The strongest winger

Chapter 931 Fear of Home Fans

Accompanied by the Valencia team song "Valencia Hymn" played on the live broadcast, the moment the players of both sides of the match followed the referee into the field from the player channel, the Mestalla Stadium erupted with huge cheers.

Among them, Ai Luo, who wears the captain's armband, received the loudest cheers.

Ai Luo looked up subconsciously, and the fans used their own power to create a different kind of fanatical atmosphere.

I saw the Spanish spelling of Valencia Club made up of white and orange mosaic boards, which looked extraordinary.

The atmosphere created by the Mestalla Stadium, which can accommodate [-] fans, is naturally not comparable to that of the Bernabeu and Camp Nou, but its small size also has small advantages.

The sound can be transmitted back and forth on the four walls of the stadium, and it is easy to linger, which puts greater psychological pressure on the players of the visiting team who come to the stadium.

Nearly 6000 fans of the visiting team came to Mestalla in this game, accounting for about 1/10 of the fans in the game, which means that the home team still has a lot of tickets for Barcelona fans.

Compared with the [-] tickets Barcelona left for Valencia fans in the first half of this season, Valencia is really too generous.

Although the number of Barcelona fans accounted for one-tenth of the fans in the audience, their voices were completely incomparable with the home team's Valencia fans.

Feeling the cheers from the stands, the Valencia fans on the field were full of energy.

Whether this game is for yourself or for the fans in the stands, you must win the game.

Because the points gap between Valencia and Barcelona is only four points, with the reduction of league rounds and the resumption of the Champions League knockout battle, the leading advantage of the league standings becomes particularly important.

According to Valencia's schedule, there is only a three-day difference between Barcelona's Copa del Rey final and the No.30 three-round home game against Real Madrid this season. More importantly, if Valencia can break into the Champions League semi-finals, then the league after Real Madrid will be the first round of the Champions League semi-finals.

If the points gap is not big enough, then Valencia will be under great pressure.

What will be sacrificed at that time must be the league, and stay for the Copa del Rey championship and the promotion to the Champions League final.

In other words, if you play Barcelona at home this round, you must win the game.

However, the desire to win the game is mutual, and Barcelona can't wait to get three points. While avenging the first half of this season's league, it also narrows the points gap between them.

Simply stand in a row and shake hands before the game to show that friendship comes first and competition comes second.

The on-site director gave the camera to the Barcelona starter Busquets very meaningfully, and gave a close-up shot. He seemed to know that there would be interesting shots next.

Sure enough, Valencia, headed by Aiello, chose to ignore Busquez who extended his right hand during the handshake gesture.

The on-site commentator who saw this scene was stunned for a moment, and then said excitedly: "Oh? Valencia captain Aiello directly ignored Busquets who stretched out his right hand! The same is true for the other Valencias who followed him!! Haha... I believe Busquets must be very embarrassed at this time."

Indeed, Busquets' white face immediately turned from white to red, and then from red to black...

Valencia's No. [-] sports commentator Hyde said excitedly: "Good job! This kind of unsportsmanlike player should be treated like this! If it is possible... I don't want to see him at all!"

La Liga commentator He Wei chuckled and said: "Although Ai Luo's approach is not good, it is also within the rules. Busquets' flying shovel against him and David Villa's slap in the first round are unforgivable!"

Only the Catalan commentator pouted and criticized the Valencia players: "You are really uneducated, don't you know that friendship comes first? It's really surprising that this kind of team can occupy the top of the league for a long time!"

Regarding what happened to Busquets, his teammates had to pretend not to see it. After all, it was his fault first.

Coupled with the fact that Valencia in the stands raised his arms and shouted, the [-] Barcelona fans who came with the team could only shake their heads secretly.

Fortunately, the venue for this game is Mestalla. If you are in the Nou Camp, then Busquets, who shook hands and signaled, would be stunned and crashed from behind.

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Back to the topic, after the Valencia players ignored Busquets' handshake, the captains of both sides went to the referee to guess the ball.

Due to the absence of Puyol due to injury, the captain of Barcelona in this game is the brain Harvey.

This time Ai Luo was lucky, losing the right to pick a side and getting the kick-off right.

Even so, Valencia's opening game was not going well.

Barcelona, ​​who was a guest at Mestalla in this game, was clearly well-prepared. In the absence of captain Puyol due to injury, the defense came to a big shift.

Their usual four-three-three formation has also become four-four-two. Mascherano, who was in the midfielder position, was moved to the central defender position, and Pique partnered with double central defenders.

The two full-backs are Maxwell and Alves.

