After kick-off, Ricardo did not rush to lead the team to attack, but first stabilized and controlled.

City are also in no hurry to press high and recycle the formation when QPR has the ball, allowing QPR to keep the ball in central midfield, only waiting for QPR to hit the edge of their box before adding to the defensive force.

QPR played cautiously and would rather fall first than rush to send a straight plug when there was no good opportunity. Both Ricardo and Luka Modric dropped back deeper today to tighten their grip on the midfield.

Yes, it's a game you have to win, but if you want to win, you have to keep the opponent from scoring first.

Manchester City's attacking power is not weak, and the short duo of Tevez and Sergio Aguero have speed, impact, skill and shooting skills, and QPR does not dare to give them too many chances.

Ricardo was mainly marked by Yaya Toure and Zabaleta today.

Zabaleta is easy to deal with, but Yaya Toure is a shrewd bull, and Ricardo doesn't want to confront him head-on, so he prefers to retreat deeper.

It doesn't matter if he can't score a goal himself, as long as he can help his teammates score, he can win.

So Ricardo tried to pull back to bring Yaya Toure out, but Yaya Toure was not so stupid, he only got close when Ricardo was in front of him, and usually maintained a good defensive position.

But David. Silva and Nasri also sometimes give up on attacking and come over to defend Ricardo.

So the defensive resistance that Ricardo encountered was actually quite large.

And the Manchester City players also defended against him more aggressively today, and Ricardo had to watch out for injuries.

If he goes off injured early, as he did against Manchester United, there is no guarantee that QPR will not collapse.

So in the dressing room, Simeone's words to Ricardo were: "It's important to do your tactical duty, but it's even more important to make sure you don't get hurt." I don't need you to fight every ball, I just want you to play 90 minutes healthy. ”

You must know that Simeone's coaching style is very dirty, and the style of QPR players is very fierce, but he does not ask for that from Ricardo.

In Simeone's opinion, this QPR can be replaced by anyone but Ricardo.

Modric is not there, Borja. Valero can also be used; Nainggran is not there, Alda. Turan is OK too. Fernandinho can't play, Thiago. Motta can make up for it...... There are qualified substitutes for each position.

Only Ricardo, he is irreplaceable by Callejon, and it can even be said that Callejon cannot even achieve half of his role.

Ricardo certainly didn't want his injury to cost him the rest of the season.

But he also doesn't shy away from physical confrontation.

Football is a very confrontational sport, and players who always play physical confrontations may not play well, but players who avoid physical confrontations will not be able to perform well.

For example, Messi, who is only 1.7 meters tall and short, looks so thin in front of those giants who are often 1.85 meters and 1.9 meters. But he was never afraid to engage in physical confrontation with those giants.

Of course, he wouldn't be stupid enough to always use his thin and thin body to hit those giants, but if the other party looked for an opportunity to fight against his body, he would definitely be able to carry one or two blows.

The same is true of Ricardo, he will not take the initiative to physically fight against a muscular man like Yaya Toure, he will play the ball with his head and reduce the number of direct physical confrontations.

But when the physical confrontation comes, he will not back down.

In the 9th minute of the game, Ricardo took the ball on the left side and cut inside, Yaya Toure immediately came over to make up for the defense, and rushed over like a tank, like a tank about to knock Licardo away.

Ricardo immediately changed lines with the ball, and although he still inevitably collided with Yaya Toure, it was not a head-on collision after all, he stumbled and continued to move forward with the ball.

Yaya Toure is tall and long-legged, and he is not slow to run, and he is not thrown off by Ricardo, he has been trying to squeeze Ricardo with his body, slow down Licardo's speed, and wait for an opportunity to break the ball.

But Ricardo protected the ball well, and when he reached the edge of the box, he curled a half-high curling ball with his left foot, and the ball flew straight in front of goal.

Ronaldo didn't touch the ball, but the ball came around just as it was about to fly off the line. Turan narrowly stopped the ball and shook off Klich to cross again. Ronaldo turned and volleyed, but unfortunately the kick was missed, and the ball flew limply off the line.

It was QPR's first shot on goal of the game.

Of course, Manchester City, who occupy the home field, only completed one shot on goal, which shows that both sides played more cautiously.

In terms of time of possession, QPR had 59 per cent of the possession in the first 10 minutes, but most of the possession was concentrated in midfield and in their own half, and did not pose much of a threat.

Such a development of the situation did not come as a surprise to the QPR players.

In fact, now both sides are competing for patience.

Because both teams are in the same situation, if they want to win the championship, they have to win, and they can't accept a draw.

But the side that takes the lead in launching the offensive is bound to leave a gap behind it and give the opponent a chance to counterattack.

If the offense doesn't work, but the opponent counterattacks and steals one, the rest of the game will be difficult to play.

So Simeone predicted before the game that Manchester City would definitely be stable after the opening. He was right.

The guiding core of QPR is also a "stable" word.

Today's game should not be wide open, but should be seen in the article in the subtleties.

In the 12th minute, Manchester City tried a long-range shot from Nasri, which was of high quality and Handanovic couldn't save the ball, but the ball narrowly slid out of the net.

One minute later, City attacked again, Tevez played the ball with his back, Silva strode the ball past Alderweireld and fired from a tight angle with his unaccustomed right foot, the ball went limp and was saved by Handanovic.

Soon the QPR was still in color, Ricardo suddenly picked up a pass on the counter-attack, Ronaldo and Kompany went neck and neck, and finally Ronaldo touched the ball first, he cleverly poked the ball with his toes, and the ball went past the attacking goalkeeper Hart, but also slightly wide of the goal.

The commentator said: "Both sides put very few troops into the attack and played very carefully. Although there were hot scenes in the game, they were more intense than exciting. Ricardo was too far back today, and his drop-back strengthened the Rangers' dominance of possession, but he rarely posed a direct threat to the Blue Moon's goal. ”

"On City's side, the two young strikers still caused some problems for the QPR defence, with Vertonghen and Alderweireld both being tall and tough defenders, with strong frontal defensive ability but slow turns. In fact, many people predicted before the game that Mancini would use Dzeko with Aguero, but Mancini's choice was unexpected and achieved good results. ”

"Looking at the performance of these two teams, it is likely that there will not be too many goals in this game, and I personally think that the final score should be 1:0. As for who wins? All I can say is that there are opportunities for both sides. ”

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