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In front of the Manchester City coaching bench, Estiate said angrily.

The Manchester City assistant referred to him, of course, referring to the opponent's Chelsea coach Di Matteo.

The game has been playing for half an hour, but Chelsea didn't even shoot a goal, which is simply outrageous.

Why is this happening?

Because Chelsea is unwilling to invest in the offensive, Juan Mata has difficulty launching an offense under Sabaletta’s imprisonment. Lampard is more likely to suppress Busquets and is unable to enter the offense, leading to Chelsea’s forward No one on the court can hold the ball and launch an offensive.

As a result, Drogba was isolated and helpless in the frontcourt, and in the contest between Pepe and Kompany, he was even more difficult to beat with four hands.

In fact, even in the peak state, in a one-on-one situation, Drogba can hardly take advantage of Pepe and Kompany, not to mention that Drogba is no longer at the top and is still one. For two, the Ivorian is even more embarrassed.

Since the teammates could not pass the ball, it was difficult for him to take advantage of Pepe and Kompany. Drogba was not stupid. He immediately chose to pull the side and ran to the right side, which is the left side of Manchester City. Marcelo was specifically picked to bully.

Nima, I can't beat you Pepe and Kompany, I still can't bully Marcelo?

More importantly, Marcelo often moves forward, saying that he is a left-back, but in fact he is more like a left-back, or even a left-winger, so Manchester City's left, that is, Chelsea's right, is basically empty. of.

Ramirez followed Marcelo forward, so the entire right side was free, and Drogba ran over to receive a long pass from his teammate.

But I have to say that Chelsea's long pass is really poor. Even if Drogba can barely catch it, it is too far away from the center, which makes it difficult for Chelsea to play a threat.

To put it bluntly, Drogba is not a super personal player like Sudong, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. His advantage is never to dribble the ball, so after letting him pull the side, no one is around to catch him, and he is in the middle. No one keeps up, how can the offense be effective?

This formed the current situation, Chelsea had zero shots in the first half hour of the game!

Chelsea's situation is indeed embarrassing, but Manchester City's situation is not particularly optimistic.

Seven shots, four long shots, and three shots in the penalty area, but none of them could pose a threat.

Including Su Dong's two shots, they were blocked by Chelsea's defensive players with their legs or body.

To put it bluntly, Chelsea's current defensive strategy is desperate.

First, use the iron barrel tactics to guard against death. If a crack is chipped by Manchester City, the defensive player will use his body to block it.

It may be an exaggeration to say that the most eye-catching blocking is three times, from Gary Cahill, two of which are blocking Sudong, which shows how desperate the Chelsea defenders are.

Strictly guard against the dead, the soldiers used their lives, Chelsea's barrel formation also allowed Manchester City to pass and control the ball, and it has not been able to play a real threat.

This also made Estiyat look a little irritated and anxious from the sidelines.

Especially on the court, foul scenes of Chelsea players infringing on Manchester City players appear from time to time, which is even more worrying.

This is actually a normal tactic, but in this range, everyone will be dissatisfied.

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"Chelsea's defense tonight is more conservative than when they played Bayern in the previous two rounds, and the formation is more meticulous, leaving us with less room and almost no room for us." Guardiola analyzed indifferently, without any hint. Emotional color.

Only those who are familiar with and understand him know that, in fact, when Guardiola said so, it already means that he regrets a bit.

Su Dong said before the game that he could not force his opponent to death.

The rabbit bites in a hurry, not to mention that Chelsea is a fierce tiger.

Although old and sick, a tiger is a tiger.

Manchester City forced Chelsea in this way, it will only push the Blues tighter, and finally force them into a monolithic one.

According to what Su Dong said before the game, the Chinese have a kind of strategic thinking.

"Di Matteo is truly an Italian!" Torrent said sarcastically.

Italy also often represents conservativeness.

Di Matteo's tactics tonight are indeed very conservative, but very practical.

At least until now, Manchester City have not been able to come up with an effective solution, resulting in more than 70% of the ball possession rate, but has not been able to create a real threat.

"Do you want to adjust now?" Estiyat asked concerned.

Guardiola stared at the game on the court, frowning, without answering.

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Like the dignity on the Manchester City coaching bench, the atmosphere on the Chelsea coaching bench is also not easy.

Almost every attack by Manchester City will make Di Matteo worry, and make everyone panicked, because Manchester City has a super scorer like Su Dong, who dares to care?

Even the slightest slack, no matter how inconspicuous mistakes, may be caught by Su Dong and score a goal.

Fortunately, Chelsea's defensive players are very experienced, so so far, they have made no mistakes.

