champion light

Chapter 1295 Barcelona Revenge?
Originally April [-] was the league match against Norwich, but because of a conflict with the schedule of the FA Cup semi-final, the league was postponed to May [-].

This season, Manchester City's games in the league have been postponed for three games, which shows how intensive Manchester City's games are.

Postponing the league will not allow Manchester City to rest for another day. After the FA Cup semi-final against Everton, Manchester City has to rush back to Manchester non-stop to prepare for the Champions League semi-final against Barcelona.

The schedule of Manchester City in the semi-finals is the same as that in the quarter-finals. They are both hosts and guests first, and the initiative is handed over to Barcelona in advance.

Judging from this schedule, how difficult it is for Manchester City to travel this way.

After Barcelona ended the league, the whole team went north and came to Manchester. They borrowed the training base of Manchester United Club to prepare for the game.

The training bases of the two teams are already very close to each other.

If the head coaches of both sides have the heart, they can even spy on each other's training through the grove.

None of them did, though—it would be a waste of money to do so.

For Barcelona this season, it is not easy to catch up with Real Madrid in the league. The Champions League has become a battlefield where they must go all out.

If we can win the Champions League in the end, that would be a very good result.

Coupled with the loss to Manchester City in the Champions League final last season, so this time in the semi-finals, Barcelona definitely does not lack fighting spirit.Guardiola doesn't even need to do any pre-match mobilization, he just needs to train technical and tactical coordination.

And the war of words between the two sides did not stop before the game. After their match was confirmed, the two sides started the game of spitting at each other.

Barcelona and Manchester City have forged a deep... hatred in these few encounters.

Rongguang has been in Manchester City for almost four seasons.

In these four seasons, Manchester City played in the Champions League for three seasons. Except for the first season, Manchester City was not qualified to participate in the Champions League. In the other three seasons, Manchester City was able to meet Barcelona in every Champions League.

Such intensive encounters quickly "warmed up" the relationship between the two teams.

For the first time, in the 2009-2010 season, Manchester City returned to the Champions League after 40 years. They met Barcelona in the quarter-finals.At that time, Barcelona was the defending champion and was called the "cosmic team" by the media.As a result, Barcelona, ​​which was aiming to successfully defend the title, suffered a heavy blow. They were eliminated by Manchester City, which participated in the Champions League for the first time in 40 years!
Coincidentally, the schedule at that time was the same as it is now, and Manchester City played at home first and away.

As a result, Rong Guang scored twice in the first round and helped Manchester City beat Barcelona 3:1. Many people felt that the suspense was almost gone.

In the second round, Rong Guang scored twice again. Manchester City defeated Barcelona 2-0 and eliminated the invincible Barcelona with a total score of 5:1, which severely damaged Barcelona, ​​which was invincible all over the world at that time.

In the next 2010-2011 season, this time Barcelona did not meet Manchester City on the road to promotion. They fought all the way to the end and entered the final.Meet Manchester City in the final.Before the game, Barcelona also shouted the slogan of revenge. After all, they were eliminated by Manchester City in the quarter-finals last season. This is really embarrassing for Barcelona.

Messi was also in very good condition at the time, and everyone felt that Barcelona would definitely succeed in revenge this time.

Unexpectedly, in the final, Rong Guang directly staged a hat-trick, not only surpassed Messi in the scorer list, but also helped Manchester City beat Barcelona with an amazing score of 4:1. Manchester City won the UEFA Champions League trophy for the first time in history!

Two confrontations, three games, not to mention winning, Barcelona did not even have a draw, only scored two goals, but conceded nine goals.

It is indeed surprising that such data appear between Barcelona and Manchester City.

In addition to the grievances on the court, there are also many grievances and grievances off the court between the two sides.

The debate about who is stronger between Rong Guang and Messi has never stopped.

Of course, the voice of this debate is much weaker this year than in the previous two years, because Rong Guang has already defeated Messi twice in a row to prove that it is very ignorant and stupid to compare him with Messi...

The war of words between the two sides continued, and Rong Guang was also involved.In an interview before the game, Rong Guang told reporters: "Barcelona is a very strong team, especially at their home court, the game often becomes very difficult..."

Hearing what Rong Guang said, the reporters all looked at each other in blank dismay. They didn't understand why Rong Guang suddenly said that. Barcelona's home court is certainly scary, but that may not be the case for Rong Guang... You are the one who scored twice at Barcelona's home court!

