I brush achievements in football

Chapter 907 The Contest of the Most Scoring Teams

"The first half is over! Southampton, who are at home, are temporarily leading [-]-[-]! In the remaining minutes of the first half, both sides created some chances, but they were equally defensive. Excellent, Ederson saved a very threatening long shot from Du Yue, and Sterling's shot after a breakthrough was also saved by Mendy! It seems that the second half is the key to the final victory of this game! "

The commentator shouted meaningless nonsense, and the players on both sides hurried back to the locker room to prepare for a rest. In the second half of the game, physical fitness will become very important.

It seems that although David Silva performed very well in the first half, he not only kept creating threats, but also scored a goal himself, but he is already 32 years old, and in such an intense game, his consumption is quite large. There may not be such a play in the second half.

Especially with his attendance being pretty high lately.

If he rests well, he can still play more than a dozen or 10 minutes in the second half. If the rest is not good, Guardiola will have to make a substitution.

So as soon as he returned to the locker room, Guardiola observed David Silva's state. The Spanish veteran is very important to Manchester City now.

Another veteran in the midfield, Fernandinho, and Kompany in the defense are also overdrawn. You must know that Fernandinho is almost 34, and Kompany is also 33.

These three veterans are actually very important to the current Manchester City. Their experience can make Manchester City's game more stable.

And their consumption is also quite large.

But after observing for a while, Guardiola was relieved. Although the decline in physical fitness of the veterans is inevitable, their ability to allocate physical energy in the game is on the rise. Under such circumstances, of course they can allocate their physical energy well. .

So after Guardiola waited for the players to rest, he began to arrange the tactics for the second half. He emphasized that in the second half, we should continue to focus more on the offense, seize the opportunity to score more goals, and the offense should focus on fast offense. Behind Southampton, when Southampton is holding the ball and attacking, the team must defend patiently, and don't blindly press high to consume physical energy and give the opponent too much space.

The Manchester City players are also mentally prepared for such tactics. After all, when Southampton has the upper hand in physical fitness, blindly fighting against them for ball possession and pressing is basically courting death.

Not even if they are Manchester City.

While Manchester City was preparing for the second half, the Southampton players were also listening to Kiya's arrangements.

"Continue to attack with the ball in the second half... Don't have too many scruples. In short, rely on offense to deal with them. Just be more stable in the game. Attack when you have the opportunity. Don't think about not giving the opponent any chance. Perfect... against a team like Manchester City, there is no point in trying to be perfect, we don't have to be perfect, as long as we win."

Ji Ya's words seem a bit mysterious, but the Southampton players basically understood what he meant.

The meaning is very simple, that is, in addition to suppressing the opponent as much as possible in possession of the ball, the main goal is to score goals.

Can't hold the ball for the sake of holding the ball.

"In the first half we played beautifully with that counter-attack and the pressing up the pitch for the second goal. There are many ways to score goals and our possession tactics are for a better game, not for every game. The ball possession rate was 70.00% in the game...Although we are all aware of this, I still want to emphasize it." Ji Ya said with a smile.

The players nodded one after another. In such a game, the result is of course the most important. No matter what the tactics are, they are all for better results in the end.

"Manchester City's defense is actually a bit problematic. Their left-back Zinchenko is a little weaker. If they make more fuss in this position, it will be easier to score goals." Ji Ya continued.

This is the specific tactical layout. As for the effect, it depends on the second half of the game.

The intermission time passed quickly, and players from both sides came out. When they came out, there was another warm applause from the stands. Southampton fans hoped to see the team double kill Manchester City, although Southampton is now It has opened up a lot of points, but if they can double kill Manchester City, it will be very meaningful for Southampton.

After all, they may also meet Manchester City in the Champions League. If the double play is said, after the meeting in the Champions League, they will also build better self-confidence.

After the start of the second half, Manchester City, which took the lead to kick off, quickly launched an attack. Sterling received a pass from David Silva and then began to break through forcefully. However, when he was about to cut inside, he was caught by Kansai Lowe broke the ball out of the baseline, a corner kick.

David Silva took a corner, and Kompany, who went forward to assist, grabbed the first place in the melee, and then his header was valiantly blocked by the substitute Maguire, and De Ligt immediately slammed. Foot clearance.

After resisting Manchester City's fast break, Southampton also quickly started to counterattack. They first prepared to quickly hit the ball into the opponent's half. Seeing that Manchester City's players had quickly returned to defense, they turned into the position Fighting offense, looking for opportunities through continuous passing, De Bruyne scored the ball to the left, and B Fee, who switched to the left, passed the ball into the penalty area. Laporte blocked the ball with his body, and Edson quickly hit the ball to get it.

Both sides created a chance at the beginning of the second half. Obviously, no one wants to give up the game easily in the second half. Manchester City is behind, but it is only one goal, and they still have strong firepower.

In this season, Southampton and Manchester City still have the strongest firepower in the Premier League. Although Southampton's performance fluctuated this season, it was mainly because they conceded too many goals. They scored 46 goals in the 51th round of the league. Goals, an average of 43 goals per game, is extremely amazing. Manchester City scored [-] goals in [-] games, with an average of [-] goals per game, second only to Southampton. Regardless of Liverpool, they are now ranked first In fact, their goals are still not comparable to Manchester City and Southampton. Liverpool has only scored [-] goals in the [-]th round, averaging less than [-] goals per game. Compared with Southampton and Manchester City, it is still There is a huge gap.

So on offense, neither side wants to give up.

In terms of defense, both sides did a good job in this game. The central defender and the goalkeeper showed an excellent state.

After all, relatively speaking, the defenses on the flanks of both sides are weaker!