Chapter 54: Poor Bolton
Manchester City bench.
Richard Dunn sat there, watching the game.
He started his career with Everton when Everton manager Joe Leuer valued him and he got his first professional contract, at Goodison Park since the 1996-97 season In four years on the pitch, he made 81 appearances for Everton.
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 rear with Distin. In the team, Dunn has also been the focus, although Distin is the team captain, but he is the team's best player for two consecutive seasons.
Manchester City's Player of the Season is nothing, but to win this honor, it can also be seen that Dunn is excellent. On the defense, he is more stable and defensive than Distin.
He is the most powerful shield of Manchester City's defense.
At the end of last season, Dunn was injured and then missed the summer preparations, he thought it would be fine.
He knows what's going on in the team--the arrival of a new coach, the arrival of new teammates, but these can hardly affect his position. He always believes that he will be an absolute first-choice defender, and he doesn't have to worry about his position at all. It is his strength and state that he is very good, and the second is that the team did not add any big-name central defenders in the summer. With only two young Portuguese teenagers, how can they steal their position?
Because of this mentality, after returning to the team, Dunn did not devote much to the training of new tactics.
He thought it was nothing.
He is the team's central defender, he only needs to do defense, tactics are not important at all, but what he didn't expect is that because he can't quickly integrate into the team's tactical system, it is very difficult for him to return to the field-- Like now, that new coach would rather trust the new guy. I don't even want to believe in myself!
Dunn felt very dissatisfied, and that kind of mentality was on the corner of his mouth.
He didn't dare to question the new coach directly, but watching the game now, he was still gloating that the game was lost, and he was familiar with his opponent Bolton. That's not a good team to play against. In particular, he is good at playing the British-style long pass and rushing. This tough style of play is definitely a difficult test for the defense of the central defender. How can it be able to withstand relying on two newcomers! ?
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On the field, Bolton's attack was quite fierce.
There is nothing technical about their offense, nor is it good-looking at all, but the straight-forward football is enough to annoy the opponent.
Manchester City's formation is good, there is a lot of movement in the audience. The always-pressing defense also did a good job. But this style of play is really restrained by Bolton. No matter how tight the defense of Manchester City players is, Bolton is a long pass, and the football flies directly from the air to the frontcourt. No matter how good the formation is, it is useless to defend well. Can rely on players in the right position.
In this way, Bolton and Manchester City are evenly matched.
Manchester City win in their control of the football in attack, whenever they get the ball. The defense against Bolton is a test, due to the skillful cooperation of Manchester City. Bolton is very difficult to grab the ball in the midfield and frontcourt; Bolton is better at playing with a bit of aggression and passing the ball straight. The tough style of play makes Manchester City, which has many young players, very uncomfortable, so when Bolton attacked, Manchester City's defense is still a bit of a loss.
In this situation, the defense of the central defender is very important.
Koppelle Ferreira has to face a lot of pressure. Although the team is all attacking and defending, he can realize that the opponent's offensive is somewhat aimed at the middle of the backcourt, and every pass from the opponent will hit here. , even if there is no chance at all, they will do it, so he has to face the pressure again and again.
Koppelle-Ferrera also had to keep his spirits tight.
Not to mention whether the defense can do a good job, just playing a tense game can make people very tired, but Koppelle Ferreira knows very well that he must persevere. He not only has to perform, but also take care of himself. Ricardo Costa, he has to do both.
At the same time, there are a lot of cameras constantly pointing to Manchester City's midfield position, and many people want to see when the two new Portuguese central defenders are defeated.
With the attack again and again, everyone can see that Bolton is playing against the Manchester City centre-back, like in the tenth minute of the game, George Woodgate said, "...Bolton is playing against the Manchester City defender. Koppelle Ferreira, in the last ten minutes, he's had seven defensive touches and a lot of running, fighting..."
"Ricardo Costa also seems to be being targeted, but he's under much less pressure because Koppelle Ferreira will always help him in crucial moments..."
At this time, everyone's comments have already thought that Koppelle Ferreira is much stronger than Ricardo Costa, mainly because of many defenses, it can be seen that Koppelle Ferreira is taking care of it. In Cardo Costa's position, whenever the latter makes a mistake, Koppelle Ferreira will make up for it as soon as possible.
It's hard to see once or twice, but more often, you can see that Koppelle Ferreira's defensive statistics have become very gorgeous, and his name has been mentioned by various commentators again and again--
"Koppelle Ferreira!!"
"Bolton's pass was pushed out of the box! It's Koppelle Ferreira!"
"Forward Borgetti broke through Ricardo... it was Koppelle Ferreira! Ferreira made a timely defense and intercepted the ball! We can see the disappointment written on Borgetti's face, Maybe he's annoyed at his careless defeat to a Portuguese rookie centre-back..."
"Koppelle Ferreira and Campo are fighting, they have a direct physical collision ... God! Campo was hit ... but the referee did not seem to suspend the game, he signaled The game continues, which seems to be a reasonable move in the eyes of the referee..."
"..."
Over time, the various commentators noticed that they were talking about Koppelle-Ferrera more, and then they started using words like 'again' and 'or' to describe Koppelle-Ferre Pull defense.
At this time, Koppelle Ferreira's performance was indeed quite good.
At the beginning of the game, he was still a little nervous, but he was more serious, because he knew the pressure he was going to face and knew that he had to perform well. As the opponent attacked again and again, Koppelle Ferreira found that it was actually not that difficult to defend well. He only needed to tell him what the coach told him and tell him to use it in the game.
The simple summary is. Tactically with the team. Do your best on personal defense.
