Chapter 725: Who's the Protagonist

'Targeted substitutions, Van Basten brought on Barry for Sergio Aguero, replaced an attacking player, replaced a defensive player, and Manchester City changed their formation. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Thiago, another talented La Masia and the best No.4 in the eyes of Barcelona B coach Enrique, is seen as Xavi's successor.

Having a triple nationality of Spain, Brazil and Italy, his father is Brazilian star Mazinho, a member of the Brazil team that won the 1994 World Cup in the United States, playing as a striker and playing for Bayern Munich and Inter Milan.

Thiago is arguably better than blue, and the Barcelona youngster has caught the attention of many of Europe's biggest clubs, especially after Barcelona signed Cesc Fabregas.

After all, the two positions are the same, although Thiago is talented, but there is still a certain gap with Fabregas, people have already proven themselves, his performance at Arsenal can be said to be world-class, otherwise Barcelona would not try their best to seduce him back.

As for his background, Cesc Fabregas is the La Masia 87 generation, and even in the xenophobic Barcelona, Fabregas is his own.

Back in the game, Barcelona kick-off, Xavi, Fabregas, Thiago, the configuration of the three can be called the strongest control of the midfield combination in Europe.

But Li Feng's return defense and Barry's debut are not vegetarians, especially Li Feng, Li Feng's talent is the same whether it is on the offensive end or the defensive end.

The battlefield was in midfield, Barcelona had the pride of Barcelona, and for ten minutes, the two sides were wrestling in midfield, until the time was about to enter stoppage time, and Barcelona moved the ball to the wing.

However, those 10 minutes were not wasted, at least they left City with a hint that they would be looking for opportunities in the middle.

So ~~~ When Xavi split the side with one foot and Alves cut in from the back high-speed, fortunately the Manchester City back line was focused enough, and Alves' cross was directly cleared by Kompany.

Not concentrating in the middle undoubtedly greatly increases the difficulty of defence, and Barcelona's two sides are also quite good, and the two full-backs are extremely capable of inserting assists.

In the 90th minute, this time it was the turn of the left side, and after the central three again attracted a large number of defenders, Thiago split the side to play the left side, Adriano cut in at high speed and was brought down by De Jong from the diagonal line, and Barcelona got a free kick opportunity.

Messi personally took the penalty, but Messi's free kick level is really not very good, of course, the position also has a lot to do with it, and the left side is far away from the goal, which is directly out of the bottom line.

Five minutes of stoppage time, when stoppage time came out, the Etihad Stadium was booed again, there is no doubt that in the second half, the referee completely became the protagonist, even if Li Feng scored twice, the limelight could not compare with the German referee not far away.

After two minutes of stoppage time, Xavi sent a through ball and Boateng made a mistake in a hurry, he actually wanted to steal Messi instead of choosing to entangle the ball king.

As a result, Messi broke through directly and smoothly entered the Manchester City penalty area, but God was on the side of Manchester City in this game, and Messi, who broke into the penalty area, shot directly into Kompany's leg and bounced to the right.

It still belonged to Barcelona, Pedro, and Barcelona appeared in the deadliest position, but Pedro's shot eventually hit the left post of Manchester City.

"Oh oh oh~~~ It's a shame that God abandoned Barcelona and chose to side with Manchester City in this game," the tone of the on-site commentator was full of schadenfreude.

However, God is not on Barcelona's side, but don't forget that on the pitch, the referee's function is more useful than God's, and in this game, the referee has always been on Barcelona's side.

In the last minute of stoppage time, the referee chose to step up again, and Barcelona's last wave of attacks, Messi once again faced the biggest opponent of the game, Boateng, on the line of the big penalty area.

The Plum King has confidence, so he wants to break through Boateng with the ball he controls, and the Manchester City centre-back is also confident, whether it is against Messi, Sanchez, Iniesta or Pedro, Boateng is almost perfect in defense.

Flowers under his feet, Messi's feints can indeed dazzle, although Boateng's prediction is not bad, but he is only a mortal after all.

Stopping, starting, changing direction, after a series of feints, Boateng finally surrendered, but just as Messi broke through, an undeserved foot suddenly appeared on the side of the ball.

"Wind ~~ Clearance ~~~ The game is over, Barcelona missed the last chance ~~~No~~~ The referee's whistle sounded, Messi fell in the penalty area of Manchester City ~~~ Penalty ~~~ Penalty ~~~ Penalty ~~~ Penalty kick ~~~ The German referee pointed to the penalty spot ~~ Barcelona won a penalty in the last minute of stoppage time."

"God~~~This~~ I can only say that God is on the side of Manchester City, and the referee chose Barcelona, penalty ~~~ If Barcelona finally scores, then even if they lose this game, Barcelona is completely acceptable."

When the referee made a penalty, Li Feng didn't say anything at all, he knew very well what the tackle he had just made was all about, so after glancing at the German coldly, Li Feng directly stopped his teammates who wanted to find the referee's theory.

Now Manchester City has a number of yellow cards, if one of them takes another one, it will really be more than worth the loss, in this consideration, Van Basten on the sidelines is too lazy to find a fourth official.

Now Van Basten has calmed down, this game is already like this, and the next thing he thinks about is already the second leg, Manchester City wants to advance, not only the players can't have accidents, but he can't have accidents himself.

Of course, Manchester City will never be counted like this, and after the game, the video of the game will definitely be sent to UEFA, and the German referee will definitely be pushed to the forefront and even criticized by many media.

Messi took the penalty himself, Joe Hart didn't pull off a miracle or even judged the right direction, and Argentina scored his fifteenth goal in the Champions League.

Maybe Messi knew that his goal was a bit disgraceful, so Messi himself didn't celebrate much, but simply hugged his teammates.

This is also the final score of this game, 2:1, the home team in front, the away team in the back, of course~~~ This game is not really over. (To be continued.) )