With only one point from two games, it seems normal for others to have such a performance as a promoted team, after all, one game is away against Premier League giants Liverpool, but Lee Seung-peak feels the crisis, and the problems exposed in the game are far more than the score reflects. Lee Seung-bong gathered the coaching staff to analyze the two games together and try to figure out how to change the situation.

"I have no choice but to give up my current style of play with the ball." After studying for a long time, everyone finally came up with a disappointing result, thinking that the results of a summer of hard training would be overturned like this, Li Chengfeng also felt very disappointed.

But the most unwilling is Pep Guardiola, who was born in Barcelona and is a big fan of the ball-controlled style of play, and he doesn't want his practice to be overturned like this, "Maybe it's just that the cooperation is not skilled enough, and the situation will improve after a few more games." ”

"It's useless." Li Chengfeng shook his head and dispelled Guardiola's illusions, "The ability of our players is not enough to support this tactic, and we only have two players in the midfield who have the ability to organize and play the ball, and we can't even do the basic triangle coordination." In addition, neither Toure nor Guarin are the kind of players who can build a defensive system, their lateral defensive ability is very average, Diarra has such potential, but his offensive ability is really not good. ”

Guardiola was silent, he also knew that it was true, he just didn't want to believe it, he couldn't bear the result of not striving for perfection as a perfectionist.

Li Chengfeng saw Guardiola's disappointment, but he had no choice but to comfort his right-hand man, "This is only temporary, we are just a young team, and there is still a lot of room for development." Just because we can't do it now doesn't mean we won't be able to do it in the future. Rome wasn't built in a day, and Barcelona was able to do it because they have been sticking to this style for decades, and we can't do it overnight. ”

"Is it true that only Barcelona can do it?" Guardiola sighed.

"The team still has to focus on defending and counter-attacking, and when the players are not capable enough, we can't pursue long possession of the ball, we have to play faster and more direct." Li Chengfeng concluded, "We have to add two wings to take turns in the ribs to cut down or inside, and the back should pay attention to the defensive gap after the fullback assists." In this way, even if the offense doesn't work, because the team doesn't go deep as a whole and has time to defend in place. ”

'We can't go for a consistent ball that makes it easier for the opposition to organise the defence, and our players are not strong enough to break down that defence. Li Chengfeng added, "When attacking, we can't force the organization to cooperate, but we must seize every opportunity to quickly hit the opponent's back, use the personal ability of the frontcourt players to form a team breakthrough and cooperation, strive for goals, and once we don't achieve it, we quickly retreat." ”

'Toure and Diarra were brought on in the midfield position to strengthen the defensive intensity in midfield. In the midfield position, Modric and Ederson were selected to rotate according to the opponent's situation. Ribery could be more free-spirited, with his attacking zone on the left side of the pitch and Lescott giving up the flanks to add assists. The right-back still started Francis and defended solidly. ”

Right winger Lennon's lack of in-depth cutting meant that the more well-rounded Ribery was more qualified to be the heart of Sheffield Wednesday's attack. Since the left side has been chosen as the main offensive route, then for the sake of balance, the right side cannot use the strong offensive and weak Juan Fran, the defensive ability is stronger, but the side can be in the middle of the Francis is a more suitable choice.

The original centre-back combination of Lescott and Cahill was replaced by Antonini and Cahill. Lescott and Cahill are both aggressive defenders with excellent attacking awareness, but neither is suited to the centre-back position. Antonini is much better in this regard, and Antonini, who has been trained in Italian defensive philosophy since childhood, is also handy in the position of dragging back central defenders, making Sheffield Wednesday's defense more layered and more solid.

Although it is a pity for Antonini's attack, Lescott also played the left wing-back position when he was at Everton in the real world, and the attack and defense were excellent, and the main left wing-back of England later Leiton Barnes did not have the opportunity to play, so there was no problem for him to play this position. In addition, Antonini has missed a lot of games due to injury in the past two seasons, and Lee Seungfeng has put him in the position of dragging him back to central defender, and he is protected by double midfielders and Cahill in front of him, and he will be less likely to be injured. It should be smaller, Li Chengfeng thought.

