The old lord is so angry that it is of course not without a reason.[

In his words, if Atkinson hadn't forgotten his eyes at home, he should have discovered that Vidic's foot had not touched Suarez at all. The implication was that Ferguson believed that Suarez's fall, who won the penalty for Manchester City, was a fake fall.

Lin Sen, who was sitting next to the old sir, was leisurely and neither refuted Ferguson nor protected the referee.

The fact is never that absolute.

Lin Sen watched the slow-motion replay. Vidic's tackle actually belongs to the category of judgment or not. On the football field, there are countless such suspected cases. How to judge is actually only within the first thought of the referee. Thank God, this time, Manchester City is fighting at home, so the old Lord may be understandable about Atkinson's anger, but Atkinson is a little innocent, but Lin Sen chose to be cheap and not behave well.

Of course, Manchester City is the only one who benefits.

After reaching the FA Cup semi-finals, the opponent is Stoke City, which is currently in the middle and lower reaches of the league rankings. To be honest, Manchester City has touched the FA Cup championship trophy with one hand, and with the league championship trophy and the Champions League championship trophy that are still in the competition, Manchester City fans have once again seen a "harvest" season.

Linson is not as optimistic as Manchester City fans, and always imagines everything in the best direction. From the schedule of the match, the end of this difficult day in Manchester City, but it is also relatively speaking.

The day after Manchester City eliminated Real Madrid, Barcelona became their opponent in the Champions League semi-finals without any suspense. The score was only one-to-zero. Perhaps Barcelona's promotion was too common. After the game, all media focused on Messi, who scored the only goal, because this was the 48th goal of the Argentine star this season. With this goal, he also surpassed the "Alien" Ronaldo's record of 47 goals in a single season set by Barcelona. He also became the first player in Spanish football history to score 48 goals in a single season.

A series of records made Messi shine suddenly.

Mourinho's "reminder" is not wrong.

Be careful Messi.

But before being careful of Messi, Lin Sen can finally put his mind back to the league. The first leg of the semi-final with Barcelona will be April 28. Before that, Manchester City still has two league games, and the opponents in both games are not weak.

On April 20, Manchester City welcomed Tottenham at home without Lin Sen's disruption, which would have become Manchester City's biggest competitor. Lin Sen has experienced the difficulties of Redknapp's team since last season. Although Tottenham did not squeeze into the No. 1 Group, it is still the best team outside the No. 1 Group. In other words, it is the role of "scrambler". It has no hope of winning the championship, but it has a crucial impact on the situation of winning the championship, because at the end of the league, the top four teams currently ranked in the top four inevitably have to fight with them once. Therefore, the current Tottenham can be said to be a touchstone for the championship.

Manchester City, who finally regained the feeling of victory over Real Madrid and Manchester United, would never want to fall at this time. Not only because they are already three points behind Manchester United in the league, but if they lose again, the six-point gap is enough to determine something with only five rounds left in the league, especially the leading one.

Linson took a half-rotating lineup in this game, with David Silva and Yaya Toure starting mid-week players continuing to start, but the final result of this game was still very dangerous, because the score was 1-0, which is also the third 1-0 in Manchester City's last three games.

After the game, the English media still used a "near victory" to describe Manchester City's victory, believing that Lin Sen's victory was the same as the previous victory against Manchester United, with luck in it. Coincidentally, UEFA also introduced Lin Sen on its official website. This is an event on UEFA's official website, which is about introducing four teams that entered the Champions League semi-finals. Compared with the other three teams, Manchester City, which entered the Champions League knockout stage for the first time, had more highlights, and the head coach was one of them.

The youngest has become an important label for Lin Sen. The youngest UEFA Cup winner, the youngest Premier League champion coach, the youngest... A series of youngest made Lin Sen feel that he was much younger in an instant. Of course, UEFA did not use the wrong words. Even in his early thirties, even for players and individual positions, it is just the beginning of his peak, let alone the coach?

