"Leo Messi--"

Amid the Catalan commentator's roar, Messi suddenly shot a cold arrow outside the penalty area.

However, his shot was above the crossbar and did not threaten Manchester City's goal.

But the Catalonia commentator did not blame Messi for wasting an opportunity. On the contrary, he also expressed his affirmation of Messi's attempt: "Now Manchester City shrinks its defense, and long-range shots are a good way. After conceding the ball, Messi's performance is more active than before conceding the ball. As long as he can continue to be so active, I think it is not impossible for Manchester City to score too early, and he also leaves enough time for Barcelona to equalize the score..."

During this period, Barcelona's performance was indeed good. Messi, Xavi and Iniesta often played some amazing cooperation. At the same time, with Messi's outstanding performance, Barcelona was not affected by the conceding goal, and they were still playing football they were good at.

Guardiola, who was on the sidelines, was completely relieved at this time. He was quite worried when he just conceded the ball, but now he is very pleased to see the team's performance.

Just as Manchester City fans feel lucky that they have glory, Guardiola also feels lucky that he has Messi.

Although the core of this team is Xavi, Messi may be more important to Barcelona in a sense.

So since Guardiola became Barcelona's head coach, he has completely helped Messi to the core position. Before him, when Rijcard coached the team, the core of the team was Ronaldinho, and Messi was just a partner next to Ronaldinho. Although he also performed well, he could not shake Ronaldinho's status.

Guardiola was keenly aware that Messi was better than Ronaldinho in terms of talent and ability, and was younger. Let Messi be the core and keep Barcelona's glory for a longer period of time.

It turns out he is right.

In his first season in coaching Barcelona, ​​he led the team to the triple crown and another six crown last year.

Among them, Messi is an absolutely important figure.

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Manchester City players soon found that Messi in front of them was becoming increasingly difficult to deal with.

They had specialized in studying Messi's game video before the game. From the video, we can see how powerful Messi is, but there is still a big difference between watching the video and personally experiencing it in actual games.

Messi is more difficult to deal with in actual games

They even think this Messi is ten times better than the Messi they saw in the video...

The feelings of these Manchester City players are correct.

Because even Guardiola feels that Messi's performance in this game has been unexpectedly good so far, beyond his imagination and beyond his usual form in the game.

He didn't quite understand why Messi was in such a good state in this game. He could only understand that Messi was strong when facing strong, and his outstanding performance in Glory must have stimulated him.

The game has been going on for almost thirty minutes now, and Barcelona has conceded the goal for almost twenty minutes.

During these twenty minutes, Barcelona had almost no common turmoil after conceding the ball, and they quickly stabilized and continued to put pressure on Manchester City.

Even Guardiola was surprised by this performance.

Of course, this is all thanks to Messi.

Seeing Messi performing like this, Guardiola is full of confidence in the future.

This season, he is full of confidence and wants to become the first head coach to lead the team to successfully defend the title after the Champions League reform.

In his opinion, the biggest enemy on the road ahead is Manchester City where glory is. Manchester City is not scary, but what is scary is glory. This is a person who can create any miracle that is crazy.

Fortunately, we have Messi...

The only person who can be compared with glory.

In the second half of the first half, Barcelona had clearly grasped the initiative on the field. They completely suppressed Manchester City. Manchester City had very few counterattack opportunities. For a while, Manchester City could not even pass the half.

"Whose home court is this?" Alan Hansen complained.

He is dissatisfied with Manchester City's performance during this period.

"In fact, it's not that Manchester City performed poorly, but that Barcelona performed very well..." John Motterson said. "Messi is particularly active during this period. He has dominated almost all Barcelona's offenses..."

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After completely losing the initiative in the field, Manchester City's goal was declared lost in the 41st minute.

In fact, before conceding the ball, Manchester City's goal was already in danger.

The entire team seemed to be a small boat on the sea where the wind and waves were raging, and could capsize at any time.

At that time, Barcelona shot twice in a row, and was blocked by Manchester City's central defender Lucio with his body for the first time. The football fell to Ibrahimovic's feet.

Ibrahimovic could have passed the football to Messi at that time because Messi's position was better.

