At the beginning of the game, Chelsea were determined to wait for a counterattack!

Once the game started, although Chelsea didn't get many chances of possession!

However, it will not be easy for Manchester City to penetrate the defensive system of the back three.

Mourinho is now figuring it out anyway.

He has lost to Gao Bo so many times, and there is no shame in losing again. Defending a draw is earned, and if there is a chance to counterattack and score a goal, it will make a lot of money!

Moreover, Chelsea's counter-attacking ability is definitely not weak!

Sneijder's ability to pass forward!

Willian and Eto'o's speed and impact!

Although Mourinho did not allow more players to participate in the attack in this game, there are these three! Once there is a chance to counterattack, it is enough for Manchester City and two pots!

The game went five or six minutes.

Chelsea didn't get much chance to counter-attack.

Of course, City's attack didn't work very well.

In these five minutes, Manchester City only had one shot on goal, or a long-range shot, and Fernandinho's shot hit the anti-aircraft gun!!

When Chelsea are determined to defend, even Manchester City will struggle to find the back of the net for a while.

'It was a game that both sides took very seriously and Chelsea put on a tough attitude to defend on the road! Counter-attacking is Mourinho's skill and now, he's taking it to the extreme!! Use the defensive system of three defensive midfielders and four defenders to limit Manchester City's attacking play!! It's a spear and shield duel! Until the last minute, it is difficult to tell the winner who is winning! ”

"Judging from the current situation, Chelsea's defense is not bad, but the game is 90 minutes, whether Chelsea can hold it depends on the performance of the next game!"

Although that is to say.

But most of the narrators agree.

If this game goes on as it is now, there won't be many goals.

Even.... Probably zero goals!!

Because judging from the current scene, one side is setting up a bus, and the other side is attacking the position.

It's not easy to score goals!

So, even though Chelsea now look completely pinched into the second half, Jose Mourinho is still comfortable sitting in the dugout.

This is a tactic he arranged before the game!

Guard!

Hold on!!

There is no chance to fight back, and it will definitely not be pressed out!

Even if it's 0-to-0! It's also earned for Chelsea!!

Anyway, this season, the idea of competing with Manchester City for the league title is completely lost.

It's better to take a point against your opponent.

At the Etihad Stadium, take a point against Manchester City and end the opponent's 23-game winning streak!

That's a very good result!!

Therefore, as long as he does not concede a goal, Mourinho is very calm!

However, no one expected it.

Chelsea who are determined to hold on..... It doesn't seem like luck was too good!

Gao Bo also saw Mourinho's thoughts.

This guy is here for a draw.

A team that doesn't look like an offense at all, like a wrecking ball, is very difficult to play against whoever comes.

If you want to break down a team like this, you need more patience.

So from the first minute of the game, Gao Bo stood on the sidelines, although he didn't make many movements, but he used his body language from time to time to send a signal to the players not to rush and stay patient.

.....

This time!

City's attack started with goalkeeper Oblak.

In an attack by Manchester City, Antoine Griezmann was cleared by John Terry when he was about to find Hazard.

Football crossed the half.

With Chelsea so far back, Oblak almost had to press through half-time.

He stopped the ball near the centre circle and passed it to David Silva!

David Silva took two steps forward and passed the ball to Antoine Griezmann, who came from the side.

Chelsea's players are interested in both.

More often than not, though, they set their sights on David Silva, who swam down the middle.

Jose Mourinho has taken a deep dive into the footage of Manchester City's matches this season!

Manchester City's biggest feature is that when facing a dense defence, they will spread wide on both sides and make the most of the space on the pitch.

David Silva, Antoine Griezmann, and even Alexis Sanchez and Eden Hazard are all up to the top midfield.

Therefore, many of Manchester City's goals are delivered through the forward position to hit the weak points of the defense!

This position is the key to Manchester City's attack!!

So, when David Silva moved to the middle and finished switching positions with Antoine Griezmann.

