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On the road at Everton on Dec. 28, the game
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There were a number of changes, firstly Haaland didn't start due to injury and was replaced by Álvarez at striker, then the team formation changed back to a 4231 strikerless formation.
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The run with this strikerless formation felt good, from the beginning there has been an attack, and B.Silva has been in the right wing to get a lot of space to pass, Foden has been diagonally inserted into this OverLap (stacking), but in the siege of 28 points, Everton launched a counter-attack, Rodri surprisingly fumbled the ball in the penalty area, let the ball was taken away by McNeil, directly to the bottom of the line to the center of the ball, directly by Harrison to grab the goal. The goal was directly by Harrison, not only Rodri seriously dropped the ball, Stones also in the penalty area did not quickly run back to the goalkeeper to make up for the position, resulting in a pass into the center of the Everton two people unguarded can grab the point!
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Foden, B.Silva, and Álvarez formed a team and were able to penetrate into the penalty area, while Grealish played a cross from the left side of the field, and Rodri pressed the ball well.
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The ball out of the backfield was very poor, and as a result, although the attacks were all lethal, the number of attacks launched was limited, and a lot of time was consumed in the passage through the middle of the pitch
Stones replaced Gvardiol at 43 due to an injury caused by a constant onslaught from Beto
Not long after the start of the second half.
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Under siege, McNeil retreated to the wing to assist the defense, but he left Foden in the middle of the field, which resulted in a direct pass back from B. Silva and a long left-footed shot from 24 yards directly to the left from Foden.
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In the second half, the right side of the field was attacked, Nunes, B. Silva, and Foden all moved there to put pressure on the ball, and Everton's side stayed even, and Mykolenko and McNeil had a hard time with this ferocious, non-stop running attack, and were within 60 points of each other.
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Creating a dangerous attack with a number of passes into the box, which eventually devolved into a 12-yard penalty on Onana for a handball in the box at the 60:00 mark, punted by Álvarez, which was barely blocked by Pickford's foot but was still scored on.
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In a very short period of time, we not only recovered the score, but also overtook it.
Everton then brought on Calvert-Lewin and did come close to grabbing a goal but
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This side also obviously accelerated the speed of passing, in this situation Everton's high press gradually failed, and in order to chase points to press the attack also caused the rear defense will always be counterattacked.
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Everton couldn't get the advantage of the high-speed passing situation, and finally at 86 minutes Everton kicked off Pickford was a bit anxious, and the kick was blocked by Álvarez, and then B. Silva got the ball in the penalty area, and Pickford couldn't go back in time because he had already left the goal, and he was shot directly into the empty net.
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And they've cleaned up Everton 3-1.
And then December 30th.
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Hosted Sheffield United in a game that
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The setup is pretty much the same as the last game, still essentially strikerless, though De Bruyne is on the bench at this point and should be pretty much back from his injury
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Or is it the 4231, which can be said from the Club World Cup after the
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The change back to 4 defenders has produced good results, especially in the front of the field, the speed of conduction has obviously been accelerated.
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It became possession again from the start, with Snow United trying to play harder, and Grealish kept dropping the ball on the left due to collisions, but Snow United couldn't threaten the
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In the back line, Aké and Akanji are considered to be stable, and then in the 13th minute, Rodri took the ball in the middle of the field and pressed the ball directly forward, Snow United originally had four people in place in the defense line, but Rodri suddenly took a shot from outside the penalty area, and his movement was so fast that the goalkeeper couldn't react directly to the breakthrough.
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Soon it's 1-0.
The situation in the first half was really all about Syracuse dropping back deep, but that was just as well as
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the intention of the
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Constantly laying siege to Snow United, and it was clear to see that with this now strikerless formation, B.Silva was very active on the right side, and when Álvarez and Foden ran off to be the pivot point, B.Silva turned into a free-runner, with passes that stayed active and unbroken in the right position and that either B.Silva or Álvarez or even Foden were constantly inserting themselves into the box from the The effect was the same when Álvarez moved to the left, and Snow United's wings were completely stopped.
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They've been letting them generate passes, and it's been treacherous in front of the goal.
