Wan Sheng was also very happy to see Silva's goal, and he applauded excitedly and celebrated with the others.

This goal can be said to be expected and unexpected.

In this game, Wan Sheng chose to let the team play conservatively.

In the face of the final, this is the most stable, but conservative does not mean that there will be no goals for a long time, he believes that the players in the team will still have a good performance in the game, such as Morris, Torres and other stars, as long as there is a chance, they can be converted into goals.

Portsmouth are tight defensively, but any defense will have holes.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the players in his team suddenly broke out and scored a goal, after all, the ability of the players in the team is much stronger than the opponent.

To Wan Sheng's surprise, it was David Silva who completed the goal.

"Does David Silva still matter after Ozil?" This is a question that a lot of the British media talk about.

Manchester City's magnificent results have made them one of the most watched teams in Europe, and many people will analyze their squad and every player.

So far this season, the team's brightest player is Morris, who has become Manchester City's number one star with the steady play of the core of the midfield.

That's followed by Fernando Torres and Darren Bent.

When the strikers are doing well, it is easy to make a name for themselves.

Fernando Torres is the top scorer in the Champions League, with the Golden Boy now scoring 10 goals in the Champions League and almost certainly the top scorer in the Champions League, and not surprisingly, the best striker in the Champions League this season will belong to Torres; Darren Bent is the Premier League's top scorer, helping Manchester City score 27 goals in the league, beating Cristiano Ronaldo to win the 'Premier League Golden Boot'.

One is the top scorer in the Champions League and the other is the top scorer in the league, and these two strikers are the brightest stars of Manchester City.

At the back of the list is Mesut Ozil.

Mesut Ozil has been very good this season, scoring and assisting, he is a little better than Silva, and there have been a few games where Mesut has played as a wing-back and has been doing quite well.

Therefore, some media believe that Silva is no longer 'necessary' for Manchester City.

The combination of Mesut Ozil and Morris is enough to support Manchester City's midfield, and Silva has become a 'superfluous' person.

Wan Sheng didn't give a damn about this statement.

David Silva is the 'second' core of the team, and his offensive contribution is only second to Morris, and under the team's tactical system, Morris is the core, but not absolutely, because the core is often closely marked by the opponent, and even Morris, under the targeted defense, it is difficult to perform well every time.

Many times, Silva has to pick up the burden of organising attacks.

Silva is also tasked with defending.

The midfield combination of Morris, Mesut Ozil and Silva, Silva has contributed the most to the defence, which is why he has not been outstanding recently.

Silva has to organize the attack and shoulder the heavy responsibility of defense, so to speak, on the playing field, many times he is doing 'dirty' and 'tired' work, and the offensive performance is naturally not as good as Ozil, who completely let go of his position and plays freely.

However, Silva's importance in the team is undeniable, and in many games where Morris is not present, Silva is the absolute heart of the team.

In contrast, Ozil has not been able to entrust him with a heavy responsibility.

Seeing Silva's goal, Wan Sheng was still a little surprised, because the goal was so beautiful.

That's how Silva 'got his brain' comes into play.

Silva was able to score such a goal from outside the box even though he was shouldering a heavy responsibility, and Wan Sheng was still very satisfied.

He kept clapping and celebrating Silva.

It was Silva's own goal and it helped the team take the lead, and with the lead, the rest of the game was much easier.

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As the manager of Portsmouth, Redknapp felt a little depressed when he saw the team being scored in ten minutes.

The goal was unexpected and completely disrupted the pre-match set-up.

However, the game has just begun, and Redknapp can't do anything but hope that the players on the field can perform better.

After Manchester City celebrated the goal, the game resumed.

It didn't take long for Redknapp to realise that City's overall control of the game was more terrifying than the performance of their brilliant players.

From the first minute of the game, Portsmouth did not have a single chance in the Manchester City penalty area.

Their only shot so far was from the edge of midfielder Mendes' long-range effort.

