It was Barcelona's attack, and they were advancing at a fast pace.

Xavi sent a hidden through ball into the box, Andres Iniesta's fake run drew the attention of the City defence, and Villa cut in between Kompany and Zabaleta.

Villa, who received the ball, faced Joe Hart directly!

Villa didn't make any extra moves, pushing directly into the near corner of the goal, Joe Hart fell to the ground to save the ball, he touched the football, but he couldn't stop the ball from moving forward.

Barcelona fans are ready to cheer the goal, though

There was a burst of exclamations at Manchester Municipal Stadium, as the ball was touched by Joe Hart, then rolled slowly towards the goal, hit the post, and was kicked off the sideline by Kolarov, who was desperately trying to defend.

Villa looked quite frustrated when he saw that the goal had not been scored, he held his head in his hands in frustration, squatted there, and after shooting a kick just now, Villa was very sure that the goal would be scored, and he was ready to celebrate the goal.

Manchester City, who escaped, also immediately fired back.

Ballack played a long pass to Zabaleta, who had stepped forward on the right flank, who then passed the ball forward and Ballack continued to dribble.

'Ballack was in good form today. "This season, Ballack has not had many opportunities in the Manchester City team, and this time Yaya Toure is suspended, giving Ballack a chance, and the veteran's performance so far is also reassuring." ”

Ballack and Balotelli, who came to pick up, made a wall-hitting combination, passed the football horizontally, David Silva missed the football, and after Balotelli's long-range shot was blocked, De Jong swept the football to the side.

Zabaleta, who stepped in, got in front of Abidal to get the ball and he slotted the ball into the box.

Yang Fan and Ballack plugged in at the front and back points respectively to grab points.

Barcelona goalkeeper Valdés rushed in for Ballack, who was grabbing the spot, and he wanted to get the ball out.

At this time, there was an accident, and Pique also rushed up, he wanted to clear the ball with a header, but he could not reach the football, but interfered with goalkeeper Valdés, who hit the fist right on Pique's head.

The football was leaked like this, Yang Fan did not hesitate, showing the demeanor of a super shooter, Yang Fan did not wait for the football to land, and directly made a half-turn volley.

The other Barcelona players were also dumbfounded by this accident, and he had no time to react at all, and could only stare at the ball shot by Yang Fan and fly towards the goal like the crowd at the scene.

"Bang !!"

The goalframe at Manchester City Stadium didn't help much because it was the home team's goalscorer, and the post also denied Yang Fan's brilliant shot.

The Barcelona players breathed a sigh of relief, and then Alves rushed to Yang Fan, who shouted loudly, accusing Yang Fan of insisting on shooting even though the Barcelona players were injured and fell to the ground.

Busquets also came over to accuse Yang Fan.

Still regretting that this shot was blocked by the post, it was attacked by the Barcelona players, Yang Fan was first surprised, and then angry, hey, hey, hey, we are opponents, okay? There is a chance to shoot, why don't I shoot?! Yang Fan's shooting action just now is completely the instinctive reaction of a shooter. The football fell in front of him like a flint, and in front of him was the goal, and he lifted his foot and shot.

The other Manchester City players saw the Barcelona players besieging the captain and also came to help, and the two sides clashed together.

At this time, goalkeeper Valdés was shouting, "Hurry up, look at Pique." ”

Pique was punched in the head by Valdés just now, and it was not light, and the Barcelona defender was lying in front of the goal, motionless.

The Barcelona player, who was arguing with the Manchester City players, thought that there were other teammates injured, and hurriedly went up to check, and at this time, the team doctor had already entered the field when Valdés waved.

"The Barcelona people are very dissatisfied with Yang Fan's shot just now, and think that he should give up shooting?" Mortensen said sarcastically, "Are their heads full of water? As a striker, Yang Fan reacted almost instinctively when he had the opportunity to shoot! Besides, it was not Yang Fan or other Manchester City players who caused Pique to fall to the ground, but the Barcelona goalkeeper who attacked his teammates! The accusations made by the Barcelona people against Yang Fan are really ridiculous. ”

"You can ask the people of Barcelona what they would do if they were faced with such a situation," Lineker said.

"They'll shoot, and then"

"And then?"

"If you score a goal, you will say that it is the instinct of the shooter, you will praise the sky, if you don't score, you will say that it is a flash of morality, and you deliberately did not score. "Mortensen's mouth is really poisonous, it hacked Barcelona out, and in other words, the hatred between the Premier League team and Barcelona is deep.

Pique didn't have much of a problem, just a slight dizziness, took a break on the sidelines, was fine and back on the pitch.

The game had just started less than ten minutes and minutes. There were already several threatening shots on goal, and Yang Fan already had a goal to help Manchester City lead Barcelona 1-0, and there was also a shot on the post.

