Nine Hundred and Twenty-Six Rich and Self-Willed, No Money to Accept Fate!
Although they conceded the ball in the opening four minutes, for Manchester City, the morale was still not affected much. Villarreal still launched a fierce attack and still firmly controlled the situation on the field.
Manchester City are no longer the mercenaries they were created more than a year ago.
The current Manchester City is the Manchester City that won the treble and defeated the Champions League champion Barcelona in the European Super Cup.
Even in the Champions League group stage, in the face of giants like Dortmund and Inter Milan, Manchester City can smash the opponent down, and the team's confidence has been greatly improved, and it will not be defeated by the opponent.
As for the goal conceded just now, it was more of a mistake by David Luiz. The goalkeeper Courtois made a decisive attack. He had already saved the first shot, and even the second shot was almost a success, and his performance was also remarkable. Can be ordered.
David Lewis' problem was unexpected and reasonable.
Guardiola likes his ability to dribble, pass and push from behind, and his slightly rash mistakes are naturally well known by players, and even many times, players are already mentally prepared.
In the locker room, his teammates also mentioned these things about him.
Of course, this has a premise that the team can reverse.
If it can be reversed, this is a joke. If you lose, it will be different.
Marcelo has a close relationship with David Luiz, both of whom are the main force of the Brazilian national team. Seeing that David Luiz's mistakes caused the team to lose the ball, Marcelo also became very excited and behaved very vigorously.
In the twelfth minute, Marcelo took a cross from Busquets when he pushed forward to the 30-meter area of Villarreal. Remember the powerful long-range shot.
The long shot was shot very suddenly and went directly to the right side of the goal.
Goalkeeper Diego Lopez made a flying save, but the ball slipped slightly past.
Just a minute later, it was Marcelo's quick advance along the left flank.
Tony Kroos suddenly sent a long diagonal pass from the middle of the penalty area, and went straight to the left side of the penalty area.
Marcelo plugged in at high speed, grabbed the ball just before the right defender Zapata, and crossed his left foot into the penalty area.
Di Maria inserted into the left rib of the penalty area at the fastest speed,
Without stopping the ball, he directly pulled out his legs and shot furiously. As a result, he failed to suppress the ball, and it was too high.
In the 20th minute, after getting the ball on the right side of the frontcourt, Sanchez threw off the defender and cut horizontally, and was fouled by the left defender Katara, winning a goal for Manchester City nearly 40 meters away from the goal. ball chance.
Su Dong took the penalty himself, with a very strange arc with his left foot, and hoisted the ball directly to the upper right corner of the goal. Unexpectedly, Diego Lopez jumped and hit the ball directly with one hand.
Subsequent corner kicks also failed to create a threat.
Manchester City's consecutive attacks have created opportunities, but they have never been able to break Villarreal's goal.
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As early as when Su Dong was still playing for Valencia, he knew that the chairman of Villarreal was the younger brother of the chairman of Valencia, Roig Jr.
Roig has run Villarreal for many years and is committed to the South American style. He has introduced a group of high-quality and cheap South American players, such as Forlan, Riquelme, Marcos Senna, etc. Liarel brings tyrannical strength.
During the coaching period of Chilean engineer Pellegrini, the yellow submarine reached its peak, not only achieved remarkable results in La Liga, but also continued to play surprising results in the Champions League, winning the recognition of European football.
After Pellegrini switched to Real Madrid, the Yellow Submarines hired Valverde, but the results quickly declined. The reason is very simple. Valverde's philosophy could not be integrated into Villarreal, and he even encountered seven rounds during his coaching. Invincible.
After firing Valverde, Jr. Roig appointed the second-team head coach Garrido as the team coach, which stopped Villarreal's decline and won the fourth place in La Liga last season. Champions League.
This seems to let people see Villarreal's re-emergence.
Garrido can be said to have witnessed the rise of Villarreal from beginning to end and the whole process of Pellegrini's coaching, and he has been cooperating with Pellegrini to train the best youth training in La Liga. camp.
Before taking over as the coach of the second team in 2007, he had worked in the youth team for nine years. Many young players in the first team were under his command, and the youth team coached by Garrido also surpassed Real Madrid and Barcelona and became the The benchmark for the Spanish youth academy.
He has enough reason to succeed at Villarreal.
However, after achieving excellent results last season, due to the strong rise of Malaga this summer, a frenzied buying wave was launched in Spain, leading to the departure of the core player Cazorla, and the failure of Villarreal in time. Adding reinforcements in the transfer market has put them in a disadvantageous position in La Liga.
Does burning money work?
Málaga, who ranked in the middle and lower reaches of the league last season, burned 60 million euros and now ranks sixth, while Villarreal, who sold his core player Cazorla, earned 10 million euros in the transfer market , dropped from fourth to eleventh.
The other, crippled Getafe team was in a worse situation and was directly approaching the relegation zone.
And behind all of this, in the final analysis, money is at work.
