimes you spend a small amount of money to buy a little devil.
The risk is huge, he may grow into a superstar, or he may not be able to play. Compared with De Ligt, Van de Beek is still a little immature."
"But for Arsenal, this season has been worthwhile enough."
…
De Bruyne directly made a long diagonal pass and transferred the ball to the other end.
Danilo got the ball, observed his teammates, and instead of passing the ball to Sterling in front, he knocked it to Fernandinho.
After Fernandinho walked several meters, he suddenly shot!
He was very confident in his shot, but the angle was too right and the ball flew directly into the arms of Martinez. When Martinez saw that there was no one guarding Luo Wu in front, he immediately kicked the ball to Luo Wu with his big foot.
Wu.
But Laporte soon ran over and got behind him. He was not in a hurry at all.
Sure enough, Luo Wu passed the ball directly back to Saka.
According to the usual possibility, Luo Wu started immediately.
He completely exposed his injuries.
Saka took the ball and knocked the ball horizontally to Van de Beek again. After Van de Beek stopped the ball, he was immediately attacked by De Bruyne and Aguero.
A somewhat panicked Van de Beek chose to immerse himself in the attack and tried to break the defense with a fried ball. Unfortunately, his foot movements did not keep up with his thinking. Foden dunked the ball into the middle with the arch of his right foot, and was beaten by De Bruyneka.
Live, the ball was taken away by Aguero!
Aguero immediately distributed the ball to the left, floated up, got the ball, and then quickly rushed towards Lichtsteiner with the ball. A very simple fake move to change direction to the right followed by a spike.
Take the outside line and rush forward like a bulldozer!
,
Lichtsteiner was completely unable to stop Foden.
"Vanderbeek."
"Another mistake."
"He lost the ball without any responsibility, causing Arsenal to defend passively. Now Foden rushed over and formed a one-man attack!"
"But it doesn't look like the angle is good, goalkeeper Martinez has already attacked."
No one could come over to help Martinez. He could only look at his own performance. The two of them formed a one-on-one situation on the left side of the penalty area.
Foden chose to hit the far corner!
And Martinez had already pounced down.
Da~
His left hand caught the ball and he succeeded!
But the ball rolled towards the penalty spot, and the danger was not over yet. Holding rushed back with all his strength, and there was Aguero beside him. He immediately kicked the ball out of the baseline without even thinking about it.
"What a risk."
"It's really too dangerous. Van de Beek's tricks make Arsenal's current defense look very tragic. How long can such a defense last? I think they will still concede goals."
"I heard that Xhaka has resumed training. If Xhaka can come back, his strength will definitely be improved..."
"But today..."
"We can only count on Van Der Beek..."
"You can't do it without a good midfielder. Van der Beek is neither a midfielder nor an attacking midfielder... The waist can't do it..."