Originally April 14th was the league with Norwich, but because of the conflict with the schedule of the FA Cup semi-finals, the league was postponed to May 2nd.

This season, Manchester City's games have been postponed for three games in the league, which shows how dense Manchester City's games are.

If the league is postponed, Manchester City cannot rest for one more day. After playing the FA Cup semi-final against Everton, Manchester City will have to rush back to Manchester to prepare for the Champions League semi-final against Barcelona.

The schedule of Manchester City in the semi-finals is the same as that of the quarterfinals. They both start with the home and then go, and hand over the initiative to Barcelona in advance.

Judging from this schedule, it is not easy for Manchester City to go along the way.

After the league ended, Barcelona went north to Manchester, and they borrowed the training base of Manchester United club to prepare for the game.

The training bases of the two teams are already very close.

If the head coaches of both sides have the heart, they can even go through the woods and peek at each other's training.

But none of them did this - it was too pricey to do so.

This season, it is not easy for Barcelona to catch up with Real Madrid in the league, and the Champions League has become a battlefield where they must go all out.

If you can win the Champions League in the end, it will be a very good result.

In addition, he lost to Manchester City in the Champions League final last season, so Barcelona is definitely not short of fighting spirit in this semi-final. Guardiola doesn't even have to do pre-match mobilization, just train technical and tactical cooperation.

The two sides did not stop before the game. After their match was confirmed, the two sides began a spitting game.

Barcelona and Manchester City have formed a deep hatred in these few fights.

Glory has been at Manchester City for almost four seasons.

In these four seasons, Manchester City played in the Champions League for three seasons. Except for the first season, Manchester City was not qualified to participate in the Champions League, in the other three seasons, Manchester City could meet Barcelona in every Champions League.

Such intensive encounters quickly made the relationship between the two teams "heat up" quickly.

For the first time, in the 2009-2010 season, Manchester City returned to the Champions League after 40 years. They met Barcelona in the quarter-finals. At that time, Barcelona was the defending champion and was called the "cosmic team" by the media. As a result, Barcelona, ​​who was determined to defend the title successfully, suffered a heavy blow. They were eliminated by Manchester City, who participated in the Champions League for the first time in 40 years!

Coincidentally, the schedule at that time was the same as it is now, and Manchester City played home first and then away.

As a result, in the first round, Rongguang scored twice, helping Manchester City defeat Barcelona 3-1, and many people felt that the suspense was almost gone.

In the second round, Rong Guang scored twice again. Manchester City defeated Barcelona 2:0, eliminating the arrogant Barcelona with a total score of 5:1, and severely hit Barcelona, ​​who was invincible on Earth at that time.

In the next 2010-2011 season, Barcelona did not meet Manchester City on the road to promotion. They fought to the end and reached the final. They met Manchester City in the final. Before the game, Barcelona also shouted the slogan of revenge. After all, they were eliminated by Manchester City in the quarter-finals last season, which was really embarrassing for Barcelona.

Messi was in very good shape at that time, and everyone thought that Barcelona would definitely be able to take revenge successfully this time.

Unexpectedly, in the final, Rongguang directly staged a hat trick, not only surpassing Messi in the scorer list, but also helped Manchester City defeat Barcelona with an amazing score of 4:1. Manchester City won the UEFA Champions League championship trophy for the first time in history!

In two encounters, three games, Barcelona didn't even have a draw, they scored two goals but conceded nine goals.

Such data is really surprising when it comes to Barcelona and Manchester City.

In addition to the grievances on the court, there are also many grievances on the court.

The debate about which Glory and Messi is stronger has never stopped.

Of course, the debate this year is much weaker than in the previous two years, because Glory has defeated Messi twice in a row to prove that comparing him to Messi is very ignorant and stupid...

The two sides have been fighting each other, and Rongguang was also involved. In an interview before the game, Rongguang told reporters: "Barcelona is a very strong team, especially at their home court, the game often becomes very difficult..."

When the reporters heard Rong Guang say this, they looked at each other, not understanding why Rong Guang suddenly said this. Although Barcelona's home court is terrible, it may not be the case for Rong Guang... You are the one who scored twice at Barcelona's home court!

And everyone doesn't know why Rongguang suddenly praised Barcelona.

