Man City cannot defend the transition, Forest is still the best position in the foreground and the impact of Emmanuel Agbodo Wolves | Football news

⬇ Man City’s glory defense in the transition
🔴 Nuno Forest are from first place
🔶 How to improve AGBADOU Defense of Wolves

Carlos Blaba had a late chance to win the match for Braython away to Manchester City, but the ball is coherent, and his shot fell over the bar and ended 2-2. But this separation still highlights something that chases Pep Guardiola this season.

This home match against Brighton was the nineteenth match in the Premier League this season, in which Guardiola settled an opportunity from a counter -attack against them. This failure to control transformations has undermined the deadly defense of ownership.

As for the context, this means that the city allowed the move in more games than any other side in the competition – more than Epswich and Leicester. While the topic of the conversation throughout the city was for some time, the size of the problem is new.

Even with nine games of the Premier League season, City has already allowed the move in games more than ever. It is a growing issue. But why? Rodri’s absence from the middle of the field is, of course, a clear explanation.

There is more than that, however. While the issue is structural, as it is clear from the Baliba space, it was able to exploit it, and perhaps a problem with a mentality also given that he was able to escape from several players in the city, it is also related to individual defense.

Three seasons ago, City won the ball from a higher percentage of individual positions than any other Premier League team. Now, they win the ball from a percentage lower than those individual situations more than any other Premier League team.

It is a seismic transformation, weakness was previously strength, and those that Guardiola sees repeatedly punishable. City was lucky to escape from that punishment against Brighton, but a chance of Blaba explains some concerns in this regard.

Danny Welby managed to ignore Omar Marmoush. Abdokuder Joseanov found himself completely transcended. Rico Lewis was not enough enough to influence Kaoru Mitoma. Niko Gonzalez could not pick up Joao Pedro. Robin Dias failed to engage.

This is a city team in the process of rebuilding it and major changes in the future. But unless Guardiola was able to find a way to improve the defense of the team, individually and collectively, their failure to manage transformations will remain a problem.

The forest are the main front managers

Nottingham Forest is close to rehabilitating the Champions League next season with a convincing victory over Epswich. On this way, their victory was 4-2 completely different from the defeat of Manchester City 1-0 at the end of last week, but in reality, there were remarkable similarities.

Nuno Espirito Santo named the same starting lineup for both matches, and while the three mysterious goals may suggest in the first half in Epswich otherwise, both offers were built on early-which has become a Nuno brand.

The second champion of the goals Anthony Ilanga summarized the plan: “We knew in the first fifteen minutes here in Epswich, it is really strong, so we wanted to see her out, and when we get opportunities, to break and harm them – and I think we did it fictional today.”

This was a clean paper in the first half of the Forex in the Premier League this season, as it reached the time break without giving up any other team. Nuno never wants to be the person who opens a game, preferring to wait until the opposition offers gaps.

It is a common strategy away from home, but Forest does it in front of its fans as well. They approved only one goal at home at the opening 45 minutes throughout the season, and they are the only team that was unprecedented at the end of the first half. Manchester City allowed 12.

Even Liverpool, the two champions, have approved more goals than they scored in 10 minutes of matches this season. The forest is different. No team has scored more opening goals in the first 30 minutes of games – or the last 30 minutes.

In fact, 22 times this season, Forest scored the opening goal of the game, which is more than any other team. It does not always bring victory – they did it in both games against Newcastle and lost every time – but this is the basis of their success.

Agbadou’s aggression saved wolves

The wolves were transferred nine points from the three bottom with victory away to Southampton on Saturday to reduce fears of relegation. Given that they were five points of safety when Vitor Pereira was appointed in December, this was the shift.

There can be no denying that Matheus Cunha was the star but the victory in St Mary’s was achieved without it and was the Wolves defense, and not their attack, which he had to improve in the shadow of Pereira. And the signature of Emmanuel Agdoo is the key to that.

It was clear against the saints when Agbadou won what could be considered a routine head on the mid -road line in the accumulation of the second goal of the Jorgen Strand Larsen who turned into the winner. clear? maybe. But an example of change.

Without the impact of January in the heart of the defense, these simple moments were completely played. When Agbits was injured and missed the last defeat of Fulham, Rodrigo Moniz has intimidated his alternative to Santi Pheno.

Pereira wanted to see a more aggressive approach. Portuguese can often be seen referring to his defenders to approach their opponent and engage instead of getting rid of their lack of pace. Soon Craig Dawson fell from Saleh.

AGBADOU brought the speed and strength to the back line, but clearly this desire to win the ball. In fact, you will get 27 -year -old Ivory of defensive one -third of any other in the Premier League.

Along with the convenience again Toti Gomees, the defense looks more cut. Only Liverpool defeated wolves when the husband started. They left the door for the three teams that were promoted with their terrible start for this season. But it seems that the arrival of Aghbi has closed it.