Chapter 167: Away against Barcelona
On October 19, in the third round of the Champions League group stage, the whole Manchester City team came to Catalonia to prepare to challenge Barcelona away.
Pep Guardiola played his old club again, and the 3G combination directly collided with MSN, which made the match between Manchester City and Barcelona attract attention.
On the afternoon before the Champions League match, Barcelona also organized the award ceremony for the European Golden Boot.
Suarez won the La Liga Golden Boot last season with 40 goals and also won the European Golden Boot.
This is the second time Suya has won the European Golden Boot since the 13/14 season, becoming only the fifth player in the 21st century to win the European Golden Boot at least twice.
The first four are Henry, Diego Forlan, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Messi.
Barcelona deliberately scheduled the award the day before the Champions League match, presumably to boost the team's morale.
Since the start of the new season, Barcelona have lost two games in La Liga.
The key is that they lost against not strong opponents, namely mid-table Celta Vigo and promoted Alaves.
This makes Barcelona not only behind Real Madrid Atletico Madrid in points, but even Sevilla are ranked ahead of Barcelona.
Therefore, Barcelona has not had a good start to the season.
Therefore, Barcelona are keen to beat Manchester City and get the team back on track.
At 7:45 p.m. local time in Spain, the strong battle between Manchester City and Barcelona officially arrived.
Although Zhang Chaoqiang has a record of playing against Barcelona and successfully defeated the opponent.
But that's on a neutral ground.
This is Zhang Chaoqiang's first visit to Camp Nou.
"At present, the strongest team in world football is still recognized as Huang Saren, although Zhang Chaoqiang scored their goal in the European competition last season, he has not scored in Huang Saren's home stadium......
Before the start of the game, the domestic commentator assigned Zhang Chaoqiang a new task.
Before leading the team to Lyon to kill Huang Saren, Zhang Chaoqiang scored goals.
However, the goal against Barcelona was at a neutral venue, and the goals against Real Madrid and Bayern Munich were at Lyon's home.
So Zhang Chaoqiang really hasn't scored a goal at Huang Saren's home stadium.
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"Zhang, long time no see."
"Long time no see, Sammy."
Before the start of the game, Zhang Chaoqiang and Barcelona's starting central defender Umtiti came to a cordial hug.
After all, they are old teammates who have worked together in Lyon for three seasons, and now they meet on the pitch, which is somewhat emotional.
The game officially began, and both teams did not hesitate too much and quickly plunged into the attack.
There is no doubt that this Manchester City vs Barcelona match will be a battle of attack.
In the 6th minute, Barcelona's first attack was defused, and Manchester City controlled the ball and advanced to the front.
David Silva took the ball and split the side, and Zhang Chaoqiang switched to the right side to receive the ball and start.
Accelerate the rush and then stop the ball.
With a simple and simple handling of the ball, Zhang Chaoqiang successfully shook off Alba, who was reluctant to follow, and cut inside into the Barcelona penalty area.
Since his technical awareness has risen to superstardom, Zhang's court feints have become more deceptive.
Before the Barcelona players could make up for the defense, Zhang Chaoqiang quickly got up and shot with his left foot.
The ball flew comfortably over Umtiti's head and straight to Barca's far post.
But Ter Stegen pounced and slapped the ball off the line with his palm.
"It's a shame that Manchester City threatened on the first attack, Zhang Chaoqiang went straight past Albaneche and hit the goal, but was rejected by Ter Stegen."
"Oh? What's going on? Alba seems to be injured? β
The Barcelona players were glad that the goal was not lost, but soon found that Alba, who had just been shaken, was still sitting on the ground, covering his thighs with his hands.
Apparently injured.
The Barcelona team doctor rushed into the field to check on the player's injury.
At this time, the TV broadcast also replayed the scene where Alba had just been killed.
"Zhang Chaoqiang accelerated on the side, and Alba desperately kept up without being thrown away."
"But Zhang Chaoqiang made an emergency stop to smash the ball, and Alba, who was chasing back at high speed, also forcibly twisted and stopped, as if he had strained his thigh."
"I have to say that Zhang Chaoqiang's court skills are becoming more and more delicate."
Less than 10 minutes into the game, Barcelona had to use up a substitution.
Barcelona's substitute left-back Digne came on to replace the injured Jordi Alba.
Speaking of which, Digne is still an old acquaintance of Zhang Chaoqiang's French Ligue 1.
Digne started playing for Grand Paris and was a promising left-back in Ligue 1.
However, in the clash with Lyon, Digne encountered Zhang Chaoqiang's strong overtaking on the outside road, which directly became the background board of the goal, and his personal upward momentum was also interrupted.
As a result, Digne spent a season on loan at Roma in Serie A last season, and moved to Barcelona this summer as a substitute left-back for the La Liga giants.
Now that he has come off the bench, Digne has to face Zhang Chaoqiang, an "old friend".
