"! This is a demon! Dai Zhiwei was preparing to go to the team for training in the morning, but after answering a phone call, he was so distracted that he almost ran a red light.

Just as Villarreal was preparing for the Champions League play-offs with Monaco, they were suddenly shocked by a piece of news!

Just three days after Villarreal won the UEFA Super Cup, Villarreal Club officials suddenly announced the dismissal of the team's head coach Marcelino García Toral, this sudden news detonated Spanish football at that time!

Villarreal club president Roig revealed that Marcelino was sacked because he was suspected of match-fixing and ruined the club's reputation.

In the 38th round of La Liga last season, the "Yellow Submarine" unexpectedly lost 0:2 at home to Sporting Gijón, "helping" its relegation, and at the same time leading to the relegation of Rayo Vallecano, who "murdered" him in 2012.

Comeuppance?

Dai Zhiwei doesn't think Marcelino arranged the team to play match-fixing, and he has dedicated most of his career and coaching experience to Gijón, so why not let his enemies be relegated when his own Villarreal is already ironclad in fourth place in the league?

If this is blamed for match-fixing, then the final round of 2012 should be investigated.

At that time, Zaragoza and Rayo Vallecano were both one point less than Villarreal, and Granada, which had one more point, and one of the four teams was relegated, and the bloody plot came-

Zaragoza kept leading by two goals and managed to go ashore. And Granada and Rayo Vallecano are directly in front of each other, and when the submarine is defeated by Falcao, as long as Rayo Vallecano wins, both teams will be relegated.

In the last few minutes, Granada began to walk. In the 90th minute, with Rayo Vallecano winning, Tamudo's apparent offside was validated.

In the end, the yellow submarine was downgraded.

At that time, the video footage captured the Rayo Vallecano players blatantly urging the Granada players to release the water. And Michu also said in a later interview, he admitted that the team began to lobby the opponent as soon as they knew that the submarine was behind.

Another story?

The Spanish media generally pointed the finger at Villarreal's central defender Musacchio.

The Argentinian was already bought by AC Milan at the end of July, but Milan had financial difficulties and the transfer had to be put on hold.

Marcelino then asked Mousacchio to deal with the matter as soon as possible and then resume training and preparations, as Villarreal's first Champions League qualifying match will soon begin.

The attitude between Musacchio and the club's hierarchy has always been the same: even if he does not go to Milan, he will consider going to other clubs.

But Marcelino's attitude is diametrically opposed: not to sell.

He believes that Mousacchio should not have asked to leave the team, let alone miss training. The conflict between the two erupted.

Marcelino said: "Not only can you not go, but you have to apologize for the negative training, otherwise you won't have to play, just finish the rest of the contract on the bench".

In addition, Dai Zhiwei also knew that Marcelino was also trying to strip Musacchio of his vice-captaincy.

The root cause?

Marcelino is an aspiring manager who wants to master the signings of players in order to build the squad according to his tactical ideas. And in the first few seasons he took over, the club did give him enough transfer autonomy and bought a lot of players he needed.

Two months ago, club director Colton left. It stands to reason that Marcelino has more power, but the club bought new signings such as Pato and Cheryshev without his knowledge, which also made him extremely unhappy.

Especially after winning the Europa League and UEFA Super Cup in succession, Marcelino has become even more inflated and wants more rights.

Dai Zhiwei thought that the Villarreal senior management would choose to compromise with Marcelino based on the team's results, and the worst case scenario is that the two sides have been deadlocked.

But I didn't expect that these idiots would choose to break up in two, announcing Marcelino's departure just two days before the Champions League play-off match with Monaco!

Dai Zhiwei and Marcelino's personal relationship is average, but the other party is somewhat kind of to him, not to mention that the team fires the team's head coach at this juncture, this is not to play in the Champions League, right?

After sacking Marcelino, Villarreal also announced the team's new head coach - Fran Escrivá.

The 51-year-old Spaniard was the boss of Getafe last season after managing Elche and led the team to La Liga as La Liga champions in 2012-13, but Escriva was sacked by the club in April due to poor results, and Getafe was relegated.

