Chapter 793 Delneri is panicking!
On the evening of September 30th, at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester.
In the second round of the Europa League group stage, Manchester City faced Juventus at home.
When the game was in the ninth minute, after Juventus midfielder intercepted the ball, Marchisio instigated a quick counterattack. Piero in the frontcourt got the ball on the left side of the penalty area, cut inside horizontally, and suddenly kicked a curved ball with his right foot.
The ball made a beautiful arc and went straight to the right side of the goal.
One to zero!
The entire Etihad Stadium fell into deathly silence.
All Manchester City fans looked at the stadium in surprise, looking at the helpless goalkeeper in front of the goal in surprise.
Joe Hart's positioning is really problematic!
Just now, when Manchester City was preparing to press forward to attack, he stood relatively far away, but when he retreated, he seemed to be caught off guard. When Piero got the ball, he seemed to be hesitating whether to stand further to the left or in the middle. In the end, he chose to stand on the left. Piero, in the area he was most familiar with, used a wonderful arc ball to break Manchester City's goal, which should not have happened.
Joe Hart was stunned throughout the whole process and didn't even react. It was obvious that he was confused.
Just nine minutes into the game, Manchester City conceded a goal.
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This was a sudden goal conceded, catching Manchester City off guard.
Since the start of the game, Manchester City has actually firmly controlled the ball and has the advantage on the field.
Guardiola made rotations for this game. Jerome Boateng replaced Zabaleta and played as the team's right back, Gareth Barry replaced Toni Kroos, Moutinho replaced David Silva, and Busquets was behind him to form a three-man midfield. The forward line was Adam Johnson on the left, Sanchez on the right, and Su Dong was still the center forward.
Not only Manchester City made rotations, but Juventus also made drastic rotations.
After the Zebras play Manchester City, they will return to Serie A to face Inter Milan in the derby. According to Del Neri, the Europa League is not particularly important, but the derby must be won.
If Juventus, which has been in poor form recently, loses the derby again, Del Neri's position as coach will be in crisis.
Therefore, Juventus rotated five players in this game, including Mohamed Sissoko, Marchisio and De Cegli, all of whom entered the starting lineup, obviously to save strength for the weekend derby.
Manchester City played very proactively from the beginning.
In the second minute, Boateng threatened Juventus' goal with a long-range shot with his left foot.
Manchester City then took control of the ball, patiently organizing and planning their attack.
But who could have thought that Juventus would score a goal in their second counterattack.
It is worth noting that Juventus also had a counterattack just now, also in the same area, on the left side of the penalty area, but that time it was not Piero, but Acuna, and that attack was saved by Joe Hart at the bottom line.
Unexpectedly, a few minutes later, after Juventus made a comeback, Piero scored a goal he was most familiar with in the area he was most familiar with.
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Del Neri cheered excitedly after seeing Piero score a goal.
But soon, he ran to the sidelines again, calling out to the players, signaling them to keep their defense steady and guard the goal patiently.
Manchester City's advantage is passing and controlling the ball. If Juventus takes the initiative, it will be difficult to defend against Manchester City's attack, so Del Neri's strategy is to grab a goal, patiently defend and counterattack, and wait for Manchester City to make mistakes.
This is also a consistent characteristic of Italian head coaches. They all have strong confidence in their team's defensive capabilities.
Moreover, in his pre-match plan, this game was an away game, so even a draw would be acceptable. The best result would be to win, which would make up for the embarrassment of being tied at home in the first round of the group stage.
The group stage in European competitions is different from the league. There are only a few games in total, and every point must be fought for.
But just when Del Neri was expecting to see the team's solid defense, he found that after Manchester City restarted the game, they immediately deployed heavy troops on the right side, with Sanchez attacking the right side of Juventus where De Cegli was. Even Moutinho ran to this side to support Sanchez, followed by Zabaleta who came in from behind.
Soon, Sanchez broke through with the ball, shook off De Cegli from the right, and rushed into Juventus' penalty area with the ball.
But at the critical moment, Chiellini rushed out quickly, knocked Sanchez down with the ball to the outside right corner of the penalty area.
This immediately triggered protests from Manchester City players. Captain Su Dong took the lead in putting pressure on the referee, believing that Chiellini's action just now was too barbaric. "It was obvious that he was not going for the ball, but wanted to fight!"
Sanchez fell to the ground and the Manchester City team doctor quickly entered the field and carried him off the field.
The referee gave Chiellini a yellow card, which caused boos from the audience. It was obvious that he was not satisfied with the decision.
Fortunately, Sanchez was not injured and quickly got up from the sidelines and returned to the court.
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"How about it?"
Taking advantage of a dead ball opportunity, Sanchez returned to the court. Su Dong immediately ran over and asked with concern.
