bestfiction Chapter 126 Luck
Chapter 126 Luck
Chapter 126 Luck
This opportunity turned Allardyce's grief into joy.In the valley of despair, there is a glimmer of hope.
After careful observation, Allardyce understood that there was a problem with Manchester City's defense, and the key to the problem came from Richards.For some reason, Manchester City gave Richards a lot of autonomy and pushed Richards into a free man in the back line.In addition, Richards is the backbone of the defense, so everyone else is cooperating with him.It is under such passive "cooperation" that other defensive players ignore their own positions.
They protected around Richards, but neglected themselves.
Although he doesn't understand the reason, it doesn't mean that Allardyce won't make adjustments.He quickly told the players to focus on Richards' position.
The Newcastle players quickly saw this weakness of Manchester City and began to concentrate their firepower on Richards.
This tactic captured the point where Manchester City was not functioning well.
Manchester City's defense line suddenly set off a flurry of chickens and dogs.
At this time, the benefits of Duncan replacing Sibielski became apparent.
As the "stealing king" of the Premier League last season, Sibierski contributed 3.7 steals throughout the season, ranking first in the Premier League defensive player list.
In the second half, Duncan did not limit Sibielski's defensive range, but only asked him to block the opponent's offense and link the pressure of his own defense.
In fact, Sibierski is the real "defensive libero."
So, with Manchester City's overall defense line bleak, Sibierski became the brightest point in the second half of Manchester City!
"Two to one...Richards was passed again, but Newcastle couldn't form a shot, Sibierski came out from the side and tackled the ball away..."
"Beautiful through ball... As long as the Newcastle player receives the ball, it is a perfect one-handed shot... Oh no, almost, Sibierski poked the football out with his toe..."
"My God! It's Sibielski again, this time he's in Richards' position...Let's see what Richards is doing...He actually ran to the wing to defend Ameobi?"
The weakness of the Manchester City team has made Sibielski's brilliant performance!
Sibielski's superb defensive ability and good sense of position allow him to always appear where he is most needed and make the most correct moves.
In just 10 minutes of the second half, Sibierski contributed seven steals!
Sibierski sprinted all over the field, using accurate and concise steals one by one, making Newcastle's offense return without success time and time again.
This is also a "protector" that Duncan added to this "experiment"!
Many people are lamenting that it is really hard to find a player like Sibielski who has strong defensive ability and is willing to come off the bench!
Unfortunately, Sibierski is a defensive player, not an offensive player.In the case of Sibierski's brilliant performance, the contrast is the absence of the offensive line.
Manchester City's defense is still stretched.
No matter how versatile Sibielski is, he is only one person after all.He can prevent one person and one pass, but he can't prevent the other Newcastle players from continuously jumping up.
Manchester City's defensive pressure is still increasing, because Newcastle's main attack on Richards has caused the team's defensive focus to be on him, making the defense unconsciously shrink towards Richards.
The defense in other places has become a bit stretched.If it weren't for Sibilski's outstanding performance, Manchester City's goal would have been broken long ago.
But what should come, will come after all.
In the 78th minute of the second half, Newcastle used several consecutive kicks from the side and the center to tear through Manchester City's defense and finally resulted in a goal.
2:4, Newcastle pulled back a victory.
This was not enough. In the 83rd minute, Newcastle had another golden opportunity. The Newcastle midfielder suddenly took the ball forward and disrupted Manchester City's defense.Then after a pass that completely disrupted Manchester City's defense, the midfielder scored with a long-range shot.
Newcastle chased another goal and the score became 3:4.
The fans at St. James' Park were boiling. They didn't expect their team to pull two goals in a row when they were 1:4 behind, narrowing the gap to one goal.
That being the case, why couldn't the last goal be scored?
They rekindled the torch of hope!
In the 89th minute, under his busy schedule, Joel Luka pushed the opponent's cross over the baseline, and Newcastle won a corner kick.
The corner kick was taken, Newcastle flicked a shot from close point, but missed the ball to the back point.
The player who rushed to shoot at the back point hit the ball on the goal post by accident when no one was marking it.
Then popped off the field!
Joe Hart's back was covered in cold sweat for a moment.
When he came back to his senses, he shouted to his teammates to keep their defensive attention and not give the opponent too many opportunities.
Manchester City's defense, which escaped unharmed, also cheered up. At the last moment of the game, the fence was tightened and no more goals were conceded.
Shortly thereafter, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.
4:3! Manchester City won an unconvincing victory in the away game.
At the press conference after the game, Allardyce expressed his regret. He believed that in this game, one point for each side is the best result.Losing, can only blame his team's bad luck.
Words like Allardyce's have a lot of popularity among journalists.Based on their "professional vision", the reporters came to conclusions such as "Manchester City and Newcastle were evenly matched", "Newcastle and Manchester City each played a good half of the game", "Manchester City's defense is scum", and they believed that Manchester City won because of luck .
"Luck" has become the key word in this game.
What Allardyce didn't expect was that his exclamation in such a matter-of-fact manner was equivalent to a veiled expression of "my players are not working hard enough", which had a very bad influence among the players.This, let Allardyce unexpected.
When Duncan was asked about "luck", Duncan said he was a resultant.Since the result of the game is that he won, then he is a winner.
Duncan's attitude angered some sympathetic people. They thought that Duncan was like an ostrich, who could hide from everything by burying his head in the sand.
Of course, more professionals jumped out and began to criticize the shortcomings of Duncan's "3232 formation".
They believe that with the development of modern football, the offense and defense of a team must never be separated.If you want to attack, you must attack with the whole team; if you want to defend, you must defend comprehensively.However, Manchester City's formation of "five people attacking and five people defending" rigidly divides the players into two parts: "offensive players" and "defensive players", which can only make the team unable to attack and defend the goal.
Some media laughed and cursed, and even thought that Duncan was copying the classic "WM" formation of Hungary in the 60s, and praised Duncan for being "quite ancient". On the surface, he praised Duncan's behavior, but in essence he criticized Duncan's behavior, which was harmful to the development of football. fall back.
They believe that placing most players in the frontcourt will lead to the emptiness of the team's defense.Especially the three-back formation, it is easy to be used as a breakthrough by the opponent's sharp full-back.The reason why Manchester City has used the 3232 formation to win successively in recent games is that Manchester City's defense has not been tested.If Yuqiudi has a sharp attack, then Manchester City will definitely lose.
The game against Newcastle is a good proof.
If it weren't for Newcastle trailing by two goals in the first half, then only looking at the second half, Newcastle would have won the game 1:0.
Controversy and criticism continue, as does the league.
On October 10th, in the away game, Manchester City defeated Birmingham 20:2. The score was simple, but the process was thrilling.
Manchester City opened the scoring in the first half, and Mido used a signature long-range shot to break through Fulham's gate.
Just when people thought the game would fall into one-sidedness, Manchester City became like the last game, becoming unable to play.Offensively, they can't organize an effective offensive, but they are out of position defensively.
In this game, Duncan continued to experiment, using Hargreaves, who served as the midfielder, as the "defensive core".
This arrangement had a worse effect than the previous game. In order to cooperate with Hargreaves, Manchester City's defense would always press forward from time to time to narrow the distance between the two lines.
This leaves plenty of time for the opponent's striker to counterattack.
Birmingham's goal was scored in this way.
Not only that, but Birmingham has repeatedly threatened Manchester City's goal. If it weren't for Joe Hart's steady performance and the opposing striker's ineffectiveness, Birmingham would probably have won!
In the end, relying on Ljungberg's golden header in the second half, Manchester City took a controversial three points in the away game.
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