Green Journey

Chapter 369 The Peak Showdown!

Under the pressure of Manchester United's continuous disregard of physical fitness, Manchester City's original smooth pass and control system is a bit too much to say that it has been devastated, but it is completely fine to say that it has been seriously disturbed.

"Guardiola, he is afraid of being robbed like this!"

"But the problem is that Manchester United are fighting so hard. I'm afraid they won't last until the end. In the first half, they did not run less under Chu Zheng's fast-paced mobilization."

"Now it's up to Guardiola how to deal with it!" Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu in the live broadcast room were also agitated by the second turning point of the game.

On the court, Bravo soon made another huge mistake.

In the 55th minute of the game, Manchester City managed to control the ball for a short period of time under the series scheduling of Chu Zheng's backcourt.

But when the ball developed to the frontcourt, they still couldn't find the offensive space like the first half, so they had no choice but to lead the ball all the way back to the backcourt.

The ball rotates at the feet of Kolarov, Fernandinho and Otamendi.

Seeing that Manchester United's formation quickly pressed up, Kolarov on the left flank very simply passed the ball back to Bravo in the penalty area.

Bravo was also a little hesitant and cautious after taking the ball, and he didn't go forward blindly, and this did not meet Guardiola's requirements for him.

Bringing the ball to the penalty spot, seeing Kolarov return to the left side of the penalty area, he pushed the ball across.

When Stones returned to the right rib area at the top of the arc, Kolarov passed the ball.

However, at this moment, Manchester United's high frontcourt pressing suddenly appeared.

Rooney leaned towards Kolarov, Herrera went straight to Stones, Pogba guarded Fernando, and Ibrahimovic marked Sagna in the left rib area at the top of the arc.

Stones had nothing to do, so he had to pass back to Bravo who moved across to the left side of the small penalty area.

Herrera followed the ball and continued to press forward to press.

Bravo saw the imposing Herrera, he looked very calm, as soon as he stopped and pulled, he swung his right foot in a kick-off posture with a big foot.

As a result, at the moment Herrera made a grab, he suddenly turned into a dunk and dunked the ball to the left front.

However, he failed to control the power of the spike, causing the ball to be thrown more than one meter away, which was obviously a huge mistake.

Rooney, who was outside the upper right corner of the penalty area, quickly rushed up, and Bravo was not slow.

The two rushed to the front and back of the ball and put shovels at the same time, directly kicking the ground.

The ball was clipped and jumped to the feet of Kolarov who rushed over.

Kolarov quickly took the ball away along the wing, but seeing Rooney go down, he pushed the ball away from the touchline.

Chu Zheng, who rushed back from the middle, was still beating wildly.

Nima, I have seen playing ball, but I have never seen it played like this, let alone a goalkeeper. This is simply playing with fire, and I am not afraid of burning myself to death.

On Clattenburg's side, Manchester United players are besieging him, complaining that Bravo just showed his studs and wanted a penalty.

But Clattenburg was very firm, saying that although Bravo kicked just now, his tackle was very clean and he had no intention of hurting Rooney.

On the sidelines, Guardiola was also scared to death.

The reason why he poached Bravo from Barcelona is that he valued that Bravo has good foot skills and can meet the requirements of his tactical system.

As a result, I didn't expect that this company's ability to resist pressure seemed not strong enough, and it made consecutive mistakes in the first game.

Counting that Bravo has already made 5 turnovers this time, Guardiola was a little disappointed, and thought of Bayern's seemingly omnipotent goalkeeper.

But for Guardiola, the top priority is not to worry about Bravo's mistakes, but that he needs to make tactical adjustments.

So Guardiola took advantage of the interruption of the game to quickly make substitution adjustments.

He replaced Iheanacho with Fernando.

Soon the game restarted, and Guardiola's tactical adjustments were clearly visible on the field.

Manchester City changed without a striker, Fernandinho's position was premised, and the midfielder was further pressed out.