However, in the Manchester City team, Zhang Chaoqiang has switched to a left striker, and only switches to the right side when changing positions.
Barcelona had an injured player at the start and were forced to make substitutions, looking unlucky.
But soon they were balanced by luck.
In the 11th minute, Barcelona attacked from the right side.
Messi dribbled past Zabaleta and quickly played the ball to help Iniesta set the edge.
Andres Iniesta's inverted triangle pass down the flank didn't look much of a threat as there was Manchester City defender Fernandinho in the route.
The Brazilian only had to cut the ball off to defuse Barca's attack.
But this guy didn't know what was going on, and when he grabbed the interception, he actually fell down in embarrassment with garlic on the soles of his feet, and directly leaked the football.
Messi managed to get the football, did not hesitate to go straight to the goal, flicked the ball past Bravo, and easily pushed the empty goal.
The Camp Nou stadium immediately erupted in wild cheers.
"Well, it was Manchester City who conceded first."
"Fernandinho missed the ball and gave Messi a great chance."
"Although in the national team competition, Messi does not seem to have a good way to take Bravo, but in the club competition, Messi will not be soft-footed......"
The Chinese commentary is extremely regrettable.
Manchester City were in good form and forced the opposition to use up a substitution in the opening period.
But then he made a mistake and sent a goal first.
Manchester City and Barcelona are not only a battle of strength, but also a matter of group standings and who can win the group.
Now it's not very favourable to concede a goal first.
After conceding the goal, Manchester City quickly organized a counter-attack, intending to be tough head-on.
In the 15th minute, Zhang Chaoqiang broke through from the left side, passed Busquets and Mascherano in a row and then crossed the Barcelona penalty area, De Bruyne took the ball and pushed it to Aguero who was inserted forward.
Sergio Aguero received the ball on the right side of the box and volleyed it from a tight angle, which was a good chance, but he volleyed the ball into the side-netting.
I have to say that Ah Kun is really a bit soft in a hard battle.
Two minutes later, Barcelona launched a quick counter-attack, Neymar broke down the flank and crossed for Suarez to head high in front of goal.
On the court, the two teams played back and forth, living up to the name of a strong battle.
In the 23rd minute, Manchester City's midfielder broke the ball, and Sterling quickly advanced to the front with the ball on the right side and quickly crossed the ball.
Zhang Chaoqiang, who followed up in the middle, took the ball in front of the penalty area and rushed forward into the penalty area.
Pique, Umtiti, Mascherano, three Barcelona players quickly surrounded.
Zhang Chaoqiang was quickly rushing to the left front, seeing that all three of Barcelona were moving their feet to prepare for the bag, he decisively buckled with his left foot and stopped the ball.
Then he flicked his right foot forward horizontally, shaking off the nearest Umtiti in front of him.
Immediately swing your leg sideways and jerk your right foot hard.
The ball was like a cannon shot, sticking to the ground and flying straight to the bottom right corner of the Barcelona goal.
Ter Stegen once again showed the reaction of a top goalkeeper and immediately flew in and made his fingers touch on the ball.
But the ball with great power was only slightly changed direction, and it still flew into the Barcelona goal.
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"Super Zhang!! A beautiful volley and he helped Manchester City equalize!! β
"It was a simple and straightforward goal, Manchester City broke the ball and advanced quickly, Zhang took the ball into the penalty area, suddenly smashed the ball and changed direction when he was about to be trapped, shook the angle directly, and scored with a decisive volley."
"This is the individual ability of a superstar, Zhang proved to everyone with practical actions that he is one of the best strikers in world football, and can even compete with Cristiano Ronaldo Messi!!"
Manchester City's trident has gotten better and better since the combination, and it is natural that it has been compared to MSN and BBC.
And Zhang Chaoqiang, as the core of the trident, is also increasingly compared with Messi Ronaldo.
Some media even said that Zhang Chaoqiang can become the first person in football after Melo.
Of course, this title has been used by players such as Neymar, Bale, Griezmann and Eden Hazard.
In this regard, Zhang Chaoqiang is already on the same level as Neymar and others.
In other words, the existence of football is second only to Melo.
At the moment when Zhang Chaoqiang scored a goal, the domestic commentators were also cheering excitedly.
"Good shot!! Zhang Chaoqiang!! β
"One left and one right, two quick and flexible changes of direction, Zhang Chaoqiang directly created a good opportunity to hit the goal, and successfully poured the ball in!"
"Just over ten minutes before Messi's goal, Zhang Chaoqiang also hit back with a goal to help Manchester City equalize."
"Scoring a Barcelona goal away for the first time in his career, and scoring in three consecutive Champions League games, Zhang Chaoqiang is breaking one professional record after another!"
Although Zhang Chaoqiang scored 10 goals in the Champions League last season, he only scored in two consecutive games at most.
And this season, he has scored against Borussia Monchengladbach, Celtic and Barcelona in succession.
Zhang Chaoqiang has gained a new achievement.
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