Chapter 851, the Third Final

With Sun Jihai's affirmation, Jin Taige was very happy: "Well, let's contact after the game."

"No problem, I will stay in Manchester for a few more days, we can sit down and have a good chat about the football school." Sun Jihai nodded in agreement.

Jin Taige was full of joy: "Then let's see you after the game!"

After saying this, Jin Taige was about to turn around when Sun Jihai stopped him again, and he smiled slyly: "Tiger, although I admire you very much, I still support Manchester City to win this game."

Jin Taige shrugged: "That's really embarrassing, I may let you down in this game."

While Jin Taige and Sun Jihai were chatting, the players from both sides had already taken their positions, and the game officially started!

"In this game, Manchester City kicked off first! They passed in the midfield!"

"Manchester United go up and press! Man City Fernandinho passes the ball back to Stones, Stones passes wide and Kolarov dribbles forward! Man Utd ready to defend! "

"Kolarov passed the ball to Gundogan, but the two didn't move forward and passed it to Yaya Toure in the middle."

"The Manchester United players are pressing again! Pogba dribbles the ball in Manchester United's half!"

"Aguero broke through with the ball! Two defensive players pressed Aguero tightly!"

"Aguero crossed back to right-back Sagna, the ball was still in the City half."

Ten minutes into the game, Manchester City didn't even have a shot!

"What's the situation?" Jin Taige frowned on the sidelines.

Scholes was also very puzzled: "In the last game, Manchester City's attack power was quite fierce, but why did they play conservative in this game?"

Fei Lan didn't care, "What's the matter, it must be that they were scared by us and didn't dare to attack."

Scholes asked: "Captain, do we need to push up and continue to strengthen our offense?"

Jin Taige shook his head: "Let's look at the situation first, Manchester City's style of play has indeed changed a bit today."

At this time, Guardiola was sitting on the sidelines, and he was also closely watching the situation on the field.

A few days ago, Guardiola had already set the tone of this game-defensive counterattack!

In fact, from the first game of this season, Guardiola has never played a defensive counterattack tactic, not once. Guardiola advocates passing and controlling football. If he is asked to defend and counterattack or put the bus, he simply cannot accept it.

But after the last game, Guardiola thought for a long time.

In the last Premier League game, Manchester City won 3-3 in the first half, but Manchester United won 5-3 in the end. The situation in that game was very special.

In the first half, both teams had a large offensive range, and finally achieved a big score of 3 to 3. But in the second half, Kintag allowed the team to retract appropriately, and delegated power to the three forwards in the frontcourt, allowing them to have sufficient room to play. In this case, several of Manchester United's world-class strikers played at a superhuman level, and eventually not only scored two goals in the second half, but also kept Manchester City from scoring a goal in the second half.

Drawing on Manchester United's style of play, Guardiola did the same in this game. He allowed the team to shrink the backcourt, and then gave Aguero, Sterling and Pogba full freedom to play in the frontcourt. The two defensive midfielders in the midfield seldom step forward to assist, and the defense line is even more steady in defending in the backcourt.

In the face of this situation, Manchester United's fast break can't play, there is no sprint space, and the defense in front of the goal is dense. Manchester United players also frequently stumble in front of Manchester City's penalty area, looking for opportunities.

In this case, the game played for 30 minutes, and the score between the two sides was still 0-0.

Raman in the live broadcast room yawned: "After watching the last game, I thought that today must be another big battle, but I didn't expect this game to be so drowsy."

Morris also felt a little bored: "Manchester United is okay, Manchester City is really scared of being beaten in this game,

They were actually beaten by their opponents at their home court. This is completely inconsistent with Guardiola's technical characteristics. "

"Now the game has been going on for half an hour. Will it always be like this for the rest of the time? If so, then I will sleep for a while and call me later when there is a shot."

In fact, not only Morris and Raman found the game scene boring, but even many fans in front of the TV were not very energetic. The Manchester United fans are okay, after all, they are playing against Manchester City now; but the Manchester City fans can't bear it anymore. For a full 30 minutes, their team hardly took a few shots, which made them feel very depressed.

In the stands of the Etihad Stadium, Manchester City fans have already started booing, and it is really ugly to be beaten by opponents at home.

But Guardiola doesn't care so much, he is now waiting for a chance to counterattack, and then Aguero and the others directly attack the goal. And even in this form, Pogba still hasn't returned to his own half, looking for offensive opportunities behind Aguero and Sterling.

Under the suppression of Manchester United, Manchester City also got several good offensive opportunities. Once the speed of Aguero and Sterling rushes up, it will pose a great threat to Manchester United's defense. Once Aguero even got a one-handed chance, but was blocked by the attacking De Gea.

It was not until the 41st minute of the game that the situation on the field changed.

Manchester United won a corner kick, this time it was taken by De Bruyne.

In fact, in the ten minutes before this, Manchester United had won four corner kicks. Because of Manchester City's intensive defense in front of the penalty area, Manchester United chose more long-range shots to attack, but there were too many people in the penalty area, the ball could not be shot at all, and only got a few corner kicks.

But in the defense led by Kompany, Manchester United did not get any good chances.

This time De Bruyne took the penalty again. He was about to make a free throw when he saw Sane moving in the corner of the penalty area very close to him. He seemed to be unable to run, and was slowly walking towards the penalty area, seemingly carelessly.

De Bruy's heart moved!

This offensive routine has been used during training, but the success rate is not very high. Does Sane want to use this tactic?

But if you continue to attack in the same way as before, you will probably waste another chance to attack.

Thinking of this, De Bruyne hesitated a little.

At this time, Sane squatted down and moved his ankle casually, as if he was injured.

But De Bruyne understood what he meant.

Sane wants him to play the ball as soon as possible!

If so, then take the risk and give it a try!

Thinking of this, De Bruyne didn't hesitate anymore. He waved his hand in the direction of the penalty area, gestured for a "three" gesture, and then quickly shot the ball!