Chapter 463 The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountain

Torres' goal boosted Manchester City's morale.

Manchester City originally had a two goal advantage. With this goal, the lead has become three goals. All Manchester City players have already looked towards the final.

"We're definitely going to the finals!"

"Knock out Barcelona...I never thought I'd have this day..."

"Barcelona is nothing!"

"We win!"

"..."

Amid all kinds of cheers and exclamations, Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines and shouted to remind the players to keep working hard.

Immediately, the players put their minds away and continued to work hard. After all, the first half was not over yet, and the advantage of three goals was very large, but in the Champions League, an accidental miracle could happen.

"Never give the opponent a chance!" This is what Wansheng has repeatedly emphasized to everyone.

After the restart of the game, Manchester City did not attack the Barcelona defense with the goal of scoring, but continued to solidify the defense. Everyone knows that defense is the foundation of their victory over Barcelona.

With defense, there can be counterattacks.

That's the tactic.

Barcelona scored a goal, their morale was already low, and they were three goals behind, so they could not see the hope of winning, and then faced with Manchester City's solid defense, they can imagine what they can do.

Although their offense is still gorgeous and their coordination is still wonderful, Manchester City's defense is like a steel display. No matter what kind of wonderful offense, it is difficult to break through and see the goal.

They were a little helpless.

The first half ended in a daze that the Barcelona players didn't know how to win.

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At half-time, the media and fans were discussing the game. Most people thought that Manchester City would definitely be able to eliminate Barcelona, ​​even the Spanish media. Barcelona has not scored in the two rounds so far, it is really difficult to let it go. People see hope.

However, there is still someone in Barcelona who has not given up, and that is Rijkaard as the head coach.

Perhaps the Dutchman also knows that the chances of winning are too small, but even if there is a little hope, he will help the team to fight for it.

So at half-time, the Dutch did not point out that a certain player was not performing well, but kept encouraging everyone to persist until the last minute.

"As long as the game is not over, we have a chance!"

"Three balls are not the end!"

"We have 45 minutes left!"

"I don't want to see anyone not playing well in the game, we are Barcelona and we have to hold on to the end!"

"..."

Rijkaard kept emphasizing that after bringing up the atmosphere of the whole team, he went to each player to seriously instruct him on how to play in the second half.

This one-on-one coaching works for every player.

It's not that Rijkaard's level is high, but with the coach's guidance, the players can at least know what to do, and at the same time, they can also get a signal, "There is still a chance in the game, and I am also valued."

This signal is critical and gives all players the motivation to play.

Barcelona's starters, including goalkeeper Valdes, Rijkaard coached everyone and comforted Messi, who was substituted.

The only thing left is... Ronaldinho.

Two years ago, even if Rijkaard did not guide Ronaldinho, Ronaldinho would have felt nothing, because he was the number one star of the team, the core of the team, the top player in the world, even if The head coach has no qualifications and ability to guide him.

But it's different now.

This is a kind of morale boost for the whole team, but he is the only one missing.

Ronaldinho pursed the corners of his mouth and sat in the corner of the locker room, feeling somewhat sad in his heart.

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In the home team's dressing room at the Manchester Stadium, the atmosphere was completely different.

The Manchester City players were all laughing and laughing. The three-goal lead gave the team no pressure at all. They had already begun to look forward to the final.

But Wansheng, as the head coach, still reminds everyone to keep working hard.

"The game is not over yet, and now I want to pour a cold water on and tell you to be serious..."

"Persevere to the end, don't give your opponents any chance, you know, they are Barcelona!"

"This is a Champions League game, anything can happen, you all know that in the 2005 Champions League final, Liverpool were three goals behind and tied, it was just Liverpool, and our opponent was Barcelona who were more offensive. Rhona!"

"We'll celebrate when the game is over, now is not the time!"

Wansheng has always emphasized this point.

Manchester City players listened carefully. This is the majesty that Wan Sheng has created in Manchester City for three years. No one in the team dares to question his words, and everyone will listen carefully and do it seriously.

Whoever doesn't do that... will end badly.

After emphasizing the need to play seriously, all the players took their own breaks to recover their physical fitness.

In a blink of an eye, the rest time is over.

