Chapter 328 What is the glory of going all out?
Manchester City players and fans are celebrating the goal wildly, but in Barcelona it seems like a stagnant pool.
Puyol, who was given by Rongguang, then turned around and chased him back, but all he saw was Rongguang's volley after picking Valdes. Inertia made him continue running, and he ran to Valdes before stopping. He looked at the football in the goal in a daze...
Valdes lay beside him and didn't get up.
Puyol's body was hit from behind, and he turned around and saw that it was Messi...
Messi ran out of breath and finally ran to the front door, but it was too late.
He chased back all the way from the frontcourt, and had hope of catching up with Glory, but in the face of Glory's breakthrough method, he was unable to get close to Glory in the end, and he did not even appear in the TV broadcasting camera with Glory.
After passing Busquets, Glory ran all the way. Neither Pique nor Puyol could stop Glory.
Messi's return to defense is meaningless except seeing Rong Guang score a goal at a relatively close distance...
This competition can be said to be Messi's complete defeat!
This may be a bigger blow to Messi than the goal conceding.
Because Messi was not even able to get close to the point where he could grab Rong Guang's clothes with his hands - in so many competitions before this, at least he had chased him to almost parallel to Rong Guang, or to catch up with the right opportunity to intercept the ball. It was just that Rong Guang's dribbling rhythm was too good, and he could never find that opportunity.
But there is no time when you can't catch up.
This time, Messi failed to catch up with Glory throughout the whole process.
During this attack, Rongguang never considered whether Messi was a pursuer behind him. He didn't regard Messi as an opponent at all!
Messi saw the whole journey and ran with him, but the distance between him and Rongguang did not shorten, but it completely opened in the second half. Although Rongguang passed Pique and Puyol in the second half, this did not affect Rongguang's slowdown.
During this process, Messi could clearly feel how fast he was after running at full speed...
Messi looked at the football quietly lying in the goal and stared blankly, but his heart was filled with waves.
Is this the honor after giving all your strength?
It turns out that the gap between me and him is so big...
After surpassing glory in the Champions League scorer list, the media believed that Messi had surpassed glory. Although Messi didn't think so in his heart, he also felt that at least he was catching up with glory.
But now it seems that he is still far from glory!
It even made him a little desperate...
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Barcelona coach Guardiola, who was standing on the sidelines, waved his hand, with helplessness and pain on his face.
He has already known Rong Guang’s personal abilities through Iniesta. Originally, he thought Iniesta had exaggerated the truth in some aspects, after all, Iniesta is a recognized "brainless fan" of Rong Guang in the circle.
But when it was really time for the game, when he saw the ball, he had to admit that every word Iniesta said was right and there was no false statement.
For example, he asked Iniesta not to hide anything. To put it completely according to his true thoughts, if Barcelona has Messi, can they fight against glory?
Iniesta said that this is exactly what he was worried about.
"...Because Rong is a person who is strong when facing strong, and his strength has no upper limit - at least I have never seen his upper limit. If Leo is in good condition and performs well, then Rong will be in better shape and perform better in the game. He is eager to challenge the strong, and Leo shows signs that he can beat him, then Rong will do his best to defeat Leo in the game. So frankly speaking, Leo is in good condition not necessarily a good news for us..."
Guardiola felt incredible when he heard this, because what Iniesta said was completely beyond common sense. No matter how strong a player is, he has his limits. Messi is already very strong and is stronger than Messi? What is that concept? And how can there be no upper limit?
He was thinking about this at that time? He didn't agree with it. He just took the initiative to find Iniesta to understand the situation of glory. What he wanted to hear was that Iniesta made his statement openly and did not hide it at all. Naturally, it was difficult to express his disdain and did not believe in such an attitude. Otherwise, there would be no need for Iniesta to say that he could just watch the video himself.
The purpose of finding Iniesta is to learn about some news and things that cannot be seen on the game video.
However, Guardiola did not tell anyone about Iniesta's words. He felt that this was too shocking and there was no benefit to say it. Instead, it also destroyed the relationship between Messi and Iniesta. The media must be very interested in news such as "Iniesta believes Messi is not as good as Rong"...
