Barcelona also tried to struggle, and in the 30th minute, Barcelona penetrated through a short pass, and Messi hit Xavi at the top of the arc and fired a powerful right-footed shot high. In the 32nd minute, Xavi's powerful long-range shot from the right side of the field was blocked by Neuer, and one minute later, Kompany was judged to have committed a foul on Messi, and Messi took a free kick and hit the wall.

Manchester City also played very hard, and in the 36th minute, Klich crossed from the left at 45 degrees, and Suarez headed wide. In the 42nd minute, Alves took the ball from the right, and Sanchez was offside. In the 44th minute, Reus split the ball, Neymar crossed from the right side, and Suarez headed the ball wide under the cover of two defenders on the opposing side.

At the end of the first half, Manchester City led Barcelona 1-0 into the half-time break. Li Chengfeng is very satisfied with the performance of the players, "You did a good job, continue to play like this in the second half, press them, and raise the rhythm. Harvey: They're too old to run. Run, drag them to death. ”

However, the referee's sudden outburst in the second half disrupted Li Chengfeng's plan. In the 52nd minute, Manchester City's Neymar broke through on the right side, and Barcelona midfielder Buzquez tripped him with his leg in order to stop him, which was an obvious foul! But at this time, the referee seemed to have forgotten the whistle, and when the Manchester City players were still protesting against the decision, Barcelona had immediately taken the opportunity to launch a counterattack. Messi received a straight plug from his teammates and successfully countered offside, Manchester City central defender Godin struggled to chase back, seeing that he could not stop Messi from rushing into the penalty area alone, Godin fell to the ground and tackled Messi down, but what was surprising was the penalty given by the referee: penalty + red card!

Is the referee blind, this foul is obviously outside the penalty area, how can it be a penalty. And if the referee was fair enough, Busquets should have been awarded a foul before, and there would be no such thing as now.

Why is it Barcelona income every time, Li Chengfeng hated it, but he could only watch Messi take a penalty kick with his left foot and hit the middle, 1-1!

Now that there is one less person on the field, Li Chengfeng's plan to drag Barcelona to death by increasing the pace of the game no longer works, and he immediately made substitutions, replacing Vidal with Sako, and Toure also returned to the position of midfielder to keep the defensive line intact. As for the attack, with Royce Neymar and Suarez in the side, Li Chengfeng believes their counter-attacks are strong enough to penetrate any defence.

Manchester City, who are missing a man, can still play back and forth with this Barcelona team by counterattacking, Barcelona has indeed become much weaker, and they lack a regular center forward, which makes Messi have to be at the front, and also weakens Messi's threat, he needs space to sprint to play the most powerful.

In the 61st minute, Xavi's free kick on the left side was blocked by Hart, Manchester City counterattacked, Reus stopped the ball on the right side and broke through the ball in one go, and Neymar's volley was blocked after hitting the wall with Suarez at the edge of the penalty area.

In the 64th minute, Alves' cross from the right was too close to the goal, and Neuer easily got the ball. In the 67th minute, Alves crossed from the right, Xavi pushed the shot high above the crossbar in the middle of the penalty area, and 1 minute later, Alves cut into the penalty area on the right side and stabbed the far corner from a small angle slightly off! In the 70th minute, Reuss split the ball and Klich's cross from the left side of the box went directly to Valdés.

In the 73rd minute, Li Chengfeng replaced Suarez, who had been fighting for a long time and was physically exhausted, with Aguero, to carry forward Xiao Kuailing's counterattacking style.

76 min: Mascherano swept down Fernandinho in midfield and was yellowed. In the 77th minute, Zabaleta cushioned the pass from the right, and Reuss stopped the ball on the right chest of the penalty area and his right-footed volley was confiscated by Valdés. In the 81st minute, Xavi made a direct pass, and Cesc Fabregas was offside. In the 84th minute, Aguero did not stop the ball in the penalty area and pushed it directly with his foot, and the ball flew into Barcelona's goal again 2:1!

Manchester City, who have one man less, have taken the lead again, and this Barcelona team is indeed much weaker.

In the 86th minute, Barcelona made a substitution, Roberto replaced Cesc Fabregas and made a final effort. In the 87th minute, Reuss crossed from the right, and Valdés saved the ball off the line. In the 90th minute, Alves cut into the penalty area from the right and fired a shot from a tight angle that was saved by Neuer.

In the end, 10-man Manchester City beat Barcelona 2-1 at home to win an expected but extremely difficult victory.

After the game, Li Chengfeng did not comment much on the referee's controversial decision, and he did not want to be banned for Barcelona again. But the British media won't let UEFA go.

"The Sun" with the title of "Why is it always Barcelona", used a full page to review every misjudgment that Barcelona has benefited from in the past few years, and the top is a photo of the moment when Messi was tackled in this game, which clearly shows that the location of the foul was outside the penalty area.

