4-0 Real Madrid 3-0 Bayern! Manchester City cashed in on "Champions League favourites" and the boss relies on Haaland to make a living

At 3 a.m. Beijing time on Sunday, this season's Champions League final will begin, and compared to Inter, Manchester City is more optimistic about the industry and the market, and they have definitely proved with practical actions that they deserve to be the "favorite to win the title".

Beat Queens, Manchester City cashed in on "favourites"

Since Pep Guardiola's management, Manchester City have been regarded as strong contenders for the Champions League title, especially in the last two or three seasons, they have dominated the Premier League, have been quite strong, and have been hyped as "favourites to win the title".

However, Manchester City seem to be unable to escape the curse of "hot must die": reaching the Champions League final for the first time in the team's history in 2020-21, they lost to Chelsea, who changed managers temporarily. Last season, after winning the first leg and scoring the first goal in the second leg, he was forced into extra time by Real Madrid, and finally suffered a tragic reversal and stopped the semifinals!

It's always a layer of window paper away from the championship, until this season, when Blue Moon looks like it's really going to burst it! In the second leg of the quarter-final, they swept Leipzig 7-0. In the first leg of the 1/4 final, we beat Bayern 3-0 to seal the promotion early! In the second leg of the semifinals, it was 4-0 against Real Madrid!

In particular, the successful revenge of reigning champions and 14-time champions Real Madrid in the Champions League has greatly increased Manchester City's confidence and can be regarded as truly fulfilling the expectation of "number one favourite".

Whole life? Gua Shuai is a master tactician

Manchester City's guide to keep moving forward is, of course, manager Pep Guardiola. In the past, they repeatedly missed in strong dialogues, and one of the important reasons was that Gua Shuai liked to "whole work", and there were "unexpected moves" in tactical arrangements and personnel arrangements, and they ended up playing and smashing.

But this season, Guardiola is really "working hard", showing the style of a tactician master through changing formations.

Unlike in the past, Manchester City have a real center this season, that is, Haaland, but the impression left by the manager has always been bad at using the centre-forward, Ibrahimovic and Lewandowski are the most typical examples, can he use Haaland well?

Haaland has proven to have not only scored 36 goals in the Premier League and 12 in the Champions League, but has also become a cornerstone of Pep Guardiola's change.

His arrival has made Manchester City's midfielders no longer a group of small men, unable to play in the face of the opponent's iron barrel formation, and there is nothing to do; His huge body and super shooting ability can attract the attention of the opposing central defender, and create space and opportunities for teammates; His header gave City an extra attacking option and an additional deterrent in the box.

Based on this, Gua Shuai changed the formation 3241, which is a modern version of the ancient WM formation: the defense line is three defenders; Stones is a partner with Rodri, but constantly going up and down at the back and centre-back, and backed by teammates, the Spain international can boldly press forward to support the attack.

De Bruyne and Gundogan played as midfielders, or forwards, pressing the attacking range, especially the latter, scoring a series of goals and scoring twice in the FA Cup final; There are no orthodox full-backs or wing-backs on the wings, Grealish plays with the B, has technical possession, and has the ability to cross; The arrow is naturally Haaland, but he is not blindly at the front, and he can also retreat to participate in the overall attack.

In short, Haaland scored crazy goals, they can win easily; Haaland is not flustered because his tactical role is still there and his teammates can also score. Therefore, the change of formation of the coach further activated the Manchester City players, allowing the entire team to go to a higher level at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends and complete the transformation.