556. First Round 1
Wensheng didn't care how Sosa would set up the formation. Anyway, his strategy was very simple. Just blast on both sides and thighs in the middle, so he asked Quadrado and Costa to feed more balls to De Bruyne and Suarez, but never too many aerial balls. The aerial ball was not De Bruyne or Suarez's strength at all.
After the opening, Basel, who played at home, was quite proactive. Sousa's Basel was assigned to Real Madrid in the Champions League group stage this season. Liverpool's group, Real Madrid and Liverpool are the top two teams in the Champions League championship list, and their strength is very strong.
Of course, Liverpool has not been well-done this season, and Balotelli, who was given high expectations, doesn't seem to be too powerful. It can be said that they are undoubtedly much taller than Basel on paper.
It was such a group, Paul Sousa completed his feat, and they actually pushed Liverpool away and entered the quarterfinals.
This is the unpopularity of the Champions League this year, who would have thought of it?
But then again, Basel only scored 7 points in the group stage, and it is not easy to enter the Champions League without relying on his peers.
Sousa has an absolute understanding of Wen Sheng. He looked at the Champions League games that Wen Sheng coached in recent years and found a rule that many people don’t know. If it is a team coached by Wen Sheng, they are often more open-minded. They are particularly keen on away goals, so Sousa decided to seize this rule and grab a start.
Wen Sheng was naturally not afraid. After the opening, the two teams were very fast. Sousa didn't know how Manchester City would arrange their troops. They played in a surprise attack. They played happily. In the opening few minutes, they took a slight occupancy. Manchester City refused to give in, which led to Basel getting two shots.
But these two opportunities were not very good. Manchester City captain Kompany was very tight and the prediction was accurate. Basel's first shot was blocked by Kompany.
Hart steadily took the second shot.
Sousa was a little nervous. Although she stood on the sidelines and didn't speak, she followed the ball, hoping to go up and kick it. In contrast, Wen Sheng seemed to be more noisy.
"Precautions for people!", "Back to your position!" Wensheng kept shouting at Manchester City players. He didn't know how much his voice was. This was his habit. Most of the time he was used to shouting on the field players on the sidelines.
Basel's advantageous state at the beginning did not last long. As Manchester City players adapted to the field, they had to retreat. The opponent's control was too strong. When the long pass could not work, Manchester City had to control it. Young player Kimmich showed up very much, and he didn't go forward and helped the team control the ball in the backcourt.
Sousa did not send someone to guard Kimmich. Kimmich still has weaknesses now. One is that his ability to fight is insufficient. His small body has not been fully developed. The other is that his ability to get rid of it still needs to be improved. If Basel implements a tight-knit tactic on him, it is still difficult to say how he can perform in the end.
Whether it is the Champions League or the league, Sousa still tends to attack between offense and defense. Unfortunately, their team has a good attack power in the league, but their attack power is not very good in the Champions League. They failed to get a start in this game. Manchester City gradually took off, and Sousa finally began to conservatively move her formation backwards and fight back.
The team had an advantage, and Wen Sheng was still shouting on the sidelines, and the full-backs on both wings were pressing up one after another.
Soon Manchester City had its first shot and actually scored a goal.
In the eighth minute, Manchester City cooperated on the left side. After receiving the pass from De Bruyne, Quadrado looked like he was trying to be out of the way. In fact, when Kolarov got the edge, he immediately passed the ball. Kolarov was not fast, but after cooperating, he could easily find a gap. He kept kicking the ball and passed it low in the air.
Suarez, a natural Sagittarius, really makes Wensheng unable to find words to describe it. It's so amazing!
Facing Kolarov's pass, Suarez did not choose to stop the ball at the front point, but felt a lot of sense of stretching his foot. The ball seemed to rub against his upper and turned to the far corner goal. The distance was too close and Sushi could not block it. It happened that it was the central defender Sushi's attempt to block it, which made their goalkeeper Varick not react at all. The ball hit the far post and then refracted into the net.
Who would have thought that Manchester City's first shot would achieve results and score a goal!
“goal!”
There were many Manchester City fans going away. Suarez instantly ignited everyone's passion, and everyone shouted Suarez's name!
Suarez has not been on the team for a long time and has been missing for a long time, but he has been scoring goals since the game, which makes it easy for Manchester City fans to accept him, and the fans also wrote songs specially for him!
"Luis, Luis! Our ace is Suarez! Luis, Luis, he is born to score goals!"
Suarez rushed to the sidelines and slid to celebrate, giving away fans a blew kiss.
"Damn, how did you get this ball?! God! How did you get it?! So fucking exciting!" The coaches on the coach's seat couldn't sit still. Hawking applauded and was irritated by Wen Sheng, who had just finished the farmer's three punches.
"It's very simple. Just stretch your foot and then the ball is scored!" This kind of ball is completely Suarez's improvisation. Wen Sheng didn't believe that he could score such a goal again once again, which is really difficult!
"You try it?" Hawking gave Wen Sheng a blank look, and Wen Sheng laughed.
What can Sousa say?! She wants to cry without tears! She is so unreasonable, but no matter how good you do, she has a super shooter, and your team is already behind with a flash!
After achieving an away goal, Manchester City paid more and more attention to controlling the ball. Of course, the realm is definitely higher than Moyanggong. There are still many forward passes, but Basel is indeed limited in strength, and the interception in the midfield is not good. Although the defense line tried its best to defend, Manchester City still threatened Basel's goal several times.
More than twenty minutes have passed, Basel's defensive line has become increasingly backward, and Sousa is also becoming more and more anxious. They lost to Real Madrid twice in the group stage, and their defense does not seem so strong against real Madrid against real strong teams.
The game turned into a half-time drill, and Manchester City's possession was quite powerful. Sousa had never sent anyone to specifically guard Kimich. Another midfielder, Casemiro, had to put the position forward and help connect because Kimich dragged it a little. If other strong teams were replaced, Manchester City might find many opportunities to set up the lineup, but the opponent was Basel, which would not work.
Chapter completed!