If anyone is more aware of the lack of strength of city players than city players, Wolfsburg players on the pitch are definitely one of them. All along, Wolfsburg players regard the physical problems that may exist in Manchester City as one of their biggest advantages, and their understanding of this may still be higher than that of Manchester City. And on the pitch, when opponents start to show fatigue, they may not realize it, but Wolfsburg players have been keen to seize the opportunity.
As for how much physical strength Manchester City players have left, they have been calculating from the beginning of the game, even at the end of the Champions League draw. With the progress of the game, watching the rampage of Manchester City players, Wolfsburg players have been waiting for it. Half time later, Manchester City attack began to slow down, 60 minutes later, Manchester City's attack is no longer fierce. In this regard, Manchester City players, perhaps because of their high morale, temporarily did not realize, but Wolfsburg players, but already extremely sensitive smell out.
Opponents began to become slow, weak, their attack did not just start the momentum. Obviously just scored, but still can not add better attack, this is the most obvious evidence, their physical exhaustion. Wolfsburg has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time. Naturally, they will not let it go.
Now, finally, it's time for Wolfsburg to fight back.
Five minutes after Manchester City's goal, Wolfsburg's surprise attack suddenly arrived. After getting the ball once, Wolfsburg players didn't shrink for defense, but launched a quick counterattack. Just after the football was kicked out to Rodriguez on the left by keyar, he rushed forward with the ball.
60 minutes of the game, because the opponent's offensive momentum has been very strong, Wolfsburg's backcourt players are basically no chance to participate in the attack. Rodriguez in the backcourt for a full 60 minutes, has been playing Navas to play, but also accumulated a lot of resentment. At this point, in the face of Manchester City, which has lost physical strength, he vented all his grievances. He didn't know whether his choice was right or not, whether the other side really had no physical strength, but what he knew was that compared with just now, when he quickly inserted from the side, the resistance was much less.
Navas now seems to have no strength to participate in the defense, which makes him rely on his own speed, in the twinkling of an eye across the half of Manchester City. Look at the front, Toure is coming to fill, Rodriguez did not hesitate, a straight plug, the ball to the side, in front of his own pericic.
There, it seems that Richards's defense is also a step slow. But more importantly, Toure's fill, causes behind him, to appear the vacancy.
After passing the ball with one foot, Rodriguez didn't slow down, changed his direction towards the middle and continued to rush forward. And on the side, pericic didn't hesitate. After receiving the straight ball, he immediately returned the ball to Rodriguez's feet. Within a few seconds, the two men completed the transition, relying on an excellent cooperation on the side, they got rid of Manchester City's back line and successfully broke through the midfield.
Compared with just now, Manchester City's speed has indeed weakened - looking at Toure, who is not so timely to make up the defence, Rodriguez also understands what. Wolfsburg's absolute advantage at the moment is not to waste speed.
Another pass, Rodriguez just got the foot of the ball, passed to the front of Gao shunyao, his speed does not reduce, continue to sprint up. And read his meaning, after receiving the football, Gao shunyao is also immediately a foot back, let him get the ball again. The first collaboration, let Rodriguez rushed to the middle, and this time, he is directly rushed to the front of the penalty area, to the best position above.
But at this moment, Manchester City's defense line has not closed, relying on two cooperation, Wolfsburg's counterattack quickly rushed to the front of the restricted area.
This time breakthrough, Rodriguez does quite beautifully, but he also immediately one foot passes the ball, sent the ball to the forbidden area inside. Standing in the restricted area, manzukic has been inserted quickly at this time. His teammates once again sent a wonderful pass, which also made him very happy. In the restricted area, after he received the ball, he sped up and threw away Demi Kellis, a beautiful shot from the corner, and instantly kicked out.
Manzukic's shot was beautiful, but in front of the goal, Joe Hart showed his excellent skill again. He suddenly fell to the ground and tried to stretch his hand in front of the football. At the critical moment, he blocked and saved the gate of Manchester City again!