The ball flew across 30 metres towards the Manchester City goal...... Of course, there was no threat, and Wang Xiaolei easily held the ball in his arms.

Others, there are none.

With City's controlled style of play, Portsmouth had few chances, and neither their normal advance nor a quick counter-attack could get closer to the City goal.

On the perimeter they still have room to get their feet up, and when they get to the box, they don't have a chance at all.

Most of the time, football is controlled at the feet of Manchester City players, when they control the football, they are not in a hurry to attack, but constantly pass the ball on the periphery, keep passing, mainly to control the football, to constantly patiently spend time looking for opportunities.

That's how Man City play in control.

In the process of Manchester City's continuous passing and receiving of the ball, looking for opportunities forward, and passing back the ball, the game time passed little by little, and the first half was about to end, but Portsmouth still did not get even the slightest chance.

At this point, Sky Sports commentator George Woodgate couldn't help but sigh, "Manchester City were in complete control of the game, Portsmouth had nothing to do, and they only had a poor shot on goal in the whole half......"

"If the game goes on like this, it's hard for them to have any chances until the game is over!"

"There's nothing strange about that!"

"Think about Manchester City's leagues, in many league games, Manchester City have an absolute advantage against small clubs. The competition in the Premier League is fierce, and even the strength of small clubs should not be underestimated, but these small clubs may be able to beat Manchester United, beat Chelsea, beat Liverpool...... But they struggled to beat City. ”

"The only time Manchester City lost to Everton before they won the title this season, and Everton were also very strong, and several of City's main players were suspended at that time......

After explaining Manchester City's record, George Woodgate said, "Maybe Manchester City's control style of play has created a school, and now many teams and many managers have begun to learn from it, and they imitate Manchester City's style of play to transform the team, some of which are optimistic, and some of which are a mess...... The point is, if you want to play like Manchester City, the ability of the players must keep up, and some lower league teams want to play Manchester City's tactical effect, which is a bit fantastical......

George Woodgate's analysis of Manchester City's tactics may have been a little unprofessional, and if football analysts had heard it, they might have laughed at some of the words, but he mentioned one word that many people noticed.

"Genre!"

With the advent of the information age, various football tactics and playing styles are also known to ordinary people, such as Italy's chain defense, and the Netherlands' all-attack and defense.

Among them, 'English football' is much criticized.

The English are well aware of this, and they are reluctant to talk about English football tactics to the public, choosing instead to talk about the advantage of English football, which is the fierce confrontation.

The English are proud, as the birthplace of football, they are naturally not satisfied with their football is only 'confrontational', and the positive descriptions of 'technology', 'attack', and even 'art' have been 'stolen' by Brazil, Spain, Italy, and even France and Germany.

As a result, Manchester City has become the pride of the English people.

They are very willing to give Manchester City's tactics the title of 'genre', because Manchester City is an English club, and Manchester City's tactics have created a school of 'attacking football', so doesn't that mean that English football has a 'school'?

So George Woodgate's praise for Manchester City has been recognized by a lot of media.

Of course, it's still in the game.

Some fans who watched the live broadcast, and the media that used the live broadcast as a reference, only agreed with Woodgate that the important thing was the game.

Portsmouth in the game has already felt the strength of Manchester City's style of play.

In the face of Manchester City's strong style of play, Portsmouth can hardly resist a little - more aggressively to fight.

There is no other way but to fight.

This is the most straightforward.

Active running, active scrambling, snatching the ball back from the feet of Manchester City, naturally what control, what transmission and coordination are meaningless.

However, it is very difficult for Portsmouth to do this, often as soon as the football falls to Manchester City, they will keep the ball for two or three minutes in a row, or even longer, and Portsmouth are in a deep formation, the defense in midfield is not strong, and they can only wait for Manchester City to attack before they have a chance to steal the ball.

At this point, City are likely to pose a threat.

