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Manchester City's side responds to all changes, cautious defense, Wensheng pays great attention to the details of the arrangement, Manchester City is also not leaky, Malaga has never dared to press too much in the formation, creating few opportunities, fortunately, they have done a good job in dealing with Manchester City's counterattack, and the retreat is also very fast, Manchester City can only rely on personal ability to create a little trouble for Malaga.
In the 53rd minute, Isco broke through with the ball in front of the field, was pulled by Melo, Malaga got a very good set-piece, Isco took the penalty himself, the quality was quite good, and was saved by Navas, and then Manchester City also had problems in the corner defense, almost allowing Demichelis to score.
Wen Sheng waved his hand angrily to express his dissatisfaction.
"After defending for a long time, sometimes you get distracted, and a team like Manchester City should try to avoid such mistakes!" Zhang Wei commented.
"Demichelis' header is still quite threatening!" Ho Wei Dao.
'Savage was generally good today, but he wasn't as mature as Van Dijk and occasionally mishandled the ball!
"It seems that Van Dijk is younger than Savic, right?!" He Wei said with a smile.
"Yes, but Van Dijk has been following Daniel for years!"
"Daniel. Wen seems to be known for being good at training young people! How does he usually train his young men? The game was relatively dull, and He Wei took the opportunity to interject and ask.
"He's both stern and relatable! He is also more patient with young players and supervises them more tightly! Personally, I don't think Daniel actually has any secrets or anything like that, the most important thing is that he is more careful in terms of training, and our coaching team will also help him, analyze the state of young players in stages, and then Daniel will talk to them individually, set goals and so on, and he will be rewarded! Zhang Wei smiled and introduced his previous experience.
"It's a bit like babysitting!" He Wei took a chance.
'When I first took over Crystal Palace, there was a whole bunch of youngsters in the squad, and the youngest Zaha was actually only 17 years old, well, taking care of the little ones?! Sort of! Zhang Wei coughed dryly twice and explained.
On the sidelines, Manuel Pellegrini frowned, he knew it was going to be tough, but he never thought it would be so difficult, Manchester City were not only stronger than them, but they were too solid to be chaotic, and Pellegrini didn't know what to do to change the current situation.
Originally, he was still pinning on the fulcrum role of high school striker Santa Cruz, but Santa Cruz is really old, and he is often at the bottom in the confrontation with Van Dijk and Savic, and he can't play long passes.
Baptista is even more disappointing than Santa Cruz, in the 10-11 season when Baptista just transferred to Malaga, the power was still good, scoring 9 goals in 11 games, but unfortunately he suffered a serious injury that season, and then Baptista went all the way downhill, last season did not make more than 10 appearances for Malaga, and this season has not played much, usually Pellegrini will not use the 442 formation at all.
Twenty minutes into the second half, Wen Sheng saw that the team's counterattack was not improving, and decisively made a substitution, replacing the lackluster Nasri with Mane.
Silva also warmed up on the sidelines, and if there is no change, he could also bring on Dzeko or Sergio Aguero.
Manuel Pellegrini was more resolute than Wensheng's substitution, who only made one substitution, and in the same time period, Pellegrini replaced Baptista with Portillo and Joaquín with Piasson.
Piazon, who arrived in Malaga on loan from Chelsea in January, has not featured in the Champions League for Chelsea, so he can play for Malaga in the second half of the season, which is different from the dogs.
Piazon made a mistake immediately after he came on the pitch, and it's good for young people to be bold and let go, but mistakes tend to happen to young people like Piazon.
In the 68th minute, Piazon dribbled the ball on the wing and tried to get past Kolarov, but Kolarov saw through it and made a successful tackle.
If Piazon had experience, he should have pulled Kolarov as soon as possible and did not let Kolarov advance with the ball, but he had no experience, he did not do this, but signaled to Rizzoli that Kolarov had fouled, and as a result, something tragic happened, Kolarov accurately found De Bruyne's point, De Bruyne took the ball and wiped it forward, the Malaga central defender just moved, he crossed from the side, Aguero outflanked the back point, and sent the ball into the Malaga's goal again.
"De Bruyne passes!! Sergio Aguero shoots from the back post! Entered! Entered! Sergio Aguero scored twice and Manchester City led Malaga 2-0 at home! He Weiwei shouted that Manchester City's counterattack this time was played beautifully.
"Kolarov's pass is too accurate, from left to right, such a long distance, at least more than 40 meters, this ball, Kolarov has to be credited!" Zhang Wei then praised Kolarov.
Kolarov didn't wait for the opposing players to press, nor did he push forward with the ball, looked up at the gap, immediately passed the ball, and directly shook the midfielder of Malaga, Malaga can only put pressure on the back line, but Manchester City's Mane, Dzeko, Aguero and others acted very quickly and ran fast, and it was difficult for Demichelis and others to stand in position.
'De Bruyne's pass was also great, he was from the back post, Demichelis was led by Dzeko, Aguero at the back post was unguarded, Sergio. Sanchez came back too late! ”
The morale of the players in Malaga plummeted, and they defended hard in this game, but sometimes they were just a little careless, and the opponent seized the opportunity, and they tried hard but did not get a good result, who can not be frustrated.
Pellegrini let out a cloudy breath and was as depressed as the players.
And Wen Sheng undoubtedly proved his tactical choice right once again, this time the Manchester City players celebrated for a long time, and Rizzoli believed they were suspected of delaying the time and warned Sergio Aguero.
Aguero didn't dare to make a mistake, he was punished in the group stage, suspended for two games, which is considered lucky, and he didn't want to be unnecessarily punished in the knockout stage.
In the next period of time, Malaga was a little chaotic, Manchester City took the opportunity to engage in positional warfare attacks, and in the face of Manchester City's attack, Malaga was a little overwhelmed, and frequently blocked with fouls, Rizzoli gave Demichelis a yellow card and Itura a yellow card.
Pellegrini immediately made a substitution, replacing Itura with Camacho, after this substitution adjustment, Malaga re-stabilized the stitch, and Manchester City saw that there was no chance to take advantage of it, and resumed the original tactics, Wensheng replaced Aguero with Silva, the team changed to 4231, and Silva was in the middle.
Twenty minutes seemed to pass in the blink of an eye, and Rizzoli blew the final whistle as City beat Malaga 2-0 at home to take the lead.