The Premier League's early Saturday game was met by Manchester City at home to Wolves, and the home team went on a fruitless attack, still relying on a controversial penalty from Sterling to win and win the important three points on the way to the title.
City still line up 4-3-3 this season, but put away Kyle Walker, who went to win the Champions League, to play left-back with Zinchenko, putting Cancelo back at right-back. In midfield, De Bruyne came on as a substitute, with Gundogan, Rodri and Bernardo Silva playing in the midfield, while Sterling, Jesus and Jack Grillis formed a three-arrow attack. Wolves were a 3-5-2, two-arrow combination of Raul Jimenez and Adama Traore.
City had absolute possession of the ball in the first half, but Wolves' defence was excellent, and City failed to create decent shooting opportunities, but before the second half, Raul Jimenez's stupid actions set the stage for the team to lose. The Mexican striker first violated Rodri's lead in stoppage time, then blocked City's free throw from less than 10 yards away, and was sent off after two consecutive yellow cards a minute later. Wolves managed to tie the half, but they needed one less game after the switch.
In the 55th minute, Connor Cody had defended the team once; but Wolves eventually lost 10 minutes later. Bernardo Silva's cross from the right was awarded a penalty for a suspected handball by João Moutinho, but after looking through slow motion the ball appeared to have hit his armpit. However, the referee still pointed the ball straight and Sterling scored the goal to give Manchester City the lead. The Blue Moons then made a substitution to join midfielder De Bruyne, but it did not have much impact on the situation, wolves failed to create a counterattack opportunity under the one-man deficit, and the Blue Moon finally won with one goal and scored three points.
Although City had more than 70% of the ball possession in this game, they were constrained by Wolves' excellent low-post defense and failed to create too many threatening shooting opportunities. Jack Grelich and the team's style are still incompatible, which is clearly not Pep Guardiola's original intention to sign him back for 100 million pounds. In fact, Jack Grelish is a player who loves feet, guardiola should also know, but his ability should be an element that Manchester City lacks, and Guardiola should make good use of his dribbling skills, rather than forcibly transforming him in the direction he is not good at, which makes Jack Grelish play at a loss. However, Bernardo Silva is in excellent form, his dribbling, feet, every move and foot are extremely threatening, and the team's only goal is also a penalty from his cross, the Portuguese is definitely the team's best this season.
Wolves, in fact, the deployment of this game is quite good, playing a low-post defense, and then playing back with Adama Traore and Raul Jimenez. In the first half, Adama Traore alone gave both Rodry and Ruben Díaz a yellow card, showing that the counter-attack tactic worked. Unfortunately, Raul Jimenez's unwiseness made Wolves lose their advantage, and in the second half they could only defend with all their strength under the one-man deficit; the lack of counter-attack was really difficult to play, and the away team had no cost to equalize after conceding a goal. Wolves' record this season is only a loss, they scored 21 points in 16 games, holding them in the ninth place in the league table. But in 16 games, they've scored just 12 goals (14 of course, which is a compliment); if the team wants to go further this season, it's going to have to push the offensive end.