Chapter 718: A Different Messi
Manchester City fans were glad to applaud Vincent Kompany's brilliant rescue, while Barcelona fans in the stands of Manchester Municipal's visiting team let out a loud sigh that they felt it was a shame that the goal was not scored, and if it did, Barcelona had scored an away goal and the score was leading, which was a huge psychological pressure for the home team Manchester City.
Of course, some Barcelona fans are still expressing their displeasure, insisting that the goal has crossed the goal line and that it was a goal. They felt that the Turkish referee was biased in favour of Manchester City.
The commentators are applauding Kompany, as the cornerstone of the Manchester City team and Belgium's defense, there is too much difference between Kompany's Manchester City backline, Kompany's body is as strong as a cow, strong confrontation ability, large coverage area, prediction, tackles, headers are proficient, there are no obvious shortcomings, in England, many media will Kompany as the Premier League's first central defender's number one choice.
And Barcelona full-back Abidal, who had just headed to Sergio Busquets, didn't even have time to miss the goal for his teammates, so he had to hurry back to defend.
Not only did Kompany clear the ball on the goal line, but after driving out of the box, he was also snatched up by Ballack, who ferried the ball to Adam Johnson, who made a slight adjustment and launched a quick counter-attack with a long pass.
"Counter-attack – City's chance!"
Football to the feet of David Silva.
Seeing David Silva take the ball, Guardiola frowned, in his opinion, Yang Fan, the superstar, is the most threatening in the Manchester City team, but David Silva also made Guardiola jealous. When David Silva was still in Valencia, Barcelona fell in love with the Spanish international, but Manchester City made the first move, directly smashed the money at Valencia, and with the careful thought of not sending his star to Barcelona, David Silva came to Manchester City, in addition, as reported by some media, Manchester City captain Yang Fan personally invited Silva to join, which also played a role in promoting this transfer transaction.
It is precisely because he knows Silva's strength that Guardiola also told his players to be careful of David Silva during the pre-game tactical arrangement.
Therefore, after seeing David Silva get the ball at this time, the Barcelona players on the field naturally began to get nervous, and Alves stared at the football at his feet and refused to kick first.
David Silva's upper body shook suddenly, and Alves thought he was going to break through, so he hurriedly leaned his real body back, ready to intercept. Unexpectedly, David Silva was just a feint, and after a false shot, the Spanish international calmly passed the football to Milner, who was inserted on the wing.
Alves, who was played by his old rival David Silva, didn't even have time to resent, turned around and ran into the penalty area, although Milner's cross was of average quality, but in case this fast guy dribbled the ball to the bottom line and passed a good ball, who did he talk to?!
When Yang Fan saw David Silva get the ball, he began to swim in front of the goal, ready to sprint at any time.
After seeing Milner receive the ball, Yang Fan immediately began to sprint to the goal.
Puyol's attention was always on Yang Fan's body, seeing him running towards the door, he immediately followed closely, Puyol knew that Yang Fan's speed was very fast, so he had to follow closely and not give Yang Fan room to accelerate, otherwise, Pujol knew that he would not be able to stop Yang Fan. Even Puyol, who was in his prime, was not a strong point in terms of speed. Not to mention the now aging Barcelona captain.
Seeing Alves coming up, Milner immediately passed the ball to Ballack, who ran forward on his own.
Ballack passed the ball to David Silva, David Silva passed the ball again, and the ball was at the feet of Milner again.
Manchester City's small-area pass, which made Alves tired and a little embarrassed, he shouted anxiously, this is calling for support.
At this time, the football was passed out again, and Alves was successfully dumped.
Seeing Alves left behind by Milner, Barcelona centre-back Pique hurried up to intercept.
Seeing Pique coming up, Milner suddenly accelerated the ball, relying on his speed to tear a gap from the side of Pique who was rushing up, and then he did not choose to cut inside, but directly crossed with his feet!
City's succession of quick passes, as well as Milner's breakthrough, once again earned cheers from the stands for home clubs.
