I brush achievements in football

Chapter 906 Gradually Build Advantages

In such constant back and forth attacks, the two sides have indeed demonstrated excellent offensive capabilities and technical skills, but in such a confrontation, there must always be someone who seizes the opportunity first.

Under such circumstances, Southampton has demonstrated their characteristics and value.

For Southampton, they are better in possession of the ball, and their other players are not inferior to those of Manchester City, and they also have two top players who are slightly higher.

That is Du Yue and De Bruyne.

In the ball possession attack, the most common mistake is to make a mistake in the backcourt. After all, people are not machines. Under the targeted pressing of the opponent, it is normal to make mistakes in the backcourt.

Whether it was Guardiola's Barcelona back then, or Southampton and Manchester City now, they all made such mistakes. Didn't Southampton make such a mistake before this game?Only without conceding the ball.

And now, it was the turn of Manchester City's defender to make a mistake.

Fernandinho passed the ball back to Laporte, and Du Yue immediately pressed the past. Seeing that Fernando B was still running on the side, Laporte relaxed a little and pressed Du Yue. At the time, he raised his foot and passed the ball to Kompany.

Before Kompany got the ball, he saw De Bruyne emerging from behind Fernandinho, and quickly accelerated towards himself!

And this time to strengthen the press, it is very targeted, and began to face Manchester City's backcourt pass.

In the face of De Bruyne's pressing, Kompany couldn't help but feel a little confused. Among the players closest to him at this time, Walker was surrounded by B Fee, and Laporte was surrounded by Du Yue. Zinchenko has Valverde next to him... In this way, only Fernandinho can play the ball.

At this time, Kompany forgot the big taboo of passing the ball, which is to choose the only path.

You can see it, and so can your opponent.

Sure enough, just after he passed the ball, a red figure rushed over from Fernandinho's side. In the confrontation with the Brazilian's strong body, he still rushed over and suppressed Fernandinho with his body Oh, lift your foot and steal Kompany's pass!

It was Rodri who stole it!His height of 1.9 meters gives him the upper hand against Fernandinho!

After the steal, Rodri quickly dribbled forward. Fernandinho wanted to counter-rob, but he couldn't interfere with Rodri. The Spaniard quickly dribbled into the penalty area. Before he had time to come over to interfere, he decisively kicked and shot at the first time!

Such a shot seems a bit hasty, because he has just entered the penalty area, but in terms of timing, it is an excellent timing, because Manchester City's goalkeeper Ederson is in a very tangled state at this time!

For a moment, he didn't know whether to attack or to guard the gate.

The opponent has broken into the penalty area and should attack, but Kompany and Laporte are not far away, and they can form a pinch immediately!

Just when he hesitated, Rodri shot decisively.

The quality of this shot is quite high, the ball roars and flies to the top corner of the goal, the speed and strength are impeccable!

By the time Edson took off to make a save, he was already a step behind.

While he was struggling to stretch his arms, the ball had already flown past his hand, and the next moment it flew into the gate of Manchester City!

"The goal was scored! Two to one! In the No.307 minute of the first half, Southampton once again took the lead in the attack against Manchester City! Rodri intercepted the ball in time, and then completed the goal! After the Spaniard joined Southampton, he struggled at the beginning, but now, he has fully integrated into the Southampton lineup!"

Amidst the chanting of the commentator, Rodri excitedly rushed to the sidelines. It is also exciting to be able to perform well in front of a team like Manchester City.

After all, for Rodri, he has made a leap from Villarreal to Southampton. This is an increase in value, but the increase in value does not mean that income will increase. Dun's outstanding performance is the biggest opportunity for future income increase!

From honor to money, these are all things that professional players need to pursue.

Ji Ya waved his fist off the field. Southampton's frontcourt pressing was so wonderful. Although it seemed that Rodri was the only one doing it, in fact, the choice of other people's pressing and cutting off the passing route was also very important. of equal importance.

It can even be said that without their press and confrontation, there would be no goal!

They outperformed Manchester City in ball possession and high pressing, which means that in this game, Southampton's advantage began to expand even more!

Guardiola slapped his thigh hard. This loss of the ball made him a little annoyed. Although there were inevitably mistakes in the backcourt pass, it was also a very embarrassing thing to be intercepted by the opponent with the frontcourt force.

Although Manchester City did not fall behind in the confrontation between the two sides, such a conceded goal also proves that Southampton has actually begun to have the upper hand.

This made Guardiola feel quite a headache.

How will we play in the second half?

Physical fitness is not enough, if you want to gain a certain advantage in the first half through suppression and fast break, and then start entanglement with Southampton in the second half, at least you have to fight for a draw-but now it seems that even if it is a draw, It's also hard to get.

You must know that before the game, he was thinking about winning, and a draw seemed a little wronged to him, but what about now?

Guardiola began to think about what to do in the second half. Now it seems that possession of the ball is mostly useless in the second half, because possession of the ball requires more energy and concentration, and Southampton's pressing and confrontation in the first half have exhausted the energy of Manchester City's players. Unable to concentrate well, this conceded goal is a very typical example.

"In the second half, we can only speed up the offensive rhythm."

Guardiola thought silently in his heart, but he has no shortage of attackers at hand, whether it is Sane, Jesus, Foden, these are all very good attackers, even the level of attackers on the field is actually not enough. Not bad, under such circumstances, substitutions are quite a headache, it just depends on how to judge the status of the players on the field.

"In the second half, you can only strengthen your offense? At that time, we will control the ball more and attack more times, and your fast break will only have some offensive ability. If we still lose to you under such circumstances, then It's unreasonable." At this moment, Ji Ya was thinking in his heart.