On April 24, in the 34th round of the Premier League, Manchester City challenged Blackburn, who once tied his first leg of the season, which made everyone feel a little "haggy" because it was another one to zero. Of course, for Manchester City, the important thing is not to score a few goals, but to win, and two consecutive victories. Although it failed to narrow the gap with Manchester United, they still bit the opponent tightly.

Then, Manchester United and Manchester City also welcomed their opponents in the European arena, although their opponents looked completely different.

Manchester United's opponent is Schalke 04, which eliminated defending champion Inter Milan with a big score, and also enjoyed the schedule of away first and then home. Manchester City, their opponent is Barcelona, ​​whose name represents everything, and the schedule is host first and then home.

Excluding the Gamble Cup, which is of the warm-up match, this will be the first time Linson has met Guardiola since he came to England.

The outside world has called the two's encounter a battle between offense and defensive football. This statement is obviously a bit exaggerated. The last time the media used this statement to describe a showdown was when Mourinho was still at Chelsea. In fact, since Lin Sen came to Manchester City, his tactical style has changed a lot. At least, Manchester City will definitely not be labeled as a "defensive team".

Naturally, even so, Manchester City and Barcelona are still two teams with completely different styles.

"Our chance is at home." Tang Hua's conclusion is very simple for the showdown with Barcelona.

Lin Sen knew that Tang Hua's conclusion must have been drawn through a series of data, but this conclusion actually does not require data verification at all, because if you want to defeat Barcelona now, if you put your hope at the Camp Nou Stadium, then advancing is like a fool.

The right time, place and people.

Time can be understood as preparation time, location can be understood as home court, and people can be understood as state.

Since both teams are fighting on the third line, because in terms of time, the two teams can be said to be in a balanced state, and the location is also half each, the most decisive and important people are the most important. Manchester City is currently the second in the league, Barcelona is the first in the league, and both domestic cups have reached the finals. Therefore, even this is the same as the two teams.

But the same conditions do not mean that the winner is 50% or 50 points, because of the difference in strength.

Barcelona is stronger than Manchester City, or even Real Madrid. What's more terrifying is that the strength of this team is a typical one-plus one-to-one than two. Moreover, many of these "ones" are truly the world's number one, the best midfielder in the world, the best defender in the world, the best forward in the world... Whether adding or adding one or not, the power of their combination cannot be changed.

Manchester City wants to defeat Barcelona like this, let alone away games without a "local advantage", even under the same conditions, there is no chance of winning. Therefore, it is the only opportunity to own a "local advantage" home court.

Just like Inter Milan last season, when they eliminated Barcelona away, everyone said that Inter Milan's steel defense line was their biggest hero to advance. But in fact, if there was no home game of the thrilling three-to-one reversal, even if Inter Milan defended at the Camp Nou, he would still not be able to escape the fate of losing.

But the situation Manchester City faces now has not changed.

Manchester City not only cannot lose against Barcelona at home, but even a draw is unacceptable. They must win to pave the way to the finals.

On April 27, Barcelona arrived in Manchester a day early. In the afternoon of the same day, Guardiola looked forward to the game in a pre-match press conference: This is not the first time I met Lin Sen. Lin proved that he was an excellent coach when he was in Malaga. I am very happy to meet him again and hope that tomorrow's game will be a wonderful showdown.

Guardiola's words sounded nothing special, but the English media still smelled something else from it.

A wonderful showdown?

What's the wonderful thing?

It's very simple, scoring more goals is a wonderful game.

Barcelona has never been afraid of their opponents playing such a wonderful game with them, because in such a wonderful game, the winners are always them. Unfortunately, Inter Milan had a "bad head" last season, and now more and more teams are not willing to play a "wonderful game" with them. Guardiola, who is familiar with Lin Sen's coaching style, is very clear about the "style" of Manchester City is just a "coverup" of Lin Sen. If necessary, Lin Sen will change his style without hesitation.

Lin Sen is different from him in this regard. Barcelona under his command has always only one style.

Guardiola was right. Lin Sen did not plan to play a wonderful game with the other party that made most people excited. Things are very simple. If the so-called wonderful duel is based on his own team as a foil, then it would be better if it was not exciting. No team came to lose.
Chapter completed!