Benitez was a little surprised to find that Arsenal was actually recycling the defense - he really didn't expect that there were ten minutes left in the game, and Wenger would give up his previous style of play and suddenly change his tactics to shrink the defense!

He never did that in his preset for this match.

After all, no one would have thought that Arsene Wenger's Arsenal would shrink back to defend......

It's not in line with Arsenal's football aesthetic at all, and it's not in line with Arsene Wenger's style......

So in the face of this sudden scene, Benitez didn't know how to respond.

It wasn't just Benitez who was surprised, but also the commentators who were commentators on the game.

Arsene Wenger made the adjustment...... He asked Arsenal to recycle the defense! Mortenson exclaimed.

"It's ......," Alan Hansen couldn't understand. Is he afraid of something? Afraid of Manchester City scoring in the last minute? ”

"At the moment, it should be like this......" Mortensen said, looking at Alan Hansen - are Manchester City already terrifying?

Previously at Stamford Bridge, Hiddink was forced to give up the attack and defended the whole game.

And now at the Emirates Stadium, Wenger has also changed his football principles and style.

And that's only half a season.

If...... If it was Rafael Benitez who took over the team at the start of the season, not Mark Hughes, where would the team be now?

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Kaka in front of the TV saw what Wenger was thinking, and he didn't want to give Glory a chance to play a quick counterattack with speed.

This is a very clever approach, so that City's defensive counter-attacking tactics will not work. Arsenal only need to win without losing the game, while Manchester City are the catch-ups, and if they can't win in a direct conversation with the fourth in the league, it will be tantamount to putting their fate in the hands of someone else, and it will be even more difficult to finish in the top four of the league after that.

So this game, Manchester City must win.

But when Arsenal shrunk their defence, Kaka felt it was difficult for City to win the game again.

You can't win this game, what else do you say about participating in the Champions League?

Kaka set his sights on the glory of the TV screen.

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Manchester City's players were indeed surprised after Arsenal suddenly reverted to the defence, because they didn't expect it. Just as Rafael Benitez was not prepared for such a situation, City's players were even less mentally prepared.

For a while, in the face of Arsenal's sudden adjustment, they didn't know what to do.

In the confusion, another five minutes passed the game time.

In those five minutes, Arsenal completed the tactical deployment of the defensive contraction, while Manchester City were unable to capitalise on the opportunity to score.

"Arsenal have taken it back completely...... Time is running out for Manchester City and now it looks like they want to win this game...... I'm afraid it's going to be hard. John Mortenson said.

'A draw is acceptable for Arsenal, but it's completely unacceptable for the pursuers Manchester City......,' said Alan Hansen, echoing Mortensen's claims. Arsene Wenger must have figured this out before shrinking his defence. And to make matters worse for City, if they can't hold back in the final 10 minutes of the game and try to press out, there will be plenty of gaps in their backline. Their defense was not good in the first place, and the reason why they were able to hold on before was completely due to the numerical advantage, and with so many people concentrated in the penalty area, it was not so easy for Arsenal to penetrate it......"

'So, once they press out and try to win the game in the final moments, they have problems at the back and there is a good chance that they will be caught by Arsenal...... 'added Mortensen.

Alan Hansen nodded, "That's right. Arsenal can also play on the counter-attack, they have a player like Theo Walcott......"

"So Man City really ...... It's dangerous! ”

The two of them sang and harmonized, and the hearts of those Manchester City fans who couldn't go to the scene and could only watch live TV were hanging.

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Alan Hansen did a good job of analysing that City's players did start to get a little impatient as the game wore on.

Their offense has become simpler and more brutal.

When the football comes to the front, it often does not score a lot of meticulous passing and running coordination, but after a simple pass, it will end the attack with a shot.

Whether it's Berbatov, or Robinho, or Glory, they do it.

Benitez also replaced Sturridge, a young centre-forward who was trained in Manchester City's academy, and formed a centre-forward partnership with Dimitar Berbatov, hoping to increase the impact in the penalty area.

All indications are that Manchester City are in a hurry.

And Benitez's adjustment has no clear idea, which is simply to pile up the number of offensive players.

There's not much more he can do next......

When Sturridge came on, the position of Glory also changed. He was further back than before, as he had to give up space in front of goal to Berbatov and Sturridge.

In the eyes of commentators and commentators, Benitez's substitution was a complete failure, and the move meant that Glory was less of a threat to the Arsenal goal.

But Rongguang himself doesn't think so.

He never felt far away from goal, his threat was small.

