Before the home game against Atletico, Guardiola said that Manchester City's poor Champions League record was his "overthinking", in fact, he admitted that he loved to live. Of course, as a pseudo-senior fan of Manchester City, Xiaobian does not think that Guardiola is self-reflective, he just walks the way of others so that others have no way to go, just like saying that Manchester City is very rich at the press conference last season, so that the reporter who originally wanted to say this sentence has a constipated face.
Sure enough, after the starting lineup of this game came out, everyone's first reaction was that Guardiola was really alive. Walker can't play, Canselo moved to the right is actually understandable, but in the case of Zinchenko, he let Ak play on the left, and the opponent is still an old fritter like Simeone, we can only admire Guardiola's guts. However, after the start of the game, the left side of the Ak town guard was very stable, and the one who had a little situation was the right side. In front of Cancelo is Manchester City's top scorer This season, Mahrez, both of whom have strong offensive abilities. But the problem is that their technical characteristics are also very similar, Majeres' cross can be done by Cancelo, Canceló's ball in the ribs can also be played very skillfully, the two often think together in attack, here to think of together, in fact, running to the same position. As a result, De Bruyne, who was also active on the right, was also a little confused, not knowing how to run.
Of course, Cancelo is not useless on the right, he still does a good job of protecting right-back Stones on the defensive end, even if Atletico have formed consecutive broken balls in the second half of the first half, but Canselo's back-up defense does not make Felix and Griezmann's Atletico's small fast forward form a real threat. Therefore, this time Guardiola's whole life has a reason, and the effect is not bad.
However, Simeone on the other side is determined to set up a bus on the road, defend a draw and then return to the home court to wait for the opportunity, even if it is dragged to extra time and penalty shootout, Atletico can be regarded as the goal. But Guardiola still knows Simeone very well, and in order not to let that happen, City, who played badly on 6-0 in the first half, must change sides.
In the 68th minute of the second half, Guardiola waved the flag, Glaliches, Jesus and Foden were all in line, while the underperforming Mahrez was replaced, and with him were Sterling and Gundogan, only the active Bernardo Silva continued to stay on the field, but he retreated to the left midfield position, leaving the front to Glalis, Jesus finally kicked the center in the box to stir up, Foden appeared on the right side, And his ability to output in a small space is obviously a lot higher than that of the replaced Mahrez.
In the 70th minute of the game, Manchester City launched an attack on the right side, Cancelola side attracted defense, Foden ribs after the ball in front of the 4 Atletico players still sent out the pass, the heart will be inserted tintin a foot to settle down, Manchester City finally took the lead. It is worth mentioning that after the team broke the deadlock, Guardiola on the sidelines excitedly threw the water in the bottle in his hand to the ground, as if it was not mineral water but a bottle of champagne.
This goal also marked the failure of Simeone's tactical plan. In fact, before Guardiola's substitution, the manager had already taken the lead in making adjustments, with the likes of DePaul, Correa and Cunha coming on in the 60th minute, and Simeone hoped to use their abundant physical strength to continue to strengthen the midfield push and form more offensive pressure on Manchester City. However, the cards in his hand are obviously still much worse than those of Foden, Jesus and Gralis. This is perhaps the biggest problem for Atletico now, they are no longer the Champions League giants who could break the wrists of Real Madrid, Bayern and Barca, although the iron temperament is still there, but the manager wants to implement his tactical concept, has been a little weak. As for Guardiola, when he was celebrating wantonly, he probably had only one thought in his mind: it is good to have money.
Of course, Atletico did well most of the time in this game, with City only 2 of their 15 shots on target. But the individual abilities of Foden and De Bruyne compensated for the lack of Overall City's tactics, leaving Simeone to the bottom of the line. Although it only lost 1 goal, for the Sheets Army, it was actually no different from the end of the world. Because that means going back home, they'll be forced to put in more troops on the offensive end than the 0 shots on goal in the whole game like in this game. The point is that playing against a team like Manchester City is purely an old life star drinking the enemy and living impatiently.