this match
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At home to Nottingham Forest.
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Lined up in 4231 with Ruben Dias, Akanji, Gvardiol, Walker at the back, Rodri, Nunes at the back, Alvarez at attacking midfielder, Doku, Foden on the wings and Haaland at the front.
Forest played a very conservative 541 with a backline of Boly, Aurier, Niakhate, Tavares, Aina, midfielders Gibbs-White, Sangare, Mangala, Dominguez, and striker Awoniyi.
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Now starting to put Wolves bought Nunes into the back of the midfield to control the ball, Doku has been turned into a starter, and Gvardiol is starting to have a go at starting as well.
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Without realizing it, you're already using new players in your formation.
Nottingham Forest.
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The visitors, of course, did not dare to play against each other, and they retreated into their own half of the field to defend at the start, but the
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That's what it's all about, immediately start to change to the previously used 4123, immediately five men in front of the front line pressed to the penalty area line, and Walker immediately attacked from the edge of the pressure, the original right winger Foden went to the penalty area line along the HalfSpace, Walker's forward pressure directly pulling away
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The width of the attack allowed it to extend to the touchline, and Nottingham Forest extended their defense even when they lined up five fullbacks, but the
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With the flanks so wide, Nottingham Forest will have a hard time stopping their attacks if they don't come out to press.
It's only six minutes into the game.
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Doku was stretching the defense on the left, Nottingham Forest was spreading out a bit and gave Rodri space, Doku immediately gave the ball to Rodri, Rodri played a long ball to the right side of the box, Walker was there and flicked the ball back into the middle of the field first time, Foden followed up from the back and fired a shot with his left foot from 13 yards.
The whole attack was in one go, first attracting the opponents on the left, then suddenly shifting to the right, the right back had already started to catch the ball in advance and did not stop the ball from bouncing back, the defender had been completely messed up and did not have time to pay attention to Foden who was running up from the back, it was a very good goal!
With 13:00 to go in the game.
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Another goal, Alvarez passed to Foden on the right flank, Nunes had already cut in to the right, Foden quickly released the ball to the end line, Nunes caught up with the ball and passed it straight into the center of the six-yard box where Haaland aerially bombed a header.
Nottingham Forest could not easily push the ball back into the midfield as they defended too deeply
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Instead, you can test your opponents by taking your time with the ball and then speeding up your offense when you find space.
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After taking a 2-0 lead it was easy, clearly in control of the game, with Nottingham Forest only able to mount sporadic attacks and injuring wing-back Tavares at the 39:00 mark.
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It was an easy first half.
The second half started with a surprise as Nottingham Forest decided to play a little harder to combat the
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As a result, when Gibbs-White attacked to the side road, he and Rodri who came to defend had a physical push, then the two of them pushed each other with their chests, Rodri originally wanted to grab the opponent's shirt, but he failed to grab the first time, but instead, he grabbed Gibbs-White's neck and then slipped away, however, Rodri did not notice that something was wrong and then grabbed him the second time, by this time Gibbs-White had already noticed that when Rodri touched his neck, he immediately fell to the ground, VAR confirmed and upheld the red card decision. Gibbs-White had already noticed and fell to the ground as soon as Rodri touched his neck. The referee showed a red card on the spot, which was confirmed by VAR and upheld.
Rodri actually prepared to eat yellow, so he dared and Gibbs-White each other top, but he did not notice that the action has been too big, to grab the neck until the yellow card is still the range, a grab the neck but also even grabbed twice to become a red card, Gibbs-White is also very clever fall to the ground, Rodri this red card can be said to be their own to look for!
Guardiola immediately replaced Doku with Philips to maintain the ball control at the back, while Forest also quickly replaced Elanga and Odoi to strengthen the attack, Guardiola saw this and immediately made another substitution by removing Alvarez and replacing him with Ake, both sides completed the formation here, Nottingham Forest intended to press up to the attack and
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Instead, it's all about defense and ball control.
