"Leo Messi!"

In the midst of the Catalan commentator's long-stretched roar, Messi burst into a cold arrow from outside the box.

However, his shot went over the crossbar and did not threaten City's goal.

But the Catalan commentator did not blame Messi for wasting a chance, on the contrary, he also praised Messi's attempt: "Now Manchester City is shrinking their defense, and shooting from distance is a good solution. After conceding the goal, Messi was more active than before the goal, and as long as he can continue to be so active, I think an equalizer is not out of the question! Manchester City scored too early and gave Barcelona enough time to equalise......"

During this time, Barcelona's performance has been really good, and Messi, Xavi and Iniesta have often played some amazing combinations between them. At the same time, with Messi's excellent performance, Barcelona have not been affected by the goals conceded, and they are still playing the football they are good at.

Guardiola, who was on the sidelines, was also completely relieved at this time. Originally, he was quite worried when he just conceded the goal, but now he is very relieved to see the team's table.

Just as Manchester City fans feel fortunate that they have glory, Pep Guardiola also feels fortunate that he has Messi.

Although Xavi is at the heart of this team, Messi may be more important to Barcelona in a sense.

Therefore, since Guardiola became the head coach of Barcelona, he has completely put Messi in the core position. Before him, when Rijkaard was in charge of the team, the core of the team was Ronaldinho, and Messi was just a partner next to Ronaldinho, although he also had excellent performances, but he could not shake Ronaldinho's status.

Pep Guardiola is keenly aware that Messi is better than Ronaldinho in terms of talent and ability, and younger, and having Messi at the heart can keep Barcelona's glory for a longer time.

It turned out that he was right.

In his first season in charge of Barcelona, he led the team to a treble and a sixth last year.

Among them, Messi is an absolutely important figure.

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City's players soon found Messi increasingly difficult to deal with.

They had studied Messi's game video before the game, and it can be seen from the video how good Messi is, but there is still a big difference between watching the video and experiencing it in the actual game.

Messi in the actual game is more difficult to deal with!

They even felt that this Messi was ten times more powerful than the one they saw in the video......

These City players are right.

Because even Pep Guardiola feels that so far in this game, Messi's table has been unexpectedly good, beyond his imagination, and beyond his usual state in the game.

He didn't quite understand why Messi was in such good shape in this game, and he could only understand that Messi was strong when he was strong, and his glory was excellent, which must have stimulated him.

It's been almost 30 minutes since Barcelona conceded a goal.

During those 20 minutes, Barcelona had little of the usual post-goal turmoil as they settled down quickly and continued to put City under pressure.

Even Pep Guardiola was surprised by such a performance.

This is of course all thanks to Messi.

Seeing that Messi has such an appearance, Guardiola is full of confidence in the future.

This season, he is determined to become the first manager to lead the team to successfully defend the title after the Champions League restructuring.

In his opinion, the biggest enemy on the way forward is Manchester City, where the glory is located, Manchester City is not terrible, what is terrible is glory, this is a person who can create a miracle if he goes crazy.

Luckily, we have Messi......

The only one who can compare to glory.

In the second half of the first half, Barcelona had clearly grasped the initiative on the field, they completely suppressed Manchester City, Manchester City had few counter-attacking opportunities, and even for a while, Manchester City's side could not even pass half time.

"Whose home is this?" Alan Hansen complained.

He was unhappy with City's performance during this period.

"It's not that Manchester City's table is bad, it's that Barcelona's table is too good......" John Mortensen said. Messi has been particularly active during this time, and he has dominated almost all of Barcelona's attacking ......"

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After completely losing the initiative on the field, Manchester City's goal was lost in the 41st minute.

In fact, before conceding the goal, Manchester City's goal was already in jeopardy.

The whole team is like a small boat on a stormy sea, ready to capsize at any moment.

Barcelona had two shots in quick succession, the first of which was blocked by Manchester City's centre-back Lucio. Football fell to Ibrahimovic's feet.

Ibrahimovic could have passed the football to Messi at the time, because Messi was in a better position.

The Argentine also raised his arm and motioned for Ibrahimovic to pass the ball to him.

