Football Legend No. 13

Mourinho, who was unaware of Morata's idea, was laying out his tactics smoothly.

Because in today's Manchester United team as long as they have the support of Zheng Lin and N'Golo Kante, then he will not lose control of the dressing room.

And Morata does not have a high status in the eyes of management, if there is a order, Morata is after five.

Not to mention that strikers are very easy to find alternatives, as long as the pocket funds are enough, then there will be no problems!

As far as the current situation in football is concerned, what is lacking are excellent defenders and midfielders, and there are many new strikers emerging every year!

As long as the money is enough, someone will replace it at any time, really want to threaten Manchester United, change hands and sell it and add some money to buy Cristiano Ronaldo directly!

There is no need to talk about such benefits!

Of course, this is just Sandoki thinking, will Real Madrid sell people in the summer of 18?

The focus of the game is still on the midfield rivalry, and as long as City's midfielders are not allowed to play their control, then Manchester United can win.

Mourinho could naturally guess what Guardiola was thinking – to press the opponent to make a mistake through midfield pressure and then use the mistake to get a chance to score.

But the current midfield combination that Manchester United have built is not afraid of such a situation, on the contrary, they can impose such a pressing on Manchester City....

However, he underestimated Morata's existence this time.

The game begins.

At the entrance, Old Trafford gave the players a round of applause to welcome them into the stadium.

Coming back to this venue, Guardiola is ready for this game, he doesn't want to leave here with disappointment, he hopes he can take the victory.

When he noticed that United's starting centre was Alvaro Morata, he immediately gestured to the players.

Based on the experience of previous confrontations, Morata's start too fast and easy to offside can be exploited.

So he's not going to give up on that.

Manchester City, who are away, are the leading attackers of the game.

With Sergio Aguero's kick-off, the running of Manchester City's players constantly tore at United's defence.

And it was Kevin De Bruyne who had the ball, City's playmaking brain, and for them, that was the start of the battle.

Led by De Bruyne, Manchester City's rapid advance, this time they are biased to the right, this side has not only De Bruyne, but also Bernardo Silva, two excellent midfielders have a huge impact on the game, which also forced United's overall defense to tilt to the left.

"Bernardo Silva's long diagonal pass, Sane stuck Ashraf's position, he didn't make any adjustments to go straight to the goal!"

"Oh my God!!"

'Zheng Lin's return defense prevented this shot, and in the opening five minutes, Manchester City received their first corner of the game!"

"David Silva is in charge."

"The ball went in!!"

"Stones successfully forced Harry Maguire to complete this header! Manchester City are ahead on the road, albeit just a goal, but it is a good start for City. "

For Manchester City, not winning two consecutive games against Manchester United can easily become a psychological problem for them, so they will use their housekeeping skills to protect the fruits of this victory for the rest of the game.

For Stones' goal, Mourinho paced on the sidelines, which was honestly a bit unexpected, but it was also reasonable.

Manchester United's defense is not so top-notch, and Maguire's problem is simple, he is a heavy tank, you count on how high he must jump to defend the high-altitude ball, then forget it, his role is to occupy the position and use his physical advantage to disrupt the opponent's attack.

"Manchester United, who returned to their home stadium, conceded the ball first, which was a little unexpected, but this change of formation gave Manchester City a taste of sweetness!"

After replacing Raheem Sterling, Manchester City chose Bernardo Silva as a right winger, and such a final made Teo Hernandez need to spend his energy to keep an eye on this guy, after all, this is a good passer, and the pass just now is a warning.

At this moment, Zheng Lin also read some of Guardiola's thoughts, he wants to use midfielders to expand the use of space, as long as the space becomes larger, no matter how good you defend, you still have loopholes.

There's nothing wrong with that, but it's not easy to find players like that, but City have money!

After Morata kicked off, his quick forward thrust made Zheng Lin feel that something was wrong.

This guy is quite active, but looking at this holding his breath, I'm afraid things are not so simple!

After several transmissions, Zheng Lin, who received the football again, noticed the position of Morata, and he flew over without thinking about picking a pass.

"Drip!!"

"Offside? The linesman raised the flag and Morata was offside, his first offside of the game.

For this situation, Zheng Lin squinted his eyes slightly, he thought that he was a little careless, he didn't expect that the other party would directly sacrifice the offside tactic so early, such a situation is probably not a good thing for the next advance!

The 17th minute of the game.

Zheng Lin stuck in position and directly snatched De Bruyne, who was advancing.

For his lost goal, De Bruyne was thinking of counter-snatching back, but saw Zheng Lin kick straight through, this ball is still looking for the striker in front.

"Wait until the offside whistle will sound again!"

De Bruyne's voice sounded in Zheng Lin's ears, looking at people's expressions, Zheng Lin shrugged, for such a situation, he didn't have anything to say, offside is offside, it's better to see it clearly earlier!

It was Juan Mata who received the ball, and as the big brother of the Morata national team, he didn't think much about it, because the position was really good, and his direct ball went out.

Five seconds later, the familiar whistle sounded again.

"Offside again!"

Although it is only the second time in this game, it seems that only Morata can do this at the moment.

If nothing else, in more than 20 league games, Morata has reached a record of 2.8 offsides per draw.

In the semifinals of this League Cup, he has already had 2 offsides in the 26th minute of the game, as for whether he can exceed this average, it is difficult to say!

Mourinho frowned deeply about Morata's question, this guy still goes his own way, but if he slows down a little, this is probably a one-knife goal.

It's a pity, he also wants to see what kind of record this guy can create when he is deliberately targeted!

The game continues, at this point it is Manchester City who have the ball.

The boss has already made it cheap by creating an offside tactic, and he intends to stick with it while Morata is still on the pitch.

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