"The game was very exciting, Yang Fan scored a goal, in addition, Manchester City and Barcelona each had a chance to score, but unfortunately they didn't take it, does this also indicate that this game will be an offensive battle?"

In fact, before the game, the media also worried that although both teams are strong in attack, the game will not necessarily look particularly good out of caution, and in fact, Mancini's tactics confirmed this.

However, what I didn't expect was that Yang Fan's goal in the third minute of the game changed the established development momentum on the field, and the game suddenly entered a white-hot stage. This is a situation that Guardiola and Mancini did not even expect.

The next course of the game seems to confirm the narrator's prediction.

The next goal came quickly.

In the 16th minute, a Manchester City attack had just ended, and Barcelona launched a quick counter-attack.

Barcelona central defender, who is also their captain Puyol suddenly made a long pass to the front of the field in this half, David Silva was not tight, Villa took two quick steps, he saw Joe Hart standing forward, Villa cleverly chose to shoot.

Joe Hart couldn't react and took two steps back in a row, but he still couldn't stop the ball from going into the net.

“！”

"Villata is hanging the door!"

“！”

"Great goal!"

"Wonderful blow!"

1：1！！

Barcelona scored away from home, and the entire Manchester Municipal Stadium fell silent when it scored against Villa.

This goal is too important for Barcelona!

In the stands of the away team at Manchester Municipal Stadium, the Barcelona fans shouted like crazy.

Joe Hart looked very angry, Joe Hart has some responsibility for this goal, but Manchester City's back line also has an unshirkable responsibility, and when Villa hung the goal, there was no Manchester City player to interfere. Or it can be said that most of the attention of Manchester City's players is on Messi, or on Iniesta, but they are a little too light on Villa, and now, they have been punished.

Pep Guardiola finally smiled on the sidelines, Villa's goal was too crucial, and Barcelona equalised and got an away goal. This gives them an advantage ahead of the next round.

Guardiola smiled, his colleague Mancini was furious, Yang Fan opened the scoring for the team, which made Mancini feel very good, I didn't expect Barcelona to equalize so quickly, and this conceded goal was too easy, a long pass directly from the backfield, after Villa got the ball, calmly hung the door. Although Manchester City's defense cannot be said to be very stable, after two seasons of running-in, the team's defense is okay, but I didn't expect to make such a serious mistake.

This mistake, in Mancini's opinion, is unforgivable, goalkeeper Joe Hart's position is problematic, the position is too forward, the team's back line also has problems, when Villa got the ball, the closest defenders to Villa are two meters away, and then when Villa began to dribble the ball, the defenders rushed up, but this has given Villa the opportunity to calmly hang the door.

All in all, the defense was extremely bad.

"It's so undeserved!" Mancini said angrily, "if this game ends up like this, it will make them regret conceding this goal." ”

Manchester City's assistant coach Sogliano is also frowning. Although Manchester City scored early and took the lead, however, the goal came too quickly, the Manchester City team is now in a bad situation, it is estimated that the tactics of the defensive counterattack specified before the game are useless, and they must be pressed out to attack, and the current score of one to one is beneficial to Barcelona, Manchester City must win the game to ensure that the second leg of the game takes the initiative before the start of the game, and must not concede any more goals. Now, the most important thing is to attack and overtake the score again.

Soliano thought so, so did Mancini. Without much hesitation, a few minutes after the restart, Roberto Mancini took advantage of a dead-goal opportunity to call Ballack to the sidelines and give the German captain a good chance. Tell Ballack that the team's tactics have changed, and more troops and spirit must be put into attack.

Yaya Toure is suspended, and in today's game, Ballack was entrusted with a reuse.

Back on the pitch, Ballack communicated the manager's tactical intentions.

Yang Fan's breakthrough in the front court.

Puyol is indeed older, and the outbreak is not as good as before, he was directly passed by Yang Fan's change of direction breakthrough, and in desperation, Puyol reached out and pulled Yang Fan down.

The referee awarded a free-kick but did not show Puyol a yellow card, prompting a wave of boos from the stands at Manchester City Stadium.

"Oh oh oh, let's take a look at it, Puyol reached out and pulled Yang Fan to the ground when he was passed, this should be a yellow card in every way. Unfortunately, referee Chuckel doesn't seem to see it that way. The commentator in England was upset with Manchester City and Yang Fan, and there was no lack of questioning and sarcasm about the referee in his words. They also forgot that they had just praised the referee for his impartiality.

Yang Fan was also furious, and he protested to referee Chakir, arguing that Puyol should be given at least one yellow card.

The referee looked serious, and he came up to let Yang Fan walk away. Yang Fan then slowly walked to the penalty area, Manchester City's free-kick was taken by Ballack, and he planned to look for opportunities to shoot in front of goal.

Ballack stood at the penalty spot.

