Anyone know how Harwood-Bellis is doing at Anderlecht?
How do you think Taylor Harwood Bellis would be as a loan signing from Man City? He could potentially start cup games and give competition in the defence.
I’d love to play with him on career mode so I have the partnership of him and Garcia
1) City's 5-4-1 Morphing Into a 2-3-4-1
City came out with yet another slightly perplexing team sheet today, and at first it looked like Pep would be reverting to the asymmetrical 2-3-1-4 formation that he used throughout much of December. Instead he had more tactical wrinkles up his sleeve today. In attack City formed up in a 2-3-4-1 formation, but this time with Cancelo and Angelino both high and wide to create with and provide playmaking/crossing from the flanks. This was a change I had openly speculated about when Pep first introduced the 2-3-1-4 formation, , and it's come to fruition today. Zinchenko and, initially Bernardo sat in the deep midfield three before Pep swapped Bernardo and Foden around the 30th minute, while simultaneously rotating the tilt from left to right.
Port Vale came out in a 4-4-2 with a diamond midfield that became a 5-3-2 in defense, and much of the first thirty minutes were spent with City attacking a formation that looked roughly like this, as Port Vale doubled Angelino or David and left Zinchenko pretty much unmarked, mostly refusing to close him down even when he was on the ball.
City attacking in 2-3-4-1, tilted left
This has been a common approach that City's opponents have deployed throughout this season and finally Zinchenko made them pay as he was able to walk in completely unopposed to an area 24 yards from Vale's goal and let fly, his deflected effort nestling into the far corner of Scott Brown's net.
Within a few minutes Vale began to mark Zinchenko and Pep made a change, swapping Bernardo for Foden in the lines and tilting City's deep midfield three from the left to right. Vale's decision to start marking Zinchenko caused two massive problems for them that City would exploit for the rest of the match.
When Vale sat narrow, City could spray balls out wide to Angelino who suddenly found himself unmarked in acres of space, and when they stayed wide with him, Zinchenko suddenly had a massive passing lane to pick out runs from Angelino or David.
City attacking in 2-3-4-1, tilted right
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