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Chapter 534 Give up obsession!

In the home team's locker room, Solskjaer mainly talks about some things that the team needs to pay attention to when attacking, but in the visiting team's locker room, Guardiola is talking about... defense!

"Ilkay, you come down to take a break in the second half of the game, we need to maintain the vitality on the defensive end... Kieran, you play right back after you come on the court! Selch, your position is in the midfield ahead of schedule! Emerick, you play left back! David, you play midfielder, you pay more attention to withdrawing in time to help the central defender defend! Marcos, you play center back with John in the second half... Remember, you must ensure the speed of defense! Keep an eye on Yang and form an encirclement of him!"

Guardiola not only made substitution adjustments, but also made some adjustments to his defense. Laporte had already followed Yang Xiaozhuang in the centre-back position in the first half. If he was asked to keep an eye on Manchester United's "King" in the second half, there might be a problem.

So... Alaba, Marginhos, and Stones formed a defensive triangle to surround Manchester United's "Kings", which should be Manchester City's safest choice when defending Yang Xiaozhuang.

After adjusting the team's defense, Guardiola began to encourage his players: "Young men, I know we played a little passively in the first half, which even overturned the tactics and style we have always used, but now everyone has seen the situation of the game. We completely withstood Manchester United's offense in the first half. As long as we persist for another 45 minutes, we will take the initiative when we return to home! At that time... I promise, I will let you give full play to your offensive talents at home!"

Manchester City players are still convinced of Guardiola's words, and the stars of "Blue Moon" are also experienced, so they have their own judgment on whether Guardiola's words are credible.

In fact, in the analysis of the game from all parties before the game, everyone's views on how likely Manchester City will eliminate the defending champion Manchester United. Although Manchester City needs many factors to eliminate Manchester United, the most important one is their performance at Old Trafford Stadium.

Don't lose, or lose less!

Only by doing this will we have a chance to defeat Manchester United after the two sides meet in the second leg and Manchester City returns to their home court!

This is the ultimate goal of Guardiola's tactical arrangement. In order to avoid losing and lose less at Old Trafford, he even overturned his previous tactics, and instead adopted the "defensive counterattack" he looked down upon the most before.

If you really want to say Guardiola, you are willing to... how is that possible!?

Since playing football, Guardiola's understanding of football is passing, attack, and technology. After becoming a football coach, Guardiola also led Barcelona to become a "cosmic team" based on his football philosophy, and led Bayern to unify the country in the Bundesliga, trampling all Bundesliga teams under his feet.

It was only after coming to the Premier League and picking up the "Blue Moon" coaching stick that Guardiola's football received suppression from the "Red Devils"!

In order to pursue efficiency, prevent the "Red Devils" in technology, such as efficiency, speed, impact, momentum and pressure, Guardiola's football philosophy has suffered an unprecedented impact. After losing to Manchester United again in the Premier League this season, Guardiola is really eager to win the Champions League quarterfinals between Manchester United.

As long as you can win...it's fine!

Guardiola's desire for victory and loss has completely suppressed his pursuit of football this time, and the victory and loss are also ranked above the obsession of "TIKI-TAKA" for the first time!

After so many years of teaching, Guardiola's pursuit of passing and controlling football has never stopped. Even at Bayern, facing such a rough and bad environment in the Bundesliga, he has never given up on his pursuit of passing and controlling football.

But this time... Guardiola lowered her head!

For Guardiola, the proud coach, he would never feel good if he let him bow his head for the score and the outcome of the game.

During the fifteen-minute break in the midfield, among the broadcast seats at Old Trafford, there were also many commentators from all over the country who were inclined toward Manchester United and naturally there were also commentators who were inclined toward Manchester City, constantly excusing the rough and ugly "Blue Moon" in the first half of today.

"In the face of Manchester City's almost shameless foul tactics, our Manchester United's strong offensive just put a lot of pressure on the opponent's defense, making Manchester City unable to complete even a shot in the entire first half of the game, even if their center position is the highest Norwegian center Haaland!"

"But as the side who plays at home in this game, the score of 0:0 on the court is still very unfavorable for us. If we can't win this game, we are actually on the weak side in those two rounds of confrontation!"

"However, everyone doesn't need to worry. Although we didn't score in the first half, we can still see that Yang is in good shape today. Even though he is always tightly defended by his opponent, he has completed 6 shots in the first half, putting enough pressure on Manchester City's defense!"

"After adjusting the intermission, I believe the team will give the opponent more defensive pressure in the second half. After adapting to the first half, Yang will definitely find a chance to score in the second half and bring us victory!"

The live commentator at Old Trafford Stadium is definitely a loyal fan of Yang Xiaozhuang. Like all Manchester United supporters, he is sure that as long as he is the "king" and is still on the court, there will be no suspense in the game. Manchester United... will win!

Both sides returned to the court, and all the fans also saw that Manchester United did not make substitutions. Instead, Manchester City made great adjustments to their team's defense, which can be seen from the position.

"Guardiola made some adjustments to Manchester City's defense, and he also changed people. Obviously he wanted to further strengthen Manchester City's defensive ability. Maybe he wanted to use this method to stop us from scoring! But I want to tell this guy, you are dreaming! Dreaming!"

"No one can stop us from scoring Manchester United!"

"No one can stop the 'Red Devil' from moving forward!"

“No one can stop us from winning!”

"Fans, stand up and cheer our soldiers with our greatest enthusiasm!

Inspired by the commentator, all Manchester United fans at Old Trafford Stadium stood up, both men, women, young and old, all stood up...
Chapter completed!
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