Golden Greenery

It makes sense for Guardiola to impose strict regulations on the team's long passes. In any case, the accuracy of long passes is definitely not as good as that of short passes. For teams that are accustomed to pressing forward, the inherent flaws of long passes will obviously cause more hidden harm.

Four days ago, we played against Celtic in the Champions League group match at home. In the fourth minute of the opening game, goalkeeper Caballero aimed a long pass from Gundogan on the sideline of the midfield. His accuracy was slightly lacking. Gundogan hastily adjusted his position and the ball was passed. He didn't connect well, but was intercepted by the Celtics and counterattacked. Youngster Roberts broke into the penalty area and scored.

Today at the King Power Stadium, a scene with different shapes but the same essence happened again, and it was cleaner.

In the 2nd minute, Sagna made a long pass from the Manchester City defense to find Iheanacho on the front end, but the Manchester City prince lost to the German veteran Huth in the air.

The 32-year-old Robert Huth is the only well-known player in Germany who has never played in Germany. He was poached from the Berlin United echelon and has been wandering in the Premier League since then. He was also the German national team player during the Jurgen Klinsmann period. The team's defensive backbone.

After the first pass, he pushed the football back to the frontcourt, with great distance and accuracy. Riyad Mahrez made a smooth pass with the outside of his foot while running back, and Islam Slimani passed forward.

Sagna sent a long pass, and Manchester City's formation pressed forward at the same time. Kolarov jumped up to level with Ding Ding in a few steps. When the ball came back, the ribs of Manchester City's defense no longer existed. It was as empty as the soul of a prodigal son. Vardy got a through ball in loneliness and made a single shot.

Breaking into the penalty area and shooting into the far corner, they were only 121 behind at the beginning.

This is the goal conversion rate in Leicester City's counterattack. The process is streamlined to the extreme. Mahrez and Slimani, the Algerian duo, are not sloppy at all, and they all hit the ball with one kick.

Vardy didn't even say a word, got up and walked away before shooting.

Vardy is actually an old-school British forward. He starts quickly. Although his technique is a little rough, he shoots decisively and powerfully. His toes are very hard, and his impact and aggression are very powerful.

Vardy, who scored his third goal of the season, beat his chest and roared in the rain, expressing his anger like a touching song from the animal world.

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The 28-year-old Welshman Andy King is Leicester City's No. 10. He is a veteran of the team's youth training. He came here at the age of 14. Over the years, Andy King has accompanied Leicester City in the English Championship and English Football League. A has never left the team, but since the team was promoted to the Premier League, he is no longer the main midfielder.

Andy King's fortunes have changed this season, Kante has transferred and left, and Drinkwater is either suspended or recuperating from injury. He and Ghanaian Daniel Amartey finally call the shots in the middle of the team's midfield.

In the 4th minute, Leicester City received a ball from the frontcourt, and Austrian left back Christian Fuchs showed his unicorn arm and penetrated the football directly into the penalty area.

Huth jumped up from the front and then rubbed, Slimani stopped the ball with his thigh in the middle and knocked back, Andy King met the ball at the top of the arc and volleyed, Manchester City 0:2.

Zhuo Yang: "..."

What are these guys at the back doing? Leicester City's two shots brought the score to 2:0. Do you want to let others pass this day?

Zabaleta and Stones failed to engage Huth in a one-on-one duel. Others allowed Slimani to run into a huge gap near the penalty spot. The protection at the top of the arc was simply surrendering to the enemy.

Maybe everyone is still thinking that Leicester City is just the most typical small and medium-sized football club.

But they forgot that they are the defending champion. Except for Kanter, the steel frame of the team has not been lost at all.

Conceding two goals in less than five minutes can no longer be explained entirely by Guardiola's tactics. There was something wrong with the sense of responsibility of the Manchester City players on the field and their negligence in the wind and rain.

This thing can also be called temperament, or team background.

Guardiola didn't even have the energy to curse. He even wanted to cry. Some things can no longer be trained and instilled through training.

If you don't press on, you'd rather die! At this point, continuing to press forward became the only option.