He became Chelsea's most important player.

Mikel has been following David Silva and focusing on him!

Mikel is Mourinho's exciting defensive force today, and his task is to defend the key players with man-to-man!!

However!

This time, it seems that Manchester City have no intention of moving football towards the middle!!

Antoine Griezmann started his performance on the wing.

Although Antoine Griezmann's position was in the midfield position in the opening stages.

But City's attackers are very flexible in their positioning.

In today's game, the team did not habitually attack from the middle!

The two wings are the key areas for Manchester City to make an article today!!

This game!!

Gao Bo let the players on both sides act as two wide midfielders!

Objective!

It's about hitting Chelsea's rib area!!

It's a response to Chelsea's dense defence!!

Gao Bo showed his surprise.

Dealing with Mourinho, you always have to think of something new to surprise him.

If Mourinho focuses on the middle, he is doomed to suffer a big loss!

.......

Antoine Griezmann first used the speed of the start to quickly dodge Nemanja Matic!!

And then!!

Antoine Griezmann bursts in with the ball!!

In the face of Kante, he decisively passed the ball to Hazard, who came to pick up! Then go to the bottom!

Hazard was the first to pass the ball out.

2-over-1!!

Eden Hazard's interspersing then caught N'Golo Kante's attention, with centre-back David Silva having to pounce to defend Antoine Griezmann.

Almost at the same time!

Sanchez, who was on the left, cut straight into the middle of the box!

David Silva cruising inside the line of the box attracts the attention of the defence!!

Right!

Griezmann didn't wait for David Luiz to post up, and the ball went out!

The target is David Silva diagonally behind!

Manchester City's attack this time perfectly reflects Gao Bo's tactical deployment before the game!

The Chelsea defence is fully mobilized!!

Now, in the Chelsea box!!

The people around him are starting to look a little confused, and Terry follows Hazard in the box!!

David Silva then conceded the ball to his left foot!!

In the Restricted Area!

There was a great chance to shoot on goal!!

.........

"Two over one!! Pretty!!!! David Luiz went up!! Antoine Griezmann passes!! David Silva....... Let the ball come over and shoot straight at goal!!!! ”

The soccer ball draws an arc!!

Cech flies!

It's just that the people in the penalty area blocked his view!

By the time the ball flew in front of goal, it was too late for him!

Even if he threw his body out as much as he could, but... It's still a step too late!!

Petr Cech could only watch the football go into the back of the net!!

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!!!!!”

The narrator was stunned for a moment, and then shouted.

No one expected that in such an important game, Manchester City would actually score a goal after a few tentative attacks and a slightly more serious offensive!

"David Silva!! Nice curling ball in the box!! The soccer ball bypassed all the defenders and almost grazed the post into the goal!! ”

"One to zero!! In the eleventh minute of the game, Manchester City took the lead at home and it was David Silva who scored!! ”

David Silva looked very excited after the goal!

He rushed to the sidelines and celebrated his goal with a slippery kneeling!

Seeing this scene, the cheers in the stands became even louder!

"David Silva! He curled a curling shot into the far corner of the goal, blasted Chelsea open of the net, broke the deadlock of the game, and the rest of the game was a good game for Manchester City!! ”

Lightkinson said.

"Gao Bo must be very satisfied now!!"

'It was probably the worst start for Chelsea!!' They faced Manchester City, who had won 23 in a row, and they started the game with a stubborn posture, but their stubborn hold lasted only 11 minutes!! Chelsea are behind again against Manchester City!! For Chelsea fans, this is definitely not good news, you know, Mourinho has never won against Gao Bo, right... This time, Mourinho's record of losing to Gao Bo will continue to continue? ”

The televised broadcast also gave Mourinho a close-up shot at the right time.

He stood up from the coach's bench and spread his hands.

Then he turned back and said something to his assistant, and the expression on his face looked a little miraculous.

Obviously!

