Tang Hua knew that this was his first real test.

Although when Lin Sen asked him to analyze the Manchester City team, it was more like just explaining a trivial matter, and his tone was not very solemn, but after knowing that Lin Sen's next stop would be Manchester City, Tang Hua knew this very well.

Analysing a team is a lot of work, but if you look at it from the perspective of the game, it can be divided into two very simple aspects, offense and defense. The main points of offensive analysis are the team's attacking style, the team's pace of play, the team's attacking focus, and whether the team has players who can change the game. The key points of defensive analysis are based on the formation position, marking style and defensive attitude.

Tang Hua analyzes the Manchester City team from these two aspects, as the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing oneself is still before knowing oneself, most of Tang Hua's future work will be to analyze opponents, and before that, the first thing he needs to analyze is his own team.

In terms of offense, last season's Manchester City actually had a change in style, when Mark Hughes led the team for most of the first half of the season, the Welsh pursued offensive and defensive balance, and after Kassel took over in the later period, the Manchester City team was biased towards defensive counterattacks, which can be seen from the goals scored and conceded in the two periods, Mark Hughes scored 45 goals in 28 rounds of Manchester City and conceded 40, while Kassel's Manchester City scored 13 goals in 10 rounds and conceded 10 goals, although the defensive counterattack is not as good as the offensive and defensive balance, but it is very practical, Kassel improved Mark Hughes' Manchester City record by three places and ended up on the last train in the Europa League.

Tang Hua didn't know what style of football Linsen planned to let Manchester City play in the new season, but obviously, with the current Manchester City squad, the defensive counterattack may not be the best, but it is definitely more suitable than the so-called offensive and defensive balance. In terms of the pace of the game and the focus of the attack, whether it is Mark Hughes or Cassel, they are unanimous in their opinions, they both pursue a fast pace, and the focus is on the left side, because the left side of Manchester City is the area where Robinho, the biggest star in the current Manchester City team, likes to move.

In general, Manchester City's offensive line seems to be crowded, but in fact it is very dependent on Robinho, of course, this dependence is mostly caused by the manager himself, not forced to do so, even so, as the top scorer in the Manchester City team last season, Robinho only scored fourteen goals, on the other hand, Robinho's two partners before and after, the former one of his Brazilian compatriots scored a goal in nine games, and was subloaned to Everton in the winter. Bellamy, who flourished at West Ham United in the first half of the second half of the season and finally arrived at Manchester City for 14 million pounds, scored two in eight games.

In terms of defense, Manchester City played four four two last season, it seems that Mark Hughes and Kassel both agree with this formation, but in terms of marking methods and defensive attitudes, the two are different, Mark Hughes wants to balance offense and defense, it sounds like he is more advocating man-to-man defense, but in fact there is a misunderstanding, offensive and defensive balance is not the same as full offense and full defense, so Mark Hughes's Manchester City, pay attention to the regional defense of each role, but it is Kassel's Manchester City that carries forward the English fighting dog spirit.

In the selection of the main lineup, Manchester City, which has undergone a winter transfer and two managers, has not changed much, more just "substitutions", several players transferred in January have occupied the main force in the second half of the season, Ireland goalkeeper Given, Dutch midfielder De Jong, England left-back Bridge and Welsh striker Bellamy, respectively, replaced Hart, Fernandez, Ball and Ruo.

At the end of the analysis report, Tang Hua also listed in detail the number of games played by each Manchester City player last season, in addition to the well-known goals and assists, the main activity area, average distance traveled per game and efficiency values have become Tang Hua's main concerns.

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The exuberant declarative text, coupled with some clear column charts and curves, without too many comments, nor mixed with any personal opinions, replaced by summary text, as Lin Sen thought, Tang Hua's team analysis will become an important reference for his next designated transfer plan.

"Good."

Lin Sen's simple two words made Tang Hua, who was on the side, feel relieved.

Seeing Tang Hua's expression change, Lin Sen smiled, some things seem to take time to get used to, these can only be slowly adapted by Tang Hua himself, he can't help.

Putting away Tang Hua's analysis report, Lin Sen stood up, looked at the time and almost arrived at mealtime, and said go out to eat, at this time, Ariel, who had been attracted by "Adriano" for a long time, suddenly raised her head and said: "Lunch will be eaten at my grandmother's." ”

"Let's not bother." Lin Sen thought it was just Ariel casually talking, and he also replied casually.

"If you don't try, my grandfather might be waiting for you outside now."

Lin Sen suddenly smiled bitterly in his heart.

Ariel was right, old Cruz was indeed waiting outside, although he didn't know if he was on guard against Lin Sen's plot against his granddaughter, but he didn't come in, but sat in his yard with a back chair as usual, smoking a pipe while looking at the bay in the distance, only from time to time to glance at Lin Sen's house.

