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What had been a highly anticipated Manchester derby turned into a massacre after only 45 minutes of play, with Ten Hagar's tactics a complete failure.
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The squad that was rebuilt at a cost of over 200 million euros was completely destroyed in front of Haaland
(Started this game)
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of Rodri is out with an injury, the midfield becomes Gundogan, De Bruyne, B. Silva, and the
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And it was put away again.
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With Rashford, Antony, Sancho up front, McTominay, Eriksen in the key back, and no Casemiro, you could tell Guardiola was actually nervous, and I think it's probably because he doesn't understand it at all.
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of new players, including Lisandro Martinez, Malacia, Antony and others are brand new, and the bench can be switched in again with Casemiro being the
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The starting defensive midfielder, who could also produce another chemistry change when he joins, and these uncertainties combined with the inability to out Rodri to make the
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stressed
But soon after the game started, nothing happened.
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Trying to play fast break, blocking in the defense
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Attacking and then quickly giving the ball to Antony or Rashford to go for the rush, this is a normal trick, yes.
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If you put the wingbacks up, you'll be able to attack them on both flanks.
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It's all about being careful, you can notice that both Cancelo and Walker are very focused on defending on the sides and not joining the attack at all.
It's logical that the guards don't attack.
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The power of the attack will be reduced, but
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The defense was just awful, 2:50 into the game
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That streak resulted in three dangerous attacks on goal in a flash, though
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They were all blocked out, but by this time they were scared out of their wits, and after the
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The counterattack looked less like a counterattack and more like an attempt to get the ball out of his own half of the field.
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It's not a surprise that the defense is so poor, because Malacia is not a defensive back, in fact, Dalot is not a good defensive back, plus Lisandro Martinez is not tall enough to cause his running pace is not enough, and he likes to get out of his own defense position, running back I think often do not look closely at the place where the defense should be, he can do it now and run straight back to his own zone is good. Now he can run straight back to his own defense is very good, but
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When plugging Malacia's outside position at first, it was clear that Lisandro Martinez couldn't cover that area effectively, as he only rushed back to the front-center zone
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It was obvious that they were concentrating on Varane, and then on Lisandro Martinez. 7 minutes into the match, B. Silva crossed from the left, and Foden rushed up to him in the penalty area, at which point Varane made an unspecified backward move to make room in the penalty area, and Foden easily pushed his shot from the left side of the field from the first 10-yard box. The main reason for this was Varane's unnecessary retreat.
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I purposely skipped Lisandro Martinez in the first half, I'm guessing that maybe Guardiola doesn't know him well, and it looked like he was moving around a lot defensively and moving aggressively, so
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Just aim for behind Varane, though.
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It also went along with the goodwill to put Haaland up against Lisandro Martinez, both of whom are 194 and 175, which is no way to defend any offensive advantage generated by size, and
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Malacia on the left is 169, so it's normal for Haaland to play that way.
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Obviously totally mentally broken after conceding the goal, desperate to get back, they themselves knew they'd get slaughtered at this rate, but the more mentally desperate they got, the worse it got.
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Soon it became two backs standing in front of the defense, getting the ball and passing it straight forward quickly, but the
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None of the four wingbacks were pushing forward, so there were mostly only two men up front in the first tackle, and with Rashford and Antony splitting the left and right flanks, and with B Faye in very poor form and Sancho in a state of disappearance, it was impossible for this defense to break down straight away
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defense
Rashford looked bad, but in fact he challenged Walker and even nearly knocked him off his feet, as evidenced by Walker's injury in the 41st minute. Rashford was completely outplayed by Walker, but he was putting a lot of pressure on his opponents, except that Sancho, who was following him up, didn't do much, and the central B-team didn't do anything. Central B fee did not do much, which left Rashford in a situation of mutual attrition.
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Thirty-four minutes into the game.
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have already figured it out
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Now, in the corner Haaland easily shrugged off Eriksen from the outside and rounded the 6 yard line to pick it out, directly overpowering McTominay and Dalot to head it in, I think.
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Two of the defenders are super short in the set piece defense is at a disadvantage, there is no way to simply let the defenders to catch the taller players to defend, but also have to exchange stares, which definitely affects the counter-attack, the ball is McTominay and Dalot did not seem to notice that Haaland has been rushed in, so there is no confrontation!
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then
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Ten minutes into the storm, at 36:00, De Bruyne received a pass on the right side of the field, and before Lisandro Martinez could react, De Bruyne suddenly sent in a cross that went over his head and around the far side of the field, where Haaland chased it down with his left foot and scored.
