Chapter 762

Everyone knows that the Premier League away game is not easy, especially for Manchester City.

Why do you say that?

In the 2008-09 season, Manchester City scored two wins, five draws and twelve losses in 19 away games in the Premier League.

Manchester City should be relegated if they only rank by their away performance, because he is only better than Middlesbrough and West Bromwich, and even worse than the relegated Newcastle United.

One of the important reasons why Manchester City finished tenth in the league is that they finished very well at home, ranking third in the Premier League, just behind Manchester United and Liverpool, 13-6 and no draw.

There is no doubt that there will be more difficulties in the away games. For a team like Manchester City, which has just undergone a major restructuring, or even changed the entire starting line-up from 11 to a full nine, it is no doubt quite difficult.

Not to mention, Ben's home court has always been difficult to play.

Alpine also expected the difficulty of Ewood Park. He also prepared for the difficulties in the game. After using the five-star confrontation card and defensive card to stabilize the team's defense, he had to arrange the team to withdraw.

Since the front court attack can not open the situation, then first stabilize the position, organize the pass control, and then slowly move forward.

After the attack at the beginning of the game and the impact of Blackburn's crazy counterattack, the players of Manchester City gradually calmed down and began to calm down, especially the midfield headed by Xabi Alonso tried to control the rhythm of the game.

However, Blackburn are willing to kill wherever they are. They keep fighting back and fighting. In addition, the rain is getting heavier and heavier. Manchester City still make a lot of mistakes in passing and catching the ball. The home team often get opportunities to fight back and create threats.

The two sides finished with a 0-1 score in the first half and Manchester City took the lead for the time being.

But during the half-time, Gao didn't dare to be careless at all. He constantly encouraged the players, especially for a few players in the middle and back court, to hold the ball and use the pass control to consume the opponent's physical strength through quick and concise one foot pass.

"All players have to run, where there is a gap, where there is a need to take over, where to run, as long as our pass control can skillfully run up, the other side can not grab the ball, physical fitness will continue to be consumed, then the game will belong to us."

After Yi Bian fought again in the second half, Gao's strategy was firmly implemented by the players.

Kompani, Javier Martinez and sabaletta, Xavier Alonso, Mascherano, David Silva and Modric, the whole seven players in the middle and back court, unified their thinking, and played with the goal of controlling the ball.

Blackburn took the lead after the opening of the second half and wanted to take a surprise attack on Manchester City from the beginning. However, Manchester City had already prepared for this. After a round of fast-paced attack and defense, the game was soon slowed down by Manchester City.

When the game entered the rhythm of Manchester City, although Blackburn was able to take advantage of the rainy and slippery environment to get some opportunities, it was difficult to create a threat. On the contrary, some of the players in Manchester City's ball passing and control played too hard, tired and consumed their physical strength very quickly.

Only 60 minutes later, Allardyce took the lead in the replacement, replacing forward Robert with forward Di Santo, strengthening the front court force, hoping to make Manchester City's mistakes.

In less than 10 minutes, Allardyce changed again, and forward Gallagher replaced Andrews in midfield and continued to strengthen the front court.

But with the progress of the game, Manchester City's middle and back field pass control is becoming more and more skilled. Players play football at a familiar rhythm and begin to gradually enter the state, frequently organizing threatening attacks.

In the 80th minute, Mascherano intercepted the ball near the midline and handed it to Xavi Alonso, who tried to move to the left to Cristiano Ronaldo, but the Portuguese was heavily defended on the left and had to return the ball.

Manchester City pushed the formation to the front court. Xabi Alonso took the ball again. Benzema took it back and transferred the ball to David Silva. The Spaniard made a clever straight stop and sent the ball directly to Blackburn's defence. Sanchez quickly inserted the penalty area from the right side and volleyed the goal with his right foot, 2-0!

The goal completely demoralized Blackburn.

Allardyce quickly made the third substitution of the game, continue to strengthen the front court attack and press.

For a time, Blackburn had four strikers on the pitch.

But the game ended with a 2-0 draw, with Manchester City scoring three points away.

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After the game, the press conference hall at Ewood Park was packed with journalists from all over the world.

They came here for only one purpose, that is, the high cold.

After five years away, returning to the Premier League, the cold first game is not satisfactory, or it should be said, far from the expectations of the media reporters and fans.

It cost 400 million euro to bring in a group of outstanding stars, but in the end, they were even in a bit of a mess at Ewood Park, which really disappointed a lot of people, because it was not the cold and Manchester City they wanted to see.

But won the ball, alpine mood seems to be good, with Allardyce one after another into the venue, the whole face with a smile.

According to the Convention, the first to answer the question is Blackburn manager Allardyce, but his answer seems to be a bit tardy, more to explain why the team lost at home.

