Chapter 147: The First Half Ends
Chapter 147: The first half ends
Fernando changed into a neon training uniform and warmed up on the sidelines of the pitch, while the United players were still celebrating their goals, and no one noticed Fernando in his prime.
However, the director of the game broadcast was the first to discover Fernando who was warming up.
"Fernando warming up?" Andy Gray also noticed Fernando, who was warming up, "There shouldn't be any Manchester City players on the pitch injured right now?" ”
Normally, every 20 minutes between games, the coaching staff will arrange for the substitute players to come out to warm up collectively, so that the substitute players can always warm up to deal with some unexpected situations.
But when there is only one player on the field warming up, the signal is very obvious!
Pep Guardiola has to make a substitution!!
The camera immediately gave Yaya Toure!
"It's only been 25 minutes into the first half and it looks like Pep Guardiola is about to make a change!! He could well be the culprit who replaced Yaya Toure who caused Manchester City to concede the third goal!! Andy Gray guessed.
In fact, Yaya Toure also had a premonition that Guardiola was going to replace him, but Yaya Toure still had a bit of luck, he thought that Guardiola was using Fernando's warm-up to beat him.
If a substitution is used up before the end of the first half, it will be detrimental to Manchester City's second-half adjustment, and perhaps Guardiola will not use up one of his substitutions early.
But when the fourth official held up a substitution sign on the sidelines, Yaya Toure's luck was finally shattered.
Pep Guardiola is really going to replace Yaya Toure with Fernando!!
If Yaya Toure still had a trace of luck before, then now, Yaya Toure is annoyed and angry.
The City veteran felt humiliated, and even a palpable flush could be seen on his swarthy face – his blood rushing to his face, making Yaya Toure furious.
Yaya Toure admitted that he had just turned around with the ball and was cut off to give the opponent a chance to counterattack, but in Yaya Toure's view, this is a very normal offense and defense, if you want to attack, how can you not take the risk? And the team was also playing with Pep Guardiola's game before, but it wasn't Manchester United who scored two goals yet?
What does the loss of this game have to do with me? If you have to find someone to blame, then there is no doubt that it is Guardiola, it is his tactical choice that led to the first two goals of Manchester City, and because the third goal he conceded was just an offensive played by Manchester United in a blow when his own defense collapsed, if there were no first two goals conceded, Manchester United's momentum would not be so high, so in the final analysis, it is still Guardiola's pot!
Yaya Toure has proven himself with his way of playing, and he doesn't think he's at fault – after conceding the goal, Yaya Toure was still very active in defending back. So he thinks that Guardiola is biased against himself - the same is true when he left Barcelona, and now that Guardiola has come to Manchester City, the other party is going to get him away again!
So Yaya Toure, who walked off the field, ignored Fernando, who was standing on the sidelines and stretched out his palm.
Fernando was embarrassed for a while, and it was Guardiola who wanted to replace you in advance, and it had nothing to do with me.
In fact, Guardiola also ignored Yaya Toure, who walked past Guardiola with his head held high, and neither of them looked at each other.
Yaya Toure took off his shirt as he walked, and then slammed it to the ground in front of Guardiola.
The Manchester City players on the pitch and the Manchester City players on the bench were stunned, as if they had seen something terrible, Yaya Toure was clearly heading for Guardiola...
The Manchester City fans in the stands were also stunned, but they quickly reacted, and the Manchester City fans were naturally very angry about Yaya Toure's behavior of throwing Manchester City jerseys.
The boo rang out, and the boo was for Yaya Toure, and it was clear that the hot-blooded Yaya Toure had done something very impulsive, and quite unkind to the City fans. The jersey is a symbol of a club, the glory of the team, how can it be thrown on the ground like this?
Yaya Toure didn't react to the boos in the sky, he walked to the bench, picked up a training shirt and put it on his body, and the camera shot gave a close-up of Yaya Toure's jersey still on the grass, not far from the jersey, Guardiola put his hands in his pockets, as if the scene in front of him had nothing to do with him.
"Regardless of the final result of this match, this scene will definitely be the big news after the game!! Yaya Toure expressed a very strong dissatisfaction with Guardiola's early substitution, but it is obviously inappropriate for him to vent his dissatisfaction by dropping his shirt in front of Guardiola. Ancelotti said.
The shrill boos at the Etihad Stadium kept rang out, and the fans of Manchester City were obviously angry, although Yaya Toure has played for Manchester City for a long time and can be regarded as the hero of the team's rise, but now Yaya Toure's behavior is obviously very unhappy for the fans.
Manchester United fans are watching Manchester City's jokes, and what could be happier than watching the jokes of their rivals.
And the game was also disturbed by such an episode, and the rest of the game in the first half became a little uneventful.
Manchester City are trying to control the ball and they don't dare to continue to press forward and attack, and Manchester United are clearly prepared for Manchester City's attack.
After Fernando changed the pitch, Manchester City's midfield added a midfielder, the defensive ability has been improved, Manchester United is not too easy to attack the penalty area for a while, and as the game slowly develops, Manchester United players are no longer blindly attacking forward, and they are slowly retreating to prevent Manchester City from a possible counterattack in the final stages of the first half.
In fact, City were ready to organise a campaign before the end of the first half, but as soon as they pressed down, United were given a chance to counter-attack.
Di Maria cut inside after a one-on-one past Shabaleta on the flank, and the ball grazed the right post and flew off the line, almost making it 4-0 and scaring the City fans.
City's players were equally frightened, and for the remainder of the first half, the two sides began to battle it out in midfield, and neither side was able to score again until the end of the first half.