Manchester City's corner kick.
The corner kick taken by Seat B was taken out by Ter Stegen who was in excellent condition and hugged him.
Seeing Ter Stegen and Li Mingyu in such good condition today, they couldn't help but scratch their heads.
Damn it, this guy must be playing me!
Manchester City's defense has improved significantly over the years.
Guardiola is very strict with the team's defense.
Frequent movement, cooperation and protection between teammates, counterattack on the spot after losing the ball...
Barcelona was actually suppressed by Manchester City and was unable to reach the ball.
All six Manchester City players passed half the court, chasing and intercepting Barcelona in Barcelona's half.
Even Messi doesn't dare to dribble forward rashly.
Li Mingyu has always been waiting for an opportunity not far from Messi.
Messi has long known that Li Mingyu's defensive skills are definitely underestimated.
When the two were training, Messi realized how difficult Li Mingyu's defense was.
With constant back passes, the players in the frontcourt could not come back. Slowly, Manchester City pushed Barcelona to the 20-meter area.
In front of the penalty area, after Lenglet received the ball, Li Mingyu quickly grabbed the ball, so that he did not dare to neglect and passed the ball back to the goalkeeper.
But I don't know whether it was because I was nervous or for some other reason, Lenglet made a mistake in the return pass, and the return pass was too light.
It's Lenglet again.
The fans at the scene shouted excitedly when they saw this scene.
Ter Stegen watched in confusion as Li Mingyu passed by Lenglet. The football was rolling towards him, but if he stood here, one hundred percent of the outcome would be that Li Mingyu would grab the ball first.
Ter Stegen rushed up cursing, with his teeth and claws bared, trying to intimidate Li Mingyu.
But Li Mingyu didn't change color at all. He ran up quickly and touched the ball with his feet before Ter Stegen.
Ter Stegen roared and pounced on the ball at Li Mingyu's feet.
I saw Li Mingyu dialing the ball at a wide angle, causing Ter Stegen to miss it.
Facing an empty goal, Li Mingyu felt a little strange, but he still gave a gentle push and pushed the football into Barcelona's goal.
The fans at the scene gave a roar of applause.
The players from Manchester City also rushed over, ready to celebrate with Li Mingyu.
However, Li Mingyu stretched out his hand to stop them, with a hint of bitterness on his face, and waved his hand, indicating that he did not need to celebrate.
Manchester City's players also understood his mood and ignored him. The others hugged each other and celebrated.
Li Mingyu, who scored the goal, looked a little ugly and slowly walked towards the midfield.
Messi looked at Li Mingyu's back and showed a helpless smile.
This kid is so strong.
Lenglet, who lost the ball, also stood on the penalty area line with a dull look on his face. He had just made a huge mistake.
He had already secured his qualification as Barcelona central defender, but in this important game, his famous butter-footed appearance appeared again.
Ter Stegen stood up with a look of helplessness, took the football out of the goal, and drove towards the frontcourt with a big kick.
How infuriating!
Just ten minutes into the game, Li Mingyu relied on a mistake by Lenglet to help Manchester City take the lead at home.
Some Barcelona fans couldn't help but sigh.
The high-position pressing that Manchester City did just now is simply Barcelona's method of suppressing other teams before.
Things are changing.
Now it's your team's turn to be dealt with by others using the same method.
Barcelona fans looked at the No. 10 wearing a sky blue jersey and couldn't help but feel a little sad in their hearts.
The players who were originally trained by us have now become the generals of the other team.
Three hundred million euros, is it really worth it?
No one can answer this question.
Barcelona kicked off again, but their offense was always suppressed by Manchester City's defense.
Forced by helplessness, Barcelona actually started to play long passes.
If you don't look at the jersey, fans will think that Manchester City is now Barcelona, and Barcelona is Manchester City.
A team that mainly focuses on ground coordination is now forced to play long passes.
And a Premier League team that was good at long passes and lobs has now become a team that focuses on ground coordination and pressing in the frontcourt.
It's so funny.
What depresses Barcelona the most is that their frontcourt players are generally not tall, Aguero, Messi, and the tallest Felix is only 1.8 meters tall.
Every time a long pass is passed, the landing point will be firmly controlled by Manchester City's midfielder or defender.
