The game was relatively dull, the physical contact between the two sides was obviously a lot more than the previous round, although Malaga is a La Liga team, but the technical strength is not better than Manchester City, on the contrary, Manchester City's technical strength is a little stronger, in order to facilitate the control of the style of play, Wen Sheng's layout looks like a circle, De Bruyne and Nasri have adducted, Zabaleta and Kolarov's position is also slightly forward, the position of Silva in the middle is not the closest to Aguero, Yaya Toure is there, Manchester City's control flow style of play does not have to drop too far back in the midfield position.

But Toure is not on the pitch and Silva needs to drop back a bit.

The circular formation is enough to hold the centre in place, and the positions of Melo and Milner in the middle of the road are also very crucial, and Wensheng needs them to be good at running and aggressive.

Recently, for a long time, Wen Sheng has been practicing such tactics, entering the knockout stage of the European competition, Gou and health will become the theme of Manchester City, and it is necessary to control the flow of play, even if Wen Sheng is still disdainful of ineffective control of the ball from before to now, but reality has proved that this method is effective, and he must use it.

Ten minutes on, it was still City who were clearly in a better position than Málaga, who had two shots on goal in that time, which may not have been great, but at least they were chances, while Málaga did not have a single shot on target.

In the league, Malaga may be so bad in addition to facing Barcelona, but other teams should at least have a certain chance to perform on the offensive end, but in the Champions League, especially in the first leg, when they have fallen behind 0:2, Malaga itself is no longer able to play so freely, so in the face of the opponent's tight defense, it is understandable that Malaga plays like this.

Saviola has not been very active, he has not had two chances to receive the ball since the opening, and Manchester City have been very close to him.

Manuel Pellegrini looked at his watch, he was a little anxious, he knew that the team would face such a predicament, he knew that Manchester City had a good chance of restraining his team, his hopes were pinned on the players, hoping that the players would have a flash of inspiration, but he did not see his players have such moments in the space of ten minutes.

For him, he can only continue to wait.

Manuel Pellegrini has never liked yelling on the sidelines, and his flat face looks unfazed.

In contrast, Wen Sheng looks much lower, constantly calling his players on the sidelines, and he will point out even the slightest problem, not letting the players slack off at all.

Golden boy Isco in the league is not bad, in the Champions League group stage performance is not bad, in December last year he was selected by the "Torino Sport" as the new golden boy, at that time it was called a high-spirited, Malaga draw Manchester City was not favored by the media, but he was full of confidence, that Malaga drew a good sign.

Reality slapped him in the face mercilessly, under the defense of Manchester City's tactical system, Isco's space was limited and it was difficult to make any eye-catching play, and he felt that he was playing awkwardly.

There are a lot of Malaga players who feel this way, people used to always evaluate Crystal Palace is not like a Premier League team at all, and now it is gradually said that Manchester City is not like a Premier League team, there is a typical style of football, defense must be the most important thing, Manchester City's defense is now much stronger than the Mancini era, and Manchester City only conceded one goal in more than ten games before.

This is quite a terrifying existence, looking at the European football world at the same stage, it can do similar to Manchester City, that is, Bayern Munich, and a team like Barcelona is not as good as Manchester City. Three-two

It's no surprise that the Malaga players feel that way.

It would take Malaga ten minutes later to have a shot on goal, when Baptista received a pass from Joaquín on the flank and took a step or two to finish a long-range shot.

There is actually no need to shoot this goal, the distance is too far, Baptista is more like shooting for the sake of completing a shot, his body is not adjusted, the shot is relatively hasty, and the threat is naturally equal to nothing.

City had a good chance in the 17th minute when De Bruyne combined well with Silva, James Milner and Sergio Aguero in the Malaga half, with Sergio Aguero threatening to shoot away from his countryman Demichelis and Caballero concentrating and quickly going down to the ground to keep the goal intact.

After this opportunity, Manchester City's side dominated the opponents, grasped the absolute initiative on the field, and continued to put pressure on the Malaga defense, but fortunately, whether it was Pellegrini or Málaga's players today, they were on guard against Manchester City's continuous attack and were very focused.

Gradually, the game between the two sides fell into a stalemate, carefully maintaining a balance.

Manuel Pellegrini's mind has already begun to fight, and it is really difficult to choose whether to continue to maintain such a balance and stalemate with a more aggressive attack.

Each coach has a different personality, but in this case it is undoubtedly a multiple-choice question, and you have to make a choice or the team is really going to be finished.

Manuel Pellegrini was quick to decide, and Malaga went into attacking mode after 30 minutes, pressing the formation.

Wensheng thought about it, the team began to consciously recycle, Pellegrini made a choice, and he also needed to make a choice, whether to choose to maintain a tight formation in the midfield or loosen it to facilitate the team's quick counterattack.

Wensheng chose to maintain his defensive density in the central midfield, the formation was recycled, and the attack of both sides has now become turn-based, Málaga carefully controlled the ball to advance, but their attacking efficiency is really not high at all, in fact, it is difficult for Baptista, Santa Cruz or Saviola to return to their previous form.

The beast Baptista played very well in Sevilla, playing in the back of the front, strong scoring ability, outstanding long-range shooting, good physical fitness, and the delicacy of the Brazilians at his feet, but unfortunately he was unlucky to meet the Brazilian Melo at the same time today, and he didn't play much in front of his fellow countrymen, Wen Sheng clearly saw that Baptista was already below in the physical contact between the two.

It's the same with Santa Cruz and Saviola, they might have been great a few years ago, but now they really have to get old.

Forty-five minutes passed quickly, with Malaga failing to cause much trouble at home, who instead caused them some problems.

In the last few minutes, Manchester City missed two chances, both of which were on-the-spot counter-attacks, one was when Silva received De Bruyne's second pass and kicked a chance near the line of the small penalty area, and the other was when Sergio Aguero successfully countered offside and failed to control the direction of the ball, which was won by Caballero who attacked. ，