Section 435 Manchester City's gains and losses

When Silva knocked on the big 'door' of Wolfsburg with a beautiful 'shot' and 'door', the atmosphere at Manchester City's home stadium, after being suppressed for a long time, finally ushered in a complete outbreak. , the latest chapter access: . Manchester City football 'fans' from the helplessness of the whole half of the game, to the depression that has been suppressed for three seasons, after Silva's goal, it seems that all have been vented, around the stadium, cheers shook the earth, Manchester City football 'fans' with their enthusiasm, celebrating their team's glorious moment.

Looking at the opponent's goal, the players of Wolfsburg can only sigh: Manchester City does still have a set, no matter what, they are also the top team in the Premier League, and their tactical ability and personnel level are enough to be admired. It is indeed a mistake of Wolfsburg to think that their tactics are not properly configured and to take them lightly.

Such a team, even if there is a problem with the tactics, is still terrible. They have stars, they have great coaches, and they can make up for a lot of the team's shortcomings. At the beginning of the game, Wolfsburg was obviously deflated by the team's tactical adjustments, but they still didn't pay attention to their opponents, which was their problem.

They really underestimated the British style of football, and they didn't expect that the opponent would be able to play such a change on the basis of the British style of football.

Compared with continental style football, the biggest advantage of British style football is their toughness and confrontational 'sex', in their own league, because the whistle is very loose as a whole, many players will be extremely keen on physical confrontation in the game, so the physical condition is not good, it is difficult to 'mix' in England, in order to play better in England, players must have a good body, which is why people always joke that if some stars in La Liga reach the Premier League, they are afraid that they will have to break three 'legs' in a season - The confrontation in the Premier League is indeed very tough, even almost brutal, and such a tyrannical football environment really cannot tolerate the existence of technical streams.

In such an overall environment, it is naturally difficult for the Champions League style to be popular in the UK. Play the technical stream in the Premier League. The horrific standard of punishment is enough to make people miserable. Playing English games in the style of the Champions League, the problem is Arsene Wenger, Alex Ferguson. Mourinho, Benitez, Ancelotti and countless other "colorful" coaches, "spending" years and still not solving the problem, even if they have the best conditions. Ferguson, who has been studying for the longest time, still has not found a solution in this regard.

This is a problem that requires a real genius to 'spend' for a long time to solve, and if football tactics are a 'door' science, this is obviously already in the category of scientific research.

Although a newly rising giant' like Manchester City has money, it is impossible for them to use the money to buy scientific research results that the world has no answers to. No matter how good their coach is and how well they are funded, it will not take a year to solve the problems that Ferguson has not solved in ten years. And everyone knows that Manchester City's Arab investment is not to develop English football. Their purpose is to produce results quickly, and since they can't solve this problem, but they want results, they naturally have to make trade-offs.

And what is the trade-off? The decision on this issue is in the hands of the coach. In contrast, compared to cup competitions, which have a heavy element of luck in addition to strength, the league with enough money to build a squad that can make the results more stable is naturally the first choice for coaches. If the team doesn't have enough patience, it means they have to produce enough results as soon as possible. Compared to taking the risk of betting on the Champions League, it is best to play steadily in the league, therefore. When City's coaches build their squad, their squad will be a British style and lack a continental influence.

This is the biggest difference between them and Chelsea: Chelsea were also nouveau riche back then, but when Chelsea bought people. With their eyes on the Eredivisie, Ligue 1 and Portuguese Super League, they have made up their minds from the very beginning to optimize their tactics in order to gain a foothold. From the very beginning, Manchester City has been digging into the Premier League's own players. Their thinking has always been to use the Premier League, relying on better staffing to squeeze others to death.

After all, Manchester City did not have a good background, and they could not find a second Mourinho at the right time, and if they didn't play like this, they would not be able to beat Alex Ferguson's Manchester United in the league to win a league title. However, because of this play, they have not played well in the Champions League. The biggest reason for such a problem is actually the direction pursued by their own team, and this kind of 'fault' cannot be solved by inviting a top coach to tinker with the lineup. This is a problem of the management's thinking, it is not a problem of the coach from the beginning, even if the coach is changed, it will not help.