Yes, Chelsea's defensive players, including midfielders, have not made major mistakes in defense so far. This makes almost every attack for Manchester City like an iron plate, and it is difficult to form a threat.

But Di Matteo didn't dare to be careless.

The initiative is in the hands of Manchester City and Guardiola.

Blue Moon has the advantage of passing the ball, has a stronger bench lineup, and has more options. Chelsea can only respond passively, so Manchester City may make adjustments at any time.

Di Matteo can't guess what kind of adjustments Guardiola will make next.

Change to Hazard?

Well, there is such a possibility.

The Belgian winger is completely different from Di Maria. He is shorter, has better dribbling ability, and is more able to create threats and fouls in dense defense, especially fouls.

Su Dong's free kick attainments are obvious to all. If Hazard came up with the ball and drove the ball and lured Chelsea's defensive players into fouls, it would be dangerous. This has to be prevented.

Or change to Aguero to share the pressure of Su Dong?

Or is it to become a three-guard directly to further strengthen the offensive?

Di Matteo was worried about this.

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Although both sides had their own minds, but at the end of the first half, Manchester City did not make significant adjustments to their tactics on the field.

Guardiola only fine-tuned the local position, but the effect is not particularly obvious.

The number of shots was nine to zero, and Chelsea did not make a shot in the entire first half.

This surprised everyone, but also took it for granted.

Manchester City's possession rate exceeded 80%, which is ridiculous, but the score is still zero to zero.

The game was fierce, but also very boring. Both sides attacked and defended. Most of the time in football was falling back and forth in Manchester City's midfield and backcourt. It was difficult to open the situation in the frontcourt, which was very depressing.

But this is the Champions League final!

As long as you can win, no matter what the tactic is, it is a good tactic.

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When the Manchester City players returned to the locker room, Guardiola and other coaching staff also came back.

Intermission time is precious, and the coaching staff and players are racing against time to prepare.

Guardiola started to summarize some of the team’s gains and losses in the first half. He thinks that the team’s 80% possession rate in the first half seems to be a lot, but in fact, there is not much time for threatening possession of the ball, and more is in the middle. An inverted foot in the backcourt.

"In the second half, we should retreat the entire formation appropriately and focus on the midline."

"Busquets has been disturbed to some extent. David Silva and Tony Cross have to return to their positions, closer to our fourth position. At the same time, the running position can also be more flexible, and there is no need to stick to the position. Try to pull Mikel and Meireles out as much as possible."

"In the second half, we must be prepared to deal with the threat from the opponent's midfielder."

Guardiola's words surprised everyone in the dressing room, and then they all turned to look at Su Dong.

Su Dong did not give much reaction, but faintly suggested: "Our wing in the first half put a lot of pressure on the opponent, but I think in the second half we should stretch the opponent's defense a little bit more, and try to be on the side as much as possible. I can deal with one-to-one road formation, breakthrough or in-cutting."

This proposal was immediately approved by Guardiola.

In fact, everyone knows that Guardiola is adjusting the team's starting tactics to make the formation retreat. In fact, it is to reduce the oppression of Chelsea. This is listening to the advice of Sudong and East, but he will not say it.

By transferring some ball rights to Chelsea, whether the Blues will be pressured to play, no one knows.

However, after the overall retracement, Manchester City will have more space, especially David Silva and Tony Kroos are more behind, which will make Chelsea's defense also press out, and the space in the frontcourt will be relatively Bigger.

This is what Su Dong proposed. Let the wing players open up the formation and form one-on-one as much as possible. Su Dong can do the job no matter if it is a bottom pass or an inside cut.

There is another very important reason why Manchester City dared to pull the midfield back, and that is Tony Cross's long pass.

You know ~www.NovelMTL.com~ throughout the first half, under the pressure of Manchester City, Chelsea's long pass success rate is very low. One of the most important points is that Chelsea lacks long pass players.

But Manchester City is different. Everyone knows how sharp Tony Cross's long pass is.

Even if it retreats, Manchester City are confident that Tony Cross can pass the ball to the most threatening zone at any time when necessary, and it is also the weakest area of ​​Chelsea's defense.

More importantly, after David Silva and Tony Cross retreat, with Busquets as an anchor, the two players can move more flexibly, which is bound to make Chelsea's double midfielder feel embarrassed.

Follow, then the whole formation will definitely become loose; if you don’t follow, with the abilities of David Silva and Tony Cross, once they get the ball, they can pass a good ball to Su Dong and others in front at any time. .

This is the adjustment that Guardiola made on the basis of Su Dong's suggestion. As for the risk, from the attitude of Chelsea in the first half, this team did not even think about attacking.

In other words, Di Matteo's counterattack is more like a lucky draw.