After the 29th round of the league against Athletic Bilbao, the team quickly returned to Valencia, because they still need to prepare for the second leg of the 2006-2007 UEFA Champions League 14th final against Chelsea in midweek.
The result of this game will determine the final four teams.
Although Valencia won Chelsea 2:1 in the away game, there are countless cases of reversal and promotion in the history of modern football, so they cannot be careless, otherwise they will become the laughing stock of the entire Europe, and the opponent is the same as last season.
Premier League champion Chelsea In addition, Baraja, who is responsible for full-time defense in this game, will miss this crucial second leg of the Champions League 14th final because he accumulated two yellow cards.
This has also directly reduced the team's frontal defense ability by a notch. .
What is also detrimental to Valencia is that Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien, known as the African Buffalo, will also return in this game.
He will directly bring new vitality to Chelsea's midfield, both in terms of attack and Or from the defensive point of view.
His comeback directly raised Chelsea's midfield ability to a higher level.
Lampard, Essien, and Mikel in the midfield are all players with excellent physical fitness and abundant energy.
This plus and one loss also frightened the team that had previously underestimated Chelsea.
After Chelsea ended the weekend's league game, Mourinho accepted an interview with reporters.
When talking about the second leg of the Champions League 14th final at the Mestalla three days later, he expressed full confidence, "At home.
Conceding a goal is not the end, because our African Buffalo has made a perfect comeback.
He will make his debut in this crucial game.
I believe his appearance will definitely bring the team to a higher level."
Afterwards, the reporter normally mentioned how Chelsea planned to contain Valencia's strongest attack point in the game three days later.
Mourinho thought for a while and then smiled and said, "Let's go to Mesta."
The Lia Stadium is not for defense, but for offense, because only offense can allow us to win, otherwise we will only lose.
So how to contain AI you talked about is not within the scope of our consideration."
Listening to Mourinho threatening to hold high the offensive banner at the Mestalla Stadium, this reporter was a little surprised by Chelsea, who is used to defensive counterattacks.
So their first reaction was that Mourinho was setting off a smoke bomb.
But then I thought about it, they lost at home in the last round and also conceded two away goals to Valencia, which meant that they had no way out and only attacking could allow them to advance.
Looking at the silent group of reporters, Mourinho said a few words of thanks to the reporters present and left the post-match press conference, leaving a group of reporters looking at each other.
Could it be that Chelsea really wants to play Valencia away from home?
But the current state of their team is a bit worrying.
In fact, Mourinho was only half right at the press conference at the end of the league, because his coaching habit is to divide the two-round knockout rounds into halves, which means that he treats the home game as a loss.
It was the first half, and the second leg of the Champions League 14 finals three days later was the second half.
He said that holding high the offensive banner at the Mestalla Stadium was only based on the team's defense not conceding the ball.
After all, in this cup competition, defense is the foundation.
What he said was just for the sake of Just confusing Valencia.
Valencia gave up the weekend league game, and Chelsea also chose to give up, so the two sides are preparing for the next second leg of the Champions League 14th final on an equal footing.
In order to win the game at the Mestalla Stadium and advance to the semi-finals, Mourinho has decided to reactivate the tactic of flying both wings together last season, and it is also the mismatched winger style he played when he first arrived at Chelsea in the 2004 and 2005 seasons.
Looking at Joe Cole and Kalu who were in good condition during training, Mourinho nodded with satisfaction, turned around and continued to discuss with Villas-Boas the UEFA Champions League 14th final at the Mestalla Stadium.
Second round contest.
Baraja accumulated two yellow cards and was not eligible to play in this crucial game, which also gave Valencia a slight flaw in the defense in the middle.
Although Albelda could also complete it well, it was a waste of his organizational skills.
Offensive talent on offense, in other words a waste of talent.
Marchena is a good choice, but he has been suspended for four games by UEFA.
He can only appear in the Champions League final in theory.
Edu, who is the next best choice, is also a good choice, but he has not been available for a long time.
With the sparse battle formation, the state of the game is still a big question mark, and the first game was paid in such an important Champions League knockout round.
It was an adventure for the team and Edu himself, and Flores was not a head coach who liked taking risks, so in the end he had to make a compromise and let Albiol return to the defensive midfielder position.
Taking Baraja's place.
The second leg of the Champions League 14-finals match at the Mestalla Stadium was packed with seats.
Almost the entire stadium was surrounded by white.
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There was not much blue for Chelsea fans.
