The match against Norwich City was supposed to take place on April 14, but it was postponed to May 2 due to a schedule conflict with the FA Cup semi-final.

This season, Manchester City's games in the league have been postponed three times, which shows how busy Manchester City's games are.

Postponing the league will not give Manchester City an extra day of rest to play the FA Cup semi-final against Everton, and Manchester City will have to rush back to Manchester to prepare for the Champions League semi-final against Barcelona.

The semi-finals for Manchester City are scheduled for the same as the quarter-finals, with the home and away teams first, putting the initiative in the hands of Barcelona in advance.

Judging from this schedule, Manchester City has not been easy along the way.

After the end of the league season, Barcelona traveled north to Manchester, where they borrowed Manchester United's training base to prepare for the game.

The training bases of the two teams were already very close to each other.

If the managers of both sides have a heart, they can even walk through the grove and spy on each other's training.

But none of them did it - it was too cheap.

This season's Barcelona will not be easy to catch up with Real Madrid in the league, and the Champions League has become a battlefield where they must go all out.

If we can win the Champions League in the end, it will be a very good result.

Coupled with the loss to Manchester City in the Champions League final last season, Barcelona will definitely not lack fighting spirit in the semifinals this time. Pep Guardiola doesn't even need to do any pre-match mobilization, he just needs to train his technical and tactical coordination.

And the war of words between the two sides did not stop before the game, and from the time their matchup was confirmed, the two sides began to spit on each other.

Barcelona and Manchester City have formed a deep ...... in these few meetings Hatred.

Glory has been at Manchester City for almost four seasons.

In these four seasons, Manchester City played three seasons in the Champions League, except for the first season when Manchester City did not qualify for the Champions League, the other three seasons, Manchester City was able to meet Barcelona in each Champions League.

Such a dense encounter made the relationship between the two teams quickly "warm up".

For the first time, in the 2009-2010 season, Manchester City returned to the Champions League after 40 years, meeting Barcelona in the quarter-finals. Barcelona at the time was the defending champions and was dubbed "Team Cosmos" by the media. As a result, Barcelona, who were aiming to successfully defend their title, suffered a heavy blow when they were knocked out of the Champions League for the first time in 40 years.

Coincidentally, the schedule was the same as it is now, with Manchester City playing home first and away later.

As a result, in the first leg, Rong Guang scored twice to help Manchester City defeat Barcelona 3:1, and many people felt that the suspense was almost gone.

In the second leg, Glory scored twice again, Manchester City defeated Barcelona 2:0, eliminated the invincible Barcelona with an aggregate score of 5:1, and dealt a heavy blow to Barcelona, which was invincible all over the world at that time.

In the 2010-2011 season, Barcelona did not meet Manchester City on the way to qualification, and they fought all the way to the final. Meeting Manchester City in the final. Barcelona also shouted revenge slogans before the game, after all, they were knocked out of the quarter-finals by Manchester City last season, which is too humiliating for Barcelona.

At that time, Messi was also in very good shape, and everyone thought that Barcelona would definitely succeed in revenge this time.

Unexpectedly, in the final, Rong Guang directly scored a hat trick, not only surpassing Messi in the scorer list, but also helping Manchester City defeat Barcelona with an amazing score of 4:1, Manchester City lifted the Champions League trophy for the first time in history!

Two meetings, three games, Barcelona not to mention winning, not even a draw, only scored two goals, but conceded nine.

It's surprising that such a number is between Barcelona and Manchester City.

In addition to the grievances on the court, there are also many grievances between the two sides off the field.

The debate about who is stronger has never stopped.

Of course, this year's argument is much weaker than in the previous two years, because Glory has already proved that comparing him to Messi is very ignorant and stupid by beating Messi twice in a row......

The war of words between the two sides continued, and Glory was also involved. In an interview before the game, Rong Guang told reporters: "Barcelona are a very strong team, especially at their home stadium, and games tend to get tough......

Hearing Rongguang say this, the reporters all looked at each other, not understanding why Rongguang suddenly said this, Barcelona's home stadium is certainly terrible, but it may not be the case for Rongguang...... You've scored twice at home to Barcelona!

And people don't quite understand why Glory suddenly praised Barcelona.

This is something that shouldn't be the case.

But what Rong Guang said next made the reporters suddenly realize.

