The games between the two heroes of Manchester City have always been eye-catching, especially after the arrival of the two champion managers of Pep Guardiola and Mourinho, and the addition of Shen Peng, the standard king, this season is the center of the Premier League topic.

Those gimmicks that have been said countless times have been hyped up by the media.

At this time, Guardiola stood on the sidelines of the pitch, watching the training of the players, constantly touching his head, and the expression on his face was not very good.

It's not because of all the media hype, it's that the current situation at Manchester City is not good.

Manchester City are currently fourth, just three points clear of fifth-placed Liverpool, and the two teams have the same number of games remaining, so this game is important for them.

If they lose, although they still have more goal difference than Liverpool, there must be no mistakes in the future, otherwise it is likely that they will not even be able to play in the Champions League next season - it will be a joke if he leads a team that can't even play in the Champions League after a season.

At this time, Manchester United came to Shen Peng and Rashford to cooperate very tacitly, when he was in charge of Bayern Munich, he had enough of Shen Peng and Mbappe.

This game, even at home, is not easy for Manchester City to play.

So Pep Guardiola tried every means to limit Shen Peng, but Shen Peng is not the kind of player who can be limited by saying that he can be restricted.

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On 27 April, Manchester United took on Manchester City away.

At Manchester City Stadium, Manchester United in red jerseys and Manchester City in blue jerseys played a fierce match.

The previous game of the season between the two teams was a 2-2 draw, which was still Manchester United's home stadium, and now Manchester City's home stadium, Manchester United's main center forward Ibrahimovic is still injured, and it stands to reason that Manchester City should play better.

But things are a little different on the pitch.

Although Manchester City is still very fluid in attack and occasionally clever combinations, they have never posed much threat to Manchester United's goal.

On the other hand, Manchester United, now Shen Peng and Rashford are more and more tacit, they are like a chemical reaction, every time they meet, they have to perform better than the last time they met.

So the attack of the two caused a lot of problems for the Manchester City defence.

Thirty-one minutes, in the huge boos of the audience on the sidelines, Shen Peng shook off Yaya Toure, the main midfielder of Manchester City who was put on the bench by Guardiola at the beginning of the season, and then got the opportunity to play, and then before the other two Manchester City players rushed over, he made a diagonal pass to the middle!

The ball rolled to the feet of Rashford, Rashford did not delay for half a second, and passed the ball back with a direct kick, at this time Shen Peng had already thrown off the players who defended him, and took the lead with his own speed, and controlled Rashford's return pass first.

The combination of the two is just a simple cooperation against the wall, but Manchester City's defenders don't seem to have the slightest way!

After Shen Peng passed the ball out, it was easy for them to foul Shen Peng and eat cards if they blocked it, if they didn't block it, Shen Peng could force the gap by relying on speed and receive a pass from Rashford!

So they can only find a way to defend Rashford, as long as they limit Rashford, it will be much easier to defend Shen Peng alone.

However, Shen Peng's pass just now was extremely hidden, and the Manchester City players couldn't predict it at all, and when Rashford ran to the ball, they couldn't catch up again, and it was too late, so this led to the three defenders being played like defenders in the lower league when facing Shen Peng.

This cooperation is very fatal for Manchester City, because when the ball falls to Shen Peng's feet again, he only faces Manchester City's goalkeeper Bravo!

In this case, Bravo only had to block Shen Peng's shot angle, but Shen Peng already had a wealth of experience in single knives and saw that Bravo was defending his pick, so he just poked lightly, and the ball flew into the goal from Bravo's armpit.

One to zero.

Seeing the goal, Pep Guardiola on the sidelines felt as if he was back in Bayern Munich, while opposite their old rivals Borussia Dortmund.

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In the 64th minute of the second half, Lingard dribbled the ball on the right flank and then passed to Rashford, Rashford, after seeing Lingard's pass, faced the direction of Lingard when someone was defending him, and knocked the ball directly with his heel, and the ball rolled from the feet of Fernandinho, who was defending him, to the left.

Fernandinho didn't expect Rashford to pass the ball without even looking at Shen Peng's position, without the slightest warning, let alone him, even those experienced top central defenders in the world may not be able to defend it now.

Shen Peng ran to the ball, at this time there were three Manchester City players around him, and he didn't choose to force a breakthrough directly, when the ball rolled to his feet, he directly got up and passed back!

The ball flew down the middle and Marcus Rashford ran towards it!

If Rashford gets the ball first, City's goal will be in danger!

So City's players started to think of stopping Rashford.

Rashford was also really affected by them, and his speed was a little slower, and he didn't seem to be able to reach Shen Peng's pass.

Otamendi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, defending Shen Peng and Rashford, the nerves really can't be relaxed at all, and a negligence just now may lead to the success of Shen Peng's pass.

However, when he saw the trajectory of the ball, his heart hung in the air!

Because the ball took a small turn and flew towards the right side of Manchester United!

Shen Peng will pass the curveball, basically everyone knows, but they didn't expect him to do it at this time, and if you look at it now, even if they don't block it, Rashford may not be able to touch the ball, Shen Peng didn't plan to pass to Rashford at all, the goal of the pass in the morning was the right side!

The ball had also flown to the right at this time, Lingard suddenly ran out, at this time he was in an unguarded state, after receiving the ball, adjust his posture, and then shoot with his feet!

The ball flew trickily into the goal.

Two to zero!

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In the 77th minute, when Rashford received the ball in the middle, Manchester City's Vincent Kompany was fouled by a defensive maneuver, and the referee awarded Manchester United a free-kick.

The home fans booed the referee's decision, but it was a clear foul and they did it purely in support of their team.

This free kick is even worse for Manchester City, they are still 0-2 behind, Shen Peng's free kick is also very powerful, if this free kick is scored again, then Manchester City is finished.

Without this free kick, the gap between the two goals, with ten minutes remaining, if you are lucky, it is entirely possible to pull it back.