"Milner – he crosses!"
Puyol turned back to look for Yang Fan after seeing Milner's cross, but after his eyes quickly scanned the crowd, he didn't find any trace of Yang Fan!
What about Yang Fanren?
Where is he?!
Manchester City's only striker, where?!
"Yang Fan!" the commentator suddenly shouted excitedly.
Soon after the game started, Yang Fan saw that Puyol was not leaving him, and of course he guessed that Puyol would be the defender who was responsible for marking him, so he was thinking about how to get rid of Puyol at that time.
Yang Fan had played against Puyol two seasons ago and he knew the Barcelona captain.
Puyol is older, and a veteran defender of this age must have an average turning speed. Yang Fan knew this in his heart.
Therefore, when he was cruising in the penalty area just now, he made several emergency stops in a row, and then changed direction, which forced Puyol to follow, and he was very embarrassed, and this time, Yang Fan repeated his old tricks again, and Puyol, who had been tired of these consecutive short sprints, was already a little powerless when he tried to turn around again to find Yang Fan and paste it. It's not that Puyol's fitness is running out so quickly, it's just that a lot of switchbacks in a short period of time consumes too much temporarily.
Got rid of Puyol, Yang Fan unsheathed the sword.
"Oh! Yang Fan - he catches the ball - breaks through!"
"Damn it! stop him!" Barcelona's goalkeeper Valdés shouted, facing Yang Fan, the Barcelona goalkeeper was terrified.
Abidal, who had just participated in the attack in the front court in his own corner kick tactics and successfully completed a beautiful header ferry, ran at high speed all the way and desperately returned to the defense, and at this time he finally made up for his own penalty area.
From Manchester City's penalty area, running back to his own penalty area, the tired and out of breath Abidal saw that Puyol was deceived by Yang Fan's running, and his goal was in crisis, he knew that he couldn't wait, and made a decisive tackle.
Guardiola and Mancini on the sidelines were shocked, the former was worried that Abidal's tackle would bring down Yang Fan, in that case, it would be a penalty and a red card, which was far greater than the blow of losing a goal, and the latter was worried that Abidal would injure Yang Fan, in that case, it would undoubtedly be a disaster for the Manchester City team, not to mention the importance of Yang Fan to Manchester City, that is, look at the current personnel situation of Manchester City's forward line, in addition to Balotelli on the bench, Dzeko has a small injury, Tevez is still recuperating, and the Manchester City team can be said to be stretched on the front line。
What caused a huge cheer from the entire stadium was the scene that followed.
Yang Fan seemed to know that Abidal was going to shovel, only to see him flick the football outward with his right foot, and then jumped up, although clumsy, but effectively dodged the sliding shovel, and then he hit it with his foot.
Seeing Yang Fan shooting, Valdés immediately flew to save the ball.
However, Yang Fan's shot, the angle is very tricky, the ball has an arc in the air, Valdés thought he could save the ball, but he didn't expect the ball to be reached in his right hand, a choice to the outside, from the hand side, continue to fly, Valdés, who had been in the air, could only helplessly turn his head to look at the football flying towards the goal, unable to do anything.
Bang!
The ball hit the post, hit the inside of the post, and bounced into the net.
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"Yang Fan - he shoots - the ball - in! in! in! in! in!"
“!!!”
"Yang Fan!!Manchester City scored!This is a very important goal!"
"1-0! In the third minute of the game, Manchester City scored! It was Yang Fan who scored!"
"Yang Fan! He scored! This is his 18th goal in the 2010/2011 Champions League!"
After scoring the goal, Yang Fan beat his chest hard, screaming in his mouth, and his teammates rushed towards him!
"Yang Fan! He has set a new goal record! This is a new goal record in a single season in the Champions League! The previous goal record is also held by Yang Fan, and he broke his own record!"
In the stands at Manchester City Stadium, there was already an explosion and loud cheers.
The entire stadium was cheering for the surname Yang.
