June 7, Olympic Stadium in Berlin.

Two years ago, Lin Quan won the German Cup here with his teammates from Werder Bremen.

After two years, I came back to this venue again, but it had a completely different feeling.

"Time flies!"

During the pre-match warm-up, De Bruyne folded his hands on his hips and looked around the pitch, which was almost half occupied, and sighed.

"Well, yes!"

Lin Quan nodded, two years ago he and De Bruyne were nobodies, and they were only competing in the German Cup.

But now, both of them are top stars, and Lin Quan is even the hottest in football, and even has the opportunity to become the number one.

Compared with two years ago, the status of the two is no longer the same.

Time flies, but what remains unchanged is people's hearts.

Lin Quan saw a group of lovely people in the stands, a group of Werder Bremen fans.

They wore the green jerseys of the Parrots, with most of the numbers being the number 10 worn by Lin Quan in Werder Bremen and the number 6 of Kevin De Bruyne.

Between a patch of blue and reddish-blue, this touch of green stands out.

There are not many of them, only about two or three hundred, but their appearance still moved Lin Quan and De Bruyne very much.

"Dad, Dad, Brother Lin Quan, he saw us!"

In the stands, 12-year-old Greney waved his arms excitedly and shouted.

Next to Greeney sat Mr. William and Miss Anna, along with his sister Angel.

When Lin Quan was on loan at Werder Bremen, he had boarded with them for a year.

"Quick, quick, put out the banner we made in advance!"

Seeing that Lin Quan noticed them, under the command of Mr. William, several people hurriedly unfurled a banner - Werder Bremen will always be your home!

Seeing this warm banner, Lin Quan and De Bruyne were both very moved.

Lin Quan's heart moved, and he ran to the sidelines to find a signed pen and a soccer ball, and wrote his name on the soccer ball.

The audience at the scene was very curious when they saw his move:

The game hasn't started yet, is Lin Quan going to give autographed footballs to the fans?

Who is so lucky to have the opportunity to get an autographed soccer ball from Lin Huang?

Lin Quan's actions not only attracted the attention of the fans at the scene, but even the camera firmly locked the lens on Lin Quan.

Even the photographer was curious, what the hell is this guy going to do?

After Lin Quan signed his name, after the handwriting was dry, he put the ball on the lawn near the stands, looked up at the area where Werder Bremen fans were sitting, and took a few steps back.

The runner kicked the ball into the stands and landed precisely in the area where the Werder Bremen fans were.

Greeni saw a black shadow flying towards him, subconsciously stretched out his hands, and the football fell into his hands lightly.

The landing point of the football is extremely accurate, and the strength is just right, so that fans who see this kick can't help but applaud.

Mr. William was also shocked in his heart, he didn't expect that he hadn't seen Lin Quan's footwork and control of strength for two years.

When the football flew at his son just now, he was still worried that he would smash and hurt people, which seemed completely redundant!

……

In the other half, the Barcelona crowd was also warming up.

After Messi finished a set of training, he couldn't help but look back at the other half, searching for Lin Quan's figure in the crowd.

When he saw Lin Quan's move, his heart was shocked:

This guy, has the footwork reached this level of horror?

Lin Quan felt the gaze coming from behind him, turned around instantly, and looked at Messi in the air.

He stretched out his right hand and made a fist cheering motion, signaling for Messi to show his best state in this game, and the two had a good fight!

Messi looked full of confidence, nodded heavily, and replied to Lin Quan with the same action!

Both men are confident of winning the title, but there is only one champion.

After this game, one person is destined to be disappointed!

……

At 18 o'clock, with the referee's whistle, the game officially began.

The referee of this match is Güneit Chakir from Turkey.

This man has been involved in a number of controversial decisions in favour of Real Madrid in the match between Manchester United and Real Madrid, which caused an outcry from Manchester United after the game.

Having such a referee to officiate the game made Manchester City and Barcelona very worried.

Manchester City fear that Chakir will favour La Liga teams, while Barcelona fear that this man is a supporter of Real Madrid and will blow their black whistle.

