Chapter 1316: Return to Allianz

After Ibrahimovic's goal, the game really turned into garbage time.

Manchester City seemed to be not content with just that draw in the end, and they want to maintain their winning record against Barcelona.

Now they do.

And the mighty "Cosmos" have played Manchester City in the last three seasons, let alone wins, without even a draw. It's really surprising enough - it stands to reason that no matter how you analyze it, the difference in strength between these two teams cannot be so big, and it should be normal to imagine that there are winners and losers from each other.

Pep Guardiola is no longer in his death throes, he is back in his seat.

There is a huge gap between the league and Real Madrid, the Champions League was eliminated, and now there is only one Copa del Rey left to compete for.

But even if Barcelona win the Copa del Rey, it won't help.

Whether Guardiola wants it or not, he will leave Camp Nou as a loser......

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When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the Barcelona players hid their faces in pain and wept.

And what about the Manchester City players? Their celebrations were also limited and did not celebrate unbridled at Barcelona's home turf.

It's certainly not that the Manchester City players are polite and personable and don't irritate their players and fans at Barcelona's home stadium.

They celebrated simply because they were used to beating Barcelona and there was nothing to celebrate.

As for reaching the final...... After the first round of the match, they had already celebrated.

Now the second round is just a routine.

Although Barcelona put a lot of pressure on Manchester City in the second leg, and at one point saw hope of a comeback. But Manchester City is the Manchester City with glory, and the glory showed the strength of his Barcelona nemesis at a critical moment, pouring a basin of cold water on his head, directly turning Barcelona from a red-hot iron lump into a cold iron lump.

"It's over! Manchester City knocked out Barcelona and reached the Champions League final at the Allianz Arena! Since 2009, Rong will return to the Allianz Arena once again! If their opponent in the final is the host Bayern Munich...... That's even more interesting! ”

John Mortensen said.

After the game, in the mixed area, Rongguang was surrounded by reporters. The questions everyone asked were related to the Allianz Arena and Bayern Munich.

Everyone wants to know what it's like to be back at the Allianz Arena and how he would feel if the opponent in the final was Bayern Munich.

No one asked him if he would be merciful because of this, it was an idiotic question only those who did not know glory would ask.

Bayern Munich once failed to qualify for the Champions League group stage in the 2009-2010 season, so it is absolutely impossible for him to show mercy against his old club.

A reporter asked him who he would prefer to choose between Chelsea and Bayern Munich as his opponent in the final.

Rongguang did not answer this question directly.

He said that no matter who it is, he will give it his all, so it doesn't matter who the opponent is.

As for returning to the Allianz Arena, he is delighted.

“…… I'm familiar with the Allianz Arena and I'm happy to be able to play the final there because I don't have to get used to the venue. The glory of being in a good mood also had a little humor in front of the reporters.

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A day later, City's opponents in the Champions League final were revealed.

Bayern Munich beat Chelsea 1-0 at home to draw 1-1 on aggregate and failed to score anything in 30 minutes of extra-time. In the end, Bayern Munich eliminated Chelsea 4-3 and successfully reached the Champions League final.

And the Champions League final will be hosted on their own home turf, which is good news for Bayern Munich as they will enjoy a real "home treatment" in the final.

This is also the reason why the whole Bayern Munich team is desperate to reach the Champions League final.

Who wouldn't want to play the final on their home turf?

When the 2010 Champions League final was held at the Bernabeu, Real Madrid were desperate to reach the final and lift their 10th ever Champions League trophy on their home turf.

Dreams are well done.

Unfortunately, they met Glory and Manchester City in the group stage, so they didn't even make it out of the group stage......

After Manchester City's final opponent came out, another reporter approached Rong Guang and wanted him to talk about Bayern Munich.

Everyone knows that when he left Bayern Munich, he and Hoeness were not very happy.

After so many years, he has never talked about Hoeness publicly, and he has not disclosed the details of his feud with Hoeness to the media. He chose silence.