"! A manager of the Europa League and UEFA Super Cup don't choose, choose a fool who led the team to relegation and early dismissal a few months ago! Dai Zhiwei slapped the horn on the steering wheel fiercely, "Villarreal's pig-like high-level executives are just like the Chinese Football Association, they are all stupid!" ”

"Fart, to say that they are pigs is an insult to pigs!" Dai Zhiwei scolded again, and then stopped going to the club to train, turned the car and went home directly, anyway, there is no head coach in the team today.

As the team's number one star, he is qualified to tell the club's top management in this way: You can do whatever you want, but you must not turn a blind eye to the hard work and hard work of the players!

As for the punishment for missing a training session, he didn't care at all, and he didn't believe that Escrivá, who would take office tomorrow, would punish him for today's events.

……

"Alas!" Dai Zhiwei crossed his waist, looked at the large screen showing 1:2 and was speechless for a long time, and then lowered his head.

It was the first leg of the 2016-17 Champions League qualifying play-offs, with Villarreal taking on Monaco at the Stade de la Echo at home.

Last season, Monaco finished third in the league and will start this season with the third qualifying round of the Champions League.

Although Monaco has not brought in many signings in the transfer market this summer, they have brought in strong players such as Sidibe, Goric and Edouard Mendy, who have enough players to occupy the main position, and the overall strength of the team has been steadily improved.

This is the first official game for Escrivá, who has just become the new coach, to lead the Yellow Submarine, Soldado is injured, Pato and Dai Zhiwei are in the attack, Monaco, "Tiger" Falcao is injured, and Gilman is ahead.

In the week of Escrivá's arrival, the team was in complete disarray, with no tactics and tactics, no main squad to be killed, and even many players and descendants brought in during the Marcelino era were worried about whether they would be sold before the summer transfer window closed.

How much combat power can such Villarreal have?

Just three minutes into the first half, Ndiaye, who switched to central defender, fouled in the box and gave the opponent a penalty.

Monaco's Fabinho hit the penalty shot, 0:1, Villarreal fell behind as soon as the game started!

In the 36th minute, Monaco's side passed the ball to the penalty area, the two sides failed to control the ball at the first point, Pato grabbed the second point and pushed the ball to the middle, Dai Zhiwei scored with a header, 1:1!

This was Dai Zhiwei's first Champions League goal, but after the goal, he didn't have much excitement, just made a blowgun celebration with a blank face, as if he was performing a work task.

Most of the players on the field of Villarreal are the same as Dai Zhiwei, they can't be mentally motivated at all, and they can come to the exhibition because of professionalism and for the fans at home.

In this case, Villarreal completely lacks the fighting power to beat Real Madrid a week ago and win the UEFA Super Cup.

After the rematch, in the 72nd minute of the game, Monaco launched a quick counterattack, Bernardo Silva took the ball to break away from the defender and burst into the penalty area and then kicked the goal, the ball hit Gaspar's calf and changed the line, Asenjo was helpless.

1:2, Villarreal is behind again!

After falling behind again, Villarreal did not set off a wave of counterattacks, and Dai Zhiwei also tried to turn the tide again to save the team.

In the 87th minute, Mendy put Dai Zhiwei in the high-speed dribble, and then expressed dissatisfaction with the referee who made a foul roaring loudly, and was shown two yellow cards by the referee in a row, two yellows turned into one red and sent off.

Unfortunately, this red card came too late, and Villarreal's new coach Escriva did not make effective tactical adjustments, and in the end Villarreal lost 1:2 to Monaco, and the qualifying situation was already very serious.

In the next game, as long as Monaco returns to their home stadium and does not lose, or loses 0:1, then they can advance to the group stage of the Champions League.

This means that Villarreal's Champions League road this season has been pushed to a precipice!

If Dai Zhiwei has a clear conscience in this game, it is absolutely nonsense, but he has already put out at least 95% of his energy to fight, but now that the team is in such a situation, what is the use of him working alone?