Guardiola's intention is obvious, that is to force Manchester United's midfielder to retreat through further pressure from the midfield, so that Manchester United cannot continue to put pressure on Manchester City's penalty area, so as to resolve the passive situation on the field within 15 minutes.

As for the effect of Guardiola's substitutions and adjustments, it is even more intuitive.

Seeing that Manchester United's formation was pushed back a little bit, and Manchester City's precarious situation stabilized, Zhang Lu and Zhan Jun in the live broadcast room were all in admiration.

The two were amazed by Guardiola's reaction and their ability to accurately judge the game situation.

Just 3 minutes later, Guardiola used up the second substitution.

Sane replaces Sterling.

"The intention of this substitution is obvious. Guardiola wants to keep the speed and the ability to cut inside, so that Manchester United can't play effective wing coordination and offense. At the same time, use Sane's speed to limit Luke Shaw. Get an assist!" Zhang Lu said decisively.

Five minutes later, Manchester City gradually took the initiative again.

In the 64th minute of the game, Chu Zheng saw that Pogba was sticking to the ball after coming from the middle.

After entering the 30-meter area, Chu Zheng quickly sent a scalpel to De Bruyne's ribs to the left.

De Bruyne took the ball and stepped on a bicycle to drive the ball down the bottom.

Came outside the small penalty area on the left and kicked forcibly, but it ended up in De Gea's arms.

This attack was also the third turning point of the game, which pushed the game to a wide-ranging confrontation.

Seeing Manchester City and Manchester United coming and going on the field, the atmosphere at Old Trafford has also reached its peak.

In the stadium, not only the players are engaged in fierce confrontation, but the fans are also not idle, and are fighting tit-for-tat.

"You are fucking shit!" and other dirty English words and phrases were exchanged in the stands, and both sides scolded extremely vigorously.

In the 69th minute of the game, Manchester City launched an attack from the left.

Nolito held the ball and was kicked away by Valencia with a precise grab.

The ball rolls back to the halfway line for Otamendi.

But in the face of Rooney's entanglement, Otamendi suddenly turned a U-shaped turn in the process of returning the belt, and then quickly passed the ball to Kolarov.

Kolarov took the ball and pushed forward quickly. Seeing Nolito retracted and drilled into the ribs, he quickly kicked straight.

It's a pity that Valencia once again saw through his intentions and quickly stepped up to block it.

The ball hit Valencia's foot and bent towards his ribs, Chu Zheng quickly stopped the ball.

Facing Herrera's attack, Chu Zheng stepped on the ball and pulled it, then turned around.

As soon as he turned around, Chu Zheng saw that Fernandinho in the middle had already advanced, and he quickly stuffed the ball.

However, Fernandinho seriously underestimated Chu Zheng's passing speed, which caused him to stretch his feet a beat slower and failed to stop the ball.

The ball went straight to Blind in front of Fernandinho.

After taking the ball, Blind took two steps forward to the left, and then made a long pass directly behind Manchester City at the front of the top of the arc in the penalty area.

The ball landed on the left rib of the center circle, and Rashford picked up his speed in one go, and lost Sagna in a blink of an eye.

Stones quickly shifted from the middle to make up for the defense, and Sagna took advantage of the trend.

Rashford entered the Manchester City penalty area from the left rib of the top of the arc. Facing Stones who was stepping back in front of him, he directly pedaled two fast bicycles, and then suddenly nudged the ball to the right with the outside instep. The follow-up was a cold shot.

The next second, Old Trafford was detonated again, and the cheers of Manchester United fans sounded like thunder, which was deafening.

Just when the Manchester United fans were rejoicing, Clattenburg stood up and directly signaled that Rashford's ball from the near corner was rubbed by Ibrahimovic who was offside, so the goal was invalid.

Immediately, Manchester United fans were full of scolding voices.