Joe Hart saved the team again, but it's undeniable that Manchester City is worse than just now. In the first half of the game, Wolfsburg were almost out of breath, but now, Rodriguez can kill half-time assists, such a change, anyone can understand, Manchester City is really tired now.
This game, Manchester City is still not able to use up their physical strength before the advantage. So they still have to pay enough for their immature Champions League.
Of course, in the face of difficulties, Manchester City will not wait to die. At this time, they have started to adjust their personnel. Since the players on the field can no longer cope with the fierce confrontation, it is one of the tactics of Manchester City to rely on their strong enough lineup to defeat their opponents. Soon, Manchester City made a staff change. Nasri was replaced by Milner, and Garcia also replaced yayature at this time. In the face of unfavorable situation, they immediately made adjustments.Obviously, Pellegrini has his own arrangement for tactics. I'm afraid he has already thought about such a replacement: his two replacements are very targeted. On the one hand, to replace an all-round attacking midfield yayature with a defensive midfield Harvey Garcia can make his team have better defensive ability. On the other hand, to replace Nasri with an English midfield Milner is to make the team have more running ability in the front court. Manchester City players in the general physical decline, lost the ability to run, with such two people, obviously just to strengthen the team's defensive ability.
On the other hand, Kolarov, who is still on the field at this time, can be said to be a very important part of Manchester City. In this game, Manchester City deliberately launched more attacks on him and mobilized his offensive participation. Now, after the adjustment and replacement of the players in the front court, Manchester City's attack has changed from the whole court crazy pressure on the attack to the defensive counterattack in the half court. In such tactics, Kolarov's role has become more and more prominent.
In the first half, the whole court attack was used to seize the opportunity. In the second half, the substitution was used to strengthen the defense. At the same time, Kolarov was used to maintain a certain offensive ability to deter the opponent. Here, the Wolfsburg players knew all the tactics of Pellegrini.
His tactics are really good - but the situation on the field seems different from what he thought. Because of Manchester City's tactical execution ability, they did score and their physical strength was exhausted, but at this moment, their score did not occupy the advantage, still 1-1 draw. But under such score, chooses to take the defensive, is not a how clever method.
By doing so, he is inspiring Wolfsburg, even telling them clearly that Manchester City have no offensive ability now, and the rest of the time will depend on Wolfsburg's attack. If it's a 1-0 lead, this may make Wolfsburg impatient, attack frequently and even make mistakes, but now the score is 1-1, then things are very different.
The Wolfsburg players don't have to be in a hurry at the moment, so they don't need to be in a rush to attack. On the contrary, they can attack slowly and kill city slowly - although city's defense is also very good, it is still very unwise to give the offensive power to the opponent who has no disadvantage.
Such a thing, Pellegrini just did not think of, and even if he thought of it, he has no way: how many people, how many teams, can have enough confidence to leave the team a chance to make mistakes? No matter how good a coach is, he has nothing to do with the team's mistakes.
Because of this, when Manchester City made a mistake, they had to accept their own fate.
With the replacement of Manchester City, Wolfsburg side, also carried out the replacement of players. This time, pericic was replaced by Wolfsburg and they played with Musa Sissoko. After he went on the field, he was directly arranged on the right side by Wolfsburg. Turan moved to the left side to continue to attack, while he was on the right side to deal with Kolarov.
Since Manchester City want to let Kolarov as the starting point of attack, then Wolfsburg will abandon him for the first time. When musasisoko is an attacking player, some attacks are very brainless. It can even be said that as soon as he goes on the field, one side of the team is basically dead and there is no hope. However, his strong body is enough to ensure that he can silence Kolarov. In this way, Manchester City's attack has collapsed.
After their attack, Wolfsburg has nothing to worry about. Facing a team with great physical consumption and no counterattack ability, Wolfsburg has no reason to worry more. In the past 60 minutes, Manchester City have been pressing them to play. Although Wolfsburg players have counterattack, they are not enough to vent their anger. Now is the time for them to raise their eyebrows.