champion light

Chapter 1202 Chaos
After the restart of the second half, neither side made personnel adjustments.

In fact, the starting lineups of the two teams are already their own self-improving lineups, and if they are adjusted, it is impossible to perform better than this lineup.

Both coaches can only choose to believe more in the performance of the players now.

Benitez naturally believes in glory, while Guardiola believes in Messi.

These two are people who can change the outcome of the game on their own.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, Messi made a beautiful breakthrough in the middle, but in the end his shot was slightly missed by the defense of three Manchester City players.

But it was enough to make Manchester City fans break out in a cold sweat.

"Leo Messi!! Beautiful!! It's a pity! The football slipped out!" said the Catalan commentator, holding his head in his hands, with a very regretful tone.

However, he still has some hope in his heart, because it can be seen from this ball that Messi is in very good condition and his fighting spirit is also very strong.With these two conditions, such Messi is worth looking forward to.

However, just after Messi threatened Manchester City's goal with a shot, the glory changed. When he dribbled the ball in from the side, he was tripped by Busquets and fell to the ground. The referee awarded Manchester City a free kick, 35 meters away from the goal.

Rong Guang personally took the penalty, and he lifted the ball with his right foot.Faced with such a kick, Valdez didn't react at all, but in the end Rongguang's ball was slightly higher than the crossbar. The elevator was on the wrong floor, and it missed the target.

But despite this, the Barcelona fans in the stands and in front of the TV were frightened.

Because when they saw the football suddenly fall and go straight to the goal, and Valdez didn't react at all, they really thought the football would fly into the goal...

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Next, Messi cut in from the side, and Gao Lin and Harvey made consecutive two-for-one wall-slamming cooperation, and then shot at the top of the free throw arc. The football drew an arc and went straight to the far corner of the goal.

Joe Hart soared into the air, stretched his arms vigorously, and pulled the football out of the baseline.

Barcelona wins a corner.

However, the threat to Manchester City's goal from this corner kick is not as great as Messi's previous kick.

In terms of scrambling for the high ball, Barcelona really does not have an advantage in front of Manchester City.

Manchester City's two central defenders, Kompany and Lucio, are extremely good at headers. In addition, Rong Guang and Ibrahimovic will also return to the goal to participate in the defense. They are both good at headers.

However, no one else was allowed to take the corner kick this time. Joe Hart jumped up, stretched the ape's arms lightly, and took off the football in the air.

Pique jumped in the air, and after landing, he turned around and ran back, without any movement of holding his head with his hands in front of the door.

Because he knows very well how Manchester City will play next.

Sure enough, just as he turned and ran out, Joe Hart, who got the ball, also rushed to the edge of the penalty area, and then vigorously threw the football forward.

He didn't throw it to Rongguang or Zlatan Ibrahimovic, because both of them came back to participate in corner kick defense.

He threw the football to Sneijder.

At this time, Rong Guang rushed out of the restricted area like an arrow from the string.

Sneijder received the football with his back turned to the attacking direction, and then passed the football sideways to his side. At this time, the high-speed insertion of Glory happened to push the ball forward from Sneijder!
There was a huge cheer from the stands at Wembley Stadium.

These are sent by Manchester City fans.

Rong Guang took the ball and ran all the way, crossed the center line, and went straight to Barcelona's penalty area.

Standing in front of him was Mascherano. The Argentine player was originally a defensive midfielder for Liverpool and the Argentine national team, but in Barcelona, ​​​​because he did not have a starting position in the 433, he changed to a central defender. Unexpectedly, in this tactical system in Barcelona, ​​​​his performance is not bad.

Now facing Rongguang's high-speed assault, Mascherano did not rush forward, but fought and retreated, and ran back with Rongguang. He would rather let Rongguang rush into the penalty area and shoot under his own interference, and he would never let Rongguang pass himself 30 meters away from the goal, and then run all the way to face goalkeeper Valdes and shoot again.

As long as he is still by Rongguang's side, he still has a chance to defend Rongguang.

Mascherano's choice was correct. His retreat always put pressure on Rongguang. When Rongguang took a shot, he stepped forward to block in time and successfully blocked Rongguang's shot, allowing Valdes to hold the football firmly in his arms.

Although no goal was scored, the whole process of Rongguang's attack made Barcelona fans nervous.