What he needs to do is to face defenses one after another stably, while paying attention to Ricardo Costa's direction by the way, and try to make up defenses if he has the ability.
Defending time and time again gave Koppelle Ferreira a lot of confidence and gave him a lot of experience, and then he went into defense again with confidence, and it was a virtuous circle. He found himself capable of facing everything. The game he is facing now is not a kind of pressure, but a kind of enjoyment. He enjoys the feeling now.
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Manchester City coaching bench.
Wan Sheng looked at the defense in the backcourt, 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 game went on for 20 minutes, by which time almost all the media and most fans noticed Koppelle Ferreira!
Anyone, anyone. As long as he watches the game, he pays attention to the game. It can be known that Koppelle Ferreira has performed well, because he has successfully defended again and again, and almost made Bolton's attack without any gains.
The score between the two teams is 0:0, but in terms of attacking data, Manchester City has a great advantage. The most important one is the number of shots - 5 for Manchester City and 1 for Bolton.
In 20 minutes, Manchester City had 5 shots on goal, which is normal, but Bolton, who is on a par with Manchester City, only had 1 shot, which is somewhat unreasonable.
At this time, Bolton's coach Allardyce looked extremely serious.
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 did not expect that the Portuguese young central defender of the opponent seemed to be performing better and better in the game?
He watched carefully for 20 minutes and came to this conclusion.
This is really a bad conclusion, especially now that Bolton is the opponent of Manchester City, and he makes the players play against the opponent's position. , the more the game goes on, the more they target, the better the other side performs.
This is really bloody!
Allardyce's face turned black, he also realized that the game could not continue like this, but now is not the time to make adjustments. Tactical adjustment, it is almost impossible to reverse it temporarily.
He can only hope that the game will go to half-time and nothing will go wrong.
At the same time, some commentators are actually very depressed.
It is necessary to have a Manchester Sports TV commentator. This Manchester Sports Radio has always been neutral when it comes to the issue of Manchester City and Manchester United. It is precisely because of this attitude that they can broadcast the game of the two teams at will. comments, jokes.
Before the start of the game, commentator David Hodgell talked about Manchester City's central defender, he joked, "This pair of central defenders was brought to England by Wan Sheng from Portugal, maybe he thinks that the Portuguese central defender is better than England's. Excellent, but Ricardo Costa is over 24 years old. It is hard for me to imagine the strength of a central defender who is still unknown in Portugal at the age of 24; and Koppelle Ferreira is also over 22 years old. age......"
"Portugal's talented star, I am most impressed by Cristiano Ronaldo, who played for Manchester United, but Ronaldo is much better. At the age of 19, he has surpassed most professional players, whether it is fame. , income, or performance in the game.”
"Of course, those two little-known centre-backs are a bit too demanding to be compared to Ronaldo, but I don't want to see this game, the chance for them to become nasty Boltonians... "
"..."
Although it is a neutral Manchester radio station, it still hates Bolton people very much. The pain that Bolton once brought to Manchester United is unforgettable, so that the whole Manchester boycotted Bolton. Fortunately, this is the match between Manchester City and Bolton, otherwise the lively scene , it is no less than the Manchester derby.
Closer to home, David Hodger, who made these comments, was very embarrassed at this time. He did not expect that the pair of central defenders of Manchester City could withstand so long. Among them, Koppelle Ferreira was obviously very good. outstanding.
From the beginning of the game, one minute, two minutes, five minutes, and now 20 minutes, Manchester City's central defender combination has no major problems in defense, while Koppelle Ferreira has become the brightest person in the audience. , even the embarrassed David Hodgell had to shout often, "...It's Koppelle Ferreira again!"
Facing Bolton's tough attack, the Portuguese centre-back duo withstood 20 minutes, and Koppelle-Ferrera performed quite well, which caught the attention of almost everyone watching the game.
Most of the advantage of Manchester City's attacking statistics is due to Koppelle Ferreira, because his defense did not give Bolton any chance!
At the same time, Bolton is also quite unwilling!
Many of them are old fritters in the Premier League. They are not willing to lose to a young Portuguese central defender, so they continue to play Koppelle Ferreira's position, and sometimes even Ricardo- Costa's defense made mistakes, and they couldn't care less - they were forced to take down Koppelle Ferreira!
The game on the field is a bit pissed off!
But that doesn't seem to do anything other than make Koppelle-Ferrera shine even more --
"Koppelle Ferreira steals the ball!"
"He blocked the goal with his body! He seemed to be omnipotent in the game..."
"Koppel completed a successful defense with the top of his head!"
"It's Koppelle Ferreira again!"
"His defensive expertise is like a master, he's in the right position to break Bolton's attack in an instant... yes, it's Koppelle Ferreira again, he's blocking Bolton's pass again. ball......"
At this time, the mentality of many people looking at Manchester City's defense has changed.
At the beginning, they were watching with the mentality of 'when the Manchester City centre-back duo was crushed', but now they want to see the performance of Koppelle Ferreira.
They found Koppelle Ferreira's defense really good!
It's hard to imagine how wonderful a defender can be on defense without actually watching the game! ? But now, everyone watching the game can see that Koppelle Ferreira's performance is really wonderful, because every time he faces Bolton's attack, he will become the core of the defense.
After this time and time again, when everyone is watching the game, they will think, "Will it be Koppelle Ferreira again this time?"
And then... sure enough...
In the process, Bolton, who has been attacking Koppelle Ferreira's point, seems to have completely become a foil, and their offensive is entirely to reflect the excellent defense of Koppelle Ferreira.
Even the narrator David Hodgell sighed, "Poor Bolton..." (To be continued ~^~)