This conceded goal completely disrupted his tactical deployment!

The strategy of sticking to the draw is completely bankrupt.

Moreover, if Chelsea do not want to lose, they must first abandon their rigid strategy.

Jose Mourinho is well aware of Manchester City's attacking prowess.

Therefore, the deployment of stubborn defense before the game is also helpless.

However, even so, it was not prevented.

The opponent made a seemingly ordinary attack, but the killer move fell out.

In terms of attacking richness, Chelsea were blown up by Manchester City!!

The shape is left and the right is real, and the sound is east and west.

This set of Manchester City is very skillful.

Mourinho looked very helpless.

Because he sees it thoroughly.

The scary thing about Manchester City's attack is that Griezmann has the ball alone.

The other players kept running and were full of tacit understanding, completely disrupting the Chelsea defence!

A bland attack, but it contains such a terrible killing machine!

Behind the seemingly calm, it is impossible to prevent it!

This goal is arguably the responsibility of Chelsea's entire defence.

The entire defence was completely torn apart by Manchester City.

However, now is not the time to split the pot.

Because, Griezmann's personal ability is too outstanding.

Nemanja Matic defended very well, but he was still like a stake and was rushed by Griezmann!

There is a very real problem in front of Chelsea now.

That is, to continue to hold on?

It's pointless to be one goal behind and hold on!

However, now that the game is only in the tenth minute, if the team wants to change its tactics, with the current staffing on the field, even if they want to attack, there is no one available!

The formation of 4321, three defensive midfielders, which is specially designed to defend the counter-attack.

Now, if you want to take the initiative to attack, you have to make some adjustments in staffing.

But not long after the start of the game, a substitution was wasted.

Mourinho didn't hesitate for long.

Because he knew that there was no time for him to continue grinding now.

So he simply let the players continue to defend defensively.

In any case, let's go through the first half.

At this time, Mourinho is very cautious.

He easily didn't want to make a change.

After all, the gap of one goal behind is not huge, and Chelsea may not have a chance to come back in the second half.

If we had made a change now, Chelsea would have made some mistakes, conceding a second or even a third.

Don't play in the second half.

Chelsea simply surrendered.

So when the game resumed, Chelsea continued to stick to their tactics!!

The race continues!

Manchester City, who scored the first goal, were not conservative either, but frequently put strong pressure on the Chelsea goal.

Chelsea's players, despite their grievances, were unable to shrink in the face of the mighty Manchester City and the manager's demands, trying to pile up numbers in the box to defend.

Chelsea appeared to be very passive.

Gao Bo pouted when he saw such a scene on the sidelines.

Mourinho appears to have been frightened by him.

The madman also has no arrogance anymore.

They are all behind, and they don't dare to come out to fight bayonets, what a coward!

Gao Bo sat back in the coach's seat and thought with some regret.

For Gao Bo, what he is looking forward to most is that Chelsea will play against him.

Manchester City are not afraid to attack.

On the contrary, Chelsea is like this, and it is still a bit troublesome for Manchester City to hold on.

........

Thirty-sixth minute of the game.

There were some surprises on the field.

Sanchez and Nemanja Matic in a confrontation.

Nemanja Matic's elbow hit the bridge of Sanchez's nose.

The Chilean star suffered a nosebleed and had to be treated on the sidelines.

The referee didn't think Matic was intentional, he thought it was an unintentional move, so although Manchester City gave a free kick in front, he didn't show Matic a yellow card, not even a verbal warning!

"This old bastard!!"

Gao Bo thundered on the sidelines!

Fortunately, after examination, Sanchez had no problem with his nose, and the bridge of his nose was not fractured, only a nosebleed.

After the bleeding has stopped, you can get back on the court.

And during this time, the game was a bit uneventful.

With Sanchez out on treatment, Manchester City are slowly taking control of the football, otherwise Chelsea will have an opportunity.

In the end, the first half of the game ended 1-0!