The question of what level of team Manchester City is is immediately understood by both sides after the two teams meet.

Less than twenty minutes into the game, Roberto Mancini discovered that City didn't even have the slightest chance of winning.

Zabaleta was rested after suffering an injury in City's previous game against Arsenal. Manchester City's lineup, in the backfield is Hart in goal, Richards, Dunn, Kompany and Garrido as starters, while the midfielder is Ireland, Wright-Phillips, and Motta and Flamini, and in the forward line, it is Berbatov and Robinho - although it is a 442, however, this formation is also more inclined to 4231, Robinho can be pulled to the left side at any time, and Ireland is more towards the middle. Their tactics, in general, are not too flawed, and if they are facing other Premier League teams, such a squad can play very well.

But their opponents are Tottenham – and if there's anyone who knows Berbatov better in the Premier League, it's Tottenham. Berbatov was a former member of this team, which also made the Tottenham players very clear about the characteristics of his play, from the beginning of the game, Tottenham Thiago Silva put him under strict guard, constantly entangled with him with small movements, and practiced close defense against him.

Berbatov has many problems with football, the biggest one is that he always avoids confrontation, and when he is targeted, especially in the face of tight defense, he always subconsciously retreats to the shadow striker position, and even in the midfield. Although his body seems to be perfectly stable in front, he doesn't like to try to stand up front.

With Thiago Silva entangled, he quickly stepped back and was no longer close to the box.

And his retreat made Thiago Silva choose to press immediately. His defensive area expanded to 30 meters in front of the penalty area, forcing Berbatov into the midfield and unable to get close to the penalty area again.

On the other side of the penalty area, Cavani and Suarez plugged back and forth, but Kompany's back and forth running was a little tired.

As the two defenders who have just arrived in the Premier League this season, Kompany and Thiago Silva have shown a terrifying defensive level, and Kompany has always been considered to be a bit higher than Thiago Silva because he is slightly taller and has better defensive headers. Now, however, the difference between the two is evident: for the striker who basically moves outside the box, Thiago Silva can also control Berbatov very effectively, but on the other side, Kompany has a hard time controlling the two people who are moving outside the box - the range of control is the biggest difference between the two.

On the one hand, Tottenham's forward line harassed Manchester City's backline was miserable, and on the other hand, Manchester City's forward line was forced back to midfield by Tottenham, and after 20 minutes of the game, Tottenham's advantage was already huge.

Mancini said before the game that Manchester City were better than Tottenham against strong opponents. Indeed, they drew with Chelsea this season, lost 1-0 to Manchester United and beat Arsenal 3-0, which looks more impressive than Tottenham's strength against strong teams, but so far, they really can't see any advantage against Tottenham. Defensively, Tottenham's backline is about 20 metres in front of goal, while Manchester City is around 15 metres, and Manchester City have been pressed too hard......

Manchester City have played on the sidelines this season, and many times, no worse than Tottenham. Mancini said that he had a good player in his hands to compete with Tottenham, although most of the media did not believe it, but no one expected that this guy would be suppressed so badly as soon as he came up.

In such a situation, the only thing that doesn't feel strange is Li Bin.

He is very familiar with Mancini, and he is also very familiar with Manchester City, so he does not look down on Manchester City very much: this kind of contempt is not that he is an upstart to Manchester City and looks down on him without a background, but he is very familiar with Mancini's thoughts.

The current Manchester City, fundamentally, is still only suitable for playing defensive football. Their defenders have a limited area of movement, can't defend themselves, and don't have a large enough range of movement, which means that they are destined to play positional battles as the biggest problem of weakness. Once they play positional warfare, their problems are exposed, and this is where their biggest drawback lies. Roberto Mancini also knows this, and the midfield arranges a player who can play a good ball to play on the counter-attack, which is their only organizational strategy, which also determines that they are a counter-attacking team.

There's no shame in playing counter-attacking football, but at heart it's a counter-attacking strategy, and Mancini always wants to package his team with an attacking football aesthetic. As an upstart, the biggest difference between Manchester City and Chelsea is that Chelsea was very pragmatic at the beginning of the game, counterattacking and counterattacking, not engaging in any beautiful football, but on the one hand, Manchester City needs to counterattack football to support the scene, on the other hand, but also wants to play beautiful football, these contradictions make Mancini have problems: obviously playing counterattack football in the backfield, you have to play offensive football, the players can't defend it, and the front can't withstand it, so it's strange if there is no problem.

Li Bin hasn't seized the opportunity to hit him behind now, but he used strong pressure to oppress and deform his pseudo-offensive football. Mancini's problems are also laid bare here: it's not that he doesn't have the ability to command the game well, but that he always wants to please his boss, which makes his football play nondescript.

Li Bin's Tottenham are not necessarily a strong team, but Li Bin has learned at least one thing in Italy - never to be negligent in defence. His attention from start to finish is to double the back and the back line to defend the middle with all their might, and hand over the organization to the full-backs and forwards - before the playmaking ability is developed, first rely on the speed to counterattack, but in the future still play pressing.

