In the first ten minutes of the game, Glory was Manchester City's best performing and active player.

He also successfully attracted everyone's attention, and everyone would involuntarily turn their attention to him, as if he was everyone's hope.

As an opponent, Nottingham Forest also made a very strict defense against Glory, almost...they all the team's strength to stop Glory.

Every time the glory takes the ball, it can attract crazy encirclement from Nottingham Forest players.

So the most common scene is that Rong Guang is alone in the siege of Nottingham Forest players.

Ten minutes later, Glory's performance began to slowly silence, as if it was caused by Nottingham Forest's defense against Glory.

Billy Davis saw the progress of the game on the sidelines and relaxed a little - it seemed that his targeted tactical arrangement was correct.

Before this game, he had studied Manchester City's games, especially focusing on the previous game. The first game that Benitez led the team to play was the most research-worthy game. It is meaningless to study the game between Mark Hughes and Mark Bowen, because Benitez is the new coach, maybe he will have something new?

After studying Manchester City's away challenge to Blackburn, he found that Benitez's tactics were no different from his two predecessors, and the Glory was fully reliant. The whole team surrounded Glory, and he did not come up with any solution for how to rely on it.

So Davis came to a conclusion-Benitez and Mark Hughes were no different, both of them even had the same tactics.

In this game, I just need to keep an eye on the glory. The other Manchester City players don’t have to worry about it at all. They just come to make up the number of people...

As for how to defend the glory, Davis also has a lot of successful experiences to learn from.

In the first half of the season, Premier League teams made very in-depth research on Glory, which is why a large number of Manchester City's opponent teams used foul tactics when defending Glory.

Davis intends to do the same.

Encircle and suppress glory.

After ten minutes of encirclement, Nottingham Forest finally calmed down the glory.

The most intuitive change is that the Manchester City fans in the stands are no longer noisy.

Davis is very satisfied with the players' performance.

After defending Glory, the next thing to consider is how to break through Manchester City's goal.

Given the current situation of Manchester City, they are just a group of frightened birds. As long as the ball is lost, the players will quickly lose their fighting spirit. Nottingham Forest can take advantage of the victory to pursue, defeat the opponent in one fell swoop, eliminate Manchester City, and advance to the fourth round of the FA Cup.

Billy Davis is dreaming that he hasn't even gone to the game.

At this time, on the court, Manchester City are attacking.

Nottingham Forest’s tactic is a defensive counterattack – a choice that low-level teams will inevitably make when facing teams with higher ranks than theirs.

Therefore, the defensive counterattack tactics that Manchester City has practiced in the past two days are useless, and they must play positional battles in the game.

There is no room for glory speed to be used.

Now he is getting the ball at the front of Nottingham Forest’s penalty area, with all his players around him. At the same time, the players of Forest team have contracted very fiercely, and the penalty area is full of people, so there is no room for Glory to sprint.

Faced with such a situation, he could only shoot from a distance.

The first ten minutes of Rong Guang's shots were basically long shots, with only one shot from the penalty area. He forced himself to break into the penalty area, but under the disturbance of Nottingham Forest defender, his shot did not work hard, and he kicked softly and was easily hugged by Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Paul Smith.

"It seems that even Rong can't do anything to defend Nottingham Forest..."

Motson said.

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Rongguang in the encirclement swung his right leg and made a long shot.

Two Nottingham Forest players in front of him turned half-reflexively, intending to block Glory's shot with their bodies.

At the same time, everyone's attention was focused on him.

But after Rong Guang swung his feet, he did not shoot the football at the goal, but suddenly rushed forward and forced the football to break through.

Two Nottingham Forest players who were sideways quickly moved closer and planned to intercept Glory.

At the same time, other Nottingham Forest players in the penalty area were also towards glory, like a group of moths pounced on flames.

When the glory suddenly accelerated and broke through, a black hole seemed to have been generated in front of the entire Nottingham Forest's penalty area, sucking all eyes into it

"Breakthrough of Rong" Motson shouted.

The fans of Nottingham Forest also became nervous. What they feared most was Glory. Other Manchester City players were not afraid of, but Glory made them very afraid. So when they saw Glory break through, they couldn't help but become nervous.

