Golden Greenery

The goal conceded in the second half can explain some of Manchester City's problems, and it can also explain Guardiola's desire for a goalkeeper that fits his system.

In the 57th minute, West Ham's 22-year-old Democratic Republic of Congo left-back Masuyakou used several emergency stops and starts that Zhuo Yang thought had a poor rhythm to get out of the way of Manchester City's captain and right-back Sabale. Tower pass.

The line was very close to the small penalty area line. Otamendi stepped back and glided with a header to clear the ball, but he missed it. West Ham forward Michael Antonio jumped from behind the left back, Frenchman Clichy, and headed home at the far post, making the score 2:1.

Zhuoyang was quite impressed by Pablo Zabaleta. In the second round of the World Cup group stage the year before last, when the Chinese team played against Argentina, this guy started and played the entire game, and he also played at right back. In that game, the Chinese team finally lost 3:4. Zhuo Yang scored a hat trick, and Boss Mei only scored one, but he scored a decisive stoppage time.

Zabaleta is in his ninth year at Manchester City. The year Zhuo Yang left Milan for Barcelona, ​​he moved to Manchester from Espanyol and became the deputy of Manchester City through qualifications.

He was thrown out of the way by Masuaku at the waistline of the penalty area and made a cross. It was not a big mistake. It was mainly due to Manchester City's mistakes in their aerial defense tactics.

Nicolas Otamendi, who is on the rise, is also Argentinian and is 28 years old this year. He became well-known at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, when Otamendi played as a right back under Maradona.

In the quarterfinals match against Germany, the right wing guarded by Otamendi became a highway at three o'clock in the morning. Piggy and Podolski did whatever they wanted on his side. In the end, Argentina was defeated 0:4, and the Germans had three goals. The ball was played from behind Otamendi's side.

Otamendi is a central defender, and his youth + guest appearance + veteran opponents made him lose his face that day. If not for that game, he would have gone to Real Madrid or AC Milan in the summer of 2010.

He eventually went to Porto that summer, but since then, Otamendi has been away from the Argentina national team, and he was not involved in the World Cup in Brazil. But in the 2014-15 season after the World Cup, Otamendi made all forwards miserable in La Liga Valencia and was named the best central defender in La Liga that season. Then he was bought by Manchester City for 45 million last year.

In terms of personal ability, frontal defense and air defense are Otamendi's strengths. He really shouldn't have taken the top position just now, but just like Clichy being rushed from behind by Antonio at this moment, this goal was mainly due to Manchester City's defense against Guardio. Lacking a rough understanding of tactical thinking.

Guardiola's team's defense has never been good at defending in the air, just like the front is not good at attacking overhead kicks. All crosses from the opponent that land within twelve yards will be handed over to the goalkeeper to deal with. The defenders must be ready to protect the second landing point and be ready to counterattack with the ball as soon as possible.

Otamendi's position was reluctant and Clichy was at a loss.

The root cause is that goalkeeper Caballero did not come out.

In this way, we can understand the importance to Guardiola of a goalkeeper that suits his tactical system.

Otamendi is an excellent central defender, but not a mainstay. He needs equally outstanding partners around him, such as Valencia's German Mustafi, such as Manchester City captain Kompany.

2 In May of this year, in the second round of the 2015-1 home match between Manchester City and Real Madrid, Ni strained his thigh muscle without confrontation in the first 8 minutes. He has been recuperating until now. He did not even go to the European Cup in the summer.

After losing the ball, Guardiola replaced Stones with Serbian defender Kolarov.

The 22-year-old John Stones transferred from Everton this summer for 47.5 million pounds. This defender is the second most valuable player in the history of the Premier League after Pompon Lewis. Guardiola replaced Stones not because he performed poorly, but because he wanted to change a partner for Otamendi.

The 31-year-old Alexander Kolarov was born in Lazio in Serie A. Zhuoyang played against him when he was in AC Milan. He is a pretty good full-back, and he has been a full-back all his life.

Guardiola came to Manchester City and after the first training session, he said to Kolarov: I think you can play as a central defender.

So Kolarov became a central defender.

Although Zhuoyang has not yet resumed football training, his football vision does not need to be restored. After watching the game for another ten minutes, he understood Guardiola's struggles with the defense, especially the central defender.

Kompany, Otamendi, Kolarov, including Stones, they are all excellent, but this excellence has a ceiling. Regardless of personal ability or pairing, in Zhuoyang's previous football journey, these four Manchester City players were ranked last.

Madibo Rock Deras + Pompon, AC Milan Nesta + Maldini, Barcelona Puyol + Pique, Real Madrid Shui Ye + Pepe, these combinations each have their own shortcomings, but the overall strength is still beyond Manchester City currently have a lot of defense.

Manchester City is not short of money, but good central defenders cannot be bought with money. Guardiola is in trouble and can only hope that the 33-year-old Bravo can make up for it as soon as possible.

It’s not that Guardiola and Zhuo Yang are demanding. If you want to complete the leap from a strong team to a wealthy team, a pair of classic central defenders can reduce the difficulty of the game to a great extent. The central defender combinations Zhuo Yang has worked with before are all classics that can be recorded in the history of football.

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The score of 2:1 made the atmosphere at the City Stadium a little tense. Manchester City had won two consecutive games at the start of the new season. In order to continue the good momentum, Guardiola replaced Nolito with 31-year-old Spanish veteran Jesus Navas in the 75th minute.

Navas was born in Sevilla and is a standard Western-style right winger. From his height to his technical characteristics, Zhuo Yang was impressed by him.

Only one minute after coming on the field, Navas took the ball on the right wing and immediately looked for Aguero on the other side.

Akun had a clear understanding, but unfortunately the Danish defender Winston Reed behind him was too strong, making it impossible for him to retreat and turn around.

Especially in the second half, Aguero played a little impatiently. In the first two rounds, Manchester City won two consecutive games. He scored 3 goals, temporarily ranking first with Manchester United's Ibrahimovic. Before the game, Aguero said that he would compete with Ibrahimovic to be the top scorer this season, which was equivalent to a declaration of invitation.

In fact, Aguero is not a loyal person when it comes to scoring goals. He has only won the Premier League Golden Boot once in six years after joining Manchester City. He was so anxious to declare war because he felt the pressure of Zhuo Yang to join.

A healthy Zhuoyang can make anyone in any position a substitute, except the goalkeeper.

Aguero's invitation to play is also a subconscious behavior that indicates the team's status.

But there was no goal scored today, and now he had a good chance, but he was made angry by such a third-rate defender.

Aguero turned around and hit Reid hard on the cheek with an elbow. Winston Reed was struck to the ground as if his head had been cut off.

Miraculously, the referee Andre Marriner did not see Aguero's move at all. He just signaled West Ham United to take a throw-in in the backcourt.

Aguero did not play cleanly and almost broke Pengpeng's toes during a game with Chelsea. But Aguero is very lucky. He has never received a red card in the six years he has been in the Premier League. This is much cleaner than Zhuo Yang.

Guardiola probably couldn't stand it anymore, so he replaced Aguero with Brazilian midfielder Fernando Regues. When walking down, Akun was a little unhappy.

The one who stood out today was Sterling. His through ball in Silva passed West Ham Spanish goalkeeper Adrian from the bottom line and then poked into the empty goal at a zero angle, locking the score at 3:1.

Manchester City has won three consecutive games at the start of the new season. Zhuo Yang thinks Sterling is good, at least he looks good now.