On February 4, Valencia sat at home to face Atletico Madrid, who have been in good form recently, and the two sides have played 66 games at the Mestana Stadium, with the home team having the upper hand with 34 wins, 14 draws and 18 losses, and is unbeaten in the last 4 home games against Atletico Madrid with 2 wins and 2 draws.

Atletico Madrid, who played away from home, did not cause much trouble for the home team, and Baraja Biao, who wore the captain's armband, was very good in this game, limiting Torres alive and almost missing the whole game, so that the visitors lost a major point of attack and also helped Valencia's defense a lot.

This frees up more time for Valencia to focus on attacking.

It is worth mentioning that the defenders of Atletico Madrid, who are playing away, are also quite successful in defending Aillo, and the main midfielder of the Portuguese national team, Macheni and Costinha, cooperate very tacitly, so that Eelo does not do much in this game.

However, as the star of the team, although he was restricted in the sports battle, he created a lot of opportunities when taking set-pieces, especially in the corner kick battle.

What no one expected was that Atletico Madrid's failure was because the home team was too limited to Elo, so that the other key personnel of the home team did not take care of the defense, and the captain of the German national team, Ballack, in the 26th minute, received a header from Elo at the edge of the penalty area, and directly shot the ball without stopping to help the team take the lead.

And this goal is like opening a flood of promotion, and it is out of control.

In the following fixtures, Aelo and David Villa scored a goal each to continue their home win this season, while Atletico Madrid relied on Valencia veteran Ferrer to score a face-saving goal.

After the game, Valencia's next league opponent, Getafe's head coach Schustel tonguò and their local correspondents, began to declare war on the top team Valencia, "Although we were eliminated from the Copa del Rey by Valencia, we can still find a place in the league, and next weekend's home game is a great opportunity for us, we can score two goals away from home, then we will definitely win ......them when we return home."

What he didn't expect was that Valencia's manager Flores, including the players, did not focus on Getafe, but on the direct dialogue with Barcelona two weeks later.

Although the gap between the two teams in the standings is quite obvious, Valencia is 14 points ahead of Barcelona, but the direct battle in two weeks will still affect the final ownership of this season's league title, because if they win, then the points can be further expanded, otherwise, then the points gap will be narrowed, and the team's morale will drop quickly, and the suspense of this season's La Liga title will naturally be renewed......

So when Flores spoke to a local reporter from Getafe, he didn't mention the game against Getafe, but talked about the game against Barcelona at home two weeks later, when Schuster's face turned the color of pig liver.

Similarly, Barcelona manager Rijkaard quickly focused on the national derby two weeks later after finishing this round of the league game against Osasuna.

According to local media in Catalonia, Laporta has given Rijkaard an ultimatum that if he can't win Valencia in this game, then he can roll up the mat and go home.

***

What made Schuster even more unacceptable was that all the attention of everyone, apart from the local media in Getafe, was on the national derby two weeks later.

With 21 rounds to go, Barcelona are 14 points behind Valencia at the top of the table, and with 17 rounds left in the league, if this direct meeting between the two sides can beat Valencia at the top of the table, then they still have a chance of winning the title, on the contrary, just like last season's second leg of the competition, losing this game is quite a season of losing the league title.

This result is a difficult result for both Barcelona's hierarchy and manager Rijkaard.

As a world-class giant, Barcelona invests so much every year, if it is ranked in front of Real Madrid, it will be forgotten, but this year it was crushed by the little-known Valencia, how to continue to play?

With two weeks to go before the national derby, the official mouthpieces of both sides began to spit out, and against this backdrop, some players couldn't resist joining in the war of words.

However, there was no further spread.

……

Against the backdrop of frenzied media coverage on both sides, Valencia and Barcelona have both started their respective leagues.

With a stomach full of anger, Schuster was ready to win Valencia at home, but it didn't happen as he expected, and Airo's header in the opening minute set the tone for the game - Valencia to Getafe!