Even after seeing the team lose 1-2, his anger contained a hint of watching Villarreal's high-level jokes.

"Look, it's your reckless behavior that makes it very likely that the team will not be able to enter the Champions League group stage now, and will lose at least tens of millions of euros, right?"

After the first leg of the Champions League play-off against Monaco, Villarreal welcomed the first round of La Liga of the new season just three days later.

Count on Escriva to get Villarreal, who had been disorganized in their last game, to bottom out in just 3 days?

How can it be?

It should be noted that Escriva has never managed a mid-to-upper tier team before.

This means that he may be a good player in leading the team to relegation, but it is really difficult for him to lead the team to glory in the upper middle of the table - in fact, Escriva is not up to the task of leading the team to relegation.

Therefore, although Escriva lined up a lot of his own "descendants" in the first round of the league, Villarreal was more active in the first half, although he was a visiting side, and the attacking line led by Dai Zhiwei frequently attacked Granada's defense.

Unfortunately, they failed to score after missing a couple of good chances. Granada, on the other hand, also organised a tight defence to intercept Villarreal's attack after adaptation, and successfully brought the 0-0 draw into the break.

In this game, Dai Zhiwei's state was still affected by the atmosphere of the team, which inhibited his performance, but his current strength is not something that a team like Granada can stare at for the whole game.

In the second half, Dai Zhiwei's breakthrough won a free kick opportunity for Villarreal.

Castillejo takes a direct shot at the goal, and the ball flies into the goal from the bottom right corner, 0:1! Villarreal were the first to break the deadlock.

Dai Zhiwei thought that the team would be able to get out of the haze, but unfortunately only 3 minutes later, in the 65th minute, Granada got a corner kick opportunity, the corner kick was opened, and Ponce grabbed the ball in front of the goal, 1:1, and the two sides returned to the same running line.

Neither side was able to rewrite the score, and the score remained 1:1 until the end. In the end, Villarreal drew 1-1 with Granada and temporarily sat in 8th place in the standings, with only one draw and one defeat after the change of manager.

What worries fans even more is that in three days, they will travel to Monaco to play the second leg of the Champions League play-offs against Monaco.

The only good news is that Monaco have not had a good record in Ligue 1 this season compared to Villarreal's poor recent form, with one win and one defeat in their first two league games and currently sitting sixth in the league.

Monaco did not win the first round of the league as they wanted, being held to a 2-2 draw at home by Guingamp, and the process was quite dangerous, and last season Monaco was also relatively slow in the league, but the team played a number of friendly matches before the start of this season, as well as Champions League knockout matches, so there is absolutely no run-in problem for the team, and the main problem that bothers them now is fitness problems.

Monaco did their best away in the second round of Ligue 1 last week, and finally beat Nantes 1-0, with a difficult first win of the season, and in the second leg of the Champions League play-offs, I am afraid that the team will be unable to cope with the physical exertion.

Recently, Monaco's recent offensive and defensive imbalance has been epitomised, with goals conceded in 9 of the last 10 games - in the first leg, it was Dai Zhiwei's goal that gave Villarreal a death reprieve!

In the second leg of this Champions League play-off, will Villarreal bottom out, or will it fall to the bottom?

……

“goooooooooooooooooooooooooooal！”

The Monaco fans in the stands went completely crazy, roaring along with the Monaco fans around them, vowing to break through the clouds that blocked the sun.

"1:0! 3:1 on aggregate!" Monaco's commentator was frantically celebrating, with Fabinho scoring with his right foot from the penalty spot, Monaco, whose aggregate score was rewritten to 3:1, has seen the dawn of advancing to the Champions League group stage!

"Now we are two goals ahead of Villarreal again, now we have almost killed Villarreal, all that awaits them is elimination! Come home, Spaniard! ”

"my sister! This damn it, damn it! Dai Zhiwei scolded angrily.

The aggregate score was 1:3, two goals behind, even with injury time, there were less than 20 minutes left in the game, and Villarreal was already half off the cliff!

(End of chapter)