"Biography!" The Catalan narrator couldn't help but shout.

But Ibrahimovic didn't do that, he chose to force a turn and shoot.

And the quality of this turning shot is very high, Ibrahimovic played a solid kick, a powerful kick, and the speed of goalkeeper Joe Hart was not able to react at all.

He just reflexively raised his arm.

As a result, Ibrahimovic's goal was good everywhere, but he shot too right......

The soccer ball hit Joe Hart's arm and it bounced back!

"It's dangerous......" Before John Mortensen's words fell, he saw Messi appear cleverly on the landing point of the football, and at this time the other Manchester City players had not reacted!

I saw Messi directly pick up his left foot and volley sideways!

"Leo Messi - !!" With the Catalan commentator's long-pitched roar, Messi's left foot hit the ball with the instep of his foot.

The soccer ball roared into the goal like a cannonball.

Neither Joe Hart nor the other Manchester City defenders reacted in front of the ball - Messi appeared too strangely and shot too fast......

"Messi! Oh! Messi! He equalized for Barcelona! Before the end of the first half, City's lead was gone! The Catalan commentator shouted excitedly.

The few Barcelona fans in the stands cheered, even briefly overpowering the voices of the Manchester City fans.

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After the goal, Messi turned around and ran to the corner flag, he looked very excited, pulled out the corner flag after running to the corner flag, and waved it excitedly in his hand.

His celebration was naturally seen as a provocation and humiliation by Manchester City fans, and for a while, there were loud boos in the air above Manchester City Stadium.

The cheers of the Barcelona fans were all suppressed.

Even the commentators were surprised that Messi would not have made such a wild celebration no matter how excited he was in the past......

What's wrong with him today?

First he was very good in the game, and then he was too excited after scoring the goal.

A commentator simply joked: "I think UEFA will definitely arrange for Messi to take a post-match urine test after watching this game......"

Of course, he was quick to state that he was joking and did not question Messi's doping.

Messi didn't regain his strength yet, and after waving the corner flag to the boos of the Manchester City fans, he threw it on the ground again.

It's no wonder that everyone thinks it's weird.

Messi's appearance is almost as if he has a deep grudge against Manchester City - even in the national derby against Real Madrid, Messi would not be so excited after scoring a goal......

No one knows why Messi is so expressive.

Only Messi himself.

In the battle against Glory, he scored the team's equaliser, and it was a very beautiful volley, so he will naturally be very excited.

His wild celebration was just to vent all the pressure that the previous glory had given him......

It's not really a grudge against Manchester City.

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Messi scored a goal, and there was one person who was very unhappy, this person was not Rongguang, Rongguang just frowned slightly after Messi's goal - the lead was gone, and the opponent got an away goal, and it was a bit troublesome to advance.

The most upset person is not even Manchester City's players, but Messi's teammate, Barcelona's main centre-forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Just now he saw Messi raising his hand to ask him for the ball, if he didn't see this action, it would be fine, but let him see it, and he won't be angry.

I'm a centre-forward, I've got the ball in the box, so even if I'm facing away from the attack, I don't have to pass the football to you, right?

Why am I going to make you a wedding dress?

He thought of Pep Guardiola's tactical arrangement at that moment, as a center forward, Ibrahimovic's biggest role is to pass the ball to Messi, provide a battery for Messi's shots, and provide cover for Messi's running......

Is this still a center?

Ibrahimovic could not stand such an arrangement the most.

So at that moment, when he saw Messi raise his arm to himself, he rushed to his head in a fit of anger and decided to go it alone.

To be honest, Ibrahimovic's turning shots are also of high quality, if not slightly correct......

But it was this slight correction that gave Messi the opportunity to make up for it.

What makes Ibrahimovic particularly unhappy is here - when he is obviously his own appearance, he has achieved Messi, and he has become an indirect assist......

Ibrahimovic couldn't swallow it.

But whether he wants it or not, the goal has already happened, and now the whole team is embracing Messi and celebrating his goal.

Ibrahimovic can only express his current attitude by not stepping forward to celebrate.

Not happy, very unhappy.