596. Visiting Camp Nou 3
There are many Manchester City fans who came to Camp Nou today. Many of them don’t understand why their team plays so poorly at Camp Nou. They are completely unrestrained and are severely suppressed by their opponents. Many people feel pessimistic.
They beg God to bless the team's players to recover in the second half.
Manchester City's situation has caused many Barcelona players to have the idea of "What a bullshit seven-champion champion, but that's all!"
By the start of the second half, Barcelona's choice of oppression in front court showed this. They were very aggressive, as if everyone was unwilling to stay in the backcourt and could not wait to eat Manchester City.
Enrique was not overly worried about this, but Wensheng was quite worried, because he was afraid that his team would not be able to resist.
But his concerns were redundant, Manchester City players kept their attention very well and focused, and Manchester City held back when Barcelona's offensive was at its most fiercest.
Messi and Neymar are both very active, but they are like they are facing a wall and are extremely powerful. It is impossible to perform a good show against Manchester City's shrinking defense, which is like five people in a row.
Neymar and Messi both tried, without exception they all failed.
During this period, Manchester City has improved in offense. Because the opponent's head and nonchalant pressure, Manchester City has several opportunities to counterattack. Unfortunately, Mascherano and Pique, who are partnering with the centre-back, also performed well. Manchester City lacked the last pass, and Suarez's several handling of the ball was not ideal.
As time goes by, it seems that the situation is becoming more and more beneficial to Manchester City, and they may really be able to save the situation of not losing the ball.
The English player criticized Manchester City badly. Some people say that Wen Sheng’s tactics are extremely embarrassing, while others say that Manchester City’s players are incredibly in a bad state.
The second half passed quickly, and more than 80 minutes of the game inadvertently passed. Barcelona still had no choice but to defeat Manchester City, and Manchester City missed two or three good counterattack opportunities, and there was nothing they could do to treat Barcelona.
At this moment, Manchester City made a mistake, and the cause was the positional attack.
In the 85th minute, Manchester City made a positional offense in the frontcourt. According to Wen Sheng's requirements, Manchester City paid more attention to controlling the ball at the end of the game. Subjectively, he did not want Manchester City to defeat his opponent as a whole, but this requirement was not something that he, a head coach, could only understand and not speak out between him and the players.
Do Manchester City players understand what he thinks? Of course they understand, otherwise everyone would not have worked hard to defend for so long.
But there is always a moment when players will think they have a chance and want to gamble. This time, Manchester City chose to gamble in the positional battle. Then they lost the bet and the ball was intercepted by Barcelona in their own half. They immediately took advantage of this opportunity to strike a quick counterattack.
Messi completed the assist and sent a fatal pass. Aguero sent the ball into the empty goal without anyone being guarded!
"Fuck, why take such a risk?!" Manchester City players were hit hard after the cheers of Barcelona fans were completely drowned out.
Then the Barcelona players were unreasonable and looked like they were trying to take your life while you were sick. Manchester City's goal was in a panic and dangerous situation.
"Fuck it's so focused!"
The assistant coaches in the team couldn't hold it anymore and cursed with Wensheng on the sidelines. Perhaps thanks to Wensheng's timely scolding, some of the Manchester City players who couldn't find North finally got up again.
In the last few minutes, Wensheng did not allow the team to attack. Manchester City's mentality is not stable enough now. If they are unbalanced and lose their second goal, it will be difficult to deal with the second round.
In the end, Barcelona defeated the visiting Manchester City 1:0 in this strong match and won the first leg, but this victory really comes from hardship.
Enrique had to praise Manchester City's defense at the post-match press conference, "Their defense is very, very good! The formation is very compact when defending, and the space given us is limited. It is not easy for us to make good use of the limited space, so we had to choose to shoot a little further away from the players! This is not a good idea!"
"I thought it was a draw! Aguero's goal changed the game, Messi's assist was very beautiful, I like this goal!"
Nonsense, it’s something that Barcelona supporters will like!
Aguero, the goal-scoring hero, also accepted an interview after the game. If he could eliminate his old club, Aguero was actually very happy. He and Wen Sheng were not as happy as the legend of the outside media. He would not leave Manchester City even if he was so happy.
It's just that he is still thinking about Manchester City's love, which is very strong, but in this knockout stage, he will of course choose the team he is in.
Like Enrique, Aguero also said that today's game was very difficult.
"We played more proactively, and they played more conservatively!"
"Break through the gates of the old club is not something worth a close-up! Manchester City is always in my heart, but now I need help with Barcelona!"
"They retreated quickly and could quickly form a defensive formation, which is very difficult for us to attack!"
The reporters asked Aguero an interesting question, "Who do you think is stronger than Manchester City this season than last season?!"
No matter how you answer this kind of question, it is not good. Aguero said wisely: "I can't make a comparison, but now it is very different from the past!"
"What are you thinking about in your mind at that moment?!" Although Wen Sheng comforted the players who lost the first leg on the court, when everyone returned to the locker room, Wen Sheng began to criticize people impatiently.
"I said that when we came to Camp Nou, the first goal, and the most important goal is not to lose the ball! Why don't you keep this sentence in your heart?!"
The players who made a mistake could only lower their heads silently. When they remembered this, they also felt cowardly. In fact, Manchester City had many ways to resolve the goal, but their failure to make the right choice, but the opponent made a reasonable and correct shot in the counterattack.
After teaching the players a while, Wen Sheng appeared at the press conference.
Manchester City lost completely today and lost cowardly. They said they were cowardly because they both defended tenaciously for 80 minutes. Seeing that it was dawn, they still made a mistake and were hit by the opponent with a fatal blow. Don’t you think you are cowardly?!
They said they lost completely because Manchester City lags behind Barcelona in this game, and only shot seven times, and these seven times did not hit the goal range once. As for the ball possession rate and other data, Manchester City is behind Barcelona.
Chapter completed!