In the game against Manchester City, Portsmouth initially looked at the team with an old eye, pressed on the offense, and tried to win the opponent at home, so that their rankings would be higher, and strive to complete the task of relegation as soon as possible.

So they pressed very well after the game started. Of course, they would quickly return to defense after conceding the ball or Manchester City attacking.

However, as the game time passed, the speed of Portsmouth players returning to defense was getting slower and slower, and some people even stopped going back at all.

During this period, they completely suppressed Manchester City. It seems that goals may occur at any time. As long as they work harder... every Portsmouth player thinks so.

Just work harder, so don't go back after this attack...

In this way, the game went to the 27th minute.

Portsmouth completed a wave of offensives, in which they had three consecutive shots, the first of which was the closest to the goal.

Pete Crouch jumped high in the penalty area, and Kompany could not compete with him. Crouch hit the ball, but he did not push the ball directly to the goal, but flew to the middle... The goalkeeper Joe Hart, who had moved to the back point to block his shot, had to quickly move back to the middle, but it was too late...

David Nugent, the team following in the middle, stretched out his foot and shot

However, under Sun Hai's close contact, Nugent's shot did not hit the center, the football tilted to one side, and then ended by another Manchester City player Harman...

There was chaos in the penalty area, and screams were heard in the stands - when Crouch put the football in the middle, the Portsmouth fans in the stands were ready to cheer for the goal...

Manchester City fans' hearts almost stopped beating.

It's really dangerous.

But Manchester City's crisis has not yet been resolved, and the football that was cleared fell to the feet of the Portsmouth players, and they formed a second attack.

This is the benefit of Portsmouth's pressing play - they can always master the landing point of the football and form a second attack, or even a third attack.

So many players in Portsmouth are reluctant to return to defense...

And Portsmouth is also confident that he will score a goal during the besiege of Manchester City, because their 2.02-meter-tall center Crouch is like a lighthouse in the penalty area, and everyone just needs to upload the football to his head.

Even if Crouch cannot directly head the ball, his header after occupying the commanding heights in the penalty area can always create many opportunities for his teammates. For example, the attack just now.

Next, Portsmouth made two more shots, but the threat of these two shots was not as good as the first time, and it could even be said that once was worse than once.

Manchester City's defense quickly returned to stability after the initial chaos.

For the third shot, the football was firmly held by Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart.

However, Joe Hart did not lie on the ground holding the football, but he got up after everyone left the penalty area. Instead, he hugged the football and got up from the ground. When he was surrounded by players from both sides, he had already run forward. When he ran to the penalty spot, he threw the football out with his hands and forcefully when he ran to the penalty spot.

"Rong--" he shouted loudly while throwing the ball.

He threw the football straight at Berbatov near the middle circle. His voice was to remind Berbatov to pass the football to Rongguang again.

Rong Guang was just facing the offensive direction, so he could not throw the football directly to him. In that case, he would not be able to fully utilize his speed advantage.

But if Berbatov had made a transition... the situation would be different - Glory had turned around and started to rush forward

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In fact, there is no need for Joe Hart to shout, Berbatov also knows what he should do.

In the team's training, this is a counterattack routine. A long pass from the backcourt, whether it is using hands or feet, let the football fly to the top of your head and catch the football by yourself, while attracting the opponent's defense attention, and then jumping up, not stopping the ball with the chest or knocking back with the header, but directly rubbing the football backwards directly

He ran back, and sure enough, a Portsmouth player followed him, and at the same time, other Portsmouth players were also watching him.

However, the Portsmouth player who followed Berbatov was just halfway through when he saw Rongguang jumping from the other side at high speed and running behind Berbatov.

He hesitated for a moment, wondering if he should take down the defense of Rongguang, because what if Berbatov passes the football to Rongguang?

Isn’t that just a counterattack?

But he thought that even if he retreated to defend against glory, could he be able to defend with his speed?

So it would be better to go up and stick to Berbatov directly, so that he won't have space, time to control the ball and pass the ball. Let Manchester City's counterattack be ended directly here with Berbatov, which is the successful defense.

Making up his mind, he quickly pounced on him.

However, this hesitation actually made him miss the opportunity to hold on to Berbatov.

Besides, Berbatov didn't think about stopping the football.

He jumped up to the football. From a height, he didn't want to stop the ball with his chest...but headed the ball

But he didn't push the football back. The moment his head touched the football on his head, he quickly leaned back, and the football was rubbed behind him.