However, soon after the start of the game, the doubts in the hearts of the Barcelona people were completely dispelled.

In the fourth minute of the game, Barcelona launched an attack, and Rakitic scored in an offside position when he received the ball.

However, instead of a foul, the linesman and referee decided that the goal was a valid goal.

This penalty immediately made the Manchester City players on the field unhappy.

They rushed up to surround the referee and ask him for an explanation.

The goal was obviously offside, and neither the linesman nor the referee said that they were blind?

"Hey, Mr. referee, it's an offside goal, you can watch the replay on the big screen!"

Lin Quan pointed to the big screen above the stadium and said to Chakir.

The slow-motion replay on the big screen was replaying the goal just now, and it was clear from the slow-motion replay that it was an offside goal.

However, even with the ironclad evidence, Chakir still refused to change the decision and still believed that the goal was valid.

Even in order to assert his authority, he showed a yellow card to Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany, who was involved in the siege.

Kompany clenched his fists angrily and tried to punch the girl, but fortunately he was stopped by a few teammates.

"Captain, calm down, we're down now, if you get sent off again, we won't have to play this game!"

Lin Quan was also angry in his heart, but he forced himself to calm down.

At this time, you can't let emotions blind your mind, you can still play one goal behind, but if there is one less person, it will really be completely hopeless.

On the sidelines, Guardiola angrily protested to the fourth official for a long time, but the fourth official just replied indifferently, 'If you have a problem, you can report the situation to UEFA'.

Pep Guardiola vomited blood angrily, but he did not continue to pester the fourth official.

The referee's decision to punish the fourth official is obviously impossible to change, but the result is too bad for Manchester City.

Facing Barcelona, which is in full swing this season, they fell behind by one goal at the beginning of the game, and the central defender also received a yellow card.

It's a hellish start!

Originally, they had a lot of tactical options, but now that they are behind, Manchester City have no choice but to attack.

This is very different from playing against Bayern at the Allianz Arena.

The reason why they dared to play against Bayern at the Allianz Arena was because they had two goal difference in their hands and would have a better psychological advantage.

Second, they are away from home, and the more goals they score away from home, the better it will be for them.

But now it's a completely different situation, it's the Champions League final, it's a winner, there's no home or away.

They chose to play against their opponents at this time because they were already behind in the scoreline, and on a psychological level, Manchester City were already at a disadvantage.

Thinking of this, Guardiola was furious and couldn't wait to greet the referee's family.

On Barcelona's side, the unexpected lead at the beginning gave Barcelona players and fans a reassurance.

Although many Barcelona players and fans saw it, it was an offside goal.

However, the referee agreed that the goal was valid, and they naturally accepted the unexpected surprise with peace of mind.

"Hehe, Manchester City is nothing more than that, they didn't even last four minutes!"

Some Barcelona fans even got cheap and sold well, and began to mock Manchester City.

If you put aside the fact that the offside misjudgment is aside, it is indeed a shame to concede a goal in just four minutes.

Those who can reach the Champions League final naturally have no weak teams.

When everyone is a top team, it is indeed a bit unreasonable to be so easily attacked by the opponent to break through their own goal.

"I think Manchester City's defense is like this, and the number of goals scored by Barcelona in this game will not be less than three!"

Barcelona fans look very optimistic about the power of the MSN combination, which they have seen again and again in the league and the Champions League.

With such a perfect start, the mentality of the whole Barcelona team will be very relaxed, and their performance will get better and better.

As long as they give full play to their strength, Barcelona fans believe that no one in this world can stop them!

Seeing that the team had scored, Enrique did not get up from his seat, but just applauded lightly, showing the grandmaster style.

For this game, he took great pains to prepare for a long time.

Unlike Barcelona under Martino, Enrique was very clear before the game about the importance of Messi to the team.

Of course, he also knows that the opponent will also guard Messi tightly.

So, in this game, he gave up the right side and let Messi play the left side instead.

This move really surprised the opponent, and the goal of Barcelona just now was initiated by Messi on the left side.

