I said on the program that I was interested in
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If you can expect a goal difference, you can expect it, but in the second round, Brentford was blown away 4-0, and there was a lot of abuse after the game.
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Many players were lambasted.
this match
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The lineup is different from the last game.
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The starting lineup was 433 instead of 4231 in the previous game, with McTominay missing from the starting lineup, and at the start of the game, I actually felt that the
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The first part of the first half was not bad, quite aggressive, and Brentford actually played a five-at-the-back formation, closer to 532, with two strikers, Mbeumo and Toney, in front of them to make disruptions.
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Apparently getting the entire center front up and pushing up the two wingbacks LukeShaw and Dalot, who pushed forward not quite down but inside the opponent's 30-yard line.
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By filling the opponent's half of the field with their own players and pushing the back and wingbacks to the second line to become the pivot point to deliver and distribute the ball, they really had the momentum of controlling the game for a while.
Basically in the first half
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Despite dropping four goals, virtually all of them were
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In possession, at one point 71% of the time in possession, even after the full game they had 69% of the time in possession. Of course, Brentford were letting possession go on purpose, but
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The reason that the ball was held for so long but rarely produced a shot was that they all stopped on the offside line and didn't match the pass further to hit the defenders in the back and certainly didn't break through.
This phenomenon is true from the center of the defense to the sidelines, the
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There were no players making forward or diagonal cuts, and naturally Sancho and Rashford, who were wingers, had a lot to answer for, and there were no strikers in the central area that
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Pulling out of the box and standing out wide, he was presumably looking for a chance to shoot from distance or charge into the box to receive a cross, but there was no one at all to pass across, it was possible that this was a matchmaking problem, with Brentford playing a dense defensive position at the back of the field.
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The midfielders here can't pass directly out, they are also afraid of being cut off, but the problem is even worse if they don't force the pass, to be honest, the number of people in front of the field is already so dense, even if they pass hard, they can still create chances, but if they don't pass, they will be completely stuck there.
Brentford unexpectedly broke through first on nine minutes as they looked on in a positional battle to
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A significant number of the players retreated to the right half of the field, so they too did not retreat to form pressure in that area, resulting in the
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When the ball was taken out of their hands, Pelenda Da Silva took the ball out of the area and went 20 yards outside the penalty area to shoot a ground ball, which was a normal shot and not very fast, but De Gea, who was already in position, slipped and let the ball bounce into the goal when he went down to save it.
The situation has continued since then.
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Still had long spells of possession but couldn't attack too much and Brentford had made sure that
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The back four were shaky and then at 18:00 the Brentford set piece ended with three Brentford attackers not backing off as De Gea was about to take the goal kick and De Gea, who had clearly seen that the right back could pass, gave it straight to Eriksen in the center of the pitch, when Jensen came up at the back at super speed and grabbed the ball and shot it in the back of the net.
Both of those goals were actually individual errors by De Gea, who didn't look like he was adjusting well.
Brentford's Toney forced the ball into the air at the far post, where Ben Mee and Norgaard tried to squeeze the ball in. Linsandro Martinez saw the ball bouncing in the air and went back to the goal line to try and clear the ball, but he's only 175 tall, and was blocked by the two men. Ben Mee was able to get his head on the ball before he fell and touched it into the goal.
It could just be a coincidence that the situation of the ball was very sudden and Brentford didn't necessarily play on the fact that Lisandro Martinez was short, but this image proves that once this kind of high ball fight develops, especially if the ball doesn't have much speed and stays in the air for a long period of time, it will turn into a fight that is entirely based on the height of the ball, and that Lisandro Martinez was completely defeated. Lisandro Martinez was completely defeated.
After three goals Brentford couldn't have been more careful, and the whole of their confidence came out in a bold counterattack at the 35:00 mark.
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After a corner was cleared by Brentford, a long ball was played to the left in front of them, Toney sprinted up to take the ball, Lisandro Martinez was there to kill it off, but Toney was able to get to the center of the pitch before he could, and Mbeumo followed up with a one-touch shot that completely shrugged off Luke Shaw to extend the lead to 4-0.
The game's over this way.
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There was a ridiculous scene where it was clear that the time of possession reached 70%, but could not create a shot on goal, and the more threatening attacks you saw throughout the game were Eriksen pressing hard into the box trying to get a shot in the air.
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The two wings of the team were completely afraid to make a breakthrough after facing Brentford's wingbacks, favoring the
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In fact, the ability to shoot from long range doesn't look good either, you can't make a lot of long range shots, and if you do, they're not accurate, so you don't threaten the opposing team's goal at all, and frankly, even if you do hit the target from long range.
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Lack of strikers and the fact that everyone is behind the offside line and not trying to speed up, so the goalkeeper can block it.
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Couldn't pick up the extra shot either.
