Chapter 1018 Wild Messi
Chapter 1018 Wild Messi
"Leo Messi—!"
Amidst the prolonged roar of the Catalan commentator, Messi shot a cold arrow outside the penalty area.
However, his shot was over the crossbar and did not threaten Manchester City's goal.
But the Catalan commentator did not blame Messi for wasting an opportunity. On the contrary, he also affirmed Messi's attempt: "Manchester City is shrinking their defense now, and long-range shots are a good way. After conceding the ball, Messi is more active than before conceding the ball. As long as he can continue to be so active, I think it is not impossible to equalize the score! Manchester City scored too early and left enough time for Barcelona to equalize the score..."
During this period, Barcelona's performance was really good. The three of Messi, Xavi and Iniesta often played back some amazing cooperation.At the same time, with Messi's outstanding performance, Barcelona has not been affected by conceding goals, and they are still playing the football they are good at.
Guardiola, who was on the sidelines, was completely relieved at this time.He was quite worried when he just lost the ball, but now he is very relieved to see the team's performance.
Just as Manchester City fans feel lucky they have the glory, Guardiola feels lucky he has Messi.
Although the core of this team is Harvey, Messi may be more important to Barcelona in a sense.
Therefore, since Guardiola became the head coach of Barcelona, he has completely helped Messi to the core position.Before him, when Rijkaard coached the team, the core of the team was Ronaldinho. Messi was just a partner next to Ronaldinho. Although he also performed well, he could not shake Ronaldinho's status.
Guardiola is keenly aware that Messi is better than Ronaldinho in terms of talent and ability, and is younger. Letting Messi be the core can keep Barcelona's glory longer.
It turns out he was right.
In his first season in charge of Barcelona, he led the team to the treble and won the sixth crown last year.
Among them, Messi is an absolutely important figure.
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Manchester City's players soon found that Messi in front of them was getting more and more difficult to deal with.
Before the game, they specially studied the video of Messi's game. From the video, we can see how powerful Messi is, but there is still a big difference between watching the video and experiencing it in the actual game.
Messi in the actual game is even more difficult to deal with!
They even think that this Messi is ten times better than the one they saw in the video...
These Manchester City players feel rightly.
Because even Guardiola feels that so far in this game, Messi's performance has been unexpectedly good, beyond his imagination, and beyond his usual state 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 he was strong, and Rong Guang's outstanding performance must have stimulated him.
The game has been going on for almost 10 minutes now, and it has been almost 10 minutes since Barcelona lost the ball.
In these 10 minutes, Barcelona had almost no turmoil after conceding a goal. They quickly stabilized and continued to press Manchester City.
Even Guardiola was surprised by this performance.
This is of course all thanks to Messi.
Seeing Messi's performance, Guardiola is full of confidence in the future.
This season, he is full of ambition and wants to become the first head coach to lead the team to successfully defend the Champions League after the restructuring.
In his opinion, the biggest enemy on the way forward is Manchester City, where the glory is located. Manchester City is not scary, what is scary is glory, this is a person who can create any miracle if he goes crazy.
Fortunately, we have Messi...
The only one who can compare 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 chances to counterattack. There was even a period of time when Manchester City could not even pass halftime.
"Whose home field is this?" Alan Hansen complained.
He is not happy with Manchester City's performance during this period.
"It's not that Manchester City are not doing well, it's that Barcelona are doing too well..." said John Mortensen. "Messi has been extremely active during this time, he has dominated almost all of Barcelona's offenses..."
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After completely losing the initiative on the field, Manchester City's goal was declared lost in the No. 401 minute.
In fact, before the goal was conceded, Manchester City's goal was already in jeopardy.
The whole team is like a small boat on a stormy sea, which may capsize at any time.
At that time, Barcelona shot twice in a row, and the first time was blocked by Manchester City's central defender Lucio with his body.The football fell to Zlatan Ibrahimovic's feet.
At that time Ibrahimovic could have passed the football to Messi because Messi was in a better position.
The Argentine also raised his arm, signaling for Ibrahimovic to pass him the ball.
