Valencia Football Club, also known as the Bat Army, in China, even if not its die-hard fans, will have heard of Valencia Football Club, an old team with a long history.

As the opponent of the third round, Ding Yue now knows a lot more about the specific situation of this team than before.

Valencia has the third highest membership of any team in Spain. In the early days, the team was also known as the "White Ghost" because of the white shirts and white shorts.

In fact, Valencia is one of Europe's most famous powerhouses, having won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1980 and then beating England's Nottingham Forest in the UEFA Super Cup... It was also the first time that a Spanish team had won the UEFA Super Cup.

In the 21st century, Valencia has also entered the ranks of super teams, winning two La Liga titles in 2002 and 2004, and winning the UEFA Cup in 2004 to complete the double.

Sadly, Valencia reached the final of two consecutive Champions League finals in 19992000 and 20002001, but both ended in defeat.

These two Champions League runners-up have also attracted a lot of bat fans in China.

However, even so, before the start of the game, the die-hards who supported Valencia on the domestic forum had to support the home team in schizophrenia, and even more so in favor of one of the enemy generals who came to attack.

In Spain, Valencia fans are not afraid of Atletico Madrid. They themselves have been one of the contenders for the leadership of the second group of La Liga over the years. They achieved that feat last season 201011 Valencia finished third in the Spanish Primera Division. Atletico Madrid is only seventh.

From the face of the cards, Soldado, who has long adapted to La Liga's big gun, is not afraid of the newcomer Falcao.

The veteran captain of the midfield, Albelda, and Pablo Hernandez are one of the stable midfield combinations in La Liga, even if it is the Argentine Banega, it is enough for Atletico Madrid to drink a pot.

Rami and Mathieu on the back line are also two insurmountable walls, and with the kind of offensive state and ability of Atletico Madrid in the last game, it is not a problem to keep a clean sheet against the opponent.

Even Atletico Madrid's most optimistic fans did not dare to pack their tickets to get all three points against this Valencia team away from home before the home team went away.

But Manzano had no way back. He's had a hard time lately. After the PUBG match against Osasuna, there were overwhelming doubts about his tactics.

After that game, Arda Tulan, who had performed well and was promised a main position by the club when the transfer came, euphemistically expressed his dissatisfaction to a Turkish media outlet that "I played well but the coach just didn't give him a starter".

Manzano had to respond to this at the pre-match press conference: "When I was in Mallorca, there were also players who scolded me once because of a starting issue, and the senior management almost killed him and fined him, and the new position of the player in the next game became a popcorn taster in the stands." ”

Although Manzano wanted to convey positive values such as loyalty, responsibility and obedience to Turan in this way, his words sounded more like a comfort to the Turks: "Bear with me, there were players who had a similar situation under me. ”

The title of Master of Psychology is indeed well deserved.

It's okay if you're in a hurry to prove yourself, or if you want to win the game. After thinking about it for more than a week, Manzano finally made up his mind to switch to playing as a double striker, such a strong turn is rare in Manzano's coaching career, and it is not easy to be a coach of a big club.

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This round of Atletico Madrid's game did not take care of Asian fans. When the game started, it was 400 a.m. Beijing time.

But there are still a lot of fans squatting in front of the TV and computer, watching the game.

An hour before the game, the starting lineup was out.

Manzano made two changes to the starting line-up for the first game, with Falcao replacing Salvio and Brazilian centre-back Miranda replacing Perez, who had a minor injury. The midfielders are still lined up with Mario Suarestiago, Gabi, and Reyes, plus two forwards, and the formation of 442 is about to come out.

For Ding Yue still failed to start, everyone is ready to watch the game with the mentality of watching Manzano's jokes, and even can't wait for Atletico Madrid to be scored a goal or two.

After a few pots of coffee, the Chinese fans finally waited for the opening.

The camera flashed, Valencia's side is known as the most potential head coach in Spain, and the handsome Unai Emery is standing on the sidelines with confidence, watching the captains of the two sides on the field choose sides.

Unai Emery only decided to end his not-so-stellar career in 2004, similar to Manzano.

