Chapter 453: Rekindling the Flames of War (Third Watch)

After the number of matches in the quarter-finals of the Champions League was decided, the mainstream media in Europe, in addition to predicting the teams that will advance to the semi-finals, everyone's attention is still on the clash between Valencia's home stadium and Inter Milan.

With more than half a month to go until the quarter-finals of the Champions League, it is not cost-effective to focus only on future Champions League matches, after all, readers are more interested in recent events.

At the same time, the incident is the equivalent of a slap in the face for the new UEFA president Michel Platini, because after his election, he has said on many occasions that the Champions League is the best league on the planet, and the cleanest league.

However, after the game, there was a physical altercation between several players from both sides.

This made Platini feel very embarrassed, so many media began to speculate whether this punishment result would be too severe?

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Of course, Valencia fans are most worried about whether the outcome of the hearing on the 14th will prevent Valencia from entering the stadium in the Champions League in the future.

However, they soon got the grapevine that only the players involved in the clash were involved, not the fans in the stands who rioted, so only the players who participated in the brawl time were punished.

So the attention of the reporter was on Burdisso and Marchena, who first had a verbal altercation, and then on Navarro, who punched Burdisso on the bridge of his nose and led the visiting players to lose control.

Therefore, during the recovery training at the end of the Champions League 1/8 finals, Marchena and Navarro were interviewed by reporters.

Navarro did not make excuses for his actions, but very directly admitted his emotional fluctuations, and also used the power of the media to apologize to Burdisso.

When it was Marchena's turn, the reporter asked him what he had said to Burdisso when he fell to the ground after the match.

Marchena did not hide this, admitting that he satirized the Argentine gang who would only foul Ello at the time, and by the way, complained about the bad behavior of Inter Milan players in the game.

The next day, the Inter Milan players involved in the clash also responded positively, but their responses were all denouncing Navarro's inappropriate behavior and Marchena's inappropriate remarks, and they did not feel that there was anything wrong with them.

Both sides have their own opinions, so the results of a qiē can only be revealed at a hearing at UEFA headquarters on the 14th.

Unless the two clubs can then provide conclusive evidence that they are not guilty or should bear a small amount of responsibility, they will be the perpetrators of UEFA's iron-fisted policy in the subsequent announcement of the punishment.

At that time, it will be the time to witness the three fires of the new official.

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Ahead of the hearing, Valencia have one more league game away to Osasuna.

With a number of main players resting, relying on the second-half substitute Elo assisted David Villa's goal, and the away game was 1:1 and a difficult draw was obtained.

However, in the other national derby that was played at the same time, Barcelona was held to a 3-3 draw at home by Real Madrid, so the lead remained unchanged.

However, it is worth mentioning that in this national derby, Messi scored his first hat trick in La Liga, and it was also his hat trick against Real Madrid, which can be said to be his most shining moment since the Champions League 1/8 finals.

After the end of this round of the league, it means that before the Champions League quarterfinals, Valencia will return to the normal trajectory of one game a week, and no longer need to be distracted by the Champions League, the league, and the Copa del Rey.

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On the 14th, after reading the materials provided by Valencia and Inter Milan, UEFA quickly announced the punishment decision for the players involved in the brawl between Inter Milan and Valencia after more than two hours of discussion.

Valencia and Inter Milan were both fined 250,000 Swiss francs (15.572 million euros)

In terms of players, Valencia defender Navarro has been suspended for seven months, Marchena has been suspended for four games for verbal provocations, while Inter Milan defenders Burdisso and McCone have both been suspended for six games, and Córdoba and Cruz have been suspended for three and two games respectively.

When the fine was issued, all the media concerned about UEFA's punishment were in an uproar, not because of the severity of the ticket, on the contrary, it was much lighter than they imagined.

Navarro, who broke Burdisso's nose in the clash, could be punished with a 10-month global ban, while Marchena, Burdisso and McCann will also be banned for four months, and Córdoba and Cruz will be suspended for two months and one month respectively.

The penalty is simply too light, and apart from Navarro's seven-month global ban, the rest of the players are not allowed to participate in UEFA competitions, but also to participate in domestic leagues.

As soon as the UEFA fine was issued, Valencia FC also announced the punishment of the punishment team members Marchena and Navarro, Navarro, who was in a serious situation, was fined 50,000 euros, and was also sent to the reserve team for a month of reflection, while Marchena was fined 20,000 euros.

