Grass roots glory

Chapter 578 Exclusive confrontation
The on-site shots showed close-ups of Yaya Toure and Zhou Tiancheng respectively, obviously consciously explaining the highlights of this game.

"It's going to be a great match, Zhou Tiancheng and Yaya Toure, it's going to be two of the top tank midfielders today! Hahaha! Let's get started, Yaya Toure has revenge Chances, if he remembers that Champions League final, he should be motivated at this moment."

Sky Sports commentator Bob Clem said passionately while sitting in the commentary booth.

Yaya Toure stood near the middle circle and kept jumping without stopping. In the eyes of onlookers, he felt that he was serious about the game. Taking advantage of the time before the kick-off, he was still warming up and looked forward to him and Zhou Tiancheng's matchup was right.

Only Yaya Toure knew in his heart that he was about to meet him, and he couldn't avoid it anyway. He could only use this method to relieve the pressure. As soon as the whistle sounded... let's do it.

In stark contrast to Yaya Toure's mood, Zhou Tiancheng was very calm, but he couldn't help laughing when he turned his head to look at the south stand from time to time.

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Most reporters thought that facing a team like Dortmund with extremely high anti-reverse efficiency, Mancini, who was born in Italy, should follow suit.It seems that it is more feasible to treat the person in the same way as the person.

But Mancini did not do this. Italian coaches are not all conservative, at least in the case of Mancini holding such a good card, he is very confident.Facing the traditional semi-finals of the Premier League, Manchester City dared to fight aggressively. This is still at their own home court. If they played defensively, Mancini really felt that the lineup in his hand was in vain and wasted money.

As a new upstart in the Premier League in recent seasons, after Manchester City received capital injection from the Middle East consortium, there have been frequent big deals in the transfer window in the past two or three seasons.

The Manchester City that Dortmund ran into, after several seasons of management and reinforcement, the lineup has long been a quasi-rich configuration that has reached the European first-class level.

England international Joe Hart, Ivory Coast defender Kolo Touré and Belgium international Kompany partnered at the back.Left back Serbian international Kolarov, right back Brazil international Maicon.Midfielder Yaya Toure, Barry, Nasri, one of the four little swans of the French 87 generation, Spanish international David Silva, Bosnia and Herzegovina Gauta Dzeko's partner Argentine golden boy Aguero on the striker.

The starting lineup is almost a national football lineup, and even the Argentine international Zabaleta and the talented Italian striker Balotelli cannot guarantee the main position of the iron fight.Manchester City's squad is worth a whopping £5.3m.

Compared with Dortmund's cards, Klopp has Zhou Tiancheng and Lewandowski, which can be regarded as holding a pair of kings, but Mancini has four aces and four 2s in his hand. Not afraid at all.

It's no wonder that Manchester City took the initiative to press the formation as soon as the kick-off, and the central defender Kompany usually presses to the center circle to expand the defense area-he often does this in the Premier League, and Mancini did not stop him today.

Seeing this, Zhou Tiancheng could only stand parallel to Sven Bender, including Gotze in the front midfielder position, and also retracted at the beginning.Manchester City is in full swing, and Klopp had already anticipated this situation before the game. This was all his planned response. It is necessary for Gotze to withdraw close to the two midfielders. This is for a more efficient counterattack. Prepare.

"Roberto Mancini is not conservative today. This is definitely the only way out. Referring to Di Matteo's experience last season, putting pressure on Dortmund is the only way to confront them head-on. And with Manchester City's lineup, there is no need to be afraid of anything. team." Bob Clem praised Mancini's choice.

At the beginning, Manchester City chose to play from the wing in a very targeted manner. After all, Dortmund’s lineup has not changed. It is no secret that last season. Although Mancini has not played against Manchester City before, he can do it in many ways. think.

Manchester City's sideways are very distinctive. Nasri originally focused on quick attacks on the sideways. David Silva was originally an organizational midfielder. Dribbling the ball like a wide player is not what he is good at.So he handed the ball more to Kolarov who plugged in later.The Serbian has a strong offensive ability and belongs to the type of left-back who can cover a wing, Marcelo.

Manchester City obviously avoided the midfield in a targeted manner, and passed the ball from the two wings. Yaya Toure was close to Hummels in the opening 4 minutes, and Weidenfeller was completely out of it Response, the only luck is that the ball rubbed against the post and rolled out of the bottom line, slightly deflected.

Hummels was still in shock. He was staring at Dzeko, but he didn't know how Yaya Toure rushed up from behind.

He walked towards Zhou Tiancheng directly, and sprayed at Zhou Tiancheng in a rare way: "Zhou, this is your man, keep an eye on it!"

Zhou Tiancheng gave him an apologetic gesture. He was attracted by David Silva's lateral incision just now, which allowed Yaya Toure to take advantage of such a loophole.

Zhou Tiancheng stood directly next to Yaya Toure this time. Since it was his fault, he had to take responsibility.Zhou Tiancheng didn't mind taking special care of this black tank, which was about the same size, from the very beginning.

And Yaya Toure was obviously inspired by the shot that was so close to the goal. At this time, he was thinking about how to correct the mistake next time. At this time, he ignored that Zhou Tiancheng was already standing beside him.

Two minutes later, Manchester City's offensive from the left resumed. David Silva and Kolarov played two-on-one from the wing. Aguero nodded in front of the ferry, causing chaos in front of the goal.Yaya Toure had already ambushed at the back point, and at the moment of the cross, he had suppressed Zhou Tiancheng and jumped high.

"WOW! Yaya Toure! He jumped up! He completely suppressed Zhou Tiancheng, what a chance!"

In the confrontation between the two B2B midfielders, Zhou Tiancheng has been completely suppressed by Yaya Toure's shoulders, and it seems that he has no chance to compete for the top.

Mancini was looking forward to it. Yaya Toure's performance was what he was looking forward to. The exclusive candidate he had prepared for Zhou Tiancheng seemed to be right. First of all, he showed his power on the offensive end.

Weidenfeller yelled: "Zhou, get out of the way!" He was ready to pull his teeth out of Toure's head, even if he was bumped head-on by this big guy.

Yaya Toure was just about to use his strength, when he suddenly felt his waist and abdomen being pushed hard, and suddenly felt that he could not use his strength. When he lowered his head, he found a pair of 44-size sneakers facing his head. .

Yaya Toure quickly stopped his movements, no matter how fierce he was, he dared not use his head to head-on with the spikes.

It's just that he won't have this chance again, the ball has been cleared out of the penalty area.And without Yaya Toure, he lost his strength support point and fell in the penalty area with a muddy mouth.

(End of this chapter)