This time, though, the foul was slightly off, and Ballack didn't shoot straight at goal, he ran and then crossed. The ball slashed quickly across the goal. It doesn't matter if it's Puyol or Pique. Regardless of Yang Fan, Balotelli and Ballack, no one touched the ball.

The soccer ball flew over the most populous place in the middle of the penalty area and flew to the other side.

Zabaleta appeared on the spot where the ball landed and stopped the ball. The Barcelona defenders just wanted to press out en masse. saw Zabaleta get the ball, so he had to stay in front of the goal to prepare to defend Manchester City's second attack.

"Go up to a man!" Puyol commanded the team's defence, not allowing Zabaleta to get the ball so easily outside. Someone has to push it up.

Left wing-back Abidal rushed out and he went straight at Zabaleta.

Zabaleta also didn't get tangled with Abidal. He passed the ball to David Silva, who pulled it out to meet him. David Silva dribbled laterally and then shot with his feet on target. Valdés pounced, but he couldn't touch the ball because it was blocked by a crowd in the box, and it was not known whether it hit the Barcelona defenders or the Manchester City attackers, and the ball bounced off.

Valdés had just breathed a sigh of relief, but a cold sweat immediately broke out on his back.

What a coincidence. After the football popped up, it fell to the feet of a man De Jong!

"De Jong, he's facing most of the empty goal!" the England commentator was agitated.

The Manchester City fans in the stands, leaning forward, were ready to raise their arms in cheer, but immediately, their posture of raising their arms changed to hugging their heads, and at the same time leaning back, and the whole stand was filled with regretful inhalations.

De Jong just shot directly into the volley, and the action of the shot was very beautiful, but unfortunately, the shot was ridiculously crooked, and it did not fly to the goal at all, but flew near the corner point and landed at the feet of Iniesta, who was returning to the defense.

'It's a chance that can't score more than it scores, and De Jong wasted a good chance. The narrator jumped up with his head in his hands, and then laughed himself, "Actually, I wasn't as surprised as everyone thought, I was just thinking that if someone else showed up there and shot the goal"

In fact, this is also what Manchester City fans are thinking at this time, and the home fans in the stands can only hold their heads in their hands and lament the bad luck of this attack. De Jong's shot is notoriously bad, just imagine, if it wasn't De Jong who appeared at the spot just now, it was Balotelli, it was Yang Fan, well, or Kolarov! It's a pity that there is no if in this world, this goal didn't go in! De Jong's shot was ridiculously off.

Even Mancini, after being depressed, can only express helplessness, even if he wasted this inevitable scoring opportunity, everyone did not blame De Jong too much, because he did not do the job of scoring goals in the first place! When Manchester City is reduced to counting on De Jong's goals to save the team, it will not be saved, so, it's just a pity, you can't ask De Jong to suddenly become invincible in front of the goal.

De Jong fired the ball straight to Iniesta, who won the ball.

Barcelona took the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive. However, they were stopped by Lescott just after halftime. Meanwhile. Zabaleta and Kolarov have both returned at high speed. Mancini finally breathed a sigh of relief and did not have to worry about Barcelona's quick counter-attack. Otherwise, he wasted an inevitable opportunity on his side, and if he was immediately counterattacked by Barcelona, he would really vomit blood in frustration.

This time, Lescott was decisive and cut off Xavi's pass. Barcelona counter-attacked quickly and did not fight. They also retreated immediately, Guardiola was obviously very jealous of the speed of Yang Fan and Balotelli, especially the first goal scored by Yang Fan, which made Guardiola see the terrible counterattack of the Manchester City team with Yang Fan, so he asked his players to defend quite quickly and did not give Manchester City a chance to play a quick counterattack.

The more the game went on. Manchester City are starting to fall into passivity. Barcelona gradually showed their attacking prowess and kept Manchester City at bay.

Mancini glanced at Pep Guardiola not far away, he knew that Barcelona would not defend and would attack, but he didn't expect that Guardiola would let the team attack with all their might away from home. It is indeed an all-out attack, whether it is Villa or Messi or Iniesta constantly threatening Manchester City's defence, it is clear that Guardiola actually intends to crush Manchester City away from home and lay a huge advantage for the next leg.

Mancini's original plan was to focus on stability at home, especially after Yang Fan's goal, Mancini was more determined to defend and counterattack, but he didn't expect that Villa equalized for Barcelona so quickly, which also boosted Barcelona's morale and made it more offensive. Now, he and his team are under so much pressure.

Mancini couldn't sit still.

After Villa's goal, Messi, another Mancini who asked his players to focus on defense, also began to become more and more active.

Messi is not a centre-forward, he is as flexible as ever. Or to put it this way, Messi is a little further back than striker Villa, but he is closer to the goal than Andres Iniesta, and of course, Messi will be closer to the goal than anyone else if he wants, and it is clear that Pep Guardiola has given the Argentine superstar a lot of freedom.

