After the second half of the game restarted, neither side made any personnel adjustments.

In fact, the starting lineups of the two teams are already a self-reliant lineup. If you make adjustments, it is impossible to perform better than this lineup.

Both head coaches can only choose to trust the performance of the players now.

Benitez naturally believes in glory, while Guardiola believes in Messi.

Both of these are people who can change the results of the game by themselves.

As soon as the second half began, Messi made a beautiful breakthrough in the middle, but his final shot was slightly missed under the defense of three Manchester City players.

But it was enough to shock Manchester City fans to sweat.

"Leo Messi!! Beautiful!! What a pity! The football slipped out of the goal!" Catalonia's commentator said with his head in his hands, his tone very regretful.

However, he still had some hope in his heart, because it can be seen from this ball that Messi is in very good condition and has very strong fighting spirit. With these two conditions, such Messi is worthy of his expectations.

However, after Messi had just shot and threatened Manchester City's goal, Rong Guang changed his color and was tripped by Busquets when he was cutting inside on the wing. The referee awarded Manchester City a free kick, 35 meters away from the goal.

Rongguang took the penalty himself, and he took the elevator ball with his right foot. Facing such a ball, Valdes did not respond at all, but in the end, Rongguang's ball was slightly higher than the crossbar, and the elevator was seated, but pressed the wrong floor and did not hit the target.

But despite this, the Barcelona fans in the stands and in front of the TV were scared.

When they saw the football suddenly fall and head straight for the goal, and Valdes was completely unresponsive, they really thought the football would fly into the goal...

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Next, Messi cut in from the wing and made a two-by-one-slamming match with Gao Lin and Xavi, and then shot at the top of the free throw arc. The football drew an arc and rushed straight to the far corner of the goal.

Joe Hart soared into the air, stretched his arms out of the bottom line.

Barcelona got a ? goal.

However, the threat this corner kick to Manchester City goal is not as great as Messi's previous kick.

In terms of high-ball competition, Barcelona really does not have an advantage in front of Manchester City.

Manchester City's two central defenders Kompani and Lucio are both extremely good at heading, and Glory and Ibrahimovic will also return to the goal to participate in defense, and they are both good at heading.

However, this corner kick did not allow anyone else to take action. Joe Hart jumped up and gently eased his ape's arms and took off the football in the air.

Pike swept away, and after landing, he turned around and ran back, holding his head with his hands without doing anything in front of the door.

Because he knows very well what Manchester City will play next.

Sure enough, just as he turned around and ran out, Joe Hart, who had the ball, rushed to the edge of the penalty area and threw the ball forward vigorously.

He didn't throw it to Glory or Ibrahimovic, as both of them came back to participate in the corner defense.

He threw the football to Sneijder.

At this time, Glory had already rushed out of the penalty area like an arrow from the string.

Sneider received the football with his back to the attack, and then passed the football horizontally to his side. At this time, the glory inserted at the high speed just happened to send Sneider's ball forward!

A huge cheer sounded from the stands at Wembley Stadium.

These are all sent by Manchester City fans.

Rongguang ran wildly with the ball, rushed across the center line, and rushed straight to Barcelona's penalty area.

The one who stood in front of him was Mascherano. Argentine players were originally both midfielders in Liverpool and Argentina national teams, but in Barcelona, ​​because they did not have his starting position at all in 433, they changed to play as a central defender. Unexpectedly, his performance in Barcelona's tactical system was pretty good.

Now facing Rong Guang's high-speed assault, Mascherano did not pounce on it, but fought and retreated, running back with Rong Guang. He would rather let Rong Guang rush into the penalty area and shoot with his interference than let Rong Guang pass by him at thirty meters away from the goal, and then ran all the way to face Valdes and shot again.

As long as you are still by your side, you will have the opportunity to defend your glory.

Mascherano's choice was correct. His retreat always put pressure on Rong Guang. When Rong Guang started to shoot, he stepped forward in time to block Rong Guang's shot, successfully blocked Rong Guang's shot, allowing Valdes to hold the football firmly in his arms.

Although there was no goal, the entire attack of Rongguang made Barcelona fans very nervous.

In this way, after Messi performed well, Glory will immediately return the color, and after Glory will return the color, Messi will return the color.

