For this match the hosts Wolves lined up in 343 with Dawson, Toti, Kilman at fullback, Semedo, Doherty at wingback, Lemina, Doyle at the back and Neto, Cunha, Bellegarde on the front line.
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The old look lined up in 4231 with Varane, Lisandro Martinez, Dalot, Luke Shaw, Casemiro, Mainoo at the back, Beefy at attacking midfielder, Garnacho, Rashford on the wings, and Højlund up front.
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Recent form has seen Wolves pick up 14 points from their last seven games, losing only to table-toppers
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The Wolves have arguably been all over the winter schedule
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The second-best performing team, this game is a direct challenge for them to
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Only three minutes into the match, Casemiro received a yellow card for shoveling the ball in order to block a Semedo attack, but by the five-minute mark
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Dalot moved from midfield to the right side of the field and worked with Garnacho before passing directly into the center of the field, then Beefy ran in diagonally to distract the defenders and missed the ball. Højlund received the ball and tried to shoot, but the shot was blocked, and he immediately turned back and passed the ball backward to Rashford for an easy goal from 18 yards.
This is a very nice combination, both Dalot and Garnacho on the right side of the field, B fee and Højlund in the middle of the field, which was deliberately missed to allow a shot at the back post, and finally Højlund's pass back to Rashord, who was already in a shooting position, were all very good.
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Obviously better on offense.
The Wolves are still trying to run a good organized warfare offense, though
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The backfield held up well in the first part of the first half and didn't give the Wolves too many chances, and on 22 minutes
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This time it was Dalot and Garnacho playing upfield again, Garnacho saw it coming and passed it directly to Rashford on the left, Rashford waited for Luke Shaw to come up and crossed it directly into the penalty area, Luke Shaw made the final pass, Højlund rushed to the goal and grabbed the ball, which went through the keeper's arms and then was touched into the goal by him. Højlund scored again!
That's as good a counter match as any.
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The left and right flanks of the team formed a two-man stack and were very smooth, and also brought a left-right switching transfer, and finally the center grabbed the point somewhat reluctantly, but the Wolves' defense appeared to be spacey, and became defenseless by the two cuts, and ultimately a little bit of a lapse in defense led to a turnover of the ball
The Wolves' tactics in the first half had been to try and go down the wings and attack, playing open passes into the middle of the pitch after organizing on the wings, but the
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The side had already anticipated this, so they strengthened their guards on both flanks, with both Rashford and Garnacho actually pulling back deeper, Dalot going up on the attack, and Luke Shaw being very cautious about the timing of his advances, which allowed the Wolves to organize a little bit on the sides, but most of the time they couldn't succeed when they had to pass into the center.
It was only 47 minutes into the second half when Lisandro Martinez received a yellow card for a tackle on Semedo, who had already created the
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Yellow cards for two defensive starters (Casemiro & Lisandro Martinez).
The Wolves began to make moves on 54 minutes, with Doherty coming off for Aït-Nouri and then Bellegarde for Sarabia on 64 minutes.
The Wolves made two changes to strengthen their attacking play on the wings, then they played the in-form Semedo, and took a 45-degree diagonal pass to the bottom of the pitch, with the back man following up with a shot on goal, which allowed the Wolves to gradually put the game out of reach after the midway point of the second half.
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Pressing back, as this practice forces
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The linebackers have to be on the defensive all the time, and they're up against an onrushing attacker.
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The protection of Casemiro and Mainoo was not good and Casemiro already had a yellow card, as a result, the Wolves were allowed to get a chance to shoot, Casemiro finally in the 69th minute in the back of the defense has been messed up, resulting in a foul in the penalty area, turned into 12 yards from the Sarabia penalty, the Wolves to make it 1-2.
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Seeing that the Wolves were starting to pounce, an immediate substitution was made, replacing Casemiro and Rashford at 73 for McTominay and Antony, resulting in a corner kick at 75.
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McTomiany rely on the top of the ball to break the goal, the ball is actually full of marvelous, originally should be the front point of LisandroMartinez, but in the place did not top fell behind, McTominay reaction quickly and immediately swing the head, and at that time, he did not jump and did not rush to the top of the action, in fact, it was too late to make a powerful header goal, but McTominay But McTominay tried his best to control the power of the header to make it a bouncing one, resulting in a very tricky angle for the goal!