"It's okay." Sanchez shook his head, "That De Celi is easier to deal with than I thought."
Su Dong's eyes lit up.
The strategy Manchester City formulated before the game was to attack Juventus' two wings and give full play to Su Dong's center role.
This is also the experience learned from the first round of the Europa League group stage, when Poznan Lech drew 3-3 with Juventus away. The center forward of the Polish team performed a hat trick, which shows that Juventus' defense is indeed full of hidden dangers.
"Are you sure you can handle it?" Su Dong asked again.
Sanchez nodded confidently, "Leave it to me!"
He has played in Serie A before and knows how to deal with Italian defenders. He is very confident in this aspect.
Su Dong patted his shoulder encouragingly, turned to look at the sidelines, and gestured to Guardiola.
Soon, Guardiola on the sidelines responded, signaling the team to strengthen the two flanks, especially the right side, and continue to attack Juventus' left side, determined to cripple and defeat De Cegli.
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Manchester City's attack was kicked off by Gareth Barry's long-range shot, which went just wide.
Afterwards, Sudon and Sanchez both had consecutive chances to shoot, but they were basically all long shots and were never able to enter Juventus' penalty area to pose a real threat.
But Manchester City's wings became more and more active. Sanchez was the main force in attacking Juventus' left side. Adam Johnson replaced Di Maria in the starting lineup and made full use of his speed and impact to contain Grygera on Juventus' right side and stretch Juventus' defense as much as possible.
Facing Manchester City's style of play, Juventus really has no better solution.
With the ball controlled by Manchester City, the Zebras were destined to passively defend. With a center forward like Su Dong sitting in the middle, Juventus could not guarantee that they could hold the ball when it reached the middle, so they had to defend the two wings and limit Manchester City's passes from both wings.
Manchester City also grasped Juventus' mentality and decisively widened the formation, allowing Adam Johnson and Sanchez to move almost on the two sides, leaving more space in the middle.
Therefore, Gareth Barry and Moutinho frequently got opportunities to insert themselves from behind.
After conceding the ball in the ninth minute, they continued to attack until the 32nd minute. During this period, Manchester City attacked slowly and quickly, completely controlling the rhythm, which created huge psychological pressure on Juventus.
In the 32nd minute, Sanchez made another breakthrough on the right, passed De Cegli, dribbled the ball to the right side of the penalty area, and passed the ball into the penalty area with his right foot.
Gareth Barry quickly moved forward to grab the front point, attracting the attention of Juventus' defense.
But in reality, Gareth Barry had only feinted, and Sanchez's cross fell to the back post.
Su Dong, who was moving like a ghost, disappeared in the middle at some point and appeared on the unguarded right side. He met Sanchez's cross and volleyed the ball directly into the left side of Juventus' goal.
"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"
"Manchester City equalized the score!"
“One to one!”
After Su Dong scored the goal, he clenched his fists excitedly and quickly hugged Sanchez and Gareth Barry who were running towards him, one on the left and one on the right, raising the arms of his two teammates high.
The key to this goal lies in Sanchez's cross and Gareth Barry's support. Su Dong's final volley was actually not difficult, so he pushed the credit of this goal to his two teammates, who were the real heroes of the goal!
The fans at the scene were shouting the names of the two players, and even Su Dong applauded them loudly.
He scored the goal, so no matter what, it will be credited to him and he can't escape this benefit.
Therefore, Su Dong does not need to argue with his teammates anymore. Instead, he should be more generous.
As Beckenbauer said, as the leader of the team, Su Dong should not compete for credit with those he leads. On the contrary, he should take the initiative to let them make contributions and affirm their contributions.
Because no matter who has made the contribution or who has made the greatest contribution, as long as it is under his leadership as the captain, he must have a part of the credit, and he cannot escape this.
Not to mention, Su Dong is a center forward and he was the one who scored the goal.
"Everyone!" Su Dong shouted, calling all the Manchester City teammates who came over to celebrate and forming a circle.
"The situation is very good now. We must press on and pursue our victory. We should not give our opponents a chance to react. We should try to wipe them out in one fell swoop!" Su Dong shouted loudly.
Manchester City players were also holding back their anger. Chiellini's foul on Sanchez just now was indeed rough, which made everyone in Manchester City very unhappy. No matter what, this is Manchester City's home court. How dare they act wildly here?
So, Juventus players and head coach Del Neri on the sidelines were very unlucky to find that after equalizing the score, Manchester City played more aggressively than before when they restarted, just like a hungry wolf staring at its prey.
And Juventus is the delicious zebra in the eyes of Manchester City, the hungry wolf.
Del Neri panicked!
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(End of this chapter)
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