Villarreal has insufficient financial resources, so he can only make more money, and the Champions League is undoubtedly the key.
According to the strategy developed by management and head coach Garrido, they want to strive to break out of the Champions League group stage and reach the knockout stage.
Unexpectedly, they were so unlucky, with Inter Milan, Manchester City and Dortmund in the group of death.
There is no other way. If you want to realize the season strategy, you can only fight to the death.
So, they fought Inter Milan, Dortmund, and now Manchester City.
If you have money, you will be self-willed, but if you have no money, you can only accept your fate!
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As the captain on the court, Su Dong is very familiar with La Liga and Villarreal.
He believes that in terms of strength, Manchester City has an overwhelming advantage.
Today's Villarreal is no longer the yellow submarine when Pellegrini was coaching. Rossi is far from Fran, and Carney is not a ruthless character like Riquelme, and the midfield even lacks a horse. Players at the level of Kos Senna are in town, and there is Sudong's old acquaintance Marchena in the back line, but they have a fatal weakness, that is, they are too short.
Marchena and his partner Gonzalo Rodriguez are only 1.82 meters, thirteen centimeters shorter than Su Dong.
But City didn't take advantage of that.
Therefore, after seeing that the team could not attack for a long time, Su Dong, as the captain of the field, ordered the players to slow down the attacking rhythm, slowly and slowly, and penetrated and tore Villarreal's ball through patiently passing the ball. line of defense.
The change took effect in less than ten minutes.
First, Su Dong pulled to the right and responded to Sanchez.
At that time, Sanchez was already trapped in a tight siege. After the transition of Sudong, the Chilean winger immediately dribbled the ball horizontally along the outside of the penalty area and cut inwards. He first asked Toni Kroos to cooperate, and then passed the ball to David Silva.
David Silva passed to Di Maria in the penalty area, but the Argentine did not get a chance, and immediately passed it back to David Silva, and then assigned to the left flank and handed it to the back row. Marcelo.
Marcelo made a slight adjustment after stopping the ball, and before Zapata approached, he picked the ball to the back with his left foot.
Su Dong, who was on the right side of the penalty area just now, quickly inserted into the back point and headed the ball into the far corner from close range.
Diego Lopez didn't react in time and the ball went into the net.
"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!"
"In the 38th minute, Manchester City finally scored Villarreal's goal, one to one!"
"The game was very difficult, and Villarreal was very tenacious, but Manchester City still ripped apart the defense of the yellow submarine by virtue of passing, possession and strength."
"The long-distance connection between Marcelo and Su Dong played very beautifully, and the back and forth of several Manchester City players were also quite exciting. With this goal, Manchester City successfully tied the score."
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After the score was tied, Manchester City also tasted the sweetness.
Continue to pass and control the ball patiently according to Su Dong's previous arrangement.
On the contrary, it was Villarreal. After losing the ball, the scene was a bit chaotic. Manchester City seized an opportunity and played a quick counterattack again.
Toni Kroos dribbled the ball across the halfway line and quickly handed it to Sanchez.
The Chilean winger dribbled the ball along the right flank, and after advancing to the right of Villarreal's penalty area, he suddenly cut in and passed the ball to David Silva.
After the Spanish winger dunked his defender, he slanted the ball with his left foot to the right of the penalty area.
Su Dong was originally going to meet David Silva on the left side of the top of the arc, but suddenly turned in a different direction and ran to the right side of the penalty area, just as David Silva's pass came to Su. In front of Dong, after plugging in and receiving the ball, a single pole was formed.
Goalkeeper Diego Lopez stubbornly guarded the right side of the goal, blocking Sudong's shot angle as much as possible.
But Su Dong is too experienced with such a situation. After a fake action tricked Diego Lopez into making a save, he lobbed the ball with his foot.
The ball went over Diego Lopez's head and slowly crashed into the goal behind him.
Two to one!
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After two consecutive goals to reverse, Manchester City ended the first half with a 2-1 lead.
The second half changed sides and fought again. Just over a minute later, Manchester City grabbed the ball and launched a wave of attacks.
David Silva tried to go straight into the penalty area from the outside of the penalty area, but was blocked by Marchena.
The ball landed on the right side of the penalty area. After Zabaleta stopped the ball, he made a slight adjustment and made an oblique pass to the front of the penalty area.
Su Dong quickly plugged in, facing Zabaleta's pass, and directly volleyed the ball without stopping. The ball was sent by Su Dong into Villarreal's goal again.
hat trick!
Three to one!
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Manchester City played more and more smoothly, and then Sanchez scored a goal, but it was ruled offside and the goal was invalid.
But Manchester City still launched a fierce attack against Villarreal.
Until the end of the game, Aguero, who came on as a substitute for Su Dong, once again seized the opportunity to pass the ball from the side to give Manchester City another victory, four to one!
In the end, with Su Dong's hat-trick and Aguero's goal, Manchester City reversed Villarreal four-to-one and won three consecutive victories in the group stage!