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Valencia's appeal has already been dismissed by UEFA and cannot be appealed. So from this game, next game, next game, the team's head coach Ranieri will not be able to appear in the tournament that will host the European competition.

Relative to Valencia at this time - there is good news.

Moscow is already starting to warm up in April, with temperatures reaching up to around 20 degrees Celsius at noon, which is undoubtedly very good news for the Spanish players who are in the temperate zone all year round, and they do not have to play in the snow and ice, which is the most basic guarantee for their stable performance.

CSKA Moscow is one of the top teams in the Russian Superleague, having won the Russian Premier League many times, as the champion of the Russian Superleague in 03, they appeared directly in the group stage of the Champions League in the 04-05 season, but they were not very lucky, in Group E, and the defending champions Porto, Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain in the group stage, but they played well, beating Paris Saint-Germain to win the third place in the group, thus obtaining direct participation in the main match of this season's UEFA CupThey have made it all the way to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup.

This result is CSKA Moscow's best result in a European competition, and if they can beat defending champions Valencia, CSKA Moscow will become the first team in the Russian Premier League to reach the finals of one of Europe's two major cups.

As a result, CSKA Moscow applied to the Organizing Committee of the Russian Premier League for the postponement of the league on this ground, so that they could have more time to train together to prepare for the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup.

For Valencia, two consecutive league games have been out of rushing form, and now they are flying to Moscow in the east of Europe to play, the long journey is also a test of the team's form, and CSKA Moscow at home has a clear advantage.

And Moscow is a special place for European teams.

Due to the cold weather, natural grass is difficult to grow in cold Moscow, and the cost of maintaining turf is prohibitive, so Russia has become the only country under the UEFA umbrella that allows the use of artificial turf.

In order to adapt to this terrible artificial turf field, in Ranieri's plan, Valencia needs to do two to three days of acclimatization training in this bad artificial turf, but now the question arises, who will lend Valencia a field?

Just as Ranieri was fretting about this, Spartak Moscow, CSKA Moscow's sworn enemy, reached out to Valencia's staff, and the two sides hit it off, and Spartak Moscow loaned their home stadium to Valencia for two days of acclimatization training for a symbolic price of one euro.

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Upon arriving at the hotel, Ranieri ordered the team not to go out.

Iroh was very curious about such an order, so he took the opportunity to ask the manager Ranieri privately, but when he heard Ranieri's reason, his mouth was long enough to stuff an egg.

It turned out that Ranieri was afraid that when the players went out without permission, they would provoke the local gangsters in Moscow, because the Russian gangsters are one of the five major gangs in the world, and they not only control one-tenth of Russia's territory, but also control 25 percent of the country's 'black income'. It's terrible to think about, if you provoke the local gangsters, and then 'kill' into the hotel, and cripple or kill several of Valencia's main players, then the game will not need to be played, so Ranieri is worried before the rain and gives the team a strict order to prohibit going out.

After explaining to Aillo, Ranieri took the team's captain Canizares to the press conference at the Luzhniki Stadium, because Baraja, who was banned for this game, did not come to Moscow with the team, so Ranieri took the team's second captain Canizares to attend the press conference.

Many reporters asked the question that Ranieri could not appear at the Luzhniki Stadium, whether the team's combat effectiveness would decline because of this, Ranieri answered this question very calmly, "Whether I can give command on the spot, Valencia or Valencia, the team's combat effectiveness will not decline because of me, Valencia is a mature team, and now the team still has healthy Aymar, Vicente, Angullo, and young players like Ai and David Silva, I'm confident that the team will get the precious three points in this game and we will definitely be part of Valencia in the final recently! ”

Ranieri's calm and confident answer made all the players of the home team CSKA Moscow full of fighting power.

"Guys, do you see? You guys were underestimated by the defending champions, is there anything you would like to say about that? ”

Gazzaev, the head coach of CSKA Moscow, said with a smile as he looked at the players in front of him.

"-!"

The fiery Croatian Olic was the first to stand up and said.

"-!"

"Yes, yes, yes,--."

Soon, his teammates were touched by his spirit and expressed their attitudes.

"the bunnies from Spain! Stepping into the Alvalad Stadium and reaching the final must be our great CSKA Moscow! ”

Finally, the team's young captain, the 21-year-old goalkeeper Akinfeev, is known as the successor of the Russian goalkeeper Yashin.

"Okay—good!! If only everyone had the confidence to win! ”

Head coach Gazaev looked at the players who were full of determination to win, and felt extremely proud in his heart.

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The players from both sides also warmed up before the game at the Luzhniki Stadium, and the more than 80,000 seats in the stands were almost filled, but the whole stand was more like it was filled with red, and the home jersey of CSKA Moscow, known as the Russian 'Red Army', was still mainly red.

Although the weather in Moscow in April is showing signs of warming, the temperature difference between day and night is still very large, reaching as high as 20 degrees Celsius at noon and as low as 2 to 5 degrees Celsius in the evening.

So the Valencia players were almost always fully armed during the warm-up, with the exception of Elo, who wore a simple long-sleeved shirt over it, in stark contrast to David Silva.

"Warm up! Be sure to warm up well!! If you don't want to end the game with an injury at the beginning of the game, give me a serious warm-up!! ”

Acting head coach Benetti looked at most of the heavily armed players and shouted in dissatisfaction.

According to UEFA regulations, manager Claudio Ranieri is not allowed to enter the stadium at the Luzhniki Stadium, but he can appear in the stands, accompanied by two UEFA staff members who supervise him.

So the assistant coach Benetti served as the interim head coach of this game, although he was mentally prepared as early as half a month ago, but when the game was coming, he was very nervous, so there was a scene just now when the players were not serious about warming up and yelling.

