Golden Greenery

( ) Guess who among the Manchester City players performed the most horribly in set-piece tactical training?

It's John Stones!

Shitou's header in the set piece was almost unsolvable. 18 His outstanding sense of touch, soft waist and abdominal coordination, and excellent top-level skills are the decisive factors.

This advantage of Stones is also an important reason why Guardiola insists on reusing him despite the defensive pitfalls. In order to maximize this benefit, Manchester City designed more than a dozen set-piece and corner kick tactics around Stones alone.

How many goals did John Stones score in the Premier League last season?

It's zero!

This contrast is completely unexplainable. I have never seen such a player who is a top player in training and a top player in games. To be honest, Stones' dominance in set pieces has been heard as far away as La Liga and Serie A, but in fact by the end of last season, Manchester City had given up on this aspect, and he became Kompany's cover.

You are obviously teasing your teammates and coach! Stones felt aggrieved and Manchester City felt helpless.

But this mysterious skill of Stones is always like a vixen and a scumbag. She hides from you when she wants. You are determined to break her off, but she comes to tease you again, making you unable to stop.

It is very useful for warm-up matches and friendly matches.

In the game against Real Madrid, Stones, who came on as a substitute, contributed a shot and a pass from the corner kick, which was very enchanting.

In the game against old rival Tottenham, Stones' enchantment continued.

In the 10th minute of the game, David Silva, who was inexplicably pushed away yesterday in order to pay tribute or flattery to Guardiola, dribbled the ball in from the right. During the confrontation, he was passed from behind by Moussa Dembele. run down. The referee's whistle sounded and Manchester City received a free kick on the right side of the frontcourt.

Crossing from a wide angle, Ding Ding bent the football into the penalty area. Feiniao suddenly penetrated from outside the penalty area to the front of the ball, which was beyond the expectations of all Tottenham players.

However, although Feiniao, who is 1.7cm tall, is not short, he obviously cannot be overconfident. His fearless take-off made the football go over his head as expected.

Brother Fei Niao is here to make fun of you.

A slender figure burst out from the crowd in the penalty area, and here comes Stones.

It's not unusual to dive to the top, but it's not uncommon to see such a low-altitude dive like Stones.

During the stretch, you also added the movement of shaking your head to pursue the angle, which gave you a compelling celestial energy.

After the 'shua', the football was caught, and the powerless Lloris was no more serious than Fedora.

1:0, Manchester City took the lead, Stones scored in two consecutive games.

Even if we don’t praise the exquisiteness of the low-altitude diving jump and head-tossing, Stones can not be swayed by the flying birds in front of him, but can still make accurate judgments despite the interference of his companions. This is not what ordinary people can do. .

John Stones is indeed a talented central defender born specifically for warm-up matches.

Zhuoyang poked Arteta next to him with his elbow and said: "It would be great if Shitou could wake up earlier. This goal... is quite cool."

Arteta shook his head slightly: "A defender worth more than 47 million pounds should automatically become enlightened when buying him."

His words were a bit incomprehensible and did not make sense logically, but miraculously, Zhuo Yang seemed to understand them.

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With a ball as a base, Manchester City played very calmly on the court. Falling behind by one goal will not make Tottenham anxious. After all, it is just a warm-up match.

In the Premier League last season, Manchester City faced Tottenham with one loss and one draw in two rounds. In the end, they were one point behind Tottenham and finished fourth, but this is not a grudge in the long history of football. In the football feud culture, Manchester City and Tottenham are not mortal enemies of each other, but Manchester United and Arsenal are.

Lloris, Kane, Eriksen, Alli, Trippier, Dembélé, Dier..., except for Rose and Son Heung-min, all the famous players in the Tottenham team started today.

Rose and Son Heung-min are both injured. Rose was injured in January at the beginning of this year. It is still unknown if he will be overdue. Otherwise, he was named the best left back in the first half of last season and is Manchester City's key signing target this summer. Son Heung-min was injured in the top 12 match against Qatar in the Asian preliminaries last month. However, even though he was injured, he could not win a victory for South Korea. South Korea lost that game 2:3. Very terrible.

The temperament of Tottenham's current black shop is very upright, but it is different from the black shops such as Benfica, Porto, Monaco, and Madiburg. Tottenham has always adhered to the principle of only making one big deal a year, and there will be no bottom line in selling people. .

This year, Kyle Walker was sold in a record setting. Although this defender's record price only lasted for a few weeks, it was enough. Everyone else on the team became not for sale.

23-year-old defensive midfielder/center back Eric Dier is also not for sale, although he has received offers from Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool.

The 2004 European Cup in Portugal changed the football destiny of many people, including Dell. In 2001, Dell's mother was invited by the Portuguese European Cup Organizing Committee to participate in the preparations and planning of the tournament. Her mother was a capable person, so Dell's family moved from England to Lisbon, Portugal. That year, Eric Dale was 8 years old.

In England, Dell was just a mediocre primary school student who liked to play football. But in Portugal, his qualities were quickly discovered by Sporting Lisbon, and he started his career in professional football.

Dell has the football characteristics of a Portuguese defensive player, with comprehensive skills, fast speed and responsiveness, and excellent prediction ability. Of course, he also has a bad temper. In short, he is different from his English counterparts and ahead of them.

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In the first half, the two sides went back and forth, but the score was always 1:0. After the start of the second half, Lao Gua and Uncle Bo were both shameless, and no one made any substitutions. This made the warm-up of the game not like a warm-up, mainstream and non-mainstream.

There is a lack of the most basic trust between people. Both Lao Gua and Uncle Bo are afraid of being cheated. This is actually a tacit understanding.

But the balance was eventually broken.

In the 58th minute, Walker made a long pass from the backcourt and the ball was too big. Ding Ding chased it out of habit, but Dell grabbed his position. The two went one behind the other.

Loris attacked, and nothing happened to them, but Dale stopped first, and Tintin was a step too late, so he bumped himself into Dale's back.

Tintin's reaction was a bit slow, his nose was pressed against Dale's shoulder blade, and he felt sore and achy, so he got angry and gave Dale a shove.

Then, Tintin was chased by Dale and choked, spitting all over his face.

When it comes to team temperament, Tottenham are much more wild than Manchester City. Especially after the old guys left this summer, Manchester City has become a lot more polite.

Two Brazilians, Feiniao and Jesus, tried their best to help Tintin, but they were besieged by the entire Tottenham team. They looked so pitiful. Kompany and Otamendi traveled long distances to rescue, but they were still outnumbered.

Heckling and fighting are the same thing. What matters is not how powerful you are, but your momentum.

"Fuck me!" A roar suddenly came from the sidelines. "Go up and cut them—"

Zhuoyang stood in the command area in front of Tottenham's bench, loudly giving orders to the field. Pochettino looked at him in horror, like a frightened quail.