"Damn it!" Guardiola burst into a foul language on the sidelines, the goal came too quickly, according to Guardiola's original plan, Manchester City may be attacking at the beginning, Barcelona only need to withstand this wave of attack, and then put pressure on Manchester City's goal to fight for the first goal and seize the initiative. Then, there is hope that this game will be won.
He didn't expect the team to concede so early.
The Barcelona players on the pitch also looked very frustrated. Abidal held his head in his hands and looked at the football in the net.
Puyol was also a bit distracted, and he had the main responsibility for conceding the goal.
In the front court, Messi didn't see the whole process of Yang Fan's goal just now, at this time, the Argentine looked up at the big screen and was replaying the scene of Yang Fan's goal. Noticing that Yang Fan's ghostly movement fooled Puyol, he then 'danced' to dodge Abidal's sliding tackle, and then fired a high-quality shot that bypassed Barcelona goalkeeper Valdés and hit the inside of the post and into the net.
The whole goal, whether it's running or getting out of position, or the final fatal blow, was impeccable!
What a terrible guy!
Messi glanced at Yang Fan.
The goal of the old opponent Yang Fan also aroused the endless fighting spirit burning in Messi's chest.
I'm not going to lose to him!
Pep Guardiola took advantage of the dead ball to call Puyol to the sidelines, and he told the captain of his team, "Don't panic, the game has just started, and it's better to concede a goal at this time than to concede a goal at the last moment!"
Puyol nodded, the head coach's words, although he was comforting, but it was not unreasonable.
"Let Busquets defend more and contain Yang Fan. Pep Guardiola continued.
Puyol nodded silently, he knew that this was Guardiola's doubts about whether he could prevent Yang Fan by himself. So, let Busquets sacrifice his attack to help him defend.
Although he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, after the first move with Yang Fan just now, Puyol had to admit that it was really difficult and even impossible for him to prevent Yang Fan by himself. He really needed a helper.
The Spanish media, especially the Catalan media, have a high evaluation of Busquets, who has a very high ball quotient, can bring stable ball control to the team, and almost never concedes the ball easily, is extremely cunning when running without the ball, has an excellent sense of position, is good at tackles, has a first-class sense of ability to get rid of the situation and team cooperation, has a wide field of vision, and the long and short passes are accurate, and the pass is not in place in one step, the passing action is deceptive, the feints are extremely realistic, the small-area pass is concise and fast, the accuracy of the ball is high, and the most important thing is the high-achieving students produced by the La Masia Academy, which can be said to be rooted in the seedlingsBarcelona also see Sergio Busquets as a central figure for the future of Barcelona and Spain
Yang Fan is very happy, he knows that his goal is important for the whole team, and he knows how important this goal to break the deadlock is.
When Yang Fan walked towards the middle circle, he glanced at Messi, but saw that this person was looking at him, Yang Fan shrugged, looking very relaxed about scoring a goal.
Messi glared at Yang Fan, the Argentine didn't speak, just gritted his teeth, lowered his head and walked away, but his fists were clenched tightly.
When the game restarted, Messi immediately returned the color.
This is Barcelona kicking off in the center circle, when Villa kicked the football to Messi, Messi turned around and made a move to pass the football back, but the foot hooked the football and turned sharply!
Wiped past David Silva, who pounced!
Just broke through Silva, Messi made another move to give the football to Iniesta, who was going to pick up his own in front of the diagonal front, and deceived Yang Fan, who was supposed to intercept in the front, took a step to the side, and took advantage of this opportunity Messi took the football forward and accelerated in a straight line!
He broke through from Yang Fan's side again!
The Barcelona fans in the stands roared with excitement, while the Manchester City fans booed loudly.
Yang Fan's eyes were not good, and he was extremely unhappy in his heart. He's not a defender, and it's not his responsibility to stop Messi, but, being passed by Messi, of course, will make him very unhappy.
