On the afternoon of September 25, Manchester City Stadium.

This is undoubtedly the heaviest showdown since the new season, with both sides taking a lot of rotations in the midweek League Cup.

The result of the rotation was that Manchester City, which had a stronger bench thickness, continued to advance, while Chelsea was eliminated.

This also caused some pressure on Chelsea before the game.

In the morning of the game, major British media were warming up for the game. The first thing they were to bear was the war of words between Gao Han and Scolari, and media reporters rushed to report and interpret.

Scolari's remarks were undoubtedly a bit too much. He not only pointed his finger at Manchester City, but also ridiculed Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United. This was very consistent with Scolari's character and also reflected his unfamiliarity with European professional football.

The result of this was that Ferguson was interviewed by the media overnight that night to counter Scolari's remarks, believing that Gao Han would undoubtedly laugh to the end in this Manchester focus battle.

"The five consecutive wins at the beginning are of no value. If Scolari wants to prove himself, he still has to perform in Manchester City."

This is Ferguson's original words, which were also interpreted by the media as having Scolari's army.

Coupled with Gao Han's psychological warfare before, Scolari should regret his original remarks.

But even if there is really a medicine for regret in the world, he wouldn't have time to take it.

In this game, Scolari sent all the main players to play.

The goalkeeper is Hilaryo, with Ashley Cole, Terry, Alles and Ivanovic in the back line. The three midfielders are dragged by Essin, Lampard and Ramirez in the center. The front trident is Robinho on the left, Anelka on the right, and Falcao is in the center.

When Gao Han got this list of Chelsea, he had already guessed Scolari's intentions in his mind.

The facts proved that his judgment was correct. Scolari shouted loudly, but in fact he was pursuing a draw.

Does that mean that Gao Han’s psychological warfare is useless?

not necessarily!

When the news comes out, it is not just Scolari who sees the reports, but also Chelsea players. Will they be affected? Who doesn’t want to win?

Especially when the situation on the court is in your favor.

Manchester City still lined up in this game with three, four and three formations. The goalkeeper was Cech, and the defense was Kompany, Xavi Martinez and Mascherano. The three-back combination has been getting better and better this season and is very solid.

The midfielder was Xavi Alonso dragged behind, David Silva and Milner were in the center, and Modric was arranged to rest by Gao Han because of a little injury on his foot. Kaka was in the front midfielder, and the trident in the front court did not change, but Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema and Sanchez were still there.

The tactical formations adopted by both sides have not changed much, and they are also well aware of each other, so the focus of the competition is on the tactics and on-the-spot performance of both sides.

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At the beginning of the game, both sides were reserving, not directly entering the state, and were still testing each other.

Manchester City obviously did not invest as much as before to attack, but instead consciously maintained the compactness of the three-line formation, allowing Chelsea, who was the first to kick off, to control the ball and not to grab it.

The most obvious thing is that Manchester City's defense line did not press down, but stayed in the half of the team, and Xavi Alonso also retreated, resulting in the main battlefield between the two sides after the start of the game being in the middle line.

This is somewhat of a weak feeling, especially at home.

Chelsea obviously also had some doubts about this. After all, in the past, Manchester City did it directly as soon as they came out. Regardless of whether it was a 20-21 goal, they would grab a goal first. But today they suddenly played like this, something was wrong.

Especially in the opening few minutes, Chelsea actually controlled the ball, which was a bit unreasonable.

what to do?

Chelsea himself was a little confused.

But after three or four minutes of testing, they finally couldn't help it.

Since your opponents are showing weakness, then do it!

So, Chelsea's overall formation slowly pressed forward and began to try to launch an offensive against Manchester City's defense.

Among the three midfielders of the Blues, both Lampard and Ramirez, both lack the ability to independently push the ball into the frontcourt. Drogba used to be a fulcrum in the frontcourt and organize the attack around the Ivorians.

But after using Falcao, the entire offensive system was completely different, and the one he had at Drogba was useless.

Therefore, Robinho and Anelka are needed to actively retreat to the midfield and effectively drive the ball to the frontcourt players, but this will lead to another new problem, the lack of width in the offense.

In the past, when Gao Han coached Chelsea, the solution to this problem was to rely on the forward assists of two full-backs. During Mourinho's time, Ashley Cole had always played an important role in Chelsea's offensive system.

In this game, Gao Han not only made Sanchez stare at the England left-back, but also arranged Milner in the midfield, with the purpose of defending and interception, especially cutting off the connection between Ashley Cole and the midfield.

As a result, shortly after the opening, Milner had two successful interceptions, both of which were from Chelsea's pass-received mistakes.

Once, the midfield was cut off, and the other was Ashley Cole's cross from the left, and Milner directly intercepted it.

In the seventh minute of the game, Robinho retreated and received the ball, but was intercepted by Milner and passed it to Xavi Alonso. Espanyol made a long pass and Cristiano Ronaldo rushed to the frontcourt quickly, but after receiving the ball, Terry and Ales actively returned to the position. The Portuguese hurriedly shot a long shot, which was too far away and did not hit the right shot.

