I started with Torres, to revive German football

Chapter 181 Desperate Moment!

The on-site rebroadcast footage switched to the sidelines.

Although Guardiola, who scored the goal, remained silent on his face, the brilliance in his eyes made everyone who noticed him feel the excitement in his heart.

But on the side where the ball was lost, Enrique looked very helpless, frowning, standing on the sidelines, giving people a feeling of powerlessness, and no one knew what he was thinking in his heart at this moment.

Two to zero!
After the change, Barcelona has more players in the frontcourt, but the overall performance is still the same as in the first half.

"The goal hit Barcelona hard, especially Enrique, which means that the decision he made at half-time was completely wrong!"

Lineker shook his head and sighed after seeing Aguero's goal, obviously pessimistic about Barcelona's situation.

"Enrique's all-or-nothing gamble seems a bit high. It is not unacceptable to change midfielders, but the sudden change of three, four, and three is a bit too exaggerated.
No matter what thoughts he has in mind, in this kind of high-intensity confrontation, such subversive adjustments can easily lead to not affecting the opponent, but crippling himself first. "

Lineker's analysis was also affirmed by Andy Gray.

As a senior plum, Lineker's eyesight is still very good.

"The first half was contained too deadly. The tactical discipline of Manchester City's entire team, as well as the movement of the players without the ball, were excellent."

Andy Gray also analyzed:

"From the time they eliminated Bayern Munich to today's game, Pep Guardiola's team showed a perfect team press and movement without the ball."

"Enrique probably also saw that in the first half, he won't score and can't create a threat, so he wants to adjust and strengthen the team's wing attack, but who would have thought that sometimes the more you want to get better, the wrong it is. more!"

"The feeling that Manchester City gives me now is probably Bayern in the first, second, and third seasons with better ball control skills. Maybe only Barcelona, ​​the peak of the dream third season, can compete with this Manchester City, even last year's team!"

After leading by two goals, Manchester City has almost entered the semi-finals with one foot.

This goal was a big blow to Barcelona, ​​but Enrique still had no idea of ​​​​adjusting.

In fact, he doesn't know how to adjust now.

Going back to four-three-three is tantamount to returning to the style of play in the first half. The key is to return to that style of play that still cannot withstand Manchester City's stormy offense.

Once adjusted in this way, the morale of the team will be dealt an even more severe blow.

The biggest problem now is in the midfield. Rakitic has no way to make up for the vacancy after Harvey left. Even if Messi goes back and uses himself as a midfielder, he still cannot make up for the huge vacancy.

The older Busquets is no longer the backhanded man who can calmly get the ball out even in the face of two double-teams, and with his half-turn technique, he can also create counterattack opportunities with his backhand Busquets.

Under the alternate pinching between Zhao Jinge and Aguero, Busquets, as the team's offensive and defensive converter, immediately turned off the fire.

The midfield combination that Barcelona was once proud of has completely withered this season, and only the grey-haired Iniesta can still maintain a high level of competition.

Barcelona is going to be updated, and there is an almost invincible striker combination, but the current midfielders are really weak!

In addition to Iniesta, the only midfielders Enrique can rely on are Rakitic and Roberto!

This is simply a great irony for the former Barcelona!

Enrique's thoughts drifted far away. He had already played all the best cards in his hand. Now all he can do is pray that the players on the field can show impressive performances, nothing else Other methods.

Following the referee's urging, the Manchester City players who celebrated fiercely returned to their own half, and everyone's attention returned to the pitch.

Suarez started his third kick-off of the game and when he cleared the football,
Aguero immediately rushed forward to counter-grab and harass. Zhao Jinge quickly returned to defend the midfield line when Busquets passed the ball and found Messi.

In the Champions League, Manchester City has no reservations. With sufficient physical fitness, they will never reduce the intensity of pressing and pressing.

The trident on Barcelona's striker chose to try to rely on their own personal ability to take over the game in such a bad situation, trying to break through and smash Manchester City's defense.

Especially Messi, who was already a little anxious, after receiving Rakitic's goal.

Messi started his hurricane rush directly on the right. Yaya Toure failed to block Messi's breakthrough and change direction while retreating, but Clichy immediately rushed forward to force Messi to smash the ball and change direction before rushing forward.

When Messi passed the two in a row, Kanter swept the ball diagonally in front of him in the next second.

Seeing that he was stealing the ball, Messi immediately counter-robbed. After Kanter separated the Argentine with his back, he passed the ball diagonally to Stones. Suarez rushed past him to block it. Stones Sis's through ball was destroyed by the Uruguayan and went out of the touchline.

Messi frowned and looked at Manchester City's defense line as he retreated. The hardness of Manchester City's defense line gave Barcelona a headache.

In the first confrontation this season, Barcelona was in a mediocre state, but relying on Messi's own personal performance, he still blew up Manchester City's defense when Zhao Jinge staged a big four.