With this cycle, the hearts of Manchester City and Barcelona fans also took turns to lift, fall, raise again, fall again...

The fifteen minutes of the second half were in the game, with both sides coming and going quickly. Although no one scored a goal, everyone thought they would score a goal in the next attack. The fans of both sides felt nervous, while the neutral fans in front of the TV shouted wonderful.

However, although the game was exciting, for the head coaches of the two teams, such a scene did not make them happy.

Although there are more chances of scoring, the chance of losing the ball has also increased greatly.

Moreover, this kind of offense and defense is completely disordered and difficult to control.

The head coaches always want to keep the game situation in mind.

So after fifteen minutes of tit-for-tat, the head coaches of both sides made adjustments at the same time.

Barcelona returned to possess the ball, while Manchester City continued to defend and counterattack.

The game became bad, but the hearts of the fans and head coaches on both sides fell back into their stomachs - this is a normal game...

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Messi wiped the sweat from his forehead. Although the previous game was abnormal, it was what he liked, because only in this way could he have a great chance to score.

As a result, he always missed goals during these fifteen minutes. Of course, Glory didn't score either, but this was not something that comforted him.

Now Manchester City has shrunk its defense and has started a defensive counterattack again. It is more difficult for him to score a goal than before...

He was a little anxious, but it was useless to be anxious now, so he could only wait patiently for the opportunity.

In Guardiola's plan, if the game is really dragged to the penalty kick, it would be a good result. Because that would offset the advantage of glory.

This is a conclusion he came to after carefully studying glory.

Since you cannot defeat Glory in the 90-minute game, just drag the game to a penalty kick.

But this is not the way Messi wants to win.

If the game is scored until the penalty kick, even if Barcelona defeated Manchester City in the end, Messi would be embarrassed to say that he defeated Glory. At most, they would have a draw, and they were still far from defeating Glory.

Messi wanted victory that he defeated Glory in the game, which was more than he scored. Barcelona relied on his own goals to defeat Manchester City and eventually won the Champions League title.

Only such victory is meaningful.

Messi doesn't want the game to be really dragged into a penalty kick.

He turned his head and glanced at Rongguang.

Regarding the current situation of the game, Rong Guang's face has no expression on his face, and he can't tell at all his opinion on this game.

He seemed very calm.

This calmness made Messi a little worried. The calmer the glory, the greater the storm he brewed.

In order not to let the storm brewed by glory really devour Barcelona, ​​Messi believes that he should take the lead first, score a goal, lead again, and take the initiative back into his own hands.

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During the game, the commentators found that Messi's activeness in the offense had become higher. Although Barcelona is now playing control of the ball, Messi is running tirelessly in the midfield and frontcourt. The commentators all believe that Messi's running has kept Barcelona's acceleration possibility and greatly increased Barcelona's threat in the frontcourt.

This is not good news for Manchester City.

"Messi--!"

John Motterson exclaimed, Messi was knocked to the ground by Manchester City's central defender Kompany when he was preparing to break into the penalty area.

?Barcelona fans all stood up from their seats, pointed at Manchester City's goal and shouted: "Punishment!!"

Manchester City fans didn't even dare to take a breath.

Messi was too fast when he broke into the penalty area just now. Kompany's foul against him also occurred in a flash. They didn't see it very clearly. They didn't know where Kompany's foul was. Anyway, Messi fell in the penalty area now!

Barcelona players quickly ran towards the referee and put pressure on the referee, hoping that the referee could award a penalty.

But the referee's gesture did not point to the penalty spot in the penalty area, but to the foul spot, and he ran there - outside the penalty area line!

"It's a free kick!" John Motson breathed a sigh of relief.

Barcelona players were surrounding the referee and told him that Kompani must have committed a foul in the penalty area just now.

Messi also jumped up from the ground and appealed to the referee with some excitement.

However, the TV slow-motion replay clearly shows that Kompani's foul was outside the penalty area. Although it was not even half a meter away from the penalty area line, it was outside.

No matter how Barcelona players protest, they have no way to change the referee's decision. He insisted that it was a free kick, not a penalty.

Kompany received a yellow card for this foul.

As a central defender, it is very dangerous to carry a yellow card in the game, but there is no way. If Kompani had not committed a foul just now, Messi would get in. After entering the penalty area, Kompani would not be able to do anything.
Chapter completed!