Both players have no objection to the club's punishment, after all, this is a punishment that the club has also communicated with them before, and it is a punishment for UEFA, so naturally it will not drop the chain at a critical time.

Moreover, after accepting the punishment of UEFA, the club also submitted the appeal materials as soon as possible, because Marchena is too important for the current Valencia, and although his role in the league is not outstanding as a defender and central defender, it is very important in the next Champions League quarterfinals.

You must know that there are only five central defenders in Valencia at the moment, and now Navarro has been banned from the world for seven months, which means that only Ayala, Albiol, Moretti and Marchena are left in central defenders.

But Albiol was transformed from a midfielder, and Moretti was placed in the right-back position for a long time, so the ban of two central defenders suddenly caused Valencia to suffer a shortage of central defenders.

In order for the team to go further in the next Champions League matches and avoid unexpected incidents, it is necessary to re-appeal with UEFA, otherwise it is really difficult to say about this season's Champions League matches.

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The boiling Valencia vs. Inter Milan group fight incident that was copied has slowly disappeared in the eyes of the public because of the passage of time.

After all, after the UEFA hearing, after a heated discussion, Europe's mainstream media still needs to turn their attention back to their own leagues.

With two international breaks to go after the next round of league fixtures and Euro 2008 qualifiers to be back in action, they prefer to focus on these positive places.

After a week's break, Valencia welcomed the opponent of the 27th round of the league at home, hosting Racing Santander, and finally this game was full of the main force, slaughtering Racing Santander 5-0 at home, in which Ailo scored one goal and assisted three goals.

After the league match, the Valencia international was disbanded and reported to the hotel where the national football federations were staying.

As a result of his outstanding performances this season, Aillo's good friends David Silva and Albiol were both spotted by the national team manager Aragonés and called up to the team.

So this time, Ailuo was more helpless, and could only spend time with Wang Xiaolei and Jiang Zhipeng and Wu Xi, who were struggling in the youth team, in the club's youth team to maintain the state of the game.

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Whenever it comes to the international break, especially when there is a friendly match with the Chinese team, Chinese fans are venting their dissatisfaction in various ways, so the Chinese XX Football Association will be shot.

The fans jokingly called Xie Yalong's nickname 'Dragon King' before and now 'Snot Dragon', and it is not difficult to see from this small detail how dissatisfied the fans are with the current president of the Football Association.

Because the last time many fans saw Ailo wearing the Chinese team jersey was two years ago at the World Youth Championships in the Netherlands, when the Chinese national youth team, known as the strongest in history, also won the first world championship in the history of the team.

With the election of Arlo as the World Footballer of the Year in 2006, the voice calling for Arlo to enter the national team has become louder and louder, and even many leaders in the system who are quite interested in football have hinted at the president of the Football Association Xie Yalong in various ways, signaling him to stop playing in moderation, but Xie Yalong seems to have fallen into a frenzy, completely suppressing these voices.

He also made great efforts to achieve good results in the Asian Cup held in Southeast Asia this summer, and also set up a military order to ensure that the Olympic Games to be held in Beijing next year will be eight and four of them.

In addition, No. 28 defeated his opponent with a score of 3:1 in a friendly match between Macau and Uzbekistan, which also made Xie Yalong full of confidence in the national team he fancied.

This is also Xie Yalong's biggest reliance for daring to suppress the recruitment of foreign players such as Ailuo to join the team, but he doesn't know that the danger is gradually approaching him, perhaps...... This is the tragedy of a layman leading an insider.

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The 10-day international break went by in a flash, but there was no good news for Valencia FC, as Joaquín and Vicente, who represented the national team during the international break, both suffered injuries from different stages, which was a big blow to the upcoming Champions League quarter-finals.

And on the day of the resumption of training, the substitute goalkeeper Bitler was also injured, so... Wang Xiaolei went from being the main goalkeeper of Valencia B last year to becoming the backup goalkeeper of Canizares.

To be honest, Iroh should be happy about Wang Xiaolei's upward trend, but... At this moment, he really can't be happy, because the injury of his teammates represents a decline in the strength of the team.

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Valencia continue to play at home against Espanyol in the league at the weekend.

Flores did not start the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final in midweek, and injuries to Joaquín and Vicente meant that Valencia's strikers were unavailable except for Elo, Morientes and Angullo.

Therefore, the game was very hard, and in the end, it relied on Elo's brace to draw the Spaniards in a thrilling way.

After this game, it also means that Valencia will re-enter the Champions League preparations.