"There was too much pressure on the Manchester City players in this game. "They are just one point away from Manchester United at the top of the table, and this point is like a carrot in front of a donkey, leaving them exhausted and exhausted." ”

That's right, as Lineker said, only one point behind Manchester United gives Manchester City a lot of hope and makes them desperately hungry, and it is precisely this point difference that seems to be a trench and makes people feel a certain despair.

At this time, it is time to test the psychological quality and pressure resistance of this team.

At the end of the first half, Manchester City trailed 2-1 at home to Tottenham Hotspur, with their only goal coming from the penalty spot.

Yang Fan walked towards the player with a heavy expression, and the camera kept focusing on his face, as if trying to capture some information from the facial expression of the Manchester City captain.

'Manchester City are 2-1 down to Tottenham Hotspur and at half-time Mancini needs to make adjustments, and now in this situation, Manchester City have to attack. As the attacking core of the Manchester City team, Yang Fan's performance in the first half was not as good as before, except for creating the penalty and scoring the penalty himself, Yang Fan was relatively silent. ”

"Judging from the first half of the game, Redknapp succeeded, he did it, and it was too difficult to limit Yang Fan, but today, at least for 45 minutes, Redknapp's team did a good job. Lineker said.

"If you hadn't had that penalty, you'd be fine to say that. As a die-hard Yang Fan fan, Mortensen expressed his displeasure with Lineker's words.

Return to Manchester Civic Stadium.

Home team dressing room.

The atmosphere in the dressing room was a bit oppressive, and the City players could clearly hear the laughter of the Tottenham Hotspurs, who knew what the Tottenham were laughing at, and they were naturally happy that they had scored again in the last minute of the first half and that the Tottenham Hotspurs had taken the lead.

It's just that this laughter, to the ears of the Manchester City players, is so harsh - it makes them unhappy, very unhappy.

Trailing Tottenham Hotspur by a goal in the first half upset many Manchester City players, who vented their frustration in the dressing room.

"The Tottenham Hotspur are so shameless, they're just shrunken turtles. ”

"That's right, why didn't they send out a 5-5-0 formation. ”

'It was unlucky to concede a goal, otherwise we would have been ahead of them. ”

"Tottenham people will put buses. ”

A crowd of people said they were unhappy with Tottenham's defensive tactics after taking the lead in the opening period.

"I warned you before the game, remember what I said!" Mancini asked with a grimace after looking around the dressing room. "I've said a long time ago what kind of team Tottenham are in. Can anyone tell me what I said at the time?"

Naturally, no one spoke at this time.

Mancini raised his voice sharply, "I said a long time ago, Tottenham Hotspur are a very tenacious team, this team is very dangerous in this game, our opponent is a team that is going to fight for the top four, this is not an easy opponent to deal with, so you should have been prepared for a tough battle, although the opening goal was a surprise, but this should not be a reason for you to forgive yourself for your performance." ”

"Haven't you ever had a game like this in your career, haven't you ever faced a team that is fully defending, do you want to tell me that you have to give up early in a game like this?"

"Do you think you've found a reason to be behind? The reason is not that you are not strong enough, but that the opponent is too despicable, and the opponent is a turtle with a shrunken head!"

Mancini's voice grew louder and louder, and he slapped the table with a bang. It's no wonder that Mancini is in a hurry, angry, angry. If Manchester City can't win Tottenham Hotspur in this game, then they are likely to be stretched to four points by Manchester United, and with only five games left in the league, a four-point difference is almost impossible for Ferguson's side to make mistakes.

In Mancini's loud rhetorical questioning, the City players slowly lowered their heads.

After scolding and venting his anger, Mancini began to explain the tactics of the second half.

Roberto Mancini scratched the board: "I'm sure you can all see that Modric is the heart of Tottenham's attack, pay attention to his position, where he goes means where Tottenham Hotspur's attack is focused." So our defensive focus is on this guy. Limit him, and Tottenham Hotspur's counter-attacks and attacks will be muted, nipping the danger at the back in the bud, and our attacks will be more comfortable. ”

Mancini glanced at Yang Fan: "Yang, the second half of the game gives you a task, your task is to seize every opportunity to attack, strive for goals, we must hurry up and score, the sooner we score, the better it will be for us." As time drags on, the situation will get worse and worse. ”

Yang Fan nodded, "Give it to me!"

On the other side, Tottenham Hotspur is in the visiting dressing room. Tottenham Hotspur manager Redknapp also made arrangements for the second half after praising his team's performance in the first half: "In the second half, our tactics are still defensive counter-attacks, counter-attack when we have chances, don't take risks if we don't have chances, our task is to win, 2:1 and 3:1 are the same for us, our task is to get three points." ”

The players walked out of the players' corridor and ran to the pitch, where the second half of the game was about to begin.

