On July 22, Manchester City played the first game of the new season, of course, it was not an official competition, but a pre-season warm-up match against a League One side from Greater Manchester, Oldham United. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The game was held at the Maine Road Stadium, the home of the Manchester City team, which was also requested by the Oldham team, because the Maine Road Stadium has a large capacity and can accommodate more than 80,000 fans, and this stadium is also the second largest stadium in England after Wembley Stadium, and the box office revenue of this warm-up game is divided equally between the home team and the away team, and the Oldham team can get more box office when playing on Maine Road.

Although it was only a pre-season warm-up game, this was the first game after the club's new owner took office, and the club also changed most of the players, especially Ding Hongxing, Lizarazu and other players to make Manchester City fans full of expectations, so the number of fans who came to watch the game reached more than 30,000, which is also a good attendance for a warm-up game.

In this game, in the first half, Mu Shengli sent a lineup of goalkeeper Jaskelainen, central defenders Hyypia and Funk, left back Lizarazu, right back Flickroft, Ding Hongxing and Nedved in the middle of the midfield, left winger Kinkradze, right winger Smitchell, and two forwards were Quinn and Rosler.

This line-up is basically the main lineup of Manchester City this season, and with the shouts of nearly 30,000 Manchester City fans in attendance, Manchester City launched a fierce attack on the heart of Oldham from the beginning.

The attacking power of Manchester City's lineup is very strong, less than five minutes into the game, Ding Hongxing broke through the opponent's central defense with the ball, and shot through the Oldham team goal with a furious shot at the edge of the penalty area.

In the ensuing game, Quinn received a long pass from Ding Hongxing and headed the ball to help Rosler and Nedved score, Jinkladze used excellent individual skills on the left flank, shook two defenders and crossed, allowing Quinn to score with a direct header, and Smitchell's long-range shot from the edge of the box after a break down the right also hit the post.

In the first half of the game, Manchester City was on fire, leading Oldham 5-0, and Manchester City's new players played basically well, and their wonderful attacking football made Manchester City fans fascinated.

You know, Oldham is not an amateur team, they are a League One team, only one level lower than Manchester City, and don't forget, last season Manchester City was only one step away from relegation, and Oldham was in League One, Manchester City's strength was predictable to beat Oldham, but it was beaten into this bear in the first half, which still made people unexpected.

In the second half, Mu Shengli waved his hand and replaced nine players, and among the players who played in the first half, he only left Ding Hongxing and Nedved, and Ding Hongxing's position was changed to a central defender, partnering with Matteo.

In the second half, Ding Hongxing mainly launched a long pass in the central defender position, and Heskey played the role of Quinn in the first half, receiving Ding Hongxing's pass in the penalty area, heading the ball to his teammates, creating opportunities, although he is trying to learn Quinn's style of play, but he is still very young after all, and the gap between his header skills and Quinn is also quite large, and the role played is far inferior to Quinn, plus the players replaced by the Manchester City team in the second half are not as good as those players in the first half, so the offensive effect of the Manchester City team in the second half has obviously decreased.

Halfway through the second half, Manchester City not only did not score, but it was Matteo's foul that gave Oldham a penalty and allowed Oldham to pull a point back.

Seeing this, Ding Hongxing simply stopped making long passes, but relied on his personal ability to attack, with his physical fitness and technology, the players of the Oldham team did not talk about one-on-one, even if it was a double bag, it was difficult to block his breakthrough, as a result, Ding Hongxing broke through to the front court after the through ball helped Larsson score a single knife, and then he burst into the penalty area to score a diagonal shot, locking the score at seven to one.

Seven to one, although it was only a warm-up game, but it was also a good start, and the result of the game was still very encouraging to Manchester City fans, especially several newly introduced key players played very well, which made fans full of expectations for the new season.

Of course, from the coach's point of view, this game still exposed a lot of shortcomings, first of all, the cooperation of the players is not tacit enough, and now the team's most relied on offensive method is the long pass from the back to Quinn's header ferry, creating shooting opportunities for teammates, or the cross from the side to Quinn's direct header, the ground cooperation in the middle is not played at all, except for Ding Hongxing in the second half with his personal ability to send a single assist, there is basically no group ground cooperation between several people, This kind of attack may be enough against Oldham, but if you play against a strong team, it is easy to be locked in by a targeted defense.

In fact, several of Manchester City's midfielders are technically good and fully capable of playing a pleasing match, but they have been training together for too short a time, and this problem can only be solved by time.

Secondly, the strength of the starting lineup of the Manchester City team is indeed very strong, but the strength of the substitute lineup is relatively poor, which is also a helpless thing, the strength of the Manchester City team last season is basically the lower level of the Premier League, this season Manchester City team is relatively strong Several old players have entered the starter, and the strength of the remaining substitute players is of course average, and there is no tacit understanding that has not been cultivated, which is a normal thing.

Fortunately, Manchester City has no European assignments this season, the games are not very intensive, and there are several players with excellent physical fitness in the main players, so this problem is not very serious, as long as there is no large-scale injury, there will be no crisis.

In fact, having a good starting line-up is already stronger than most teams in the Premier League.

Of course, Mu Shengli also saw a lot of good things from this actual battle, Ding Hongxing's performance needless to say, the performance of the new players was as good as he expected, and Quinn's header advantage also made Mu Shengli very surprised, as long as he was in the opponent's penalty area, he would form a huge threat to the opponent's goal, he grabbed almost all the headers, and his header fell very accurately, almost like others using their feet to pass the ball, his header and Ding Hongxing's long pass is simply a perfect match, It is conceivable that this will be one of the most important attacking tools for Manchester City this season, and with Quinn up front, Manchester City will not be short of goals.

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