Chapter 66
The new team is still a success.
As a coach who advocates victory, Mourinho actually likes this kind of counterattack lineup. Unfortunately, the current Manchester United players can't play Monaco's style at all, and he himself is actually helpless.
The people bought by the club are not what he wants at all. Sometimes I really feel that the sports director of Manchester United is actually messing with himself.
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"Great, my Lei, audience friends, we saw that just now, Monaco took the lead at the Etihad Stadium, and the hero of this goal was undoubtedly Lei Ming."
"If it weren't for his heroic performance, Monaco would not have been able to launch this attack, not to mention Mbappe's outside overtaking and Falcao's calm shot. Lei Ming's excellent performance in this game has undoubtedly attracted a lot of attention. Even the local host is constantly instigating Premier League teams to buy Lei Ming!"
"This is definitely the first time in the history of the Premier League for Asian or Asian players. You know, although Son Heung-min is currently playing well in Tottenham, Very good, firmly in the main position, but his situation is sometimes quite embarrassing, and you can often hear local media friends send in the situation of being disliked. "
"Asian players are really unpopular in Europe."
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"Lei, Lei again, he is our Monaco hero, his instigation once again let the team take the lead."
"At this moment, I have to praise the opponent's performance, he is a phenomenal goalkeeper with a big heart."
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Monaco's goal made people all over the world who follow their game praise it. Almost everyone who knows football knows what an important role Lei played in this counterattack.
His outstanding performance also attracted more people's attention.
At the game scene, as the goal celebration ended, Monaco once again became the Monaco that could not shrink. They still took defense as the first execution standard of the game and continued to consume the game time.
The two sides came and went, squeezed in Monaco's half, which shows how dense the personnel here will be.
In order to counterattack Monaco, Manchester City learned a lesson from the previous match and did not dare to press forward with all players. Three defenders were left in the backcourt to guard against the opponent.
Time was consumed bit by bit.
The originally planned corner kick tactics were used very little in this game.
The goalkeeper of Monaco did not give them any corner kick opportunities at all, which was really abominable.
As time went on, Manchester City's players also seemed a little impatient, and the intensity of the physical confrontation between the players on both sides of the field became stronger and stronger.
Lemar saw De Bruyne holding the ball, and he was no longer polite this time because he had been unhappy with the opponent. He directly made a scissor kick. Although his foot touched the ball, he also knocked De Bruyne down in an instant.
As De Bruyne screamed and fell to the ground, the referee on the scene immediately blew the whistle to suspend the game.
The referee just noticed that the emotions of the players on the field were becoming more and more impatient, and he had to control them hard at this time, otherwise the rhythm of the game would be out of his control.
Facing Lemar's foul, it was right under his gun, and he showed the other party a yellow card without hesitation.
Lemar was originally very dissatisfied with this card, and wanted to go forward to argue, but was pulled by his teammates.
"What's going on? I obviously touched the ball, so this is also a foul?"
"Brother, stop you, that kind of dangerous action, the referee gave you a yellow card is considered light." Glick pulled his partner to stop him from continuing to make trouble, and also arranged for his teammates to form a human wall.
Lei Ming directed the human wall: "Yes, yes, a little more to the left, leave a gap in the middle for him to shoot!"
His voice was a bit loud, and he deliberately used English, which made Manchester City's players look at this hateful goalkeeper angrily. It was really not very harmful, but extremely insulting. He was so blatant, asking you whether De Bruyne wanted to shoot from this gap?
De Bruyne stood in front of the penalty spot. Although he heard the interference from the opponent's goalkeeper, he was not moved at all.
He just looked at the wall of people in front of him quietly, his eyes did not change at all, took a deep breath, and waited for the referee's whistle.
This position happened to be within his shooting range, and he did not even consider any tactical free kick.
In the free kick
De Bruyne was very confident. He thought that although his footwork was not as good as that of the Crescent Moon Scimitar, it was still outstanding.
The whistle sounded, he let out a long breath, took a step, raised his foot, and shot.
"Bang!"
De Bruyne fired a free kick with power, speed, and angle. However, no matter how high the quality of this free kick was, it still couldn't break through Lei Ming's ten fingers.
He deliberately left a gap in the middle, but he didn't expect the opponent to go through here. Instead, he chose to bypass the wall and hit the far right corner, but this still couldn't escape his advance prediction, and he easily scored the opponent's shot again.
What made De Bruyne most desperate was that the goalkeeper once again welded his ball tightly in his hand, not even giving him a chance for a corner kick, which was fucking ridiculous!
Seeing this situation, Guardiola in the Manchester City coaching bench knew that he couldn't wait any longer. If they didn't get rid of this goalkeeper, they wouldn't be able to score.
In order to win the game smoothly, he had to use the trick he least wanted to use on the opponent.
In the 78th minute of the game, Guardiola took the opportunity of the out-of-bounds ball to make the first substitution.
His substitution was a positional substitution, replacing Sagna with Clichy, who was better at attacking.
Before going on the court, Clichy was dragged by Guardiola to say a lot of things to do after going on the court, but in general, there was only one thing, that is, to use all possible conditions to interfere with the opponent's goalkeeper.
He is professional in this job, and it is precisely because of this that he can often be substituted by Guardiola.
In the 81st minute of the game, Manchester City finally ushered in a corner kick opportunity again. Clichy strictly followed the coach's previous instructions and began to harass the Monaco goalkeeper.
Lei Ming was arranging the defensive point, but unexpectedly, a guy suddenly put his head under his armpit, which made him disgusted.
"Fuck, what are you doing? Go away!"
"Uh, sorry, maybe my blood pressure is a little low just now, I feel dizzy."
Crich covered his head and suddenly knelt in front of Lei Ming. Unexpectedly, this guy also pulled Lei Ming's glove straps off.
In this situation, Lei Ming immediately understood what this guy was doing!
Dizzy? I don't believe you!
There is a very popular way to interfere with the goalkeeper in the Premier League. This guy in front of you is definitely very comfortable, just making you uncomfortable, but you can't find an excuse.
At this time, even if you find the referee, it's useless because it doesn't constitute a foul at all.