Chapter 160: Rainbow Arc

After the 6th round of the Premier League, Manchester City needs to prepare for the Champions League group stage first, and the match against Tottenham Hotspur will have to be leaned back.

On September 28, in the second round of the Champions League group stage, Manchester City came to Glasgow, the capital of Scotland, to challenge Celtic, the supreme leader of the Soviet Super League.

The Soviet Premier League was originally a two-man league, with Celtic and Glasgow Rangers taking turns to sit in the bank.

However, in the summer of 2012, Rangers went bankrupt due to financial problems, and the team restructured and started playing in the amateur league until this summer, before being promoted to the Premier League again this summer.

So in recent years, the Soviet Super League has been the world of Celtic, and it has won the championship every year.

However, in the Champions League, Celtic are only a consistent team.

At Celtic Park, the Scottish fans made a huge splash to welcome Manchester City.

After all, this is a match between a Scottish team and an English team.

Pep Guardiola still arranged a 433 formation to strengthen the team's increasingly mature possession tactics.

In addition, David Silva is back from injury, and Manchester City is the strongest fighter.

Unexpectedly, two minutes into the game, De Bruyne suffered a muscle strain in his inner thigh and had to go to rest.

Critical doom is yet to follow.

Kevin De Bruyne had just been off the pitch for two minutes, in the fourth minute of the game, when 96-year-old French striker Moussa Dembele broke through with the ball to create a free-kick in front of Celtic.

Celtic moved the ball to the right through tactical play, and Scottish midfielder Forrester swept in front of goal.

Dembele cut forward in the middle and slammed the ball into the City goal with his chest.

'City were a bit unlucky, Kevin De Bruyne came off injured and immediately conceded another goal, which is not a good sign.

The England commentator was worried about Manchester City, and the Scottish fans at the scene were in a frenzy of celebration.

To be able to take the lead against the Manchester City fans at home was an absolutely unexpected performance.

Importantly, Celtic's opening goal seemed to send the game into a chaotic attacking rhythm.

In the 11th minute, Manchester City pressed all the players across the half to launch a siege, and Kolarov crossed diagonally from the periphery in front of the goal.

Zhang Chaoqiang saw the passing route and ran to the far end of the goal, as long as he received the ball, it was an excellent opportunity to score.

But the football was intercepted, and it was intercepted by his own people.

Fernandinho raised his foot at the front of the passing route, stopped the ball steadily, and then pushed the ball forward.

Celtic goalkeeper Gordon has been deflected by Zhang's strong movement, allowing Fernandinho to easily push the back of the net.

It was a bit of a mistake, but City managed to equalise.

But then it was even more erroneous.

In the 18th minute, Australian midfielder Rokic sent a through ball, and the 97-year-old Scottish full-back Tierney followed up with a kick.

The ball looked like a pass and a shot, and the overall threat was not that great.

Sterling didn't know which tendon was wrong, so he rushed up and made a falling tackle, presumably trying to clear the siege.

Originally, he couldn't necessarily hit a ball in the range of the goal frame, but let him shovel it into his own goal.

In the game's technical statistics, the goal did go to Raheem Sterling.

Just five minutes after scoring an own goal, Raheem Sterling quickly made up for it.

The successive pressing of Zhang Chaoqiang and Sergio Aguero led to a passing error for Celtic, and David Silva took the ball and decisively slotted it through.

Raheem Sterling received the ball in the box, smashed it past Tierney and fired a low shot straight into the net.

In the space of five minutes, Raheem Sterling scored an own goal and equalised, sending the game up and down.

This turned the game into an inexplicable head-to-head battle, with Celtic taking the lead twice and overall morale being pretty good.

Not to mention, they played at a good pace in attack, after all, they had Brendan Rodgers as the manager.

In the 35th minute, Tierney's long-range shot led to Bravo's escape, and Dembele quickly rushed to shoot to give Celtic the lead for the third time.

The stadium at Celtic Park resounded with a tsunami of cheers.

Celtic fans never expected their team to play like this with Manchester City.

Facing Barcelona in the first round of the group stage, they also wanted to fight against each other, and then they were educated a 7:0.

In this game, Manchester City, which also won in the first round, was able to score three goals and take the lead three times.