Everyone walked out of the locker room and returned to the game. With the expectation of the fans, the second half started quickly.

The game pattern in the second half was no different from the first half. Generally speaking, Barcelona continued to attack Manchester City’s defense, while Manchester City kept looking for opportunities to counterattack.

Barcelona controls the football, Manchester City controls the game.

All the players on both teams were fighting hard, and the game on the court was once very exciting.

Among them, there is a very famous player, whose performance is somewhat inconspicuous, and that is Ronaldinho, the core of Barcelona.

Said to be the core, but also just the location.

With Ronaldinho being heavily defended and others seeing him as 'out of shape', 'core' also became a positional description, rather than how big Ronaldinho was in Barcelona's offense. effect.

When some Spanish media talked about Ronaldinho, they also said, "The state of Ronaldinho is a problem. Since his appearance, how has he performed."

But Ronaldinho himself doesn't think so.

In fact, he feels that his state is not bad. Although it is not better than the peak of two years ago, at least the game feels very good. The key reason for not playing is the other side's restrictions on him.

Brommerga Morris...

In the world, no matter which player, no matter what the state is, facing the defense of Blumer and Morris, it will also be a headache.

Brumer's one-on-one defensive ability is definitely the world's top, plus a Maurice with outstanding skills, strong physique, and no worse defense than Brumer... Ronaldinho already knows why Messi didn't do much in both rounds.

Now he has to face the two defenses.

As long as he gets to the frontcourt, he will face Blumer's personal defense. After finally receiving a pass from his teammate, he will buy a pair of defense for the first time. Other Manchester City players also seem to cooperate with blocking the pass. Route, under such circumstances, it is too difficult to have performance.

But Ronaldinho is not discouraged. He is different from Messi in that he has rich experience in the game and knows clearly that no defense can be 100%, even if it is 11 people defending one person, There are bound to be loopholes.

Professional players are not machines. As long as they are people, they will make mistakes, and as long as they are defensive, they will have loopholes.

He needs to wait patiently, patiently look for it.

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As the game time ticked by, Barcelona's hopes of a comeback became less and less.

The difference of three balls is like a mountain on every player, every player, every media supporter of Barcelona.

It is possible that the mountain will move, but it will take time.

Just like the Chinese fable, "The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountains", the Foolish Old Man wants to move the two mountains of Taihang and Wangwu, and what he needs is "the inexhaustible descendants".

a hundred years?

A thousand years?

a thousand years?

That must be an immeasurable amount of time.

But if it is only a hundred years, or even less and less time, no matter how firm Yu Gong's belief is, it will definitely not be possible.

Barcelona is like this now, they keep attacking Manchester City, maybe they have the confidence to catch three goals, but as time runs out, their hopes are getting slimmer.

Even if you believe in the team's fans, there is no confidence.

Halfway through the second half, some Barcelona fans had already started to leave early. Perhaps they didn't want to see the sad scene of Barcelona being eliminated.

A lot of Spanish media also started talking about failure, although it was not what they wanted to talk about.

The Spanish national sports TV commentator analyzed the two rounds of the game and pointed out that "Manchester City's solid defense is the key to Barcelona's loss", "Their defense is too strong, it is difficult to imagine that Manchester City, which has always been good at attacking, will compete with Barcelona. Nao fight like this!"

Then he began to attack Wansheng's utilitarianism, "Many people think that this Chinese likes attacking football, but what we see is his utilitarianism, in order to beat Barcelona, ​​he completely put 'Manchester City style' aside. , let the team play ugly defensive counterattacks..."

Wansheng would definitely not agree with this statement.

The question is, do Manchester City have style?

Even if Manchester City has a style, he cultivated it, so it is not wrong for him to change his tactics. For a team that is moving towards a giant, victory is far more important than style, and they lose every game. , what is the use of having style alone?

Next, the Spanish media began to analyze the players who lost the game, he talked about Messi and Ronaldinho, "Rijkaard's substitution, the time is still too early, maybe Messi is on the field, It can make a difference to the game.”

"When Ronaldinho came on, he didn't perform better than Messi. For a while, he even disappeared."

"In this loss to Manchester City, Ronaldinho's performance is also the key. As the core of the team, he did not show the performance that a core should have..." (To be continued ~^~)