Many teams will use the full-game pressing style when playing against Manchester City, and their style of play will be stronger, so that they can force Manchester City to pass the ball and block their rhythm to gain the initiative.

If you have any research on Manchester City's playing style, you will know that doing this will restrain Manchester City's playing style.

Chelsea and Manchester City are both doing this, so it will be difficult to play between Manchester City and Chelsea, not only because of Chelsea's strong strength, but also a very important aspect of tactical play.

Another thing that must be mentioned is Bolton, this Premier League powerhouse who is also in the Manchester region is of average strength, but their tough style of play still makes Manchester City a headache.

This is what Manchester City did today. They pressed forward in the frontcourt and kept running to force Manchester City to pass the ball. At the same time, they played very hard on defense. They just wanted to use this method to gain the initiative.

This is actually a matter of initiative and passiveness. All England know that it is difficult to gain the initiative against Manchester City because Manchester City has too strong control ability. Their passing cooperation is the best in the Premier League. If they are not forced, they will keep passing the ball. The ball possession rate alone is a big problem. Although this data does not completely represent anything, think about it, most of the time in the game, football is under the opponent's feet, and the players on the court will definitely feel very passive, and this psychological role will have a great impact on performance.

So now Manchester United chooses to start defending from the frontcourt and force Manchester City to pass the ball.

All their players, including Rooney and Saha in the frontcourt, have defensive tasks, and the areas in which each person is responsible for are repeated. In this way, even if Manchester City uses their cooperation to get rid of a certain player, there will be another player soon to make up for it, and there will be no loopholes in the defense.

But Manchester United cannot take into account the defense in all positions, and even if they increase the players' running, it is impossible, so the defense is still targeted, and the area they mainly deal with is the middle lane.

Manchester City's strongest is also the middle.

Now Morris has become a banner in the English technical midfielder. His style is completely different from Gerald and Lampard. He does not have such strong long shots and does not have such strong personal abilities, but he will play very flexibly and versatile in the midfield. He is much better than the latter two.

The above are all evaluations from various professionals and media, and they are still sure of Morris' ability.

As Manchester City's opponents, Manchester United will also study Manchester City. They naturally know the importance of Morris to Manchester City, and they also know that Manchester City's middle is the most threatening. Therefore, their main defense is still in the middle.

As long as they can defend the middle lane, it doesn't matter if they can put it on the side lane properly, not to mention that they have no disadvantages on the side lane. Compared with Musampa and Reina, the combination of C-Ronaldo and Park Ji-sung is obviously more powerful, and Manchester United's main offensive was also launched from the side lane.

In this game, Manchester United's mid-lane combination is O'Shea and Giggs.

This may be a helpless choice.

When Scholes was unable to play and Fletcher was unbearable, Ferguson could only choose to let the experienced Giggs play in the middle and Park Ji-sung fills the position on the wing.

Giggs is Manchester United's "King of the Left Road". But his rich game experience and excellent personal ability are enough to make him competent in any position. His position is a little earlier than his partner O'Shea. When football is at Manchester City's feet, he still has to retreat appropriately to build a second defense line for Manchester United - the first one is Rooney and Sachah in the front.

If Manchester City breaks through Giggs' defense, it doesn't matter. He has O'Shea, Ferdinand and Brown behind him. When necessary, two full-backs Sylvester and captain Gary Neville can also support the middle.

In short, Manchester United has put a lot of effort into defending and gaining initiative.

After two matches with Manchester City this season, Ferguson feels that he has developed a way to play against Manchester City. That is to oppress them, restrict them, and deal with them in a tough way. As long as he can get the initiative, Manchester City will have nothing to be scary.

The most important thing is to take a tough stance to put Manchester City in pressure at any time. Even if you use a foul, you must do it.

This is what Ferguson explained to the players.

Now that the football has reached Ivan Cru's feet, Giggs immediately touched it, and at the same time, Rooney in front retreated to defend, Oshei also rushed towards Morris.

The whole Manchester United started moving.

Seeing this scene, Ferguson on the coach's bench was very pleased. This is the way he specially prepared for Manchester City, using tough defense to force them, so that if they want to attack, they can almost only pass the ball to the wing. On the wing, Manchester United actually has an advantage, because whether they have C-Ronaldo or Park Ji-sung, their personal abilities are very outstanding.

