Chapter 193: Brilliant Feints
Compared to other central defenders, despite being 1.90m tall, Kompany's bounce is not outstanding. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Before coming to Manchester City, he played in the Bundesliga for Hamburg in the midfield, because of his outstanding physical condition and amazing interception ability.
Breaking the ball and tackling are Kompany's forte. A good sense of position allows him to do an excellent job of marking any opponent.
Of course, all this must be guaranteed by his complete physical health.
Recent examinations have shown that Kompany's body is 100 percent cured. However, it will take time for him to be "psychologically healed" to be completely "convinced" that his body is completely fine.
The usual practice is to let the players gradually increase their playing time in the relatively low-level competition of the reserve team and youth team before the official return.
How long this process needs to last varies from person to person.
Kompany's understanding of Li Liang is very different. Although this guy is full of flaws with the ball and doesn't look strong enough, it's clear that either Zucurini or Mooy can't completely restrain him in one-on-one.
So when Li Liang succeeded in breaking through Mooy again, Kompany had already moved ahead of time, blocking Li Liang's forward path.
Kompany no longer dares to take this opponent who can shoot from left and right from a medium and long distance, and he understands that Li Liang's space must be compressed.
Yedner once again rushed to the full speed of Kompany's defensive zone, which strengthened Li Liang's judgment: the key to breaking the Manchester City defense is the seemingly indestructible Manchester City captain in front of him.
Kompany was so accurate that Li Liang had to slow down and start dribbling laterally.
He always kept a safe distance from Kompany, leaving an extra two metres away – that's the deterrent power of a top defender!
Yednar was already approaching, Li Liang did not force a breakthrough this time, and he distributed the ball to Mullins who was answering on the side.
Mullins took the ball and cut inside, immediately attracting Yedner and Zuculini, who was back in the defense, took the ball a step and turned and immediately returned it to Li Liang.
Li Liang and Mullins have switched positions and are facing right-back Maffeo at the moment.
Manchester City's defensive strategy is zone defence, which can relatively save a lot of energy on defenders compared to man to man defence, especially Kompany.
This was also guessed by Li Liang, and after taking the ball, he did not continue to pull the side, but cut inside again.
Mullins understood and immediately switched positions with Li Liang for the second time without pausing.
In this way, there will be a brief "blind spot" in the transition between Yednar, Zucullini and the right-back, and the usual tactical requirement is that the central defender continues to follow Mullins a few steps until Mullins is brought into the range of Maffeo's right-back.
As for Li Liang, who is cut inside, another central defender, that is, Kompany, who is closest to the right back, should be in charge.
Seeing that Kompany, who was a little hesitant, did not follow suit, Ferguson turned sideways and said to Wenger in surprise: "Vincent obviously has a problem." ”
Wenger nodded vigorously: "He can't run." It should be a change in the defensive strategy and let him drag back to play the scavenger and let the young man [Yednar] mark the man. ”
In the eyes of these two palace-level figures, the usual defensive position problem, the stunned young people in New York City did not find out for half an hour on the field.
Of course, in the face of Manchester City's strong overall strength, they have no chance to find out at all.
The story should have ended with a clean victory, with City's youngsters gaining experience and confidence; Kompany and Bony successfully used the game to recover and improve their form; Devis has successfully established his prestige.
New York City didn't come out of nowhere, with Patrick Vieira's team making a purge based on their on-field performances.
Sadly, all of that will change because of an amateur player whose online following is rapidly climbing.
Li Liang had already seen Kompany's problems, and he didn't intend to stop there.
The moment he switched positions with Mullins, he did not continue to cut horizontally, but directly changed direction to accelerate and dribble forward, and instantly formed a two-on-one situation with Maffeo who was running along the sideline.
This temporary defensive confusion caused by Kompany's failure to move in time was the first time on the field. Before Li Liang moved up the position, New York City's attack had no chance of putting such pressure on City's defence.
Li Liang picked up the ball on the edge of the penalty area, so he was in a dilemma with Maffeo, who was defending Mullins.
Boku and Shelton were both moving quickly down the middle, Zuculini and Yedner were hesitant, while Mooy cut in from Lopez after defending at high speed, and the unmarked Li Liang managed to dribble the ball behind Maffeo.
Yedenar has come to his senses, and if Li Liang continues to break through, he will directly threaten the goal!
Yedner chased back at an astonishing speed, and Maffeo waited for the support of the right midfielder who returned to the defense, and immediately turned back and rushed towards Li Liang.
Li Liang saw that Sheldon was tightly clinged to Zuculini, Boku and Angelino were entangled together, and Lopez had not yet entered the big penalty area.
He made up his mind and started cutting inside along the baseline, waiting for an inverted cross or a straight shot.
Yedner was already in place from the inside, and he rushed over fiercely, ready to use his body to stick to Li Liang before making a steal.
He also saw Li Liang's performance in the training match with his own eyes, and knew that his opponent was physically weak.
Therefore, as long as you can get close, you can give full play to your great advantage in physique and strength.
He saw that Li Liang did not slow down, and still observed the middle while dribbling the ball. Yednar understands that in this case, even a glance between lightning and flint can be a feint!
Yednar gestured with his arms clasped together behind his back, looking like he was guarding against Li Liang's cross, but in fact he was highly focused, watching for possible feints from his opponent.
Unfortunately, he doesn't know that the current Li Liang has only mastered basic ball control actions such as ball control, ball pulling, and plucking the ball, and he can't make more complex feints for the time being.
Li Liang's thoughts were not as complicated as his opponent's, and he turned around in an instant, from facing the bottom line to facing Yednar, who pounced.
He also dunked the ball back and then gently pushed forward with his left foot.
Yednar had already slowed down with all his might, just to prevent Li Liang from making a sudden stop or a sharp turn, and he was thrown away from being thrown too hard, and even crashed into Li Liang's body and had an accident - he was worried that Li Liang would take the opportunity to fall into the penalty area.
But he didn't expect that Li Liang would handle the ball so "straightforwardly".
There was no bogushing, but it became the most effective falsity - Yednar considered all the possibilities, but he did not expect that his opponent would break directly through his head.
Li Liang sent the ball out with his left foot and immediately dodged his opponent to the right side.
In order to slow down, Yednar was adjusting his center of gravity with all his might, and his body leaned back slightly - the ball passed between his legs accurately.
The fans were amazed, and there was also an uproar on the benches on both sides, this wonderful man-ball score was beyond everyone's expectations!