Through the replay of the camera, it is indeed possible to see that the ball hit Ibrahimovic's left calf with a small change of line, causing the ball to drill into the goal from the right side of Bravo.

So there is nothing wrong with this penalty.

Afterwards, the two sides continued to open and close the confrontation, but unfortunately, although both sides had many opportunities, no one was able to grasp them.

The fourth goal was not seen until the 75th minute of the game.

Mourinho was anxious on the sidelines.

In order to ensure the advantage of the tactics of flying on both wings, especially to suppress the right flank of Manchester United where Nolito and Chu Zheng are located, he would rather let the four defenders in the center be directly exposed to the peak of Manchester City's soldiers and face Manchester City's counterattack, but also forcibly create a pass. middle.

So starting from the 75th minute, Manchester United adopted a tactic of high-red bombing against Manchester City and frequent long passes in the backcourt.

Mourinho attempted to use this method to forcibly knock on the door of Manchester City.

In the 80th minute of the game, Guardiola made another adjustment.

He used up the last substitution spot, Zabaleta replaced De Bruyne, who could no longer run, and began to shrink the formation and place the bus.

Immediately, Manchester United and Mourinho almost didn't spew out a mouthful of old blood on the spot.

"Guardiola is too thieves, he can see that Manchester United can't run anymore!"

"Haha! It's true that Luke Shaw has been cramped twice by Sane! Other Manchester United players are obviously unable to run."

Zhang Lu and Zhan Jun burst into laughter when they saw Guardiola start to reclaim his formation and use dense defensive positions to resist Manchester United's high-altitude bombing tactics.

At the same time, I was hooked in my heart for the silent confrontation between Guardiola and Mourinho.

This kind of tactical confrontation between top coaches is no less exciting than the game on the field.

In the final stage of the game, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is tragic, and it is almost the final of the Champions League.

Especially in the second half, the two sides opened up and closed together, which was really exciting. This kind of game is really rare.

In the 83rd minute of the game, Luke Shaw had his third cramp.

Mourinho gritted his teeth and directly replaced him with Martial.

At the same time, Martial also brought Mourinho's new tactical instructions to the Manchester United players on the field.

That is to put all one's eggs in one basket, use the attack method of comprehensive long pass high ball to carry out the final counterattack, and fight to the death.

It's a pity that one wrong step, one wrong step, Mourinho was eaten to death by Guardiola, who always predicted the enemy first.

The ball kept flying in the sky, but it just couldn't fly into Manchester City's goal.

In the 89th minute of the game, Chu Zheng knelt down directly. He was really tired and knelt down. He would retch from time to time, almost running and throwing up.

Guardiola saw this scene, and immediately became anxious.

He saw Chu Zheng's performance.

In the second half, if Chu Zheng hadn't reacted immediately and quickly retreated to help Fernandinho, their 15-minute passive time really might not have been able to be defended.

Chu Zheng's running distance in the first half was the first in the game, one-third more than other players, and he did not run less in the second half.

Looking at Chu Zheng's large-scale running heat map, Guardiola knows how tired Chu Zheng is.

But there is no way, Manchester City has no substitutions.

Now Guardiola only hopes that the game will end as soon as possible, otherwise Chu Zheng will be injured and it will be a tragedy.

The tactical system was established by Guardiola, so he is very aware of the importance of Chu Zheng, the fleet commander.

In the 94th minute of the game, when Chu Zheng took off with the last bit of strength and pushed the ball from Martial's wide pass over the crossbar, Clattenburg finally blew the whistle for the end of the game.

Chu Zheng immediately collapsed to the ground.

Looking at the blue sky, Chu Zheng, whose chest heaved violently, showed a smile.

This kind of derby is really tiring, but it's also so cool.

"competition is over!!"

"The suspense of the 172nd Manchester Derby was revealed, Manchester City defeated Manchester United 2-1!"

"Manchester City has kept their unbeaten record in the new season!"

(End of this chapter)