Hot water poured down from the top of the head, drenching from head to toe. Messi just stood under the shower with his head down, letting the hot water wash over his body.

Harvey's words echoed in his mind over and over again.

"When he's staring at you, you can't take your eyes off it, or you'll lose."

The phrase reminded him of his encounter with Glory last season.

In the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals, Barcelona challenged Manchester City away.

Messi himself was in very good form in that game, threatening Manchester City's goal again and again from the opening period.

The thought of defeating Glory made him look scrappy, and he felt that he could definitely defeat Glory this time.

But after a brilliant look, he turned his head to glory.

found that Glory was also watching him.

As a result, at the moment when the eyes of the two people met, Messi suddenly lowered his eyelids in a little panic and ran back.

He didn't dare to look at Glory.

In the end, although he helped Barcelona equalize in that game, Glory scored twice to help Manchester City beat Barcelona 3-1 at home, laying a very good foundation for the final elimination of Barcelona.

He's in such good shape that there's no way to beat Glory.

In the second leg, he plucked up the courage to say to Rongguang that he would be his opponent + hand, but Rongguang scored twice in the game again, and he did not score a goal.

After those two fights, he even doubted that he would not be able to surpass glory in his life.

The only advantage he had over glory was his age - he was younger.

Maybe only when Rong Guang retires will he be able to become the world's No. 1......

Messi has been very good in the Champions League this season, for which he even sacrificed his league table a little, and after 35 league games, he has scored 31 goals in the league, three goals behind Cristiano Ronaldo, and is in second place.

However, he topped the Champions League scoring charts with 14 goals.

But this still can't make Messi feel that he can beat Glory.

He can be a glorious opponent, but he can't beat him.

Messi is so entangled in his heart now.

Now Harvey's words woke him up.

I didn't even dare to look at Rong, how could I dare to defeat him?

So it's not a question of whether you can or not, it's a question of whether you dare or not.

If you don't dare, you can't.

First of all, you must dare, and then you can.

Messi felt that his previous self may have been a little too weak......

I don't know why, anyway, when he is in front of Glory, he will have an unconscious inferiority complex, and he has to look up to Glory - and this is not just because he is shorter than Glory......

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that he has never been able to defeat Rongguang, and can only run after Rongguang.

Now that I think about it, his unconscious inferiority complex in the face of glory may have come from the 2005 World Youth Championship final.

At that time, Rong Guang had already made a name for himself with his two seasons at Werder Bremen, and was considered a player who was completely one notch above the World Youth Championships.

And Messi is still a newcomer to Barcelona and European football, although he has received a lot of attention, but no one compares him to glory at all.

Since then, Messi can see the gap between himself and glory from various comments and voices from the outside world.

Later, in the final, Rong Guang completed a hat-trick, including a ball from the back straight to the front, and then scored. And in this process, Messi ran with Glory from beginning to end, trying to cut off Glory's ball, but until Glory scored, he didn't do it.

He became the best footnote to the glory of the World Junior Championships.

He also became famous in the future, but this history has been mentioned repeatedly, and the more successful he is, the more famous he will be for his reflection on glory back then......

This "black history" may be the deep reason why he always has a little fear of glory in his heart.

It's just that this reason has been ignored most of the time, and even Messi himself is not aware of it.

Now when he looks back, he's a little surprised that he hasn't even gotten past that race.

But it's not a delusion...... As long as he is playing against Glory, he will always want to catch up with Glory.

This idea came from the fact that he couldn't catch up with the glorious ball back then......

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The Champions League semi-final against Manchester United has ended, although the media and fans have shifted their attention to the Champions League final. But the league is still important for Manchester City, and at least they can't afford to lose in the league.

That would put their unbeaten season plan in tatters.

Therefore, in the 36th round of the league, Manchester City played Everton away, Benitez sent all the main players, and he did not rest the main players who had just played the second leg of the semi-final against Manchester United.

Glory scored twice in the game, with a goal from Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Sneijder adding the icing on the cake as City beat Everton 4-1 away.

After the most difficult hurdle, there is no team left to stop Manchester City from ending the league unbeaten.

In the 37th round, Manchester City hosted Stoke City. At the same time, Manchester City will also be awarded the Premier League trophy after the game.

