Chapter 107 Aggrieved
Chapter 107 Aggrieved
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Chang Sheng successfully aroused the hatred of Barcelona players in Valencia.
There is often no necessary connection between the friendly relationship between clubs and the hostile relationship between teams.
Before the start of the game, when Gaspart, the president of the Barcelona club, and Otti, the president of the Valencia club, shook hands together, they still had smiles on their faces, and they exchanged a few words in a low voice with Otti from time to time, and they seemed to be in harmony with Otti. Dee's relationship is really good.
It is completely different from the previous game between Valencia and Real Madrid.
But the happy scene on the rostrum has nothing to do with the fierce competition on the court.
Inspired by Chang Sheng, Valencia's players now have only one thought in their minds - revenge!
The game last season left a deep impression on many Valencia players.
Especially after Rivalnardo killed them, the Nou Camp almost crazily celebrated, in the eyes of the losers, this seemed to be a kind of showing off.
It’s just that after the game is over, the season is over, everyone has left, no one will always be worried about a game, after all, life must go on, no matter how failed last season, the new season will always come .
So they deliberately forgot about this game...
They thought they could really forget about the game.
But when they replayed the highlights of that game in the dark locker room today, they heard Chang Sheng's sonorous and forceful rhetorical question in the dark.
Are you willing?
Only then did they realize that they had never forgotten that game, because they were really unwilling. They were beaten by a player who was exceptional, but not by Barcelona. In their view, Rivaldo is qualified to go to the Champions League, but Barcelona does not.
Chang Sheng's move today awakened the sleeping demons in their hearts, and the fire of revenge drove them to fight Barcelona on the court.
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The Catalan media tried their best to promote the friendship between them and Valencia before the game. Whether there is any hope to confuse Valencia and make Valencia unable to give full play in the game, everyone does not know this, but If not, he must have thought so.
But now it seems that they did not confuse Valencia, but they confuse their own team...
Barcelona's players were not very excited during the game, and they were slow to enter the state.
This wasn't a fatal thing at first, but when it met a group of Valencia players who were bent on revenge, the situation was completely different.
Most of the victors in this game are old players from Valencia. Most of them have experienced the game of last season—whether they are on the court or on the bench, these players are absolutely certain of that game. deep impression.
Letting these players start allows them to vent all their energy without wasting it on the bench.
The starting strikers are Angulo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Although Villa recovered from injury, he still had assists in the first two rounds of the league. His performance is acceptable, but Angulo has been in better form recently. In the away game against Villarreal, Angulo had an assist, and in the last UEFA Cup match against Servette, Angulo simply scored twice.
With such an outstanding performance, he naturally has no reason to continue to sit on the bench, and Angulo was a player who participated in the last round of the league last season.
In the midfield, although Aimar also returned from injury, he still did not start the game.
All four midfielders are players who participated in the league game with Barcelona last season. Double defensive midfielders Albelda and Baraja, right midfielder Mendieta, left midfielder Vicente.
Baraja is the player who scored twice in the game last season. His outstanding performance failed to bring victory to the team in the end, which has always been a regret in Baraja's heart.
Now in this game, he naturally wants to make up for this shortcoming.
At centre-back, Pellegrino and Carvalho partnered, Paulo Ferreira at right-back and Aurelio at left-back.
The goalkeeper Canizares, who picked up the ball three times in goal last season.
Such a lineup can be said to be a lineup full of scars. Except for Ibrahimovic, Carvalho and Ferreira, they are all players who participated in the last round of the league last season. Is the main force, some people are substitutes.
Chang Sheng let them start the game in order to let them turn their dissatisfaction with that game and all kinds of envy and hatred towards Barcelona into the motivation of this game.
So far, his strategy has been quite successful. Because from the very beginning of the game, Valencia took advantage of the home court and launched a fierce offensive against Barcelona's players.
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In Barcelona after the 2008-2009 season, the teams that dared to attack them all died miserably in the end.
But this is not the 2008-2009 season, and Barcelona today is not the "cosmic team" led by Guardiola in the future.
So when Valencia launched a fierce attack at its home court, Barcelona, which entered a slower state, was a little bit overwhelmed...
In fact, Barcelona has always lacked a correct understanding of Valencia football.
When the two teams played against each other in the first half of the season, Ibrahimovic had some problems in that game, so what was shown was not the real Valencia. And Barcelona played against such a Valencia team, and their personal experience of Valencia is naturally only that one game.