The Portsmouth player who was still planning to come up to end the attack was shocked and watched the football fly over his head, but he was helpless. He turned around and saw the glory chasing the football like the wind.

"Berbatov headed the ball and this is Manchester City's best counterattack opportunity... a counterattack opportunity," Motson shouted.

"The series of offensives just now made many Portsmouth players press up and forgot to return to defense... Maybe they also forgot how fast Rong was

As Motson spoke, Rong Guang took a quick step, then stretched out his legs, and then received the football ball that Berbatov rubbed behind.

He did not stop the football directly at his feet, but went forward with the trend

This trip happened to pass the Portsmouth defender who was planning to intercept him while he stopped the ball. The defender could only watch glory pass by like football, like lightning...

And he didn't even have time to reach out to grab glory

"Breakthrough in the net"

The few Manchester City fans jumped out of their seats, shouted the name of glory and cheered him on.

The commentators from all over the world couldn't stop talking at this time.

"Rong Rong went out and was beautiful and just passed the defensive player."

"The speed of glory is really fast. Portsmouth players can't catch up with him at all. This is Manchester City's best chance in this game."

"Portsmouth is such a low-level mistake. How could their defense have such a big gap? Now, Rong is like a wild horse that is out of control.

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This ball is not too difficult for Glory.

After he dribbled, there was only one Portsmouth player who could still stand in front of him.

Rong Guang didn't take the other party seriously at all, his eyes were on the goal.

There was no fake move, not even the upper body was shaking. Rong Guang just dribbled at his own pace, and the opponent's last defensive player was thrown away...

Next, he rushed into the penalty area and met Portsmouth goalkeeper David James.

Facing James who was attacking, Rong Guang swung his foot and made a fake shot. James fell to the ground, and then Rong Guang dunked the ball to the left with his right foot, and dunked over James.

James fell to the ground and wanted to get up and make a second save. However, Rong Guang then pushed the ball to the left and then completely cut off his idea.

He could only lie on the ground, reach out to the glory, watch Glory catch up with the football with one step, and then easily push the football to the goal with his left foot...

He can't see the rest, but it doesn't matter, he knows that football will definitely be in...

Sure enough, right behind him, the Portsmouth fans in the stands let out a burst of exclamation and booing.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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After the goal, the glory did not rush to the corner flag area to celebrate, but turned around and pointed at Berbatov and asked him to celebrate the goal.

This goal was Berbatov's assist.

Berbatov ran over with his arms wide open, and the two hugged each other.

"That's interesting..." Alan Hansen snorted when he saw this scene. "Why did Manchester City try their best to grab Berbatov from Manchester United? You can't really just to disgust Manchester United? Rong and Berbatov can cooperate with each other. Berbatov has excellent foot skills and body. He can get the ball in the frontcourt and give Rong a fulcrum when attacking. As long as he can control the ball, Rong can insert it with confidence and boldness without worrying about running around again and again..."

"If this is not a coincidence, it can be said that Benitez's Manchester City is indeed different from Mark Hughes's..." Motson added next to him.

"Although I still rely on Rong, the way of relying on him is better than Mark Hughes." Alan Hansen nodded. "And now it seems that if Berbatov can cooperate with Rong, the overall offensive improvement of Manchester City will be very obvious... Berbatov scored two goals in the last FA Cup, and he has contributed another assist in this game. His form is recovering. Next, it depends on Robinho's."

As he was talking, the TV broadcast gave Robinho a close-up shot.

He also went up and celebrated the goal with other teammates.

Robinho did not play in the last FA Cup game, but he returned to the starting lineup in this game, which puzzled those who thought Robinho really had a falling out with Benitez - how quickly he made up as before?

However, Robinho's performance on the court is far less dazzling than glory and Berbatov.

It now seems that there has been a tacit understanding between Berbatov and Glory, while Robinho feels a little out of the system.

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E, I’m sorry, the update last night was not shown because of the website’s frivolous technical failure. I woke up today and saw everyone’s message. I quickly asked the editor to help me do it. It should be ready now. I haven’t seen Chapter 62. Friends who don’t enter the empty door can go and check it out again, and it should be displayed normally.

terribly sorry

In addition, I went to Shenzhen丨After attending the summit, I flew twice in less than 48 hours, and the flight time was six hours. The tossing time was longer on the way, and my stomach was so tired. Please comfort me.
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