Chapter 1312: Natural Enemies

Barcelona conceded a goal at the start of the second half, which was a really heavy blow for Barcelona.

Barcelona's players were all stunned by the goal they conceded.

The TV broadcast cut a lot of close-ups of the Barcelona players, and the vast majority of the Barcelona players in the camera were at a loss.

Faced with such a quick conceded goal, they didn't react, and they couldn't accept it in a short time.

The Manchester City players quickly ended their celebrations and they returned to the pitch.

They didn't spend much time celebrating. Because they don't need to celebrate to consume more game time.

The second half has just begun, so if they hurry up and have more goals, maybe they can score more goals?

That's what the Manchester City players think.

Beating Barcelona several times in a row has given them a lot of confidence.

It's hard to have that mentality in other teams, and when they face Barcelona, they probably don't even have the fighting spirit before the game starts, and they think that Barcelona are too strong and we can't beat them. They will be afraid of any attack Barcelona has to offer.

For example, Bayer Leverkusen, they and Barcelona met in the Champions League quarterfinals, and Bayer Leverkusen lost 1:3 to Barcelona at their home stadium in the first leg, and there is basically no hope of advancing to the quarterfinals. However, unlike the disappointed and sad Bayer Leverkusen fans, Leverkusen's two main defenders, Kadlec and Friedrich, did not care much about the outcome of the game, and the two of them had an infighting over a Messi jersey.

At half-time, Kadlec couldn't wait to find Messi and exchange jerseys. But when he returned to the locker room with Messi's jersey, he was stopped by his teammate Friedrich. Because Friedrich was also ready to exchange jerseys with Messi, but was preempted by Kadlec. In the players' tunnel, Friedrich and Kadlec quarreled over the Messi jersey, and in the end, it was the older Friedrich who succeeded in taking Messi's jersey.

Kadlec was unwilling to let Messi's jersey be lost, so he approached Messi again at the end of the game and asked for an exchange of jerseys, and this time no one grabbed him.

After the game, Kadlec also commented on the matter on his personal social media, acknowledging the conflict between Friedrich and himself, while saying that he would keep the Messi shirt in his family's honor room.

After losing, I don't think about regret and pain, or even how to perform well in the second leg and pull off a miracle. Instead, they are more concerned about how to get the enemy's jersey.

This detail shows what kind of mentality those opponents have when facing Barcelona.

Of course, Bayer Leverkusen, who had these two absent-minded defenders, lost 1-7 to Barcelona in the second leg at Barcelona's home stadium, and Messi scored five goals alone, which can be regarded as enough goals on the brain-dead fans......

That game was naturally Messi's highlight moment and a good memory for Barcelona fans, but it was not something to be proud of for Leverkusen, who was a foil. The fans were angry, the team manager was angry, and probably the players who only cared about how to get their jerseys didn't care about the defeat.

Because in their opinion, Bayer Leverkusen's strength is a big cut worse than Barcelona, and it would have been normal to lose this game.

Since it's a game that's destined to lose, what's there to be sorry about?

Can anger lead us to win the game?

No, so why not make it easier for yourself in a different way?

Isn't losing a game part of professional football?

Therefore, Bayer Leverkusen will never win the Champions League......

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As the game continued, Barcelona's players were affected by the goals they conceded, played very poorly, and made more mistakes.

The Manchester City players, cheering on the fans, played the defensive counterattack vigorously, and they seized the opportunity of Barcelona's unsolicited mistakes to play counterattacks again and again.

If Valdés hadn't done well, they might have conceded again.

When Valdés saved Ibrahimovic's shot again, he jumped up from the ground, yelled at his team-mates and slapped them hard.

He was very unhappy with his teammates' expressions.

He seems to want to wake up his teammates in this way.

But it's really hard.

Messi is already dumbfounded, and the rest of his teammates are not satisfied.

And what's worse......

In the 63rd minute, Manchester City once again took advantage of a passing mistake in front of Barcelona to break the ball and play a counter-attack.

Gareth Barry passed the ball to Sneijder, who spun around and delivered a long, diagonal ball that went past Butzkes on tiptoe and onto Kaka's feet.

Kaka didn't dribble the ball, but received the ball and sent it sideways to the edge of the box.

Ibrahimovic, who was being followed by Puyol, ran towards the ball and made a shot that seemed to be going to shoot straight at goal.

