The early morning of April 23 finally arrived, and Long Shute, wearing sports equipment, appeared in the Allianz Arena early.

Strictly speaking, before the game begins, the surrounding areas will be strictly blocked. Except for the two early application to adapt to the venue, everyone will generally be refused to enter and exit at will - especially for the visiting team.

However, this regulation has no binding force on Long Shute. Will the security guards of Allianz Arena... block their team's superstars and absolute core?

"Don't be too tired of yourself, Long! I'm waiting to see you beat those little Spanish guys tonight!"

The security captain - let's call him that for now - laughed loudly while watching Long Shute sign his autograph.

Long Shute also smiled, and then took out several tickets issued by the club from his pocket:

"Who is the son?"

Several security officers immediately raised their hands:

"My family is a son!"

"I'm a son too!"

"I'm a son too!"

"Hey, is the feminist protection organization? There is a superstar here who openly makes discriminatory remarks against women. Yes, yes, yes, he is very rampant, and he also says that he has more than one billion fans behind him, his attitude is extremely arrogant and he is simply arrogant. By the way, his fiancée seems to be a member of your organization..."

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"Crazy..."

"Parr..."

After trotting into the stadium, Long Shute met several turf maintenance workers who were watering the grass, including Stephen Lampard, the previous name was of course made up by Hu.

According to FIFA regulations, the turf is generally watered before the game to keep the field flat and soft and reduce the risk of players being injured (dry grass leaves are sometimes as sharp as blades, and a casual slip may cut the thigh with just a kick). For teams that advocate ground control, the wet turf will also reduce the resistance of football and make the game rhythm smoother.

Of course, sometimes, the home team will adopt different strategies of watering less, not watering, or watering more according to their needs, with the purpose of hindering the visiting team.

Long Shute ran around the field with his football and had to stop.

He pointed to the large pool near the central circle, and his sneakers almost fell into it just now:

"What does this mean? Do you want to drown me?"

Stephen Lampard grinned:

"You've wronged me, that's what Yup means."

Long Shute curled his lips and shook his head with some disdain.

This Heinx is such a conservative old man!

Even though I, Long Ritian, have been under my control, I still do these messy external moves!

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"CCTV, CCTV, audiences, welcome to watch the first leg of the 2012-13 European Champions League semi-finals. I am commentator Duan Yixuan..."

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At 2:45 am domestic time, various TV stations and online platforms ushered in a moment of sharp increase in ratings.

But in the Allianz Arena, Long Shute was observing his opponent in this game.

Lionel Messi.

The Barcelona top star is standing next to him at this moment.

A trace of suspicion flashed in Long Shute's eyes.

Although the system on him has limited functions, at least he will not make such huge mistakes when reviewing players!

Today's Messi... has a comprehensive score of only 78!

In Barcelona, ​​not to mention ranking first in such a score, even the top ten cannot enter!

What's wrong with the Argentine King of Football?!

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The system quickly gave the answer.

Just 20 days ago, in the first leg of Barcelona against Paris Saint-Germain, Messila injured her left leg.

Muscle strain is not a particularly serious injury. Some players with excellent physical fitness and mild injuries only need to rest for two or three days to continue to return to the arena. If it is slightly more serious, two or three weeks will be enough to recover.

But Messi did not get a good rest because Barcelona's situation did not allow him to rest in the ward. Without recovering from his injury, he appeared on the bench with an injury in the second round a week later and planned a final kill. It was precisely because of this final kill that Barcelona was able to advance thrillingly.

The media and fans at that time all worshiped Messi. His injury-drawn game received a lot of applause, almost as great as Long Shute, who "she went to the soul" in the Champions League final last season.

Manchester United legendary captain Gary Neville, who just retired and changed his career to become a football commentator, even wrote a 5,000-word commentary article in his column, titled:

"The worst Barcelona witnessed the greatest Messi!"

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"Everyone is always talking about superstars. I always felt that superstars must have a continuous and stable high-level performance in important games, and be able to play the role of superstars at critical moments to help the team win championships in important events such as the World Cup, Champions League or the League.

Let’s talk about the Premier League, let’s see how Van Persie dominated the game in the first half of the league, scored winning goals repeatedly, and made great contributions to Manchester United’s current lead of 12 points. Looking back at almost the same time last season, Yaya Toure also led Manchester City out of the quagmire with his own strength and finally won the championship.

However, Wednesday's Champions League night redefined the meaning of a superstar in my mind. I seem to have said that the so-called superstar sign is that when he walks into the room, everyone's eyes are naturally focused on him.

But I have never seen it, nor have I ever experienced the scene that appeared at Camp Nou on Wednesday night: a player's influence can reach this level.