This report has been reprinted by various traffic websites and tabloids, and it is no wonder that there have been too many rumors about Barcelona being taken care of by the referee in recent years, such as Chelsea and Inter Milan have had such controversial decisions, especially the most famous performance of Busquets, which has also attracted a lot of controversy and disgust. Of course, there are reasons why the media deliberately hyped it up to attract attention, and you must know that there are times when Barcelona are unlucky, and of course, there are more times when they benefit, and they are more eye-catching.

Some media also came to interview Li Chengfeng about this misjudgment, but Li Chengfeng avoided talking about it, "I don't want to be banned again because of this kind of thing." ”

Li Chengfeng is telling the truth, now Manchester City maintain the hope of winning the title on all fronts, but the most difficult is the Champions Cup. Since the Champions League was restructured, no team has been able to defend the Champions Cup. Li Chengfeng hopes that he can become the first head coach to do it, then he will definitely go down in history, and he doesn't want to fail because of off-field factors. People are vain, and Li Chengfeng is no exception.

However, the media didn't care about Li Chengfeng's thoughts, and they seized on Li Chengfeng's previous ban for protesting against Barcelona being taken care of by UEFA, and hyped it up, rendering the two enemies as enemies, but it increased sales a lot, and also made the second leg of the match between the two sides become the focus of world football before it began.

Li Chengfeng doesn't care about this, he is confident that he will eliminate Barcelona head-on on the field. However, before the second leg against Barcelona, Manchester City will also fight for the title, which is the Carabao Cup final against Sunderland.

City have had three league games postponed due to multi-line matches, which has narrowed the gap between him and the teams behind him. However, Arsenal are not competitive, with two games in hand, the gap with Manchester City is still 5 points, and the gap of 4 points ahead of Chelsea has also been reversed by 2 points (Chelsea have a game in hand), and Liverpool have also caught up. Could it be that Arsenal are going to start fighting for a top four again?

Of course, Arsenal's situation is not something Li Chengfeng needs to care about, he is more concerned about the Carabao Cup final against Sunderland. Although the difference in quality between the two teams is huge, the Carabao Cup has always been a hotbed of underdogs, especially when Sunderland want to enter next season's European competition with the only way to win the Carabao Cup.

Although Li Chengfeng has stressed that the players should take the game seriously, Manchester City still fell behind less than ten minutes into the game.

Manchester City paid the price for their carelessness. David Silva took the ball on the right side of the front field and stuffed it straight to Fernandinho, who possessed the ball and was cut off, Sunderland quickly counterattacked and sent the ball to the front, Borini took the ball and inserted it into the right side of the penalty area, Samba stretched out his foot to counter-grab but was unsuccessful, Borini scored a low shot into the far corner in the face of Hart, Sunderland 1-0 Manchester City!

This kind of conceding a goal made Li Chengfeng very angry, he allowed failure, but never allowed the players not to play seriously on the field, you must know that "attitude determines everything".

Li Chengfeng rushed to the sidelines and roared at the players to get serious, and not to make such low-level mistakes again. However, it is not so easy to relax and want to tense up immediately, although the Manchester City players on the field are running actively, but the mistakes have not decreased.

It looked like this chaos would continue for a while, and Li Chengfeng commanded the team to shrink the defensive line to strengthen the defense, waiting for the players on the field to return to normal. There's still a lot of time to go and with the difference in quality between the two sides, City have plenty of time to turn the game around.

In the 15th minute, Sunderland took a corner kick from the right and Brown headed the ball high. In the 27th minute, Sturridge dribbled the ball to the right side of the penalty area and crossed, Hazard stopped the ball and completed a stabbing shot, which was saved by Manone. In the 39th minute, Borini won the ball and got a single knife, and Samba desperately chased after him to destroy the ball and atone for his crimes.

The performances of the Manchester City players began to normalize and began to show their toughness, and the half around Sunderland began to bombard.

In the 50th minute, Fernandinho passed the ball to Hazard and then to Silva, who shot in the middle of the penalty area and the ball was held by Mannone on the ground.

With 55 minutes played, Manchester City finally equalized! Milner passed to Zabaleta on the right, and the latter returned to Milner in front of the penalty area, Milner curled the ball directly to the goal, and the ball hung directly in the upper left corner of the goal, 1-1!

Just two minutes later, Manchester City took the lead again! Kolarov crossed the penalty area, the Sunderland defender failed to clear the penalty area, Hazard in the middle followed the outside of the right foot to eject, the ball grazed the left post and hit the goal, Manchester City 2-1 Sunderland!

With 90 minutes to play, Manchester City extended their win to seal the win! Milner counter-attacked with the ball in the middle, advanced to the edge of the penalty area and pushed it to Neymar on the right, who came on as a substitute and pushed it into the net in the face of the goal, Manchester City 3-1 Sunderland!

3-1 was also the final scoreline, and Manchester City unsurprisingly beat Sunderland to win the Carabao Cup.

This is also Manchester City's third title this season, and Li Chengfeng believes there will be a fourth, fifth, and sixth. Of course, the first is to eliminate Barcelona at the Camp Nou.

(End of chapter)

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