In another VIP box, Manchester City Club's senior management gathered together. Manchester City was able to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League, which made these big men of Manchester City Club overjoyed. To be honest, even if Manchester City Club chairman Alfaim or general manager Cook doesn't know much about the ball, he also knows that it is impossible to win the Champions League championship as soon as he comes, and it is good to be able to reach the quarterfinals. Now, Manchester City's opponent is Barcelona, ​​the defending champion. Speaking of which, even if Manchester City loses to Barcelona, ​​it is not unacceptable.

Of course, if Manchester City can eliminate Barcelona, ​​they will naturally be overjoyed.

The real boss of the Abu Dhabi consortium, Chief Mansour, has already spoken out. If Manchester City can eliminate Barcelona, ​​he will give all players additional rewards ranging from 300,000 to 1 million euros.

At this time, in the stadium, players from both sides had lined up and walked out of the corridor and appeared in front of the public. A burst of cheers came from the scene. As the captain of Manchester City, Zhang Yang walked in the front and waved his hand to the stands, and immediately there was a burst of cheers like a tsunami.

Alfaim looked at the scene and smiled: "Even if I didn't win the championship this year, I believe I'm not far from us."

Hearing Alfaim say this, Cook nodded, "He is indeed a great player who can bring championships. The Chairman will bring Zhang Yang to Manchester City, which is the greatest guarantee for the team to have the current results."

Cook was just talking about Alfaim's pride and immediately laughed.

March 30, 2010, the quarterfinals of the 2009/2010 Champions League, Manchester City vs. Barcelona's first leg competition.

Manchester, municipal stadium, the stars are very good. It's a good weather for games.

Zhong Dajun typed these words on his laptop. After thinking about it, he continued to typing: Zhang Yang and Messi, the two best young people in football today, the World Footballer and the European Golden Ball Awards, and the topic of which of the two is better has long been hyped up. This game...

Zhang Yang stood on the court and the game was about to begin.

Standing opposite him is Messi.

The camera changed a little on the two people, telling everyone that these two people are the focus of today. The showdown between them is also the biggest highlight of today's game.

Of course, another highlight is the performance of these two forward partners. Zhang Yang's partner is Ronaldo and Messi's partner is Boyan. Guardiola would rather give Boyan a chance than give Ibrahimovic a chance to start. This also caused the outside world's speculation about the conflict between Ibrahimovic and Guardiola to be comprehensively intensified, which has been confirmed to a certain extent.

Regarding the conflict between Ibrahimovic and Guardiola, the Milan Sports Daily analysis is: Ibrahimovic accused Guardiola of favoring Messi too much and not tolerant of foreign players. In a tactical sense, Ibrahimovic was bought as a high center forward, but had a conflict with Messi's position in the game, which restricted Messi's performance, so Ibrahimovic was sacrificed. Ibrahimovic is also a top star. In addition, he is arrogant and disagreeing with the generals is inevitable.

What Marca said is more straightforward and straightforward: Ibrahimovic wants to be in Barcelona's middle frontcourt, with him as the core. But Guardiola believes that everyone can play with Messi as the core and ask him to go to the side, but he disagrees and starts arguing...

In such a match in which Mars hits the Earth, Ibrahimovic, a proud and arrogant person, can only watch from the bench, and I believe he will feel uncomfortable. The camera captures the gloomy expression on the face of the Swedish God Tower on the bench. Obviously, he feels very unhappy.

You know, when in the Serie A, Zhang Yang and Ibrahimovic fought hard to compete for the Serie A Golden Boot. Who would have thought that two years later, Ibrahimovic could only watch Zhang Yang and Messi compete for the throne of "No. 1 in the world" off the court. This is really unhappy and depressing.

Of course, Cristiano Ronaldo probably has something to say about Zhang Yang and Messi for the 'No. 1 in the world'.

From the first second after the kickoff, Manchester City and Barcelona were in the most intense battle.

Barcelona planned to organize the attack after kicking off, but unexpectedly, Keita's pass to Ibrahimovic cut off Manchester City's midfielder De Jong, and immediately counterattacked and handed the football to Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang took two steps and made a wall-to-wall cooperation with Ronaldo, then dribbled the ball to the left of the penalty area. After dunking over Alves who came to defend, he suddenly passed the ball and Ireland inserted into the game to complete the first shot of the game. Barcelona goalkeeper Valdes performed well and saved it. Manchester City got the first corner kick.

"Beautiful. Manchester City had a good shot at the start. Their attack was more like a warning to the proud defending champion Barcelona. Remind them that this is Manchester City's territory!" Manchester's commentator shouted.