The most important thing now is to win this game.

In fact, for Manchester United, the League Cup is not that important. Even though they won nothing last season, the League Cup is still a waste. For Manchester United fans, what is more important is to win Manchester City - they can't stand losing to their arch-enemy in the city, which is even more difficult to accept than being unable to win the championship.

In the past two years, Manchester United has been suppressed by the team led by Wan Sheng. Last year it was Derby County and this year it was Manchester City. Ferguson does not think that his coaching ability is not as good as that of the young Chinese next to him. He believes that as long as he can win one game, it will not be a problem to deal with Manchester City in the future.

Ivan Kru felt the threat from Giggs, and he didn't need his teammates to remind him, and he knew that it was time to pass the ball.

The football was passed to Kopelle Ferreira behind him.

Kopelle Ferreira received the pass, and Saha immediately forced her over. He glanced around. Captain Distin's position was very close to Rooney, and it was a bit dangerous, so he passed it to Leto Ziegler on the wing.

Ziegler was Park Ji-sung in front of him, and the Koreans were pushing him forward. At the same time, Saha ran forward and tried to intercept Kopelle Ferreira and Ziegler. At this time, Ziegler wanted to pass the ball, so he could only pass it forward or return it to goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei.

There is no need to think about the goalkeeper back, Ziegler would definitely not do that, because he knows that Wang Xiaolei is a rare appearance. Young players are under pressure when they appear in the competition. If he makes another pressure and makes mistakes, it will be too dangerous.

As soon as Ziegler hesitated, Park Ji-sung had already rushed over.

But Ziegler was not panicked. He stuffed the ball in front of Koppelle. The pass surprised the Koreans. He looked over and saw that Koppelle had already run to the position and received the pass.

Ziegler raised the corners of his mouth.

You know, Manchester City's pass is not a passing ball that is standing still. They will keep running and running. The "kill" tactic itself relies on running to open the gap. Even the players in the backcourt still have to keep running, so it is useless to just intercept the route.

Saha ran towards Kopelle again unwillingly, but Kopelle had already passed the ball to the captain Distin.

Distin had already run out of the open space, and he was more than five meters away from Rooney. Rooney had no time to run over and had to let Giggs make up for it. But the football was immediately handed over to Morris' feet, and the situation suddenly became tense.

Manchester City's series of exciting transmissions have been so exciting that many fans on the stands have shouted.

This is the world's top cooperation.

If anyone who didn't know would think it was Manchester United's halftime and Manchester City was attacking, but before it was just a pass from Manchester City's backcourt. When the football reached Morris' feet, Manchester United became nervous because Morris was a very critical player, and no one knew whether he would lead Manchester City to launch a fast attack in the next moment.

When the football reached Morris' feet, all the players in Manchester City seemed to be running faster than a point, and many people kept their breathing shut and waited for Morris' choice in the next moment.

All cameras are also pointing to Morris.

It felt like the earth suddenly turned around Morris, everyone looked at him, everyone was paying attention to him, as if he had become the protagonist in an instant.

Until this time, Manchester United began to retreat.

They knew that the wave of forced forces just now did not achieve good results, but instead allowed the opponent's midfield core to easily get the ball under unguarded defense. If they retreated a little slower, they might give the opponent a chance.

But with everyone's attention, Morris did not choose to attack, but passed the ball to the backcourt and returned to Kopelle Ferreira's feet.

Seeing this pass, many Manchester City players suddenly felt disgusting as if they had eaten a fly. They had just experienced a wave of pressing. Although it did not play much role, they were ready to retreat. But at this moment, the opponent continued to pass the ball in the backcourt?

Don't they have to launch an attack?

Just as they were stunned, the football passed by three more players. Then he reached Ziegler's feet on the wing. When Ziegler got the ball, there was no defense at all. Park Ji-sung, who was facing him, was still in the center line, so he could calmly drive the ball forward.

Park Ji-sung had no choice but to go forward and press. Then he saw Ziegler pass the ball back to Manchester City captain Distin. Even though he knew that he was doing useless work, he still felt very depressed after seeing the pass.