His wife thought he was in the way, so he kicked him out at the beginning, and he was happy to be quiet.

It wasn't until his wife came out of the room and told him that lunch was ready that Cruz Sr. got up, walked over and knocked on the door of Linsen's house.

Lunch was sumptuous, and old Mrs. Cruz seemed to have made all the dishes she could make.

Obviously, farewell is the theme of this meal, but neither Lin Sen nor Cruz Sr. deliberately avoided this topic, Lin Sen bluntly told him that he would leave Malaga for Manchester tomorrow, and most of the time he would not return to Malaga after nothing. The elder Cruz told Sù Linson that he had bought a season ticket for Malaga, and that he would take Aunt Belda to the Rose Garden to watch the game when he had the opportunity in the future, but unfortunately he would never be seen in the Rose Garden again.

Tang Hua, who met the old Cruz couple for the first time, was eating silently while listening to Lin Sen and the old Cruz talking, because Lin Sen and the old Cruz spoke Spanish, I don't know if he could understand. At this time, Ariel said next to her that the next time she took the old Cruz couple to Manchester to watch the game, the old Cruz couldn't help laughing, and said that the granddaughter who had never known that he had come to his side to eat was finally not in vain.

During this period, Lin Sen received a phone call from Tapia, who had become the head coach of Malaga, and the other party wanted to see him.

A few minutes later, Tapia appeared at the door. It turned out that when he just called Lin Sen, he was already on his way.

After a brief introduction, Tapia, who sat down, asked Lin Sen when he was going to the UK, and Lin Sen replied that tomorrow, Tapia nodded, and then in front of everyone, without the slightest evasion, he said that the purpose of his coming was to hear about Lin Sen's proposal for the summer transfer of Malaga.

After the completion of the change of ownership in Malaga, Villalonga chose to trust Tapia, and Malaga's transfer work also entered the agenda, just yesterday, Villalonga personally met with Tapia, talked about the new season, transfer work is naturally a must-talk topic, Villalonga told Sù Tapia Club will keep the existing players in Malaga as much as possible, but at the same time, Villalonga told Tapia, some clubs may not have much initiative.

Tapia can't be sure if Villalonga will really support him as he says, but he knows very well what Villalonga means, after all, the minimum release fee is there, and if the player insists on leaving, then the club can't do anything. After just being Linson's assistant coach for a season, Tapia found that many of his ideas had changed, so after discussing it with Livermore, Tapia thought of Linson.

Of course, Tapia himself knows that he can trust Linsen, the former manager of Malaga, will certainly not be stingy with giving himself some advice, but he must not expect Linsen, who has become the manager of Manchester City, to be the same as before.

Even, Tapia did not fail to think about the possibility that Linson might dig back into Málaga's players.

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Attached: Manchester City squad at the end of the 0809 season.

goalkeeper

1 Given, Given, Ireland, 20/04/1976

19 Schmeichel Jr. Kasper Schmeichel 11/05/1986

Hart Joe Hart England 1987-04-19

Nelson GunnarNielsen Faroe Islands 07/10/1986

fullback

2 Richards Micah Richards England 24/06/1988

3 Bauer Michael Ball England 1979-10-02

4 Onuoha, Nedum, Onuoha, England, 30/11/1986

5 Zabaleta Pablo Zabaleta Argentina 16/01/1985

15 Garrido Garrido, Spain, 15/03/1985

22 Dunn Richard Dunne Ireland 21/09/1979

25 Bridge WayneBridge England 05/08/1980

26 Ben Haim TalBenHaim Israel 31/03/1982

33 Kompany, VincentKompany, Belgium, 10/04/1986

midfielder

6 Johnson Michael Johnson England 24/02/1988

7 StephenIreland, Ireland 22/08/1986

8 Phillips Shaun Wright-Phillips England 25/10/1981

11 ElanoBlumer, Brazil, 14/6/1981

17 Petrov MartinPetrov Bulgaria 15/01/1979

19 Fernández GelsonFernandes, Switzerland, 9/2/1986

21 Harman Didi Hamann, Germany 1973-08-27

34 De Jong Nigel de Jong, Netherlands 30/11/1984

40 Vladimir Weiss, Slovakia, 30/11/1989

Etuhu Kelvin Etuhu, Nigeria, 30/05/1988

striker

9 Jo Brazil 3/20/1987

10 Robinho Brazil 25/01/1984

27 Benjani Benjani Zimbabwe 13/08/1978

39 Bellamy Craig Bellamy, Wales 13/07/1979

29 Bodinov Valeri Bojinov, Bulgaria 2/15/1986

Caicedo, Felipe, Caicedo, Ecuador, 1988-09-05

Vassell Darius Vassell, England 13/06/1980

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