The media in London have already said bluntly that the period when Manchester City and Barcelona are inseparable is a great opportunity for Chelsea to complete the overtake.

Such an opportunity is very rare. Once Manchester City are knocked out of Barcelona and return to the Premier League, they will not have the problem of fighting on two fronts.

At that time, if Chelsea are still second in the league, it may be difficult to overtake.

However, it is not up to them to say that Chelsea will overtake Manchester City, of course Chelsea want to win, but they have to look at Manchester City's face when they win.

Chelsea's comeback over Manchester City was largely up to City themselves.

It's the expectation that Manchester City will lose the game when they are fighting on two fronts......

When the time comes, a bamboo basket will be empty.

In fact, the best choice for Manchester City now should be to abandon one side and keep the other.

Do you need to say who to give up?

It's definitely the Champions League.

Manchester City are participating in the Champions League for the first time in 40 years, can they still hope to reach the final and win the title?

This is of course unrealistic, anyway, in the Champions League, they have encountered such a strong opponent as Barcelona, Manchester City might as well take the opportunity to go down to the next level and strategically abandon this game.

Then concentrate on tackling opponents in the league, Chelsea.

Even some of the Manchester media and Manchester City fans think so.

Realistically, there's no point in stumbling with Barcelona, what if you knock Barcelona out? When it comes to playing in the Champions League, which team is easy to deal with?

In the end, the bamboo basket was empty, and it was better to abandon the car to protect the handsome.

But Benitez has no intention of doing so, as a manager who wants to lead the team to a championship can become a habit if he thinks about surrendering before he meets a strong opponent.

In this way, how can you lead the team to win the championship?

What's more, after seeing the team's morale so high, Benitez couldn't make a strategic plan to give up the Champions League.

He knew that the media analysis was right, and intellectually it was the perfect solution.

But there is no such thing as perfection in this world, and football cannot be decided by reason alone.

If everything is based on reason to make the most perfect choice, then how boring the world must be......

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As soon as the results of the draw came out, the whole of Europe and even the world was watching.

Manchester City meet Barcelona and it's an exciting game.

More than two years ago, there was a scandal between Rongguang and Barcelona, when the media reported very frequently, one by one firm, saying that Rongguang left Bayern Munich after the end of the 2007-2008 season and joined Barcelona is already a sure thing.

There is a grapevine that the two sides even initialed the contract.

Since then, Barcelona fans have been looking forward to glory to form the most feared attacking combination in the world with Messi and Ronaldinho.

Fans of other teams around the world don't want this to happen.

In the end, most people won.

Glory was seriously injured, Barcelona did not admit that they had any agreement with Glory, and transfer talks were suspended.

Glory did not go to Barcelona and opted for Manchester City after returning from injury.

Later, Ronaldinho also moved away and went to AC Milan.

The world's most terrifying attacking combination has never been a reality in the imagination or in a football game.

Now, in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Manchester City and Barcelona meet, which is also the second meeting between Glory and Barcelona after that serious injury.

What sparks will be stirred up now?

Messi, who is already Barcelona's number one star, expressed his welcome to the draw result in an interview.

“…… I'm very happy to be able to compete with Rong at such a high level. I'll do my best! ”

The good relationship between Messi and Glory is now known to the whole world after tireless publicity in the media.

It's like they all know that Glory and Kaka don't have a good relationship.

When Ronaldinho was still around, he was Barcelona's number one star. Messi is a newcomer who needs to be taken care of by Ronaldinho.

But now he doesn't need to be attached to anyone's wings, he is already one of the best players in football today, and in the eyes of many, he may not even need "one".

Some people even think that as long as Messi leads Argentina to win the World Cup once, he will be properly recognized as the third king!

He is the new No. 1 in the world after Rong Guang's injury.

Now there are still people who sigh that if Glory hadn't been injured at the beginning, maybe there would be nothing wrong with Messi now.

But the world is unpredictable, and Glory's serious injury has given two young players the opportunity to quickly rise, one is Cristiano Ronaldo and the other is Messi.

Of course, life can't be assumed, and there are no ifs in football.

So everyone doesn't know what the current football world would be like if Rongguang hadn't been injured.

But at least now they have a chance to witness the answer to this question from another angle.

After recovering from a serious injury, the glory quickly returned to the state he was in before the injury, or better than before the injury.

