Three schemes and Injury defender Thiago Motta Killed PSG

Manchester City managed to beat Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League quarterfinal second leg which was held on Wednesday (4/13/2016) early morning with the score 1-0. A goal from Kevin de Bruyne made Manchester City successfully get rid of PSG since winning 3-2 on aggregate.

As in the first leg, PSG is actually able to dominate the game with the advantage of the ball 65% versus 35%. However, if the first leg PSG is capable of printing 16 shots, the second leg this time they were only able to create six shots.
The problem exists in the lack of creativity in midfield PSG. The absence of a number of players making PSG coach, Lauren Blanc, experimenting with different schemes. However, the scheme does not go according to plan, until finally 'kill' their own.
Scheme Makes Three PSG defender Central Line Lacking Creativity
Blanc questioned the defense in the first leg. According to him, the PSG players on defense are providing free space to be used by the City. Thus, on the second leg of this he tried to fix it.
However, it still has not fully recovered Marco Verratti and punishment received suspensions Blaise Matuidi and David Luiz makes Blanc could not play a composition of their best players. The replacement of existing players, such as Benjamin Stambouli in midfield, still believed Blanc to appear in the game as important as the face of the Citizens this.
As a result he experimented with a basic 3-5-2 formation. He even put Serge Aurier, which is ideally played as right full-back, as a central defender alongside Thiago Silva and Marquinhos. Meanwhile, to fill the post left Matuidi, Blanc put Angel Di Maria in midfield and not attacking wing.
It turned out that this scheme affect on how PSG launch an attack. The lack of such creative midfielder Verratti or midfielder Matuidi is usually a box-to-box, making the flow of ball into the final third minimal. Even PSG as seen playing as a midfielder Zlatan Ibrahimovic no.10.

 Thiago Motta's injury and pattern changes Attacking Man City
When PSG but has trouble attacking defense is solid enough, accidents happened at the end of the first half. Thiago Motta, the only core PSG midfielder was left in this fight, suffered an injury that forced him to be replaced.
Blanc address this with the change of strategy is fairly extreme. Basic 3-5-2 formation was retained. He included Lucas Moura, who is a winger.
Basic formation was changed to 4-3-3 with Marquinhos as a player who fills the position previously Motta. Only Marquinhos plays the role of half-back so that he would often stand in line with Aurier and Silva who played as a central defender when PSG did not control the ball.
However, a situation which meant a 2-2 aggregate PSG should immediately scored forcing Blanc racked his brains back. Moreover, until the 60th minute, skuat care only fired two shots only. Conducted the French coach then is to insert Javier Pastore, pulling out Aurier.
Changes occurred again. Marquinhos restored to its original position, a central defender. Pastore himself to play as an attacking midfielder accompany Di Maria. Defensive midfield position is filled by a young French midfielder, Adrien Rabiot.
Rabiot not a usurper midfielder ball. He is more offensive play, as evidenced by his scoring record that has collected three goals in the Champions League from a total of seven times played. And it has spawned a catastrophe for PSG defense.
Rabiot not able to play as a half-back as Marquinhos. The most fatal is when a goal Kevin de Bruyne occur. At the moment, Rabiot playing too deep and leaving the front area of ​​the penalty box. De Bruyne also receive the ball with considerable discretion before finally putting the ball into the left corner guarded PSG Kevin Trapp.

Source: detiksport