Chapter 605: Atletico Madrid dissatisfied
Everyone's eyes were focused on the bottom line referee.
Including the referee, after all, it is difficult for anyone to see clearly in this situation, and only the bottom-line referee can do it.
Finally, the signal from the bottom line referee reached the referee.
The referee decisively pointed his finger at the middle circle!
The goal is valid and the score is equalized!
Two to two!
Xu Qi made a key goal again.
At this time, Xu Qi began his celebration.
Manchester City celebrated wildly, and the 2-2 score was really beneficial to them.
With such a score, Manchester City's probability of advancing may reach 80% by the end of the game.
Atletico Madrid is also very depressed, especially Simeone, whose team has scored two goals by their opponents very few times.
"That Xu Qi..." Simeone looked at Xu Qi, who was celebrating the goal from afar, feeling quite uncomfortable.
He has an obsession with the semi-finals and the Champions League.
However, Xu Qi will most likely destroy his dream.
This is the road to the king. You must step on the corpses of one opponent after another to pick the crown that symbolizes this peak.
There is still a lot of time, and perhaps the score of this game will not be frozen in two to two.
Next, the fierce confrontation between the two sides began again.
The progress of the game is also even more exciting.
The goal has not appeared for a long time.
Ten minutes...
Fifteen minutes...
Twenty minutes...
The game was tense and exciting, hot and intense.
Both sides have also created several good opportunities to score.
But the scores have not changed.
Finally, the five-minute injury stoppage time ended.
The game ended, two to two, tied.
Manchester City tied away by Donetsk Miners in the first leg of the quarterfinals, and tied Atletico Madrid away in this game.
Although they were all tied, they were tied against Donetsk Miners, and this game against Atletico Madrid can be regarded as an active draw.
Manchester City achieved a match result that they were completely acceptable.
This allows them to prepare for the battle more calmly next round.
Xu Qi also scored in this game and led the Champions League scorer list with fourteen goals.
This season, Ronaldo's goal efficiency is not as terrifying as last season, and Barcelona's three leading scorers are also relatively average in efficiency, and no one has shown it.
Therefore, it seems that no one can threaten Xu Qi's position as the best scorer.
Of course, Xu Qi's goal is not to be like the Champions League top scorer.
It is the Champions League champion, and Xu Qi hopes that he can represent two different teams to win the Champions League championship for two consecutive seasons.
The last one to accomplish this is Etoo.
Etoo Pique has also done it before, but Pique was a complete so-called player during Manchester United.
The value of his two consecutive Champions League titles is incomparable to Etoo.
Because Etoo is the absolute main force both in Barcelona and Inter Milan.
After a quarter-final, Manchester City is one step closer to the Champions League semi-finals.
This made countless Manchester City fans happy. Although they failed to win the game, the 2-2 score was enough to make them cheer.
This game made Manchester City fans thrill and nervous.
The strength of Atletico Madrid has amazed the media across Europe.
Manchester City's draw can even be called a bit of a lucky draw.
After the game, Simeone also expressed dissatisfaction. He said that Atletico Madrid should win this game, but unfortunately, Manchester City has superstars like Xu Qi and Aguero, and they seized the few opportunities.
He also complained about Xu Qi's goal line goal. Of course, he did not question the referee, but said that from his perspective, the ball should not be scored.
However, the multi-angle camera playback after the game finally gave the answer to the unsolved case of the threshold. Xu Qi's shot hit the post and bounced to the ground.
At that time, the ball had indeed jumped across the goal line as a whole, so the referee's penalty was not controversial.
It is understandable that Simeone's dissatisfaction is indeed understandable. In the whole game, in terms of absolute opportunities, Atletico Madrid does have more than Manchester City.
Xu Qi also admits this.
After the game, Xu Qi also said that this was a very difficult game, but he thought the result was fair and reasonable. The main factor that determined the result of this game was that Manchester City had the strength to become the champion, so they would not lose to any team.
Even after the game, Xu Qi could not forget to let the team continue to improve their self-confidence.
Confidence is very important when competing in the Champions League.
This is Xu Qi's insight after a Champions League victory.
He hopes to pass on these confidences to his teammates.
After this game, the whole team was really exhausted.
On the return plane, almost no one was talking and joking, and everyone was resting in the plane seat.
Indeed, this is a huge overdraft game.
After returning to Manchester, Pellegrini immediately announced a day off and gave the players a good rest, because Manchester City will continue to compete in the Premier League next.
The two-leg match against Atletico Madrid is only one week apart, and this week, Manchester City will have to withstand a Premier League test.
This is also a tough battle.
In the 33rd round, Chelsea vs. Manchester United at home and Manchester City vs. West Ham United at home.
Chelsea's game started first, and they defeated Manchester United by 1-0 at home, which also allowed the points to exceed Manchester City by one point.
In this case, Manchester City will feel nervous.
They can't even tie the game, wwcm can only win.
Because they have to play in the Champions League, Pellegrini still has to consider the issue of rotation.
He finally chose to let Aguero rest, while Xu Qi strongly asked to continue participating in the competition. He thought his physical condition was completely fine.
This kind of game density is not difficult for him at all.
In the end, Pellegrini agreed to Xu Qi's request.
After all, Xu Qi still has a record in the Premier League that needs to be refreshed.
He has scored forty-six goals in the Premier League this season, and at the same time, he is also ready to score a record of 30 consecutive league goals.
It's terrifying to score thirty consecutive league games.
It is a great record for a striker to score more than ten consecutive games. How could he think that Xu Qi has scored twenty-nine consecutive Premier League games so far.
As long as Xu Qi scores again in this game, he will break the mark of 30 consecutive goals.
A great record is about to be born, because most people know that West Ham United may not be able to stop Xu Qi.
Even after experiencing a row of hard fighting against Manchester United and Atletico Madrid, Xu Qi is still full of fighting spirit and physical fitness in this game.
In the 18th minute, Xu Qi might have scored, but when he wanted to pass the West Ham goalkeeper after getting a one-on-one, he was stabbed by defender Kslin, who rushed over from behind, and Kslin himself stabbed the ball into his own goal.
One to zero, the score was rewritten, but Xu Qi's goal was not successful, and this goal became Kslin's own goal.
This made Xu Qi quite unhappy.
He didn't even celebrate the goal, until another eighteen minutes passed, and when the game was thirty-six minutes, Xu Qi finally received a wonderful pass from David Silva.
Chapter completed!