"Messi! He's got two people in a row! He doesn't mean to pass the ball...... Is this to break through directly to the opponent's goal?!" the Catalan commentator chanted.
"It's useless! It's all our people in front! Messi's breakthrough will definitely be stopped, even if it's a foul, he won't eat cards!! Messi's breakthrough looks meaningless, as if he was angered by the loss of the ball, he saw Yang Fan score, and he was very unhappy. Lineker, England's commentator, said it was clearly not a wise move for him to start dribbling from the middle circle.
As soon as Lineker's words fell, Messi passed the next defender Ballack, he was unable to break through the fourth, and was viciously rushed up by De Jong with the ball and shoveled to the ground, this foul looked ferocious, but it was towards the ball, so the referee's whistle sounded, only awarded Manchester City a foul, and did not play a card.
Messi got up from the ground, threw his fist hard, and shouted.
"Messi is very excited! ”
Obviously, the duel with Yang Fan, especially Yang Fan's goal just now, also stimulated Messi. The commentators said.
Yang Fan glanced at Messi and snorted.
From Barcelona's free-kick, the football went into the penalty area, and Villa tried to grab the goal, but under Kompany's interference, he couldn't reach the ball, and Joe Hart easily picked it off in the air.
Barcelona's attack ended there, failing to pose a real threat to the Manchester City goal.
However, when the game continued, Yang Fan began to feel that he was not as relaxed as before he scored.
Barcelona stepped up their marking against him.
One of Manchester City's attacks, De Jong was taking the ball, and he looked like he was going to pass the ball to Yang Fan.
Yang Fan leaned on Sergio Busquets, who was defending him, intending to ask for the ball. Busquets is tall and strong, and Yang Fan's body is not as strong as Busquets, so he pouted his ass backwards and wanted to squeeze Busquets away, but he was not able to succeed.
That's when De Jong's pass came.
Yang Fan's judgment on the landing of the ball made Yang Fan take the lead again when he grabbed the point, Yang Fan had jumped up, but he was still in place, he was already behind, and he would definitely not be able to compete for the top. But you can't let him go like this!
Busquets immediately made a bad move, he fell backwards, pretending to be squeezed by Yang Fan, and at the same time reached out and pulled Yang Fan in the air very covertly.
Yang Fan was about to top the ball, and his waist and abdomen were exerting force, but the center of gravity suddenly lost completely, and he fell directly from the air.
The referee's whistle sounded, and then ran to the scene of the incident, judging by his gestures, it was a foul on Barcelona.
Puyol came up and pulled Busquets up, then patted him on the shoulder: "Well done!" This is a tactical foul, if Yang Fan successfully tops the ball, it will be troublesome, Yang Fan's side is Barcelona's key defense, and a certain side of the key defense, which means that the other side is empty, for example, the left side behind Yang Fan is like this, if Yang Fan jumps up and ferries the football over, it is very deadly, and Puyol can see clearly, where Adam Johnson has already started to insert, obviously ready to receive Yang Fan's header ferry, fortunately, Busquets is very smart foul, preventing this from happening。
Busquets was well-timed and the place was just right. And the action is not big, the referee will give a verbal warning at most, and he will not play the cards.
Yang Fan protested to the referee about Busquets' brutal foul, and he asked the referee for a yellow card for Busquets. But the referee ignored him.
This made Yang Fan very angry, and he glared at Busquets viciously before walking away. There has been a holiday between him and Busquets, and in the Champions League final two years ago, Yang Fan almost staged an all-out martial arts with Busquets, which can be said to be quite resentful.
Adam Johnson sent a free kick, and after a series of combinations, and finally David Silva and Yang Fan cooperated, Yang Fan pretended to cut inside with the ball, but passed the football to the side, and then people saw Milner cut in and take the ball high to the penalty area.
Ballack jumped up in the box to head in the box, but was unable to put up the power and did not pose much of a threat to Barcelona's goal.
Barcelona's attacking prowess was really good, and just two minutes later, they were a huge threat to Manchester City's goal!
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