Manchester City's adjustment after half-time can be said to have surprised all the Wolfsburg players. -79- In this game, Manchester City's tenacity and intensity made it hard for Wolfsburg players to believe that this team was the shame of the Champions League in the Premier League that was often played in the group stage in the past. After the half-time, they did not lose their combat effectiveness because they were behind, on the contrary, they made 'outstanding' adjustments and further strengthened their strength, which can be said to be quite surprising.

However, although Manchester City's line-up has been stable, and after adjusting the attack in the second half, the attacking ability is still quite good. But as the game wore on, a full ten minutes passed, and City still didn't have any good chances. Wolfsburg, which was gradually suppressed by Manchester City, gradually understood something: maybe Manchester City's poor performance in the Champions League was not an accident, but there were internal reasons.

After the half-time confrontation, Wolfsburg also saw the problem of Manchester City: the biggest 'problem' of this team is not that they are mercenaries, nouveau riche, and have a bad mentality: Manchester City has a certain problem in thought, but if all the problems of not playing well are attributed to the mercenary players not playing well, or whether the giants have no sense of honor, that is the most stupid approach, Manchester City's problem is obviously not here.

Mercenaries are not necessarily bad at playing, Wolfsburg itself is a team with a majority of mercenaries, and they play very well, and it is ridiculous that there is no sense of honor if they are not giants.

Honor does have an impact on the team, but it only makes the team look less than good in the power conversation. ←→ x79 novels can't win against a strong team against a team that is weaker than themselves, and that's not a matter of honor. Manchester City has frequently had problems qualifying for the group stage in recent years, which is obviously not a problem of honor, but a fundamental problem in tactics.

City's tactical thinking is problematic – a view that might seem rather ludicrous. As the team that 'spends' the most money in the world, the player value is in the top five teams in the world. They buy all kinds of players, and they can dig any player, how can there be a problem with tactics? Over the years, Manchester City has spent a lot of money on team building. How can such a problem still exist? And even if there is a problem in a year or two, Manchester City has changed three coaches now, and the league results are not bad, how can there always be problems?

There is indeed some truth to such doubts. But sometimes, people tend to overlook one problem: Manchester City's squad has indeed been built at a great cost, and they have indeed changed a few coaches and won some honors. However, people often overlook that Manchester City's squad is not only for the Champions League, but also for the league. In addition to the Champions League, they pay more attention to the league results. They can find a coach or change tactics. They have always taken the league very seriously, and this is the key to the problem.

As we all know, there is a big difference between the British style of football and the continental style, and sometimes there are some people who ridicule that the strong teams of the continental style will be injured and out of manpower in half a season when they arrive in the UK. This may be nonsense, but at least it reveals that playing in England is not the same as playing in the mainland, and if more money is 'spent' on the league when forming a team, then the team's Champions League combat effectiveness. Naturally, it won't be too good.

In order to compete with Manchester United and win more titles in the league, Manchester City has also moved its overall thinking closer to English-style football when building its team. For midfield confrontations. Attacking from the wings, defending headers by tall defenders, they put a lot of effort into it. These efforts have made them a top team in terms of lineup, but in terms of tactical details. But it's still British. And the English style is not a new thing when playing in the Champions League.

After Chelsea was formed, many people focused on how much money they 'spent', how many people they poached, how many games they won, and how many cannons Mourinho fired. However, few people noticed that at that time, Mourinho brought to England not only a strong team, but also advanced tactical ideas and concepts. Under the influence of his Chelsea, the Premier League powerhouses made changes, and then there was the prosperity of the Premier League. And such a change, Manchester City did not make at the time, compared to Chelsea, they are not reformers, but choose to compromise with English football.

If they compromise with England, they will naturally be abandoned by the Champions League. This kind of tactic is not a tactic to play in the Champions League, lacking the ability to penetrate locally, lacking the ability to blast in a small area, and when other strong teams put the core of the team on the front line, they have to rely on a back to build the team, this kind of thinking itself is outdated. ←→x79 novel.com

It is precisely because of the backwardness of the ideology as a whole that even if the strength is obviously stronger than the opponent, it is still difficult for them to win in the game. Thinking about this, the players at Wolfsburg were relieved.

