Football: The king of midfield, Guardiola is crying with envy

Chapter 189

After the restart, Paris attacked with the ball.

5th minute of the game.

Guy made a long pass to the right front, looking for Messi.

Messi dribbled the ball lightly and dodged Chen Chen who was pressing forward.

Then the Argentine pushed the ball to the middle, and then ran forward.

Messi wanted to play a wall match!

And Chen Chen was the wall in Messi's eyes!

No, buddy?

Is there a role positioning of a wall in football games?

Paredes, who received the pass from Messi, did not let the ball stay at his feet for too long. He chose to cooperate with Messi to play a wall match.

However, their idea was seen through by Chen Chen. Chen Chen stepped out with his right foot and blocked the football with his thigh.

But because he used his thigh to intercept the football, Chen Chen did not stop the ball at his feet, but let the ball bounce a few meters away.

Chen Chen hurried up to prepare for a second fight with Paredes, but he didn't expect Mbappe to come out halfway, and the French supercar took the ball away!

Before Rodri came forward to press, Mbappe straightened his posture and fired a long shot!

Director M's speed and strength are very good, so the quality of this shot is surprisingly high, and the speed of the ball is so fast that it hits Ederson's face!

"Bang!"

Ederson in front of the goal noticed Messi's point early in the morning, and his attention was very focused.

When Mbappe took the ball and shot, Ederson had bent down and prepared before saving!

When the ball left Mbappe's control, Ederson chose to move two steps to the left.

As expected, the Frenchman chose his upper left corner!

Ederson guessed right!

Witnessed by 55,000 people at the scene, Ederson flew out and saved the ball out of the sideline with his left hand!

Ederson's efforts only allowed Paris to get a throw-in!

"Mbappe takes the ball! Shoot!"

"Ederson! Ederson saved the ball!"

"A beautiful save! Ederson helped Manchester City resolve a dangerous attack from the opponent."

"Of course, Mbappe is in good shape, and he chose a tricky angle to shoot after taking the ball."

"If Ederson's attention was not so focused, Mbappe would have scored a valuable equalizer for Paris!"

In the studio, Zhan Jun was commenting.

"Before Mbappe shot, the confrontation between Chen Chen and Messi was also very interesting."

"Although Chen Chen did not defend Messi, he saw through the cooperation intentions of the Argentine and his teammates and intercepted the pass first."

"Unfortunately, Chen Chen was allowed too little time to adjust. Because the part of his thigh that touched the ball was too straight and hard when he stretched his legs, the ball bounced out and Chen Chen did not hold the ball."

"Otherwise, Chen Chen made a long pass to Mahrez who was in an open position on the right side, which would be a dangerous attack from Manchester City."

"Okay, let's take a look at this out-of-bounds ball."

"Beep!"

Herrera threw the ball to Ashraf.

The Moroccan international directly hung the ball in the penalty area!

Find Mbappe and Neymar!

Director Maerhemu has good footwork, but his height is a flaw.

Stones simply headed the ball back.

Gundogan in front took over and headed the ball to Mahrez who was looking for a counterattack opportunity in front.

Guy blocked Mahrez's position and kicked the ball out of the sideline first.

In this way, after the ball went out of bounds, Paris Saint-Germain did not achieve the desired effect in this offensive round from Paris.

The game time quickly came to the tenth minute.

After Manchester City's great start, neither side had too many dangerous offensive opportunities.

Paris had no chance because Manchester City's defense was very strong. Gundogan and Rodri defended Mbappe and Ma.

When the two finally broke through with the ball, oh, Dias and Stones were still defending in front.

There are two reasons why Manchester City did not have too many dangerous attacks. One is that the center forward is not a regular center forward, and B Seat cannot achieve the effect of involving the opponent's defense line.

He can't stand in position either.

Mahrez can play as a center forward, but in that case, the intensity of the right-wing attack will decrease.

Another reason is that Chen Chen was restricted by the opponent's defense.

Chen Chen was cooperating with Cancelo and Rodri to defend Messi and Paredes.

But Messi was also defending Chen Chen with Paredes!

After Messi got the ball, Manchester City immediately double-teamed him or triple-teamed him.

The same was true when Chen Chen got the ball.

Although there was no role or actual position of the wall on the court today, the opponent's defense made Chen Chen feel that there was indeed an illusory wall defending him.

Guardiola frowned on the sidelines.

Although Chen Chen's conditionVery good, but the opponent's defense quality is indeed good.

When Paredes or Herrera pressed Chen Chen, Mbappe and Marquinhos would even take the initiative to make up for it!

If Chen Chen could still pick up the ball and send a threatening attack in this situation, he would be a superman!

The temperature in Manchester today is very low, only 6 degrees.

Guardiola glanced at De Bruyne, who was wrapped tightly on the bench. If the first half ended like this, then De Bruyne would have to be replaced at the beginning of the second half to cooperate with Chen Chen to relieve the pressure of offensive organization.

14th minute of the game.

On the left side of Paris, Idrissa Gueye grabbed the ball at Kyle Walker's feet.

Then Walker chose to counter-grab on the spot.

Gueye did not entangle with him too much, he kicked the ball back directly and handed it to Kimpembe.

The French defender first took a few steps forward, and after seeing Mahrez rushing over, Kimpembe bypassed Marquinhos and pushed the ball horizontally to Ashraf on the right.

After Ashraf got the ball, he and Herrera made a complete wall-to-wall cooperation, passing Sterling who tried to stretch his legs to steal the ball.

Then Ashraf decisively dribbled forward!

In fact, from the first fourteen minutes, the focus of Paris's attack was Messi on the right side, not Mbappe in the middle or the left side.

Of course, this is reasonable to think about.

Pochettino can't leave the Argentine international, Golden Globe winner, World Footballer of the Year, and football superstar Leo Messi unused.

Mbappe and Neymar are very strong, but the core figure of Paris is Messi.

Soon, the ball came to Messi's feet.

As soon as the ball reached Messi's feet, Chen Chen ran over.

Rodri also came to defend, and with Cancelo nearby ready to respond, this wave was a three-man Manchester City double-teaming Messi!

Messi was not in a hurry, but repeated the same trick and passed the ball back to Herrera who was ready to respond behind him.

Rodri and Chen Chen took a cross-position, and the Spanish midfielder rushed over at the first time.

But the ball did not stay at Herrera's feet for too long, and Herrera immediately chose to return it to Messi!

Under the premise that Rodri stepped forward to press Herrera, now Messi faced Chen Chen one-on-one!