In the end, Valencia beat Getafe 5-1 away from home, with Ailo playing very well individually, contributing two goals and one assist.

Barcelona, on the other hand, beat Racing Santander 3-0 at home.

****

With both teams facing off in the first leg of a crucial UEFA Champions League quarter-final tie in the middle of next week, fans are starting to speculate as the game draws closer.

Will the game focus on the league or will it be reserved for the knockout stages of the Champions League starting in the middle of next week?

Soon, the head coaches of both sides were interviewed by reporters and announced that they would play the main force in this game!

Of course, the importance of this game can also be analyzed from the points ranking of La Liga, but under the determination of the coaches of both sides, the implication is even more obvious!

This game is about the league championship this season!!

So this game is also getting more and more attention from fans in other regions and countries! Chinese fans, in particular, found it interesting that Iello seemed to be particularly energetic against Barcelona, who had the highest goal rate of any team in the past two seasons, exceeding the average of two goals per game!

As a result, there are fewer and fewer fans in China who support Barcelona and more and more fans who support Valencia.

There are hundreds of millions of posts and comments on the web!

Most of them are hoping that Iello will shine again in this game, scoring a hat-trick and pressing Barcelona at his feet!

***

As the match day approached, the players of both sides who had been spitting on each other last week closed their mouths and put their minds on the game wholeheartedly, and they all knew that the game was not about mouths, but about strength.

In this regard, the Barcelona players know it best!

Because from the second half of the 2004-2005 La Liga season until this season's national derby, they were constantly provoking Valencia's players before the game, but the result? Barcelona only beat Valencia by one goal in the first leg of the 2005-2006 UEFA Champions League semi-finals, and the rest of the games were basically lost!

And the two-legged contest of the Spanish Super Cup at the beginning of this season was directly swept, and the first leg of the fourth round of the league was defeated with a score of 1:5 at the Camp Nou! Got the club's worst home defeat since the new century!!

With such a tragic experience, how dare they continue to spit on?

Otherwise, if you are slapped in the face again, you really don't have the face to eat in UEFA......

But Barcelona should also have someone to say something at this time to boost morale.

As the captain, Puyol should naturally maintain the morale of the team, after all the Barcelona players arrived at the hotel, he gave an interview to local reporters, "This game at the Mestalla Stadium for us, there is only one result, and that is to win!" ”

The firm answer made the local Valencian media look at each other.

Next, the reporter can add the following words to Puyol, because this game is not much different from a loss and a draw for Barcelona, and only a win can help them rekindle their hopes of the league title.

Puyol's answer was not as hot as expected, so many media did not report any hope for Barcelona's trip to the Mestalla Stadium, and even the opinion of "Daily Sport" was not optimistic, "The home team Valencia has won all three games, and scored 11 goals and conceded only 1 goal, of which their leading scorer Ai scored 5 goals, and the form is very good!" What's even more terrifying is that Valencia has won all 15 games at home under his leadership!! If Barcelona want to win away from home, they will have to work hard defensively, otherwise the result will be worrying......"

Daily Sport wants Barcelona to defend well in this game before waiting for an opportunity to counter-attack, but World Sport has a different proposition, they want Barcelona to play against Valencia away from home!

"As a traditional Spanish giant, Barcelona must play with their style and momentum! Even if Valencia win all 15 games of the season, we have to move forward because we are proud of Barcelona! No matter how powerful the enemy is, we should be brave enough to swing our daggers and fight hard!! ”

In this way, the Catalan media kept making suggestions to Barcelona's head coach Rijkaard, making him more and more entangled!

Is it attacking? Or is it defense??

He knows that according to Valencia's backline ability, it is not difficult to score goals, but the difficulty is that if you defend after attacking with all your strength, when the ball does not score, but concedes a few goals, it will not be able to draw......

Valencia's success in so many games this season is directly related to their high success rate in counter-attacking counter-attacks.

PS: This book is 426343867 exchange group