However, at this moment, the Wolfsburg players still forget one important thing: maybe City's tactics are indeed problematic, but sometimes the coaches' ability to make local adjustments, as well as the individual ability of the stars, can change the problem.

Manchester City's attack may lack intersperse, but that doesn't mean their players can't do something amazing. When the time was nearly 60 minutes, Manchester City's attack finally showed its edge.

In this attack, it was Keylor Navas again, who sent the ball to Dzeko with a cross. In the penalty area, Dzeko did not choose to head again, but stopped the ball with one foot, and then accelerated in disguise with a fast flick of the ball, dodging Kjaer's marking. In front of him, Naldo immediately caught up, and the two defenders tried to stop Dzeko with a joint defence. However, at this moment, Dzeko chose to knock the ball behind him with a knock pass.

The ball passed from Dzeko's feet to the back. In the box, Dzeko ceded his chance to his teammate with a beautiful back-heel cross. Behind him, Silva was quickly covered, and by this time he had 'plugged' into the box, running towards the left front, looking for his chance.

He's been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, and he's been expecting his team to make such an attack since the second half. Throughout the game, Manchester City have been highlighting Dzeko's role through the continuous low crosses from the two wings, and through the activation of the two back midfielders, the Wolfsburg midfielders have advanced and confronted them. Under such tactics, Silva's role has been deliberately ignored, and he basically did nothing but come out and touch the ball twice when the team needed to control the tempo.

But it wasn't for nothing that he did so. Because there was not much play in the whole game, the Wolfsburg side also relaxed their guard on him. In the eyes of Wolfsburg players, Silva is a master of organization, but Manchester City does not need Aguero and others now, and his organizational skills are difficult to play to the level, and they don't pay too much attention to him. Silva's passing skills are good, but City are clearly more inclined to attack from the air than on the ground, and he is difficult to play on the pitch.

There wasn't too much of a mistake with the Wolfsburg players' thinking. But they miss one important thing. Silva may not be a master of 'shooting' or 'goal', compared to Frank Lampard's 'plugging' in the back row, his skills in this area are indeed average, but even so, when he dribbles into the box, he is still full of threat.

In the whole game, because of the coach's arrangement, he has endured so far, and now he finally has a chance to break out.

In the box, Silva had already got the football, and at this moment, the Wolfsburg defender had been diverted by Dzeko's movement. In front of the goal, Silva's eyes were an obvious hole in the back, and he didn't hesitate to kick the ball out!

In front of the goal, the Wolfsburg defenders have realized their mistakes. Naldo stretched out his foot to block the ball, but Benaglio pounced on it to take it into his arms. However, Silva's 'shot' was not so easy to intercept. The ball crossed a curve, higher than Nardó's outstretched foot, and more farther than Benaglio thought, and drilled into the 'goal' of the ball.

This goal was not stopped again. When the 59th minute came, City finally scored on their home turf.

Around the entire stadium, there were huge cheers in an instant, and after 60 minutes of fierce fighting, Manchester City's several attacks finally paid off. Manchester City in the second half, finally let the ball 'fans' see what a strong team should look like, the score became 1-1, Manchester City in the Champions League, from the backward situation to catch up with the opponent, what else, more than this to make the ball 'fans' happy?

Maybe in the first half, they did make mistakes. But as long as they can get back in shape and don't make the mistakes they made again, the fans will still cheer them on. From being at the bottom of the Champions League group stage to now being able to equalize in the round of 16, the fans are very satisfied with this team, and they will still offer their most sincere wishes.

Of course, this is still not the best situation they want. 1-1 is good, but it's a draw, not a lead. When the football 'fans' are cheering for their team, they are also looking forward to this goal in their hearts, which can soon become a real victory.

It doesn't look that difficult, there are still 30 minutes to go, there is still time, and it seems that anything is possible.