He has always demanded that he do what he expects from a world-class attacking player, how can a world-class attacking player only shoot and score in the penalty area?

After giving up his position to Sturridge, Glory retreated, and then waited for his chance.

City did play more simply and roughly, as evidenced by the number of crosses they made from the wings.

More often than not, after playing the ball to the side, they don't pass it again, but directly cross it and hoist it towards goal.

This is the first choice for many teams in situations where there is nothing to do, because this kind of attack is the least costly and the least technical.

Every time an attack fails, Arsenal can play some counter-attacks.

This made Manchester City very uncomfortable.

They had to fight for their lives and quickly return to the defense to avoid being scored by the opposition when they couldn't score.

This kind of exhausting switch of attack and defense makes the Manchester City players very tired, especially when the game is about to end, everyone's physical strength is already running out, and after such a few sprints, many people's physical fitness can't keep up......

It looks like Manchester City's goal is more dangerous than Arsenal's.

But Manchester City can't go back now, in that case, they don't even have any hope of scoring, and even if they can hold the goal in the end, what's the point of taking only one point?

So now City can only hold on to the bullet and not drop back, while hoping to blast the back of the net before Arsenal can score with a counter-attack.

In fact, the victory or defeat is only between this one goal, whoever can score first can win the game and completely defeat the opponent's fighting spirit!

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In the 87th minute, Joe Hart had just saved Adebayo's shot from the ground, and instead of lying on the ground to delay the game, he got up from the ground with his hands and feet, rushed to the edge of the box, and then threw the ball directly into the front field with his arms.

The reason why you don't kick the ball directly into the front court with your big foot is because you still have to be more accurate with your hands than with your feet.

If you want to ensure that this attack is successful, you will not be cut off by Arsenal just after half play.

So although he was in a hurry, he kept his composure.

This is very valuable. You must know that many goalkeepers at this time are often a simple and rough big foot, kicking the football forward, and it seems that the closer the football is to the opponent's goal, the easier it is to score.

In a sense, it's right to think so.

But there has to be a premise, and that is quality.

The closer the ball is to the goal, the greater the threat to the goal, but it has to be a qualitative approach.

If it's just a matter of distance, it's meaningless, because when the opposing goalkeeper has a football in his hand, he must be the closest to the goal, so can it threaten the opponent's goal?

Apparently not.

Therefore, if the ball is kicked forward with a big foot, it is true that the football can be close to the opponent's goal in terms of distance, but if the pass is not good, the ball will be intercepted halfway nine times out of ten, which not only wastes the body of the attacking player, but also allows the opponent to directly launch a counterattack.

Joe Hart made the right choice.

Therefore, in this attack, Manchester City advanced relatively smoothly, all the way to the right side, and Zabalet directly chose to cross after receiving Robinho's ball on the side.

There was no feint, just to hang the football into the penalty area before the Arsenal defenders could press it.

Sturridge jumped up to fight for the top, he was young and strong, but inexperienced, his position has been firmly stuck by Arsenal's central defender Gallas, in terms of height, Gallas is not as good as Sturridge, but in the end the football landing point for Gallas to steal.

Gareth clears with a header.

Sturridge wasn't useless either, as he and Gallas battled for the ball and still interfered with Gareth.

So the Frenchman didn't go too far with the goal, just went straight out of the penalty area.

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"Manchester City's attack was too simple and crude, so it failed again without suspense......" Before the commentator Mortensen could finish speaking, Alan Hansen next to him shouted: "Rong!! ”

Mortensen hurriedly searched the court for glory - and he quickly found it.

Glory appeared in front of the landing point of football!

And he's already pulled up!

This action is all too familiar to everyone!

Glory picked up his right leg at the football, leaning slightly to his left at the same time.

Meanwhile, Arsenal's midfielder Cesc Fabregas also rushed up to stop Glory's shot.

He even did not hesitate to use his body to block the glory.

But Glory's right foot still arrived a little earlier than him......

When Cesc Fabregas jumped up and used his body to block the ball, Glory's right foot was on the instep of the ball!

A bang sounded in Fabregas's ears, like a thunderclap!

Cesc Fabregas didn't feel the ball hitting him in any part of his body, so he knew his block had failed.

Then he can only hope that he suddenly appears in front of Glory and can interfere with his shot.

So he looked back.

He saw that the football shot out by the glory was like a comet, and the silver-white sphere reflected the light above the field, pulling out a white light in the night sky.

Dive headlong into the goal!