Barcelona's offense is in trouble.
Barcelona's new head coach Xavi looked solemn on the court.
That's right, it's that Xavi.
Barcelona's meritorious midfielder, the man behind Messi.
After the end of last season, Koeman was fired by Barcelona. Xavi returned to Barcelona from the Middle East and took over as the coach of Barcelona.
Putting Messi back into the shadow front or attacking midfielder position is a major change made by Xavi.
Barcelona has adapted to the playing style of playmaker for two seasons, and now the departure of Li Mingyu has done great harm to the integrity of the team.
Therefore, Xavi had to let Messi play the core role of midfielder, which also forced Messi to give up some offensive options.
In La Liga, since the level of other La Liga teams is really average, Barcelona can still play smoothly.
But facing the world's top level Manchester City, the loopholes of Barcelona were completely exposed.
After Barcelona played hide and seek for twenty minutes, Manchester City finally showed their terrifying power to dominate Premier League.
Barcelona made a forced long pass, and the midfielder Rodri was stuck in position, so the short Aguero could only stand there, watching Rodri leap high and gently ferry the football to Li Mingyu.
Li Mingyu stopped the ball with his chest, picked the ball over his head, and then quickly turned around, leaving De Jong behind him who was about to attack him, stunned in place.
Easily passing by De Jong, Li Mingyu gently used his foot to push the football out of the air.
Manchester City's attack has begun.
Li Mingyu's speed was very fast. In less than two seconds, Li Mingyu had already crossed a distance of more than ten meters, making Barcelona's defense line feel like it was facing a formidable enemy.
Li Mingyu suddenly made a sudden move and passed the football to the unguarded wing.
Sterling rushed over, caught the ball, and cut inside directly.
Facing Araujo's defense, Sterling made a series of wonderful bicycle moves with both feet, allowing Araujo to directly miss.
After cutting inside, Sterling raised his right foot and kicked a curve ball into the ribs of the penalty area.
Ter Stegen Because his line of sight was blocked, when he saw the football coming around, he quickly moved his steps and flew to his left side.
But it was too late, Sterling's shot was from a very tricky angle, hitting the inside of the goalpost and bouncing into the goal.
After scoring the goal, Sterling was overjoyed. He glanced at Li Mingyu and did not rush towards him. Instead, he called to other teammates and came to the stands behind to celebrate passionately.
Manchester City fans are almost dying of happiness. Only thirty-five minutes into the first half, the team is already leading Barcelona by two goals.
That's Barcelona!
Hey! What's so great about Barcelona is that all their best players have already joined our team.
Now we are the most amazing team!
A burst of pride made Manchester City fans overjoyed.
Li Mingyu's pass and shot helped the team lead Barcelona by two goals.
In the rest of the first half, Manchester City was also a little tired. After all, the team was in the lead now, and the frequent games put the players' physical strength to a huge test.
Barcelona's offensive has made some progress, but once it reaches the thirty-meter area, Barcelona's attack can no longer proceed inside.
As Messi missed a long shot from about thirty meters away, the first half of the game was over.
The Barcelona players slowly walked back to the locker room with solemn expressions.
On the contrary, the Manchester City players smiled and left the stadium chatting in twos and threes.
Now, the atmosphere inside Manchester City is very good. We have not lost a single game so far this season and have kept clean sheets against our opponents many times.
The 12 consecutive wins in various competitions at the beginning of the season is also a record in Manchester City's team history.
Moreover, it seems that the winning streak will be extended to 13 games today.
When Guardiola was in the midfield, he didn't give many instructions to the players of Manchester City. There is a certain strength gap between Barcelona and Manchester City now.
The gap in the midfield is visible to the naked eye.
After losing Li Mingyu, Pedri is no longer magical, De Jong is no longer strong in the midfielder, Fati's wing attack is no longer sharp, and even Messi seems to have lost its luster.
Losing Li Mingyu seems to have made Barcelona lose its power.
After the start of the second half, Barcelona's offense still showed little improvement.
And Manchester City has also slowed down the pace of his attack a little. After all, World Cup is about to start, and physical strength and health are the first priority.
After taking the lead, Manchester City's frontcourt players slowly pulled back.
This time, Barcelona felt even more uncomfortable.
If you want to equalize the score, you must attack.
