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Chapter 1200 Guardiola's choice

In the middle of the week, there are three rounds of No.30 in the Premier League.

The weekend, the FA Cup semi-final.

What's more interesting is that in these two games, Southampton's opponents were both Manchester City...

In the third round of No.30, Southampton will challenge Manchester City away. In the semi-final of the FA Cup, Southampton will face Manchester City at the Olympic Stadium in London.

The FA Cup semi-finals are played on a neutral ground. Although it is not at Wembley Stadium, the capacity of the Olympic Stadium is also large enough.

It is indeed a very interesting thing to play against Manchester City in a row. Southampton has played against Manchester City twice before this season. They have won both the home league and the League Cup final. Now, can he continue to win? ?

And Southampton is very likely to meet Manchester City in the Champions League final. In this way, the two sides will play five games this season, and it will be boring for anyone.

However, considering that the two sides are fighting for the ownership of the four championships, such a matchup is not too exaggerated.

When the third round of No.30 came, the city stadium was full of seats. Manchester City fans planned to fully show their advantages at home!

But Guardiola is a little depressed about this...

From the perspective of the overall strategy, if Southampton wins this game, it is actually meaningless. It is nothing more than breaking Southampton's unbeaten season. Breaking the golden body will not have any real impact. It just makes the Southampton players feel that this season is not so perfect, but they still have a chance to fight for the quadruple crown.

And he didn't dare to bet that Ji Ya really valued a perfect record-if he foolishly dispatched all the main players in this game, Ji Ya simply let the substitutes play and consume Manchester City's main players, and then in the FA Cup What about launching a thunderous blow with the main force?

It's not like Ji Ya can't do it!

But if he sent most of the substitutes to give up the league, would Ji Ya have guessed this, sent a large number of substitutes, and then won the game easily, and let the main players recharge their batteries to play in the FA Cup?

This is not impossible.

Guardiola's head hurts from thinking about it, but in the end he decided to go straight to his heart - he must send all his main players in this game, otherwise, no matter what he does, he may regret it!

If Southampton sends a large number of substitutes, then try to defeat the opponent and break the opponent's undefeated golden body. Besides, at any rate, they can get something this season.

It would be even better if Southampton also sent all the main players, and at least they won't regret it after a vigorous battle!

After figuring this out, Guardiola began to feel a sense of enlightenment.

Once some things are figured out, it will be easy to handle later.

Manchester City had already taken a break in the league before, so it was a bit cheap anyway, and then, it's all about fighting to the end!

So when he got the Southampton starting lineup two hours before the game, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

His choice was right.

Southampton also sent all the main players in this game. Obviously, at the last juncture of the season, rotation and so on have not made much sense.

Even if the players start to feel tired, they can't rotate at this time, but have to keep going until the end of the season, not to mention that Ji Ya's previous rotation is enough. Under such circumstances, it is only possible to continue the game with the main force It is right.

What's more, now that five players can be replaced in a game, Southampton's main force can fully demonstrate enough advantages.

With substitutes such as Alvarez, Musiala, Bellingham, McAllister, Rudiger, and Peters, Kiya's substitutions can completely keep the players in good physical condition. In this regard, even Manchester City cannot compare with them.

Guardiola made this decision, which is undoubtedly correct. Of course, this is only to prevent Manchester City from being at a strategic disadvantage at the beginning of the game. However, if they want to win this game, they still have to show more status.

"Players from both sides are on the field! Manchester City sent a four-three-three lineup, goalkeeper Ederson, two full-backs are Walker and Zinchenko, central defenders are partnered by Dias and Laporte, midfielders Gundogan, Phil Nandinho, Rodri, striker B, Riyad Mahrez, Foden! This is Guardiola's recent habit of using no striker formation. Although there is no serious center forward on the field, their performance is still quite good. There is no shortage of scorers! Southampton also sent four three three, goalkeeper Martin, defender Cancelo, Araujo, de Ligt and Chilwell who returned from injury, midfielder Grealish, Germany Browne, Soucek, striker Du Yue, Vinicius, Valverde!"

The lineups of both sides can be regarded as the best, but everyone knows that Manchester City's problems are still not resolved, and there is no way to solve them.

Not having a center forward who can compare with Du Yue is Manchester City's biggest problem now.

In the previous two games, Ji Ya seized this point and fought to the death, constantly entangled with Manchester City in the midfield, consuming each other, and then relied on Du Yue to seize one or two opportunities to solve the game.

So in this game, does he still have a chance to do so?

Many people are thinking about this question.

What kind of method does Manchester City need to use to make up for this defect.

The strikerless formation used by Manchester City recently should be one of Guardiola's ideas. Since the center forward is no match for Southampton in terms of goals, then the center forward should not be used at all. The characteristics of the frontcourt are more blooming, pass the organization, and quickly intersperse Run, whoever has a chance will shoot, after all, these players in Manchester City's frontcourt actually all have good scoring ability!

It is also one of Guardiola's ideas to use this league, which is actually not important to both parties, to test new tactics.

So Guardiola is actually very happy to see that Southampton has also sent all the main players.

This can at least test whether his new tactical thinking is effective.

For the fans, they don't think too much, but the team did not give up, which is enough to make them happy.

So from the beginning of the game, Manchester City fans chanted the players' names and cheered for them.

"Fighting, let's try fighting." Ji Ya thought silently in his heart.

Guardiola's idea is to use more points to make up for the weakness of not having a main scorer. Although Southampton's defense has been much stronger recently, the main thing is that it is excellent in frontal confrontation. , Southampton's defense still has some flaws.

But Ji Ya is not worried, because if he scores a goal, it is still the same sentence, with Du Yue on the field, it is Southampton's biggest advantage.