But now, when he saw Messi chasing behind Glory and Barcelona players were constantly blocking Glory, Messi was unable to catch up with Glory, and he believed it. It turned out that what Iniesta said was not the infinite amplification of his idol by a brainless fan, but the truth!
So the question is, in the face of such a glory, how should we play in the next game?
Many Barcelona's opponent coaches are considering how to play against Messi.
And now Guardiola feels the same trouble.
In the finals, all he and his team could do was the best, but they were still behind in the score.
Glory is the best performer in Manchester City. As long as you can defeat Glory, you can defeat Manchester City.
This matter is simple, but it is difficult to do it.
Anyway, Guardiola doesn't have a clear idea in his mind now.
Now he can only hope that Messi's unyielding spirit can be stimulated by the ball of Rong Guang, and then immediately use the goal to tie the score...
Yes, Guardiola, a coach who emphasizes team control, can only rely on Messi's personal performance now.
No head coach would like this feeling, as if he had completely become a decoration, a mascot on the coach's seat.
However, Manchester City's head coach Benitez and Chinese national team coach Gao Hongbo have become accustomed to it...
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Manchester City spends more time to celebrate the second ball of Glory.
This is actually a strategy for Manchester City. The longer the time spent in celebration, the more time you can delay. At the same time, Manchester City players celebrated it vigorously, which was also an impact on Barcelona players who conceded the ball.
Sure enough, when Barcelona players were celebrating wildly at Manchester City, no players even reminded the referee that they were timed out.
In the end, the referee reminded Manchester City players that it was time to go back to their halftime, and the game had to continue. The Manchester City players finished their celebrations and returned to their halftime.
On this road, many Manchester City players were waving their fists at the Manchester City fans in the stands, and their actions attracted storm cheers from Manchester City fans.
Manchester City fans are now the happiest, from falling behind to equalizing and then taking the lead. Manchester City fans once again witnessed how glory created miracles for them.
A large part of their cheers were not even for the ball, but for the foreseeable future they were looking forward to and for the foreseeable future.
That's the champion!
With a state like Glory, many Manchester City fans think they really have a high chance of winning the championship!
Champions League champion!
This is a championship that Manchester City has never won in history.
When it comes to England's top league championship, Manchester City had already won the FA Cup championship as early as 1936-1937. Manchester City had already won four of the FA Cup.
Manchester City won two of the English League Cup championships.
Even the European Cup Winners Championship, Manchester City won the championship in 1970.
But Manchester City has never won the Champions League championship once in history. Not to mention that they have won it, they have not even made it to the finals before.
If Manchester City can win the Champions League this time, that is truly creating history.
And they will all become a part of history today!
Speaking of which, has become a part of history happened to Manchester City fans many times this season?
For example, Manchester City has become the team with the most unbeaten consecutive games in England's top football history with 55 consecutive unbeaten games. For example, Manchester City won the championship unbeaten season, and after Arsenal, it is the second team to do all this.
In addition, entering the Champions League final itself has created Manchester City's history...
This season, Manchester City is creating their own history every step of the way.
But Manchester City fans did not feel that it was normal. They hadn't won enough, and they were not happy enough.
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The game started again amid the storm-like cheers of Manchester City fans in the stands.
Manchester City completed a substitution, Kompany was replaced, and Godin came on the field.
Godin, who has no yellow cards, will have no burden in defense and can perform very strongly. This immediately made Manchester City's defense stable.
In addition, Manchester City is now leading the score, and the situation is very unfavorable for Barcelona.
The only good news is that Messi was not completely defeated by Rong Guang's goal. After the game began, he still tried hard to find opportunities to score.
Manchester City did not make a big attack after scoring the goal, hoping to kill Barcelona this time.
In a level of competition in the Champions League final, you have to be careful every step. If you take a wrong step, you may eventually lead to an irreversible failure.
Manchester City is actually right to do this. In this case, Barcelona will have no chance to counterattack when they want to play Manchester City. Anyway, Manchester City is leading now, so they don’t have to rush to attack and just defend until the end of the game.
Chapter completed!