The strongest winger

Chapter 108
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Valencia's complaint has already been rejected by UEFA and cannot continue to appeal.So starting from this game, the next game, the next game, the team's coach Ranieri will not be able to appear in the European competition.

Compared with Valencia at this time - there is another good news.

Moscow in April has begun to warm up, and the temperature can reach a maximum of about [-] degrees Celsius at noon. This is undoubtedly very good news for Spanish players who live in the temperate zone all year round. They do not need to play in ice and snow. This has the most basic guarantee for their stable performance.

CSKA Moscow is one of the top teams in the Russian Super League. They have won the Russian Super League championship many times. As the champions of the Russian Super League in 03, they directly appeared in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League in the 04-05 season. All the way, until now the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup.

This result is the best result CSKA Moscow has achieved in European competitions. If defending champion Valencia can be eliminated, then CSKA Moscow will become the first team in the Russian Super League to enter the finals of two major European cups.

Therefore, CSKA Moscow applied to the Russian Super League Organizing Committee for the postponement of the league for this reason, so that they could have more time for joint training to prepare for the UEFA Cup semi-finals. The League Organizing Committee quickly gave them the green light and opened a small fire for them.

For Valencia, the two consecutive league games were in a state of rush, and now they are flying to Moscow in eastern Europe to play. The long journey is also a test for the team's state. CSKA Moscow, which is playing at home, clearly has the advantage.

And for European teams, Moscow is a special place.

Due to the cold weather, natural grass is difficult to grow in cold Moscow, and the cost of maintaining turf is too high, so Russia has become the only country under UEFA that allows the use of artificial turf.

In order to adapt to this terrible artificial turf field, in Ranieri's plan, Valencia needs to undergo two to three days of adaptation training on this terrible artificial turf, but now the question arises, who will lend Valencia the venue?

While Ranieri was worrying about this, CSKA Moscow’s rival Sparta Moscow contacted Valencia’s staff, and the two hit it off. Sparta Moscow rented their home stadium to Valencia for a two-day adaptive training at a symbolic price of one euro.

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After arriving at the hotel where he was staying, Ranieri gave the team a ban on going out.

For such an order, Ai Luo was very curious, so he took an opportunity to ask the head coach Ranieri in private, but when he heard the reason of Ranieri, his mouth grew enough to stuff an egg.

It turned out that Ranieri was afraid that when the players went out privately, they would provoke the local gangs in Moscow, because the Russian gangs are one of the five largest gangs in the world. They not only control one-tenth of Russia's territory, but also control 20.00% of the country's "black income". Think about one-tenth of Russia's territory, which is larger than the entire Spain.It's scary to think about it. If the local gangsters are provoked, they will "kill" into the hotel at that time, maim or directly kill several of Valencia's main players, then the game will not be played, so Ranieri worries before the rain and gives the team a serious order not to go out.

After explaining to Aiello, Ranieri took the team captain Canizares to the press conference at the Luzhniki Stadium. Since Baraja, who was suspended for the game, did not come to Moscow with the team, Ranieri took the team's second captain Canizares to the press conference.

A lot of questions asked by reporters are whether Ranieri can’t appear in the Luzhniki Stadium, will the team’s combat effectiveness decline because of this? Ranieri answered calmly, “Whether I can command the scene, Valencia or Valencia, the team’s combat effectiveness will not decrease because of me. Precious three points, Valencia must be part of the recent finalists!"

Ranieri's calm and confident answer made all the players of the home team CSKA Moscow full of combat effectiveness.

"Guys, did you see that? You guys got underestimated by the defending champions, what do you have to say about that?"

Gazaev, head coach of CSKA Moscow, looked at the players in front of him with a half-smile and said.

"F-he-damn!"

Olic, a fiery Croatian, stood up first and said.

"F-he-damn!"

"Yeah, yeah, fuck--fuck-hi-mother."

Soon, his teammates were all touched by his spirit and expressed their attitudes one after another.

"Fuck you bastards from Spain! It must be our great CSKA Moscow who will step into the Alvalade Stadium and enter the final!"

The last thing to talk about is the team's young captain, the 21-year-old goalkeeper Akinfeev, who is known as the successor of the Russian goalkeeper Yashin.

"Good—good!!! Everyone has the confidence to win!"

Head coach Ghazayev looked at the players who were full of determination to win, and felt extremely proud in his heart.

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Players from both sides are still warming up before the game at the Luzhniki Stadium. More than 8 seats in the stands are almost filled, but the whole stand is more like being filled with red. The home jersey of CSKA Moscow, known as the Russian "Red Army", is still mainly red.

Although the weather in Moscow in April has shown signs of warming up, the temperature difference between day and night is still very large. It can be as high as [-] degrees Celsius at noon, but it can also be as low as [-] to [-] degrees Celsius in the evening.

So during the warm-up, the Valencia players were almost all fully armed, but Aiello was an exception. He was only wearing a long-sleeved jersey wrapped in a simple long sleeve, and David Silva was in stark contrast to him.

"Warm up fully! You must warm up fully!! If you don't want to end the game due to injury at the beginning of the game, then give me a serious warm-up!!!"

Acting head coach Benetti looked at most of the players in full armor and yelled in dissatisfaction.

According to the relevant regulations of UEFA, coach Ranieri is not allowed to enter the Luzhniki Stadium, but he can appear in the stands, accompanied by two UEFA staff who supervise him.

So Benetti, the assistant coach of this game, served as the temporary head coach. Although he was mentally prepared half a month ago, when the game was about to come, he was very nervous, which is why the scene just now happened when the players were not serious about warming up and yelled.

