Chapter 326: Preparing for the Champions League knockout round

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Valencia remain top of La Liga with 20 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss after beating Barcelona 4-2 at home, but this time they are 12 points ahead of second-placed Barcelona at the top of the table, a lead that will give them more room to adjust in the knockout stages of the Champions League next week.

Valencia fans were in a state of euphoria for the next two days, knowing that Valencia had never had such a big lead in the club's history!

At the end of all 23 rounds of the league, they are already 12 points ahead of the second place, which is the best result in the history of Valencia.

Perhaps, in the future, there will be such glory, but ...... The results of the present can only be enjoyed now!

What the future, who knows?

Before the start of the 24th round of the league, Valencia's media had not yet recovered from the team's defeat to Barcelona, and the memory of that game was too deep, home and away against Barcelona!!

What a wonderful memory?

Fans and the media are reluctant to wake up from this dream, even though it has become a reality!

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After Valencia's two-goal win at home, the front pages of Europe's mainstream media were all front-page figures in Valencia's number one sharpshooter, Elo.

One of the most striking is Paulo Depaola, the editor-in-chief of Torino Sport, a newspaper with ties to Elo, who wrote in his column, "This kid comes from a magical country, and his performance is just as magical, Valencia was able to beat Barcelona twice this season, he (Airo) is a great contributor, there is no one!" Every goal was fantastic!! In particular, his first goal and first assist in this game showed us how high his football IQ is, and Barcelona can be considered a top defensive line in the whole of Europe, and it will be like a void when facing him, conceding four goals in one game and scoring nine goals in three games......"

In the background picture on the column, Paul Depaola chose the one where Iello took off his shirt to show off his tattoo when he scored the first goal, and the whole person became extremely heroic under the background of the ink unicorn tattoo.

And this picture also happens to perfectly reflect his whole personality.

"One day, a club like Valencia won't be able to keep him! Lad from China! Come to Turin!! Here you can become the new prince of the Alps......"

Interestingly, Torino Sport also took a screenshot of the player that Juventus fans were most interested in bringing in in a petition from Juventus fans under its column.

And Iroh is the one at the top of the list.

This also happened with the headline of the football section of the famous British newspaper "The Times" that day, and the headline slogan used was a quote from the famous football commentator Andy Gray of Sky Sports, "It's this kid again!" "The background picture is his third goal of the game, clenched fists and arms raised.

The text reads, "If you ask which player was the most popular in football in the past week? Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored twice in the league? no! Peter Pan Robben in the Chelsea squad? no!! It's Ai of Valencia! In the last game of the 23rd round of La Liga that ended last night, he killed a game by himself, and scored a hat-trick plus an assist to help the team beat Barcelona 4-2! Barcelona's resilience was back in the 04-05 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals away to Chelsea......

“…… In the past year, his performance has been perfect and impeccable, with 29 league goals in La Liga this season, a tally leading in Europe's top five leagues, and double figures in assists... While scoring so many goals, it has also made the team Valencia a lot of benefits, with 20 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in 23 rounds of league games, leading the way! …… Premier League tycoons, what are you waiting for? Take out your dollars, euros, rubles and smash him into the Premier League!! Time waits for no one! ”

The French brothers "France Football" and "Team Newspaper" did not recommend the teams in their own leagues, they knew that the attractiveness of Ligue 1 was completely incomparable to the other four major European leagues, so they only listed all the details of the season of Elo, such as how many games he played, how many goals he scored, how many sports battles, or how many set-pieces, even the success rate of breakthroughs, the number of catches and the number of passes were listed in detail for fans to enjoy.

Readers are like this, and there is always a desire to understand the players who count the jù perverts.

France Football and La Corps fully satisfy these fan bases.

It is worth mentioning that on the second day in China, in addition to the newspapers such as "Football News" and "Sports Daily", which specialize in football, reported on this great achievement of Ailuo, a number from Ailuo's personal fan website "Ai Shen's World".

A netizen with the ID name of Legacy One Love posted a post called "You Never Know How Fast Ai Luo Is" in "Ai God's World"!

