Chapter 1028: What Will Glory Do?
Messi almost opened the City goal with a single shot, leaving City supporters in fear.
England's commentator John Mortensen was also full of praise for Messi's appearance.
Not to mention commentators from other countries.
Some commentators even think that the most promising person in today's football to inherit the mantle of Pele and Maradona is Messi.
It's not that Rongguang's personal strength is worse than Messi's, the reason why Rongguang is not considered by everyone to be the successor of the football king is mainly due to the strength of the national team.
Which is stronger, the Chinese team or the Argentine national team, needless to say, Messi still has a chance to win the World Cup in Argentina, as long as he wins another World Cup championship, he is a well-deserved king.
It is very difficult for the Chinese team to even enter the World Cup, let alone Rongguang leading the Chinese national team to win the World Cup, and eleven players of Rongguang's level are about the same.
More critically...... is such a great player, and he is not even a member of the Chinese national team! His record for international matches is...... Zero!
So in terms of the king of the ball, the glory must not be able to compete with Messi.
But now it's not a game at national team level.
In the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals between Manchester City and Barcelona, Messi showed his excellent form, and everyone naturally compared him to glory.
Just like when Kaka was still at his peak, he and Rong Guang are players that everyone often compares.
Later, Glory came to Manchester City, where he was compared to Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo every time he played each other.
Now, it's Messi's turn to compare with him.
Messi's watch is excellent, and it is natural for everyone to set their eyes on glory.
What will Glory do?
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Glory is looking at Messi.
After Messi's shot, he set his sights on Messi.
Messi is in such good shape in this game...... I can't afford to lose to him!
Glory thought so in his heart.
But what made him a little strange was that Messi quickly lowered his head and avoided his eyes after he found himself looking at him.
Of course, Glory didn't take this to heart.
He still wants to beat Messi and beat Barcelona.
Now the strongest football team in the world is Barcelona, and being able to beat Barcelona is a big goal for Glory.
Playing against strong opponents, this is what Rongguang has always been pursuing, otherwise why did he think about going to Europe to play in the Champions League when he was still playing in Brazil?
Going to Europe is about money, but playing in the Champions League is about playing against more and more powerful enemies.
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The game restarted, and the Manchester City fans were still apprehensive, and the Manchester City players were more conservative as a result.
It was still a situation when the defense was very tight, and what if the defense was a little lax? Don't concede a goal!
Although it is now Manchester City who have the ball, they do not dare to invest too much in attack, and Barcelona are different from all their previous opponents, and they have now felt that.
It's not because Barcelona won all the titles last year, but because Barcelona has a Messi in their squad.
These City players may have a lot of confidence against other teams, but when they face Barcelona with Messi, that confidence is not useful.
They were so careful just now that Messi still got a chance to get his feet and almost scored, and they really didn't dare to be too confident in themselves.
In the current Manchester City team, the only thing that is still as usual is probably glory.
Even Sneijder looked cautious in this game.
Manchester City are clearly on the ball now, but when it comes to attacking, they play very simply.
After Sneijder turned around and saw Glory, he directly handed over the football to Glory. He didn't give it to anyone else, because that would be unsafe, and giving glory is definitely the safest thing to do.
On the one hand, Glory is at the front, the furthest from their own goal, and even if they concede the goal, Manchester City have time to set up their defense.
On the other hand, after Glory gets the ball, it is not so easy to be broken. Even if you don't have a good attacking opportunity, it's good to let the football stay at the feet of glory for a while.
Glory doesn't think the same way as Sneijder and the rest of the Manchester City players.
When he gets the football, it's definitely about attacking, creating chances to score, or just scoring.
If you can't, you're a failure.
His goal was simple, it was Valdés, Barcelona's goal.
After Glory got the ball, he made a move to dribble the ball to the sideline, causing Busquets, who was defending him behind him, to take a sharp step towards the line......
But Glory was just a feint, and his center of gravity quickly shifted to the other side, and his right foot flicked the ball to the left, turned around and wiped it over!
