On the night after the Champions League group draw ceremony, the UEFA Super Cup was played at the Stade Louis II in Monaco.

Last season's Champions League winners Barcelona take on last season's UEFA Cup winners Shakhtar Donetsk.

It was supposed to be a no-brainer game, with everyone overwhelmingly favouring Barcelona before the game and no one believing Shakhtar Donetsk could win.

The Barcelona players probably think the same way, so when the game starts, they don't get excited, they get into the game very slowly, they play carelessly.

When they found out that the Donetsk Shakhtar team was not easy to deal with, they were already a little panicked when they wanted to accelerate.

Their offense became somewhat disorganized.

As a result, they failed to break the back of the net against Shakhtar Donetsk, who defended at full strength, in 90 minutes of official play.

The weak Ukrainian team, who were not favored before the game, dragged the game into extra time!

It's a situation that no one thought about before the game.

Barcelona didn't expect that a European Super Cup that would go through the motions would go to extra time!

They thought the UEFA Super Cup was just a celebration for them to celebrate the best trophies they won at yesterday's Champions League ceremony.

They weren't ready to play any overtime.

So when extra-time started, Barcelona was still playing painfully, and the players' fitness began to have problems.

However, Shakhtar Donetsk still played vigorously after the game went into extra time, and seemed to see the hope of winning.

In their plan, the game was to drag the game directly to the penalty shootout. In the penalty shoot-out, Barcelona's strong overall strength will be compressed in compression, their possession advantage will be lost, and the final competition is the ability and mentality of individual players.

And in this regard, Shakhtar Donetsk believes that they are no worse than Barcelona, especially in mentality.

In terms of penalties, Shakhtar Donetsk also carried out targeted training, and the goalkeeper also carefully studied the characteristics of each Barcelona penalty taker with the help of the coaching staff, and he knew which side they were used to throwing.

All the preparation was to beat Barcelona on penalties.

At the end of the first half of extra time, Barcelona still failed to score, and the score was still 0:0.

In the second half of extra time, the two sides changed sides and fought again, and the atmosphere at the scene was already a little solemn, and most of the elated Barcelona fans who were singing and dancing before were silent at this time.

As the live TV camera swept over the stands, many fans wearing Barcelona jerseys could be seen covering their mouths with their hands in their mouths, their eyes wide and staring nervously at the stadium.

And Shakhtar Donetsk fans kept cheering, applauding every successful defense of Shakhtar Donetsk.

The commentators are no longer touting the achievements of Barcelona's players over the past season, as they did in the first half.

Some of them even began to refuel the Donetsk miners.

Others were much more silent, not talking as much as before.

Apparently also worried about the fate of Barcelona.

But just when everyone thought Shakhtar Donetsk were going to successfully drag the game into a penalty shootout, Barcelona's talented striker Pedro had a flash of inspiration and scored the winning goal for his team!

When he scored, the entire Stadio Louis II was in a state of flux, and the previously silent Barcelona fans jumped up from their seats, raising their arms and chanting.

And Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola also rushed out of the dugout excitedly, waving his fists vigorously and screaming to the sky - he can finally breathe a sigh of relief......

In the end, Barcelona defeated Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 in the UEFA Super Cup with Pedro's goal.

They claimed their fifth title of the year, following the Copa del Rey, La Liga, Champions League and Spanish Super Cup. Now there is only one Club World Cup left in front of them.

If they can lift the Club World Cup at the end of the year, they will become the first team in European football to win all the "six crowns" in one year!

This will be a great feat that has never been done before!

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The next day, the whole of Europe was not discussing the results of the Champions League grouping, they were discussing the UEFA Super Cup, discussing Barcelona's five titles, and the dream of a six-time champion.

Similarly, in the Manchester City dressing room, there was talk of the game.

It was the final 10 minutes before the away game against Portsmouth, and when Benitez left the dressing room, Glory stood up and spoke to his team-mates about the game.

"How many people watched yesterday's UEFA Super Cup?" He asked.

Some raised their hands, others didn't.

But overall, there were quite a few people who watched the game.

