0179 Manchester City Nemesis
"The current situation is very unfavorable for Manchester City. After the second half, Manchester United obviously played more active."
"Guardiola should probably consider adjusting the team's tactical style and appropriately strengthening the offense."
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Guardiola has not adjusted the team's tactical style yet, but Ye Su, who was leading, quickly made a substitution adjustment.
Fellaini replaced Mata and partnered with Kante with two back midfielders. De Bruyne's position was pushed forward to the front midfielder. At the same time, Rooney and Valdi retreated to the position and tied with De Bruyne. Ibrahimovic was alone at the front. Manchester United changed the lineup to 4231 and began to concentrate on kicking a defensive counterattack.
Manchester United's adjustment made Manchester City very annoyed. Guardiola was so angry that he almost sweared. He thought to himself that the boy on the opposite side was the same as that guy Jose, and he would fight back after taking the lead.
Although he was very depressed, Guardiola had no choice but to let the team strengthen its offense.
One goal behind, Guardiola's team began to counterattack wildly. However, Manchester City's offense never made it into Manchester United's penalty area. The most threatening one was in the 69th minute. Manchester City made a cross from the right, but Isinacho, who was receiving the back point, ran past and missed the ball.
This cooperation mistake also reflected the anxious mentality of Manchester City players.
Subsequently, Guardiola replaced Sarnia with Zabaleta, which obviously wanted to strengthen the team's offensive.
Once Manchester City plays an offensive, Manchester United is still very dangerous.
In the 73rd minute, Rooney wanted to jump out from behind to intercept the ball when he was retreating to defend, but accidentally kicked David Silva and gave Manchester City a free kick more than 30 meters away. At the same time, the referee showed a yellow card.
However, Old Trafford fans cheered at Rooney.
Obviously, they like to see Rooney's fighting spirit and fighting posture that never gives up on the court.
Rooney was also innocent and took the initiative to pull David Silva up, apologized to the Spanish midfielder, saying that he did not do it on purpose.
David Silva also knew very well that if he hadn't made a sudden kick, Rooney would have intercepted the ball. This was mainly due to his rich experience and knowing how to protect the ball, so he didn't blame Rooney for this foul.
Fortunately, as a frontcourt player, it is not easy to get a card.
According to Premier League rules, five yellow cards were suspended, and Rooney was still far from the game.
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Subsequently, Manchester City continued to strengthen its offensive, but Manchester United intends to slow down the pace and wait steadily for the opportunity to launch a counterattack.
When the game time reached the 78th minute, Manchester City once again broke into Manchester United's penalty area and got a chance to get a corner kick.
Manchester City made a corner kick, creating chaos in the penalty area, but in the end the ball failed to hit the goal. Instead, Kyle Walker got it in front of the baseline and passed it directly to the near-center line with a big foot.
Ibrahimovic retreated to defend, but Rooney still stayed in the frontcourt.
When Kyle Walker passed by, he kept predicting the landing point of the ball and seized the most favorable position before Kolarov, blocking Manchester City's left back behind.
Although Kolarov has a height advantage over Rooney and excellent physical fitness, he already has a yellow card. At this time, he has to consider that if he directly fights Rooney head-on, if he wins the card again, it will be dangerous. Therefore, Kolarov's strategy is to block Rooney and not give him a chance to turn around.
Rooney obviously expected the opponent's idea. When the ball flew over, he took a step forward and rubbed the ball with his head. The ball immediately changed direction, while Rooney quickly turned around and started.
Kolarov's reaction speed was extremely fast, but he was passively dealing with it. When Rooney turned around and activated, he realized that he wanted to turn around.
At this time, he thought about reaching out to grab and directly pulling Rooney down, but he considered that he had a yellow card and his teammate Sabaleta was behind him, so he finally chose not to foul, but to quickly catch up with Rooney.
Rooney dribbled the ball very quickly, and he took a big step, rushing towards Manchester City's goal at a very fast speed.
Sabaleta also chased back all the way, trying to intercept Rooney at the front of the penalty area. But unexpectedly, Rooney suddenly slowed down, making Sabaleta mistakenly think that he was going to shoot directly, and immediately slowed down.
But soon, Sabaleta realized that he had been fooled. As soon as the Manchester City right back slowed down, Rooney suddenly accelerated and started again. He threw away Sabaleta and rushed into the penalty area. Facing Bravo, who was guarding the goal line and did not dare to attack, he calmly shot and pierced through Manchester City's goal again.