Manchester City's defenders are nervous when they face Messi, but why not Barcelona's defenders? They also overreact to glory in the face of it......
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"Nice turn to get rid of!" John Mortensen yelled, as did the City fans in the stands.
They finally vented their depression when they were beaten by Messi just now - you have Messi, and we still have glory!
After turning around, the glory did not go to the side, but went straight to the middle, the target goal!
Barcelona's defenders hurriedly moved closer to the middle at this time, compressing the space for glory.
Soon they erected an iron wall in front of Rongguang, and behind and around Rongguang, there were other Barcelona players who surrounded him as if they were close and far away.
Rongguang did not feel fear and headache in the face of such a formation, he was like a person who could not see this qiē at all, and accelerated to break through to the right with the ball.
His breakthrough caused Barcelona's players to shift their focus as well.
But just when everyone thought that Glory would break through from this side, he suddenly made a sudden stop, and at the same time, the outside of his left foot flicked the football to the left!
He shook off almost everyone!
Glory then forced a twist to break through from the left.
But just then, Busquets caught up from behind and reached out to grab Glory's clothes.
Because it was an emergency stop, Glory's strength and speed were not great enough to get him out of Busquets, and he was pulled to the ground by Busquets......
The referee's whistle was almost completely drowned out by the angry boos of the City fans.
Because if it weren't for this foul by Busquets, Glory would have a good chance of breaking into the penalty area!
His stop-and-go change had shaken off the defenders in front of him, only to be stopped by Sergio Busquets for a foul at the last minute.
The upset of Manchester City fans can be imagined.
"Foul! Busquets fouls! ”
'It's hateful, but I have to admit that Busquets was a smart foul,' said Alan Hansen......, shaking his head. Of course, if he hadn't received a red card......"
"This foul ...... It's hard to say, but giving a red card so early would be a test for the referee...... "John Mortensen said.
Sure enough, the referee blew the whistle and awarded City a direct free-kick up front, but for Busquets...... He didn't show any cards of color, no red card, no yellow card, he just verbally warned Busquets.
The Catalan seemed very honest, nodding his head in the face of the referee's verbal warning, and then bowing his head with his hands folded......
But the City fans didn't do it, they got up from the stands, pointed at the referee and Sergio Busquets in the stadium, and cursed in various ways.
In their opinion, Busquets's foul is not too much to give a red card! But the referee didn't say anything!
John Mortensen and Alan Hansen also looked at each other in the commentary box, and then Alan Hansen said: "It's a familiar feeling, I think of the game between Barcelona and Chelsea last season...... Ha! ”
He didn't explain, but everyone understood what he meant.
In the semi-finals last season, Barcelona and Chelsea met.
In the first leg, Barcelona were forced to a 0-0 draw by Chelsea at their home stadium, which was not good for Barcelona.
In the second leg, Chelsea led Barcelona 1-0 at home and everyone expected Chelsea to reach the Champions League final again. But Andres Iniesta's goal in the 93rd minute beat Chelsea.
But if that's all there is, this game is not worth mentioning, the main reason why the game was mentioned by Alan Hansen is that game, the referee on duty Henning's decision in the game is very controversial, the English media said conclusively that Henning missed at least two penalties from Chelsea in the game, if you count both penalties, Iniesta's 93-minute goal is meaningless!
There were also a number of clashes against the referee, with Ballack receiving a yellow card for questioning the referee continuously. After the game, Drogba also received a yellow card for pointing at the camera and scolding the referee.
After that match, many were convinced that Barcelona were taken care of by UEFA, otherwise it would be difficult to explain referee Henning's poor performance in that game.
Now, the referee of this game did not give Busquets any penalty for the foul, but only gave him a verbal warning, and Alan Hansen was naturally reminiscent of last season's semi-final.
As a result, he had a bad feeling - will UEFA allow a team like Manchester City to disrupt the order of European football to beat their benchmark?
Platini has more than once publicly expressed his concern and disgust at the invasion of foreign capital at Manchester City.
He set his sights on glory.
It would be a shame if Rongguang left the Champions League for such reasons!