Sheffield Wednesday will host Manchester City in their next fixture. Kevin Keegan, who was in charge of Manchester City for four years last season, finally couldn't bear the pressure and resigned voluntarily in the middle of the season, and Manchester City promoted Stuart Pierce as a new head coach within the team. The man, nicknamed 'The Nervous', brought toughness and toughness to Manchester City, who also finished eighth in the Premier League in 2004-2005 and came close to qualifying for the European zone.

This season they went to their attacking core, winger Wright Phillips, and their strength has weakened, but they still have a good result of one win and one draw in the first two rounds, and their morale is high. In this game, even if they were away from home, they said that they would take all three points, and Lee Seungfeng also showed no weakness in this regard, showing his determination to win at home. The team is now winless in two rounds, and the morale of the young players is a little low, and Lee Seung-bong has to use his words full of determination to boost the fighting spirit of the players.

As the only team in the top five leagues with Chinese players, Li Chengfeng has also had some knowledge before, and his only impression of this Manchester City team is that it is old, really old. Manchester City's main goalkeeper James is 35 years old, as well as 32-year-old full-back Sinclair, 32-year-old midfielder Reina, 34-year-old former Manchester United striker Andy Cole, and former Liverpool golden boy Robbie Fowler.

Such a team will naturally not be very fast-paced, so Lee Seung-peak asked Sheffield Wednesday's players to play more directly and quickly, squeezing them with their bodies and disrupting their rhythm.

Manchester City launched an attack from the sidelines as they started the game, with Pearce watching footage of Sheffield Wednesday's first two league games and devised a strategy to attack the centre.

Manchester City sold their main winger Phillips to Chelsea in exchange for £21 million to help them through financial difficulties, but the strength of the team has also been greatly weakened, especially on the wing. Facing Sheffield Wednesday's strong wing combination, Pierce also had to admit the difference in quality.

Pierce knows that Manchester City will not be able to take advantage of the wings, but Sheffield Wednesday has obvious flaws in the middle, Guardiola's body has not adapted to the intensity of the Premier League game, and the other option, Modric, whether it is defensive or playmaking, cannot play in the midfield position. Yaya Toure alone can't hold up the Sheffield Wednesday midfield defence, and he's not the kind of guy who is good at making lateral tackles. If it weren't for Sheffield Wednesday's luck in the first two games, they would never have conceded just three.

Pierce, who believes he has seen through Sheffield Wednesday's underbelly, decided to focus his attack on Sheffield Wednesday's midfield, placing young attacking midfielder Ireland to start, and sending a high-flying and fast combination of Andy Cole and Vassell in the forward line to try to force up Sheffield's defence.

Sheffield Wednesday, who had been prepared for this situation for a long time, also played a defensive counterattack according to the pre-match plan, and Ederson, who was more suitable for counter-attacking, was also sent in the front field as a striker. The midfield position was due to Diarra's position, and Sheffield Wednesday's defense was much more solid.

Seeing that the main player Modric did not play in the first two games, Pierce was a little surprised, but he did not make any changes, he became the manager for less than half a year, and Sheffield Wednesday was still in the Championship last season, he is not familiar with Sheffield Wednesday's players, although the assistant coach told him that Diarra is a young player on loan from Chelsea, but it is not helpful, Pierce did not care too much, how much can a young man under 20 years old change?

Diarra, who was making his first Premier League start, was still a little nervous when he couldn't hold the ball and was cut off by Manchester City youngster Ireland, who broke through his defence and sent a fast, low ball past the Sheffield Wednesday defence. Manchester City striker Vassell used his pace to force a pass over his defender Gary Cahill and was on the verge of facing Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Abondan Sheri. At this point, Antonini rushed from the side and scooped the ball out of the line from the side before Vassell could shoot with his feet. Vassell couldn't catch his feet, was taken by Antonini, and fell in the box.

Penalty kick? The Manchester City players were excited, but the referee didn't say anything, just motioned for the City players to take a corner. Such a decision was very disappointing for Manchester City, and Pierce also shouted a few times into the stadium as if he was nervous, until he attracted the attention of the referee.

In fact, Pierce was not so angry, he just wanted to put pressure on the referee through such means, and if he could influence the referee's judgment to a certain extent, he would have achieved his goal.

However, the scene just now strengthened his determination to attack the middle, and it seemed that the kid was not ready to play, and it was obvious that he had made a mistake because of excessive nervousness. Since you are like this, then you don't need to be polite, just use him as a breakthrough point, Pierce looked at Diarra on the field and made a decision.