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"Let's look at Basel's No.6" Van Basten turned to Kidd's ear as the referee blew the first half whistle.

A game can often change the fate of a player, and a goal to fame is always present on the football field, and Dragovic probably did not expect that his performance would usher in the opportunity to join Manchester City.

Of course, this is just an opportunity, whether he can really join Manchester City in the summer will also require him to conquer Van Basten with his performances and make Manchester City willing to take his former body.

Back in the dressing room, Van Basten glanced at each player and said: "Basel's No.6 did a good job, but that wasn't a reason to stop us from scoring, you were slack in the first half. ”

"If that's how you look at the knockout rounds of the Champions League, then I tell you, you don't want to touch that trophy for the rest of your life," Van Basten said at the end.

Basel are the weakest of the 16 teams in the knockout rounds, and this is their first time in the knockout stages of the Champions League, although Manchester City are back in the Champions League after half a century, but Manchester City have been placed in the Super Death Group.

Therefore, Manchester City's experience in the group stage is not even more cruel than the knockout round, a careless, that waiting is out of the group, it can be said that Manchester City experienced the cruelty of the knockout stage in advance, which is a valuable asset for Manchester City, which has only returned to Europe after half a century.

But at the same time, it also instilled a sense of pride among the Manchester City players, after all, they had made it through such a horrible group of death, and they were unbeaten in the group, and the opponent in the round of 16 was the weakest of the 16 teams.

To put it bluntly, Manchester City is still a relatively young team, the oldest is only Barry sitting on the bench, who is only 31 years old, and the oldest player on the field is Yaya Toure, who is only 28 years old.

So they need to be beaten constantly, but this degree needs to be grasped well, otherwise it is easy to arouse the disgust of the players, but for now, Van Basten has done a very good job, after all, Van Basten was also a player, and in the field of players, he has stood at the top.

However, at the beginning of the second half, it was Basel who took the lead in the attack, and Shaqiri's wonderful breakthrough made Richards as the background board for the Basel youngsters.

At the start of the season, Richards used anyone standing in front of him as his backdrop, but now, the two roles are somewhat reversed, but even so, Richards is still an excellent full-back.

The defenders weren't attacking players, and Richards did a good job in the game, at the very least, Shaqiri wasn't as active in the first half as he used to be.

Streeler, the Basel captain jumped high in the box, Kompany followed, it was a muscle-to-muscle clash of muscles, it was a pure power battle, and the two sides ended in a draw.

Kompany didn't completely stop Streller's header, but under his defense, Streller's header didn't hit the power at all and was easily won by Joe Hart.

City counter-attacked, Joe Hart sent the ball to the feet of Li Feng, who did not look up and sent it forward, Aguero unloaded the ball and smashed past Park Joo-ho and rushed to the Basel penalty area.

Seeing this, Dragovich immediately stepped forward to block, and Park Joo-ho also followed closely behind, attacking back and forth, but in the end, it was South Korean national Park Joo-ho who caused humiliation.

Aguero didn't turn around at all, his heel slammed lightly, and the ball passed through his small door with unmistakable accuracy, and came to the feet of Richards, who was inserted from behind.

Long shot, Richards picked up his foot and shot, but unfortunately the ball did not let the ball rush to the goal, but the goal that deviated, and Richards' long-range shot needs to be strengthened.

Controversy erupted again shortly after City's attack, and in the 52nd minute, Basel equalised the score in a wave of attacks.

Xhaka was intercepted by Li Feng with the ball in the middle and crossed the half, seeing that he was never able to break through Li Feng, and even almost cut off the ball by Li Feng, Xhaka decisively passed back to the veteran Hugel behind him.

Hugel glanced up, a long ball with a big foot, the ball flew across the half, and came to the outside of the Manchester City penalty area, Strehler had already withdrawn from the Manchester City penalty area, and a header was crossed.

In the penalty area, only Boateng and old Frei remained, but at the moment when Streller's header was ferried, Boateng took a step forward very cleverly and made an offside position, but the linesman did not raise the flag.

"Offside~~~" Boateng immediately shouted, and his own people did not stop, but at this moment, the two of them had completely pulled out of position, and even if Boateng reacted quickly, it was useless.

"GOAL~~~ The goal was scored~~~ Basel, Basel tied the score, unbelievable, the goal was actually Basel, in the face of Joe Hart, the veteran Frei calmly pushed and helped Basel tie the score."

However, Basel did not celebrate, because Boateng was very excited to find the referee: "First, it was an offside position, and at the moment when the opponent passed the ball, the guy who scored the goal was in an offside position. ”

The referee, of course, would not believe Boateng's words, but shifted his gaze to the linesman, who shook his head and signaled that the old Frei was not offside.

"No way, it's an offside position, I'll guarantee you" Boateng clearly did not accept the touchline's judgment and while the City players were arguing with the referee, the camera was already replaying the goal in slow motion.

"This ~~~ is indeed a misjudgment, at the moment of Streller's pass, Boateng's forward movement did cause Frei's offside, but this offside is not obvious, if you don't use slow motion to watch, the referee may indeed misjudge" This is a common opinion.

But at this moment, Boateng was extremely aggrieved, there is no doubt that this was a successful offside, but it forced his team into trouble.

Last season, Boateng had a very bad time at Manchester City, Mancini's distrust, coupled with constant injuries, so that he did not play much throughout the season, Boateng knew very well that Mancini bought Savic to replace him.

Boateng himself is ready to leave, and there are teams that like him, that is, the team that Li Feng was in before, the Bundesliga hegemon Bayern Munich.

However, things turned a little too much for Boateng, and Roberto Mancini, who had led the team well, was eventually sacked and Van Basten stepped in.

Then his own fate changed, and Van Basten approached him and gave him a choice, whether to leave in disgrace or stay to prove himself.

As a result, it was clear that Boateng chose to stay and prove himself, and he was soon given his chance, as he was rotated by Van Basten after a low-level mistake by Lescott.

Boateng seized the opportunity to replace Lescott as City's starter, and as the season wore on, his combination with Vincent Kompany gradually gained recognition from the media and fans. (To be continued.) )