Chapter 428: The Test Is Coming

"No matter how many people questioned his election before, Ai is a well-deserved world footballer, and I believe that at this moment, no one will doubt him anymore! Not every player can score a goal with seven people in a row, and even Ronaldinho, who won the World Footballer of the Year award in 2004 and 2005, has not done it! If I'm not mistaken, the last time I saw this shot was in the 04-05 match, when Valencia challenged Barcelona away, when Ai was six men in a row and scored ......"

Sky TV's lead commentator, Andy Gray, was very excited.

At this moment, all the TV commentators who have the broadcast rights of the Spanish Copa del Rey are staring blankly at the slow-motion replay of the camera, and Iroh starts to break through with the ball from the left side of the half near the halfway line, until he shoots the ball into the net, the whole process is more than 60 meters, but the time consumed is only 10.8 seconds, which has to surprise everyone with his dribbling speed.

This wonderful goal shot was replayed repeatedly, and countless Chinese fans were very excited to watch it!

Sure enough, he deserves to be the new World Footballer of the Year, and he stepped forward at a critical time when the team was in trouble!

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Valencia coach Flores was also stimulated by Aillo's goal, he was ready to give up the 1/8 finals of the Copa del Rey, but with this wonderful goal, no matter which coach it is, he will rekindle hope for the team, and the behavior of one person to match the whole team will always make people's hormones surge!

"Offensive offense, unsparing offense!!"

This is the only tactic that Flores has given to the team from the sidelines!

And after he gave this latest instruction, he returned to the coach's seat satisfied, crossed Erlang's legs, and his expression was very confident! It was the opposite of Schuster's expression not far from the front right.

At this point, the game was already in the 78th minute, which means that there are only 12 minutes left in the game, and if you count injury time, it will only be 15 minutes, but for the home team players who have rekindled hope, there is plenty of time!

Sure enough, three minutes later, Ballack took advantage of the Getafe defenders to be too focused on the defense of Aiello and suddenly fired a cold arrow from 30 yards from the goal, goalkeeper Abondansey reacted very hastily, but due to insufficient preparation, he made a mistake in his hand at the moment of the pounce, and pounced the ball in front of David Villa, who was subconsciously running forward.

The next thing was very simple for David Villa, the main striker of the Spanish national team, as he gently pushed the ball into the opposite direction of Abondanscheli's second reaction, helping Valencia equalize the score and regain a 3-2 aggregate lead over the away team Getafe.

If the visitors are to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey, they will need to score a goal in less than ten minutes remaining.

So they have to regain the attacking feeling from the defensive feeling they are used to for most of the half, but... How can it be so easy?

Because for the Getafe players who are playing away, the mentality can be described as a 180-degree turn in just four minutes, from great joy to great sorrow, even the strongest person in the world may not be able to change at the first time.

How easy is it to score another goal?

On the contrary, in the remaining ten minutes, Ailo and Ballack scored two more goals, and the score on the field was rewritten to 4:2, and the total score became 5:2!

In the end, Valencia scored four goals in a row after conceding two goals to win the second leg of the Copa del Rey quarter-finals, and also extended their home winning streak to 15 games since the start of the season!

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The next day, it wasn't Valencia scoring four goals in a row to defeat Getafe, but Airello's super goal that went over seven in a row.

"No matter when, as long as you think of the second leg of the Copa del Rey 1/8 final at the Mestalla Stadium that ended last night, you can't help but get excited, especially the wonderful scene that Ai scored in the 77th minute of the game! The whole process only consumed 10.8 seconds, and in this process, Ai's passing movements are very concise in addition to the Marseille slalom, the rest are very concise dials, buttons or toe pokes, which is quite concise, just like the basic movements of everyone who usually practice the ball! But at this moment, he tells us that if we apply the basic movements to the most reasonable moment, the effect will always exceed everyone's expectations......"

La Liga World from the football section of The Times.

"Milan Sports Newspaper", which has always been not very interested in Aillo, also had to sing praises for Ailo at this time: "I used to think that only the Prince of Milan Kaka had this ability to run long distances, but yesterday, I had to subvert my previous opinion, the new World Footballer does have his merits, especially the ability to resist pressure!" As the star of the team, he stepped up when the team couldn't open up the situation, and he deserved to be the ......world footballer of the year."

Players have borders, but football has no borders, "Milan Sports Newspaper" before because of Iello 'robbed' Cannavaro of the World Footballer and kept trampling, at this moment, it seems that the two enemies are laughing and hating, which makes people have to sigh at this moment.

