Chapter 1039 - The Only One Who Can Be An Opponent With Messi
The tone of the game was set after Glory scored three goals at two minutes and forty-eight seconds.
The rest of the game, as Glory had hoped, turned into meaningless garbage time.
Burnley's players don't have the fighting spirit and heart to play the game, and the Manchester City players are happy to play as they please, and sometimes they won't fight Burnley if the opportunity is not too good.
But even so, City's goals didn't stop completely.
It's like inertia, the faster a car is, the greater the inertia, and the harder it is to brake.
Even if Manchester City are no longer ready to chase Burnley, even if the game goes into garbage time, the inertia caused by the three goals of glory in less than three minutes is still very large.
In the twentieth minute, Sturridge received a cross from Martin Petrov and scrambled down the middle to score the fourth goal of the game for Manchester City.
Then in the 44th minute, a minute before the end of the first half, Martin Petrov scored a goal of his own, the fifth goal of the game for Manchester City, and Petrov had two assists and a goal in the first half. If it weren't for the glorious hat-trick, he could have been voted Man of the Match.
But now...... He can only give up the best honor to glory.
I believe that he will definitely not have any opinions......
At the end of the first half, the televised show showed the latest score of the game so far. At 0:5, Manchester City led Burnley by five goals on the road.
Seeing this scene, John Mortensen couldn't help but complain: "If the audience sees this score, don't think that this is the score of the whole game, in fact, it is only the end of the first half!" There are still 45 minutes left in the game! Poor Burnley......"
Even after a fifteen-minute half-time break, the inertia had not completely disappeared, so in the 58th minute, centre-back Vincent Kompany scored the sixth goal for City with his head from a corner.
The inertia was completely gone, and City did not score again in the subsequent games, so it was clear that all eyes were on next week's Champions League game.
Burnley, on the other hand, seem to find it too ugly to be shaved on their home turf.
So they scored a face-saving goal in the 72nd minute by Stephen Fletcher.
But at that time, Manchester City's side didn't care about conceding one or two goals or anything.
In the end, Manchester City beat Burnley 6-1 away and are still four points clear of Chelsea with five league games remaining.
It was thought that when Manchester City drew Barcelona in the draw, their table in the league would definitely be affected.
As a result, before the match against Barcelona, Manchester City's table xiàn a qiē normal.
Well, at this time, everyone thinks that after Manchester City and Barcelona match, there will definitely be problems.
The result?
Manchester City played Barcelona 3-1 and then Burnley away 6-1 in the league.
I can't see that this kind of table is abnormal......
Now, if Chelsea are to win the title, their only last hope is in the second leg between Manchester City and Barcelona.
If Manchester City lose the second leg to Barcelona and are eliminated from the Champions League, it could affect their form in the league.
Especially if they won 3:1 in the first leg and were eliminated in the second leg......
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After the game against Burnley, Benitez did not let the players rest, and it is normal to rest for at least half a day after winning the game, but this time, on the morning of the second day after the game, Benitez assembled the team.
They're going to Barcelona to prepare for the second leg.
Anyway, the main players all got enough rest in yesterday's game, although Rongguang did not rest, but this person does not need to rest.
The whole team departed from Manchester and flew to Barcelona.
For this game, Mansour, the owner behind the Manchester club and Glory's number one brain-dead fan, has provided his own private jet to make the Manchester City players more comfortable on the road, so that they can also stay in better shape when playing away games.
Manchester City's excellent performance against Barcelona in the first leg made Mansour happy, and he did not hesitate to spend money in order for Manchester City to eliminate the defending champions...... No, that's not right, for other clubs, it may be "sparingly expensive", but for Manchester City, it's just a gesture......
With Mansour's financial resources, there is more than one private jet, and it is not a big deal to pay a price for Manchester City to make a special plane.
For Mansour, it's a drop in the bucket.
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After arriving in Barcelona, the Manchester City squad stayed in a five-star hotel and borrowed the Espanyol's training base for training.
The Spaniards, Barcelona's city rivals, are naturally happy to lend their training base to their Barcelona rivals and let them train in order to beat Barcelona in the Champions League.
But if there are two teams in a city, there is basically such a situation.
Manchester City have also lent their training ground to other teams to prepare for Champions League games against Manchester United, and Manchester United have also lent their training ground to Manchester City's opponents. It's just that Manchester City used to have a lot more times than Manchester United, because Manchester United used to participate in the Champions League every year, Manchester City didn't have any such opportunities, of course they would often lend their training base, and Manchester United didn't need it.
The Spaniards started with an absolute disadvantage in the city of Barcelona, both in terms of the number of fans and the strength of the city.
However, their training base is still good, the facilities they should have are complete, they are all there, and they are not old.
Manchester City train here and attract a lot of Espanyol fans.
They are mainly there to see the glory.
Barcelona have Messi, but they are fans of Espanyol, so naturally it is impossible to cheer for Messi.
These people chose to cheer for glory.