The scene was watched by the home fans in the stands, which finally gave them a reason to mock the away players on the pitch.

"Hahaha-look at your head coach and assistant coach-"

"Don't think that you can defeat us with the Spartan grandsons borrowing a field for you, don't even think about it!!"

"Tut-tut, look - these twives from Spain, how thick they are, don't worry - we're not interested in your ass-hole, haha-"

"Guys, I bet they must be bent! Haha-"

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"Damn, I hate the weather, the turf, the stands! In short, I hate all the qiē here! ”

Iroh stepped on the football and said to Ferrer very unhappily.

The game had only started fifteen minutes, and counting the kick-off kick-off, it was the third time that Iroh had stood in the centre circle to kick off in this game.

The screen in the north stand of the Luzhniki Stadium is huge

2：0

Beep-!

After the game started again, CSKA Moscow took advantage of the home stadium and quickly cut off the football at the feet of the away team Valencia, and once again organized a new attack, ready to 'kill' the hinterland of Valencia.

At this moment, Carvalho, the core of CSKA Moscow's midfield, was wearing a white jersey of No. 28 as soon as he received the football

The referee blew his whistle and walked up to Iroh and gave him a stern warning.

"Ai - we have a chance - calm down!"

Albelda noticed that Iro's watch was a little impatient, and hurriedly walked over and patted him on the shoulder, comforting him.

"Hmm!"

Iroh nodded casually and stood back in his place.

Seeing this, Benetti, who was acting as the team's head coach for the first time, seemed at a loss, he had not experienced such an experience, so he didn't know how to solve it, and his mind was very chaotic at the moment, and the team was two goals behind in less than a quarter of an hour after the game started, which was really a terrible start.

In order to prevent the home team from scoring again, even Iroh threw himself into the defense, and the game was quite intense, and before the thirty minutes were up, he felt out of breath and a little out of breath.

It stands to reason that the home team Moscow Central Road Army will press Valencia with the advantage of the home field, which is Ailuo's chance, but...

In the 32nd minute, Albelda received a ball from Marchena, and a long pass found the feet of Iello who was in the gap on the left side, and when the latter received the football and was ready to accelerate, Odiach put Iello on the ground, and the referee only awarded Valencia a free kick in front, and did not show a yellow card to the opponent, not even a warning.

"Boy, this is the Luzhniki Stadium!"

These are the words that Odiach said after he put down Iroh.

Situations like this are not uncommon in the first 30 minutes, which is why Valencia has not been able to play, and the referee's whistle in this game is really too biased.

In the 35th minute, when Ielo himself stole the ball at the feet of a careless Rakhimic in the middle and stepped out to accelerate, he was again brought to the ground by Odiach.

Beep――

The referee blew the whistle at the first time that Oighia put Aillo, signaling Oighia to foul, but did not show the yellow card, and even like the previous foul, the opponent did not even receive a warning.

At this time, Iroh quit, and immediately got up from the artificial turf and walked in front of the referee, and said excitedly, "This is a quick counterattack!! Mr! And, it was his multiple fouls on me!! Then he also pointed to the center circle of his half, the left sideline, and the three places at the front of the penalty area, and at the same time he also stretched out his index finger, middle finger and ring finger, looking at the referee to indicate that the opponent had committed three fouls!

But the referee ignored Iro, but took out a yellow card from the bag on his chest and showed it to Iro, and said: "Boy, you need to calm down!" ”

"You're a sentry!!"

Seeing the referee blowing such a partial whistle, even Ferrer, the best character of the team, couldn't stand it anymore, and ran to the referee angrily and said.

For the players who dared to challenge the authority of the referee, of course, the referee on duty would not let go, and the yellow card that had just been taken out had not yet returned to the pocket, so he changed an angle and showed it to Ferrer again.

Shhh

The away fans in the stands immediately stopped doing it and hurriedly booed the referee.

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Valencia received two yellow cards in a row within a minute.

Although I thought that the referee of this game would blow the whistle before I came to Moscow, I never thought that the referee would blow so badly!

This made Ranieri in the stands frown, and hurriedly walked to the front of the stands and pretended to be very excited, bowed his head to the wireless signalman hidden in the corner of his clothes and said, "Let the players calm down, otherwise they won't have to play when they return to the home stadium, if they really can't do it, they will replace a few defenders, and keep this score until the end of the game, and maybe there will be a chance to return to their home stadium!" ”

Benetti, who was standing on the liquidation, heard Ranieri's words, and raised his voice to Aurelio on the sideline and said, "Favio!! Go and tell your teammates that you must stay calm, otherwise this game will really be gone, go! ”

Seeing that their love was about to get out of control, Iello and Ferrer were dissuaded by Aurelio and Canizares, who ran up from the goal, and it took a while to stabilize their love.

"it! I swear this referee must have taken black gold!! ”

Iro, who was pulled away by Canizares, said angrily, and spat out a mouthful of saliva at the same time.

Hearing Iro's words, Canizares' heart immediately cooled, and he quickly turned his head to look at the referee, and when he found that the latter's attention was not here, he relieved himself and said to Iro, "Ai - pay attention to your words, otherwise the referee will hear you say that you are sent off, then this game will really not be played!" You're a big part of the team's counter-attack, you have to keep a cool head at all times, you know? ”

Hearing Canizares say this, it took a while for Ello's angry state of mind to relax a little.

Turning his head, his eyes looked coldly at Odiach, who had fouled him continuously, "Wait for Lao Tzu!" I'm going to score a goal!! ”

At the same time, the clenched fists made a crisp 'moan' sound because of the excessive force.