Chapter 782 Flexible Frontcourt Transposition

? Chapter 782: Flexible Frontcourt Transposition

After Kaka received some simple treatment in a local hospital in Brazil, Manchester City's medical team recommended that Kaka be transferred to the United States for treatment.

The sports industry in the United States is quite developed, which also means that their sports medicine is also very developed.

And Gao Bo happened to know that there is a "magic doctor" in the United States!

That is Dr. Fu Haoqiang, a Chinese-American.

This doctor Fu Haoqiang is a world-renowned sports medicine expert, and Gao Bo has nothing to worry about asking him to treat Kaka.

On July 1, the day after the Fed Cup final, Kaka and Manchester City's medical team came to the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.

Kaka will complete ligament surgery here.

Gao Bo also took time to come here to visit Kaka.

"His attitude is very positive. This is a good thing for his recovery." Dr. Fu Haoqiang said.

"This kind of injury always takes a while to recover, even the most optimistic estimate, it will take two months. I don't think Manchester City should be pressing him to play in the league or the Champions League?"

Gao Bo nodded, being injured is always a helpless thing.

While chatting with the doctor, he walked into the ward where Kaka lived.

Kaka was still able to walk with the help of the protective gear, and he was very happy when he saw Gao Bo coming.

But when it comes to the new season, Kaka's eyes dimmed.

Gao Bo rubbed Kaka's head: "Don't worry, Ricardo. You will be fine, we will wait for you to come back."

"I know..." Kaka's mood was a little complicated, and he still didn't say the second half of the sentence.

Even after returning, the main position will probably be gone.

"Don't worry about the position, Ricardo." Gao Bo saw Kaka's concern, "We have a lot of tasks to play this season, and... our goal is... four important championships, all of which will be won. Down!"

Four crowns? !

Kaka stared blankly at Gao Bo.

Of course he knows the four championships, the league, the Champions League, the FA Cup, the League Cup...

Teams with triple crowns are rare, but it is not without, but quadruple crowns... but never happened in England!

Of course, this can only happen in England, because here, there are two domestic cups side by side...

"So, coming back in the second half of the season is when we need to employ people! If you recover well and maintain the state you were in last season, no one will be able to steal your main force."

Gao Bo blinked, and then said mysteriously: "I only told you about the goal of winning four championships this season."

Kaka laughed, and his mood seemed to have recovered.

....

After visiting Kaka, Gao Bo returned to New York immediately!

In New York, they had nearly a month of quiet training.

During this period, Manchester City also conducted a series of warm-up matches with several local teams.

The results of the warm-up match are naturally not what Gao Bo values, but since the opponents are all local teams and their strength is not strong, Manchester City basically won the first game.

But a month later, Manchester City's warm-up opponents will be stronger.

Said to be a warm-up, in fact, Manchester City is going to participate in the 2013 Guinness International Champions Cup in the United States.

The first Guinness International Champions Cup in 2013 was held from July 27 to August 7. The eight teams participating in the competition are: AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus, Manchester City, Chelsea, Los Angeles Galaxy, Valencia and Real Madrid. Competition cities include Phoenix, Los Angeles, New York, Indianapolis, Miami in the United States, and Valencia in Europe.

In this way, it will be a formal cup game, and the game will be a little more formal than the general warm-up, and it will also be played in the stadium in the United States, and the number of fans will not be small. There are three chances for the competition, namely the first round, the second round, and the final (and the third-fourth final, the fifth-sixth final, and the seventh-eighth final).

In such a relatively formal game atmosphere, it is better to test the team's warm-up effect.

On August 1, Manchester City played against Inter Milan in the first game of the first round of the Eastern Division of the International Champions Cup.

The game is played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, a football field that can also be used as a football field after a slight modification.

Before the game, Inter Milan's new head coach and Gao Bo shook hands with each other, and the two sides were also quite friendly at the pre-match press conference.

This is also in line with the nature of a friendly match.

In the first half of the game, Gao Bo actually sent a more experimental match.

First of all, in terms of the midfielder, he began to try to let Eriksen play the midfielder more, and he paired Eriksen with Casemiro.

Gao Bo believes that when dealing with some weaker teams in the Premier League, with Manchester City's control, there is no need to deploy two defensive midfielders, one attacking and one defending, adding a creative midfielder. Players, and Eriksen's long pass is also a weapon for the team to quickly turn defense and attack.

In the position of central defender, the partner of Kompany and Umtiti is also the place that Gao Bo focuses on.

In addition, the starting goalkeeper is Pantilimon, who was promoted to the second goalkeeper this season.

As a No. 2 goalkeeper, Gao Bo believes that Pantilimon is still qualified - if nothing too big, Pantilimon will be sitting on the bench most of the time.

In the first half of the game, the two sides battled to a one-to-one.

In midfield, Eriksen's defensive ability is still a problem, and when facing the impact of a team of Inter Milan's level, this will be a big hole in Manchester City's defense.

Vardy helped the team score a goal.

In the second half, Gao Bo made a large-scale substitution adjustment. Except for Sanchez, all other players were replaced.

The centre-back duo became Maguire with Lesco, and the left and right full-backs became Sabaleta and Luke Shaw.

In the midfield, Milner and the newly joined Wanyama played, while in the frontcourt, David Silva, Griezmann, Sanchez, and Hazard all appeared.

In the first half of the game, Manchester City did not send all the main lineup in the frontcourt. Sanchez was not replaced in the second half.

Due to Kaka's injury, Gao Bo must let Sanchez fully integrate into the team. Because in the first half of the season, the team must ensure that there is a player who is strong enough to replace Kaka.

Therefore, Gao Bo intends to let Sanchez play for a while longer.

Sanchez played on the right in the first half, and in the second half, he was placed on the left, the midfielder was playing with David Silva, and Griezmann was on the right.

City launched a very nice attack shortly after the second half.

Consecutive passes, from Griezmann, David Silva, Hazard, Hazard passed the ball to the left, Sanchez cut inside and faked a real pass, and passed a single-handed ball to Hazard !

Hazard didn't stop the ball and shot directly, breaking Inter Milan's goal and turning the score into 2-1.

After the score change, Gao Bo continued to make adjustments to the personnel positions.

He sent Griezmann to the attacking midfield, David Silva to the right, then Sanchez to the striker and Hazard to come back to the left.

Such an attacking combination in the frontcourt makes Manchester City's position matching very flexible. These players can play in all positions. Sanchez, Griezmann and Hazard, these three players are all four in the frontcourt. A player who can perform well in every position, and although David Silva can't play as a center, he can also play a good role on the left, right and attacking midfielder.

Flexible frontcourt shifts, this is what Gao Bo has been asking for during this period of training.

He asked players to play down the notion of position and play more directly.

Wherever the opponent's loopholes are, they can attack where they are. If the opponent is used to attacking, then change positions and continue to attack!

The flexible exchange of positions between several players in the frontcourt will greatly make Manchester City's offense more flexible.

In the 60th minute of the game, Manchester City scored the third goal.

This time it is Griezmann's individual ability, who can play his attacking ability directly to the goal in the position of the attacking midfielder.

Griezmann took the ball in the middle and turned around, wiped the defender and shot directly at the top of the arc!

Football once again pierced through Inter Milan's goal.

Three to one!

After that, Manchester City's transposition was more flexible.

This makes even Inter Milan's defenders unable to find the focus.

In the end, the final score of the game was four to one.

Sanchez also scored a goal on behalf of the team.