Chapter 728: The Night of Promotion
This season, the situation in Manchester seems to be completely reversed, and in the past Manchester City, Manchester United fans have always been on the cheering side, while Manchester City fans have always been crushed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
But this season, it has always been Manchester United who have been pressed, and even when the league points are closest, Manchester City is still ahead of Manchester United, let alone the Champions League.
Although Manchester United reached the Champions League final last season, they only achieved Barcelona in the end, and this season's Manchester United was directly eliminated from the group stage, watching the younger brother in the same city go all the way to the semi-finals, and even suppressed Barcelona who beat them last year.
If Manchester City end up knocking Barcelona out, then Manchester United will definitely be the most depressed team of the season, even if they currently sit second in the league.
In the group stage, Manchester United capsized in the gutter at the last minute and were overtaken by Basel to finish third and had to report in the UEFA Cup.
Basel, who eliminated Manchester United, became Manchester City's opponent in the quarterfinals, and the result is needless to say, Manchester City won Basel bloodlessly, avenging the "revenge with one arrow" for the brothers in the same city.
Now that the semi-finals are the opponents of last season's Champions League final, you can imagine what kind of hatred Manchester United has for UEFA at the moment, regardless of whether Manchester City knocks out Barcelona or Barcelona knocks out Manchester City in the end.
With the end of the 35th round of the league, the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals officially kicked off, and the first two teams to appear were Manchester City and Barcelona.
Unlike Manchester City, which met in the league, Barcelona did not have a good time in the league, and in the same 35th round of the league, La Liga staged the derby of the century.
Barcelona is at the Camp Nou to welcome the life-and-death rival Real Madrid, and in La Liga, this season is still a two-man club, especially after the arrival of Mourinho.
Prior to this round of league games, the points difference between Real Madrid and Barcelona and Manchester City and Manchester United was the same, both with a four-point difference, but after this round of the league, the leaders have both extended their leads.
1:2, the home team in front, the away team in the back, Barcelona in the Camp Nou Real Madrid slashed, of course, this is not only Barcelona lost at their home stadium for Manchester City, but also because Barcelona played the main force in this game.
It can be said that since the first leg of the contest last week, Barcelona's main players have not rested, and after a hard battle with Manchester City, there is a life-and-death battle with Real Madrid.
Even two consecutive defeats, in the two strong encounters, the main team lost all of Barcelona, and even the score was exactly the same, two 1:2.
In fact, this game is completely a lose-lose game for both teams, after all, both teams have Champions League matches in midweek, and Real Madrid also lost 1-2 to Bayern Munich in their last match.
The situation faced by the two La Liga giants is almost identical, but back in the league, the two still have to fight to the death, and it is no wonder that the managers of both teams have stinky faces when facing the media.
In the face of the upcoming life-and-death battle, Barcelona made the first move, and the so-called Spanish media broke the news that Xavi should be injured in the game against Real Madrid, and will not appear in the second leg of the next match with Manchester City.
Spain made a move on the opposite side, and the English media naturally did not sit idly by, and then, there was information from Manchester City that Yaya Toure left the field injured in a confrontation and needed to report to the team doctor.
All kinds of psychological warfare have been in full swing, and all kinds of smoke bombs are constantly being distributed, as for whether the opponent will believe it, these are actually not important at all, everyone's main lineup is there, how to play or how to play.
Of course, after the first leg, the relationship between the two teams is also beginning to change, after all, the mortal enemy is slowly transforming from ordinary enemies.
Although Manchester City and Barcelona had basically no intersection before, this situation has completely changed since the last round, and Barcelona have added another bitter rival in the Premier League.
From Chelsea to Arsenal to Manchester United, Barcelona have made enemies with almost all the giants of the Premier League, or in other words, Barcelona is a sharp blade in the UEFA team, specially designed to fight against the strong rise of the Premier League.
"A score of 1:2 doesn't mean anything, and the next game is at Camp Nou, not Etihad" Barcelona's number one big-mouthed Pique was the first to provoke the fire.
"The score of 2:1 really doesn't mean anything, if it weren't for some reason, or 2:0 is more appropriate, as for the Camp Nou, oh~~~ If my memory is not a problem, in the just finished round of the league, Barcelona lost a 1:2 at Camp Nou.
"It was just an accident, there will inevitably be some accidents in the game, but in the next game, there will definitely be no more accidents, I believe that the last one to qualify must be our Barcelona, we are the defending champions, as for Manchester City? Who knew what Manchester City was before? How many people have heard that "Barcelona has more than one big mouth, and right-back Alves jumped out after him."
Alves is not just a big mouth, although this guy is strong, but he plays quite dirty, Silva should be deeply aware of this, after all, the last time he was against Alves, it was Silva.
"Barcelona? The defending champion? From the last meeting, I really can't see any defending champions, if it weren't for some factors, maybe ~~ we don't need to have a second leg of the contest at all" Chiguoguo's contempt, Alves despised Manchester City's history, and the Manchester City captain stood up and defied Barcelona's strength.
The media is happy that the media is constantly staging tongues and lip swords, because there is no need to worry about newspaper sales and material about the story these days.
Li Feng and Messi are naturally no exception, after all, at this time, no one flinched, Messi stood up and showed his determination, claiming that he would definitely lead Barcelona to the final again.
And Li Feng made almost the same remarks, but compared to Messi, Li Feng seemed much more decisive, and the sentence "going to Munich must be Manchester City" made half of Manchester fall into cheers.
Just after the two sides were almost talking, the time for the game was up, and Manchester City's "rising blue moon" slowly landed at Barcelona International Airport.
As Manchester City's players walked out of the VIP channel, the countdown to the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals officially began, and under the watchful eyes of hundreds of media, Manchester City players stepped on the team bus.
Whether Barcelona will defend their title or Manchester City will pull off a miracle and reach the Champions League final for the first time will all be revealed tonight. (To be continued.) )