Allardyce believes that the main striker Santa Cruz's absence due to injury is the biggest reason for Blackburn's unfavorable attack.

"If we had him, we would have a higher ability to grasp the scoring opportunities, and the trend of the game would be completely rewritten."

For such words, the media reporters are hesitant, because Blackburn lack of Santa Cruz, but Manchester City also lack a Kaka, both sides are loss generals, and even have a greater impact on the tactics of Manchester City.

As the winner of the game, Gao is satisfied with the team's performance.

"Yes, there is no doubt that Blackburn have every reason to think that the result of the game is unfair to them because they have created more scoring opportunities than us

After the end of the game, alpine first time to get the game statistics.

In terms of shooting times, Blackburn scored a total of 17 shots, nine on target and eight off target, while Manchester City only scored eight shots, half of Blackburn's, five on target, scored two goals and three off target.

From the shooting times, Allardyce said that if Santa Cruz can play, Blackburn's ability to seize the opportunity will be higher, this is certainly not aimless.

However, from the perspective of ball possession rate, Manchester City is as high as 58% and Blackburn is only 42%. The gap is also very wide. It can be seen that from the overall level, Manchester City is still steadily suppressing Blackburn.

It should be said that the problems exposed by Manchester City in this game are almost the same as those in the warm-up game. They are all old problems. Therefore, alpine has been psychologically prepared for this.

"In fact, I think my players are getting into shape, but we still need a little time. We are a team that has just been restructured. It's impossible to ask us to be in top shape from the beginning, right?"

But Gao also said that the players are very hard, many players have made considerable contributions.

"For example, Peter Cech, I said, is the most outstanding and comprehensive goalkeeper in the current service. I am proud of his performance in this game

Facing Blackburn's nine straight shots, it would be difficult for Manchester City to retreat without Peter Cech's help.

This is also the reason why the name of the alpine special place praised Cech.

"Of course, we have some other players who are also very hard-working and excellent, but our cooperation is not skilful and tacit enough, we need more games

After that, Gao Han specially praised Blackburn, thinking that the home team has caused a lot of trouble for his team. Allardyce's coaching is very good and so on. It's not good to win Allardyce. On the contrary, he praised Manchester City.

In the whole press conference, although Gao Han was the visiting team, he became the leading role. However, the press conference did not become tense as some media reporters deliberately wanted to guide. On the contrary, the atmosphere was harmonious. Gao Han and Allardyce finally got up to shake hands and hug each other.

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In the first round of the Premier League, Chelsea beat Hull City 2-1 and Manchester City beat Blackburn 2-0 away. Both games were very difficult. It was also not easy for Manchester United to win Birmingham 1-0 with Wayne Rooney's goal at home.

Only Arsenal were the best, beating Everton 6-1 away.

It was a great win. As early as in the first half, Moyes had a three goal lead. He could do nothing about it. He could only watch his team being slaughtered by the Gunners at Goodison Park.

It was not until the last minute of the game that Saha saved Everton's face with a consolation goal.

Fabregas was elected player of the match with two passes and two shots. Van Persie had two assists, and Gallas, Vermaelen, da Silva and Denilson all scored one goal.

Arsenal also won with six goals to reach the top of the Premier League table.

After the first round, Sky TV selected the best player of the current round, and the best coach of the current round, wengeli, won the honor.

Among the 11 best teams, Manchester City has selected three players, namely Modric, Sanchez and goalkeeper Cech. They are the team with the largest number of players in the best team this round.

Arsenal and Manchester United each have one person selected, the Gunners are Fabregas and Vermaelen, Manchester United are Rooney and Scholes, and Chelsea is only one Drogba selected the best team.

However, although three Manchester City players have been selected as the best team in this round, the media are not satisfied with the performance of Manchester City in this round, and the evaluation is not high, even very low.

The focus of criticism is mainly on the attack and defense of the team.

The famous Guardian journalist green Wald wrote a column to comment on this game. He mentioned that several of Manchester City's defenders obviously did not adapt to the three back play, especially Harvey Martinez, who had been playing in midfield before, suddenly retreated to the position of centre back. Whether it was selection or defense, it was a problem.

Kompani is a right footed player, but he plays in the left centre back. Sabaleta is a right back. As a result, he is arranged as a right centre back by Gao Han, which makes the players at a loss.

Another critical focus is on the offensive side.

As everyone knows, alpine is good at attacking, but this team of Manchester City didn't play a satisfactory attack. The attack was chaotic and the thinking was not unified. Once the ball entered the front court, it was like a headless fly.

"Of course, just as Gao said, the position of every player has changed in the first eleven players of Manchester City. Many people even come to the Premier League for the first time. They need time to adapt and run in

"But I'd like to remind you that the Premier League is the most competitive league in the world and there won't be much time left for Manchester City

Green Wald's column has written most people's opinions.

There is really not much time left for city.