Messi dan Alves, Golnya Tenggelamkan Semangat City
Messi and Alves Goals Beat Spirited Blues on the Night
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Madrid (B2B) - Gol Lionel Messi dan Daniel Alves di babak kedua mengantar Barcelona ke perempatfinal Liga Champions usai mengalahkan Mancester City 2-1 (agregat 4-1) pada leg kedua 16 Besar Liga Champions di Nou Camp pagi ini.
Manchester City yang kalah 0-2 di Etihad pada leg pertama membutuhkan gol cepat dengan menggebrak pertahanan Barcelona pada 10 menit awal laga. Lini tengah Citizen tampak dominan mengalirkan bola kepada penyerang Sergio Aguero. Sayang tidak ada peluang matang yang tercipta.
Namun dominasi serangan City tidak bertahan lama. Duet lini tengah Andres Iniesta dan Xavi Hernandes mengambil alih penguasaan bola di tengah babak pertama.
Neymar sempat mencetak gol di menit ke-20 namun wasit dianulir wasit karena tertangkap offside, seperti dilansir Yahoo News.
Lima menit kemudian Lionel Messi berhasil menerobos barisan pertahanan Citizen. Namun bola terlepas ketika hanya berhadapan dengan penjaga gawang Joe Hart dan bola justru terlepas dari kaki Messi dan bola disapu oleh Joleon Lescott.
Menit ke-38 Neymar kembali membuat barisan pertahanan City kocar kacir, sayang sepakannya melebar ke sisi kiri gawang City.
Tiga menit kemudian sepakan keras Nasri masih mampu ditangkap Victor Valdes meskipun sempat terlepas.
Skor imbang tanpa gol bertahan hingga babak pertama usai.
Pada babak kedua City memasukkan penyerang Edin Dzeko menggantikan Sergio Aguero yang tampil minim peluang di paruh pertama.
Baru dua menit babak kedua berjalan tendangan first time Dzeko nyaris membuka angka untuk City, namun digagalkan Valdes.
Menit 51 akselerasi Messi dari sisi kanan pertahanan City hampir membuahkan gol, sayang digagalkan mistar gawang. Satu menit kemudian melalui skema serangan balik Dzeko nyaris membuat Valdes memungut bola dari gawangnya namun bola justru tipis diatas gawang Barcelona.
Menit 54 bek Pablo Zabaleta yang merangsek ke dalam kota penalti Barcelona nyaris mencetak gol tapi tendangannya melebar. Empat menit kemudian tendnagan Nasri pun berhasil digagalkan Valdes.
Gol yang dinanti publik tuan rumah akhirnya tercipta pada menit 57. Messi menceploskan bola setelah menerima umpan matang Fabregas, dan kedudukan menjadi 1-0 untuk Barcelona.
City bermain dengan 10 orang ketika menit ke-78 Pablo Zabaleta diusir wasit usai menerima kartu kuning kedua.
Meski hanya bermain dengan 10 orang, Vincent Kompany sukses mencetak gol pada menit 89 memanfaatkan umpan Dzeko. Namun satu menit berselang Barcelona kembali mencetak skor melalui kaki Daniel Alves di penghujung laga.
Solidnya lini tengah Barcelona membuat lima pemain City harus diganjar kartu kuning dan satu kartu merah.
Livescore juga mencatat Barcelona unggul 55 persen penguasaan bola dengan enam lesakkan ke gawang sementara City hanya empat.
Kemenangan ini membawa Barcelona menyusul PSG, Atletico Madrid dan Bayern Muenchen di perempat final Liga Champions.
Madrid - Lionel Messi and Dani Alves scored second-half goals as Barcelona beat 10-man Manchester City 2-1 on Wednesday to reach the Champions League quarterfinals for the seventh straight season.
Barcelona advanced with a 4-1 victory on aggregate over two legs in which referees decisions — and non-decisions — played a big part.
City defender Joleon Lescott replaced Martin Demichelis, who was sent off in the first leg, and had just as much trouble keeping up with Messi throughout the game at the Camp Nou.
But Lescott was unlucky as Cesc Fabregas' pass bobbled through his legs in the 67th minute to emerge onto the run of Messi, who flicked the ball over goalkeeper Joe Hart with a sublime touch.
As in its 2-0 defeat in the first leg, City finished with 10 players after Pablo Zabaleta was booked for a second time in the 78th for protesting after Gerard Pique barged into substitute Edin Dzeko inside the area without a penalty being awarded.
Vincent Kompany scored a consolation goal for City in the 89th minute before Dani Alves struck in stoppage time for the Spanish champions.
City managed to create good scoring chances from the boots of David Silva and Yaya Toure, but manager Manuel Pellegrini could only bury his head in his hands when Messi scored his eighth goal of the competition.
While Barcelona did not look in danger of an upset, City will certainly feel aggrieved after Pique was not penalized for his sliding tackle from behind, which saw City's furious players surround referee Stephane Lannoy and Zabaleta dismissed.
Much of City's hope of overcoming the deficit lay in Sergio Aguero's return after he missed the first leg, but the Argentina striker also seemed absent Wednesday despite starting ahead of Alvaro Negredo and Dzeko. Pellegrini watched from the stands as the Chilean served a ban for his criticism of the referee's performance in the first match.
Though Silva passed up a promising opportunity early on, Barcelona was sharp as Messi repeatedly ran at — and past — Lescott, who seemed to have got away with a trip on the Argentina forward inside the area in the early stages.
Messi exploited City's slow-footed defense to register his 28th goal of the season after having found the post earlier on.
City crafted occasional first-half moments, but Hart kept the visitors in it with a reaction stop on Xavi Hernandez before Fernandinho cleared Neymar's curler off the line.
City went into the break encouraged after Samir Nasri sent Silva's midair backheel flick straight at goalkeeper Victor Valdes, who also tipped Dzeko's powerful header over the bar in the 52nd. Aguero came off with an injury for Dzeko to start the second half and immediately lifted City's attack.
Kompany looked to have been in an offside position as he guided Dzeko's header home to equalize, but the goal proved fruitless as Dani Alves scored late again, as he did in the opening leg.