But one minute later, another long pass from the midfield and backcourt, Cristiano Ronaldo successfully counterattacked and received the ball from the left side of the penalty area, and wanted to pass it to the middle to Benzema, but was taken off by Hillaryo decisively.

Two minutes later, it was a counterattack after Manchester City intercepted the ball. Ivanovic finally couldn't help but make a foul and pulled the Portuguese, got a yellow card, and gave Manchester City a chance to set the ball in the frontcourt.

Cristiano Ronaldo took the penalty himself, which was of high quality, but was saved by Hilario, and the corner kick afterwards failed to create a threat.

In the first ten minutes, Manchester City seemed to be defensively defending and counterattacking, but Chelsea took the initiative to attack actively, but Chelsea made many mistakes in passing and controlling the ball, and was seized by Manchester City to make a sharp counterattack. On the contrary, the Blues themselves did not even have a shot. It was not until the eleventh minute that Anelka made a cross from the right and sent the ball into Manchester City's penalty area for the first time.

After Falcao stopped the ball, he wanted to turn around and shoot, but Xavi Alonso, who returned to defense, took the lead and cleared the ball.

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Scolari guessed the result of the game correctly, but misunderstood the process of the game.

He knew that Manchester City would quickly establish an advantage in this game, and would shoot first and create a threat first, but what he didn't expect was that Manchester City would take the initiative to give up the ball and choose to defend and counterattack.

This is too nonsense!

Everyone in the world knows that Gao Han regards the right to the ball more important than life, so he actually chooses to give up?

But in fact, that's what he did.

As a head coach who pays great attention to defense, Scolari could see that Gao Han is very confident in Manchester City's defensive system and is indeed very organized. Mascherano and Kompani are both very capable of fighting alone, and they will actively take the initiative to grab it, even when Robinho and Anelka retreat to respond.

After the two sideline central defenders are pulled apart, Xavi Alonso will take the initiative to approach Xavi Martinez, and the two Spanish players look more like two central defenders one in front and one behind.

Just now, when Anelka made a cross from the right, Kompani was pulled out of the penalty area. At that time, Falcao had the opportunity to head the ball directly, but Xavi Martinez seized a favorable position, forcing Falcao to give up the direct attack, but **** stop the ball, but this stop gave Xavi Alonso, who was in defense, the opportunity.

The cooperation between several Manchester City players was very skillful and tacit, which left a deep impression on people.

This is also the reason why Gao Han dared to give up the ball.

Because for Chelsea, possession of the ball is a hot potato, but it is not good to use it.

But continuing like this is not a solution. Manchester City players have strong personal abilities and taking the initiative to push the offense is very unfavorable for Chelsea.

So Scolari quickly walked to the sidelines and shouted at the players on the court, indicating that they all stabilized their formation and did not press on easily.

But at this moment, Manchester City once again intercepted the ball in the backcourt. After receiving the ball, Xavi Alonso turned around and passed it to the ground with a long pass, passing the ball across the center line and to Sanchez's feet on the right.

After the Chilean winger received the ball on the right, he took the opportunity to lead the middle.

Ashley Cole followed him as soon as possible, Terry dragged behind and was ready to assist in defense at any time. Essin and Lampard both came over to double-team at the same time, but Sanchez had just taken two steps when he saw Cristiano Ronaldo pointing to his front and directly passing the pass with his right foot.

The ball passed over Ales' head and landed in Chelsea's penalty area.

Ales' attention was attracted by Benzema, and he didn't notice Cristiano Ronaldo approaching. When Sanchez made a pass, he immediately reacted and quickly turned around and chased back. Ivanovic was also chasing the Portuguese desperately behind him.

After entering the penalty area, both defensive players dared not make moves easily, for fear that they would be penalty kicks accidentally.

But Cristiano Ronaldo seized the most powerful position, blocked Ivanovic behind him with his body, stuck Alice, raised his right foot and stopped Sanchez's pick-pass towards him, and then accelerated to shake Alice away and chased after him.

Goalkeeper Hilaryo made a decisive attack, but Cristiano Ronaldo caught up with the ball at the front of the small penalty area, and directly pushed the ball with his right foot. The ball passed by the fallen Hilario and directly hit the bottom of the goal net.

"goallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!"

"Cristiano Ronaldo!"

"Scored consecutive goals this season!"

"Just just thirteen minutes into the game, Manchester City broke the deadlock on the court through a quick counterattack after an interception, one to zero!"

"Crazy Portuguese, his performance this season is absolutely shocking!"

The entire city stadium was shouting the name of the Portuguese superstar frantically. After scoring the goal, Cristiano Ronaldo quickly ran out of the stadium and made a pacifier on the sidelines.

"Everyone knows that he just announced that he had a child this summer, but did not announce who the child's mother was. His celebrating the goal this season has become a pacifier, full of the love of a father."

"More importantly, his performance this season has become more mature and steady, which makes people feel that he is in the prime of his career."

"This goal is just a continuation of his outstanding form so far this season!"
Chapter completed!