In the second confrontation, Barcelona directly dismantled Manchester City's unavailable defense with absolute strength, sweeping away the decline in the first round.

Today, the third confrontation this season, Manchester City's defensive strength has been comprehensively improved after joining a number of powerful players, which directly smashed Barcelona's offensive line.

After taking the sideline kick, Manchester City attacked in a positional battle. Zhao Jinge received a pass from De Bruyne on the front side, dribbled in the middle and encountered Busquets.

Zhao Jinge turned on the cycling mode, left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, dazzling visual effects were presented.

"Zhao Jinge, who is completely excited, has already started to play tricks on the court. It can be seen that after gaining a huge lead, Manchester City's players are particularly confident."

After stepping on the bicycle for three rounds quickly, Busquets was shaken a little dizzy, Zhao Jinge suddenly turned the ball to break through, Busquets did turn slower than when defending him before, and his thinking was still due to Zhao Jinge Disturbed by cycling.

But he was still able to grab Zhao Jinge's arm, and at the same time Rakitic rushed from behind Zhao Jinge and knocked him to the ground.

The referee rushed to give Rakitic a verbal warning.

Zhao Jinge was a little dissatisfied, thinking that the referee should draw the card!
"That's a bump on me from behind, sir!"

In the Nou Camp stadium, the continuous harsh noise made people's heads buzz, and countless Barcelona fans put pressure on the referee at this moment.

"This is the Camp Nou!"

Already two goals behind, the heartbroken Barcelona fans could not accept that Rakitic received a yellow card at this time, which would cause him to miss the second leg due to the accumulated number of yellow cards.

"I know, so I give them a warning! I must maintain the balance of the game, there will be no next time!"

The referee comforted him with a few words, and Zhao Jinge accepted.It's not that he has a good temper, but since the referee's standards are not particularly strict, it's a good thing for Manchester City!

After all, in terms of physical confrontation, Manchester City is obviously more dominant. If both sides use their bodies, it is definitely something Barcelona does not want to see.

Rakitic escaped, but that didn't change their situation in any way.

The time of the game is passing by every minute and every second, and the No. 70 minutes of the whole game.

Messi, who couldn't get the ball in front, was forced to retreat, but as soon as he retreated to get the ball, he was immediately trapped by Yaya Toure.

The performance of the Ivorian midfielder tonight is very eye-catching. His presence on both ends of the offense and defense is not so high. Under his close press, although Messi did not concede the ball, he was forced to pass back to Iniesta ,
But De Bruyne, who has been closely following the Spanish midfielder, also blocked Iniesta at the first time, forcing Xiaobai to cross the ball to the left to find Alba.

But when Alba just received the ball, Mane suddenly jumped out from the side and rear and intercepted the ball first.

This sudden steal shocked both Alba and Iniesta, and they immediately fought back on the spot.

But after Mane took a step back, he quickly passed the ball to De Bruyne who ran to the gap for the first time, turned around and rushed forward.

Iniesta could no longer care about Mane, and immediately rushed towards De Bruyne.

The Belgian midfielder made a cross pass to the middle, and Yaya Toure stepped forward to catch the ball. After stopping, he glanced ahead and sent the ball to the right outside the arc top of the penalty area with a half-high kick.

Zhao Jinge's current situation is not very good here. Pique is on his right, Busquets is behind him, Mascherano is on the left, and Rakitic is chasing back in front. It was full of Barcelona's defensive players.

But Manchester City's No. 9 seized the most favorable position, stopped Yaya Toure's pass with his chest, and still used his body to block Pique and Busquets behind him,

And before Rakitic came back, he stopped the ball to his left, which is Mascherano's side.

Brother Ma pounced on Zhao Jinge immediately, and was about to encircle No. 9 of Manchester City.

But after Zhao Jinge stopped the ball with his right foot, with his side facing the goal, he swept the ball into the penalty area with his right foot.

The ball was easily sent into Barcelona's penalty area by Zhao Jinge.

Almost at this moment, Mane, who had just returned to the defense to grab the ball, swept past Mascherano's side at the fastest speed, like a gust of wind, making it too late for Mascherano to turn around and catch up .

The audience saw the Senegalese winger rushing into Barcelona's penalty area from behind Mascherano, the little lion Ter Stegen abandoned the goal, and both of them rushed towards the football outside the penalty area.

"Zhao Jinge's pass, Mane on the left, Ter Stegen! Ter Stegen! At this critical moment, the little lion Ter Stegen moved forward with a sliding tackle and blocked the ball with his feet. Out of the restricted area!
World-class goalkeeper performance, Tester kept the last hope for Barcelona!
Manchester City missed the chance to kill the game! "

Barcelona, ​​who had escaped unharmed, took a goal kick, and Manchester City's extreme oppression was still being staged.

