Chapter 254 Manchester City's secret tactics shocked everyone's chins!

Author: Snow Bird

Chapter 254 Manchester City's secret tactics shocked everyone's chins!

After the 33rd round of the Premier League, it is time for the Champions League again.

Just like Manchester City's choice, after playing against Real Betis, the whole Barcelona team came to Manchester 2 days in advance to prepare for the game.

They borrowed the training base of Manchester United, a neighbor of Manchester City. The training bases of the two teams were next to each other, only a few hundred meters away.

In order to avoid leaking tactics, Pellegrini chose to close the training ground and invited all the fans and reporters outside.

This move immediately aroused speculation from the outside world:

"Is Manchester City holding up their ultimate move?"

"It should be true. I have never seen them train in closed training before. This seems to be the first time?"

"I don't know what ultimate move Pellegrini has prepared to deal with Barcelona!"

Blue Moon fans are very supportive of Manchester City's decision to close training.

After all, Champions League advancement is preferred, so it doesn't matter if they can't go to the training ground to watch the team's training. As long as they can advance to the semi-finals of the Champions League, it doesn't matter if they can endure it for a few days.

Of course, if Pellegrini kept training like this, the fans would definitely not do it!

For Premier League fans, seeing Manchester United have a lot of danger, Manchester City may become the only seedling in the entire Premier League.

At this time, they naturally hope that Manchester City can defeat Barcelona at home and retain a spark for the Premier League.

Last season, no team in the Premier League reached the quarterfinals, making the Premier League a little unable to raise its head in front of La Liga and Bundesliga.

This season, Manchester City and Manchester United entered the quarterfinals, which slightly restored some dignity for them.

But this is not enough. If they can go further, enter the semi-finals or even reach the finals, it will mark the re-emergence of the Premier League!

At the peak of the Premier League, Premier League teams have reached the finals almost every year, and even a Premier League civil war between Manchester United and Chelsea.

However, last year, with the general decline of giants such as Manchester United, the Premier League's Champions League record entered a trough.

This season, Manchester United is suffering from stubborn illnesses, and Chelsea's forward's weakness is serious. Arsenal's traditional love of losing streaks, and they can't count on them anymore, so they put all their hopes on Manchester City.

But for the Spanish media and Barcelona fans, they are very dissatisfied with Manchester City doing this.

Originally, Barcelona's scouts were about to mingle outside the training ground to spy on military information, but after coming, they were stunned and the opponent closed the training base.

This made their intention to spy on intelligence fail!

The Spanish media, who was expeditioning with the team, seized this point and began to attack Manchester City, believing that the quasi-champion in the Premier League was afraid of Barcelona, ​​otherwise why would it take such a big trouble?

For a time, news such as Manchester City fearing Barcelona appeared one after another.

However, most of them are reported by Spanish media, and the British media chose to turn a blind eye to this.

Manchester City also ignored the sarcasm of the Spanish media. Are you afraid of Barcelona? You will know when you get on the court!

At the press conference before the game, Martino said confidently that he had found a way to restrain Manchester City. In this game, Barcelona will leave Manchester with victory and advance to the semi-finals.

Faced with the bragging of Barcelona coach, Pellegrini suppressed his smile while answering reporters' questions:

"Well, we have prepared some new things. As for what it is, haha, let's go to the court to see it!"

The Manchester City coach kept it a secret and did not directly reveal the most concerned issues of reporters.

The whole world knows that Manchester City has conducted closed-minded training, so they want to know what they have prepared, but the other party just doesn't say it, which makes them even more curious!

After learning about Pellegrini's words at the pre-match press conference, Barcelona coach Martino was shocked and puzzled.

What "surprise" did the other party prepare for Barcelona?

The more I think about it, the more uneasy I feel!

...

On April 10, 2014, at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester City's home game against Barcelona in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals is in progress.

It has been 10 minutes since the game started, and the score on the court is still 0:0, but Manchester City's tactics shocked many people to lose their chins!

"Uh, I'm not mistaken? Manchester City is using our traditional long pass and hoisting tactics in the Premier League against Barcelona?"

In the commentator's seat, when he saw Manchester City repeatedly raising his feet in the back and looking for the forward in front after the opening, Sky Sports' commentator Andy Grey widened his eyes and was very surprised.

"It seems that it is a long pass and rush. There are very few people using this tactic in the Premier League now. Why does Manchester City suddenly use this tactic?"