At the beginning of the second half, as the commentator guessed, Tottenham Hotspur, who led the score, adopted a more conservative strategy, focusing on defense, and Redknapp's intention was like this, just hold on to a one-goal lead, if Manchester City patronized the attack, there was a hole in the backline, then Tottenham Hotspur would take a cold counterattack, and it would be wonderful if they could score again.

An attack from Manchester City.

Yang Fan received a back-heel pass from Silva, and as soon as he pulled the ball over, he saw the face of Tottenham Hotspur centre-back Joel Luka.

Yang Fan was not surprised, in the first half of the game he was always closely marked by the opponent, if he turned around with the ball and found that there was no one around, it would surprise him.

Yang Fan did not stop at his feet, he flicked the ball to the left, and his body ran over like the other side, he planned to divide the ball and use his speed to pass the kraft candy.

"The ball is over......! Van der Vaart's flying tackle, it's a foul. Manchester City were awarded a free-kick in front. ”

Yang Fan got up from the ground with some unhappiness, he spat on the ground, just now, he had just passed Joel Luca, Yang Fan subconsciously felt a threat, this was a knee-jerk reaction, Van der Vaart's flying shovel came. Fortunately, Van der Vaart's foul action was not too big, and the original intention was to go to the ball, without the intention of intentionally hurting people, otherwise Yang Fan was likely to be injured.

Van der Vaart came over and patted Yang Fan on the shoulder, and the other party took the initiative to show goodwill, and Yang Fan could only press down the unhappiness.

City's free-kick was denied and they passed it back before making a transition and trying to attack again.

Milner passed, Adam Johnson's header was ferried to Balotelli on the side, Balotelli was going to rush forward with the ball, but he saw Yang Fan raising his hand to ask for the ball, he did not hesitate, and directly volleyed the ball to Yang Fan.

After Yang Fan stopped the ball, he faced Tottenham Hotspur central defender Joel Luca again.

After being surprised by Yang Fan's speed just now, Joel Luka was immediately alert, and he also knew that if he caught up. You may be overtaken by the opponent using your speed advantage. So the best thing to do is to step back a bit. Keep a safe distance. Prevent him from breaking through.

Yang Fan was about to break through, but suddenly passed the ball to Balotelli, and Joel Luca immediately turned to Balotelli, but what he didn't expect was that. Balotelli picked up his right foot after looking up at the situation in front of him!

He's going to shoot!?

Joelluca was terrified. I want to step forward and block it again. It's too late!

Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Cudicini didn't expect Balotelli to shoot directly from the top of the penalty arc! However, while his body was still in the air, Cudicini was relieved, the shot was so bad that he didn't have to make a save and there was no threat.

"O-Balotelli's long-range shot!Ahem, this shot is very powerful and fast, but is the Italian sure he is aiming in the direction of the goal?" Mortensen also couldn't help but joke, just because Balotelli's long-range shot looked threatening and fast, but it was far above the crossbar, flew to the stands, and directly put the anti-aircraft gun.

Jorluka was taken aback by Balotelli's long-range shot, he fell to the ground to block it to no avail, and he was still in shock just now, and now, seeing Balotelli's shot with an anti-aircraft gun, he couldn't help but laugh.

Joelluka did it on purpose, he didn't hide his sneer, and if possible, it would be best to provoke the young man into doing something irrational.

The laughter sounded so harsh to Balotelli. Joeluka succeeded in angering Balotelli, who was about to rush up and was intercepted by Yang Fan halfway.

Yang Fan hugged Balotelli and whispered in the ear of this 'little brother', "Stupid, calm down, don't be fooled!"

Balotelli didn't accept anyone, but Yang Fan, and under Yang Fan's low roar threat, Balotelli's irritable mood was controlled.

"Have you calmed down?" Yang Fan asked.

"Yes. Balotelli nodded sullenly.

Yang Fan patted Balotelli on the shoulder as a sign of comfort.

Giorluca was ready to be rushed up by the legendary Italian striker with a strange personality, or choked his neck or punched, and it was nothing to lose, the important thing was to provoke the kid and send him off.

At this time, seeing that Yang Fan actually controlled Balotelli's temper, Joel Luca was a little disappointed, and at the same time a little surprised, you know, Yang Fan himself is also a short-tempered guy, the great achievements of Yang Fan and the opponent's conflict are world-famous, it has been rumored that Yang Fan has become very mature after becoming the captain, and has begun to be stable, many people think it is impossible, and now it seems that this is really the case.

Tsk, for Yang Fan's violent temper, it seems that there is a possibility of developing towards a stable and great captain, which simply makes some people feel that this world is too wonderful.

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