But just as Valdés had already made a save, his foot jerked in front of the ball, and he let the ball roll in front of him!

Everyone looked behind the football and saw that Rong Guang had cut from the wing to the middle, and he picked up his right leg against the football.

This time it wasn't a false shot, his right outside of his foot slashed the soccer ball solidly!

Pique was in the way of glory, but it was of little use.

Because the ball made a very clear arc in the air, far around his defence, straight into the back corner of the goal.

Valdés made another save too late, and the speed at which he adjusted his center of gravity was simply not enough to see in the face of the flying speed of the football.

Glory signature inward cut right foot outside instep shot!

The football flew into the goal without any suspense......

“ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!!!” John Mortensen yelled in excitement.

“3:0! 3:0! 3:0!! Manchester City have a three-goal lead over Barcelona! Can we say that this game is over? ”

Alain Hansen excitedly said: "It's not just this game! It's the whole semi-finals that ended early! I don't believe Barcelona will be able to equalise from three goals down when they are back at home! ”

"It was Glory's thirteenth Champions League goal! He is now one short of Messi's fourteen goals! But judging from the current state of the two people, it may be difficult for Messi to keep his first position in the scorer list! The state of glory is just right! He Ping no longer cares whether Manchester City can reach the Champions League final, in his opinion it is a sure thing, there is no suspense.

He is now concerned about whether Glory can maintain his record as the top scorer in the Champions League as long as he plays.

He's not a Manchester City fan, he's a glorious fan.

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The cheers from the City fans in the stands almost drowned out a single qiē sound.

The narrators at the scene had to shout hoarsely to make sure their voices weren't stifled.

But even so, their voices are a little unreal in the noisy background, and they can't be heard clearly.

Manchester City fans know that the glorious brace made the suspense of this game disappear.

You don't have to think about what will happen next.

So they weren't cheering for the glorious goal, they were celebrating the victory in advance!

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Pep Guardiola looked anxious in the midst of this huge cheer.

He wasn't going to just give up.

It's impossible to win this game, it's hard to even equalise.

But Pep Guardiola wants to score one or two away goals.

As long as there are away goals, there is still hope for a comeback at home.

He yelled at the dejected Barcelona players on the sidelines to cheer them up.

But it didn't help.

After the resumption of the game, the Barcelona players showed no hope of scoring at all.

The initiative of the game was firmly controlled by Manchester City.

Manchester City is still playing defensive counter-attacks, shrinking the defense, and letting Barcelona attack.

But now Barcelona is a little afraid to attack.

For the first time, this team, which has always played attacking football, has lost the courage to attack.

They are well aware that if they continue to attack like this, the void behind them will definitely be exploited by Manchester City. When the time comes, the fourth and fifth goals will follow.

So in the face of a three-goal deficit, even if they need an away goal, Barcelona can't attack.

When the referee blew the full-time whistle, the cheers at Manchester City Stadium made it seem like they had won the Champions League rather than a semi-final victory.

The Barcelona players quickly fled the pitch, with only the Manchester City players remaining on the pitch and circling the pitch to thank the fans who had supported them.

City fans waved their arms at the players and chanted: "Allianz! Allianz! Allianz! ”

The Allianz Arena is the venue for this season's Champions League final, and Manchester City fans chant the word to express their confidence that the team will reach the final.

In their view, a 3-0 win at home to Barcelona means that they have already stepped into the Allianz Arena with half of their bodies.

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After the game, Pep Guardiola expressed his confidence in the comeback in a press conference.

'I know it's hard to come back from three goals down but that's not a reason for us to give up. We're going to give it our all and Barcelona at Camp Nou will be unbeatable! ”

And Benitez is also cautious: "It can't be said that we have advanced to the final yet, after all, the semi-finals are two legs, and Barcelona is not easy to play away. We don't take pride in our enemies. ”

Benitez denied the reporter's claim that Manchester City are Barcelona's nemesis: "I don't believe in the 'nemesis'. We are not anyone's nemesis, and no one else is our nemesis. Every football game has its own logic, which is affected by the state of the players on both sides at the time and the tactical arrangement of the coaches, which has nothing to do with the nemesis......"

Since Benitez said that Manchester City is not Barcelona's nemesis, the media changed the word "natural enemy" when reporting after the game.

Never in this century have Barcelona been completely underdogs against a team.

So what is it that Manchester City is not their natural enemy?