The old lord was thunderous, of course, not without reason.

In his words, if Atkinson hadn't forgotten his eyes at home, he would have noticed that Vidic's foot hadn't touched Suarez at all. The implication is that Ferguson thinks Suarez, who won the penalty for Manchester City, made a fall.

Lin Sen, who was sitting next to the old man at the time, was leisurely, neither refuting Ferguson nor protecting the referee.

The truth is never so absolute.

Lin Sen watched the slow-motion replay, Vidic's tackle, in fact, belongs to the category of whether it can be judged or not, on the football field, there are countless such suspected cases, how to judge the penalty, in fact, only in the referee's thoughts, thank God, this time, Manchester City is playing at home, so the old man's anger at Atkinson may be understandable, but Atkinson is a little innocent, but Lin Sen chose to get cheap and not sell it.

Naturally, only Manchester City will benefit.

Breaking into the FA Cup semi-finals, the opponent is currently in the middle and lower reaches of the league rankings Stoke City, to put it bluntly, Manchester City has touched the FA Cup trophy with one hand, plus the league championship trophy and the Champions League trophy that are still in the ranks of competition, Manchester City fans have once again seen a "bumper" season.

Linson is not as optimistic as Manchester City fans, always imagining everything in the best direction, and the game against Manchester United is the end of a difficult period for Manchester City in terms of schedule, but it is also relative.

The day after Manchester City eliminated Real Madrid, Barcelona became their opponent in the Champions League semi-finals without any suspense, the score was only 1-0, perhaps Barcelona's promotion was too common, after the game, all the media turned their attention to Messi who scored the only goal, because this is the Argentine star's 48th goal this season, with this goal, he also surpassed the "alien" Ronaldo in Barcelona that year to set a record of 47 goals in a single season. He also became the first player in the history of Spanish football to score 48 goals in a single official season.

A series of records made Messi shine suddenly.

Mourinho's "reminder" was not wrong.

Watch out for Messi.

But before Messi is careful, Linson can finally put his mind back to the league a bit, and the first leg of the semi-final against Barcelona will be April 28, and before that, Manchester City have two more league games, both of which are not weak.

On April 20, Manchester City hosted Tottenham, who would have been Manchester City's biggest rival without Linsen's interference, and Redknapp's team had been in trouble since last season. Tottenham this season, although they did not squeeze into the first group, are still the best team outside the first group, in other words, the role of "spoiler", there is no hope of winning the title, but it has a crucial impact on the situation of winning the title, because at the end of the league, the current top four teams will inevitably play against them once. Therefore, the current Tottenham can be said to be a touchstone for the championship.

Manchester City, who have finally regained their winning feelings through the victories over Real Madrid and Manchester United, are by no means willing to fall on their laurels at this time. Not only are they already three points behind United in the league, but if they lose again, a six-point gap would be enough to decide something, especially the lead, with only five games left in the league. Or Manchester United.

Linson went into a semi-rotational lineup for this game, with players like David Silva and Yaya Toure who started in midweek continuing to start, but this one. The final result was still dangerous, as the score was again 1-0, which was also the third 1-0 in the last three games for Manchester City.

After the game, the English media still used "narrow victory" to describe Manchester City's victory, believing that Linson's victory was the same as the previous victory against Manchester United, and there was an element of luck in it. Coincidentally, UEFA also introduced Lin Sen on the official website, which is an activity on the official website of UEFA, the content is to introduce the four teams that have entered the Champions League semifinals, compared to the other three teams, Manchester City, which has reached the semifinals for the first time in the Champions League knockout round, undoubtedly has more highlights, and the head coach is one of them.

The youngest has become an important label for Lin Sen. Youngest Europa League winner, youngest Premier League winner, youngest ...... A series of youngest, Lin Sen instantly felt a lot younger, of course, UEFA did not use the wrong words, in his early thirties, even for the players, for individual positions are even just the beginning of the peak, let alone the coach?

On April 24, the 34th round of the English Premier League, Manchester City challenged Blackburn Rovers who had drawn in the first leg of this season, and the result made everyone feel a little "tired", because it was another 1-0, of course, for Manchester City, the important thing is not to score a few goals, but to win, two consecutive wins, although it failed to close the gap between Manchester City and Manchester United, but let them still bite each other tightly.

