Manchester City bench.

Richard Dunn sat there and watched the game.

His career began at Everton, when Everton manager Joe Loyle valued him so much that he was offered his first professional contract, making 81 appearances for Everton in his four years at Goodison Park since the 96-97 season.

In October 2000, Dunn arrived at Manchester City for £3 million.

After that, Dunn quickly integrated with the team and formed the backbone of Manchester City's back with Distin. Dunn has also been a focal point in the team, and although Distin is the captain, he has been the team's best player for two consecutive seasons.

Manchester City's Player of the Season award is not a big deal, but winning this honor shows that Dunn is excellent, and he is more consistent and solid defensively than Distin.

He is the strongest barrier to the City defence.

At the end of last season, Dunn was injured and then didn't play in the summer, which he thought was nothing.

He knows what is happening in the team - the arrival of a new coach, the arrival of new teammates, but these are difficult to affect his position, he always believes that he will be an absolute regular defender, there is no need to worry about the position, one is that his strength and condition are very good, and the other is that the team has not added any big-name central defenders in the summer, only two young Portuguese players, how can they steal their position?

Because of this mentality, after returning to the team, Dunn did not devote much to the training of the new tactics.

He thought it was nothing.

He's the team's centre-back, he just needs to defend. Tactics didn't matter at all, but what he didn't expect was that he couldn't quickly integrate into the team's tactical system. It's hard for him to get back on the pitch – just like now, the new coach would rather believe in the newcomer than in himself!

Dunn felt very dissatisfied, and that mentality was hanging on the corner of his mouth.

He didn't dare to question the new coach directly, but now watching the game, he was still gloating in his heart thinking that this game was lost, and he was familiar with the opponent Bolton. It wasn't an easy team to play against, especially if it was an English-style long ball rush, and this tough style of play was definitely a tough test for the centre-backs. How can you stand up to relying on two newcomers!?

On the field, Bolton's attack was quite fierce.

There's nothing technical about their offense, and it's not good to look at at all, but the straight-up football is enough to annoy the opponent.

Manchester City are in a good formation. There was a lot of running throughout the field. The defense that is pressing all the time is also very good, but this style of play is really a bit restrained by Bolton, no matter how tight the Manchester City players are pressed defensively, Bolton is a long pass, the football flies directly from the air to the front, no matter how good the formation is, it is useless, and if you want to defend well, you can only rely on the players in the right position.

In this way, Bolton and Manchester City are on par.

Manchester City are winning in terms of control of football when attacking. Whenever they get the ball, it's a test of Bolton's defence. Due to City's skillful cooperation, it was difficult for Bolton to snatch the ball down in midfield; Bolton won in a somewhat ferocious style of play, straight passing, and a tough style of play made Manchester City, which has many young players, very uncomfortable, so when Bolton attacked, Manchester City's defense still suffered a little.

In this situation, the defensive role of the centre-backs is very important.

Copelle Ferreira has a lot of pressure to face, and even though the team is attacking and defending, he can feel that the opponent's attack is a bit aimed at the middle of the back, and every time the opponent passes the ball to the point, even if they don't have a chance at all, they will do it, so he has to face pressure again and again.

Copelle Ferreira also had to keep his spirits up.

Not to mention whether the defense can be done well, just the mental tension of the game is very exhausting, but Copelle Ferreira knows very well that he has to persevere, he not only has to perform, but also to take care of Ricardo Costa, both of which he has to do.

At the same time, there are a lot of cameras constantly pointing at Manchester City's central midfield position, and many people want to see when the two Portuguese newcomers are crushed.

With the attack again and again, everyone can also see that Bolton is playing against Manchester City's central defenders, like in the tenth minute of the game, George Woodgate said, "Bolton is against Copelle Ferreira, in the last ten minutes, he has seven defensive touches and a lot of runs and scrambles"

'Ricardo Costa also seems to be being targeted, but he has a lot less pressure because Copelle Ferreira will always help him when it matters most'

By this time, everyone's comments have already suggested that Copele Ferreira is much better than Ricardo Costa, mainly in many defensive times, it can be seen that Copelle Ferreira is taking care of Ricardo Costa's position, whenever the latter makes a mistake, Copele Ferreira will make up for it as soon as possible.

It's hard to see once or twice, but after a lot of times, you can see that Copelle Ferreira's defensive statistics have become very gorgeous, and his name has been mentioned again and again by various commentators.

"Copelle Ferreira!!"

'Bolton's pass was pushed out of the box! It's Copelle Ferreira! ”

"Striker Borgeti broke through Ricardo and it was Kopelle Ferreira! Ferreira made up for the ball in time! We can see that Borgetti's face is full of disappointment, perhaps he is frustrated that he lost to a Portuguese rookie centre-back"

"Copelle Ferreira and Campo are scrambling, they have a direct physical rush! Campo was knocked but the referee didn't seem to stop the game, he motioned for the game to continue, which seemed to be a reasonable move in the eyes of the referee."

“”

As time went on, the various commentators noticed that they talked about Copelle Ferreira more often, and then they began to use various words such as 'again' and 'still' to describe Copelle Ferreira's defense.

At this time. Kopele Ferreira was really good as well.

At the beginning of the game, he was actually a little nervous, but more serious. Because he knew the pressure he had to face, he knew that he had to perform well, and as the opponent attacked again and again, Copele Ferreira found that it was not so difficult to defend well, he just had to use what the coach told him to use in the game.

To sum it up. Tactically cooperate with the team, and try to play as well as possible individually and defensively.

All he needs to do is be consistent with one defence after another, while keeping an eye on Ricardo Costa's direction. If you have the ability, try to make up for it.

