I brush achievements in football

Chapter 804 Argentine Forward

When the players from both sides were scattered on the field, the fans from both sides in the stands also started to shout crazily.

Although not many Manchester City fans came, they also knew that this game was the last honor Manchester City could fight for this season, so their shouts were extremely loud.

It was Southampton who kicked off first.

They sit at home and must win a victory. Naturally, they launched a fierce attack after the game started.

Ji Ya is not afraid of scoring goals, only scoring goals can be hopeful.

Otherwise, with the ball-handling abilities of both sides, if there is a war of attrition, they might be suffocated at the same time.

Ball possession tactics require patience, constant waiting and killing patience, waiting for opportunities to appear, this kind of tactics is actually very effective and able to grab points steadily when facing weaker opponents, and can also strive for instant success when facing strong teams. Invincible, but in this situation where facing a strong team and must win, it is a bit of a disadvantage.

If it is against other teams, it is okay to say, after all, Southampton can have a certain advantage in the control of the midfield, and they are also good at using this advantage to win, but it is different against Manchester City. The same is good at handling the ball, that is, there is no top master like De Bruyne in the midfield, but Gundogan, B seat, including David Silva on the bench, are similar players. Under La's training, their midfielder is not inferior to Southampton's midfielder at all.

So it is not good for Southampton if it is better than control, because they must win.

So Southampton can play more aggressively, giving up a little control and security in the midfield to launch an offense.

The reason why they can do this is because besides De Bruyne, they also have Du Yue who can solve the problem of scoring!

Facing Southampton's offense, Manchester City responded steadily.

Guardiola has worked a lot on defense in the past two years. Although he also bought a lot of attackers, he spent more money on defense.

The three high-priced central defenders Stones, Otamendi, and Laporte, the two high-priced full-backs Mendy and Walker, including the high-priced goalkeeper Ederson, have changed Manchester City's entire defense.

So this season they only conceded 27 goals, the fewest goals conceded in the Premier League.

However, they are not without shortcomings. They were defeated twice by Liverpool in the second half of the season, and they all scored goals by using the personal ability and quick impact of Liverpool forwards.

A well-balanced defense line can certainly protect the goal to the greatest extent, but in the face of such a rapid impact, if it cannot withstand it, it will be an avalanche!

So Ji Ya once again stole the lesson from Klopp...

That is to say, Klopp is still coaching the team to play the last round of the game, and he can't watch the live broadcast, otherwise he will definitely scold him.

Quickly pass from the midfield and hit the frontcourt-now their quick offense is more effective, because De Bruyne's transition and breakthrough are also quite good.

So in just 3 minutes of the opening, De Bruyne sent a beautiful oblique pass in the midfield. DePaul, who pulled the side, was about to break through, and was pulled to the ground by Delphi, who returned to the defense. Southampton got a pass near the right sideline free kick.

De Bruyne stood in front of the ball as both of Southampton's centre-backs charged forward, creating a massive disruption to City's defence.

De Bruyne ran up and sent a beautiful curve ball with his right foot into the penalty area!

Southampton's two central defenders are both at the back, and Du Yue is in the middle. Their running attracted most of the defensive force, but the ball flew out and then fell rapidly, flying to the front, sprinting and jumping at that position Facing the falling ball, Alvarez directly hit the goal with a flick of his head!

He turned his head to look at the moon, and pushed the ball directly to the back of the goal. Originally, Edson was standing in the middle of the goal and was ready to save at any time, but this time, he was in a tragedy...

Because he was shaken by the players on both sides running towards the back point, and then judged that the cross was coming towards the forward point, and then changed his center of gravity to prepare for the forward point, but Alvarez headed the ball towards the forward point. Click later.

In other words, if his judgment and reaction hadn't been so quick and subconsciously changed the focus of saving twice in a row, it wouldn't have been such a tragedy.

When he changed his focus again to prepare for the save, he was a step slower.

The ball flew past his hand and headed into the far corner of the goal!

"Goal in! Alvarez! Young Argentine striker opens the scoring for Southampton! A clever head flick! Will he be the new top striker when Argentina's centre-forwards fade away?"

Amidst the chanting of the commentator, Alvarez ran to De Bruyne, jumped on top of him, and then shook his fist at the stands.

Alvarez, has a bright future.

Lautaro Martinez, who is three years older than him, is still playing in Argentina at this time.

Ji Ya waved his fist and was able to score a goal early. This is of course a good thing. Manchester City has a lot of patience, so if they can score a goal, they can take the lead first.

What he wants in this game is to win. A draw for Manchester City is enough, but Manchester City will not be so stupid as to just compete for a draw, so they will definitely attack next.

When the time comes to attack, it depends on who performs better on both sides.

Indeed, this goal did not move Manchester City up and down.

They just launched the attack steadily after the kick-off.

Southampton started with running interceptions.

Although Southampton used ball possession tactics, they started out against ball possession tactics, and Ji Ya naturally would not ignore this point.

The two sides began to collide continuously on the field. Southampton used running to interfere with the opponent's passing, while Manchester City continued to look for opportunities from the two wings.

Both Sane and Sterling are players with excellent speed and personal skills. They can always create good opportunities after they get the ball, at least they can suppress the assists of Southampton's two full-backs, but Southampton is in the penalty area. The protection inside is very good. As long as Maguire does not turn around frequently, his feet are not slow to move, while Dericht has enough agility. Under their protection, even Aguero needs more Opportunity.

But it is obvious that Aguero will not perform badly in front of the juniors of the national team.

After all, even if Alvarez is selected for the Argentine national team this time, he is only a substitute. He is the main force. Now that the substitute has scored in front of him, he, as the main force and top scorer, of course needs to perform better.

This is probably why Guardiola used him as the starting center instead of Jesus, who performed equally well.