So first of all, when the Valencia players came out of the tunnel, the whole stadium seemed to tremble slightly.
This shows how awesome the home team fans from the stands are.
When players from the away team Chelsea appeared on the court, the home fans did not boo.
They felt it was not necessary because this is Mestalla and any team must bow down in this stadium.
It didn't take long for Chelsea's players to feel slighted.
Mikel pouted and said, "You will be punished for your contempt."
In fact, it’s no wonder that the home fans ignore Chelsea players.
The blame is that Valencia’s home results in the Champions League this season are so good.
They have won all home games in the Champions League this season.
As die-hard fans of Valencia, they have already Have your own pride According to this season's practice, before the start of each game, a huge poster of a player will be hung in each stand of the Mestalla Stadium, and the huge poster belonging to Aiello is particularly dazzling because of that The poster is the largest and hangs in the supreme north stand.
From this perspective, Aiello is already the patron saint of the Valencia team.
Any team must surrender here, otherwise, you will be kicked into submission.
At the same time, thanks to Aiello, many Chinese fans who watched it on TV could see the Chinese flag from the scene.
Because of Aiello, they fell in love with his country.
At this moment, football is everything to the fans.
"Judging from the starting list submitted by both sides, it is very surprising, because both sides play in a 4-3-3 formation.
It would not be surprising if only the home team Valencia uses a 4-3-3 formation.
They have used this formation for nearly two seasons. , but it will be a bit strange for Chelsea.
With Duff’s transfer, Robben’s frequent injuries, and the arrival of Shevchenko, Mourinho’s favorite four-three-three this season We rarely play in a formation, more of a 4-4-2, focusing on the balance of offense and defense.”
The captains of both sides were guessing the ball at the referee's office.
Huang Jianxiang took this time to express his doubts.
Regarding Chelsea's 433 formation, Flores also felt a little confused, because Mourinho put Shevchenko, the hero of the last round's goal, on the bench in this game.
On the road, Kalu and Joe Cole, who have been in good form recently, were sent on the road, and the center was Drogba.
However, Chelsea’s 433 formation is similar to Valencia’s 433.
The three midfielders are Mikel, Lampard and Essien.
Mikel is full-time defender and Essien is responsible for the central midfield.
There is basically no difference in the responsibilities of Lampard and Ballack in the Valencia team in terms of backcourt connection and assisting defense.
The essential difference is that Valencia's wingers have a stronger scoring ability, while Chelsea's wingers mainly assist.
But after the game started, Chelsea's two wingers Kalou and Joe Cole did not pass their crosses through the two wings and then cross down the bottom, but the wingers' misplaced kicking style and stronger inside cutting ability.
Seeing this, Flores finally understood Chelsea's thoughts in this game.
It seems that Mourinho's words before the game were not just smoke and mirrors, but mixed reality.
After half a minute, Chelsea's offense came back.
Their performance in this game was just like Valencia's at Stamford Bridge in the last round.
Before the home team could react, they grabbed an opening and didn't have so many tests at all.
Show the gun.
Joe Cole's technical characteristics are very distinctive, especially on the left.
Using his technical proficiency at his feet, he can often dribble laterally when the opponent's defensive players are caught off guard, and then use the inside of his right foot to create an arc from the far corner.
His move not only often helps Chelsea score goals, but also often surprises England fans in national team games.
This is also the reason why he was able to obtain a main position in the England team in last year's World Cup in Germany.
In the 7th minute, Chelsea's attack started from the left, and then quickly moved to the right through Lampard.
After attracting Valencia's defensive forces, Lampard immediately ran to the right and quickly used A long pass gets the ball to Joe Cole.
Lampard's long pass can be said to have made the commentators in the studio shine, because the speed of the football in the air is very fast, and the movement speed of the Valencia defenders on the field is obviously not as fast as the football in the air. , which also gave Joe Cole the opportunity to duel with Miguel.
Facing Miguel's defense, Joe Cole first pedaled several bicycles in a row, and then violently pushed the ball to the right with the outside of his right foot.
Before central defender Moretti could make up for it, he picked up his right foot and used his foot.
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A curve ball was taken from the inside and flew straight to the far corner of the goal.
If Canizares hadn't predicted Joe Cole's move in advance, this would have been really suspenseful.
He saved the ball from the bottom line with one palm, easing the defensive crisis.
Watching the football fly out of the baseline, Joe Cole roared at the Mestalla sky, obviously very angry that his goal did not go forward. . s: Thank you evfa for your monthly ticket.
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