The Argentinian also raised his arms and signaled Ibrahimovic to pass the ball to him.

"Transfer" the Catalan narrator couldn't help but shout.

But Ibrahimovic did not do so, and he chose to turn around and shoot.

Moreover, the quality of this turn-around shot is very high. Ibrahimovic played hard and made a strong shot with a powerful shot, which made goalkeeper Joe Hart unable to react at all.

He just raised his arms reflexively.

As a result, Ibrahimovic's goal was good everywhere, but he shot too well...

The football hit Joe Hart's arm and the football bounced back

"It's so dangerous..." Before John Motterson finished speaking, he saw Messi appearing smartly at the landing point of the football, and at this time the other Manchester City players did not react.

Messi directly swung his left foot and turned sideways in the air

"Leo Messi--" As the Catalan narrator roared with a lengthening voice, Messi hit the football with his left foot on the instep.

The football roared into the goal like a cannonball.

And neither Joe Hart nor other Manchester City defensive players responded in front of this ball - Messi appeared too weird and shot too quickly

"Messi, Messi, he equalized for Barcelona. Before the end of the first half, Manchester City's lead was gone," the Catalan commentator shouted excitedly.

The few Barcelona fans in the stands cheered, and even briefly overwhelmed the voices of Manchester City fans.

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After scoring the goal, Messi turned around and ran towards the corner flag. He seemed very excited. After running to the corner flag, he pulled it out and waved it excitedly in his hand.

His celebration was naturally regarded as a provocation and humiliation by Manchester City fans, so for a moment, booed loudly over Manchester City Stadium.

The cheers of Barcelona fans were all suppressed.

Even the commentators were surprised. No matter how excited Messi was in the past, he would not have made such wild celebrations...

What happened to him today?

First, he performed very well in the game, and then he was overly excited after scoring the goal.

A commentator Yu Qian joked: "I think after UEFA watches this game, he will definitely arrange for Messi to do a post-match urine test..."

Of course, he quickly declared that he was joking and not questioning Messi's stimulant.

Before Messi could recover, he waved the corner flag with the booed by all Manchester City fans, and then threw the corner flag to the ground.

No wonder everyone finds it strange.

Messi's performance is like he has a deep hatred with Manchester City - even in the national derby with Real Madrid, Messi would not be so excited after scoring...

No one knows why Messi performed like this.

Only Messi himself.

In the match against Rongguang, he scored the team's equalizer goal, and it was a very beautiful volley, so he would naturally be very excited.

His wild celebration was just to vent all the pressure on him before the glory...

It's not really a grudge against Manchester City.

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Messi scored the goal, and one person was very unhappy. This person was not Rongguang. Rongguang just frowned slightly after Messi scored the goal - the lead was gone, and the opponent also scored a away goal, which was a bit troublesome to advance.

The person who is most unhappy is not even a player from Manchester City, but Messi's teammate and Barcelona's main center Ibrahimovic.

He just saw Messi's move to raise his hand to ask him for the ball. It would be fine if he didn't see this move, but he was so angry that he wouldn't hit him.

I'm the center, I got the ball in the penalty area. Even if I'm facing the attacking direction, there's no need for me to pass the football to you, right?

Why do I want to make wedding dresses for you?

At that moment, he thought of Guardiola's tactical arrangement. As a center, Ibrahimovic's biggest role is to pass the ball to Messi, set up a turret for Messi's shooting, and provide cover for Messi's running position...

Is this still a center?

Ibrahimovic could not stand such an arrangement the most.

So at that moment, when he saw Messi raise his arms to him, he rushed to his forehead with anger and decided to be a clan.

To be honest, Ibrahimovic's turn-around shot quality is also very high, if not slightly positive...

But this is slightly positive, which gives Messi a chance to shoot.

It's here that makes Ibrahimovic particularly unhappy - it's obviously his performance, but it makes Messi, and he becomes an indirect assist.

Ibrahimovic couldn't swallow this.

But whether he wants it or not, the goal has already happened. Now the whole team is hugging Messi to celebrate his goal.

Ibrahimovic was able to express his current attitude by not coming forward to participate in the celebration.

Not happy, very unhappy.
Chapter completed!