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In 433, the players were rotated, with Foden and B. Silva resting, Grealish on the left wing, Mahrez on the right, and Rodri, De Bruyne, and Gundogan in midfield, while Walker, the right back, had a recent injury and suspension, and Guardiola continued to play Stones at right back.
Dortmund's visitors are more conservative and have been rotating their squad recently, not fielding attackers such as Hazard, Adeyemi, Brandt, Dahoud (injured), Gittens (injured), etc. in this match.
Dortmund looked careful from the start of the game and stayed on the defensive side of the field, Reus and Reyna did a good job on the wings and kept the game under control.
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The left and right midfielders as well as the two wing backs came forward, which was very effective in pressing the
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stacking attack
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Grealish was in a bad shape, he didn't look confident, as soon as he got the ball, he saw Dort's backline and midfielders, he didn't dare to break through, and kept passing the ball back, while Mahrez on the right side lost his passing accuracy, and failed to pass many times, and even gave the ball to the opponents.
Dortmund's defense strategy is quite good, Modeste intentionally stares at Rodri, constantly running back to harass him from behind, while Reyna and EmreCan will also intentionally go forward a little bit to make Rodri become a sandwich, and then the lack of confidence in the Grealish constantly back to the pass, very often in the midfield, Gundogan has not yet moved forward to the position of the ball distribution, Grealish back to him, so he can only continue to go back to the back, and then Rodri will be easy to be wrapped up. Grealish would return the ball before Gundogan could get into a position to distribute it, leaving him with no choice but to return it to the back, and Rodri would then be vulnerable to a tackle.
This tactic creates
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The first half of the chaos, not only did not do a good job of attacking, in the Dodgers a few sandwich cookies under the defense of the backfield once a little close, because Dodgers play quite conservative, Reus and Reyna are very focused on the ball back to grab the ball is not able to instantly on the counter, and Bellingham stayed in the middle of the first half of the game in the middle of the defense, so the Dodgers did not play a high-speed counter, so the Dodgers did not hit the high-speed counter.
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Dort probably also wanted to stall in the first half and win in the second half, and the
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himself was in bad shape kicking around, Haaland was heavily defended by Dort's central defense, and
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The wings and midfield never rushed to the box to help him, which allowed Haaland and
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With two Dortmund defenders between the ball carriers and almost all of them blocking the ball, De Bruyne's attempts to feed Haaland in this situation were unsuccessful and Stones was pressured on the right side several times, he was still not able to play well at right back.
After a first half in which he played like an X, Guardiola began to change tactics at halftime and came out for the second half
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It's not the same, it's obvious that De Bruyne runs to the right flank and becomes a right winger, while Stones goes up less often and left back Cancelo goes up more in front, at this time of the year.
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It's starting to look like 343.
But Dort were also ready to play the second half, and they were meant to play the second half, and Bellingham came on at the start of the second half and moved very quickly, and it looked like Dort still had the high press to play up front, forcing
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I can't get the ball out.
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The defense is lowered, and Dort will be able to hit the empty backfield.
At 51:00 in the midfield battle Bellingham suddenly stepped up to take a pass from Modeste and knocked the ball forward at the first opportunity, it was a beautiful knock, Ozcan took the ball and went straight to the 25 yard box, by now Reus was already on his heels, Ozcan put in another beautiful forward pass for Reus to get to the end line near the 0 degree to take a shot on goal, it was also a dodge over his former teammate Akanji's shovel. Akanji's shot was deflected, but it was a big warning sign!
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As a result, in the 56th minute, Dortmund was cleared from a corner kick, Reus played a pass that looked like a shot on the left periphery, and Bellingham suddenly stepped forward to receive a super-fast kickoff to the goal, Bellingham's sense of the ball is very good, and the ball was already very fast and hard to catch, Bellingham stepped forward and swung his head to tap the ball to make it even faster, and the camera was very hard to catch it. The camera is very difficult to catch, and Reus on the ball is quite good, it is difficult to judge whether the ball is a pass or a shot, even if not on top of the ball is also a goal, so the goalkeeper must be in the shooting point to block, then Bellingham up to the top of the ball to change the route will be really difficult to respond to the Dotterre's two attacks are to play Ake's delay, his reaction can not really cope with the Dotterre's instantaneous acceleration!
But as if Guardiola had expected it, he continued to make stronger dispatches, continuing the spindle of playing De Bruyne on the right side, and he made three substitutions in the 58th minute, with Gundogan, Grealish, and Mahrez going down, and then replacing them with Foden, B. Silva, and Alvarez, and at this point in time
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The formation is about to become 334, De Bruyne has turned into a right winger, able to go up and attack becomes Foden on the left side inserting into the box, with Haaland and Alvarez in the center, and B.Silva also penetrating the midfield with wide movements, and Cancelo going up to the center of the field to get the ball out of the box