"So, our goal is to try to end the suspense on our home turf."

A group of reporters breathed a sigh of relief - this is the normal glory! It turns out that he praised Barcelona for this sentence before!

It's just that this kind of praise may not be accepted by Barcelona at all......

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Indeed, when the words of Glory appeared in the media, they provoked the indignation of the Catalan media.

They thought Glory was too disrespectful to Barcelona and said it so lightly, as if they could really end the suspense of the two legs at home......

"If Manchester City can win Barcelona 4:1 in the first leg, otherwise they simply won't be able to kill the suspense in the first game!"

Catalonia's "El Monde" said that as the mouthpiece of FC Barcelona, it is natural to cheer and cheer for Barcelona.

4:1 was the score in last season's Champions League final, and "World Sports" was obviously satirizing Manchester City's ability to score four goals against Barcelona was luck and an unrepeatable score, warning Manchester City not to always talk about past results.

Every football game is brand new and has nothing to do with the previous one.

They are very confident in Barcelona's revenge on Manchester City this time, and one of the sources of confidence is Messi.

Messi has also been in great form in the Champions League this season.

The quarterfinals have just ended, and Messi has already scored fourteen goals!

Last season, Messi scored only 14 goals after the semi-finals.

If you only look at the goal efficiency, Messi this season is stronger than last season.

Especially in the quarterfinals, in the game when Barcelona hosted Bayer Leverkusen, Messi scored five goals in the game alone, setting a record for the most goals scored in a single game in the history of the Champions League.

After that game, the entire European sports world was frightened by Messi's appearance, and all kinds of praise followed.

In particular, the media in Catalonia were particularly excited, and they said that even glory could not score five goals in one game in the knockout round of the Champions League, and Messi did it!

In fact, not to mention five goals, he didn't even have a big quadruple in the Champions League, and a hat-trick was his limit.

The Catalan press derives great satisfaction from this.

Messi is not as good as glory? Anyway, in Catalonia, they think that the glory is not as good as Messi......

In the quarter-finals, Messi also scored twice against AC Milan.

In this season's Champions League, Messi scored two goals, a hat trick, and a single five-dollar goal.

Such a statement naturally makes the Catalan media full of confidence in Messi and also in Barcelona.

In their opinion, what Rongguang said before the game was obviously psychological warfare, and Rongguang hoped to use such words to provoke the Barcelona players and make them lose their cool. But this appearance of his is meaningless except to appear to be arrogant and impudent.

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The much-anticipated race is coming as scheduled.

Both sides fielded the strongest line-up they could.

However, Manchester City are injured by Matuidi, so in midfield is a double of Sneijder and Gareth Barry.

This is one of the reasons why the Catalan media is confident.

Matuidi has played a huge role in defending as Manchester City's midfielder, and his injury has had a big impact on Manchester City.

Since Matuidi picked up an injury against Swansea City, City have conceded in almost every game.

Nine games, including league and FA cup ties, as well as Champions League matches.

With the exception of the 4-0 home game against West Bromwich Albion without conceding a goal, the other games conceded at least one goal and two more.

Gareth Barry is not a full-time defensive midfielder after all, and his defensive ability is still much worse than Matuidi's.

Catalan media analysis believes that Matuidi's injury will give Barcelona more scoring opportunities in this game.

Barcelona are already strong in central midfield, and once they are not checked by Matuidi, they will certainly be able to run as they want in the Manchester City half.

At that time, Messi, who is in good shape, will definitely be able to tear apart Manchester City's defense with breakthroughs again and again, and kick Manchester City into the abyss with goals!

On the Barcelona side of this game, Golin was put on the bench, in fact, since this season, Golin has appeared on the bench more often. It was thought that Barcelona bought Cesc Fabregas from Arsenal this season and brought Sanchez from Udinese.

These two squeezed Gao Lin's living space.

In Barcelona's 433, the three men in the front line are Messi, Sanchez and Cesc Fabregas.

No striker tactics without a center.

This tactic is not good in the league, but it is still good in the Champions League.

Gao Lin did not play, which disappointed the Chinese media, fans and commentators.

But this is the ...... You can concentrate on cheering for Manchester City.

Except for those who are Barcelona fans themselves, everyone else has become Manchester City fans tonight.