Chapter 504: There's a superstar named Gao Yu
Valencia made it to the final of the Copa del Rey, where their opponents will be decided tomorrow, and if nothing else, this opponent will likely be old rivals Real Madrid.
The next day, Real Madrid won Athletic Bilbao with a score of 4:1 over two legs and advanced to the final of the Copa del Rey.
The match was played early, at the Bernabeu Stadium, Real Madrid's home stadium, at the end of March, to coincide with Real Madrid's centenary, which is one of the reasons why Real Madrid are desperate to reach the final this year.
Fan Shang looked at this match and smiled, it seems that Real Madrid is ready to lose a "car" again, but after the last incident, the Spanish Football Association is now very tight, this game should be a normal game, and there will be no other moths because of Real Madrid's centennial celebration.
But the Real Madrid players should not give up on this game, after all, this is the first title they want to pay tribute to in the centenary celebrations, and they must try to get off to a good start.
The next few weeks of Valencia's schedule are relatively easy, there is no double match in a week, until the final of the Spanish Copa del Rey with Real Madrid, Valencia will start another double match, there is still more than a month to go, Valencia needs to adjust themselves to the best in this month, and then go to compete with Real Madrid.
The league has become a tool for Valencia to adjust its state, and with the tacit understanding of Valencia now, it is definitely a warm-up for some weak teams, and even some experiments can be moved to this kind of game.
The first to be sent to the door is Alaves, this team is not a weak team to be exact, after all, they are also in seventh place in the league and still have a chance to compete for European qualification.
But this is still not enough for Valencia to see, Vincent tried some of the routines of inserting in the back and cutting inside the side to shoot directly, but the effect was average, Valencia's offensive efficiency in this game was not high, only scored two goals, and won Alaves 2:0.
In the subsequent league game against Celta, in response to the failure of the previous attack, in this game, Vincent adopted the offensive mode of infiltration in the middle, and even Angulo and Mendieta both leaned towards the middle, and the middle squeezed Valencia's six players who could pass and control.
It wasn't a game of two goals, but possession was a dreadful 80 per cent to 20 per cent, and Celta didn't have a couple of decent attacks. It's still 2:0, and Valencia has already played such a score in both games.
However, Fan Shang thought that the effect of this game was good, but they were all gathered in the middle, the space was compressed too little, and there were many passes similar to the passing for the sake of passing in the later period of Barcelona Guardiola.
In the week that followed, Valencia continued to work on this controlled passing, albeit extending the space from the centre to two wings, only with fewer individual breakaways and more in line with the midfielders and midfielders.
With a high possession rate and a wide passing vision, Valencia is a nightmare for every opponent. The next league opponent, Birea Real, became the first ghost of this mature Valencia team, 4:0, Bireal, was slaughtered by Valencia at home.
Speaking after the game, Virérreal's head coach Nunez lamented: "Our team was well prepared before the game, but against Valencia we played like a stake, Valencia is too strong now. ”
The media has also begun to hype up the changes in Valencia's games, although they have been unbeaten before, but the possession rate is not so terrible, just relying on some individual performances, and now Valencia players have strong ability to come out individually, and the power of kneading together is even more immeasurable.
The ultra-high possession rate not only ensures the strength of the team, but also reduces the pressure on the back line a lot, why these four league games have not conceded a goal, the reason is that the opponent has not attacked a few times, and even if Valencia in this offensive trend, the defense is the same as layered, the front and the wing-back intercept the first layer, the back and then intercept the second layer, and the third layer is one of the central defenders to interfere, and the last is the remaining two central defenders who are dragged at the back are really defending in the penalty area.
After the slaughter of Birea Real, Valencia faced their real opponents, and it was also the final test before Real Madrid's Copa del Rey final.
Valencia will host Barcelona.
Before the game, the Barcelona media began to trumpet the match between the two teams, believing that it was a showdown between two Tiki-Taka teams, with Barcelona being the forerunner of Tiki-Taka and now Valencia being the successor of Tiki-Taka.
Fan Shang was disdainful after reading these Barcelona reports, and the meaning of these Barcelona media was very clear, that is, Barcelona was a senior, and Valencia was just a learner. Although Vincent did borrow these things, he would never allow the Barcelona media to say so.
Fan Shang thought about it, although the Internet is not developed now, but Fan Shang is also a shareholder of several large search engines after all, it is still simple to find a few pictures, after finding a few pictures, Fan Shang found a reporter from "Super Sports Daily" and asked them to send a draft.
The next day, the headline in Super Sports was "Tiki-Taka, NO! China cuju" (天朝蹴鞠), and the picture next to it is Fan Shang's Chinese painting of someone to find a few juju.
That's what Fan Shang said, what Tiki-Taka, play! I'm using the ancient Keju tactics of the Celestial Empire now, believe it or not, anyway, 600 years ago, there was a superstar in the Celestial Empire called Gao Yu, who was much more popular than the Cruyffs now, and kicked the ball to the Minister of Defense, and he is the pioneer of Fan Shang's current style of passing-and-control play. Then Vincent finally hinted that in fact, Barcelona's Tiki-Taka was also born from the traditional Celestial Empire.
Fan Shang just opened his eyes and said nonsense, back then the ball couldn't land on the ground, where did he get any passing, he just didn't want Barcelona to put himself in the position of a senior to disgust Valencia.
In this way, Fan Shang took out the things of his ancestors to bury Barcelona, no one can figure out what the situation is, the Celestial Empire is mysterious to people in Europe and the United States, and no one will verify these things that Fan Shang said in Europe and the United States, even if they go to the Celestial Empire, they can't verify anything, this is all Fan Shang's nonsense, how can there be evidence.