Then, Manchester United and Manchester City welcomed their European rivals at the same time, although the opponents did not look at the same level at all.

Manchester United's opponents were German side Schalke 04, who knocked out defending champions Inter Milan by a big score, and also enjoyed a home-first-home fixture, while Manchester City, whose name stands for a qiē, had a home-and-away fixture.

Excluding the Gamble Cup, which was a warm-up match, it would be Linson's first meeting with Pep Guardiola since arriving in England.

The outside world has called this meeting between the two as an offensive and defensive football battle, which is obviously an exaggeration, the last time the media used such a statement to describe a duel, it was when Mourinho was still at Chelsea, and, in fact, since Linson came to Manchester City, his tactical style has changed a lot, at least, the current Manchester City, will definitely not be labeled as a "defensive team".

Naturally, even so, Manchester City and Barcelona are still two teams with completely different styles.

"Our chances are at home." Regarding the duel with Barcelona, Tang Hua's conclusion is very simple.

Lin Sen knew that Tang Hua's conclusion must have been reached through a series of numbers, but this conclusion actually does not need to be verified by counting jù at all, because to beat the current Barcelona, if it reaches the point of putting hope at Camp Nou, then promotion is tantamount to a fool's dream.

The right time, place and people.

The time can be understood as the preparation time, the location can be understood as the home field, and the people can be understood as the state.

Since both teams are fighting on three fronts, because in terms of time, the two teams can be said to be in a state of balance, and the geographical advantage is also half of the total, the most decisive and important person, Manchester City is currently second in the league, Barcelona is first in the league, and the domestic cup has also reached the final final, so even this, the two teams are still comparable.

But the conditions are the same, it does not mean that the victory or defeat will be five or five points, because of the difference in strength.

Barcelona's strength is stronger than Manchester City, even stronger than Real Madrid, and what is even more terrifying is that the strength of this team is a typical kind of team where one plus one is greater than two, and many of these "ones" are veritable world No. 1, the best midfielder in the world, the best defender in the world, and the best striker in the world...... Whether or not one is added to one cannot change the power of their combination.

Manchester City wants to beat such a Barcelona, let alone in an away away without a "geographical advantage", even under the same conditions, there is no chance of winning, so it is the only chance to occupy a "geographically advantageous" home stadium.

Just like Inter Milan last season, when they eliminated Barcelona away, everyone said that Inter Milan's steel defense was their biggest hero in qualifying, but in fact, if there was no hearty 3-1 reversal at home, even if Inter Milan defended well at Camp Nou, they would not have escaped the fate of losing.

And the situation that Manchester City are facing now, nothing has changed.

At home to Barcelona, Manchester City must not afford to lose or even have a draw unacceptable, and they will need a win to pave their way to the final.

Barcelona arrived in Manchester a day early on 27 April and in the afternoon Guardiola looked ahead to the game in his pre-match press conference: "This is not the first time I've met Linson, he proved to be a good coach in Malaga and I'm happy to be with him again and hopefully tomorrow will be a good matchup."

Pep Guardiola's words don't sound extraordinary, but the English media still smell something else.

A great showdown?

What makes it exciting?

Quite simply, a lot of goals is a good game.

Barcelona have never been afraid of their opponents playing a good game like this, because they are always the winners. It's a pity that Inter Milan had a "bad head" last season, and now more and more teams are not willing to play a "good game" against them. Pep Guardiola, who is familiar with Linsen's coaching style, knows too well that Manchester City's "style" is just a "cover-up" for Linsen, and Linsen will not hesitate to change his style if necessary.

In this regard, Lin Sen is different from him, and his Barcelona has always had only one style.

Guardiola is right, Linsen really didn't plan to accompany the other party to play a wonderful game that most people are addicted to, the thing is very simple, if the so-called wonderful duel is based on his own team as a foil, then it doesn't matter if the excitement is not good, no team is on the field to lose.

So, the next day, in the starting squad, Lin Sen gave Guardiola a surprise. (To be continued......)