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The opening game gets underway in the early hours of August 12, with the first match featuring Burnley hosting the
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, Burnley lined up in a 541 formation and the reigning champions
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Lining up in 4231, fullbacks Akanji and Ake play center back, left and right backs are Walker and RicoLewis, backs are Rodri and DeBruyne, attacking midfielder Alvarez, wings are Foden and B. Silva, and striker Haaland.
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It's only three minutes into the game.
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Then the goal came, Burnley backed away from the start, but the
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Start pressing on straight away, at 3 minutes
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A corner was taken by Debruyne, he took a short corner which was met by Foden in the penalty area, who then laid the ball off to the back post and then passed it forward to DeBruyne, who had already pulled the Burnley defense into a frenzy, and DeBruyne's pinpoint cross was sent to the far post, where he was going to send a header into the path of Rodri, who immediately judged that he needed to get his head to the ball, but he had to look at the opposing team coming over to keep the ball in play. Rodri saw that he had a player coming to him and he immediately decided to head the ball towards Haaland, who swept a first time shot with his left foot from the center of the seven yard line.
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When using the corner kick to pull the defense, Burnley in the beginning of the station positioning of the staring position has been lost, so running back and forth a bit, Haaland is no one to watch, he looks with a very good sense of coordination, the start of the small step back quickly pull back a bit, with the fall of the ball at the first time to push the ball to hit the center of the ball to generate high speed so that the goalkeeper can not react, and Rodri from the second half of last year to this year's opening game, you can see that he is in good shape. From the second half of last year's season to this year's opening game, we can see that he has maintained his form well, and his instant judgment can find out the space for the goalkeeper.
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Directly create scoring opportunities.
Burnley let the midfield start to get on the ball after conceding a point, which gave the
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RicoLewis had already had the experience of going from wing back to full back, forming a deeper position in front of the center backs and playing a pass to allow his teammates to advance when he came on the field last season, and he was already quite consistent in his performance. RicoLewis, who had already had experience of this kind of move from wing-back to full-back last season, and had already been quite consistent, moved into the back to set DeBruyne free, and with 10 minutes to go DeBruyne moved to the left and played a cross that found Haaland and B.Silva at the same time, almost allowing Haaland to jump and kick the ball into the back of the net.
DeBruyne was in good form as could be seen from the Community Shield, but 17 minutes into this game he was suddenly injured and although it didn't look serious, he had to be substituted and Guardiola replaced DeBruyne with Kovacic.
DeBruyne comes off the bench.
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Adjusting the standings, B.Silva moved to the center, Foden moved to the right and Alvarez to the left, moving B.Silva into the center as DeBruyne had left the field and a new center of possession was necessary up front.
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With DeBruyne missing from the attack, Burnley saw an opportunity and began to press, only to force a mistake from Rico Lewis on 27 minutes, which saw Amdouni nearly score a one-two, before attacking from the left and firing wide of the target.
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Feeling the pressure and aware that if they allow Burnley to press up they will force a lot of defensive errors, the
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At the 35:00 mark, Rodri made a pass to Foden, who had already made a nice turn and almost made a one-touch pass to Walker on the right side, who passed into the center of the field, where Alvarez picked up the ball and released it to Haaland, who kicked a shot from his left foot 12 yards to the right and broke the far corner. Haaland's left-footed shot from 12 yards to the right went into the far corner.
Haaland in the first half on
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Goal, look at his shot, he's obviously very quick before he shoots and does it with very little movement, also very accurate, this is an adjustment he's been making since the second half of the season last year, he no longer has a pre-shot preparation or pulls his stride in preparation for a shot, but instead clicks the front of his foot, with his power enough to create a high speed shot without the need to pump the ball hard, which would make the suddenness of his shot dramatically increased In this game Haaland was clearly different than last season.