The position of the defensive midfielder was filled by Keita when Mascherano moved to the central defender. He partnered with Busquets as a double defensive midfielder. The other two central midfielders were Harvey and Iniesta.

The two forwards are Messi and Pedro.

Although Barcelona's midfielder combination in this game is a new combination, the double midfielder of Busquets and Keita performed very well.

Five minutes into the game, Valencia, which was playing at home, had only one chance created by Aiello.

At that time, Valdez was full of attention, and he dived sideways and blocked the ball out of the bottom line with a single palm.

On the contrary, Barcelona played two wonderful quick counterattacks. Iniesta, Messi and Pedro all had a certain speed. It was difficult for Valencia's defensive players to keep up with the transition from offense to defense.

The midfielder Harvey Martinez is tall and has long legs and a large coverage area, but his speed is too slow to erect an effective defensive barrier in front of the central defender.

So Ancelotti got up on the coach's bench before his butt was hot and came to the sidelines to direct the game.

As a team with a unique style in today's world football, Barcelona is almost impossible to limit. Many teams choose to stick to the bus, but often this choice will backfire.

If you choose to recycle, the team will feel more pressure.

So Ancelotti's adjustment is not on the defensive end, but on the offensive end.

Taking advantage of a dead ball, he called Cazorla to his side to teach him the opportunity, asking him to focus more on the offensive end rather than the defensive end.

The second is to change positions between Aiello and David Silvado. As Maxwell grows older, his speed is not fast and he becomes slower. He is a player who can be bullied by a speed player like Ailuo...

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With the adjustment of Ancelotti, Valencia's offense has been strengthened, and the problems on the defensive end have also been resolved.

The on-site director has a lot of professional knowledge, and he can see the changes in Valencia at a glance, so he took advantage of the opportunity of a dead ball to adjust the camera position aimed at Ancelotti.

The on-site commentator He Wei said: "It seems that the tactical master is the tactical master. He is very accurate in determining the changes in the situation on the field, and made adjustments as soon as there was a problem in Valencia."

This point of Maxwell is Barcelona's weakness. He has just turned [-] and his disadvantage in speed is very obvious.

It seemed a bit difficult to face the impact of David Silva, so facing the impact of the speed madman Ai Luo can only eat ashes. In order to prevent the team's defense from making mistakes on his own side, he had to use his hands to make up for the lack of defensive ability.

Now it's the turn of Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola to feel worried. He stands on the edge of the visiting team's coach command area and frowns.

At this time, the on-site director also gave him a close-up shot.

The local Barcelona commentator said with a serious expression: "Guardiola must change his defense on the left, otherwise when Ai opens a bigger gap here, the team will lose the ball."

As soon as the words fell, Keita predicted in advance and intercepted the ball passed by Mata to Aiello on the right, and then passed it to another midfielder Busquets who was helping to defend in the center. The latter kicked the ball to Harvey.

Cazorla rushed to Xavi who was holding the ball at the first time, but he was overwhelmed by Harvey's ingenious emergency stop in disguise, and handed the ball to Iniesta who had just passed the center line.

In the process of running back, Xavi Martinez saw the football roll to the responding Iniesta, and he subconsciously fell to the ground trying to block Xavi's pass.

However, Harvey's pass is very powerful, and Harvey Martinez's fall did not shovel the football.

Then there was a loud exclamation
As Javi Martinez fell to the ground and failed to block the ball, Iniesta, who was holding the ball, and Messi and Pedro, who were running, faced Valencia's entire defense in an instant.

Even fans who don't understand football can tell from the visual impact that Valencia's defense will be very dangerous.

Since Javi Martinez is not in the defensive position, the defender Godin, whose defensive position is closest to Iniesta, naturally pushes out, and the other three defenders Jordi Alba, Albiol and Azpilicueta nervously mark Pedro and Messi.

Among them, Messi attracted two defenders.

But it was Saber Pedro who ran out of space. His running position immediately attracted Iniesta's attention. He faced the ball to Pedro's running route, giving the Valencia defender an illusion-he was going to pass the ball to Pedro!
Godin quickened his pace and moved forward to defend Iniesta.

However, Iniesta directly buckled the ball to the left with the inner corner of his right foot at a distance of two meters from Godin, swayed the angle, and secretly passed the ball to Messi with the outer instep of his right foot.

Iniesta's dress pass to Pedro and the spike and concealed pass basically happened between lightning and flint, so that Albiol, who was defending Messi, didn't even react.

Huge boos erupted at the Mestalla Stadium, showing the fear of the home fans.

(End of this chapter)