2:0!
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"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!"
"In the 79th minute, Manchester United won another goal! Long-distance raid from captain Wien Rooney!"
"A very, very wonderful scoring! Rooney broke through two Manchester City defensive players alone, and finally scored calmly against the goalkeeper!"
"This is Rooney's 225th Premier League goal in his career. He continues to chase Alan Hiller at an extremely fast speed. Currently, he still has a 35-goal gap with the former Newcastle striker, but with Rooney's goal efficiency shown in recent seasons, Rooney is very likely to catch up with Alan Hiller next season!"
"This is also the 13th goal Rooney scored against Manchester City in all competitions. He is the player with the most goals against Manchester City in Manchester United's history. He is truly the nemesis of Manchester City!"
"Manchester United took advantage of Manchester City's opportunity to attack a corner kick and quickly counterattacked."
"Rooney scored goals in the Community Shield, the European Super Cup and the first and second rounds of the Premier League. Tonight, he made a pass and shot to help Manchester United temporarily lead Manchester City in the match against his city rival Manchester City."
"It can be said that Rooney continues his outstanding form in the first two seasons this season!"
"He made everyone realize once again that there was endless potential in him!"
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The entire Old Trafford was shouting Rooney's name.
After scoring the goal, Rooney rushed to the bottom of the chairman's stands, slid and knelt in front of the fans, and opened his arms unscrupulously.
That's what he wants!
Not only does he have to lead Manchester United to win, he also wants to let all Europe and the world see his strength. He will definitely defeat that proud guy Chris and that little guy Messi to win his own Golden Globe Award!
He has been working hard for this for many years, and this year is the best opportunity, because Manchester United has spent the best year in team history and his personal performance is also very good.
He must prove his ability to everyone for the rest of the year, and at the same time make all fans around the world remember his name deeply!
Wien Rooney!
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“We made several serious mistakes!”
At the post-match press conference, Manchester City coach Guardiola summed up the game that had just ended in an interview with the media. He looked very lonely because his team had just lost the game.
2:1, international practice, the home team is in front and the away team is in back.
Manchester City only broke into the middle of the penalty area in the last few minutes, and calmly shot to score. But this could no longer change the final trend of the game.
With Rooney's one pass and one shot, Manchester United defeated Manchester City 2:1 at home, ending their opponent's three consecutive victories, while continuing to lead the Premier League standings with four consecutive victories.
Guardiola believes that the biggest problem for the team is that there have been too many mistakes, which is the most serious problem that Manchester City has so far this season and is also very unfavorable.
"You can't make mistakes in such a high-level game, but it's a pity that we have had more than one serious defensive mistake, which has caused us a terrible blow and eventually lost the game."
Guardiola believes that Manchester United's defense has done a good job in this game. It is difficult for Manchester City to find a breakthrough. There are many shots, but in fact it is more from long shots. There are not many opportunities to start in the penalty area that is truly threatening.
"From the whole game, our ball control time is much higher than that of our opponents. We are obviously better and have the initiative in the game. However, we are not effective enough in ball control conversion rate, and the offensive pressure we put on our opponents is not strong enough."
"To put it simply, we need to make us more aggressive and more simple and efficient."
But Guardiola also admitted that this is a problem that the team has always had this season, but he does not think it has anything to do with him introducing too many new players.
Guardiola gave a very high evaluation of Rooney's performance.
"In fact, since I started being a football coach eight years ago, I have been paying close attention to him. His progress is very fast, and it can be said to be a step a year. Now, he is one of the three best players on the planet, and I believe he will be a strong contender for this year's Golden Globe Awards and World Footballer."
Regarding the game, Ye Su praised Rooney and the players very much, especially mentioning Rooney's responsibility as the team captain, and being able to stand up at critical moments is very admirable.
The Manchester United head coach also said that if it weren't for the referee's misjudgment, the Red Devils should have scored in the first half.
"That was a very obvious handball, unquestionable. It should be a penalty kick. Our players also appealed, but the referee still maintained the original judgment. I believe everyone should see that it was a wrong punishment."
As for the penalty kick mentioned by Ye Su, Manchester City coach Guardiola said he did not see it.
"I didn't notice if it was a handball, but I think the referee made the decision that he thought was the wisest at the time. My player was not consciously trying to open his arms, and that he shouldn't be sentenced to death."
This should be the only difference between Guardiola and Ye Su at the press conference.
Chapter completed!