In the final round of the EPL season, the highlights were undoubtedly Manchester City's home match against Aston Villa and Liverpool's home match against Wolverhampton Wanderers. Both teams are tired and under pressure at the end of the season, with both City and Liverpool conceding points at home, making the crowd's heart beat faster.
City played in a 433 formation with a backline led by Laporte, Fernandinho, Stones, Cancelo, a midfield with Rodri, De Bruyne, B.Sliva in the middle and a forward line of Jesus, Foden, Mahrez.Villa played in a 4321 formation with Mings at the back, Chambers, Digne, Cash, with J.Ramsey, DougliasLuiz, J.McGinn in midfield, Coutinho, Buedia in attacking midfield and Watkins up front.
At the beginning of the game, City looked too impatient, attacking frequently from the left side, with players eager to score in the box. However, Villa's 4321 formation was tightly defended at the back, and the players' mentality was stable, always occupying the best position in City's passing line. Although Villa couldn't block City completely, the dense defense limited City's shooting angles, and Villa's Swedish goalkeeper Olsen easily deflected the threats.
City were eager to attack, but the speed of the passes led to easy interceptions. mahrez and de bruyne failed to get to the ball in time, and the Villa players were able to accurately anticipate City's technique as City did not create a flexible and varied passing pattern. As a result, City were unable to attack for a long time.
City were having problems in defense and fell behind on 36 minutes when J.Ramsey counter attacked with a direct pass to Digne who crossed for Cash to head home.Stone was slow to react defensively and it became a mystery as to why Pep Guardiola played Stone at right back instead of Walker.
City fell behind and continued to attack strongly, but Villa's counter-attacks got sharper and sharper.Villa took advantage of the keeper's opener in the 69th minute when Watkins headed home to extend the lead to 0-2.
Guardiola replaced Zinchenko, and at the 56th minute of the second half, replaced Mahrez with Sterling, but the City players were too impatient, and at one point in the second half, all the defenders pressed across the center line. At this point Liverpool 1-1 draw, City will be a tragedy if they lose the title.
Guardiola brought on Gundogan and withdrew B.Silva at 68.Sterling made it 1-2 in the 76th minute with a breakaway cross from the right that was headed home by Gundogan.
Zinchenko made it 2-2 in the 78th minute when he went down the left and played the ball back just outside the box for Rodri to pump home.Gundogan's inswinging move opened up space and City once again had two high risk shooting spots in the box with Gundogan on the pitch.