In the same year that he ended his playing career, he immediately switched to coaching, starting as head coach of Lorca Sports Club, which had just been established for two years.

He then managed to lead his second team, Almeria FC, to their first La Liga debut, and had a stunning performance in the 200708 season, where experts at the beginning of the season predicted Almeria to be relegated in 20th place, only to finish the season in 8th place in April.

Almeria was able to succeed in their first La Liga competition, and Unai Emery was a real part of it, with more than 40 of the team's goals coming from set-pieces, which is enough to see how good his set-piece tactics are.

In 2008, at the end of his season in La Liga, Unai Emery was finally appreciated by La Liga giants Valencia and took over the reins of the Bats in the 200809 season. Valencia have finished third in the league for two of the past three years, and Unai Emery's coaching prowess goes without saying.

In fact, Emery didn't take this team Atletico Madrid, which had not completed the run-in period and walked the two strongest first names before and after.

The situation on the pitch after the opening kick-off also confirmed this.

In the first game of the league, although he was scored three goals by Racing Santander, his own offensive line scored four! Soldado scored a hat-trick and tied with Rowe for the top scorer.

In this case, Unai Emery put his own players extremely high on the opening line, using the fiery barrel of Soldado to repeatedly attack Atletico's slightly embarrassed backline.

Under the pressure of the opponent's crazy pressing and waves, Reyes, who is no longer the brave of the past, and Adrian, who is young and lacks experience in the top flight, will not be able to help Falcao much at all.

"Grass!"

Alda Tulan, who was beside him, looked at the situation on the field, and whispered in English a word that an earthling who had almost read a few years of books could understand.

Ding Yue glanced sideways at the irascible old brother, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.

Alda Tulan didn't hide his thoughts, he touched the shiny new sneakers, and whispered to Ding Yue, "There is something wrong with this old man, if I knew that he was here this season, I wouldn't have signed a contract with Atletico Madrid at all!"

Manzano was in a hurry, but Alda Turan reached an agreement with Atletico mid-season.

Ding Yue knows that this old brother has played a world-class performance in the past few years at Atletico Madrid.

However, the first time he entered Ding Yue's sight was the dry fight between Turkey and Switzerland in the 06 World Cup qualifiers.

The two quietly exchanged opinions on the bench, and Ding Yue played more of a listener's role.

was muttering quietly, and suddenly the stadium was boiling with a burst of shouts from the fans.

Turan and Ding Yue looked up and saw that Soldado had already run to the die-hard stands to celebrate the goal.

It's only been the first few minutes?

Glancing at each other, both of them saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.

In fact, Ding Yue felt that Turan's complaint was not entirely unreasonable. I don't know why the psychological master has always maintained a passion for the counterattack battle array, and it is also in his eyes... Adrian was young and could run, Falcao had a fatal blow, Reyes dribbled on either flank, and Suarez was still a fast horse.

However, you must know that one of Atletico's current bench players is the best player in Ligue 1, and last season in Ligue 1 was the best wing player in the counter-attack with the best statistics in terms of goals and assists, while the other was in Galatasaray, and after his last game, he was obviously more eye-catching than the starters!

In this way, Manzano discharged Falcao and Adrian in the front line, and out of thin air there was one less full-back Salvio who could at least run back to his own half of the defense, not to mention pressing Alda Tulan on the bench, and voluntarily giving up the counter-attacking speed and single-point explosion on the left side in the last fifteen minutes.

I don't know who poured this cup of "honey confidence" into the psychological master, making him feel that as long as he pulled out the banner of "King of Counterattack", Valencia would lie down obediently......

Then Emery sneered: "Boys, calm down, we will practice the two tactics of pressing high and feeding Soldado bread!"

So, Atletico Madrid made a bunch of scrambled players as the background board, and Pablo Hernandez pulled Soldado to shine again.

A precise straight plug plus an explosive run and a tricky push.

10！

Ding Yue raised his head and squinted his eyes at the huge display screen in the stands, which showed that the game had only been played for nine minutes and twenty-six seconds.