Leicester City, which retained the complete championship defense from last season, folded up and set up a bus. Their ability to protect the home is definitely not limited. Manchester City barely found the opportunity to shoot for the first time until the 15th minute. De Bruyne's diagonal shot from the left side of the penalty area. Off.

On the first attack, Andy King let the football take off outside his own penalty area, aiming directly at the left side of Manchester City's backcourt. At this time, apart from Bravo, there is only one player behind the center line, Stones.

Mahrez and Vardy formed a two-on-one frontcourt against Stones and things became extremely simple. Mahrez made a light pass, Vardy drove Bravo from close range and pushed the empty goal, 3:0.

A week ago, Zhuo Yang played a very similar ball to Vardy at the last second of the game against Chelsea. Zhuo Yang, who is the master of single-handed swordsmanship, missed it, but Vardy, known as the rough brother, held it in his hand. Who are you going to talk to?

Take a look at Guardiola's sad face on the sidelines.

Because of the traditional football style, the Premier League's game rhythm is the fastest among the five major leagues, especially the overall acceleration ability within 3 seconds when switching from defense to offense. This is very high-end. Few teams in other leagues can achieve it, but in the Premier League At least half of them are equipped with this skill, including Leicester City.

Teams that press high are actually very afraid of this, so this is one of the important reasons why Guardiola's pace swayed when he first entered the Premier League.

In the first half, Manchester City's ball possession rate was as high as 80%, but the threat to Leicester City's goal could not be said to be almost, but not at all.

Guardiola does not have the habit of making midfield substitutions, so he made the substitution in the 50th minute after the start of the second half. Sterling and Yaya Toure came on at the same time, replacing Iheanacho and Navas.

Iheanacho was very disappointing today. He had zero shots in the 50 minutes he played and only had the team's lowest 8 passes. His suppression of Leicester City's defense was almost ridiculous, as if he didn't exist.

There is no shortage of football talents in the world, but not everyone can succeed. They will seize the opportunity when they need it, and then add a little luck.

There are not many opportunities given to young players by big teams. The main striker Aguero is suspended. Iheanacho failed to seize the rare opportunity today.

When Toure and Sterling came on, Manchester City didn't see much improvement on the scene. The ball possession rate was already 80%. Where can they improve? However, there were finally a few shots that threatened Ziller.

Manchester City is like a boxer in an MMA mixed martial arts ring. He pins his opponent to the ground and beats him wildly. It seems like raindrops are being thrown down on him, but his opponent is very well defended with elbows and head protectors. Not only is there no actual damage, but there are no valid points.

At this moment, you are afraid that your opponent lying on the ground will suddenly jump up and give you a heavy hammer, or a ground death lock. But the most horrifying thing is that it is one's own fault.

The ball raced along the right wing for the first time, and Kolarov stuck closely to his inside. Under pressure, Mahrez took the ball too far and directly hit Stones who was blocking him in front.

In fact, no one came to press Stones, Mahrez was already tired. Stones himself took the ball and made a circle on the sideline near the bottom corner, then chose to pass back to goalkeeper Bravo.

Bravo didn't expect it. He hurried up to greet Stones when the ball left his feet, but a man named Vardy suddenly appeared on the path of the ball.

Carrying the ball and driving past Bravo, Vardy pushed the ball into the empty goal at a zero angle. The ball pressed against the goal line and hit the back post. He was immediately cleared by Sagna who came over.

Before he had time to rejoice, the latest electronic goal line technology told referee Michael Oliver through the headset that the goal was valid.

The slow motion shows that the ball just rolled across the goal line at the moment Sagna made the clearance. Leicester City 4:0 Manchester City.

Jamie Vardy, who had only scored two goals before this season, completed his first hat-trick for Leicester City and the Premier League. Guardiola fell behind by four goals for the first time in his coaching career.

He twisted his head and looked at Zhuo Yang, who was sitting on the bench, but Zhuo Yang didn't take off his pants this time.

"What do you think I'm doing?" Zhuo Yang said: "The ball looks like this, what the hell do you think I'm doing?"

The winter rain on the high ground on the south bank of the Trent River is getting heavier and heavier, and the coldness penetrates into the bones.

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