When Mascherano put a shovel in front of the penalty area to break the ball at Zhao Jinge's feet, Rakitic cleared the ball from the side with a big foot.

De Bruyne ran back to the backcourt to control the ball, and then continued to attack.

The game has come to close to 10 minutes, and there is really not much time left for Barcelona.

In the 709th minute, after Barcelona regained the ball, Neymar, who is currently relatively physically fit, pulls the left side and pushes forward with the ball.

When Kyle Walker and Mane faced each other, he knocked the ball back obliquely to Iniesta who responded from the side and rear.

Zhao Jinge immediately went to press Iniesta, but the latter cooperated with Busquets to hit the wall and then went to the middle.

With a high-quality pick and pass out of the left side of the penalty area, Alba found an opportunity this time. After a clever lap, he reached the bottom line of Manchester City's penalty area to respond.

Kompany immediately dropped back to block Alba's cross.

Neymar moved forward to drive Stones back into his penalty area.

Alba hit the ball straight back after stopping the ball, and the football rolled past Neymar. Neymar himself felt that he hadn't responded well, but turned around and saw Messi quietly coming to the left of the penalty area. zone.

At the critical moment, Chrissy put the shovel directly, putting his body across the line of Messi's advancement.

This trick was learned from the players of the German team. He really couldn't guard against Messi, who was eager to score goals, so he could only lie on the ground and pretend to be dead as a roadblock!

Messi just made an inward cut, but saw Kanter returning to the defense and came to his line in the penalty area.

Messi retracted his center of gravity and passed the ball diagonally over the top.

Kanter looked back and saw the football flying to the right side of the penalty area.

When Yaya Toure rushed to try to clear the siege, Rakitic was the first to volley the ball in front of the baseline!
Barcelona's extreme pressure blew up Manchester City's defense in the deep area of ​​​​the ribs!

Suarez grabs the front foot and shoots!
Joe Hart was caught off guard and was directly shot through the goal!
Face-to-face output, or a top striker like Suarez, Hart can only surrender helplessly.

The football flew into the goal against the inside of the left post!
At this moment, the Camp Nou was cheering, and the Barcelona fans seemed to see hope!

"GOAL!!!!!!"

"Suarez! Suarez scored for Barcelona! This goal is very important!

After struggling desperately for more than half an hour, this goal rekindled hope for Barcelona!

After defending for nearly 10 minutes, Manchester City, whose physical fitness and state have declined, finally gave Barcelona a chance to fight back sharply.

Now they may be tied by Barcelona, ​​and Barcelona will definitely not be satisfied with only recovering one goal!
In the two rounds of the knockout round, if the home court can't maintain a minimum draw and go to the Etihad Stadium a week later, is Barcelona confident of winning away?
They will definitely seize the slightest flaw that Manchester City has just revealed, and strive for better results! "

After seeing the team lose the ball, Guardiola on the sidelines also quickly made adjustments. Sterling came on the field to replace Mane, and Gundogan also replaced Yaya Toure, who was a little immobile.

David Silva replaced De Bruyne, and Guardiola changed three people in an instant to directly reorganize Manchester City's midfield.

When Zhao Jinge kicked off with Sterling, he said to Sterling:

"You are still very strong when you first come up, so run forward when you have the opportunity! As long as there is room for counterattack, if you are not offside, just go into Barcelona's big penalty area!"

"Isn't that good? Boss, let me help the midfield stabilize the situation as much as possible!"

Zhao Jinge looked at him calmly, without speaking.

Sterling understood instantly. To say how much he contributed to the defense is absolutely nonsense.

Although a goal has just been recovered by Barcelona, ​​but in the face of Barcelona's strong attack to the end, the initiative is actually in the hands of Manchester City.

If Barcelona played super wonderful teamwork, penetrating and precise passing, key running positions, and unsolvable shots,

One more Sterling or one less Sterling in the midfielder will not have much impact!

Like Manchester City's conceded goal just now, Barcelona's cooperation is almost always on the limit.

They can play this kind of cooperation, but it doesn't mean they can play it every time.

If Manchester City wants to stabilize the situation, they still have to put pressure on their opponents in offense.

After the kick-off, Zhao Jinge passed the ball back, and he went directly to Professor Bu. Barcelona soldiers pressed the ground, and Manchester City passed back all the way, passing the ball to goalkeeper Joe Hart.

At this moment, the Barcelona fans are not easy. After the elation just now, the Barcelona fans who have calmed down once again realize that they are still behind.

The cheering sound at the scene is quite tragic.

All Barcelona fans know well that if they lose the game at Camp Nou, they will definitely not have any good results when they arrive at Manchester City's home court.

The contest in the first round of the group stage has clearly told them that Manchester City at home will be even more difficult.

Now Manchester City has pushed Barcelona to the edge of a cliff. They can't imagine how strong Manchester City can explode after returning to their home court. It is definitely a nightmare!

(End of this chapter)