In fact, Mancini understands Atletico Madrid's style of playing.

After Atletico Madrid won the La Liga championship and entered the UEFA Champions League this season, many football professionals are studying Atletico Madrid, and Mancini is no exception. What's more, he took over Manchester City, and Manchester City was greatly influenced by Wansheng. Although he was resistant to the influence of Wansheng, he also hoped to find some tactical inspiration in Atletico Madrid's style of playing.

Mancini knew very well that they could not take the initiative when competing with Atletico Madrid.

If Atletico Madrid masters the initiative, it will master the rhythm of the game, and the opponent has to follow the rhythm and will directly fall into a disadvantage.

Mancini wanted to rely on the team's midfield to limit Atletico Madrid's offensive, so he arranged five midfielders and explained to everyone, especially in defense. David Silva, Nasri, Yaya Toure and others must shoulder heavier defensive tasks. They need to build a solid defense line for Manchester City from the front end of the penalty area to the center line and block Atletico Madrid's cooperation within this range.

But until now, this kind of blockade has not been effective.

Under Atletico Madrid's strong offensive, Manchester City's formation was compressing more and more. Mancini wanted to stand up and tell the players to press it out, but reasonably told him that he couldn't do that, otherwise he would give his opponent more opportunities.

The only good news is that the opponent has not scored yet.

But scoring a goal... seems to be just a matter of time? Even Mancini has such pessimistic ideas.

Manchester City did not successfully limit Atletico Madrid, but instead accelerated the pace of Atletico Madrid.

The more you play the game, the more you feel uncomfortable.

The pace of the game is no longer familiar to Manchester City, they are running with the rhythm of Atletico Madrid.

Physical exhaustion and mental fatigue are not the key point, but the key point is that the game is not familiar to them. They play a kind of football that they are not familiar with, and that feeling is very uncomfortable.

The only one who adapts to the game is David Silva. As a player trained by Wan Sheng, he is very adaptable to the fast-paced game, but he performed very well in defense. He destroyed two Atletico Madrid passes.

The Manchester Stadium commentator couldn't help but say, "Silva performed very well! If everyone else was like Silva, we wouldn't be worried about the game..."

In the Atletico Madrid coaching seat, Wan Sheng was also very pleased to see Silva's performance. More than three seasons have passed, and Silva's game experience has undoubtedly improved greatly. He is stronger and has richer experience than three years ago.

This is not surprising.

When Wan Sheng coached Manchester City, David Silva was just the "second choice" of the midfielder. After he left, David Silva gradually replaced Morris and became the absolute core of the midfield. He is Manchester City's midfield engine and the core player in offense and defense conversion. In such a position, whether it is game experience or performance stability, he will definitely have great growth.

Wan Sheng was relieved by this, after all, David Silva was the player who labeled him.

David Silva is also working hard on the court. He can be said to be the most fierce player in Manchester City. He has no game before and is more motivated than he is now. In front of his former mentor, he hopes that he can show his strength to illustrate his growth.

Unfortunately... the teammates are not very powerful.

David Silva performed hard and could not get back to the team's disadvantage. He could only work hard on defense, and offense...it was so difficult to just play across the midline.

This is the 'Boss' team!

Manchester City was the same in the past, but now it is completely different. The gap between Mancini and the "Boss" is too big. The two are not coaches at the same level and do not have any comparison.

Under the leadership of Mancini, the team's strength and performance have improved, but it is much worse than Manchester City in the past!

Manchester City has been playing at the pace of Atletico Madrid, and in the occasional counterattack, they are driven to subconsciously speed up the pace.

As the game continues, anyone can see that Manchester City will collapse sooner or later.

In fact, I didn't wait too long. Atletico Madrid broke through Manchester City's goal in the 28th minute of the first half.

Before Diego Costa sent the ball into Manchester City's goal, Manchester City's goal was completely pulled away by Atletico Madrid's running and passing ball. They could not organize an effective defense at all. In the end, Diego Costa easily sent the ball into the goal.

When Atletico Madrid scored a goal, sighs rang out from the stands of Manchester Stadium.

Manchester City fans were not very angry. The game was the same as they imagined. Although Manchester City is not weak and performed well in the Premier League, is Mancini the opponent of Wansheng?

Surely not!

So Manchester City will not be Atletico Madrid's opponent!

This is the logic of Manchester City fans. Atletico Madrid's goals also represent the correctness of their logic.

Many Manchester City fans shouted the slogan "We need ten thousand wins", which made Mancini, who was sitting on the coaching seat, feel very embarrassed. He has coached Manchester City for more than two seasons and has been working hard to lead the team and strive to eliminate the impact of ten thousand wins, but the effect is not very good. More importantly, he failed to lead the team to make any breakthroughs in the Champions League. As long as he did not do this, Manchester City fans will always remember ten thousand wins, because ten thousand wins led Manchester City to win the UEFA Champions League championship and is also the only Champions League trophy in Manchester City's history!

Manchester City and Atletico Madrid are a strong contrast now!

Manchester City received large funding and Atletico Madrid also received financial support. In comparison, Manchester City spent more money, and they already had a lineup to win European championships.

Based on the winning lineup, after spending a lot of money, Manchester City fans did not see the team's performance stable, but instead played worse and worse in the Champions League. In addition to some competitiveness in the league, it is difficult to meet Manchester City, which has won the Premier League championship three times in a row. Let's look at Atletico Madrid. Manchester City fans seem to see Manchester City - the first season to win the La Liga championship and the Spanish Cup of Dec. Now it is the second season. Wan Sheng leads Atletico Madrid. In the "Death Group", they won the first two games without any pressure. Now it is the third game... I guess they will win too?

There is no problem with qualifying in the group, but the question is how far Atletico Madrid's skills have gone.

If Manchester City loses this game, there is almost no possibility of qualifying in the group. They can only compete for third place in the group... In the eyes of many fans, this is not sure what they can win. If they get one point in three games, their results are not better than Napoli.

ps: Monthly ticket, do you know how much I love you? I want to take you to fly to the sky~ (To be continued.)
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