"Pass!" The Catalan commentator couldn't help shouting.
But Ibrahimovic did not do this, he chose to forcefully turn around and shoot.
Moreover, the quality of this turnaround shot is still very high. Ibrahimovic kicked solidly, with a strong kick, so fast that goalkeeper Joe Hart couldn't react at all.
He just raised his arms reflexively.
As a result, Ibrahimovic's ball is good everywhere, but the shot is too direct...
The football hit Joe Hart's arm directly, and the football bounced back!
"It's so dangerous..." Before John Mortensen could finish his sentence, he saw Messi appearing on the spot where the football landed. At this time, the other Manchester City players hadn't reacted yet!
I saw Messi directly swung his left foot and volleyed sideways!
"Leo Messi——!!!" Along with the roar of the Catalan commentator, Messi hit the football with his left foot.
The football rushed into the goal like a shell fired.
Neither Joe Hart nor the other Manchester City defenders reacted to the ball—Messi appeared too strange and shot too fast...
"Messi! Oh! Messi! He equalized for Barcelona! Before the end of the first half, Manchester City's lead was gone!" shouted the Catalan commentator excitedly.
The few Barcelona fans in the stands cheered, and even briefly overwhelmed the voices of the Manchester City fans.
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After scoring the goal, Messi turned and ran to the corner flag. He seemed very excited. After running to the corner flag, he pulled out the corner flag and waved it excitedly in his hand.
His celebration was naturally regarded by the Manchester City fans as a provocation and humiliation to them, so for a while, there were loud boos in the Manchester City Stadium.
The cheers of the Barcelona fans were all suppressed.
Even the narrators were surprised, no matter how excited Messi was in the past, he would never make such a wild celebration...
What happened to him today?
First it was very, very good in the game, and then it got too excited after scoring the goal.
Some commentators simply joked: "I think UEFA will definitely arrange for Messi to do a post-match urine test after watching this game..."
Of course, he quickly stated that he was joking and did not question Messi's doping.
Messi hadn't slowed down yet. After waving the corner flag against the boos of the Manchester City fans, he threw the corner flag on the ground fiercely.
No wonder everyone finds it weird.
Messi's performance is almost like he has a deep hatred with Manchester City-even in the national derby against Real Madrid, Messi will not be so excited after scoring a goal...
No one knows why Messi behaved like this.
Only Messi himself.
In the contest against Rongguang, he scored the team's equalizer goal, and it was a very beautiful volley. He will naturally be very excited.
His wild celebration was nothing more than venting all the pressure that the previous glory had put on him...
It's not really against Manchester City.
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Messi scored a goal, and one person was very upset. This person was not Rong Guang. Rong Guang just frowned slightly after Messi scored a goal—the lead was gone, and the opponent scored an away goal. It would be a bit troublesome to advance.
The most upset person is not even a Manchester City player, but Messi's teammate, Barcelona's main center Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Just now he saw Messi raising his hand to ask him for the ball. It would be fine if he hadn't seen this movement, but if he saw it, he wouldn't be angry.
I'm a center forward. I got the ball in the penalty area. Even if my back is facing the attacking direction, I don't need to pass the football to you, right?
Why should I make a wedding dress 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 shot, and provide cover for Messi's running position...
Is this still a center forward?
Ibrahimovic can't stand such an arrangement the most.
So at that moment, when he saw Messi raise his arms to him, he rushed to his forehead and decided to do it alone.
To be honest, the quality of Ibrahimovic's turn shot is also very high, if not slightly positive...
But it was this slight correction that gave Messi a chance to make up shots.
What made Zlatan Ibrahimovic particularly upset was here - when it was obviously his own performance, he made Messi instead, and he became an indirect assist instead...
Ibrahimovic couldn't swallow this breath.
But whether he wants it or not, the goal has happened and now the whole team is embracing Messi and celebrating his goal.
Ibrahimovic can only express his current attitude by not stepping forward to participate in the celebration.
Unhappy, very unhappy.
(End of this chapter)