"It's a good thing to play the final against Bayern Munich, and although there are a lot of people in this team who are not my team-mates when I was playing for them, Bayern Munich means something different to me. Glory didn't run away from the problem this time. "I'm going to give it my all in the game."

Some German media said that it would be good if Rong Guang didn't say the last sentence, and not saying it and saying his words are completely two different things.

If you don't say it, it will make people think that he takes care of the old feelings, and he still has some special feelings for Bayern Munich in his heart.

After saying that, many people began to observe a moment of silence for Bayern Munich in advance.

“…… I think the most fearful thing for City's opponents to hear is that Wing will give it his all. Bayern Munich must hope that Rong will not go all out......"

But this argument has also annoyed some people.

For example, Bayern Munich's head coach Louis van Gaal.

After Van Gaal took charge of Bayern Munich, the team's results were not very stable at the beginning, and his position at Bayern Munich was not very stable.

But now, when he led the team to the Champions League final, he suddenly became Bayern Munich's "real man".

Louis van Gaal is a character coach, as you can tell from his time at Barcelona.

This statement by the media made him very unhappy.

In an interview, he said that he did not understand why the German media sang about his team.

“…… Bayern Munich is playing in the Champions League on behalf of German football, and I think any German should support us at this time, and I can't understand why Germany's own media has published some words that destroy their own prestige and increase the morale of others. I've never had any illusions that our opponents are not playing well in a game for some reason, but of course every one of our opponents is going to give it their all, just as we do our best with every opponent in every game...... You have to ask if we are afraid of Manchester City and Glory? My answer is - no, we are not afraid of anyone! ”

Some reporters who wanted to stir up trouble took Van Gaal's words and asked Rongguang what he thought about this, but in fact, they wanted to hear that Rongguang and Van Gaal went to war directly.

But the glory let them down.

"Any questions?" Rong Guang asked rhetorically after listening to the reporter's relay. Van Gaal's answer was very normal, he didn't understand what was wrong.

"Uh...... Don't you sense Van Gaal's hostility? The reporter asked.

Rongguang shook his head: "No." Isn't that normal? If you don't have any other problems, then I'll ......" he gestured to the training ground, apparently continuing to train.

The reporters had no choice but to let him go.

The war of words was not provoked, which was somewhat disappointing.

But fortunately, there is still some time before the final, and maybe before the final, the two sides will actually start spitting on each other.

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The war of words between Manchester City and Bayern Munich has not begun, but the competition with Manchester United has entered a white heat.

After a Champions League away game at Barcelona, Manchester City are back in Manchester for a weekend derby.

Since Manchester City were held to a 1-1 draw away from Arsenal, they are only three points clear of Manchester United.

Now they have played one less game in the league than Manchester United because of the heavy fixture schedule at Manchester City.

Manchester United, who had one more game, tied Manchester City in points by virtue of the advantage of one more game.

They are now only provisionally second on goal difference.

If they can beat Manchester City away in the league at the weekend, they can surpass them on points with a game in hand.

That certainly doesn't guarantee Manchester United the league title, but it does bring them closer to the league title.

If Manchester United can't even do their own thing and can't beat Manchester City in a head-to-head matchup, then what's the league title?

In addition to Manchester United's good form and good physical fitness, Ferguson can now rely on Manchester City, who has just finished the Champions League match with Barcelona, and must be physically tired.

He doesn't know if Rafa Benitez will continue his midweek starting line-up, but as long as his side are tougher and more aggressive in the game, they should be able to contain City.

Ferguson believes City's focus this season should be in the Champions League. Because at the beginning of the season, Glory shouted the slogan of defending the Champions League title, and now they have also reached the final of the Champions League. What if you get injured in the league and it affects the Champions League title?

As long as they put enough pressure on Manchester City, Manchester City's players should be willing to take the initiative to hold back in the league for fear of injury. If they were given a choice in the Champions League and the league, they should definitely choose the Champions League.

These are opportunities for Manchester United.