In this way, after Messi performed well, Rongguang will immediately retaliate, and after Rongguang retaliates, Messi will retaliate again.

In this cycle, the hearts of Manchester City and Barcelona fans also took turns to lift up, fall down, lift up again, and fall again...

The 15-minute game that started in the second half passed quickly between the two sides.Although no one scored a goal, everyone thought they would score in the next attack. The fans of both sides were very nervous, while the neutral fans in front of the TV shouted wonderfully.

However, although the game was played wonderfully, for the head coaches of the two teams, such a scene did not make them happy.

Although there are more scoring opportunities, the chances of conceding the ball are also greatly increased.

Moreover, this kind of offense and defense is completely disordered and difficult to control.

Head coaches always want to keep the situation under control.

So after 15 minutes of tit-for-tat confrontation between you and me, the head coaches of both sides made adjustments in unison.

Barcelona returned to possession while City continued to defend and counterattack.

The game became ugly, but the hearts of the fans and the head coach of both sides fell back to their stomachs - this is a normal game...

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Messi wiped the sweat from his brow.Although the previous game was abnormal, it was his favorite, because only in this way he had a great chance to score goals.

As a result, during these 15 minutes, he always missed the goal.Of course Rong Guang didn't score a goal either, but this was not something that comforted him.

Now that Manchester City has shrunk their defense and started a defensive counterattack again, it is even more difficult for them to score goals than before...

He is a little anxious, but it is useless to be anxious now, he can only wait patiently for the opportunity.

In Guardiola's plan, if the game is really dragged to a penalty shootout, that would be a good result.Because that would offset Rongguang's advantage.

This is a conclusion he came to after careful study of Rong Guang.

Since we can't beat Rongguang in nine 10 minutes, we should just drag the game to a penalty shootout.

But this is not the way Messi wants to win.

If the game continues with this score until the penalty shoot-out, even if Barcelona beat Manchester City in the end, Messi would be ashamed to say that he defeated Rongguang.

The victory that Messi wants is that he beat Rong Guang in the game, more than his goals.Barcelona relied on their own goals to defeat Manchester City and finally won the Champions League.

Such victories are meaningful.

Messi doesn't want the game to really be dragged into a penalty shootout.

He turned his head and glanced at Rong Guang.

Regarding the current game situation, Rong Guang's face was expressionless, and he couldn't see his opinion on this game at all.

He seemed calm.

This kind of calm made Messi a little worried. The calmer Rong Guang was, the bigger the storm he was brewing.

In order to prevent the storm brewed by Rongguang from engulfing Barcelona, ​​Messi believes that he should act first, score goals, take the lead again, and regain the initiative in his own hands.

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During the game, the commentators found that Messi became more active in the offense. Although Barcelona is now focusing on controlling the ball, Messi is running tirelessly in the midfield.

This is not good news for Manchester City.

"Messi—!"

John Mortensen exclaimed that Messi was knocked to the ground by Manchester City centre-back Kompany when he was about to break into the penalty area.

The Barcelona fans all stood up from their seats, pointing at Manchester City's gate and shouting: "Penalty -!"

The Manchester City fans didn't even dare to take a breath.

Messi was too fast when he rushed into the penalty area just now, and Kompany's foul on him also happened in the blink of an eye. They didn't see it very clearly, and they didn't know where Kompany's foul was.Anyway, now Messi fell in the penalty area!

The Barcelona players quickly ran to the referee and put pressure on the referee, hoping that the referee would award a penalty.

But the referee's gesture did not point to the penalty spot inside the penalty area, but to the place of the foul, and he ran there - outside the penalty area line!
"It's a free kick!" John Mortensen heaved a sigh of relief.

The Barcelona players surrounded the referee reluctantly, telling him that Kompany must have fouled in the penalty area just now.

And Messi also jumped up from the ground, a little excitedly protesting to the referee.

However, the TV slow-motion replay clearly showed that Kompany's foul was outside the penalty area. Although it was not even half a meter away from the penalty area line, it was outside.

No matter how the Barcelona players protested, they had no way to change the referee's penalty.He insisted it was a free kick, not a penalty.

Kompany received a yellow card for the foul.

As a central defender, receiving a yellow card is a very dangerous thing in the game, but there is no way. If Kompany hadn't fouled just now, Messi would have gotten in.After entering the penalty area, Kompany couldn't do anything anymore.

So this foul is necessary.

(End of this chapter)