With an away win over Chelsea, City's advantage in the table is six points, with seven league games remaining, and as long as City don't make mistakes, a six-point advantage will basically ensure their title.

Xu Ziyi was voted the best of the match after the game, with an astonishing rating of 10! "All Sports" said: "This is Xu Ziyi's best performance of the season, he personally destroyed the blue battleship at Stamford Bridge, and he has made this season's Premier League title without much suspense!"

The Daily Mail said: "This is a night that belongs to Manchester City, but also a night that belongs to Xu Ziyi, he scored two goals, provided an assist, he was the best actor and the best director, he performed too perfectly." ”

"It's a great feeling to be able to help the team win, but what's even more wonderful is when we lift the title at the end of the season, we're six points ahead and there's seven games left in the league, and I don't think it's like the media says we can sit back and relax," Xu Ziyi said in an interview. However, those six points gave us a head start on the way to the title, but now we have one more important thing to do. ”

The important thing Xu Ziyi said was the Champions League and Barcelona match. Against the top of European football, can Manchester City get through as smoothly as they did against Chelsea?

It is true that after beating Chelsea 3-1, the major media are also more optimistic about Manchester City's progress in the Champions League. However, it is generally believed that Barcelona has a better chance of winning, after all, Barcelona's record in recent years is there.

Guardiola faced his old boss in this game, and he also praised Barcelona before the game, and specifically mentioned Messi, even now as the head coach of Manchester City, Guardiola still thinks Messi is the best player in the world.

For example, Zidane and Santos will definitely say that the best player in the world is Cristiano Ronaldo, and Conte will say that it is Li Mu - even if Li Mu failed to lead Chelsea to victory over Manchester City a few days ago, and Inzaghi will say that it is Zhang Shujie, sometimes this so-called "best" will inevitably have a personal touch.

It's just that football games are always about the winner being stronger, not the stronger being the winner. Manchester City will play at home in this game, and Xu Ziyi, who is in good form, has made a bold statement that he must beat Barcelona at home!

Some people may think that Xu Ziyi is talking big, because no matter which team does not dare to guarantee that it can beat them before playing against Barcelona, Xu Ziyi actually went against the norm and directly said bold words, and Barcelona fans were waiting to see his jokes.

But when it came to the game, Xu Ziyi did not break his promise, he received a pass from De Bruyne in the penalty area in the opening seven minutes, and scored with a right-footed cushion to break the deadlock on the field, and Manchester City led Barcelona 1-0 at home.

It's not surprising that Manchester City can score, after all, they are also one of the powerhouses in European football, but no one expected them to break Barcelona's goal in the seventh minute. You must know that this is not only Manchester City's first shot on goal in the whole game, but also the first goal of the whole game!

Even the commentator at the scene was surprised: "Manchester City scored on goal with the first shot, which I am afraid the managers of both teams did not expect before the game." The player who scored the goal was Xu Ziyi, who has been in good form recently! It is estimated that Enrique's tactics will also be changed with this goal, and the goal will come too quickly. ”

Enrique was staring blankly on the pitch from the sidelines, expecting a lot of possible scenarios that would result in the first shot of the opposition in less than ten minutes.

However, Barcelona are always one of the giants, and a goal is not a big disadvantage for them, and it is still early in the day, so they have plenty of time to equalise or even overtake.

Enrique continued to use Barcelona's passing and control technology, but compared with before, Barcelona without Xavi lost an important link in the passing. Looking at Manchester City again, although the team's overall skills are not as good as Barcelona, but with Xu Ziyi, Silva, De Bruyne's blue moon can still effectively organize the attack in the midfield, plus Liang Xiran, who is in the back line, also has excellent foot skills, even Ma Junqiang can control the ball, although Manchester City's passing control is not as good as Barcelona at its peak, but as long as the state of these players is online, Manchester City will not have a problem holding the ball.

Coincidentally, it's not just Manchester City's main players who are in good shape, but Barcelona's main players don't seem to be so good, which gives Manchester City more hope of victory.

Barcelona also organised effective counter-attacks, slightly surpassing Manchester City in possession, albeit by a very narrow margin. Messi and Suarez faced Ma Junqiang alone in the 11th and 19th minutes respectively, which should have been a good time to score, but the brave Ma Junqiang twice denied Barcelona's must-score goal to keep the goal intact.

'There were still two mistakes at the back and Barcelona were a threat with two shots, but unfortunately they met a full-fledged Ma Junqiang, and Barcelona could score at least one of those two goals as usual. ”

Neymar also had a clever shot from the edge of the box in the 22nd minute, which he pocketed with the inside of his right foot, but the power was not pressed down and the ball flew off the line.

Barcelona missed a series of good chances to score, and the players were also a little anxious, Manchester City's formation was slightly behind, and Barcelona also pressed higher, which also gave Manchester City a chance to counterattack.

In the 27th minute, Iniesta's pass to Messi was cut off by Xu Ziyi, he first made the ball to De Bruyne, and then ran forward himself, De Bruyne passed to Aguero, who took a few steps and handed it to Silva.

Maybe it's because the head coach is Pep Guardiola, although the counterattack is faster than before, but it is still not as fast as Real Madrid, which focuses on defense and counterattack, and the passing is smooth. Barcelona's return to defence was also not very timely, which also gave City enough time to keep possession.

Silva's long pass was transferred to the left side, Klich received the ball and passed Xu Ziyi, Xu Ziyi did not stop the ball, observed the situation in the penalty area in advance, Aguero in front had already contained Pique, the right side was a little empty, Xu Ziyi passed the ball here, he knew that his teammates would definitely catch up.

De Bruyne appeared.

"It was a good chance, Xu Ziyi passed the ball to the gap in Barcelona's defense, De Bruyne hit the goal, the ball scored!2:0! Manchester City led Barcelona by two goals at home!"

This score is probably even more surprising. In less than half an hour, City had two goals in their hands and Pep Guardiola was very happy, but considering that the opponent was Barcelona, a team that had made itself a top manager, he was not as crazy as he was with Chelsea, he just smiled naturally and stood on the sidelines watching his disciples celebrate the goal.

(End of chapter)