Chelsea
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Manchester City football club
But in fact, in all the games so far in this round, there is a clear sense that the strongest teams have stayed in the game.
Chelsea
Certainly one of the most obvious teams, Tuchel changed his formation straight away.
Chelsea
Playing as 352, the three center backs became Azpilicueta, Christensen, Rudiger, winger James came back from suspension, M. Alonso, midfield set up three backs, Jorginho, Kovacic, Kante, and the strikers went straight to Werner, Lukaku.
Let's see.
Chelsea
They don't want to play at all, they just set up a counterattacking formation. Mount and Havertz, the two attacking midfielders, and even Thiago Silva, the center back, have been put away, which is obviously to save their strength.
Chelsea
In next week's mid-week
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He'll fly to Italy to fight.
Juventus, Italian football team
I think it's understandable that being undefeated or even winning would go a long way towards determining the top spot in the group.
Chelsea
Actually trying to say that a draw would be an acceptable mindset for this round.
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Manchester City football club
It still looks like a strong enough formation was put up, but in reality there were holdovers, with a 433 formation with center backs Dias, Laporte, wing backs Walker, Cancelo, midfielders Rodri, B.Silva, De Bruyne, and a forward line of Foden, Jesus, and Grealish.
Manchester City
next week in
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There is also a hard game, to fly directly to France to visit Grand Paris, the first round of the Grand Paris has been drawn, if this
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competition (sports etc)
Manchester City
A win is like receiving first place in your division early.
Manchester City
Collected starting center back Stones, midfielder Gundogan, and forwards FerranTorres, Mahrez & Sterling, but the basic battle was maintained.
The race was actually pretty ordinary.
Manchester City football club
The ball control is just good enough.
Chelsea
In fact, I dare not press on at will, even if
Chelsea
I've got a full complement of men in center field.
Manchester City football club
Still able to play penetrating constant offense and basically
Manchester City football club
It's been
Chelsea
Half-court control of the ball, though
Chelsea
The counterattacks are quite sharp, M.Alonso is now leaning more towards the midfield, and since the formation has been changed to three backs, the sides will be defended to more, which allows M.Alonso to be a little bit more towards the center and to pass the ball directly in the middle of the field.
M.Alonso had a couple passes in the first half that allowed Werner to get good looks.
Manchester City football club
Again must exhaust themselves in guarding Lukaku, but they're good at tracking back, and Werner can't break straight through on his own right now.
But the accident came in 28 minutes.
Chelsea
Right back James was suddenly injured at this point and couldn't hold on and was replaced, Tuchel still had to play T.Silva, which led to Azpilicueta going to right back, but the extent of James's injury was unknown, so Azpilicueta didn't dare to be too risky, and James's injury almost doomed the midweek match.
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Would play Azpilicueta at right back (who has no time to recuperate at all), and if by some chance it's just Odoiello, that equates to the right side of the ball passing ability being nullified.
James was really unlucky, he was more innocent with that red card before and now he's finally back to play
England Premier Soccer League
I was injured not even 30 minutes in, and now it looks like I'm going to have to be careful and recuperate for a while, which is really quite bad.
from this point forward
Manchester City football club
They took the initiative, they kept pressing, and after they started to cut in from both flanks, they went so far as to make a huge, high-speed ground ball exchange directly in the box, and then they came in from the left and made a ground ball cross directly into the center, but the striker in the center was able to miss and let the winger on the other side come in to take the point.
Chelsea
Then it was left to M. Alonso to pass the ball forward to the offense, which made the openings on that side of the field bigger as well, and the
Chelsea
of all three midfielders not getting forward and not actually being able to create the effect of holding the ball up front, so the
Chelsea
of the attack becomes shorter.
Manchester City football club
It takes longer to get the ball and attack, and the linebackers will get tired in the long run.
Under continuous pressure.
Manchester City football club
The breakthrough came in the 52nd minute when Cancelo shot from outside the box on a corner kick play, the ball was kicked to the feet of Jesus, who took the ball and turned and fired a hard shot from 15 yards out, only for the ball to hit Jorginho's leg and change direction and roll into the goal.
Chelsea
It was the best I could do, actually.
Manchester City football club
never really organized himself to finish a goal until the very end.
Chelsea
Nice guard actually, and by the pressure Lukaku puts on it.
Manchester City
Must leave enough men and distance in the middle of the field instead of playing in a wave offense rushing in
Chelsea
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Tuchel made a substitution in the 60th minute, but he brought on Havertz but took off Kante, which actually signaled that Kante had to stay in midweek.
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As well as this average use throughout the season, Tuchel didn't want to dent hard in this game, even if he might lose, he used Kovacic & Jorginho hard to the end.
second half (of sporting competition)
Manchester City football club
There's a lot of opportunity.
Chelsea
Looking for an equalizer, but the center and backfield really looked to be on top of the
Manchester City
The offense guarded hard, but Rudiger and T. Silva both blocked out of
Manchester City football club
Sure shot, Christensen's not doing too bad.
Manchester City football club
Never could hit the takedown for the extra point.