This is his comparison of multiple max lens angles to determine the starting place and start time of Iro, because the entire line of Ailo's dribbling line is basically a straight line, according to the straight line Pythagorean calculation of the approximate distance of the ball is 32.5m, through the guò 10 stopwatch accurate calculation, it is inferred that the whole process of Ailo takes 3.05 seconds.

Therefore, the velocity of Iroh in this distance is 32.5m/3.05s = 10.65m/s!

What is the concept of 10・65m/s? Converted to a distance of 100 meters, if Iroh finishes in this state, the time will be 9.389s!

According to last year's 100-meter champion Gatlin at the World Athletics Championships, his time was 9.88s, and last year's new 100-meter world record was only 9.77s

So everyone has a bold speculation: Iroh is even faster than Powell!

Of course, such a light conclusion is not rigorous, after all, Powell's 100 meters has a process from starting to accelerating to sprinting, while the whole process of Iroh is basically accelerating and sprinting.

Although in the end, the netizen whose ID name is Bereaved Love I made an explanation, but the Chinese Internet still went crazy!

Because there is no shortage of talents in the world, more and more mathematics experts have begun to calculate, and the results are the same as those of netizens whose ID is called Legacy Love!.

So...... Crazy fans even mentioned that although Iroh withdrew from the national Olympic team, the national track and field team can recruit Iro, this speed! You know, in the whole of Asia, there is no one person who can run under ten seconds.

Although the number jù in the above group also has a lot of water, there are still many fans who choose to believe it!

Thereupon...... Everyone has a question, how fast is Iroh?

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No matter how good the news is, after two or three days of reporting, it will become out of the market, after all, in the huge world football, always staring at a news, it will always give people the feeling of a little lack of freshness.

Therefore, the mainstream media followed the attention of the fans and focused on the first leg of the 05-06 UEFA Champions League 1/8 final to be played in the middle of next week.

The most important thing is the three Premier League teams that the three teams in La Liga meet.

Real Madrid vs Arsenal, Barcelona vs Chelsea, Valencia vs Manchester United, and of course another game not to be underestimated is Bayern Munich vs AC Milan.

These four games, no matter which one of them, will attract enough attention.

Originally, Valencia did not enter the focus of the game, but because Valencia ranked first in the league this season, and won all the games against Barcelona and Real Madrid, many football commentators who claim to be experts are full of expectations for this game, especially the current red European Ello, the horror of the state, also makes Valencia hope to take away the victory at Old Trafford.

After finishing the match against Barcelona, Flores will be fully focused on the Champions League quarter-final at Old Trafford next week.

This is the first Champions League knockout game in his life, so he has decided to use a semi-substitute line-up to deal with the weekend's away league game against Real Sociedad, and Barcelona will stay for this Champions League 1/8 final anyway, and there is no need to worry about whether the score will be closer.

As Flores expected, Barcelona have put their league side aside after the defeat and are ready to focus on the Champions League quarter-final against Chelsea in the middle of next week.

But there is one thing he didn't expect, that is, while Barcelona specializes in the Champions League, the league also tries not to give up, because Valencia also has the task of the Champions League, the events are all the same intensive, and the impact on everyone is the same, but Barcelona is different, the bench thickness is deep, and it is much better than Valencia.

Therefore, the weekend league can only be said to be not taken seriously, and it is not a waiver.

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As the weekend of the league approaches, the number of journalists appearing at the training ground is gradually increasing, and many of the Spanish media are also focusing on the 'inside' league champions Valencia, so their every word and action is enough to attract a large number of media and fans.

And with the number of journalists, it becomes more complicated because it is difficult to guarantee that these journalists will not be mixed with the 'scouts' from Manchester United.

So in order to deal with it, Flores definitely let the team start training behind closed doors.

The importance of the Champions League goes without saying, and there is always nothing wrong with being cautious.

Judging from the information sorted out by the assistant in the past two days, Manchester United is currently in good shape, especially winger Cristiano Ronaldo, which is very good!

It's comparable to Elo, scoring two goals in two consecutive games to help the team win back-to-back games.

And Rooney's Van Nistelrooy on the front line is also in good shape, which is a big headache for Flores, and finally ...... I thought of a way that wasn't the way out.

Letting Iroh make a cameo appearance as the opponent's striker is a way for his teammates to get used to the feeling of the game.

Because Iroh's ability is too comprehensive, it can just be satisfied.

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