On the night of the Champions League group draw ceremony, the UEFA Super Cup was held at the Luis II Stadium in Monaco.

The Champions League champion Barcelona vs. the League Cup champion Donesque Miners last season.

Originally, this should have been a game without any suspense. Before the game, everyone was optimistic about Barcelona, ​​and no one believed that the Donetsk Miners could win.

Barcelona players may think so, so when the game starts, they are not excited, they enter the game very slowly and play casually.

When they found that the Donetsk miners were not easy to deal with, they were already a little panicked when they wanted to speed up.

Their attack became somewhat unstructured.

The result was that during the ninety minutes of official game, they were unable to break through the goal of the Donesque Miners who were defending with all their strength.

The weak Ukrainian team, who was not favored before the game, dragged the game into overtime

This is a situation that no one expected before the game.

Barcelona didn't expect a formal European Super Cup to play in overtime.

They originally thought that the European Super Cup was just a celebration for them to celebrate the best trophys they won at the Champions League ceremony yesterday

They weren't ready to play any overtime at all.

So when the overtime game started, Barcelona still played in pain, and the players' physical fitness began to have problems.

However, the Donesque Miners still played vigorously after entering overtime in the game, and seemed to see hope of winning.

In their plan, they want to directly drag the game to the final battle of the penalty kick. In the final battle, Barcelona's strong overall strength will be compressed and compressed, and their ball-handling advantage will be gone. The final competition is the ability and mentality of a single player.

And in this regard, the Donesque miners believe they are no worse than Barcelona, ​​especially their mentality.

In terms of penalty kicks, the Donesque Miners also conducted targeted training. The goalkeeper also carefully studied the characteristics of every Barcelona penalty kick player with the help of the coaching staff. He knew which side they were used to being punished.

All preparations are for defeating Barcelona in penalty kicks.

The first half of the overtime game ended, Barcelona still failed to score, the score was still 00

The two sides changed sides in the second half of the overtime match, and the atmosphere at the scene was already a bit solemn. Before, they were singing and dancing, and most of the happy Barcelona fans were silent at this time.

When the live TV camera swept through the stands, you can see many fans wearing Barcelona jerseys covering their mouths with their hands, widening their eyes, and staring at the stadium nervously.

The fans of the Donesque Miners kept cheering, applauding every successful defense of the Donesque Miners.

The commentator no longer touts Barcelona players’ achievements in the past season like in the first half.

Some of them even began to fuel the Donesque miners.

The other part of the people was much silent and said more than before.

Obviously, I am also worried about Barcelona's fate.

But just when everyone thought that the Donesque Miners would successfully drag the game into a penalty kick, Barcelona's talented striker Pedro flashed his inspiration and scored the winning goal for the team

After he scored the goal, the entire Louis II stadium was in full swing. Barcelona fans, who were still silent before, jumped up from their seats and shouted.

Barcelona's head coach Guardiola also rushed out of the coach's seat excitedly, waved his fists hard, and whistled to the sky - he could finally breathe a sigh of relief...

In the end, Barcelona defeated Donesque Miners with 0 in the European Super Cup with this goal.

They won their fifth championship this year, the previous four were the Spanish Cup, La Liga, Champions League and the Spanish Super Cup. Now there is only one Club World Cup left in front of them.

If they can win the Club World Cup at the end of the year, they will become the first European football team to win all the championships in one year.

This will be an unprecedented great cause

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The next day, the whole of Europe did not discuss the results of the Champions League grouping. They were discussing the European Super Cup, discussing the five Barcelona champions, and the dream of six champions.

Similarly, in Manchester City's locker room, some people talked about this game.

That was the last ten minutes before the away game to challenge Portsmouth. When Benitez left the locker room, Rongguang stood up and told his teammates about the game.

"How many people watched yesterday's European Super Cup?" he asked.

Some people raised their hands, while others didn't.

But overall, there are quite a lot of people watching this game.

Because Manchester City players stayed in a hotel in Portsmouth last night, they didn't want to be so free in their homes, so many people paid attention to the game when they were bored.