French teenager Moussa Dembele scored a brace against Manchester City and became famous.

The domestic commentary has been chanted: "Suddenly like a spring breeze overnight, the football world is full of Dembele." ”

In recent years, European football has indeed had a succession of players named Dembele, and they have all played well.

Two years ago, it was Belgium's Moussa Dembele who played famously, and now he has joined Tottenham and is playing well.

Last season, Rennes in Ligue 1 produced Ousmane Dembele, who was snatched away by Borussia Dortmund after only one season of Rennes training, and now he is also thriving in the Bundesliga.

This time it was France's Moussa Dembele who scored twice in the face of Manchester City, and he was afraid that he would step on the blue moon and quickly become famous.

The Celtics took the lead for the third time in the chaotic battle, but they still didn't hold the lead until halftime.

In the 43rd minute, City launched another wave of attacks aiming for an equaliser before the end of the first half.

Zhang Chaoqiang started to cut forward on the right and David Silvadan was about to send the ball over.

But the two didn't work well together, and Silva's pass was a little slower.

This caused Zhang Chaoqiang to need to slow down slightly and wait for the ball, but he couldn't really rush up.

By this time, Celtic full-back Tierney was already in full swing.

Tierney also performed well in this game, and can be regarded as the second contributor to Celtic's attack, behind Moussa Dembele.

It was not easy to deal with it in a hurry, and Zhang Chaoqiang suddenly thought that he could try to show off his feet.

So during the run, Zhang Chaoqiang's right foot stepped in front of the football, and his left foot quickly followed the football.

The ball was pulled over the heel of his right foot, and Zhang Chaoqiang's right foot swung back hard.

With the power of the heel's upward lift, the ball took off from behind Zhang Chaoqiang and drew a rainbow arc that went straight over the heads of Zhang Chaoqiang and Tierney.

The show was a success!

"Oh? My God?! ”

"Beautiful!! Rainbow Amazing!! ”

Zhang Chaoqiang suddenly showed off a rainbow kick, and the commentators from all over the world exclaimed again and again.

When the football flew over Tierney's head, Zhang Chaoqiang also collided with the opponent's shoulder.

But this only slightly blocked Zhang Chaoqiang.

He steadied himself and quickly caught up, got the ball before the ball went out of bounds, and quickly cut inside the box along the baseline.

The Celtics players were also surprised by Zhang Chaoqiang's passing style, but they reacted in a moment, and they all converged in the same direction, vowing to stop Zhang Chaoqiang.

Zhang Chaoqiang was not greedy for merit, and saw the opportunity to push the instep of his foot and send the football out.

Raheem Sterling, on the other side of the goal, raced forward and prepared to shoot into the empty net.

But Manchester City veteran Kolo Toure didn't give him that chance and immediately rushed to take the risk to clear the game.

It was the same as Raheem Sterling's own goal before, and he shoveled the ball directly into his own goal.

"The ball is in!! Another own goal!! ”

"Zhang Chaoqiang completed a very beautiful rainbow pass on the wing, penetrated the Celtic defense directly, and then sent a sharp pass in time to force the opponent to own the goal."

"If this pass hadn't been for Toure risking to clear the ball, Raheem Sterling would have easily pushed the empty net, and it would have been scored as well!"

"But no matter what, the goal came through Zhang Chaoqiang's wonderful pass."

"Let's take a look at this pass, Zhang Chaoqiang faced the defense of the Celtic players on the side, and suddenly threw out a rainbow arc in a flash of inspiration, and the young player on the opposite side did not react at all, and I didn't expect Zhang Chaoqiang to pass in this way."

"The whole pass looks very smooth, like it's been rehearsed beforehand."

"But fans who are familiar with Zhang Chaoqiang know that he has never done a rainbow move in a game before."

"This is exactly the characteristic of Zhang Chaoqiang, he can always come up with unexpected tricks in the official arena, he is a real big heart player!"

After Zhang Chaoqiang's rainbow pass showed off an own goal, the first half of the game ended quickly.

The two teams played a standard offensive half-time game and returned to the locker room with a score of 3:3.

However, Pep Guardiola's face is not very good.

He was clearly unhappy with the content of the first half.