Not only Messi showed confidence in winning Manchester City in an interview, but other Barcelona players also expressed their ambition and confidence in winning their opponents, which also made Manchester City very unhappy. Manchester City's performance is quite good now and is the leader in the league, which also made Manchester City fans who have "always very **" expand their confidence. Although some media have described Manchester City as a "nova team", Manchester City fans have already felt very good. At this time, this statement from the veteran giant Barcelona undoubtedly made Manchester City fans very unhappy.

Seeing the home team performing such a wonderful performance from the beginning of the game, Manchester City fans cheered loudly.

From the beginning of this game, Manchester City showed amazing momentum. When confronting a master like Barcelona who controls the game, you must take the initiative and take the initiative. You must not follow the rhythm of Barcelona! In that case, Manchester City will definitely be dead.

Manchester City got into the state very quickly. They had a strong offensive from the start, so Zhang Yang naturally got more shots.

However, Guardiola obviously had arrangements for how to defend Zhang Yang. He did not arrange for the elderly Puyol to defend Zhang Yang, but instead arranged for Pique to guard Zhang Yang.

"Pique - this ball is clean and neat! Pique returns to Barcelona, ​​which makes Puyol have a successor." Barcelona's commentator shouted happily.

This was just now when Zhang Yang tried to speed up the plate over Pique, but Pique was not fooled, and a beautiful snatch. Zhang Yang staggered, and the man rushed out by inertia, but the ball remained at Pique's feet. He almost fell down. Zhang Yang supported the ground with his left hand, so he didn't fall. Then he immediately shoveled to Pique's feet with a sliding shovel.

After Pique intercepted the ball, he planned to take two steps, but he didn't expect that Zhang Yang would come so decisively. He felt the danger behind him, and he jumped up subconsciously and dodged the tackle in a very embarrassing way. The ball was naturally shoveled out of the sideline by Zhang Yang! He also slipped under his feet and fell to bite the mud.

Before Pique could get up, Puyol rushed over like an angry lion and shouted loudly at Zhang Yang who was still lying on the ground. Zhang Yang also got up and responded without hesitation.

German referee Stark quickly ran over and verbally warned the two people who were too angry.

The booing in the stands of the municipal stadium was shocking. The booing was obviously not for Zhang Yang, but for Barcelona captain Puyol.

This game is a showdown between Zhang Yang and Messi, but in the eyes of some media, it is also a showdown between Zhang Yang and Puyol, a captain who is nearly 23 years old, and a veteran captain, a football player. This is just like the current status of Manchester City and Barcelona. Manchester City is a rapidly rising team, while Barcelona is a veteran strong team.

After the game started, Manchester City's offensive was very fierce, but the visiting team scored first.

In the 23rd minute of the game, Barcelona took the lead.

The Catalan team played a exquisite cooperation, Xavi passed a beautiful pass, and after Iniesta got the ball, he attracted the defensive attention of two Manchester City players, and passed a fatal pass. After Messi got the ball, he first dribbled the ball and broke through Gareth Barrie's defense, and then broke into the penalty area. Facing Joe Hart, who was in a hurry, he shot low, and the football rolled into the lower left corner of the goal against the turf!

Barcelona is 1-0 Manchester City!

"Barcelona leads! One to zero! They scored a goal! Messi! Messi!! Messi! Oh oh, this is really a blow to Manchester City. This is obviously a situation that Zhang Yang cannot accept. On his territory, Messi scored a goal!"

The camera changed the close-up shot of Messi who warmly celebrated the goal, and the TV camera immediately gave Zhang Yang. Seeing the 'dead rival' Messi scored, the Manchester City captain, who was one goal behind, had a face expression not as embarrassing as the commentator imagined. Zhang Yang just glanced at the Barcelona man who was celebrating, and then shouted at the team's goalkeeper Joe Hart. Joe Hart took the ball out of the goal and threw it to him. Zhang Yang held the ball in his arm and slowly walked towards the center circle...

"Barcelona! Barcelona!! Barcelona!! Ohoh--Messi! Messi!! Messi!!" In the faraway Iberian Peninsula, in the big and small bars in Barcelona, ​​the capital of Catalonia, Barcelona fans excitedly shouted their team name, cheered for the team's goals, and cheered for Messi.

"Barcelona scored a goal! They took the lead, Barcelona led, and Messi scored the goal! This can be said to be the best situation that Barcelona can expect!" The TV commentator said to the Barcelona player who was still celebrating the goal.

"Go to die for the upstart Manchester City! The country bumpkins, please be careful! This is the rich!!" The visiting fans in the stands shouted loudly. They began to provoke Manchester City fans.

Manchester City fans are naturally not to be outdone. "Barcelona is a mixed bag! You are too happy too early! Our captain will fuck you all!"

About a minute later, Barcelona players finally celebrated the goal, and they returned to their respective positions on the court to start the game again.

Zhang Yang, who had already put the football in the middle circle, was shouting loudly to his teammates: "Don't take it seriously, we still have a lot of time! Let them see how powerful we are!"
Chapter completed!