Manchester City football club
Winning the Premier League at Old Trafford
's 11-game winning streak, the Premier League
The championship is within reach.
This is a game for Manchester United.
They did prepare for a tough battle, but no amount of hard work is good enough for mistakes, and Man City
The ability to do so is enough to put United
The mistake was turned directly into two goals, allowing United to
There's no chance of a struggle.
Starts for both teams
Match Highlights
Contents of the contest
Manchester United Football Club
Starting with 5 defenders and playing 532, Soskaja said that he used all the defenders at his disposal, and he thought that he would not be able to stop City if he did not do so.
Offense, and City
Still 433, with midfielder Fernandinho starting and Gundogan & David Silva also playing, broadly unchanged starters
The game started with Manchester United
Immediately into the tight defense, they are to deliberately close the entire side of the road, as long as they can reduce the Manchester City
The number of cuts and crosses from the side will inevitably reduce the destructive power of their attacks.
Manchester City football club
It was business as usual playing offense, but United
This side used a tight backfield to stop City's
The sideline attack of City
Unable to attack strongly, they had no choice but to return the ball to meander around the central area in search of an opportunity, United
The middle of the midfield was handed over to Pereira & Fred, Pogba was right to stand in the defensive position for this game, but United
His high explosiveness is needed in order to play counterattacks, and that's why he doesn't really retreat to the front of the line of scrimmage, but rather stands a little further forward
Manchester United Football Club
The aim was clear from the outset, with one of the forward pairing of Lingard and Rashford going back to do a pop-up near the halfway line to support the breakaway City
Pogba, who was pressing, then played a long pass directly to the attacker who stayed up front to shoot, and if the attack slowed down slightly, the wing-backs rushed up to support him, but again, they didn't stay at City for long.
half of the field, but rather retreat as quickly as possible to their own half of the defense
I think this style of play does look like the old Ferguson era Man Utd.
The flavor of the day, Soskaya is this traditional Manchester United
The believers of that time Manchester United
The Gunners are far more technical than Man Utd when it comes to the title race against them
But Manchester United
It's all about playing this high-speed counter-attack and putting the ball into the set piece and just shooting (and United
mostly beat them), in a repetitive back-and-forth movement that caused the Gunners' defense to start peeling off, United
Hasn't always been about playing with skill, but rather stiffness and physicality and explosiveness, with a little bit of skill in the mix, but only for individual players
It's just that the difference is that now Manchester United
players in world football at the same level as Manchester United back in the day
The difference is huge, just like in this game, Sosia could only play 5 defenders in order to thicken the defense, but the old Manchester United
Fans should remember that Ferguson hardly ever set up 5 defenders a couple of times, he played mostly 5 midfielders because that's how you stop the opposing team from attacking in midfield, and the focus was on Manchester United
The central defenses of the past weren't too bad, especially the back positions were mostly physical & explosive, or else they stood up well, but now Manchester United
With the lack of player ability, Soskaya had no choice but to put all the available players on hand into defense to play on the counterattack, as there was still room for a pass at the back, United
Even if they set up a 5 midfield, they are not capable of stopping the opponent's conduction, they can only retreat to the defense line to let the compressed space help them defend
This affects this game United
The attacking power of the former Manchester United
When playing this kind of counter-attack at least two people can rush into the box and shoot, but in this game United
The reason there will mostly be only one man on the counterattack is because they can't stop City in midfield
The offense had to retreat to the line of scrimmage and use the narrow space to increase City's
Difficulty of holding the ball after a counterattack, although it is simply too far to launch a counterattack from this position, and the player is unlikely to be able to immediately sprint from the defensive end to the opposite end zone or the penalty area, the
That's actually what's going on at Manchester United right now
The limit of what can be done.
Manchester United in the first half
Actually playing quite well, always with City
It was a stalemate, and although shot opportunities were few and far between, Rashford and Lingard were basically on the verge of breaking free of City when they had to make their final moves upfield
of the defense to at least create a one-on-one situation with the center backs, and defensively City
Despite keeping the ball, they were also unable to generate a lot of shots on goal as United
There's no way the midfielders are at the level they're at now to use siege tactics to steal City outright.
Possession of the ball, they can only stand position or follow the opponent to limit its shooting angle, but this game they did actually really good, City
Having been unable to find good space to shoot in the first half, the
At 15:00 in the first half Pogba played a long pass from the left straight into the right penalty area 12 yards out, Lingard followed up with a shot that was picked out but deflected before Laporte blocked him, and then it was 18:00 when City
A sudden rush into the box by Gundogan with the ball and release to David Silva on the right side made United
The defense backed up into the box before laying the ball off, then B.Silva stepped up and fired a shot, but it was too square for De Gea to catch.
Lingard crossed the halfway line and sent a pass straight to Rashford, who sprinted out to meet the ball but was blocked and tripped by goalkeeper Ederson.