And what about Messi? It's always been on the rise.

Now that two of the best players in the world meet, what will they come up with?

It's really exciting.

Moreover, which of the two of them is stronger? If Rongguang is not injured, will Messi be able to beat him to the top, just like Rongguang did when he beat Kaka.

Manchester City and Barcelona don't have any previous feuds, so if these two teams meet, there is basically no gimmick to hype.

But now that there is Glory and Messi, the duel between these two is enough to arouse everyone's interest.

At Manchester City, glory is the well-deserved core, and at Barcelona, it is also the whole team that serves Messi.

Everybody says that some players have the ability to change the outcome of a game on their own. It is now recognized that Messi and Glory are such players.

So in such a crucial two games, can the two of them turn the tide and rewrite the results of the game alone?

We're looking forward to seeing these two games.

There are even media conspiracy theories that the draw must have been designed by UEFA to create a strong dialogue like Mars hitting Earth.

Look at how many people around the world are discussing and looking forward to the results of this matchup, and those sponsors are probably going to laugh badly......

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While everyone is looking forward to this game, there are still three league games to play ahead of this game.

On March 21, Manchester City travelled to Fulham in the 31st round of the league.

On 24 March, Manchester City host Everton in a replay of the second round of the league.

On March 29, Manchester City hosted Wigan Athletic in the 32nd round of the league.

Chelsea will also be keeping a close eye on those three games as there should be some clues from whether City will collapse or not.

Manchester City also care about the league, not to say that their minds are in the Champions League.

Following the results of the draw and the fixtures, Manchester City applied to the Premier League to postpone the 32nd round of Wigan Athletic. Because on April 1, Manchester City will host Barcelona at home.

The following April 3 evening, Manchester City will take on league rivals Burnley away from home.

On April 8, the following week after the league season, Manchester City will travel to Barcelona, Spain, to play the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals.

After that game, on 11 April, Manchester City returned to host Birmingham City. At this time, it was already the thirty-fourth round of the league. There are only four rounds left until the end of the league.

And playing seven games in 22 days from 21 to April 11 was too physically demanding on the team.

However, the Premier League did not approve Manchester City's request.

Their reasoning is that Manchester City's second round of the league has been postponed to the current make-up round, and the 32nd round has been postponed again, and there is no suitable matchday scheduled for them.

After all, with the end of the league, time is running out. Moreover, after the end of this season, there is a World Cup, and each national team has to train a month in advance, and the league time of this season will be shortened by at least one month compared to the usual season.

It is really impossible to squeeze out time to go out and arrange a day for Manchester City to play a make-up game.

However, given the actual situation of Manchester City, they are willing to bring Manchester City's 32nd round of league games to the first game of this round of league games, which is played on the evening of March 27.

That would give City at least four days off before the April 1 game, which should be enough. After all, three to four days apart in the league and the Champions League is the standard treatment for all teams participating in the Champions League, and other teams can afford it, so why can't Manchester City afford it?

Manchester City is of course dissatisfied with the Premier League's decision, but what can they do if they don't accept it?

The Premier League is saying the actual situation, and Manchester City is facing the same actual situation.

And the Premier League has already advanced the game time of Manchester City, so they didn't let them finish the league and only have two days of rest to face the mighty Barcelona.

Therefore, no matter how dissatisfied Manchester City is, it can only reluctantly accept this arrangement.

In this way, for the next 22 days, the average of seven games will only be a little more than three days off between games.

Towards the end of the season, it will be a huge test of fitness for the entire Manchester City team.

At the same time, this is the Manchester City 'crash time' that Chelsea have been waiting for.

When the time comes, the back-to-back games combined with the thirst for results will eventually lead to a physical collapse and injuries to the players......

Once Chelsea are overtake, they will never give up the top spot in the league again! With four rounds of the league remaining, Carlo Ancelotti is confident that Chelsea will win all of them! Then you won't have to look at anyone's face anymore!

“…… For Rafael Benitez's side, the next half month will determine the end result of his entire season of hard work, whether it will win the league title or nothing. ”

The Manchester Evening News commented after the fixture was confirmed.

Manchester City look like they've been leading the season but are actually stealing.

Right now, Manchester City's fans are the most tangled.

At the beginning, they wished they had made it out of the group, but now they feel that going too far in the Champions League is not necessarily a good thing.