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Without Haaland, is Manchester City stronger?

Even if you're an extremely optimistic Liverpool fan, you probably won't have much hope of winning the game. After all, the Etihad is the Reds' hard-hitting bone in six years, with the two teams on the pitch 15-5 on aggregate since 2017.

Coupled with Liverpool's recent extremely crotch-pulling state, if you want to win, you can only hope that Liverpool have suddenly possessed chicken blood, or a new job of melon.

Without Haaland, is Manchester City stronger?

The good news is that Gua Shuai does show signs of embarrassing himself.

First, against Liverpool's rather ferocious wings, the boss activated the 3-2-2-3 system with only two and a half weeks of practice, and had Stones and Rodri form a double back.

Second, in Foden's absence, the coach did not let the B bench come up to help control the midfield, but on the left side the rocker, on the right side the soon-to-be-expire winter limited edition Ma Dongmei.

The hidden danger of this style of play is that Manchester City's two wide breakthrough data and the probability of losing the ball will rise, and the three-centre-back system will lead to a void on the wing, and once Liverpool open the high press, then Stones' shot in this position will become the hardest hit. And then the opening look... Well, people don't need Stones to play at all.

Without Haaland, is Manchester City stronger?

In attack, City mainly push on the wing, and once blocked, central Ludbrüyne and Gundogan will appear in the ribs and at the top of the penalty area to make the situation clear with a quick transition ball. When defending, using a grouped high position to press to burn Liverpool's ball, the Reds could not survive the half.

Due to the gap in the number of midfielders and ability, Stones was not under pressure to play the ball, but Henderson and Fabinho were blocked everywhere. If you want to crack Manchester City's high-pressure tactics, you can only take advantage of the loss of Manchester City's siege and directly play the long pass against the offside.

Therefore, there is only one road in front of Liverpool, but they have gone through.

In the 17th minute, Alexander-Arnold made a long pass to contact Jota directly, simplifying the attack to Jota and Akanji fighting for speed, although it was still a fight, but the chicken thief's Jota completed the blocking with a posture with his back leaning on Akanji - you unload, I will fall, this is in the box; If you don't unload your strength, I'll pass it, Salah has plugged in the back ...

Without Haaland, is Manchester City stronger?

In this way, Liverpool took the lead with a squashed opening. This counter-attacking tactic almost won again after 10 minutes, Elliott countered with a straight kick to Salah, Pharaoh had left Sloss, Dias and Akanji behind in two big steps, Jota on the other end of the pitch and full force forward, and the situation turned into a two-on-one, and then a Blue Moon player rushed to catch up with Salah, cutting off the passing line between him and Jota by the way.

We all know that Manchester City have such positive people in the squad.

But we didn't expect that this person turned out to be Mr. Shake, an enthusiastic citizen.

Without Haaland, is Manchester City stronger?

Yes, at that moment no one knew why Grealish chased all the way to that position. The only plausible explanation is that because Rodri's defense is tight, he hugged the Liverpool player twice in a row in the standard position of the Titanic, and by the way, he exclaimed affectionately: "Jack! Then Shaker misunderstood, thinking his teammate had asked him to participate in the defense.

And just after this super pursuit, Manchester City caught Liverpool's few opportunities to press on the whole line, and after Gundogan simply scored the ball, the Red Army's right side became very open, and then Chang'e sent a Weibo: Today's earth, visible objects, only the Great Wall of China and Grealish on the right side of Liverpool.

Without Haaland, is Manchester City stronger?

No way, Liverpool's defensive strategy is to shrink all four of them in the middle. This tactic was chosen because of a complete lack of confidence in Henderson and Fabinho's ability to defend and control. But the price of this tactic is that the work done by the back is done by the full-back, leaving a great hidden danger for the rest of the game.

In short, in the first half, Liverpool insisted on taking the lead, beaten up with the lid of the pot, waiting for an opportunity for Manchester City to call up the defenders and grab it, and directly hit the back with a long pass.

In hindsight, this is actually the only way for Liverpool to win. But unfortunately, I don't know why, Liverpool came back from the break, and suddenly remembered the original intention, "we have to press it with passion", "ten minutes of grabbing can't be lost", "a turtle is not the background of our soul", "we have to be worthy of the Liverpool fans who drove 34 miles". Then, as soon as the second half came out, Liverpool pressed a wave of chicken blood across the board... So, the ball was conceded.

