Five Hundred and Seventy-One Offensive Storm

Moyes was still stunned when he walked into the Etihad Stadium.

Ever since he saw Manchester City's starting line-up, he's been struggling with a problem.

Why did Gao Shen make such a lineup?

When he walked into the court, he happened to see Gao Shen waiting for him at the entrance of the player tunnel. His smiling face made Moyes have no doubts that Gao Shen was not as full of heart as he thought when he saw his starting lineup. lost.

Conversely, Gao Shen looks confident.

How is this going?

Is his information wrong?

It was the first time that the two met on the field, but their friendship was not good. After a few polite greetings, they each returned to their coaches to prepare.

Moyes took two steps, and did not forget to look back at Gao Shen's back, wondering in his heart.

Especially when he returned to his position and saw the position of Manchester City's starting lineup, the whole person felt even more wrong.

How would you describe that weirdness?

Normally, before the opening, the two teams will set up their respective positions, which can roughly see the position of each other's players.

But Manchester City's position tonight is very strange.

Since it was Everton who kicked off first, five Manchester City players were in a semicircle, close to the center circle of their own half, and one was alone near the left line of the center line.

But there is no one on the right line, and the entire right half appears empty, which makes the entire formation of Manchester City look asymmetrical.

The starting lineup is also weird.

Goalkeeper: Neuer.

Defence: Gareth Bale, David Luiz, Kompany and Zabaleta.

This line of defense is also the starting lineup for Manchester City in the first round. Gao Shen only rotated one full-back, obviously wanting to be stable.

Midfield: David Silva, Henderson and Rakitic.

Forwards: Hazard, Suarez and Sturridge.

This was Moyes' original guess.

Because according to Manchester City's warm-up performance, Gao Shen has always placed Hazard in the left wing position.

But in the real game, Gao Shen found that it was Sturridge standing on the far left of the center line, Hazard was standing near the left side of the center circle, and Suarez was standing near the right side of the center circle.

David Silva, Henderson and Rakitic are in an arc, close to the center circle.

what station is this?

Why is it completely messed up?

Moyes was puzzled.

"What the hell is he doing?" Stephen Lund was also very strange.

In the entire coaching bench, all Everton coaching staff felt very unclear, so obviously they did not guess the profound intentions.

But it doesn't matter, after the game started, they quickly saw the clue.

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With the whistle of the game, it turned out to be Sturridge near the left line, the first to press towards Everton's hinterland, and the speed was very fast, forcing Everton's midfield back to be forced to transfer. Go to the sidewalk.

At this point, Hazard and Suarez looked like two attacking midfielders behind Sturridge.

The first time the audience passed into the penalty area was from Manchester City.

After Sturridge dribbled the ball from the left and cut inward, he collided with Suarez and handed it to Hazard. The latter sent it into the penalty area to find Suarez, but was blocked by central defender Yabo and failed to pass to Suarez. at the foot of s.

But the first shot of the game came from Everton, and Tim Cahill's long-range shot went directly high.

The pace of the game went fast and neither side kept their hands.

From the perspective of the game, Manchester City's passing and possession advantages are still obvious, but the rhythm is faster.

And Moyes also gradually saw that the positioning of Manchester City players on the court was by no means the four-three-three that Gao Shen was good at.

"What the hell is this guy doing?" Moyes was at a loss.

Manchester City is a grassroots reorganization, and it is not easy to run in a lineup, but he played four, three, three in the first round and defeated a team like Blackburn. Rotation, even changing formations.

Doesn't he know that this is a taboo for Manchester City at this moment?

Four four two, diamond-shaped midfield, this is Ancelotti's tactics at Chelsea!

But the advanced style of play is completely different from that of Ancelotti.

As we all know, the four-four-two diamond-shaped midfield position has several characteristics. One is that the tenth position, that is, the attacking midfielder, initiates the attack. Together with two central midfielders, it can quickly form an offensive number advantage in the frontcourt.

This is a tactical style of attacking the middle lane, so Gao Shen hid both Robinho and Robben tonight.

Ancelotti's Chelsea adopted a diamond-shaped midfield position in order to improve the problem of advancing the ball and maximize the advantages and role of Drogba, a powerful center forward.

But high-level play is completely different.

As a result, he didn't worry about advancing the ball at all.

Needless to say, David Silva and Rakitic, Suarez himself is also a good player with the ball, and even Hazard, watching his dribbling posture a few times, is quite skillful.

In this case, Manchester City does not need to worry about advancing the ball at all.

The profound change is that the positions of the two forwards and the No. 10 attacking midfielder, namely Sturridge, Suarez and Hazard, are actually very flexible.

Just like just now, Sturridge stepped forward quickly from the left to put pressure on it, and Suarez and Hazard retreated.