Defending again and again gave Copelle Ferreira a lot of confidence and experience, and then he threw himself back into defending with confidence. It's a virtuous circle. He found that he was capable of facing everything, and the game he was facing now was not a pressure, it was a pleasure, and he enjoyed the feeling he was feeling

Man City in the dugout.

Wan Sheng looked at the defense in the backfield, and then looked at the time, the game had been going on for 20 minutes, and the score was still 0:0.

Then he laughed.

The match lasted 20 minutes. By this time, almost all the media and the vast majority of fans had noticed Copelle Ferreira!

It doesn't matter who it is, anyone, as long as he watched the game. If you follow the game, you can tell that Copelle Ferreira has been outstanding because he has successfully defended again and again, making it almost impossible for Bolton to attack.

The score is 0-0 between the two teams, but in terms of attacking statistics, Manchester City have a big advantage, the main one is the number of shots on goal - Manchester City five, Bolton Wanderers one.

In 20 minutes, Manchester City had five shots on goal, which is normal, but Bolton, who are on a close footing with Manchester City, only had one shot, which is a bit of a stretch.

At this time, in the Bolton dugout, manager Sam Allardyce's expression became extremely grim.

He didn't expect the game to turn out like this.

Before the opening, he knew Manchester City's starting lineup, and he subconsciously felt that the central defender was the team's offensive breakthrough point, but he didn't expect that the young Portuguese central defender on the other side seemed to be performing better and better in the game?

He watched carefully for 20 minutes and came to this conclusion.

That's a bad conclusion, especially now that Bolton are Manchester City's opponents, and he has players playing against each other's positions, it feels like Bolton and Manchester City are playing specifically to brush up on the experience of the young centre-back, and the more the game is played, the more they target, the better the opponent will perform.

It's blood-spitting!

Sam Allardyce's face darkened, and he also realized that it was not possible for the game to continue like this, but now was not the time to make adjustments, he had just told the team before the game that he was going to play against Manchester City's central defenders, and he also made some targeted tactical adjustments, and now it is almost impossible to reverse it temporarily.

He can only hope that the game will be played until half-time and there will be no problems.

At the same time, some of the commentators are actually depressed.

It is necessary to have the commentator of Manchester Sports Television, this Manchester sports radio station, has always been neutral on the issue of Manchester City and Manchester United, and it is precisely because of this attitude that they can still comment and ridicule at will when broadcasting the game between the two teams live.

Before the start of the game, commentator David Hodchier talked about Manchester City's central defenders, he joked, "This central defender combination was brought to England by Wan Sheng from Portugal, maybe he thinks that the Portuguese central defenders are better than England's, but Ricardo Costa is over 24 years old, and it is difficult for me to imagine what strength a 24-year-old central defender who is still unknown in Portugal can have; And Copelle Ferreira is also over 22 years old"

"The one of Portugal's prodigies, I remember Cristiano Ronaldo the most when he plays for Manchester United, but Ronaldo is much better than that, at the age of 19, he has surpassed most professional players, whether it is fame, income, or performance."

"Of course, those two obscure centre-backs are a bit too much to ask of Ronaldo, but I don't want to see them a chance to be the pesky Boltons in this game."

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Although it is a neutral Manchester radio, it still hates Boltonians very much, and Bolton has brought Manchester United so much pain that the whole of Manchester has boycotted Bolton, but fortunately this is the battle between Manchester City and Bolton, otherwise the lively scene is really no less than the Manchester derby.

Closer to home, David Hochl, who made these comments, was very embarrassed at this time, he did not expect Manchester City's centre-back duo to withstand it for so long, and Copelle Ferreira in one of them was clearly very good.

From the beginning of the game, one minute, two minutes, five minutes, and now twenty minutes, the Manchester City center-back combination has not had any major problems defensively, and Copelle Ferreira has become the brightest man in the game, and even the embarrassed David Hodchier has to often shout, "It's Kopelle Ferreira again!" ”

The Portuguese centre-back duo withstood 20 minutes in the face of Bolton's hard-hitting attack, and Copelle Ferreira also put in a pretty good performance, which caught the attention of almost everyone who followed the game.

Now Manchester City's advantage in attacking statistics is more than half of the way to Kopel Ferreira, because his defense didn't give Bolton any chance!

At the same time, Bolton is also quite unwilling!

Many of their players are old fritters in the Premier League, and they are not willing to lose to a young Portuguese centre-back, so they continue to play against Copele Ferreira's position, and even sometimes Ricardo Costa's defense makes mistakes, they can't care about it - they just want to break Copelle Ferreira!

The game on the field is a bit of a gamble!

But that doesn't seem to do anything other than make Copelle Ferreira shine even more -

"Kopele Ferreira has broken the ball!"

"He blocked the goal with his body! He seems to be able to do anything in the game."

"Kopelle finished a successful defense with an overhead!"

"It's Kopelle Ferreira again!"

'He's a master of defending, he's in the right position and he makes Bolton's attack fall apart in an instant, and it's Kopelle Ferreira, who blocked Bolton's pass again.

At this time, many people's mentality of Manchester City's defense has changed.

In the beginning, they were looking at it with the mindset of 'when the Manchester City centre-back pair is broken', but now they want to see the performance of Copelle Ferreira.

They found Copelle Ferreira to be really brilliant defensively!

It's hard to imagine a defender who can be so good defensively without actually watching the game!? But now, as everyone who follows the game will see, Copelle Ferreira has been really good because he has been at the heart of the defence every time he has faced Bolton's attack.

In this way, when everyone watches the game, they will think, "Will it be Kopelle Ferreira again this time?" ”

And sure enough

In the process, Bolton, who have been attacking against Copelle Ferreira's points, seem to have become a complete foil, and their offensive is all about showing the excellence of Copelle Ferreira's defense.

Even the narrator David Hodchier sighed, "Poor Bolton" (to be continued......