At the same time, Valencia also rekindled their fans' hopes of defending the domestic double because of the big reversal of this game!

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Three days later, Valencia's 18-man squad travelled by bus to the Basque Country to take on Real Sociedad.

There was no suspense in the game, and it was difficult for the team to play good football after the successive losses of Alonso and Arteta, and two early goals from Airo set the tone for Valencia to beat the home side 4-0.

After this game, Valencia announced that they had ended a period of Little Devils fixtures at the start of the second half of the season, and that they would have a week to prepare for the next round of league games.

I don't know if it was because of the sudden relaxation of the players, the team had injuries, first of all, Albelda, who was promoted to captain, suffered a muscle strain and needed to recuperate for two weeks.

Then the main left-back Aurelio became the saddest figure of the team directly in training, tearing the meniscus of his knee!

Just when everyone thought that the team only had these two main players who were exempted from the game due to injury, the team's No. 2 goalkeeper Mora also suffered a broken finger during training, and according to the preliminary judgment of the team doctor Hernandez, he had to rest for at least three months, which is undoubtedly a very big blow to a 34-year-old goalkeeper.

Therefore, while the winter transfer window has not closed, the club urgently transferred Wang Xiaolei, the main goalkeeper of team B, to the first team and make up for the team's third goalkeeper.

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In addition to Aurelio and Albelda missing the game due to injuries respectively, Wang Xiaolei's promotion to the Valencia first team did not attract too much attention, which is a very normal improvement, and when the second goalkeeper Mora recovers, he will definitely return to the B team, because of the particularity of the goalkeeper position, as long as the No. 1 and No. 2 goalkeepers do not have fatal mistakes or injuries one after another, they will not wait until they are about 25 years old, and basically have no chance to play.

It is worth mentioning that Iroh introduced his teammates to Wang Xiaolei as soon as he came to the first-team training ground, so Wang Xiaolei's status in the team has also improved a lot.

In addition, Ailuo himself didn't expect that Wang Xiaolei, who was about the same height as himself during Christmas, had surpassed his height at the moment, and had reached 1.88 meters by visual inspection, which was a full three centimeters taller than the 1.85 meters height of Wang Xiaolei in his impression! This is quite a surprise!

As a person who has come over, he knows how much the future head coach prefers goalkeepers above 1.9 meters, which also plays a decisive role in Wang Xiaolei's future development, because according to his current age, his height still has the potential to go up, and it is not impossible to reach the age of 20 with a stable bone age, and it is not impossible to reach more than 1.9!

Seeing Wang Xiaolei, whose physical condition is getting better and better, Ailuo is once again happy for his original decision!

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The successive injuries of players have also raised a hint of doubt about Valencia's results, after all, the team's results are inseparable from the health of the players.

So the training in the next few days also made the players more cautious, and no one wanted to get injured at this time, but fortunately there were no injuries after the injuries to Albelda, Aurelio and Moura.

At the same time, it also made the head coach Flores breathe a sigh of relief.

The day before Valencia's 20th round of league matches, a news from Marca caught Elloh's attention, "UEFA has concluded a new round of presidential elections in Düsseldorf, Germany, Platini defeated the 77-year-old current president Johansson by a margin of 27 votes to 23 (and two invalids), and was elected as the new president of UEFA, he will become the sixth president in the history of UEFA and the second French president after Jacques Georges, It is worth mentioning that UEFA has not had a precedent before retiring a famous star to become president......"

After reading it, Iroh pouted, and the godfather still took office......

But that didn't dampen Elo's preparations, as he helped the team to a thrilling 2-2 draw away from Real Betis in the round of 20, in which he saved Valencia with a last-minute free-kick to avoid Valencia's first defeat of the season.

Although the game was not won, the league lead was still 14 points, so they didn't pay much attention to it, and they next up in the first leg of the quarter-final of the Copa del Rey against Osasuna.

The team no longer has the sharpness of last season, so Valencia played very comfortably at home, winning 3-0, with Airo contributing two goals again.

After this match, it also means that Valencia will not have any games in February except for 4 league games and 1 UEFA Champions League 1/8 final, because the second leg of the two teams will not be until March, which is very timely.

However, their next games will not be easy, first against Atletico Madrid, who are fifth in the league, then Getafe who were knocked out of the Copa del Rey by themselves, and one league game against Barcelona before the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

It can be said that the February game was a real test for Valencia since the second half of the season!