Because the Manchester City players stayed in a hotel in Portsmouth last night, they didn't want to be so free in their own homes, so many people were watching the game while they were bored.

"Good." Glory nodded. "How many people before the game felt that Shakhtar Donetsk would drag this game to extra time? What I saw was that the media all over Europe were saying that Barcelona were about to win their fifth title, and there was no thought that Shakhtar Donetsk could win. But the process of the game was something that a lot of people didn't expect, and I think this game showed us a good way to see how many people didn't like us before the game, and it really didn't make any sense at all. No one fancied Shakhtar Donetsque before the game, but that didn't stop them from making Barcelona so wolfy. ”

As he spoke, Robinho raised his hand: "But Rong, it was Barcelona who won in the end, Shakhtar Donetsk was very tenacious, but they still lost the game, their efforts are a joke in the eyes of this result......"

Hearing Robinho say this, everyone's eyes were also on glory.

That's right, the whole world is not optimistic about Shakhtar Donetsk winning, the final result is that Shakhtar Donetsk really didn't win, no matter how tenacious they are in the game, but competitive sports depends on the result, the result is not won, no matter how good you played before, it doesn't matter.

Robinho asked the question on many people's minds.

How does Rong answer this question in everyone's mind?

"That's because Shakhtar Donetsk isn't strong enough. They could beat Barcelona in the game if they were a little stronger. And we are different, we are strong, we are much stronger than Shakhtar Donetsk. Glory said. I have always disagreed with the media about the overall strength of Manchester City, Manchester City is not my team alone, Manchester City and you, you are also strong, so we add up stronger, we are a strong team. Otherwise we wouldn't have finished top of the league and beaten Manchester United to win the FA Cup and Community Shield. Why can we? Because we're strong. ”

Speaking of which, Rongguang remembered the old German coach of the former national youth team, Krauchen.

It was when he was at the World Youth Championships that he repeatedly told the Chinese national youth team, which had little confidence at the time, that they were very strong. In the end, the national youth team defeated Argentina and won the first international championship in the history of Chinese men's football.

And now, what he said is exactly the same as what Crawford said back then......

'So, we're really strong, we can beat Bayern Munich, we can beat Real Madrid. We will end up being different from Shakhtar Donetsk. Or do you all feel like you're weak? ”

Rong Guang finally asked rhetorically.

This rhetorical question caused many players to protest: "We don't think so, Rong!" ”

"That's it! Who is weak? I'm not weak! ”

"Damn, Rong is right, we are clearly a strong team! Almost got scammed by those damn media! ”

"! I can't wait to play in the Champions League! I'm going to prove it to those damned journalists, we're strong! ”

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Benitez took his ear off the door and then spoke to assistant coaches Mauricio Pellegrino and Mark Bowen, who were also eavesdropping on the door.

"It's amazing."

He admired from the bottom of his heart.

"When I chose him as the captain, I didn't expect him to do so well......"

"Rafa, I don't think we should let down these players and honor. Real Madrid and Bayern Munich may be strong, but we are also strong and we should try to get out of this group. If we have to think of this season as a season of experience, then we should not only have experience in the group stage, but also in the knockout rounds. His assistant Mauricio Pellegrino said.

"Yes, Rong is right, we are also strong."

Mark Bowen, another assistant coach next to him, said.

Listening to the words of the two assistants, Benitez rubbed his chin and nodded.

When he first saw the draw results, he did not dare to hold out much hope for Manchester City's Champions League performance this season.

But now he's ashamed because he's not as brave as his players.

He, the coach, almost raised his hand and surrendered...... If it weren't for the words of Glory......

"Real Madrid and Bayern Munich are really not as strong as they seem...... "Benitez said after making his decision. Real Madrid has changed a lot of players this season, and the team is still in the run-in period. Bayern Munich has never found the real core after losing its glory, Ribery works hard, but don't you find that the better his personal table is, the worse Bayern Munich's team table is? So if we do fight them, we won't necessarily win. ”

The two assistant coaches glanced at each other, and when they heard Benitez say this, they were sure that Benitez was really determined to fight with Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.

If Manchester City make it out of this group, who will be knocked out of Real Madrid or Bayern Munich?

It's really exciting......