Glory Greenery

Chapter 733 Van Gaal Unprepared
[710 six chapters]

Getting up from the grass, Yang Mo patted the grass clippings on his body, instead of complaining to the referee, he stepped forward to fight back immediately.

From his debut to the present, this is not the first time he has experienced this kind of encounter, and of course it will not be the last.

Even in this game, it's not the first time.

For him, he has long been used to playing at this intensity.

He would be surprised if his opponent stopped targeting him one day.

Only more than 20 minutes have passed in this game, and losing an attack does not mean anything.

On the contrary, Manchester United had to use a high-foul-risk defense to stop him at this time, which is enough to prove that Manchester United is poor.

So it was too late for him to be happy.

And he believes that as long as it continues, Manchester United's defense will be unable to withstand it sooner or later.

Although his counterattack was unsuccessful, his oppression prevented Manchester United from turning this defense into an offense, and was stopped by his teammates in the midfield.

And just as he thought, as the game went on, Manchester United's defensive struggles became more and more exposed.

Teammates have gradually adapted to Manchester United's "overdraft" defense, and Vardy even almost scored in 37 minutes.

However, the real turning point of this game came at 44 minutes in the first half.

The first half of the game was coming to an end, Manchester City launched the last attack of the first half.

Yang Mo received the ball on the left and was fouled again by Manchester United.

But this time, the referee made a move.

Schweinsteiger received a red card and Manchester City got a free kick in a very good position.

At the start of the free throw, Yang Mo stood behind the football, and he will take the free kick.

In an instant, boos rang out from the stands at Old Trafford.

The overwhelming momentum made the noisy people's ears ringing, and those with a slightly weaker mental quality might tremble nervously.

And Yang Mo is naturally not among these people.

He didn't intend to take any tactical free kicks, so he had time to wave to the visiting team's stands.

Although the Manchester City fans were not as tightly suppressed as the Red Devils fans from the beginning of the game to the present, they still cheered enthusiastically when they saw him waving.

"The fans of Manchester City are cheering for Yang Mo. Can Yang Mo score this free kick?"

"Yang Mo started his run-up and hit the door directly...!"

"The ball is in! The ball is in!"

"A deadly round moon scimitar, this arc is enough to make De Gea desperate!"

"With this free kick! Yang Mo helped Manchester City break the deadlock!"

"If I remember correctly, this is Yang Mo's second direct goal from a free kick in the Premier League!"

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Zhan Jun's voice was excited, and so were the fans watching the game!
When Yang Mo kicked out, the football drew a beautiful arc and finally fell into the goal, so many fans jumped up excitedly.

They were excited for the goal, excited for the lead, excited for breaking the deadlock, and even more excited for the excitement of this free kick.

Yang Mo is a super striker who scores goals like crazy. Throughout his career, except when he was abused by the national team, he is rarely seen in the club taking direct free kicks.

Yang Mo's first direct free kick goal dates back to the league game against Fulham two seasons ago.

But the free kick was not beautiful, so it didn't cause much sensation.

But today's goal is different. It has a beautiful arc and a tricky angle. It already has a bit of a master's style.

This free kick is enough to prove that Yang Mo's free kick technology has improved rapidly.

Whether this is for Manchester City fans or Yang Mo's personal fans, this is very important.

If Yang Mo can maintain this level and continue to further strengthen free kicks, then Yang Mo's attack ability will become even more terrifying.

Restricting Yang Mo, he could make tactical fouls before.

But when Yang Mo's free kick skills become more and more powerful, the opponent has to think carefully about whether it is worthwhile to foul Yang Mo.

On the sidelines of the pitch, in front of the Manchester United bench, Van Gaal watched the scene of Yang Mo and his teammates celebrating, smiled wryly and shook his head.

Before, he still felt that he knew this former disciple.

But now, he realizes that Yang Mo has been away from him for four full years.

In the past four years, he didn't seem to be doing very well.

But this former disciple was so strong that he couldn't understand it.

Van Gaal, who has coached Yang Mo, is very aware of the consequences of being ahead when facing Yang Mo.

Although it is not an unsolvable situation, it is more uncomfortable than unsolvable.

When Yang Mo's celebration ended and the game resumed, before Manchester United's offense could pose a threat to Manchester City, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.

Intermission.

Manchester City dressing room.

Ancelotti found Yang Mo, "Yang, in the second half, I hope that your range of activities will be closer to the midfield, and then pass the ball as much as possible at critical moments."

As an old player, Yang Mo instantly realized what Ancelotti meant, "I understand, I will make more breakthroughs and passes."

Ancelotti's approach is to give Yang Mo a longer space to launch, and then let Yang Mo initiate the last step before Manchester City's goal.

Relying on the deterrence of the free kick in the first half, Yang Mo continued to use his personal ability to break through the defense, making Manchester United's defense timid and relying on Yang Mo to attract more defensive forces.

In this case, Yang Mo's role has actually changed from offense to the last link in the frontcourt.

Ancelotti has studied Yang Mo's game and knows that Yang Mo has undertaken organizational tasks in the midfield more than once.

And according to Ancelotti's observation, Yang Mo is still doing a good job in midfield organization. If Yang Mo's scoring talent is not so amazing, he will definitely become a very good organizer in today's football.

Ability to pass suddenly, strong ability to protect the ball, speed, confrontation, and good defensive attitude. Such abilities are exactly what an excellent midfielder in modern football must have.

Ancelotti did this to catch Van Gaal by surprise.

At the beginning of the second half, when Van Gaal found out that Yang Mo actually ran to the midfield, he was a little dumbfounded.

During the halftime break, he had already arranged a targeted defense against Yang Mo in the second half. Now Yang Mo suddenly organized in a very unprofessional way. It was impossible for the originally arranged players to follow along.

Otherwise, if they are dragged into chaos, Manchester City can beat them into fools in an instant.

Van Gaal couldn't react in time, but Manchester City quickly took advantage of the opportunity to create results.

If we talk about Manchester City's previous tactics, Yang Mo attracted attention on the left and helped Manchester City's midfield advance layer by layer.

Now, it is Yang Mo who catches the ball in the middle to stop it, and then attracts Manchester United's defensive force to the middle, while his teammates disperse and continue to use Yang Mo's attraction to create local space to play more and play less.

It seems that it is just a change of position, but the defensive adjustments involved are not small for Manchester United.

And adjustments take time.

But the most terrible thing is that Yang Mo is not bad at his current position.

Organize, pass the ball, and organize the entire Manchester City midfield in an orderly manner.

Coupled with his transcendent personal ability, Manchester United was in trouble instantly.

Therefore, 6 minutes after the start of the second half, Yang Mo assisted Vardy to score the first goal.

0-2.

Manchester United fell further.

(End of this chapter)