And everyone doesn't quite understand why Rong Guang suddenly praised Barcelona.

This is something that shouldn't happen.

But what Rong Guang said next made the reporters suddenly realize.

"So, our goal is to try to end the game at our home ground."

Only then did a group of reporters breathe a sigh of relief—this is the normal glory!It turns out that he praised Barcelona for this sentence!
It's just that such a compliment may not be accepted by Barcelona at all...

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Indeed, when Rong Guang's words appeared in the media, it aroused the indignation of the Catalan media.

They thought that Rong Guang disrespected Barcelona too much, and they spoke so lightly, as if they could really end the suspense of the two-round match at home...

"If Manchester City can win Barcelona 4:1 in the first round, otherwise they will not be able to kill the suspense in the first game!"

Catalonia's "Mundo Deportivo" said that as the mouthpiece of the Barcelona club, it is natural to drum and cheer for Barcelona.

4:1 was the score in the Champions League final last season. "World Sports News" is obviously satirizing Manchester City's ability to score four goals in Barcelona.

Every football game is brand new and has nothing to do with the previous ones.

They are very confident about Barcelona's revenge against Manchester City this time, and one of the sources of confidence is Messi.

Messi's form in the Champions League this season is also very good.

The quarter-finals have just ended, and Messi has already scored fourteen goals!

Last season, Messi only scored [-] goals after finishing the semi-finals.

If you only look at scoring efficiency, Messi this season is stronger than he was last season.

Especially in the eighth-final match between Barcelona and Bayer Leverkusen at home, Messi scored five goals alone in the match, creating the record for the most goals scored in a single match in the history of the Champions League.

After that game, the entire European sports world was frightened by Messi's performance, and various praises followed.

Especially the Catalan media was very excited. They all said that even if it was glory, it would be impossible to score five goals in one game in the Champions League knockout round, and Messi did it!

In fact, let alone five goals, Rong Guang didn't even have a big four in the Champions League. A hat-trick is his limit.

The Catalan media gets great satisfaction from this.

Messi is not as glorious?Anyway, in Catalonia, they think it is less glorious than Messi...

Messi also scored twice against AC Milan in the quarter-finals.

In the Champions League this season, Messi scored twice, scored a hat-trick, and scored five dollars once.

Such a performance naturally made the Catalan media full of confidence in Messi and Barcelona.

In their view, what Rongguang said before the game was obviously a psychological warfare. Rongguang hoped to use such words to irritate the Barcelona players and make them lose their composure.But this behavior of his was meaningless other than to make himself appear arrogant and disrespectful.

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The much-anticipated game is coming as scheduled.

Both sides fielded the strongest lineups they could.

However, because of Matuidi's injury, Manchester City has a double midfielder composed of Sneijder and Gareth Barry in the midfield.

This is one of the reasons why the Catalan media is confident.

Matuidi, as Manchester City's defensive midfielder, played an important role in defense, and his injury had a great impact on Manchester City.

City have conceded a goal in almost every game since Matuidi was injured against Swansea.

Nine games, including the league and FA Cup, as well as the Champions League.

Except for the 4:0 home game against West Bromwich Albion without conceding a goal, the other games conceded at least one goal, and conceded two more goals.

After all, Gareth Barry is not a full-time defensive midfielder, and his defensive ability is still much worse than that of Matuidi.

The Catalan media analyzed that Matuidi's injury will provide Barcelona with more scoring opportunities in this game.

Barcelona is already very strong in the midfield. Once there is no restraint from Matuidi, they will definitely be able to gallop freely in Manchester City's half.

At that time, Messi in good condition will surely be able to break through Manchester City's defense again and again, and kick Manchester City into the abyss with goals!

In this game for Barcelona, ​​Gao Lin was placed on the bench. In fact, since this season, Gao Lin has appeared on the bench more often.Thought Barcelona bought Fabregas from Arsenal this season and Sanchez from Udinese.

These two squeezed Gao Lin's living space.

In Barcelona's 433, the three strikers are Messi, Sanchez and Fabregas.

No-forward tactics without a center forward.

This tactic did not perform well in the league, but it performed well in the Champions League.

Gao Lin did not play, which disappointed the Chinese media, fans and commentators.

But in this way... everyone can concentrate on cheering for Manchester City.

Except for those who are themselves Barcelona fans, everyone else has become a Manchester City fan tonight.

(End of this chapter)