Glory is also a star who is not inferior to Messi at all.
As a result, Rongguang was able to train every day by many fans wearing Espanyol jerseys to ask for autographs.
Some Espanyol players joked in interviews with reporters that they were very jealous of Glory because they snatched away their fans as soon as Glory came.
Of course, this is all a joke, because there are even Espanyol players who run to take a photo with Rongguang, and then they post a photo of themselves with Rongguang on their social networks, with the caption "This is the strongest man in football today".
The admiration and worship of glory can be seen.
Of course, the Spanish media can also get up close and personal with Glory and find out why Glory is so powerful......
Then they found that Rongguang's training was so hard that he was simply jaw-dropping—he never stopped in the training base except for the necessary rest periods.
Such an attitude of training is completely unimaginable to the casual Spaniards - how can one work so hard?
And...... With Rongguang's strength and status, why did he train so hard?
There's really no reason for that......
Many people think that if they have such a status as glory, it is good to just maintain their condition, but does it take such a large amount of training to maintain their condition?
The Spaniards were puzzled.
However, judging from the expressions of the Manchester City players and coaches, they are completely accustomed to it.
So in the past few days, the media in Spain, especially in Barcelona, have been full of reports on Glory, among which Glory trains very hard and has become the focus of Barcelona media reports.
For Manchester City, Barcelona's media still have a sense of superiority, feeling that although we lost away, we still have a chance to turn the tables at home, and there is no small hope.
But for Glory, the Barcelona media has always been very appreciative, when Glory was coming to Barcelona, the Barcelona media were quite excited, thinking that the trident of Glory, Ronaldinho and Messi was simply wonderful.
Now, the Barcelona media also believe that only glory is the opponent who can fight with Messi, the Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid, they look down on it.
Because Cristiano Ronaldo's personality is too jumpy, the glory is much more low-key, which is somewhat similar to Messi.
Since the Barcelona media appreciates Messi's character, it is natural that they will also appreciate the glorious character.
In addition, everyone knows that Rongguang has a good relationship with Messi, and he also has a good relationship with Iniesta, Xavi and others.
So whatever, the media in Barcelona will not be in black glory.
Even if Rongguang scored two goals for Barcelona in the last game, Barcelona's media only praised Rongguang, believing that Rongguang was a good opponent of Messi.
Or even "the only opponent" - this is from a recent report in the newspaper Le Monde Sport, which is mainly about glory.
Influenced by the media, there are also admirers of Glory among Barcelona fans, and even fans wearing Barcelona jerseys come to Espanyol Club's training base to watch Glory training, just want to see this "only person who can be an opponent with Messi" up close.
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"The only one who can be an opponent of Messi?" Ibrahimovic put the World Sports newspaper aside in his hand and snorted.
"The media in Barcelona is really getting more and more shameless, and they are too much to praise Messi when they say that." After humming, he said to his wife, Helena, who was doing it across from him.
Helena smiled and said to Ibrahimovic: "You should know that journalists are always like this. She understands her husband's current pressure.
After losing the first leg, some media blamed her husband for the loss, believing that Ibrahimovic was too lonely in the game and did not cooperate with Messi, and he chose to shoot the few chances on goal, if he finally passed the ball to Messi, Barcelona could not lose in the end. There are even media outlets that say that if Barcelona don't succeed in defending their title in the end, it must be Ibrahimovic's fault.
Helena couldn't accept this accusation from the media. She has spoken out on social media outlets to criticize media outlets and people who hold such views.
"Some people are always in the habit of rushing to find a responsible person after a failure, as if the failure has nothing to do with them. Unfortunately, that won't change the outcome of their failure. ”
Helena and her husband are of the same mind, and if her husband can't stand the city and this team, then she certainly can't stand it either. She's not afraid of offending people.
She believes that her husband, as a central striker, has a natural right to pick up the ball in the box and choose to shoot, otherwise Barcelona would not let him play, or let him play as a central striker.
If you let him play as a center forward, why not allow him to shoot on his own? Why do you have to pass football to Messi?
She believes that her husband has done nothing wrong.
"I'm not surrendering early, dear. I'm going to give it my all the day after tomorrow. But I think when the time comes, these shameless media will find out how wrong they are. Ibrahimovic pouted.
Because of Messi, Ibrahimovic is now gradually leaning towards glory emotionally.
If he had to choose one of those he supported, Ibrahimovic would choose Glory, and he wanted Glory to win more than Messi to win. Because he couldn't accept the ugly face of the Barcelona media kneeling and licking if Messi won.
If Ibrahimovic had some illusions about his results at Barcelona before his last Champions League game, he has lost hope for his results at Barcelona after a night at the Manchester City Stadium.
He is planning to leave Barcelona and is impatient.
Since Barcelona don't value themselves, go to a team that values them.
For Ibrahimovic, this was a normal decision.
He's even started asking his agent, Raiola, to help him get in touch with his next family.
Even if he was asked to return to Inter Milan, he would not refuse.