If you attack, you will face the opponent's sharp defensive counterattack.
Manchester City's defensive counterattack is definitely world-class.
With a midfield master like Li Mingyu, whether it is the accuracy of the pass or direct one-stop play, the success rate of counterattack is very high.
But Barcelona couldn't wait to die, so he could only break out and attack.
Manchester City gave up pressing in the midfield and frontcourt and released all Barcelona's personnel.
Although Barcelona knew that this was Manchester City's conspiracy, he had no choice but to slowly push up his troops.
In the second half, Barcelona's ball possession rate was very high. The real-time ball possession rate was as high as 75%. There were a lot of passes, but most of the passes were back passes and cross passes. There were very few forward passes and almost no passes that could reach the penalty area.
Everything is a deception.
Barcelona slowly lost himself in controlling the ball.
Frequent passing and controlling of the ball made the Barcelona players seem to be back to the omnipotent moment of last season.
But Manchester City, who secretly wants to show his fangs, is already preparing for the next counterattack.
After Messi received the pass from De Jong, he made a fake move and passed the opponent from seat B.
Seeing Manchester City suddenly showing a gap, Messi did not hesitate, directly kicked the ball through and handed the ball to Felix in the frontcourt.
Young Felix quickly dribbled the ball towards Manchester City's defense.
In the first half, the opponent's Sterling used a series of bicycles to break through his own defender, which made Felix very dissatisfied.
When it comes to bicycles, I, Felix, am not bad either.
When he faced Manchester City's Ukraine defender Zinchenko, he used two consecutive bicycles to make Zinchenko lose its center of gravity.
Felix showed a disdainful smile.
But when he was about to cut inside, he felt a blue figure from the side come into his eyes.
Midfielder Rodri had already targeted him. The moment he cut inside, Rodri made a sliding shovel and knocked the football to his feet, taking him down with him.
The referee didn't say anything, turned around and ran towards Barcelona's half.
Even he knew that Manchester City's counterattack was coming.
Before Felix could complain, Rodri sat on the ground and swept the ball to the central defender next to him.
After Stones received the ball, he made a through ball and passed it to Li Mingyu in the middle.
Li Mingyu did not choose to stop the ball, but turned around and twisted his body into a knot. His left foot, which was used as a supporting foot, felt like it was about to break under the camera.
Li Mingyu didn't seem to feel it, and kicked the ball with his right foot directly into the backcourt of Barcelona.
Foden, insert it into the middle road at high speed from the side road.
Li Mingyu's pass was very accurate. After Foden ran five or six meters, he lightly jumped up, put his right foot on the ball, and the football stopped at his feet.
The transmission from Li Mingyu is beautiful, and the reception from Foden is even more beautiful.
Without any mistakes, Foden, after stopping the ball, poked the football with his toe and rushed forward quickly.
To his side, Lenglet and Eric Garcia were chasing after him crazily.
But Foden's speed has already increased, and the distance between the three people has not been significantly shortened.
Foden quickly rushed into the penalty area. Facing the attacking Ter Stegen, he calmly used a fake move to reach Little Lion and pushed the football into the empty goal.
3:0, Manchester City once again expanded the score at their home court.
Eric Garcia, Lenglet and Ter Stegen all collapsed on the ground, looking at Foden who was celebrating crazily at the bottom line, showing a wry smile.
In the slow-motion playback, Li Mingyu's left ankle seems to be out of position in the shot, making people feel numb just looking at it.
After this goal, a somewhat annoyed Guardiola directly replaced Li Mingyu.
He high-fived Gundogan, who replaced him on the field, and Li Mingyu accepted Guardiola's anger on the sidelines.
Now Li Mingyu must not be injured. The action just now was too scary.
Li Mingyu also quickly nodded and admitted the mistake.
He can't tell Guardiola that this is the home court, and the guys are protected by the system and won't get hurt.
It is estimated that Guardiola will send him to Barcelona's famous Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital to have his brain checked.
In the end, Gundogan, who came on as a substitute, completed the final blow to Barcelona.
In the second round of the Champions League group stage, Manchester City defeated Barcelona 4:0 at their home court. They currently have 6 points and are firmly ranked first in the group.
In another game, AC Milan defeated Bayer Leverkusen 1:0 at home.