Later, after Suarez pressed up, Hazard began to play the role of the tenth position.

But the three players switch positions frequently.

What's more, as soon as Everton grabs the ball, no matter who the three are, the closest one will immediately put pressure on them, even pulling the side and chasing them back, and the other two will automatically play the role of double strikers.

The purpose of this is to solve the problem of pressing on the sidelines of the front court that exists in the four-four-two diamond position.

But there is still a problem with this lineup, that is, the single back midfielder does not protect the two ribs enough.

This is actually the reason why Chelsea were scored in two consecutive rounds.

But Gao Shen is obviously expected. Everton does not have the kind of player who is good at hitting the ribs. The more threatening one is Pinar, so he arranged for Rakitic to stand further back, making it clear that he wanted to suppress pinar.

In other words, with the current Everton lineup configuration, there is no good way to face this lineup of Manchester City.

But the advantages of this lineup are obvious, especially when attacking, Gao Shen directly and boldly allowed the two fullbacks to actively move forward, especially Gareth Bell, who almost regarded himself as a fullback, or even a full-back. The winger is in use.

From the very beginning, Gareth Bale was very active, frequently in the attack, inserted very high along the left wing.

Moyes also looked anxious from the sidelines.

Everton's players are a little uncomfortable with this transformation of Manchester City.

They also did not expect that Manchester City would change from the original 433 to the current 442.

The point is, they seem to be getting used to it.

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"Tactics are dead, formations are dead, but people are alive."

When Gao Shen watched the game from the sidelines, he laughed and said.

He is happy with the progress of the game, with Manchester City gradually overtaking Everton.

"As long as players know what they should do on the court, why they do it, and how to do it, they can perform their duties well no matter where they are on the court, without the need for Imprisoned and bound by position."

Gao Shen did guess that Moyes might be on guard, but he was never someone who would hand over the initiative to his opponents, or bet on low-probability events, so he arranged both set-piece offense and Jiji. Lu's high-school striker tactics, these are all preparations for a long time to attack.

But what he really wants to do is to defeat Everton in a head-to-head confrontation.

Although it is only the second round of the Premier League, rotation is also necessary.

Ancelotti's Chelsea is in rotation, Ferguson's Manchester United is also in rotation, and even Wenger's Arsenal have made a lot of adjustments, and the sophisticated Manchester City is no exception.

So, he switched to a four-four-two diamond stance.

The four-four-two formation is still quite popular in the Premier League.

Gao Shen is especially looking forward to the double forwards of Sturridge and Suarez, Hazard to play the attacking midfielder, and Gareth Bale to the left.

After all, this tactical style of play relies heavily on the attacking power of the full-backs.

As for Hazard, in fact, he played in the attacking midfield position in Lille. This is his old job. After joining Chelsea in his previous life, Gao Shen transformed into a left winger, which is the result of the transformation.

Just when he was thinking about it, Manchester City quickly transferred the ball to the left flank after completing a steal in their own half.

Gareth Bale hadn't crossed the center line yet, and he saw an opportunity. He sent a diagonal pass with his left foot, transferred the ball to the left rib of the frontcourt, and handed it over to Hazard's feet.

The Belgian midfielder stopped the ball, and without waiting for Fellaini to approach, he quickly picked up a pass and gave it directly to the middle of the frontcourt.

Although both Suarez and Sturridge were catching up, Phil Neville, who was playing central defender in this game, retreated quickly, but Sturridge was very persistent, and the whole person entangled Phil Neville.

The Everton central defender failed to clear the ball in time and tried to block Sturridge with his body, but the Manchester City striker was stalking and the two got mixed up.

Phil Neville was in a hurry to make a clearance, but lost his balance and fell to the ground, failing to hit the ball.

The referee didn't blow his whistle.

Sturridge was stunned and didn't have time to catch up with the ball.

On the contrary, Suarez, who rushed over, caught up without thinking, took the lead, and kicked a volley directly on the left side of the top of the arc.

This shot was powerful, and the ball flew directly to the right side of Everton's goal with lightning speed.

Howard stood on the left, the whole person reacted quickly, and flew out sideways, but after all, he still failed to save Suarez's angry shot.

"goallllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!"

"Eight minutes after the opening, it's Suarez again!"

"A volley from the front of the penalty area opened the scoring for Manchester City, 1-0!"

The entire Etihad Stadium was instantly boiling.

All the Manchester City fans rushed out of their seats and cheered wildly.

Suarez rushed to the sidelines, celebrating his third Premier League goal of the season.

Gao Shen also calmly raised his right fist on the home team's coach bench and sent congratulations to Suarez from afar.

He knew in his heart that Manchester City's offensive storm tonight has just begun!

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