Although due to injuries, Messi's explosiveness has decreased, and his breakthrough ability has declined a little compared to his peak.

However, on this planet, he is still the top group of breakthrough players, and there are only a handful of people who can reach his level.

Due to Messi's huge threat ability, as soon as he starts, there are two or three people on the opposite side to flank him.

This has a lot to do with Manchester City's formation, so that Manchester City's troops in the middle have been taken away a lot, and the space for Rakitic, Iniesta and others to move has increased, making Barcelona's attacking threat in the middle increase sharply.

Everyone knows that MSN is the trident of our Barcelona, and it is invincible to destroy the city.

But if I focus on the midfielders who come in from behind, how do you deal with that?

Thinking of this, Enrique looked expectantly at Guardiola on the other side.

He's curious to see how Pep Guardiola responds to his moves.

Pep Guardiola only watched for a few minutes before he understood his opponent's intentions.

However, he didn't make much changes to the team's formation, just called Kante in and told him in his ear.

When Messi was playing under him, the area of activity was on the right side.

The side of Manchester City is the left wing, and at this time, Enrique changed Messi to the left side, corresponding to the right side of Manchester City.

And the right side of Manchester City happens to be the area where Lin Quan often moves.

In other words, Enrique is using the tactics of the con against Manchester City.

I have to say that this trick is very clever.

Because after Barcelona removed Messi, the overall strength of the remaining players was half a grade stronger than Manchester City.

Especially since they have the likes of Andres Iniesta, Suarez and Neymar in their squad.

Even without Messi, these people have the ability to influence the tide of the game.

Therefore, exchanging money with Manchester City is a sure win for Barcelona.

However, Guardiola doesn't think so.

Before he coached Lin Quan in person, he may be very worried about whether Lin Quan and Messi will be beaten by Messi if they encounter each other directly on the field, after all, he knows better than anyone how terrifying Messi's strength is.

But after half a season in charge of Lin, Guardiola realised that his concerns were unfounded.

The current Lin Quan can be said to have reached or even surpassed the strength of Messi at his peak.

Let him and Messi exchange money, it is not necessarily Manchester City who loses!

Moreover, Lin Quan is different from Messi, although Messi's left and right feet are very balanced, they are not without backfoot.

His inward cut is a backfoot inward cut, and on the left side, the foot that touches the ball is limited to the outside, so the threat of Messi's inward cut is greatly reduced, and the threat of passing the ball increases.

Therefore, Enrique put Messi on the left wing, sacrificing Messi's threat to the goal and increasing his role in the front field, especially on the left side.

Barcelona has Neymar on the left winger and Alba at left wing-back.

Both of them have strong offensive ability, and they also have a very tacit understanding with Messi.

Messi joins the left flank and can deliver a lot of shells to the two, amplifying the threat of the two.

In this way, it can play the role of one plus one is greater than two, further improve Barcelona's attacking threat on the left side, completely break down Manchester City's right side, and minimize Lin Quan's threat.

Enrique's abacus is very good, however, the direction of the plot seems to be different from Enrique's imagination.

In the 11th minute of the game, Barcelona Messi came to the left side again to try to replicate the previous attack.

However, Manchester City has long been on guard against their routines, and as soon as Messi was in place, De Bruyne, Lin Quan, Kante and others rushed over and formed a semi-encirclement net for Messi.

Messi just glanced at it and didn't really care.

He has debuted for many years, and he has been caught by opponents on the field more times than he can count.

Of the three opponents, except for N'Golo Kante, who is a defensive stalwart and needs to be vigilant, the remaining two are offensive players and are not very strong defensively.

I saw him carry the ball slowly, and after De Bruyne approached, he suddenly had a heavy shoulder, and after De Bruyne stretched out his foot, he quickly wiped the opponent, suddenly picked up, and rushed forward along the side.

This is Messi's most proud move, the change of rhythm between stillness and movement can catch the vast majority of defenders off guard.

This time, however, Messi made a mistake.

(End of chapter)