Other Manchester United players don't feel that they are not very good either. They return to the frontcourt, run again, press, and every time they think Manchester City is going to attack, but Manchester City still passes the ball in the backcourt, which feels like they are being tricked by monkeys.

As a result, when Distin got the ball this time, Rooney was so angry that he directly made a tackle.

Distin was tackled to the ground, and the referee blew a pause whistle.

This scene made many people in the audience worried, but in the end the referee still did not take out the cards, just gave Rooney a warning. At the same time, Distin was pulled up by his teammates, and it seemed nothing was wrong.

The game soon continued, and then Manchester City began to pass on each other in the backcourt.

Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines and saw Rooney's tackle. He was a little worried about Distin, but when he saw Distin stand up, he smiled.

The current style of play was arranged before the game.

He is not sure how Manchester United will deal with it, but he believes that playing conservatively is correct. It is easier to win the defense of football games, and it is also very important to be patient. As long as the football is firmly controlled by the feet, it doesn't matter what the opponent does, because they do not have football and they do not have the ability to threaten their own goal.

His advice to Morris was, "If you don't have a chance, continue to control the ball and don't launch an attack rashly."

The ball transfer is always threatening. If Manchester United suddenly attacks after getting the ball, no matter how well the defense is arranged, they will be panicked. Manchester United will have a chance at that time, but what if they don’t give them a chance?

They pressed the whole game?

bring it on!

We pass in the backcourt, and you press it tightly. No matter how powerful the press is, the initiative of the football under our control will be in our hands.

Then it is a competition between our control ability and your pressing ability.

Wansheng is still very confident about this.

One season is enough to improve the passing ability of each player in the team. As a strong team in the top league, Manchester City's ability is not bad. If you increase a few points, the passing ability is very good. In addition, the coach's skill "passing increase" ability bonus, as well as the team's training and cooperation for nearly a season, Manchester City is the team on the court that is best at passing and cooperation in England, which is not an exaggeration to say this.

And what about Manchester United's full-game press?

They themselves do not pay attention to this aspect, but just fight like this temporarily, which is equivalent to using aspects that they are not good at dealing with aspects that they are good at, and the latter will be stress-free at all.

If you can lose such a competition, Wan Sheng really has nothing to say.

Ferguson didn't know Wan Sheng's idea, but when he saw the game on the court, the old Jazz's brows were already frowning.

He doesn't understand what Manchester City is doing.

Don't they have to attack?

In Ferguson's opinion, it is undoubtedly very dangerous to keep passing in his half. This is not a chance for Manchester City, but Manchester United's chance. As long as they can grab the ball, the team is likely to find a good opportunity.

So he didn't think Manchester United had any disadvantages, but instead watched patiently and looked forward to the team finding a good opportunity.

One minute

Two minutes

Five minutes.

After five minutes like this, Manchester City's attacking was the first time, and it was just passing the football to Manchester United's penalty area. But Ivan Kreu, who soon found a good opportunity, passed the ball back to Renner again. Renner passed Ziegler again, and soon the football came to the feet of captain Distin.

Rooney came over to press, and Distin didn't even hesitate and handed the ball directly to goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei.

After three passes, the football went back from Manchester United's penalty area to Manchester City goal. If you don't know, you would think that the half-time change between the two teams was Manchester United launching the attack, but in fact, it was Manchester City who was passing back.

Wang Xiaolei hit the ball and kicked directly to Sun Jihai on the other side.

The mutual transmission between the two Chinese players also made the Chinese media excited, but in fact, it was just an ordinary pass.

At this time, everything seemed to have returned to the starting point.

After five minutes, football returned to Manchester City's halftime, and it was Manchester City who still controlled the ball. Manchester United players kept running and running throughout the process. During this period, they had expectations of grabbing the ball and worried about their own defense. They thought a lot and ran a lot, but in the end they didn't even touch the ball.

A set of data from commentators from various countries can tell the problem, "less than ten minutes into the game, neither team has shot yet. Manchester City's possession rate has reached 87%, while Manchester United only has 13%. So far, several Manchester United players including Ferdinand, Gary Neville, Sakha and Park Ji-sung have not touched the ball" (~^~)
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