- In the 46th minute, Arnold went to rush Ake, and Elliott and Fabinho both stepped forward to catch up, leaving Grealish and Spider behind him leaked. A standard wave of Manchester City counter-attack, Mahrez assisted Tintin's goal, 2-1.

Without Haaland, is Manchester City stronger?

- In the 53rd minute, Mahrez was dancing in the box, Liverpool four onlooked, the ball was passed to the spider, he and Gundogan hit two in a row, 3-1.

Without Haaland, is Manchester City stronger?

These two goals also exposed Liverpool's two biggest problems at the moment.

A. After the midfield coverage and hand-to-hand combat ability have dropped significantly, Liverpool's two wings can still flow mad dogs together, but the midfielder cannot wipe the butt left by Alexander-Arnold's involvement in mad dogs.

B. The lower limit of the defensive line has been repeatedly lowered, and there have been many cases of shakers and Mahrez winning 1v3 or even 1v4 in this game.

Coupled with the aforementioned tactic of all four men in the defensive line shrinking to the center, although the Red Army full-backs defended their ribs with a meat shield, they also gave way to the wing, allowing the Rockers and Mahrez to take what they wanted.

Helplessly, everyone scolded Arnold, but Arnold did his best. The defensive presence rate of Elliott, Salah, Fabinho and Henderson in this game is very low, and Arnold often faces a 1-on-2 situation, resulting in the prince's anti-shake slipping through Gundogan, and there are no teammates to help.

Without Haaland, is Manchester City stronger?

Yes, the loss of midfield not only hammered the defense into maltose, but also completely ran out of food for the striker. Compared with the tacit understanding of the old trident, there is no effective cooperation between Gakpo, Salah and Jota in this field, and the impact cannot be done by one person to blow up a street... Anyway, it's all a trident, and you can only cut a pear when you use it.

In this case, Manchester City also played their favorite rib penetration - after Haaland came, Manchester City played more in the middle, and the attacking idea was sometimes inert, so they thought of a direct kick to find nuclear weapons, resulting in the activity of the two wings and the favorite rib picks gradually lost.

And this game, they are all back. On the left flank there is Grealish's inner cut and inverted triangle, and Gundogan's reverse insertion; Mahrez's raw defender on the right flank and De Bruyne's passing co-operation; Alvarez's retreat and flexible movement in the middle has a bit of Aguero's shadow; And Rodri and De Bruyne's several large diagonal long passes have ripped Liverpool's defense to pieces... After 60 minutes, I had the illusion: without Haaland, is Manchester City stronger?

Without Haaland, is Manchester City stronger?

In the last 20 minutes, Liverpool repeated in various disasters and disasters, the basic plot is to be pushed down from the eighth floor again and again, found that there happened to be a grass pile downstairs, just wanted to be happy, found that there was a knife on the grass pile, a wave of operation, so bad did not fall on the knife, but unfortunately, also failed to fall on the grass pile.

In short, it seems that there is a glimmer of life everywhere, but in fact there is really nowhere to hide. If it weren't for Manchester City's tribute to April Fool's Day, it would definitely be possible to score 7 to avenge their neighbors. In the end, I even wanted to change the way I watched the ball, for example, Tomeng... Or something.

Without Haaland, is Manchester City stronger?

In the end, Liverpool lost to the Etihad by a wide margin of 4-1. The only difference in the past six years is that on this trip to the Etihad, Liverpool were beaten by Manchester City.

After the game, Klopp said, "I have a lot of work to do in the summer. And that's exactly what happened. Liverpool have exposed the problems of the whole season to the fullest, the striker needs to run-in, the midfield needs to be rebuilt, the defense needs to be strengthened, and many positions can only be solved by charging money.

However, another problem that arises: banknotes are rare metals in Licun - occasionally in spring and autumn, volatile in summer and winter, not only low in production, but also extremely stable in wallets, not easy to chemically react with goods.

So, under ideal conditions, of course: the east market buys horses, the west market buys saddle, the south market buys the tou, and the north market buys long whips.

Under unideal circumstances, it may also be: do not bully the young poor, do not bully the middle-aged poor, do not bully the old and poor, and the tears of grave robbers.

Harm, you can still get away from the ground.

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