Both teams want to stand firm and transform into attack, but the biggest difference between them lies in two points. One is in terms of personality, Li Bin chooses offensive football and defensive football, the purpose is to play better football, and Mancini is to play football to satisfy the boss. Furthermore, his choice is to put a playmaker in the middle of the midfield, which is no longer useful.

Li Bin used to use a playmaker midfielder when he was in Serie A, but after arriving at Tottenham, he canceled the idea. The Premier League's counterattack steals are too ferocious, the organization of the midfield is in the middle, many times it can only be used as a counterattack weapon, the real organizational talent is difficult to play, the Premier League top four want to use pure midfield organizers, in fact, the results are not too good, that is, Alonso and the Premier League's style fits, and the level of play is good, other Premier League organizers, Modric's data for several years is not as good as Ashley Young, Ballack played in Chelsea can hardly be said to be the core effect, Arsenal's Fabregas played well, But the way of playing for a few months a year makes people have no intention of emulating. The Premier League is different from Serie A, Serie A has a slow pace, focuses on the middle, puts an organization at the back, can be protected by two people, and plays naturally well. However, the Premier League attaches great importance to the wings, there are no two people around the back, only one person, there is no Alonso's hardness, and there is no Mascherano who is the world's No. 1 around him, and it is always difficult to have an overwhelming effect when he puts the midfield organization.

In Li Bin's memory, the organizers of the Premier League are gradually developing from the backfield to the side, one of the biggest reasons is that the players are more able to run, after the popularization of the front-court counter-robbery, the advantage of organizing the back has declined, even if it is Pirlo, there is nothing to do about being surrounded, and in his later years, he can only play in Serie A at Juventus, not in Europe. Second, this is the essence of the Premier League, the Premier League, the fight is too fierce, there are too many fouls, and the threat of facing half can be reduced on the wing, therefore, it is the Premier League tradition to pay attention to the wing, which is also the fundamental reason for the development of the wing organization. Li Bin is well aware of this, and his original intention is to take the first step and develop the style of play of the wing organization - the tactical concept is one step ahead of others, which is the most important advantage.

Li Bin and Mancini, if there is any difference, this is the biggest difference between the two people: both of them are coaches from Italian football, but what Li Bin learned is the spirit of Italian football, and he uses the god of Serie A to integrate into the shape of the Premier League. He will transform the team, but his transformation is to have a clear idea, combining the essence of Italian football defense with the reality of Premier League football, and setting his own tactics. And Mancini learned a layer of Italian football: he learned how to arrange the defensive line, how to set up tactics, and can set up a good tactical system, but the purpose of tactics is to implement a certain purpose of the coach, the most important part, he did not learn, his essential idea is to please the boss. He didn't understand that the reason why Italian football was shrinking was because of the lack of good midfielders up front, and at the same time, because it was also because of efficiency. Not all turtles are Italian, not long passes or English football, every kind of football has an internal connotation and external performance, Mancini pays attention to these performances, but ignores these connotations, his team is always skin and bones, difficult to form.

With these problems in thinking, Mancini's team is still a weak team, they can play a weak team, but it is still no fun to play a strong team - of course, Arsenal is excluded from the strong team, Li Bin also watched the last game, Arsenal has no one to play defenders because of injuries, and even sent Zhu Lu in the game, sent Zhu Lu as an iron guard, and was blown up 3-0, what is so strange? Winning a half-crippled Arsenal, I thought I was a tough fighter, but this is not good. Whether it's Manchester City, Inter Milan, Mancini's team has played a tough game, when has it been done?

Manchester City's offensive became more and more untenable, and soon, a counterattack by Tottenham almost broke through the Manchester City defence. Di Maria's in-cut after dribbling the ball was stopped by a timely foul by Flamini and he himself was booked, but Tottenham's attack was also interrupted.

This also made Mancini start to restrain a little.

'City's squad is starting to shrink and they seem to be realising that they may not be getting much fruit if they stick to their attacking tactics against Tottenham. I just don't know how Tottenham will choose. They have been very resolute since the opening, and I wonder if there will be a rebound now. ”

It seems that Mancini also understands that his team can't fight hard, and has to direct the team to retreat. However, they retreated, but Tottenham did not press immediately, and they were still waiting for their opportunity instead of attacking Manchester City right away.

Manchester City is not strong, but Tottenham is not strong enough to be at the level of the Cosmos team and can press Manchester City to play. They have to come little by little now.

In the face of a counterattacking player like Manchester City, Li Bin did not dare to let his team be tough, and tried no matter what opportunity he had. was seized by the opponent to fight back, and Li Bin was about to cry. Against such a team, you have to simmer slowly to be able to completely eat the opponent.

The two sides fight back, it seems like a normal game - Li Bin looked at the situation on the field, and regretted that he was not able to seize the opportunity to score, but he was still full of confidence: Even if you get rid of your fancy thoughts, just thinking about fighting back with me, do you think you will be able to fight me?