There is nothing good for the Portsmouth players on the field, and there is no good way for Redknapp as the manager, Manchester City's style of play has long been thoroughly studied by various teams, but it is not easy to crack it, otherwise Manchester City will not be able to dominate the Premier League.

Redknapp's hope remains...... Hopefully the players on the pitch can perform better.

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Until the end of the first half, Redknapp's 'hope' was not realized.

Portsmouth's frontcourt players had no room to play at all, and the backfield players could only defend passively, so they failed to threaten the Manchester City goal throughout the first half.

At half-time, Redknapp encouraged the team to keep working hard and made some tips on how to play and give the team more attack.

Portsmouth are already down by one goal and they have no other options.

Finishing with this score would mean losing the FA Cup, so fighting for the attack was the only option.

So in the second half, Portsmouth did the final 'struggle'.

At the start of the second half, Portsmouth launched an attack on Manchester City's half, and in the face of City's tight defence, their short pass combination was obviously difficult to make a difference, so they chose to use the traditional 'English style of play' to find opportunities.

Direct passes, long passes, and bottom crosses......

The aim of the attacks is to bring football closer to the Manchester City goal.

Striker Benjani Mwaruvari simply stood in the Manchester City penalty area, waiting for the football to fly and 'rely on luck' to find a shot on goal.

It's a long, long wait......

City's defence was not so easy to break down and Benjani Mwaruvari was the tightness of Kopele Ferreira's defence.

In the last three seasons at Manchester City, Copelle Ferreira has fully developed into a capable and solid centre-back.

The 26-year-old Ferreira is at the pinnacle of his career, and even in the highly competitive Manchester City, he is an absolute mainstay in the backline, even Dunn and Robert Carlos are not comparable to his status.

The value of the media assessment can also say a lot.

The new edition of France Football assesses the value of each star, and Copelle Ferreira is the top of the list.

As a central defender, the 30 million euro value assessment is absolutely appalling, which means that Ferreira chooses to go to another team, and the transfer fee will be at least more than 40 million euros, which means that Ferreira is definitely one of the best central defenders in football today.

Ferreira's best defense has two aspects, one is one-on-one defensive ability, and the other is the ability to defend against high-altitude balls.

Under the defense of Ferreira, Mwaruvari could not get a chance at all, and several consecutive passes into the penalty area were destroyed by Ferreira.

Failure after failure made Mwaruvari a little disheartened.

Portsmouth were slow to find the back of the net against Manchester City, who took advantage of their opponents' defensive weakness and found a quick attack.

In the 79th minute, Portsmouth's wing-back Kranica made a mistake and kicked the ball into Carlos' lap.

The ball bounced off and landed right at Silva's feet.

Silva controlled the ball and played a ball to Martin Petrov on the wing.

Martin Petrov rushes forward with the ball!

The Manchester City fans in the audience have begun to chant excitedly, cheering for Manchester City's counterattack!

"Petrov! Petrov! ”

"He's moving forward! Forward! ”

“！！”

Amid the shouts of the fans, Petrov quickly dribbled the ball up front and shifted the ball to Morris with a cross cross.

Morris won the ball, shook off the defending Distin, and then raised his right foot high.

Campbell, another Portsmouth centre-back, thought Morris was going to shoot and rushed up to block the ball with his body, but Morris's right leg dropped gently and pushed the ball to the side.

Torres!

The Portsmouth players panicked when they saw the unguarded Torres, but they couldn't stop Torres at all and could only watch as the golden boy rushed towards the goal with the ball.

Single Knife!

"Torres singled ......"

James rushed out...... Check it out this time...... Torres—"

"Shoot!"

The ball rushed past James' waving hands!

The next scene was unbearable for the whole Portsmouth team and supporters, but the excited cheers of Manchester City fans spoke for themselves.

2 to 0!

"There's no suspense anymore...... The FA Cup will belong to Manchester City ......" (To be continued. )