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Chapter 870 Southampton's Counterattack

Since the head coaches of both sides have determined that they must not be cowardly at this time, the next match will naturally become more intense.

The fight between the two sides in the midfield began to become more aggressive, and since both sides are accustomed to using high-position presses to launch offenses, the number of people in the midfield of both sides began to become denser.

In such a fierce confrontation and pressing, it is not an easy task to be able to send a beautiful pass to create opportunities for the frontcourt players.

In addition to extremely testing the players' fighting spirit and state, another key is luck.

Sometimes with a random kick, maybe a single knife will come out.

This is not to say that the opponent can create such an opportunity when they have an advantage when pressing.

Obviously, Southampton's luck is not as good as Manchester City.

In a fierce confrontation in midfield, seat B almost subconsciously passed a direct pass, but it happened to pass to Sterling, who went forward at high speed. At that time, he picked the ball to the penalty area, and Sane, who moved forward, rushed the ball in front of Cancelo. Aguero's running attracted the attention of the two central defenders of Southampton. David Silva appeared at the point where the ball landed, took the lead and volleyed directly, the ball roared and flew into the upper right corner of the goal, Mendy was completely helpless when faced with this shot that was almost on the penalty area line react!

"Damn it, these guys have really good offensive luck."

Ji Ya couldn't help cursing, the cooperation behind was indeed very beautiful, but the key was that seat B's through ball in the midfield, in such entanglement and confrontation, he couldn't see Sterling cutting in from the wing at all. It turned out that a erratic direct pass pierced Southampton's midfield press and defense. What is it if it's not luck?

But once in a while, good luck will naturally not make the Southampton players lose their fighting spirit in the game.

Although Manchester City took a two-goal lead again, the first half was not over. Will the Southampton players give up the game?How can it be.

After the re-kick-off, the Southampton players quickly launched a fierce attack!

De Bruyne and Rodri began to take turns to break through with the ball. Their foot skills are good, De Bruyne's breakthrough ability is better, and Rodri can rely on his excellent physical fitness in the frontcourt to control Hold the ball, and then look for opportunities.

In the face of Southampton's fierce attack, Manchester City began to recover slightly. After all, there were only a few minutes left in the first half to end. They resisted the opponent's attack and took a two-goal lead. It is undoubtedly a very favorable thing to enter the halftime with an advantage.

After Manchester City began to gradually withdraw, Southampton's midfielder's passing can actually be smoother. After all, the opponent's pressing is not as fierce as before. However, Southampton's rhythm cannot suddenly drop, so they are still in the game. Continue to launch more violent attacks.

Cancelo dribbled the ball horizontally and took a long shot, which was saved by Edson flying to the bottom line.

De Bruyne took a corner kick, and Maguire, who advanced to assist, struggled to grab the first point but went high.

Manchester City planned to counterattack, but was crazily pressed by Southampton in the midfield. At the end of the first half, Southampton was still fighting so fiercely, which made Manchester City's players a little unexpected.

Mendy received a cross pass from his teammate, and when he was about to take the ball forward, Du Yue had already rushed up to force him in front of him. Mendy planned to rely on his physical advantage to forcibly break through Du Yue's defense, but in his Just when he forcibly cut past Du Yue, Valverde, who came out of the diagonal stab, raised his foot and broke the ball!

Valverde, who stole the ball, began to break into the penalty area, while Du Yue ran laterally, which drew part of Manchester City's defensive attention.

Valverde forcibly cut into Manchester City's penalty area and passed the ball close to the bottom line. The ball flew to the back of the penalty area. Vardy also missed the ball. Grealish rushed up and hit the penalty area. From the corner, shoot directly with your left foot!

The ball flew into the far corner of the goal. Although Edson made a save, Grealish shot extremely accurately without defense!

"Grialish! Valverde's assist, Grealish's goal! Southampton's two wings completed a beautiful connection! Southampton narrowed the gap with Manchester City again before the end of the first half! The score of [-] to [-] is very subtle, and in the second half, both sides must have even more exciting performances!"

Amidst the chanting of the commentator, Grealish ran towards Valverde, while Vardy and Du Yue also rushed over at the same time, celebrating the goal before the end of the first half.

This time, the cooperation after the frontcourt pressing was quite beautiful. Southampton's cooperation in the middle is still somewhat insufficient, but the cooperation between the two wings and the striker has become more and more tacit - after all, they have already played together. Been a player for years!

Ji Ya waved his fist fiercely. It is very important to recover a point before the end of the first half. Otherwise, it will be more difficult to advance tactics if he falls behind by two goals in the second half.

Guardiola scratched his bald head. Southampton was indeed too difficult to deal with. Under such circumstances, they still caught up with the gap a little bit. Although the league competition, face-to-face games may not be able to really affect The final outcome, but under such circumstances, they still failed to beat Southampton, which is also a bit uncomfortable.

Guardiola can see that Southampton is not actually having a problem with their strength now. The main thing is that their performance in the game has begun to appear unstable. This is the biggest problem.

So they will lose some points that shouldn't be lost in some games that were stable before. This kind of instability makes their start of this season look so-so, and they have not even been able to enter the top four.

But this does not mean that there will be problems in their confrontation in a certain game.

What Guardiola thought before was to defeat the opponent in this game. It is best to seize Ji Ya's mentality of honing the midfielder to win a big victory. As a result, Ji Ya adjusted his tactics in time, so in this game he won A relatively good grade is even more important.

While thinking, Guardiola turned his head to look at Kiya, and found that Kiya was also looking at him.

The two looked at each other for a moment, then turned their heads away.

The referee also blew the whistle at this time to end the first half of the game. There was warm applause from the stands, and players from both sides began to walk off the field.