This is a situation that should not have happened.

However, what Rongguang said next made the reporters suddenly realize.

"So, our goal is to strive to end the game suspense at our home court."

A group of reporters then breathed a sigh of relief - this is the normal glory! It turned out that he praised Barcelona for this sentence before!

But Barcelona may not accept such praise at all...

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Indeed, when the words of glory appeared in the media, it aroused the indignation of the Catalan media.

They thought Glory was too disrespectful to Barcelona, ​​and they were so light and said that it seemed as if they could really end two rounds at home...

"If Manchester City can beat Barcelona 4:1 in the first leg, otherwise they will never be able to kill the suspense in the first game!"

Catalonia's "World Sports" said that as the mouthpiece of the Barcelona club, we naturally have to drum and huk for Barcelona.

4:1 is the score in the Champions League final last season. World Sports is obviously mocking Manchester City for being able to score four goals in Barcelona, ​​which is luck and an unreplicable score, warning Manchester City not to always use past results to tell the truth.

Every football game is brand new and has nothing to do with the past.

They are very confident about Barcelona's revenge on Manchester City this time, and one of the sources of confidence is Messi.

Messi is in very good form in the Champions League this season.

The quarter-finals just ended and Messi scored fourteen goals!

Last season, Messi scored fourteen goals after the semi-finals.

If you only look at the efficiency of goals, Messi will be stronger this season than he did last season.

Especially in the quarterfinals, Barcelona played against Leverkusen at home, Messi scored five yuan alone in the game, setting a record of the most goals scored in a single game in the history of the Champions League.

After that game, the entire European sports community was frightened by the state Messi showed, and various praises followed.

The Catalonian media, especially were particularly excited, and they said that even Glory could not score five goals in a Champions League knockout match, and Messi did it!

In fact, there is no such thing as Rong Guang, let alone five goals, even in the Champions League, and the hat trick is his limit.

The Catalan media has received great satisfaction from this aspect.

Messi is not as good as glory? Anyway, Catalonia believes that glory is not as good as Messi...

In the quarterfinals, Messi also scored twice in the match against AC Milan.

This season, Messi scored twice twice, once a hat trick, and another one to win five yuan alone.

Such performance naturally made the Catalan media full of confidence in Messi and Barcelona.

In their opinion, what Rong Guang said before the game was obviously a psychological warfare. Rong Guang hoped to use such words to anger Barcelona players and make them lose their calmness. But his performance was meaningless except that he seemed arrogant and rude.

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The highly anticipated game is coming as scheduled.

Both sides sent out the strongest lineup they could send.

However, because Matuidi was injured, Manchester City was a double midfielder composed of Sneider and Gareth Barry in the midfield.

This is also one of the reasons why the Catalan media is confident.

As Manchester City's midfielder, Matuidi made an indelible contribution to defense, and his injury had a great impact on Manchester City.

Since Matuidi was injured in the game against Swansea, Manchester City have conceded goals in almost every game.

Nine games, including league and FA Cup, and European competitions.

Except for the 4-0 home game against West Bromwich, he conceded at least one goal in other games, and two more goals were conceded.

After all, Gareth Barry is not a full-time midfielder, and his defensive ability is still much worse than that of Matuidi.

Catalan media analyzed that Matuidi's injury will provide Barcelona with more scoring opportunities in this game.

Barcelona was originally very strong in the midfield and frontcourt. Once Matuidi was not restrained, they would definitely be able to gallop as far as they want in Manchester City’s half.

Messi in good condition will definitely be able to break through and tear Manchester City's defense line again and again, and kick Manchester City into the abyss with a goal!

In this game, Gao Lin was placed on the bench. In fact, this season, Gao Lin appeared on the bench more often. I thought Barcelona bought Fabregas from Arsenal this season and brought Sanchez from Udinese.

These two people squeezed Gao Lin's living space.

In Barcelona's 433, the three players on the front line are Messi, Sanchez and Fabregas.

There is no striker-free tactic without a center.

This tactics are not good in the league, but they are still good in the Champions League.

Gao Lin's failure to play made the Chinese media, fans and commentators very disappointed.

But in this way... everyone can concentrate on cheering Manchester City.
Chapter completed!