Barcelona & Man City, two reasons to watch

(Baonghean.vn) - At 1:45 am tomorrow (October 20), host Barcelona will face Man City in the Champion League. Attacking football lovers will have dozens of different explanations for staying up all night to watch the two teams with great attacks. But perhaps just stating 2 simple reasons is enough for us to not miss this match.

Guardiola "goes home"

Coach Guardiola made his name with Barcelona at the Nou Camp and tonight he is leading the Man City army back "home". Leaving Barcelona, ​​Guardiola does not hate the Tiqui-Taca style of play or the club owners, but simply wants to become the "evangelist" of the brocade and embroidered style of play to Europe. First it was the famous Bayern Munich of German football and now it is Man City, the giant of English football.

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If last year, Man City's ball possession rate was 57%, after Guardiola appeared, it increased to 62%, the number of goals also increased from 1.87 goals/match last season to 2.37 goals/match. Guardiola likes to have a team with 11 players who can play with their feet, so he was generous in "cutting" veteran Joe Hart to bring in Claudio Bravo, Barcelona's own goalkeeper.

Man City under the Spanish coach do not have the right personnel to play with the 4-3-3 formation that Guardiola still favors, but he still wants to build a "magic triangle" with 3 peaks: Sergio Aguero, Raheem Sterling and Nolito. Of course, because of playing with the 4-1-4-1 formation, the bottom edge of Raheem Sterling and Nolito is "more spread out" than the bottom edge of the triangle of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar.

People are waiting to see after a period of wandering, when returning to Nou Camp, what version Guardiola has upgraded Tiqui-Taca to and how it operates against the real Tiqui-Taca.

Atomic bombs and gas

Barcelona has the famous "atomic" MSN trio Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar, while Man City is also on the way to creating the "atomic bomb trio" "ASN" (Aguero, Sterling and Nolito). Nou Camp will witness the competition of two magical triangles that are attracting everyone's attention. This season, the MSN trio has scored 10 goals and 9 assists for each other despite only appearing together for 230 minutes out of a total of 1080 minutes playing for Barcelona. Although Messi, Suarez and Neymar have only played together for more than 2 seasons, it is too formidable for a striker!

On the away team, the trio of Aguero, Sterling and Nolito have played 6 matches together with a total playing time of 339 minutes. ASN has also scored 12 goals but has only had 4 assists for each other.

Man City's striker Aguero is far behind Suarez in terms of ball-playing ability, having not even once successfully assisted. Although they have the same scoring efficiency of "4 to 1", Barcelona's trio of strikers only need 92 minutes while Man City's trio need 113 minutes to score a goal.

At Nou Camp, Barcelona is in extremely impressive form with 16 wins and 1 draw. Meanwhile, in the Champion League arena, the away team Man City has only lost 1 of the last 5 matches. So will the home team Barcelona, ​​the “father of Tiqui-Taca”, or the away team Man City with “Tiqui-Taca version 2” win?

An Thanh