The Champions League match against Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday night was perhaps Barcelona's worst performance in the past four years. The sleepy Barcelona wing also spread the sleep factor to the audience, and it looked like the entire stadium lacked the feeling of a big match. In fact, I had predicted Paris would score at halftime, while Barcelona would be even more embarrassed and then lost the game by a two-to-three goal difference.

Then, the 5-foot-6-inch player came on the court, even if he was injured, even if he couldn't run at full speed. But listen to the cheers in the stadium and look at the boiling crowd, you can feel the atmosphere on the stadium being revived. The fans regained their confidence; Barcelona players began to create murderous intent, and Paris Saint-Germain players were likely shocked by Messi's aura.

This change is not due to the gap in tactical or technical capabilities, or even to some specific and visible physical reason. It is more like a change on the spiritual level. Only when you experience everything that happened at Camp Nou on Wednesday night can you feel the height Messi has reached now and the influence he has.

In the first half, Messi sat on the bench due to injury, but he appeared at the right end of the entire bench, as if he was the coach who was the coach who was directing the team. In the second half, when Paris Saint-Germain scored in the 50th minute, I saw that the head coach did not give any instructions to Messi, so he stood up and started warming up, and then he didn't get on the court until the 62nd minute.

His influence in the club seemed so great. He slowly walked on the court and did not run up like a substitute. In fact, every step he took was a torment. He offside twice shortly after he got on the court because he failed to retreat in time - obviously, he couldn't even speed up.

Even if Messi is injured, even if he is just standing on the court, he can lift Barcelona to another level. Before this, I have never seen such a scene!

How special this scene is! I want to say that if a player simply stepped onto the court and ignited the entire court and reversed the game, then the player redefined the meaning of greatness. This is exactly the feat Messi accomplished.

This is not to say that I didn't realize how great Messi was before, I had watched him beat Manchester United twice in the Champions League final with great performances. However, I haven't seen Barcelona without Messi in a long time. In fact, this is the first time since April 2008 that Messi has not started in the Champions League knockout stage.

Before this game, I said that Barcelona without Messi is likely to have only 7 success forces left.

However, after the game, I have to correct my statement: Barcelona without Messi only has 4 success powers left. The lack of this superstar has a huge impact on Barcelona in terms of spirituality.

And if Messi appears on the court, then Barcelona will be sublimated from an excellent team to the best team in history.”

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Praise from opponents is often more objective, not to mention a superstar like Gary Neville, not to mention that he is also the legendary captain of the Premier League Red Devils.

Some people always criticize Messi as a "system player". All his achievements are due to Barcelona's powerful group, and even attacked him on the grounds of "not leaving Barcelona to prove himself in other teams or leagues" and "breaking his legs in minutes to come to the Premier League."

But... Why is Barcelona's most powerful Spanish team, why is their number one superstar an Argentinian?

To be fair, if Long Shute had not been Long, Messi would be the most powerful player between 2009 and 2012, and his talent was better. Or to put it another way, his playing style is more in line with the impression of "genius". After all, his most powerful competitor, Ronaldo, has undergone a significant transformation during this period. Even when Ronaldo just debuted, his dribbling was the most fancy and sharpest breakthrough, it would be difficult for him to bring people extremely strong visual impact and psychological shock like Messi.

But now... this talented player's injury worsened due to his haste appearance. In the data displayed by the system, Messi's acceleration and sprint dropped to 15. Other physical and mental conditions were also bad, and two data even turned into pitiful single digits!

Even if Messi like this...what is the point of defeating him?!

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At that moment, Long Shute even had the idea of ​​using the "Dragon Divine Holy Light".

He wants to defeat the most peak opponent, rather than a sick man who can't even step out of his legs and falls off as soon as he touches it!

But the system clearly told him: Messi is not friendly to you enough, and... it takes four hours of solitude, so it does not meet the requirements for use.

He could only take a deep look at the opponent, and then follow his teammates out of the player channel.

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Lionel Messi is in a very bad situation.

In the second round with Paris Saint-Germain, he did take the initiative to ask for a substitute to appear, and head coach Bilanova only half-supered and half-spoken about his request.

He knew that his left leg injury had become more serious because of this, and he still has not recovered until now, but he must participate in this game.

As Gary Neville's article says, Messi's existence is of great significance to Barcelona today.

Especially in Puyor, Mascherano, Abidal, and Adriano are unable to play now. If he does not stand up, this Barcelona team has no hope of defeating their opponents!

Today's Bayern...but all players go to play!

Although Messi cannot see the system data, he also knows that with his current physical condition, he will never be able to defeat Long Shute. Under the fierce pressing of the opponent, he will be at a disadvantage, so he cannot even complete the sprint.

But he had no choice.

He can only believe in one thing:
Chapter completed!