Manchester City's players have some difficulty defending Messi, this small man is very flexible, and his foot skills are quite amazing, in the face of such a player, you can't blindly grab it, otherwise you will definitely be overcome, but if you don't grab it, it gives the opponent more room to move.

Thirty-one minutes into the game, Messi received Xavi's pass, burst into the penalty area, his two feet were extremely flexible, dazzling, in the penalty area, swaying left and right, Manchester City players were very embarrassed by him, and finally, Messi flashed out of the goal, intending to go around a far corner, and the ball almost grazed the post out of the bottom line.

This time, Mancini was shocked into a cold sweat again. He was struggling with how to defend himself against the active and over-the-top Argentine player.

However, in the next minute, Guardiola was also entangled.

Joe Hart took the ball in goal and Ballack had the upper hand as he battled for a header from Alves in front, and he flicked the ball to David Silva, who split the flank and Zabaleta cut in at high speed.

At the same time, both Yang Fan and Balotelli began to run wildly into the penalty area.

Puyol hurried to follow Yang Fan while shouting loudly for Pique to keep an eye on Balotelli.

Xavi went up to interfere with Zabaleta, Zabaleta made a quick stop, and at the same time knocked the ball back, Ballack did not stop the ball, and directly crossed with his right foot.

At this time, in the penalty area, Yang Fan suddenly stopped and ran in the opposite direction, Puyol kept following him, however, after Yang Fan stopped suddenly, Puyol turned around a little slower, and he couldn't keep up with Yang Fan's pace, he could only watch Yang Fan stretch out his feet to reach the ball.

Peake rushed up.

He directly blocked the angle of Yang Fan's shot.

In such a situation, Yang Fan made a surprising response, he did not choose to stop the ball, but shot directly with his foot, such an outside instep volley, played a beautiful arc, just bypassed Pique, and flew straight to the upper right corner of the goal.

Barcelona goalkeeper Valdés didn't have time to react to the goal at all, and in everyone's exclamations, the football flew out of the bottom line by grazing the post!

Guardiola was also taken aback by Yang Fan's volley outside the instep, and then he looked up at Yang Fan. Just as Mancini has a headache about how to prevent Messi, Guardiola also has a headache about how to prevent Yang Fan.

Guardiola is thinking, obviously, it is unlikely to count on Puyol to guard against Yang Fan, Puyol's card position may be very good, but the slow turning speed is Puyol's shortcoming, just said an example.

Obviously, Yang Fan seems to have noticed this, so this guy will run repeatedly in the penalty area, turn back and run, and then suddenly stop and change direction, which makes Puyol, who turns slowly, tired.

We can't go on like this, we can't give him a chance to shoot in the box anymore!

Pep Guardiola walked to the sidelines and loudly signaled to defenders not to let Yang Fan into the penalty area. Even if he enters the penalty area, stick tighter, don't give him a chance to shoot! Guardiola can't think of a better way to contain Yang Fan for the time being, so he can only let the defenders try to block Yang Fan outside the penalty area and keep the kid away from the goal, which should be more or less effective.

Yang Fan then found that he was in the penalty area, even if he got the ball, it was becoming more and more difficult to get the space to shoot, so he immediately made his own adjustments, and he didn't have to enter the penalty area.

This time, after receiving a clever pass from Balotelli, he fired a direct long-range shot from outside the box. This time, the ball flew off the post. shocked everyone up and down Barcelona in a cold sweat.

Pep Guardiola's face turned very bad.

He found that the arrangement he had just made had just had an effect, and it became useless again, obviously, this guy is in too good shape and feeling to score now, whether it is in the penalty area or outside the penalty area, whenever possible, he will shoot, and it is the kind of very threatening shot, which gives Guardiola the feeling that no matter how he makes people defend Yang Fan, anyway, there will be a way to score.

Unless Yang Fan is not allowed to receive the ball, but, is this possible?!

At this moment, Guardiola frowned. How to prevent Yang Fan? Let the guard line be wrapped by many people, then he will pass the ball, the data shows that in Manchester City, Yang Fan's assists rank second in the team, second only to David Silva, which shows that this is a guy who can pass and shoot, when the opportunity of his teammates is good, Yang Fan does not seem to be stingy with passing, Yang Fan is not selfish, especially after becoming the captain, he is much more broad-minded.

Guardiola is a little entangled, he would rather Yang Fan be the kind of guy who is extremely selfish, the kind of guy who doesn't pass the ball, such as Cristiano Ronaldo...... Well, on the court, this kind of guy who is extremely individualistic and outside the team is the best to deal with.

Pep Guardiola is thinking about how to defend against Yang Fan. He's struggling.

Mancini is also thinking about how to defend against Messi, and he is also entangled.

They're all tangled.

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