Manchester City have reached the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup, where they will face West Ham United!

Not many people think West Ham will be able to knock Manchester City out of two legs of home and away fixtures!

If it's a single-elimination system, West Ham may have a chance.

However, in the case of a home-and-away format, the possibility of accidents will be greatly reduced, and the promotion of stronger teams will be a high probability event.

In the odds offered by the bookmaker, the probability of Manchester City winning the League Cup has been reduced to two to five, behind them is Manchester United, Manchester United's odds to win the championship are one to three!

Of course, the Carabao Cup will not start until two weeks after the New Year!

After this match, the draw for the round of 16 of the Champions League has also ended!

After the round of 16, Manchester City, who finished top of the group, were lucky enough to draw a team from Russia.

Zenit St. Petersburg!

It's not a team in the big five leagues, and the only difficulty may be the harsh winter in Russia and the long flight journey!

However, over the years, playing against Russian teams, Gao Bo has also accumulated a lot of experience.

They faced CSKA Moscow in the group stage.

Manchester City is well versed in this!

The Champions League round of 16 is due to be played in February next year, so Manchester City do not need to think about the Champions League for the time being.

Until then, Manchester City will have to deal with the high-intensity Christmas Express season!!

Three days after the Carabao Cup match, Manchester City travel to Fulham!

Considering that two days after this game, the team will face Liverpool!

Gao Bo made a relatively large rotation for this game!

The main players didn't play much!

In the front court, Gao Bo lined up a lineup of two strikers!

Li Yuanshan and Vardy start!

Behind them, Milner and Wanyama continue to start!!

After all, the Carabao Cup didn't take much of City's physical strength, and after three days of rest, the two energetic midfielders were more than enough to cope with the game.

On either side of them, Gao Bo arranged two players with different styles.

Adam White, who is good at breaking through quickly, is deployed on the left flank, and his main task is very simple, shoot inside or cross from the outside!

And on the right!

Eriksen was deployed in this direction, and his task was mainly to link up the team's attacking backfield and use his excellent passing footwork to create opportunities for the two forwards to pass the ball.

Milner and Wanyama were in charge of defending in the middle.

And at the back, Harry Maguire and Lescott played, Luke Shaw on the right, Zabaleta on the left!

Manchester City fielded such a squad on the road.

To the surprise of some observers.

Because this is the first time that such a lineup has appeared in the league.

"Did Gao Bo give up the game?"

On the commentary bench, the commentators were shocked when they got the starting list of such a lineup.

"It's for the game against Liverpool in two days' time, right? Most of the main players are hidden, and even some of the main substitutes are hidden, so that Benitez can't guess Manchester City's starting line-up! ”

"I don't think Gao Bo gave up this game and won the halfway championship with a full victory, which is what all teams must strive for when they get to this point! Therefore, he arranged such a lineup in this game, thinking that even if Manchester City used such a lineup to play Fulham away, they could still win!! ”

"That sounds a bit arrogant!"

"But... They have arrogant capital, seventeen consecutive wins!! Such a record is really terrifying!! ”

"Anyway, we won't know until after the game!!"

The commentators on the commentary table are talking!!

And for Fulham, they did have some ideas when they saw this lineup!

Fulham, who are playing at home, launched an attack at the beginning of the game, wanting to beat Manchester City with an unstable foothold!

After all, Manchester City's squad is so fresh that Fulham will salivate.

Generally speaking, such a line-up that looks like a makeshift patchwork is problematic with the tacit understanding between the players.

Before the game, Fulham's boss, Dutchman Muslentin, believed that Manchester City would at least send players like Kaka and Alexis Sanchez to play, because in fact, when Kaka gradually regained his form, Manchester City's front court was still very rich.

But I didn't expect that none of the five major stars of Kaka, Sanchez, Hazard, Griezmann, and David Silva started in this game!!

Even Manchester City did not play the 4231 system that has been fixed since the second half of last season, but cobbled together a 442!

This undoubtedly gave Fulham a little bit of the light of hand-wrestling with Manchester City at home!

So!

Excited Fulham players, get into the groove at the start of the game and attack.

And what is Gao Bo's idea?

To say that he doesn't care about winning half the way is obviously impossible!

He cares a lot!!

However, he does not think that Fulham can pose any threat to this Manchester City squad.

The reason why he chose not to send Kaka or Sanchez is mainly because after the League Cup, Kaka's muscles were a little tired, and for the sake of safety, Gao Bo did not plan to shoot Kaka.

At the same time, he doesn't plan to send his four main attackers up front.

Because, two days after this game, they will face Benitez's Liverpool.

This game is the final test of the first half of the league for Manchester City, who have won more than a dozen rounds in a row.

Gao Bo must be cautious!!

Moreover, after the end of the first half, there is no so-called winter break in the Premier League.

The second half of the league is coming one after another.

And in the second half, there are FA Cup and Champions League games one after another!

For Manchester City, who aim to make a breakthrough on all fronts, it is a must to be careful about the fitness of their players.

Moreover, Gao Bo has a modular grouping of tasks for each position of the team, and then matches the role of cards.

Although such a lineup may have problems against some teams with more ability, according to Gao Bo's observation, Fulham does not have such ability!

They pressed up and attacked... That's looking for death!!

Sure enough, the seventh minute of the game!

When City's counter-attack quickly passes through the midfield!

Eriksen crossed the ball diagonally into the back of the box from a 45-degree angle on the right side of the box!

Accurately found the top of Li Yuanshan's head!!

Li Yuanshan's header ferry!

Vardy stepped forward and shot with the arch of his foot!

The soccer ball hits the net!!

A very simple diagonal pass ferry straight tie-in!

Just break through the Fulham defense!!

This is a crushing of personal ability!

After Manchester City's goal, Fulham's momentum was weakened a lot!!

And in the end, with the goals of Vardy, Li Yuanshan, and Eriksen.

Manchester City beat Fulham 3-0 away to claim their eighteenth league win!

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