Chapter 1089: Strategic Level
While everyone was celebrating Glory's back-heel goal, Ibrahimovic still didn't go up to celebrate. This is his habit, and in a very short time it has become familiar and accustomed to everyone.
Ibrahimovic didn't have to kneel down and hug his glorious lap because he moved to Manchester City. But at the same time, he didn't pass the ball to Rongguang on the court because he didn't have a good relationship with Rongguang.
His rivalry with Glory has instead contributed to City's excellent performance.
Such a professional watch has also made many people have a good impression of him, even if he did not go up to celebrate the goal with glory, and no Manchester City fans blamed him.
Ibrahimovic was in a bad mood at this time.
Because Glory scored, and Glory still followed up with his feet!
When Rongguang shot, he was the closest person to the goal, so he saw the football roll into the goal for the first time, but he didn't raise his arms and shout to remind everyone that Rongguang had scored.
It's not that he doesn't have a good relationship with Glory and doesn't want to celebrate Glory's goal - although he was like this before, he would have wronged him if he thought so this time.
He didn't raise his arm to remind everyone that the goal had been scored at the first time, because he was stunned.
He didn't expect the football to roll into the goal.
He saw Glory slam the ball into the goal with his heel, and at the time he thought it was just a blind kick after the donkey's skills were exhausted.
At such a distance from the goal, with your back to the goal, and then you don't have any running power, you just kick your legs back, do you want to hit the football in?
Are you kidding?!
You kid doesn't even know where the goal is!
As soon as the thought came to mind, Ibrahimovic watched the ball penetrate multiple of Twente's defences and then through the goalkeeper's fingers and roll into the back of the net......
He was not good at that time.
So he froze there and didn't raise his arms for the first time to cheer for the goal.
Now that he had come to his senses and stared at Glory's back, he was surrounded by other City players.
He couldn't help but think that he had broken the deadlock with a back-heel shot against Chelsea in the league and helped his side to victory. And now Glory is also following up with the ball with his feet...... This kid is arguing with me!
Are you just looking down on me for being in the limelight?!
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In front of Manchester City's dugout, assistant coach Mauricio Pellegrino turned his head to look at Benitez: "When you agreed to bring in Ibrahimovic from the club, did you think it would have such an effect? ”
Benitez smiled and shook his head: "How could I possibly know? At the time, the whole world thought that they were impossible to be compatible. There are also assertions that Ibrahimovic will become a time bomb in the dressing room when he comes to the ball and concedes it...... Who would have thought that they would compete so much......"
"It's really our luck!" Pellegrino said.
Benitez nodded.
When the team is still in the run-in period, the results will generally be very unstable, or even bad. However, City are now second in the league, just one point behind Chelsea. There was also a win in the Champions League.
This kind of table really doesn't look like a team in the run-in period.
And this is all thanks to the fierce rivalry between Glory and Ibrahimovic.
It is precisely because of this rivalry between Ibrahimovic and Glory that Manchester City has been able to pass some games that they cannot win on their own.
Now, Manchester City's overall cooperation is becoming more and more tacit, and the attacking system is gradually taking shape. By the time the team's attacking system is fully formed, combined with the talents of Glory and Ibrahimovic, Benitez believes he will build one of the strongest attacking squads in England...... No, maybe it's the strongest in Europe!
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Glory's back-heel goal not only broke the deadlock on the scoreline, but also broke the game-shaped stalemate.
Twente's stubborn tactics were shattered under the heel of Glory, and it was difficult for them to reorganize their defence so tightly.
Because they are behind in the scoreline, there is no point in sticking to it. Even if they don't concede a goal in the rest of the game, what's the use? They will still lose 0-1.
It was not only the FC Twente defence that was shattered, but also the fighting spirit and confidence of the FC players.
They defended heavily in the box and did not concede a goal against Sneijder, David Silva, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Glory in the first half.
But now it was still broken by a glorious genius.
Such a tight defense can't prevent Glory, how can we continue to stop him?
This blow to confidence is the most terrifying, and the direct guide to Zì Twente's performance in the next game has been greatly reduced.
Manchester City, on the other hand, seized the opportunity of the Twente players' declining confidence and difficulty concentrating, and launched a big attack.
And in the sixty-ninth minute, seventy-second minute, and eighty-first minute, three cities in a row.
The three goals were scored by David Silva, Sneijder and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
In the end, Manchester City beat FC Twente 4-0 at home to claim their second win of the group stage.
Continuing to lead the group standings with six points.
On the defending champions' side, Inter Milan also beat Werder Bremen by the same score on their home turf, and it looked almost like they were venting their anger at Werder Bremen, taking out their frustration at not being able to win Twente in the first leg and their anger at Werder Bremen's last "water" behavior.
Only two rounds have been played in the group stage, but if nothing else, the two teams that will qualify are likely to be Manchester City and Inter Milan. The only suspense is who is first and who is second.
It's up to the two teams to talk head-to-head.
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After the game, Glory's back-heel goal became the focus of discussion throughout Europe, unlike Ibrahimovic's one, Ibrahimovic's goal was the whole of England, because Ibrahimovic's goal was in the Premier League, and Glory's back-heel goal was in the Champions League group stage......
Ibrahimovic suffered the loss of the tournament.
Although FC Twente is not too strong a team, as long as Glory scores a beautiful goal in the game, it is already worth the ticket price.
The media in various countries have praised Rong Guang's back-heel goal as a reflection of his talent and inspiration, and it is the farthest back-heel goal from the goal, and the difficulty can be imagined.
“…… According to common sense, FC Twente's defence was very successful, and Predholm's tactical set-up was also very targeted. However, the manager can think very carefully about the tactics and often fail to anticipate the individual performance of the players. Wing took a different approach with a unique goal to break down FC Twente's dense defence. In the face of such a conceded goal, Twente's manager Predholm had nothing to say. It wasn't Manchester City's strength that beat him, and he didn't lose in the tactical duel with Benitez. It was a genius genius idea who defeated him, and such an ethereal thing is really not easy to guard against......"
This is how Sport commented on the significance of the glorious goal in this game.
“…… Predholm will not be alone, because there are many coaches in Europe who must be sympathetic to his plight. Those people have all lost to glorious talent and improvisation when they have no last resort...... There's nothing to be ashamed of, Wing has gone beyond tactics......" said the French newspaper Le Corpus. "He's a strategic-level weapon."
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The week was divided into two distinct parts, with the watershed moment of the two parts being a Champions League group stage.
Ahead of this group stage, the media across England were talking about Zlatan Ibrahimovic's back-heel goal against Chelsea, with 'Ibrahimovic' and 'Heel' frequently dominating the media pages.
And after this group stage, the media throughout England were talking about Glory's back-heel goal against Twente. "Rong" and "heel" frequently appear in everyone's eyes and ears.
This is the case with the Manchester Evening News in the hands of Ibrahimovic at this moment, and the photo of the goal scored by Rongguang's heel was taken in succession, and several photos were put together to show the whole process of the football entering the goal.
The title is "A feast of skill and imagination!" Rong's super long-distance heel score! ”
Ibrahimovic's grip on the newspaper was so hard that he grabbed the sound, and the thud pulled him out of his trance.
He tossed the newspaper aside.
Although he managed to steal the limelight in the league last weekend, the special effect of this limelight BUFF only lasted for half a week! He's not happy enough, and now Glory is in the spotlight.
You must know that in the Champions League, he also scored, scoring the fourth goal of the game, which was a beautiful long-range shot from outside the box.
But the media barely mentioned it.
He was just forgotten......