this match
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Lined up in 4231 with Romero, van der Ven, Udogie, Porro at the back, Bissouma, Sarr at the back, Maddison at attacking midfielder, Johnson, Kulisevski on the wings, and Son at the front.
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Lined up in 4231 with T. Silva, Disasi, James, Colwill at the back, Enzo Fernández, Caicedo at the back, Gallagher in attacking midfield, Sterling, Palmer, Jackson up front.
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At the start of the game.
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They scored in the opening stages of the game, they concentrated on the right side of the field, playing Colwill's side of the field, trying to avoid James' side of the field, and it started off well, and on the 5:00 mark Sarr played the ball straight down the right side of the field, and Kulusevski carried the ball into the box, and he took a left-footed shot from the right side of the field from 17 yards out, which hit Colwill's back for a reflex, and broke through
The goal was actually Colwill pulling back too deep, he should have gone to watch Kulusevski at the start of Sarr's lay off and stayed in front of him to stop him from shooting, but Colwill ran straight back into the box and as a result, Kulusevski got the space to get a free shot.
Both teams had good attacks in the first part of the first half, with one goal each being blown away for offside, but it was possible to see the
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The attack was good, and the
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Instead, Palmer and Sterling were utilized in the
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's waist for a pass, anchoring the gap created by Sarr and Bissouma stepping up slightly and attacking directly with Jackson's
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backstop
It's 29 minutes.
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Kicking off in the backfield, Romero fumbled a forward pass by
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After getting the ball and attacking, finally Caicedo took a shot from outside the box, but the goal was ruled not to be counted by VAR because someone was offside, as a result, VAR continued to add on, and in the clearing Romero kicked the ball but at the same time stomped on EnzoFernández, the referee looked at it and gave Romero the worst possible red card plus a 12-yarder, which was kicked by Palmer.
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Had to pull Johnson right away and bring Dier up to play middle linebacker.
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After one less person is hit.
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began to accelerate the offense even more, constantly passing directly to Sterling on the left side, using his speed to go straight at
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Exclusion Zone.
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Forced to keep chasing back and retreating quickly, the situation ended up lasting only ten minutes before the end of the first half, causing the
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Another starting center back, van der Ven, went off with an injury, and at the same time starting attacking midfielder Maddison also went off with an injury, replacing Royal with Højbjerg.
Before the end of the first half
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Substituting Colwill for Cucurella was clearly going to anchor the offense on the
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With one man down.
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No longer needing to worry too much about the back line, Cucurella started the second half by moving up so that Sterling could get support and be able to get further forward into the box.
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Start the siege.
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Instead of retreating from the defense because they were down a man, they actually continued to play offense and did have some good drives, but
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of players who have speed and can play on the counterattack, in this case
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The backfield space is getting bigger and bigger.
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And the counterattacks are getting better.
At 53.
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Playing a fatal counterattack, in front of the 3 to 2 favorable situation, Sterling tried to pass the right side was Udogie blocked, Sterling tried to go to get the ball again, Udogie in a hurry to try to shovel the ball away, and ended up kicking Sterling, the referee came over to issue a yellow card again, Udogie into two yellow and one red to leave the field.
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It's become 9 to 11.
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Holding out until the 60th minute for Sarr & Kulusevski for Skipp & Bentangcur, goalkeeper Vicario had already pounced on a couple of one-touch shots in between.
74 minutes
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A diagonal pass to Sterling near the halfway line rushed out on the reverse side and all the way into the box to cross to the following Jackson for the breakaway goal by this stage
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And we're up 2-1.
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but
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Still continuing to attack, playing to 93 Sunseri also got a shot from the left side of the box that was blocked by goalkeeper Sánchez, but Sánchez couldn't even quite catch the shot that
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Even if you have that shot by the end of the game.
