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"Haha. Thank God! Southampton missed the best chance. Next they will kick one less player, they are finished!"

"Our Manchester City SHOW TIME is about to begin!"

Manchester City fans were excited after Ronaldo's free-kick hit the crossbar.

When the numbers are equal, the two sides play almost evenly. This is one less person to kick, which is definitely a fatal disadvantage.

"Tamad! One less player to kick. There is still so much time in the game. We can't play anymore."

"I hope the team can handle it."

The morale of the Southampton fans was immediately hit hard, and the originally enthusiastic cheers became a little depressed due to worry.

"Balotelli, that idiot!"

"If I lose this game, I'm going to kill him!"

"..."

Many fans turned their worries into dissatisfaction and continued to vent their anger on Balotelli.

Sun Yi had no intention of blaming Balotelli. His frown knitted into a frown, and right now, he needed to make a decision immediately.

Should we stick to the original tactics and strive for victory? Or just change the formation to save the game?

"Old Diaw, I'm going to let the team retreat. What do you think?"

Dio was a little surprised. In his impression, Sun Yi was a lunatic who would attack like crazy even if he missed one player. Today, we have to take the initiative to retreat. Rare!

"I think it's okay. This is the safest approach."

"Well! Let's do it then."

Sun Yi nodded, and then went to the sidelines and gestured to the players on the court to change formations and adjust tactics.

"The leader has requested a change of formation. Let us retreat."

"Let's go. Who told us to kick one less person? This is the only thing we can do now."

When facing Manchester City, take the initiative to retreat. Southampton players are really not willing to do this kind of bowing their heads. But there is no way, the situation is stronger than the person.

They are no longer barefoot and are not afraid of wearing shoes. In the past they could fight their opponents for a breath. Now it's better to be more pragmatic.

"Southampton shrank. They were scared!"

Seeing Southampton shrinking its formation, the Manchester City team immediately became excited.

"Haha. Southampton team, you also have today. Next, our Manchester City team will completely take the initiative."

"Attack! Manchester City. Let's run wild here at St. Mary's Stadium and leave with our heads held high with victory!"

Whether it is fans or players, the morale of the Manchester City team is extremely high. Their momentum on the court also began to rise rapidly, and they quickly overwhelmed the Southampton team.

The next game completely went to Manchester City.

Manchester City began to use their numerical advantage to suppress Southampton in the backcourt. They began to gain a huge advantage. Whether it's scenes or data.

Faced with this situation, Southampton was helpless. Apart from occasional counterattacks, they could only defend vigorously. The situation seems very passive.

Sun Yi is also thinking hard about good opportunities and making some adjustments from time to time. However, some of his small changes were quickly eliminated by Guardiola's adjustments.

No matter what changes Sun Yi makes, Guardiola will react immediately. This makes the Southampton team become more passive the more they play, and the more they play, the greater the pressure.

"Come on, Southampton. Hold on!"

"This is St. Mary's Stadium, no matter what, we must hold on!"

Southampton fans hope to encourage the team with their own cheers. But the extremely passive situation on the court made them very worried. They are worried that Southampton will not be able to withstand Manchester City's increasingly sharp offensive.

However, their fears soon became reality.

The Southampton team, which had one less player to play, was exhausted. In passive defense, the number of fouls also increases. When the game reached thirty minutes, in order to destroy Manchester City's threat, Pavard had to bring down Mahrez at the front of the penalty area.

This gave Manchester City a well-placed free-kick opportunity.

De Bruyne, Sun Yi's most vigilant player, stood in front of the free throw.

Sun Yi's heart suddenly tightened.

In the end, De Bruyne used a very beautiful outside instep free kick to directly penetrate the Southampton goal.

Zero to one.

Southampton is one goal behind at home.

"It's over!"

The Southampton fans suddenly howled.

In the past, Southampton has not fallen behind at home, but they have never felt as confident as they did today.

Today's opponent, Manchester City, is really too strong. He played too well. Coupled with the numerical disadvantage, it really makes people doubt whether Southampton can handle it.

Southampton players have similar thoughts to the fans. Their morale was also greatly reduced because of this backwardness.

"cheer up."

"It's just one goal behind. There is still a lot of time in the game, and we may not lose yet."

"Didn't we miss one player and fall behind once? Didn't we also get through it?"

"It worked before, and it works now."

"So cheer me up!"

Seeing that the team's morale was declining, Sun Yi quickly shouted loudly in an attempt to boost the morale of the Southampton team.

A large number of winning records give Sun Yi's words great prestige in the hearts of the players. After he shouted, the players all collected their emotions and cheered themselves up.

"The boss is right. We could do it before, and we can do it now!"

"Let's go! Go kick off the ball and come back to tie the score!"

Watching Southampton fight back after the restart, Guardiola couldn't help but nod his head frequently.

"Not bad! The fighting spirit is still good."

Under the leadership of Ronaldo, Southampton has obviously increased the intensity of the attack. Many players have tried their best to participate in the attack.

With everyone's efforts, Southampton still created a considerable threat. However, with one less player, their offensive firepower is far less than before Balotelli left the field. Under Manchester City's equally solid defense, Southampton's counterattacks were all crushed.

Seeing that the counterattacks have failed many times, Sun Yi asked Southampton to temporarily suspend the offensive, fearing that the strong attack would lead to an empty defense and Manchester City would seize the opportunity again. Do a good job of defense first, and then think of a way during the halftime break.

One go, again and again, and three times, and three times.

The counterattack was frustrated, and everyone realized: Under the current situation, unless there is an accident, Southampton is indeed unable to break Manchester City's goal.

Therefore, the Southampton players could only follow Sun Yi's request and retreat to the backcourt again.

"Okay. It seems that there is no way in the first half. We can only see if there is a chance in the second half."

The Southampton team was prepared to return to the locker room with a goal behind.

However, Southampton found out later that this was also a luxury.

When the game entered the 40th minute and everyone thought that the first half would end like this, Manchester City scored again.

De Bruyne's long shot outside the penalty area caused goalkeeper Foster to lose his grip, and Aguero was quick to make a supplementary shot before Van Dijk.

0-2!

"W-A-N-over!"