Chapter 340: Tactics
At the start of the second half, the performance of the two teams was indeed a little different.
First of all, many people have found that De Bruyne's position is closer to the middle than in the first half, and this adjustment may be to avoid Shen Peng's defense, after all, De Bruyne is also an important fulcrum of Manchester City's attack.
On Manchester United's side, Rashford's position was appropriately adjusted, and after Manchester City put the defensive focus on both sides, Rashford became the tandem of Manchester United's midfield attack, and with the current defensive strength of Manchester City's midfield, Rashford's skills are fully competent.
Ten minutes later, Manchester City's side broke the deadlock first, they launched an attack from the left, Gundogan calmly passed the ball to the feet of Sterling in front of him when facing the defense of his former team-mate Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, and the ball was at the feet of Acquido.
Acquido was in good form for the game, receiving a pass and volleying straight into the far corner.
Two to one!
Shortly after the start of the second half, Manchester City overtook the score, which was the first time since Ibrahimovic returned to Manchester United that United were behind and the first time that the opponent scored two goals!
"Beautiful! This ball is a victory for pass-and-control play! Obviously, even Manchester United can't completely prevent Manchester City's fluid attack! ”
"It seems that in this game between the two champions of Manchester City, Manchester City seem to have the better hand!"
"If even Manchester United can't beat Manchester City, this Manchester City is really terrible!"
At this time, the camera was just right to Mourinho, wanting to see what the expression of the current Manchester United manager is like, but when people see the expressionless and calm Mourinho in the camera, they can't help but wonder, shouldn't Mourinho be yelling on the sidelines at this time?
Of course, no one pays much attention to it, and it's more important than that.
The game came to 70 minutes, during which there were some small chances on both sides, but neither side scored, the score was always fixed at 2-1, and the voice of Manchester City fans gradually became louder, and now their team is getting closer and closer to victory, as long as this game is won, they will beat Manchester United this season, and they can beat Manchester United, who is currently in the limelight, and they are also full of a sense of accomplishment.
But just then, Mourinho made a gesture on the pitch.
To outsiders, they didn't understand what this gesture meant, but the Manchester United players showed a sudden expression.
At this point, a tentative attack by Manchester City was finally saved by De Gea because it was too positive.
After De Gea's pass, the ball was quickly passed to the midfield, as before.
After Pogba dribbled the ball, he suddenly passed to the left, and the ball rolled towards Shen Peng!
Shen Peng has not performed very well in the previous games, except for assisting Pogba to score, because he has always been under the watchful eye of two Manchester City players.
However, at this time, Shen Peng received the pass first.
As before, most people also thought that Manchester United's attack would be the same as before, when it was blocked by Manchester City, Shen Peng suddenly accelerated with the ball and rushed all the way to the Manchester City penalty area!
In order to prevent Shen Peng's rapid passing, Manchester City has already prepared for two people who are guarding Shen Peng, one is next to Shen Peng, and the other is at a certain distance in front of Shen Peng.
They all did this before, and the effect was not bad, and Shen Peng has not had any outstanding performance because of this.
In the face of Shen Peng's breakthrough, Walker, who was stuck in advance in advance, moved his feet, and the whole person ran towards Shen Peng's forward, preparing to use his body to limit Shen Peng's speed.
However, after he acted, he suddenly found that Shen Peng seemed to have become faster?
No, it's not that Shen Peng is fast, it's that he's slow!
He soon felt a feeling of exhaustion in his body and legs, and he instantly understood!
In the previous seventy minutes of the game, in order to defend Shen Peng, he often followed Shen Peng to keep running, and his physical energy was also slowly consumed during this period!
And the illusion that he "successfully restricted" Shen Peng is also the reason why Shen Peng's own speed is slowly decreasing, for example, Shen Peng's speed was one hundred at the beginning of the game, and as the game progressed, his speed gradually dropped to eighty, so Walker never noticed anything unusual, and now Shen Peng's speed has suddenly returned to one hundred, which makes Walker unable to catch up at all at the first time, after all, his position is predicted according to the speed in front.
From the audience's point of view, it was Shen Peng who easily broke through the two defenders of Manchester City with one acceleration!
After the breakthrough, Shen Peng took the ball all the way to the big penalty area, faced Kompany and goalkeeper Ederson who hurriedly returned to the defense, calmly got up, and the ball rolled into the goal from Ederson's left armpit.
Two to two!
It was a goal that left the sidelines silent.
Mourinho didn't make much of a celebration, just raised his hands into fists and waved.
Pep Guardiola also understood Manchester United's tactics in an instant.
It is clear that Manchester United are using Shen Peng's physical advantage to deceive Manchester City's defence.
Now that he understands it, there is naturally a way to deal with it, and that is to change people.
However, if he is replaced, he still has to consider a question, since Shen Peng has been replaced, does Aubameyang need to do this?
Although judging from the previous performance, Aubameyang's physical fitness is not as good as Shen Peng, but Manchester United's use of this move is obviously a long-planned move, and a move that has been prepared for so long was cracked by him with a simple substitution.
And if Aubameyang has to make a substitution, he will have to change two full-backs in a row, so he only has one card left to use, and the midfield is fierce, and now several of them have lost a bit of fitness.
So after careful weighing, Guardiola decided to only trade for Walker for the time being.
Walker has been in fine form this season, with only two games not starting in total, so now after replacing him, he has to bring on Danilo.
After the substitution, Shen Peng did not hide his physical fitness anymore, but used his speed and physical strength advantage to frequently impact Manchester City's backline, so that Manchester City's defense on the right showed signs of weakness, and even De Bruyne, another who had been keeping an eye on him, looked a little tired.
De Bruyne, Ederson, and Fernandinho are the only three players in Manchester City who have started every game this season, and his performance is also quite good, but his position is against Shen Peng, so in this game, he has not played much, and now he is about to be taken out of fitness by Shen Peng.