All four big players are empty and the FA Cup is two consecutive amateurs, and they have the advantage and cannot score. Where is Manchester City s shortcomings?

Manchester City lost to Crystal Palace 0-1 and missed the FA Cup championship, which means that Manchester City has confirmed that all four majors are empty this season. Manchester City has not even ensured their qualifying for the Champions League next season. They still have 2 Premier League games and are currently ranked sixth in the Premier League. For Manchester City, which has performed strongly in recent seasons, the season with all four of them is extremely rare. The last time Manchester City's four of them is empty was Guardiola's first season in coaching Manchester City.

So, is it time for Manchester City to rebuild the system? In fact, football is nothing more than a game where one scores one's own goals and prevents the opponent from scoring. Manchester City's number of goals in the Premier League is actually enough to summarize the biggest problem in Manchester City: Manchester City has only 24 goals in the Premier League this season, and the level of the lowest league goal difference in the past fifteen years.

The league only scored 67 goals, and the last time Manchester City scored less than 70 goals, it was the season when Mancini was dismissed. So, Manchester City's problem now is very obvious: Manchester City's goal-scoring ability has problems, and a team with Haaland has become unable to score goals. Does Manchester City create fewer shooting opportunities? Not necessarily, Manchester City has completed 572 shots in the Premier League this season, ranking third in the Premier League.

However, Manchester City's shooting conversion rate was only 11%, and the shooting distance reached 16.9 meters. When Manchester City won the championship last season, the shooting conversion rate was 14%, and the shooting distance was 15.9 meters. Don't underestimate the 3% shooting conversion rate and the 1-meter shooting distance. According to the number of Manchester City's seasonal shootings, this can add at least 18 goals to Manchester City.

So, the core problem is: Manchester City's shot started to be unreliable, and Manchester City's shot started to stay away from the goal. So, the problem is very obvious. Manchester City is now difficult to solve the game closer to the goal, and has tried more long shots. This game is particularly obvious. Look at Manchester City's shooting distribution chart: 23 shots, center Haaland only got 3 shots.

Track an arc with the penalty point to the goal as the axis, and you will find that most of Manchester City's shots are outside the penalty point, and it is difficult for you to hit the hinterland of Crystal Palace, so 23 shots were blocked 10 times, and nearly half of the shots were blocked out. This is still nice, but to put it bluntly, it is called shooting at the crowd.

Doku is the player with the most shots in Manchester City, which is a bit subversive. You should know that in the Premier League, Doku is the winger with the most dribbling into the penalty area, but he is also one of the wingers with the least shots (including passing the ball to his teammates) after dribbling the ball. And Duoku's several shots in this game actually came from the result of his dribbling.

Why? After you find it difficult to penetrate, the inevitable result is that you can only rely on single-point blasting to solve the game. Duoku is a player who plays the role of a burst point. Yes, Crystal Palace goalkeeper Henderson even saved a penalty and performed very well, but Manchester City's own shooting efficiency is not the only problem in this game.

Manchester City center Haaland played 90 minutes of game, 11 passes successfully 5 times, 1 pass formed a shot, 2 confrontations 0 success, 5 top scores 2 success, 8 lost the ball, 2 overtakes 0 success, 3 shots 1 shot, 1 shot at the right time, just like this game data, tell me this is Manchester United's Hoylen, I believe it, why? You can first look at the number of confrontations. Haaland only successfully passed the ball in the whole game 5 times and also competed for the top 5 times.

This is obvious. When Manchester City cannot break the game, they can only feed Haaland the ball over his head, but it is difficult to score. Crystal Palace's arrangement is targeted, that is, two centers double-team Haaland and let Haaland hang up alone. If Manchester City had used Haaland's restraint in the past, other Manchester City players could score goals, but they could not do it this season.

When you can't start the situation in the frontcourt offense, the inevitable result is that the midfielder is pressed up, and the inevitable result is that the frontcourt is prone to losing the ball and being counterattacked. I don't know if Manchester City fans are familiar with this kind of scene, and as Manchester United fans, they are very familiar with it.

B team lost the ball 20 times and De Bruyne lost the ball 20 times. The person who lost the ball the most was goalkeeper Henderson, because he took the ball and gave it to the frontcourt. De Bruyne and B teams were more likely to organize the offense. The goalkeeper lost the ball, and his defense line was at least complete, but if the frontcourt players lost the ball, you must face a counterattack.

This is also Manchester City's biggest problem this season: if your offense is not going well, it will definitely affect your defense line, unless you are a defensive counterattack team and you leave enough people in the backcourt. Premier League controlled football has been quite sad in the past two years, because Premier League teams are now very good at setting up fences and are very good at taking advantage of the number of players in the backcourt to get your frontcourt offense into a quagmire, and then use counterattack to harvest the game.

The wealthy family must be attacked, so there is no problem with the high position, but what about your lineup!

Nottingham Forest relegated last season and is still competing for the Champions League this season, which is proof of this. Liverpool's ability to win the championship this season is because they have regained the weapons of large-scale dispatch, and Manchester City obviously lost in the team building plan. I remember when Guardiola talked about Ferguson, he once said something: he was very envious of one of Ferguson's abilities, that is, Ferguson always finds the right time to complete the lineup.

And Manchester City obviously did not do it. Manchester City’s current problem is to pay for the summer window last year. As De Bruyne is getting old and B-seat is getting old, he only signed the old Gundogan. Now, although Manchester City has signed many young players in the winter window, it may take some time to form combat effectiveness. Manchester City's current situation is obviously unable to cope with the impact of speed teams..

At this time last year, Manchester United also defeated Manchester City with speed and won the FA Cup; in this year's Champions League knockout, Real Madrid also directly dragged down Manchester City with speed. In the past two seasons, Manchester City has been taught many times, because football is a 90-minute game, and you cannot guarantee 90-minute high-intensity pressing and attention.

Manchester City is still a strong team in the Premier League. It is just a matter of team building ideas, which has led to the lack of all four major players in a season. However, team building ideas can make a league champion last season so much. You can know how important the team building ideas are for the team, because you may make a slow decision that will lead to the failure of the season.