"Very good." Rong Guang nodded. "Before the game, how many people thought the Donesque miners would drag this game to overtime? What I saw was that the media in Europe said that Barcelona was about to win the fifth championship, and they did not think that the Donesque miners could win. But the process of the game did not expect many people. I think this game was very good to explain to us. How many people were not optimistic about us before the game, that was meaningless. No one was optimistic about the Donesque miners before the game, but this did not prevent them from making Barcelona so embarrassed."

As he was talking, Robinho raised his hand: "Rong, Barcelona was the one who won the final victory. The Donetsk Miners performed very tenaciously, but they still lost the game. Their efforts in this result are simply a joke..."

When everyone's eyes turned to glory when they heard Robinho say this.

That's right, the whole world is not optimistic about Donesque miners winning. The final result is that Donesque miners really didn't win. No matter how tenacious they were in the game, competitive sports depend on the results. If you didn't win, how can you use it no matter how good you played before.

Robinho asked many questions in his mind.

How should Rong answer this question in everyone's mind?

"That's because the Donesque miners are not strong enough. Even if they are stronger, they can beat Barcelona in the game. And we are different. We are very strong. We are much stronger than the Donesque miners." Rong Guang said. "I have always disagree with the media's statement that Manchester City is not strong enough. Manchester City is not my own team. Manchester City has you and you are also very strong, so we are stronger together. We are a strong team. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to win the first place in the league, beat Manchester United and win the FA Cup and the Community Shield. Why can we? Because we are very strong."

Speaking of this, Rongguang remembered the old German coach of the national youth team, Clauchen.

It was when he was in the World Youth Championship that he repeatedly told the Chinese National Youth Team that they had no confidence at that time that they were very strong. In the end, the national youth team defeated Argentina and won the first international competition championship in the history of Chinese men's football.

And now, what he said was exactly the same as what Clauchen said at the time...

"So, we are really strong, we can beat Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. We will end up being different from the Donesque miners. Or, do you all think you are weak?"

Rongguang asked in the end.

This rhetorical question made many players protest: "We don't think so, Rong."

"Who is weak? I am not weak?"

"Damn, Rong is right. We are clearly a strong team and almost got deceived by those damn media."

"I can't wait to play in the Champions League. I want to prove to those damn reporters. We are very strong."

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Benitez took his ear out of the door, and then he told assistant coach Mauricio Pellegrino and Mark Bowen, who were also lying on the door, eavesdropping.

"It's amazing."

He exclaimed from the bottom of his heart.

"When I chose him as the captain, I didn't expect him to do so well..."

"Rafa, I think we should not live up to these players and honor. Real Madrid and Bayern Munich may be strong, but we are also strong. We should strive to qualify from this group. If we must treat this season as a season of accumulated experience, then we should not only accumulate experience in the group stage, but also experience in playing knockout rounds." said his assistant Mauricio Pellegrino.

"Yes, Rong is right, we are strong, too."

Another assistant coach next to him, Mark Bowen, said.

After hearing the words of the two assistants, Benitez rubbed his chin and nodded.

When he just saw the draw result, he really didn't have much hope for Manchester City's performance in the Champions League this season.

But now he is very ashamed because he is not as brave as his own players.

He, the coach, almost raised his hand to surrender... If he hadn't heard Rong Guang's words...

"Real Madrid and Bayern Munich are not as strong as they look..." After making a decision in their hearts, Benitez said. "Real Madrid has changed many players this season, and the team is still in the running-in period. After Bayern Munich lost his glory, he has not found the real core. Ribery works very hard, but have you not found that the better his personal performance, the worse the Bayern Munich's team will perform? So if we really compete with them, we may not be able to win."

The two assistant coaches looked at each other, and when they heard Benitez say this, they were sure that Benitez really made up his mind to fight Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.

If Manchester City qualifies from this group, who will be eliminated from Real Madrid or Bayern Munich?

It's really exciting...
Chapter completed!