This scene was seen by the fans of the home team in the stands, which finally gave them a reason to ridicule the players of the visiting team on the field.

"Ha ha ha - look at your useless head coaches and assistant coaches -"

"Don't think that you can defeat us with the grandchildren of Sparta lending you a venue, don't even think about it!!"

"Tut tsk tsk, look—these girls from Spain are so thickly dressed, don't worry—we're not interested in your ass, haha—"

"Guys, I bet they're crooked! Haha—"

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"Damn, I hate the weather here, the grass, the stands! Anyway, I hate everything here!"

Ai Luo stepped on the football and said to Ferrer very unhappy.

The game has only started 15 minutes, counting the kick-off at the beginning, this is already the third time that Ai Luo has stood here in the middle circle to kick-off in this game.

On the screen in the North Stand of the Luzhniki Stadium
2:0
Beep——!

After the game started again, CSKA Moscow took advantage of the home field and quickly cut off the football at the feet of the visiting team Valencia, and organized a new round of attack again, preparing to 'kill' towards the hinterland of Valencia.

At this moment, Carvalho, the core midfielder of CSKA Moscow, had just received the football when he was caught by a man wearing the No. 28 white jersey.

The team members were shoveled to the ground, and then the referee blew the whistle in his mouth, and walked up to Ai Luo to give him a serious warning.

"Ai - we have plenty of opportunities - calm down!"

Albelda noticed that Ai Luo was acting a little irritable, so she hurried over and patted him on the shoulder, comforting him.

"Ok!"

Ai Luo nodded casually, and stood back to his position.

Seeing this, Benetti, who was acting as the team's head coach for the first time, seemed at a loss. He had never experienced such an experience, so he didn't know how to solve it. At the moment, his mind was very confused. The team fell behind by two goals within a quarter of an hour of the game. This is really a terrible start.

In order to prevent the home team from scoring again, even Ai Luo threw himself into the defense. The game was very intense. Before 10 minutes, he felt out of breath and a little bit exhausted.

Logically speaking, the home team, Moscow Central Road Army, took advantage of the advantage at home to overwhelm Valencia. This is Ai Luo's chance, but...

No.30 In the second minute, Albelda received a football from Marchena and sent a long pass to Aiello, who was in space on the left. When the latter received the football and was about to speed up, Odiach put Aiello on the ground. The referee just awarded Valencia a free kick in the front court, and did not show the opponent a yellow card, not even a warning.

"Boy, this is the Luzhniki Stadium!"

This is what Odiach said after he brought Ai Luo down.

Situations like this are not uncommon in the first three 10 minutes. This is also the problem that Valencia has been unable to play. The referee's whistle in this game is really too biased.

No. In the 305th minute, Ai Luo snatched the ball at the feet of the careless Rahimic in the middle, and when he went out and accelerated, he was brought down by Odiach again.

Beep——
The referee blew the whistle as soon as Odhia was put on Aiello, indicating that Odhia had fouled, but he didn't mean to show a yellow card. Even like the previous foul, the opponent didn't even receive a warning.

Now that Ai Luo quit, he immediately climbed up from the artificial turf and walked in front of the referee, saying excitedly, "This is a quick counterattack!!! Sir! Moreover, he has fouled me many times!!!" Then he pointed to the middle circle of his own half, the left sideline, and three places at the front of his penalty area.

But the referee ignored Ai Luo. Instead, he took out a yellow card from his chest pocket and pointed it at Ai Luo, saying at the same time: "Boy, you need to calm down!"

"You are a whistleblower!!"

Seeing the referee blowing such a biased whistle, even Ferrer, who has the best personality in the team, couldn't stand it anymore, ran to the referee angrily, and said.

For the players who dared to challenge the authority of the referee, the referee on duty would certainly not let it go. The yellow card just drawn out had not yet returned to the bag, so he changed his angle and showed it to Ferrer again.

Shhhhhhhhhh-
The fans of the visiting team in the stands quit immediately and booed at the referee.

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Valencia received two yellow cards within 1 minute.

Although I thought that the referee of this game would blow the whistle long before coming to Moscow, but I never thought that the referee would blow the whistle so far!

This made Ranieri in the stands frown, and hurried to the front of the stands to pretend to be particularly excited. He lowered his head and said to the wireless signal device hidden in the corner of his clothes, "Let the players calm down, otherwise you won't have to play when you return to the home court. If there is no other way, just replace a few defensive players and keep the score until the end of the game. You may have a chance when you return to your home court!"

Benetti, who was standing on the platform, heard Ranieri's words, and said loudly to Aurelio on the sideline, "Favio!! Go and tell your teammates to keep calm, otherwise this game will really be over, go!"

Aiello and Ferrer, who were about to lose control of their emotions, were discouraged by Aurelio and Canizares who ran up from the goal. It took a while to stabilize their emotions.

"Damn it! I swear this referee must have received black money!!!"

Ai Luo, who was pulled away by Canizares, said angrily, and at the same time spit out a mouthful of saliva.

Hearing what Ai Luo said, Canizares' heart immediately turned cold, and he turned his head to look at the referee. When he found that the latter was not paying attention, he was relieved and said to Ai Luo, "Ai - pay attention to your words, or if the referee hears that you are sent off, then this game will really be impossible to play! You are an important part of the team's counterattack. You must keep a calm mind at all times, you know?"

Hearing what Canizares said, after a while, Ai Luo's angry state of mind relaxed a little.

Turning his head, he looked coldly at Odiah, who fouled him continuously, "Wait for me! I will definitely score!!!"

At the same time, the clenched fist made a crisp 'groan' sound due to excessive force.

(End of this chapter)