They naturally lack more knowledge of Valencia. Although it is possible to understand Valencia's tactics from the media and watching game videos, it is always separated by a layer of window paper...
Under the impact of Valencia's constant rush, Barcelona's defense began to have problems.
Due to Valencia's frontcourt siege and siege tactics, Barcelona couldn't even get through the midfield.
When Chang Sheng saw this scene off the court, he was a little bit embarrassed.
Six years later, he watched a lot of Barcelona games. After a group of small men in the frontcourt of Barcelona lost the ball, they swarmed wildly, making it impossible for the opponent to even pass the football. Their defense caused great trouble for the opponent.
I really didn't expect them to be dealt with by this tactic one day...
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In the home game, Guardiola did not watch the game at home, but came to the scene. In the stands of Mestalla, he witnessed how his former teammates were surrounded by Valencia in the away game. He was so aggressive that he couldn't make it through halftime.
His face is not very good-looking, after all, he has played for Barcelona's first team for ten years, and his feelings are extraordinary.
Now watching Barcelona perform poorly, he also empathizes.
Barcelona's problem is no longer a football problem, but a problem within the team and at the top of the club. He couldn't do anything about these problems, so he finally chose to leave. Unexpectedly, my departure did not bring Barcelona back on track, and the civil strife remains...
He sighed, it's a miracle that such Barcelona can still rank third!
Look at the completely different performances of Valencia and Barcelona in this game. This is the gap between the third in the league and the first in the league.
Speaking of which, he and Chang Sheng designed this set of tactics together, but he didn't expect to use it on his own team. Although he may not play in the match against Barcelona, it seems like he helped Valencia defeat Barcelona with his own hands...
He felt that he still had to reach that step after all... to meet his former club on the court.
Because he participated in the formulation of Valencia's offensive tactics, he knew very well that Barcelona with this performance had little chance of beating Valencia away.
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Guardiola thought well. In the 21st minute of the first half, Valencia made a steal in the frontcourt. After cutting off the ball at Harvey's feet, he quickly launched an attack. Baraja went straight, Ibrahimovic took the ball with his back, but he didn't make much adjustments, but made a very light, unobtrusive pass, and the football penetrated Barcelona. The defensive line, and then Vicente cut in from the wing, ran to the neutral position, and kicked the ball furiously!
"Vincent!!!"
Accompanied by the roar of the commentator Moen, Vicente slammed the door vigorously!
He kicked the football hard towards Barcelona's goal.
Although Barcelona's goalkeeper Bonanno defended the near corner, he could only defend the bottom, because the center of gravity was too low. When the football flew over his head, Bonanno only had time to wave his hand, but he didn't touch the football at all. ...
"L!!! Vicente! Vicente! Valencia led Barcelona 1-0 at home!! Faced with Valencia's frontcourt press, Barcelona seemed very uncomfortable. For a while, their offense Can't even make it past halftime!"
"This Valencia looks almost invincible! They beat Real Madrid at home and away. Is Barcelona going to repeat the same mistake?"
After scoring the goal, Vicente looked very excited. He turned and pointed at Ibrahimovic who passed the ball to him. Ibrahimovic laughed and rushed forward, and other Valencia players also followed Come up, hug the two, and celebrate the goal together.
"In the last round of the league last season, Valencia lost 2:3 to Barcelona in an away game. Now it seems that Valencia has revenge! They have never forgotten that game... Rivaldo is still on the court, Can he save the team in this game? At least from the first 20 minutes of the game, it is difficult to see such signs..."
While the Valencia players celebrated, the Barcelona players stood on the pitch, staring blankly at their opponents.
They have played a lot of games this season, but none of them are like these 20 minutes... aggrieved!
Yes, if they had to find an adjective for their feelings, many people would choose to use "aggrieved". They feel very aggrieved, unable to kick the ball, unable to play their football style at all, being chased by Valencia like mad dogs, completely losing the ability to think, and can only pass the ball mechanically, pass the ball Move, pass and move, until finally the ball is lost...
They couldn't figure it out. It seemed that Valencia's football was somewhat similar to theirs, but why did it appear completely different?
What is so great about Valencia's tactics?
Many people are puzzled.
Playing like this, these Barcelona players will not see the dawn of victory at all... (To be continued.