Martin Taylor doesn't understand it either. Only those middle and lower-level teams in the Premier League can use it. The giants disdain this tactic without technical content.

Moreover, with the spread of technical football, even in the middle and lower-level teams in the Premier League, they have begun to advance on the ground. The technical and tactical content is getting higher and higher, and the tactics of long passes and cranking are getting fewer and fewer.

However, Manchester City was abnormal and picked up this retro, technical tactic.

What is this doing?

Barcelona's head coach Martino is also thinking about this question. Is this the secret tactic that Pellegrini calls?

This is what Manchester City prepared for several days of closed training?

You're not teasing me, are you?

Barcelona was frightened by several quick counterattacks in the last game. In this game, in order to limit Manchester City's counterattack, Martino specially arranged players to target the two goalscoring points of Manchester City - Kroos.

and De Bruyne.

In the last game, Barcelona didn't know much about these two people, and did not restrict them in a targeted manner, giving them the opportunity to instigate counterattacks in the backcourt.

And this time, after realizing the huge role of the two, Barcelona will no longer ignore them.

However, what Martino did not expect was that Manchester City actually changed its tactics.

They no longer have specific players instigated counterattacks. After they intercepted the ball in the backcourt, all the players who got the ball could instigate counterattacks. The method is also very simple. Go to the direction of the frontcourt players and take the ball to Barcelona's halftime with big feet

Just kick it.

In this game, Manchester City did not start Aguero on the front line, but chose to start Negredo, a tall center with the ability to stand.

Negredo is tall and can stand at the position to make balls for his teammates. He can perfectly act as a fulcrum to ferry the ball to his teammates who follow him, allowing his teammates to complete the final offensive task.

Ten minutes before the game, Manchester City had launched such a counterattack three times.

Although I couldn't figure out what Manchester City was going to do, the opponent's tactics did not work, which made Martino decide to hold his hands and observe it first.

Once again blocked Manchester City's counterattack, Barcelona's defender Bartra looked at Negredo, who wanted to compete with him for the ball.

Want to deal with Barcelona with this simple tactic?

It’s simply a dream of spring and autumn!

Negredo also saw the other party's disdainful eyes. He resisted the urge to raise his middle finger at the other party, and cursed in his heart:

Let’s take a look, and wait until we fight successfully, I see if you can still smile!

Although Manchester City fans who came to the Etihad Stadium did not know why the team chose this tactic, they would cheer loudly every time the team turned forward.

This is pure British football, so the fuck should be played like this!

They felt that Barcelona was playing fancy and had not shot once dozens of times, and they were drowsy.

However, when Manchester City played as wonderful passes and cuts as Barcelona, ​​their applause became louder!

Look no, Manchester City can also play such a fun life that only top-notch giants can play. My Greater Manchester City is indeed the best!

Well, that's just such a double standard!

...

In the 17th minute, Manchester City got another chance to counterattack.

Unlike the previous three attacks, this time it was Cross who completed the pass.

The German accurately passed the ball and found Lin Quan who was running fast.

Kroos' passing ability is indeed much higher than that of other people in Manchester City's backcourt. His passing is not only accurate, but also gives just the right strength.

Lin Quan easily got the ball on the wing. While he quickly dribbled the ball into Barcelona's penalty area, he observed his teammate's running position.

In order to ensure the stability of the defense line, Manchester City will not invest too much troops when counterattacking, and only the four-man in the frontcourt will complete the attack.

At this time, among the four players in the frontcourt, only Negredo ran to Lin Quan.

But he followed Baltra, and there were Busquets and others chasing him back behind him. It was easy to be intercepted when passing the ball directly to him.

Seeing this, Lin Quan gave up the idea of ​​passing it to Negrado.

He took the ball toward Barcelona's penalty area!

Alba originally saw that the football landing point was about to rush up to grab the ball, but Lin Quan's movements were faster than him and got the ball one step ahead of time.

Alba suddenly felt like he was facing a great enemy. He knew that Lin Quan was very powerful, so he didn't dare to rob, nor did he dare to get too close. He tried hard to block Lin Quan's inward line and gave up the side road, intending to

Force him to go on the wing and stay away from Barcelona's goal.

This move may work when facing ordinary wingers, but it is not so effective when encountering players like Lin Quan who likes to cut in and shoot.

Lin Quan continuously trolled the ball to the left while moving slowly towards the middle.
To be continued...