After all, the British style is too far behind, which is something that even the small ball 'fans' who only know a little about football know. Playing in this way, Wolfsburg still underestimated them too much.

However, City's goal ultimately proved that they were no ordinary team. Although a top-level coach cannot solve Manchester City's problems, he can enhance the team through his own tactical adjustments and grasp of details. The same set of tactics, some teams use it to make people praise, some teams use it to make people speechless, the most critical problem is to grasp the details.

Manchester City can afford to hire a good coach, and the details of their team will naturally not be bad.

Pellegrini proved to be a good coach, even if he was confined to the framework of English football, but by adjusting the midfield coordination, using strikers flexibly, and maximizing the bilateral wings, he added some tactical changes that could make the team flexible in local areas to the original monotonous and rigid British tactics, and in the end, he also relied on these adjustments, and his players' outstanding strength, to complete the goal against Wolfsburg.

With a score of 1-1, the two sides returned to the same starting line after 60 minutes of confrontation. City didn't collapse as Wolfshouldsburg had hoped, and they were very resilient in this round of confrontation.

And tenacious play always brings advantages to the team. After scoring the goal, Manchester City's morale has also been boosted to the top. Equalizing their opponents in the Champions League may not be a big deal for other teams, but for Manchester City, who have been bad in the Champions League for a long time, it is enough to make the football 'fans' excited, and the stadium is filled with cheers for a while.

Because of this goal, Wolfsburg seemed to lose not only the advantage of the score, but also the initiative on the field, and the situation seemed to be unfavorable to them all of a sudden.

However, although it seems that Wolfsburg has lost its advantage all of a sudden, it is surprising that although Manchester City has the upper hand, after the celebration, Manchester City's attack has not arrived as Wolfsburg imagined.

Playing at home, reversing a draw, it was always difficult to even qualify from the group before, but this time in the round of 16, they can play better and better. With this kind of performance, what a team should do is also chase after the victory, relying on their high morale and pursuing a complete victory, which is the best choice.

That's what Manchester City should do. But at this time, when they wanted to pursue, they faced a lot of embarrassment: after 60 minutes, although Manchester City was still thinking about attacking, on the pitch, their players' attacking speed slowed down significantly.

City may have a good grasp of the details of the game, but in the big picture, they have forgotten one important thing: the players will get tired as the minutes go by. In particular, Manchester City's crazy attack in the first half made the players' fatigue come early.

Manuel Pellegrini's tactical arrangement is very good, but football is never a game of FM, the coach does what the players say, that kind of thing only happens in the game, in reality, the players play the ball is a very important issue of execution. Even if it's a good tactic, do the players listen to it, and do they execute it well? These are also important issues for the team.

On the worst side, some teams will always face discord between players and coaches. Chelsea, who claims to have a team committee and is not going to fight against the coach, is a central leader, and even the famous Ferguson has had a flying boot 'goal' incident. As soon as such a problem arises, a team naturally has no execution, and no matter how good the tactics are, they can't be used. In addition to the tactical level of a team, the coach of a team also needs to have enough skills to make the group of arrogant players obey, which is not an easy task.

Manchester City don't have that kind of problem, but they also have a lot of trouble: because their team doesn't have much Champions League experience, and they have too much confidence against Wolfsburg, they haven't been able to fully implement Pellegrini's tactics when they play in the first half. Yaya Toure took the lead in going crazy at that time, which made Manchester City be poured a ball in the short term, and in the long run, it also made Manchester City face a great physical crisis. The current trouble of conceding goals has been made up for by scoring goals, but the crisis of physical strength is now highlighted again.

For Manchester City, when they finally ushered in their advantage, they faced a new problem: they may have found the rhythm of the game and figured out how to play to win, but they also had to pay the price for their immaturity in the first half of the game.

Now, it seems, they don't have the strength to do any more raids. Although Wolfsburg had just conceded the goal, it was the weakest time, but they couldn't rush up to make up for it.

And that's not the worst part, the worst thing is that their physical exertion problem seems to have been discovered by the players at Wolfsburg. On the pitch, the Wolfsburg players seemed to be 'intended' again after seeing that Manchester City did not launch a pursuit.