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At home against
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Lined up in 4231 with defenders T. Silva, Disasi, Cucurella, James, backs Enzo Fernández, Caicedo, attacking midfielder Gallagher, wings Sterling, Palmer, and strikers Jackson
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Also in 4231, with Ruben Dias, Akanji, Walker, Gvardiol at the back, Rodri, B. Silva at the back, Álvarez at attacking midfielder, Doku, Foden on the wings, and Haaland at the front.
even though
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It was a 4231, but the game started in a three-fullback formation, with Akanji moving forward into the back four and B. Silva moving forward into attacking midfield.
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Intending to press with a strong center front
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First part of the first half
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Looking to play on the right flank, probably trying to avoid the steady James and concentrate on Cucurella's side of the field, Cucurella was pressed hard by Foden and Walker coming up to attack in quick succession, and Akanji was moving around quite a bit, at one point pressuring into the front half of the field, and tracking back to the line of scrimmage when he came back to defend.
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Creates an advantage
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There were also counterattacking offenses that utilized the speed of Palmer and Sterling on the wings
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The weaker side of the trio of defenders, however, due to the
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Strong in the middle of the field, the
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There weren't enough men to keep up, EnzoFernández had to keep going back to defense, and the attack wasn't very sharp
20 minutes past the hour
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score a goal (sport)
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In the penalty area, James collided with Caicedo and went down.
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The offense continued to pass and Haaland fell to the ground before he was about to shoot, but at that point the referee blew for a foul, after VAR was activated it was seen that Cucurella had pulled Haaland to the ground, resulting in the referee blowing the call for a 12-yarder, which was punted in by Haaland.
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lead at this point
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but
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Afterwards, they pressed the attack and had several very threatening attacks, and at the 28th minute, James took a free kick and shot at a high speed which was blocked by Ederson, and then took a corner kick, T. Silva raced from the center to the outside of the right side, and grabbed a header in front of Haaland, who headed a high speed attack to the far corner of the goal.
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tie the game at 1-1
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Breaking down the need for
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588 minutes without a goal
The two sides then started to attack each other and Foden had a threatening shot from inside the box, but by the 36:00 mark
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Launching a counter-attack, Palmer played a straight pass forward to James who raced into the right side of the box, James immediately grounded a cross that Akanji in the center failed to stop, only to be added to by Sterling coming up from the far post.
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lead 2-1
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The ball is
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Gvardiol made a mistake, at the beginning of Palmer's direct pass, in fact, it was passed to his range, he had the opportunity to turn around and kick the ball away, but his footsteps are messed up a bit overrun, resulting in the inability to clear the ball, and was followed by James to catch the opportunity, but this is in fact quite difficult to say, it feels as if Palmer is to see that Gvardiol was not yet fully turned around, but in the running back, and was caught up in judging when to turn to James defense, so it seems to deliberately pass his body in the opposite direction, that is, pass inside instead of outside, if Palmer is calculated, it is very powerful pass. It seems that Palmer saw that Gvardiol had not yet turned around and was running back, and was caught up in judging when to turn around and face James, so it seems that he intentionally passed the ball to the opposite side of his body, i.e., to the inside rather than the outside, which is a very powerful pass if Palmer had calculated it well.
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Then the offense continued, and just before the end of the first half, the
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A short corner on the left was taken, then B. Silva played a cross straight to Akanji, who was on the front foot of the 7-footer and scored straight away.
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Tied at 2-2 before the end of the first half.
The ball was actually missed by T.Silva, he let it slip through, and B.Silva's quick pass was the cause of T.Silva's miscalculation
At the start of the second half, it immediately turned into a head-to-head battle again, and at the 46:00 mark
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Haaland received the ball and flicked it to Álvarez, who then passed it to Foden, who then raced all the way into the penalty area, where Haaland was already at full speed, and Foden finally piled on a cross to Álvarez, which allowed Haaland to ram the ball straight into the goal!