Manchester City will also celebrate the success of the defending champions at their home turf.

Under such a premise, how could Manchester City lose on their home turf and let Stoke City mess up their game?

In the end, Manchester City beat Stoke City 3-0. Glory, Ibrahimovic and David Silva each scored a goal.

The award ceremony and celebration after the race were particularly enthusiastic.

At the celebration ceremony, as the captain of the Manchester City team, Rong Guang took the microphone to say a few words to the fans.

"I'm here to make a promise to everyone." Glory raised his arm and cocked his index finger. "After the Champions League final on the 28th, we will come back here to celebrate, to celebrate the championship!"

The scene was jubilant and the cheers were so deafening that they almost toppled the roof of Manchester City Stadium......

Rongguang has expressed his ambition in an interview, but this is the first time he has directly given a clear promise in public, saying that he wants to win the championship.

What is the commitment?

A promise is a promise that must be fulfilled when it is said.

Glory has now made this promise in front of tens of thousands of people, which means that he will definitely bring back the Champions League trophy.

It's not just a promise, it's a champion declaration of glory!

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That night, the promise made by Rongguang at this celebration ceremony appeared in the major sports media in Europe.

"Rong promised Manchester City fans to win the title!"

"Rong's Champions League Winner's Declaration!"

"Rong is determined to win the Champions League!"

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Almost all of them are titles like this.

In response, Barcelona beat Deportivo La Coruna 1-0 at home in the 37th round of the league, with Messi scoring the only goal of the game.

With this victory, Barcelona finally sealed the league title, and they won the title one round earlier, making Real Madrid's 3-1 win at Villarreal meaningless.

Now Barcelona can also completely abandon the league and prepare for the Champions League.

Although Glory made a championship declaration, Barcelona will not be so lightly handed over the championship.

After the game, the media in Catalonia wrote articles cheering for Messi.

"Messi's goal helped Barcelona win the league one round earlier! After we were unexpectedly forced to draw 1:1 away by Levante in the last round, Messi's goal liberated everyone's tense nerves! Now we can prepare for the Champions League final with a relaxed mood! Wing says he's locked up the Champions League? But I remember that he said that the championship is not determined by the analysis of the media, so I would like to ask Rong: Is the championship that he said belongs to Manchester City and belongs to Manchester City? Media analysis doesn't count, what he says counts? ”

In fact, the attitude of the Catalan media towards Rongguang was quite good in the past, after all, Rongguang has a few good friends in the Barcelona team, and he was once very close to becoming a Barcelona player.

But since last season's desperate battle between the two sides in the Champions League quarter-finals, the relatively good relationship between Catalonia and Glory has been gone.

There were so many things in that showdown that could upset the Catalan press.

The first thing is that the Catalan media claimed before the game that Glory is the only opponent worthy of Messi, and they actually feel that they are praising Glory when they say it. But after the words came out, they attracted ridicule and ridicule from Manchester City fans and the English media.

This incident made a big fuss at the time, and it also made the Catalan media disgraced, making many people feel that the Catalan media was too shameless.

Later, the Catalan media distorted the meaning of glory, hyping glory without taking Messi in his eyes, which can be regarded as a counterattack to the past.

Then the fierce collision between the two teams in the game, fake falls, red cards and other factors also made the smell of gunpowder strong.

Naturally, this smell of gunpowder will also extend to the off-the-field, to the media.

Several media outlets in Barcelona are the mouthpieces of FC Barcelona, cheering for Barcelona, and when Barcelona is eliminated, they are naturally unhappy, so they can only bargain with Manchester City and glory on their lips.

Of course, Glory ignored them.

Now that the two sides met in the final, Barcelona's media were all in a collective orgasm, looking forward to what their team would look like after they beat Glory's Manchester City in the final, and they fantasized about Glory's sluggish expression as they watched Messi and his teammates celebrate. They also fantasize about Glory slumping on the turf with his hands over his face.

In short, they are happy to witness the decline of glory at Wembley......

And what gives them confidence is Messi's performance in the Champions League this season.

After years of preparing for the Champions League's top scorer, they finally saw Messi riding on Glory's head for the first time!

This gives them a lot of confidence for the final.

Messi will definitely live up to expectations! I1292