After watching the training session in Monaco, everyone gathered around Henry and chatted with him enthusiastically.

When the people were almost gone, Henry said to Li Liang, "Li, are you ready?"

I've heard that Manchester City have been in pretty good form lately, keeping a clean sheet in several games in a row. ”

Li Liang replied, "Hmm...... It must be difficult, but I believe nothing is impossible.

Barcelona can come back from four points behind, so why can't we? And it's only two goals away, so it's much less difficult. ”

Henry laughed, "Don't mind if I'm honest."

Because judging from the historical record and the impression in people's minds, Monaco and Manchester City are clearly not in the same class.

Even if that doesn't happen, Manchester City are much more athletically ambitious than you, they become superstars every year, and now they have Pep Guardiola in charge. ”

Li Liang also smiled: "In this case, if we can reverse them, then our sense of achievement will definitely be greater!" ”

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On 13 March, Manchester City arrived at Monaco two days early.

Mou Zhaoge, who is now a professional football journalist, also took the same flight to Nice, and then joined Ghazi to meet him and rushed to Monaco to prepare for the next day's pre-match press conference.

At the pre-match press conference on the 14th, Guardiola took Xiwa, Yaldim and Raj to participate in and answer questions from reporters on behalf of both sides.

At the start of the press conference, Ghazi was given the opportunity to ask the first question as usual, and he asked Pep Guardiola: "What strategy will Manchester City adopt to deal with Monaco in the second leg?" ”

Pep Guardiola smiled after listening to the translation and replied: "When a team can score 123 goals in a season, which ranks first in Europe, it means that they score goals in a variety of ways.

Of course you all know which team I'm talking about! ”

There was a lot of laughter in the audience, and by the time of the match against Manchester City, Monaco was firmly in the top spot in the season scoring charts in all major European leagues with 123 goals.

Pep Guardiola continued: "Against an opponent like that, the best way to defend is to attack with all your might.

Also in a game of at least 90 minutes, if you want to hold on to the win by shrinking, you are committing suicide. We have to try to be proactive.

We scored five goals in the first leg but it wasn't easy to find the back of the net. All you need to do is try to score goals. ”

Mou Zhaoge was also given the opportunity to ask questions, and he asked Pep Guardiola: "You have an excellent record in the Champions League.

He has led Barcelona to win the Champions League twice, and has led the team to at least the semi-finals of the Champions League in the past seven seasons.

How confident are you that we will continue to expand our record in tomorrow's race? ”

Pep Guardiola replied solemnly: "I'm going to be honest with you, I don't care about this record.

And I'm not thinking about anything with any record right now, I'm here to get the team through to the next round.

Monaco have won a lot of games and their secret is strong attacking firepower.

I've been living this philosophy throughout my career – I think the best defense is to go all out, and I can't think of anything else.

Of course, we need to control the ball first.

I'm not here for myself, I'm here to do better with everyone. I'm happy with my past results and that's enough.

I want to help Manchester City, a new Champions League team, establish themselves in the Champions League, and then we'll see how high we can go.

I want to have a good game tomorrow and I want to lead the team to the quarter-finals, that's my dream. ”

"I was very impressed in the first leg at Monaco, they have a couple of young players who are very strong and will definitely cause us a lot of problems tomorrow.

But we also have great youngsters like Sane and John Stones, and amazing talents like Sergio Aguero and Kevin De Bruyne.

We are fully prepared and we will bring out all the energy and fighting spirit for tomorrow's game. ”

Yaldim replied to a question about the team's injuries: "Lee is recovering well, Radamel [Falcao] still needs to have a physical test tomorrow and if he passes, he will be able to catch the game. ”

When asked by a reporter if Monaco could replicate Barcelona's miracle, Jardim said sharply: "This game is very different from them [Barcelona vs Paris], we are focused on doing our best and respecting every opponent at the moment.

Of course, stepping on the field of competition is all about winning, and the final answer to this question will surely be seen in the competition! ”

On the evening of the same day, Li Liang watched the live broadcast of the other two Champions League 1/8 finals. He is more concerned about Sevilla's game, as Nasri, who he is familiar with, joined Sevilla on loan from Manchester City this season, and has been doing well as a team centrepiece wearing the number 10 shirt.

In the match between Leicester City and Sevilla at the King Power Stadium, Leicester City took a 2-0 lead at home, and if the score continues, Sevilla, who won the first leg 2-1, will eventually be eliminated.

In the 73rd minute of the game, Nasri organized an attack on the left side of the home team's penalty area, and Leicester's number one star striker Vardy pushed Nasri behind in the middle of the follow-up.

The Frenchman, who has been playing in the Premier League for many years, immediately turned around to express his dissatisfaction, and Vardy immediately said something in his mouth and pushed him head-on again!

Nasri suddenly confronted Vardy in anger as if he had been electrocuted, and at the same time lost his mind and headed at each of them, who were slightly shorter.

Vardy immediately stumbled into the arms of teammate "Drinker" Drinkwater, shouting at the same time.

The referee not far away quickly stepped forward and quickly separated the players of the two sides who had gathered together, and then played 50 boards each to show a yellow card to the perpetrator Vardy and Nasri, who had already had a yellow card before!

Nasri accumulated two yellows and one red and was directly resided outside the field!

Li Liang was dumbfounded, judging from the slow-motion replay, Nasri was obviously calculated. Sevilla, with 10 men, is in a desperate situation.

Fortunately, in the 78th minute, the tenacious Sevilla played a counterattack, winger Bitolo went to the goal and was tackled by the attacking Leicester goalkeeper Schmeichel at the moment of shooting, and the referee decisively awarded a penalty!

Who knew that French midfielder Nzunzi took a weak penalty kick, which was blocked by the brave little Schmeichel to the ground! Sevilla were unable to recover after squandering the best chance of the game, and were finally eliminated 2-3 on aggregate, and Leicester City made a historic break into the last eight of the Champions League.

In the other game, Juventus, who played steadily, beat Porto 1-0 and easily eliminated their opponents with an overall rating of 3:0 to reach the last eight.

Leicester City impressed him with their momentum at home, while Juventus' strong and unusually consistent play was even more awe-inspiring.

No matter who meets these two teams in the next round, it will definitely not be easy, this is what Li Liang thought before falling asleep.

……

The alarm bell rang, and Li Liang immediately realized that the game day had finally arrived.