The players in Nottingham Forest were more nervous than them. As soon as Glory started, they quickly rushed up to try to surround Glory. So the penalty area where people were everywhere before was now concentrated in one place, while other places were empty all at once.

Just when everyone thought that Rong Guang would forcefully break through and then forcefully shoot, Rong Guang swung his right foot and shot again? Or was it a fake shot like last time?

The Nottingham Forest player who defended Glory stared at the football and Glory's right leg, while his mind was running rapidly, thinking about countermeasures.

At this moment, Rong Guang's right foot had already swung down and hit the football. But instead of shooting, he did not swing the football out, he... passed the ball horizontally

Football crawled between two Nottingham Forest players

This surprised the players in Nottingham Forest. They were so surprised that they saw that there was no glory of football under their feet. They didn't keep up with their brains and didn't understand what was going on.

Isn't it just a pass?

Yes, it's just a pass.

But Rong Guang actually passed, which surprised them. According to their research, after reaching the front of the penalty area or breaking into the penalty area, Rong Guang rarely passes the ball, and he will choose to come by himself.

He seems to have super confidence in his shots, or vice versa, he is not very confident in his teammates - of course, during the beginning of the league, he often gave passes to his teammates, but both Berbatov and Robinho were wasted his passes, especially Robinho, who once faced empty goals twice in a game but pushed the ball that came from glory out of the goal.

So it is understandable that Rongguang does this...

But now, after glory breaks through and attracts all Nottingham Forest players to him, he passes the ball

This is something that Nottingham Forest players did not expect.

Not only Nottingham Forest players didn't expect it.

The commentator and the fans didn't react.

"Rong, cum—" Motson roared out his long hiss, and realized that something was wrong

The football didn't fly to the goal

"It was the pass he passed the ball," Alan Hansen shouted.

To whom is football passed?

Everyone's eyes were moving with the football.

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Berbatov was on the edge of the penalty area, he was watching the show.

Based on his experience working with Rongguang for half a season, Rongguang would almost never pass the ball when he went there. He would definitely shoot by himself. He had such scoring ability, so there was nothing to say.

Berbatov just needs to raise his hand and cheer.

He saw Glory forcibly breaking through, and there were all Nottingham Forest players wearing crimson jerseys, and almost no Glory could be seen. However, Berbatov believed Glory would definitely solve the problem. Look, it won't take long before the football suddenly rushed out of the crowd and rushed straight to the goal.

Huh?

Just as I was thinking about it, I saw the football rolling straight towards me...

Have you gotten a flaw?

The first year Berbatov saw this scene, the glory was flawed...

However, as a shooter, his instincts made him make the most correct moves.

He adjusted his body, headed towards the football, then swung his right foot and kicked up against the football. His right ankle twisted outwards, his ankle opened, not volleying, not pushing, but...

He kicked the football and then drew an arc in the air

Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Paul Smith was not prepared for Berbatov's kick, but others adjusted their direction and position with Glory's pass, but he didn't expect Berbatov to kick so resolutely, without stopping the ball, and shot directly.

Seeing Berbatov shoot, he jumped hastily, and it was too late.

The football flew over from above his hand, drew a very obvious arc in the air, and then, under everyone's gaze... and flew into the goal with the angle between the crossbar and the far post.

"The ball was scored, Dimita Berbatov, who scored the first record for Manchester City in the game." Motson just mentioned that the person who scored was Berbatov, and then turned his attention to Glory. He began to talk endlessly to the audience about the role of Glory in this goal.

"Ninety percent of the credit for this goal is to Rong. If it weren't for his sudden breakthrough that attracted the attention of all the defenders of Nottingham Forest, how could Berbatov have such a good shot opportunity - when he shot, there was not a Nottingham Forest player beside him. He was simply easier than practicing shooting in training."

"Manchester City still has to rely on Rong. Rong is the well-deserved core of this team..." Alan Hansen added from the side. "Berbatov's shot, if anyone comes, can score in this position with such an opportunity. If he can't score, that's strange..."

In Alan Hansen's opinion, there is nothing to say about this ball. Glory has attracted the attention of all Nottingham Forest players. What happened to Berbatov's goal?

This goal cannot explain any problem. In the previous game, Manchester City did not score first. What was the result? Did he win in the end?
Chapter completed!