Chapter 1106: Meet at the Stadium of Light

The 2013-2014 season was still a dream for Valencia fans, who were a little distraught to see a lot of media reports out of context, but with Ello leading the team to a seventeen-game winning streak in the league and Champions League, their confidence gradually returned.

However, the winning streak is not only about giving confidence to the fans, but also about the players, like Isco, who has been on loan, and who was supposed to play a season off the bench but has surprisingly become a must-have rotation player under Carlo Ancelotti.

This also makes Valencia fans happy, because using the players they have developed is more of a sense of belonging than buying them with money, like watching a child grow up to become a pillar.

Isco's good performances have made Cazorla, Javi Martinez and Pirlo feel very threatened, and with the deepening of the league and the Champions League, the older Pirlo has gradually lost his position, and he chose to move to Juventus after playing in Valencia after playing in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

After the winter break, Valencia entered the state of third-tier play, but because of the good confidence built up in the first half of the season, coupled with the psychological deterrent effect that these forms brought to the opposing teams, the game was twice as effective with half the effort.

Although the 2013-2014 season was Diego Simeone's best season under Atletico Madrid, and he also played a good role in the league, the game against Valencia was never able to match Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Therefore, Atletico Madrid played on a par with Barcelona and Real Madrid, but the match against Valencia ended in defeat.

Add to that Valencia's record of three wins and one draw against Barcelona and Real Madrid, and it is no surprise that they are at the top of the league table.

It is worth mentioning that in the 11th round of the league, Ailo scored 300 goals in La Liga, continuing to refresh the record for individual goals in La Liga, and he also made history by scoring goals in the whole of 2013, scoring an astonishing 113 goals.

Iello is also the top scorer in the Champions League, scoring 96 goals and just four goals away from a hundred, and many believe it is only a matter of time.

In addition, the Chinese team led by Iello entered the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil with a complete victory, and the Chinese team continued to beat Spain and Brazil in the latest international rankings for January 2014.

This ranking has excited fans in China, so that no matter which country they travel to, Chinese citizens are now praised by locals and their vanity is satisfied like never before.

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Valencia had a perfect first half of the 2013-2014 season, but their form slipped in the second half of the season, with the league lead going from 10 points to 6 points.

However, this decline did not last long, and after two weeks of adjustment, they re-emerged as the feared Valencia side.

The Champions League semi-finals have come to an end, so the game is over and it is the defending champions Valencia and Real Madrid who are in the Champions League final.

The Champions League final at the Stadium of Light in Lisbon will once again be a Spanish national derby, with clubs from other countries once again being spectators.

Despite this, the media in countless countries are looking forward to this match, because this final is the ultimate matchup between the new hegemon of European football and Real Madrid, the best team of the 20th century.

Somewhat different from the past, Real Madrid are now faster than they were under Mourinho, and the BBC of Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale has left countless European giants helpless.

Real Madrid's home game in the second leg of this season's Champions League semi-finals was a long-distance run by Gareth Bale in extra time, helping Real Madrid win 2-1 at home to Barcelona and advance to the final with an aggregate score of 3-2.

As a result, the Real Madrid team has been called the most powerful Real Madrid in history by the Madrid media, and is very likely to beat Valencia in the Champions League final at the Stadium of Light in Lisbon to win the club's tenth Champions League trophy.

Real Madrid were at their best in the Valencia national derby in the second half of the season, winning 4-4 against Valencia at the Mestalla Stadium, and Valencia would have been in a good chance of a home defeat had it not been for a stunning long-range strike from Aillo before full-time.

It is worth mentioning that this season's Cristiano Ronaldo has been hailed by the media as reaching a new peak of his career, and his performances have been phenomenal both for club and country.

In particular, the performance of the national team relied on his five goals in the two legs of the European play-offs at the World Cup in Brazil to help Portugal snatch a ticket from the Swedish national team.

To sum up, the media believe that this Champions League final will definitely be very different from the past.

Who will be the Champions League winner this season will only have to wait until the end of the Champions League final at the Stadium of Light at 8:45 p.m. on May 25.

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With only four rounds left in the league, Real Madrid are eight points behind Valencia at the top of the table, which basically means that they have no hope of winning the title, and they are now faced with a choice - to abandon the league altogether.

Clearly, the benefits of Real Madrid dropping the league are clear so that they can focus more on the Champions League final at the Stadium of Light in three weeks' time.

And in those three weeks, they had a lot of time to study Valencia and rethink the tactics of the Champions League final.

As a well-known tactician in European football, Benitez has a very high level of technical and tactical skills, and the 2004-2005 Champions League final is his famous work.

Entering the Champions League final, Real Madrid club president Florentino also communicated with Benitez in private, even if Real Madrid still has a chance to become the league champion, he insisted that Benitez give up the league and focus on the Champions League final.

Because for him, Real Madrid's tenth Champions League trophy made him wait too long......

Similarly, Benitez is also a manager who is good at thinking things with his head, knowing that Real Madrid this season is not suitable to continue to compete for the title at the end of the season, and has already decided during the Champions League semi-finals to prepare for the Champions League final wholeheartedly as long as Barcelona is eliminated.

After all, the Champions League is more attractive than the league title!