Wolverhampton Wanderers are on a two-game winning streak against strong teams. Last week they played Liverpool, and then this week they touched Manchester City, but both games were narrowly lost by 1-0, and they have a very strong defense, and so far Wolverhampton Wanderers have conceded only 14 goals, which is the second highest amongst all teams. Wolves have only conceded 14 goals so far, second only to Manchester City , Chelsea , Liverpool EPL in the fourth place, only their Only 12 goals have been scored, with only one win over bottom side Norwich, a team that relies entirely on defense to rank 8th in the Premier League.
Home team Manchester City lined up 433 with defenders Dias, Larporte, Cancelo, Zinchenko, midfielders Rodri, Gundogan, B. Silva, and strikers Sterling, Jesus, Grealish.
Wolves, on the other hand, are 352 and their three center backs remain Coady, Saiss, Kilman, wingbacks Semedo, Nouri, midfielders Neves, Dendoncker, Moutinho, and forward line Traore, Jimenez.
Manchester City of course, from the beginning of the control of the midfield, they are more effective in the first half of the attack came from the right side of the road, Pep Guardiola must have analyzed the Wolves in detail, in the last game, Wolves left back Nouri alone blocked Salah, then Liverpools goal came after Nouri went off and Salah scored on a last-minute assist.
The gameCity had Sterling and Jesus constantly running in a U-shape in this area, with Sterling at center forward dipping in and then coming out to receive the ball, and Jesus doing the same on the right side of the field, so that at any time one of them would be offside, and the other would come back around to receive the ball. And then the right back of the game, Cancelo is to the right side of the road directly to play the ball into the two people to receive the ball, never consider pushing forward, the purpose is to force Nouri to go forward to block, so that the Wolves left side of the left side of the left center back of the only Saiss can fill in.
Guardiola must have seen Nouri one-on-one last week to guard Salah's amazing performance, he not only has the speed, fast reaction, foot accurate, and good position sense is also very calm, Salah no matter how shaking how to buckle, Nouri on that stared at, his feet have been placed in front of the ball, Salah is difficult to get a chance to cut or pass into the center of the opportunity as long as you want to pass the Nouri would be breaks down, so it's a matter of deliberately sucking Nouri out of the defense for Sterling & Jesus to have a chance.
This tactic was actually very successful, as Wolves were struggling to defend on the left, Saiss had his hands full, and the midfielder Moutinho on that side of the pitch was too old to keep up with Citys passes, which of course resulted in Nouri having to go forward to break up a pass from Cancelo, but despite the extreme pressure on Wolves, Sterling and Coady had to be sucked off the line to give Nouri a chance. Saiss and Coady played well and were able to get the last kick off no matter what.
But Wolves also still have attacking power, they still rely on Traore charge, City also the same fear of death, completely on him to kill, to see him to get the ball, desperately put down, City on the charge back to chase is more than the last week's Liverpool is weaker than last week, so the entire City defense is on the lookout for Traore, and even appeared to be the right side of the ball, he took the ball, City there are even five people immediately desperate to run to him! Immediately, they ran desperately to block in front of him and around him, completely ignoring Jimenez.
Wolves in order to stop City attacking more and more fierce, both sides in the first half after the half of the body collision is very much, the fire is getting bigger and bigger, Rodri is obviously more and more upset, already have eaten a yellow card, and he has been less than referee convinced, Jimenez see this want to add fuel to the fire, the second half of the first half has been intentionally to his side to get. Jimenez wanted to add fuel to the fire and deliberately went his way later in the first half.
In the first half before the end of Rodri take the ball, Jimenez went over to get him down, that action is actually full of intentional, the referee gave Jimenez a yellow, the result in Rodri want to kick off Jimenez did not exit the safety range, in Rodri pass out he also deliberately damage, the referee saw clearly, immediately took another yellow card out, Jimenez into the red. Jimenez became a red card.
Jimenez this action is too unwise, take the initiative to go over to the provocation want to let the opponent to hit you is not an efficient practice, not only the opponent will be on guard and the referee also know that will quickly stop, normally he should find a way to get the ball to let Rodri put down his right, Jimenez do not know what is going on, all the old experience, but still do this kind of street soccer provocation (this kind of provocation is usually the This kind of provocative action is usually more common in Central and South America or street soccer, Europe is usually to fake wrestling to attract the opponent to eat a card).
As a result, Wolves started the second half with one less player, City began to press, 56 minutes on Foden removed Gundogan to full attack, Wolves coach Raji knew that this is very difficult to defend, he wanted to replace Hwang Hee-chan, in fact, he should be removed from the attack and defense did not have a big role in the Moutinho, but on the When Huang was ready to go on the field, B.Silva crossed the ball on the right side of the box at 66:00, Moutinho raised his hand while blocking the ball and turned it into a 12-yard handball, which Sterling punted.
After that, Hwang Hee Chan replaced Traore, so Citycontinued to press Wolves to play, 73 minutes De Bruyne came on the field to replace Grealish, who did not have too much effect, Citycrazy! But Raji continued to replace Trincao and Podence in the 82nd and 86th minutes, and the result was a cross in the 91st minute of extra time, Tilman rushed up from the far post to head the ball into the goal, and it was Ederson who reacted quickly to block the ball, or Wolves would have been equalized in the final moments. The Wolves would have tied the game at the end of the period if not for Ederson's quick reaction.
