Football nukes: a pound buys a club

On September 9th, Bury defeated Swansea 25-[-] at home and continued to occupy the top of the standings.

However, Manchester United followed closely behind and still tied with Bury, but the goal difference was one less.

In the next game, Bury will challenge Manchester City away.

As the biggest local tyrant in the Premier League today, when Pellegrini led his team to win the league championship last season, the Chiefs still replaced him with Guardiola.

With Guardiola in charge, Manchester City immediately bought John Stones for 700 million pounds, signed Gundogan for 600 million euros, and introduced Sane for another 5000 million euros.

In the midfield, Manchester City also bought Isco, which deviated from the original timeline.

With four new aids, plus Delaubney and Sterling introduced last summer, as well as the meritorious Aguero and David Silva, their lineup is simply luxurious.

However, Manchester City is now in the throes of tactical innovation, and the results do not seem to be ideal, and now they are only ranked sixth in the standings.

But even so, all the mainstream media before the game were unanimously optimistic about Manchester City, believing that Manchester City, which is playing at home, will easily win.

In fact, Zhang Chong does not have much confidence in this game. In his plan, it is normal to lose the away game against the traditional top six games, and it is normal to win the tie and win.

But although he has the expectation of failure, he must also have the confidence to win, otherwise he will convey a sense of depression to the players, and the game will be even more impossible to play.

Therefore, he said to the players before the game: "Before this, we did not have the experience of fighting against teams of this level in away games, so this game is a test for us, testing whether we can compete against tens of thousands of players. Play your best under the watchful eyes of the away fans. Therefore, I expect you to show your best form to prove that you are strong enough to ignore the pressure of the away game!"

The players all looked excited.Most of these players are players with high competition attributes, so for them, this kind of game can stimulate their fighting spirit even more.

July 10, the day of the game.

In the studio, Gary Neville, who has always been optimistic about Bury, couldn't help saying: "Although emotionally speaking, I still support Bury, but I have to say that the probability of them winning this game is very small."

Carragher didn't refute him either: "Well, in this game, Bury should win if he loses less!"

In fact, there are two tactics that are most effective against Guardiola's team. The first is Mourinho's extreme defensive counterattack, and the other is Klopp's high-position pressure and rapid counterattack.

The biggest commonality between the two is the speed in the counterattack. The difference is that Klopp has higher physical requirements for the team.

Of course, in these two ways, Klopp's winning rate against Guardiola is a little higher.

Therefore, Zhang Chong decisively chose Klopp's tactics.

High-pressure defense, frantic running and abandoning the midfield transition, directly hitting the ball to the frontcourt, using personal ability to directly blast Manchester City's defense line!

What we have in our hands is explosive, no worse than Mane and Salah!

In the past few days, Zhang Chong has deliberately increased the stamina of the players so that they can execute this tactic better!

Moreover, Zhang Chong did not arrange for Maguire to start in this game, but chose Dick William with better athletic ability to partner with Skriniar, just to maintain the flexibility and running ability of the defense.

The head coaches of the two sides shook hands before the game, and Zhang Chong also had close contact with this world famous coach for the first time.

The coaching career in the past few years has transformed him from a handsome, hairless young man into a wrinkled uncle. Time really makes people grow old!

The referee blows his whistle and the game begins.

Manchester City still used their iconic possession to find opportunities, while Bury allowed them to cross and pass back, but resolutely pressed their direct passes!

Under this arrangement, Manchester City's several forward passes were blocked, and Bury did not get a good chance.

In fact, Manchester City's style of play lacks an explosive character the most.

If there is such a person, they can meet their need to suddenly tear up the defense after possession of the ball, so that the possession advantage becomes a score advantage.

Unfortunately, there is no such person in their formation.

Although Isco in their formation is top-notch and excellent in dribbling, he has no speed!

Although Sterling has excellent speed, he is very happy!

Sane is still young, not the sharp knife a few seasons later.

This makes them unable to undertake the task of breaking the point.

In the first 10 minutes of the game, Manchester City had an absolute advantage in ball possession, but they were basically invalid ball possession!

Instead, Bury caught a Manchester City forward pass error and sent a long pass from Dick William to Mbappe, allowing him to single out Manchester City's right-back Zabaleta.

The 31-year-old Zabaleta couldn't stop Mbappe at all. He easily shook off the defense and made a pass from the bottom!

It's a pity that Antoine Hill's header went over the bar!

However, high pressure is also prone to being penetrated through the defense. In the No. 205 minute, Manchester City finally seized the opportunity. De Bruyne made a scalpel-like pass and directly penetrated Bury's defense!

The happy boy Sterling used his speed to throw off the defense and immediately formed a one-handed opportunity!

Mendy immediately abandoned the goal and attacked, ready to block his shooting angle!

And Sterling saw that Mendy was halfway through his attack, so he directly chose a lob!

The football flew over Mendy's head in a beautiful arc, continued to move forward, and flew over the crossbar...

Goal kick!

Sure enough, a happy boy!

Sterling fell to his knees in regret, with his big butt pouted, his face buried deep in the grass, and he seemed a little shameless.

Guardiola's bald head seemed to have a few hairs pulled off by him, and he kept shouting something, looking very angry.

Zhang Chong didn't have time to feel grateful for his escape, but he was made to empathize with Guardiola's expression.

With such a subordinate, anyone will lose two years of life by being angry!

Happy Boys lives up to their reputation!

In the rest of the first half, Bury took another opportunity, this time Gnabry singled out left-back Kolarov, managed to tear open a hole and crossed the ball, but it was a pity for Mesias. The shot was bravely saved by Bravo.

Guardiola brought Bravo to Manchester City at the beginning of his tenure. In order to strengthen him, he also loaned out Joe Hart.However, Bravo later became a famous regent, so Guardiola could only buy Ederson to replace him.

At the end of the first half, the score was still zero to zero.

Although Bury performed well in the first half, Zhang Chong was a little worried.

The biggest enemy of high pressure is physical strength. Although the endurance of Bury players is not bad, as the game progresses, their physical strength will eventually bottom out.

That was the most dangerous time for Bury!