Green Journey

Chapter 390 He probably won't bite me!

At 19:25 Madrid time, assistant coach Arteta pushed in through the door, clapped his hands and shouted: "Guys, it's time!"

Hearing Arteta's reminder, Guardiola, standing in front of the tactical board in the locker room, looked around the surrounding Manchester City players and emphasized again: "Calm down, concentrate, attack their weaknesses, run, and kill them in motion!"

"Get rid of them!!" Guardiola said, suddenly the Manchester City players shouted collectively, and their morale was high.

Watching the high-spirited players leave one after another, Guardiola always has a confident smile on his face.

But as soon as the player finished walking, the thick confident smile on his face disappeared instantly.

No one is more aware of the power of Barcelona and the terror of Messi than he, the founder of Barcelona's six-time crown dynasty.

But what should be done, what can be done, he has done.

Guardiola believes that his speech full of determination and confidence just now has boosted the team's morale and inspired the players' will to fight.

As for how the game will develop next, it is no longer within his control.

But Guardiola believes that as long as their tactical execution can reach 80% today, defeating Barcelona and Messi will not be a dream.

Maybe they can take three points from the Nou Camp openly in front of [-] Barcelona fans and under the attention of the world.

In the player tunnel, Bravo and Nolito, the former Barcelona players, are hugging and greeting their former teammates, talking and laughing.

As soon as Chu Zheng walked up to the stairs, he saw Bravo hugging Messi and saying hello.

The two who had met once nodded and smiled and raised their hands to shake each other, which is considered as a greeting.

Chu Zheng walked down the stairs and came to the queue of Manchester City.

But soon he felt as if someone was watching him, and Chu Zheng subconsciously turned his head to the right to look at the Barcelona queue.

Turning around, Chu Zheng saw Suarez nodding and greeting him with a smile.

Chu Zheng nodded and smiled back.

But looking back, Chu Zheng couldn't get rid of Suarez's pair of incisors, which were really big.

"Will he bite again later?" Thinking about it, Chu Zheng suddenly felt excited, and secretly glanced at Suarez on the right.

This Uruguayan striker has a bad reputation in football.

Half angel half devil!Hellhound and so on are the labels given to Suarez by the media.

Fans who like Suarez will be impressed by his amazing skills.

Those who hated him wanted him to die.

For example, the Ghana team was destroyed by Suarez's hand of God in the 2010 World Cup.

But until now, people's initial impression of Suarez, the Uruguayan striker, may come from his pair of front teeth.

Initially, it was thought that this was just a physical feature of Suarez.

However, as time passed, people realized that this pair of front teeth turned out to be a great weapon for the Uruguayan striker in football.

As early as when he was playing for Ajax, Suarez had a record of biting.

At that time, the match between them and Eindhoven was about to end. As a result, in a conflict between the two sides, Suarez clicked on Bacal.

Since then, the incisor's magical skills have first appeared.

Three years later, Suarez is already a Uruguayan striker who joined the Red Army Liverpool.

However, in the match against Chelsea, facing the strict defense of Chelsea defender Ivan the Great, Suarez just took a bite at Ivan the Great's elbow.

The pain was so great that Ivan threw Suarez out with his teeth. After the game, he was fined with a ten-match suspension.

Just one year later, in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Suarez was once again controlled by his front teeth, and he took another bite at the sweaty and plump shoulders of Italian defender Chiellini.

FIFA was very angry about this, and then he liked to mention a nine-match ban and was banned from participating in football-related activities for up to 9 months.

But in any case, the flaws do not conceal the virtues.

You can accuse him of biting, of violating the spirit of competitive sports, but you can't deny his talent and skill.

This is a rare top striker in football!

At 19:40, players from both sides appeared on the stage under the leadership of the referee team.

"The referee for this game is the famous Croatian whistleblower Milorad Marzic..."

After some vernacular, the impassioned Champions League theme song sounded, and the starting lineups of the two sides' matches appeared on the live broadcast screen in time.

"Okay, let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides."

Barcelona: (433)

Goalkeeper: Ter Stegen
Defenders: Mascherano, Pique, Umtiti, Alba
Midfielders: Rakitic, Busquets, Iniesta

Forwards: Messi, Suarez, Neymar
"Messi only came back from injury in the last round of La Liga, but even after a period of injury, his state is as good as ever, and he scored the winning goal in that game!"

"Iniesta returned to the starting lineup in this game and put on the captain's armband again."

"And Enrique's personnel selection on the defensive line has also changed."

"In La Liga against Deportivo at the weekend, Enrique chose Digne and Mathieu."

"But in that game, Barcelona's left side was very aggressive by Depor players, so today Enrique started Umtiti and Alaba, who had just recovered from injury."

"This is the fifth time Barcelona have played Manchester City in European competition."

"The first four times were the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals in the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons. Manchester City was double-killed by home and away twice, and lost all four games."

"At Camp Nou, Barcelona have lost just two of their 30 European games against English teams."

"What's interesting is that Manchester City have won two of their nine away games against Spanish teams in their European history."

"So in today's game, apart from the absolute technical and tactical aspects, we don't know for the time being. In other aspects, Barcelona, ​​who are playing at home, has the advantage!"

After the words fell, Manchester City's starting lineup appeared.

Manchester City: (433)

Forwards: Nolito, De Bruyne, Sterling

Midfielders: Chu Zheng, Fernandinho, Gundogan
Defenders: Kolarov, Stones, Otamendi, Zabaleta
Goalkeeper: Bravo
"Manchester City have also changed a lot compared to the starting lineup of the weekend league."

"I don't know what kind of considerations Guardiola had in this game. He didn't let Aguero start, but played a no striker."

"Aguero's absence may be because he hasn't returned to his best form after the international break."

"In the eighth round of the Premier League last weekend, Manchester City played against Everton, and Aguero did not start either."

"Not only Aguero, Chu Zheng and De Bruyne were also put on the bench. As Guardiola said some time ago, he would rather give up the league temporarily than lose points in the Champions League."

"So Manchester City at home was tied 1-1 by Everton!"

"He got his wish!"

"Haha!" Zhang Lu smiled and narrowed her eyes again, "But for Guardiola and Manchester City, the timely recovery of Chu Zheng and De Bruyne is good news."

"Yes! It's hard to say who is in the middle of Guardiola's lineup today."

"Well, everyone is familiar with these two teams. There are only a few basic formations, but the specific positions can only be seen clearly by fighting!"

At 19:45 Madrid time, with the whistle of the referee Marzic, this powerful dialogue that has attracted worldwide attention officially started.

(End of this chapter)