When Espanyol played Barcelona at home, everyone couldn't believe their eyes, Barcelona actually lost to Espanyol away from home?

You must know that Barcelona has been on this stadium for four years and is unbeaten for six years! The last time they lost at the Stadio Monjuic was back in 2001 when Barcelona were in the doldrums.

So at this time, some rumors arose: Could it be that the trough of Barcelona is coming again?

As the mouthpiece of Real Madrid, "As" naturally will not let go of this opportunity, "The same city derby fiasco!" With only 18 rounds of league play, last season's Champions League winners are already 16 points behind Valencia at the top of the table, and what is even more intriguing is that they did not perform well in the Champions League group stage in the first half of the season, finishing second in the group... Their opponent in the Champions League 1/8 finals in February is the Champions League champion Liverpool in the 04-05 season, which can be described as a lot of luck, and they are 16 points behind in the league......

When the fans of Barcelona saw the report of the "As" newspaper, they all pouted, aren't we in a bad state? It's just that Valencia's state is too perverted!!

In fact, think about it, Valencia has achieved a terrible record of 17 wins and 1 draw in 18 rounds of the league, that is to say, there are 52 points at the end of the 18 rounds, and the record of the second-place Barcelona is not bad, 11 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses, 36 points, and then look at other leagues, when the Premier League is in the 18th round, Chelsea at the top of the list has 43 points, and in the Bundesliga in the same period, Werder Bremen at the top of the list has only 35 points, and Inter Milan in Serie A has more - 45 points.

From this point of view, it's not that Barcelona is bad, but that Valencia's is too violent!

But at this time, Barcelona's officials and fans will naturally not stand up to explain, even if they say it, it will be used as an excuse, as one of the hegemons of Spain, it is naturally disdainful of justification, it is better to stutter and swallow it, leaving a heroic image.

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Valencia are 16 points ahead of Barcelona in the league standings, which means that Valencia can be relatively easy in the next three tiers, so they can send out a semi-main team again in the second leg of the Copa del Rey quarter-finals to keep the team in the top eight!

Ahead of this game, it is worth mentioning that Zheng Zhi, the captain of the Chinese national team, moved from Shandong to Charlton Athletic in the English Premier League during the winter window.

This is undoubtedly very happy news for Chinese fans.

Including Zheng Zhi's transfer to Charlton, the number of Chinese overseas players has reached 15, although it is only a single digit to be able to play, but it is enough to make them happy.

With Chen Tao gaining a foothold in Lyon at Ajax and Zhao Xuri, CCTV has also signed relevant broadcast agreements with the Netherlands and the French Football Association, and now the Premier League has the addition of Zheng Zhi, the captain of the national team, counting the four Chinese players in the Bundesliga and Valencia's Elo, which means that fans who follow Chinese football can stay in front of the TV on weekends.

It's just that if there is a game that kicks off at the same time, I don't know which game to watch, it's more tangled!

Of course, if there is a game for Elo, it must be the priority to watch him, because the goal is guaranteed and it is very pleasant to watch.

Many fans have even fantasized about the Chinese derby of Europe's top five leagues in the second half of the season.

At this time, it is natural that domestic fans complain about the XX Football Association, after all, there are so many good players in the national team who don't need to use them, and they choose to use domestic players, for the sake of such a breath, is it worth it?

You must know that these faults are not the players of the national youth at all, but the relevant leaders of the XX Football Association want to take shortcuts, thinking that if they find better partners and coaches, the level can rise in a straight line, but is this actually the case?

Do all the fans know that things can be so simple?

As a result, the leaders of the XX Football Association, who are laymen and insiders, were shot again......

It's just that what these expert XX Football Association leaders don't know is that with their inaction, they have been blacklisted in their hearts by the main leaders of the country who hope for the further development of Chinese football.

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Valencia, who returned to the Mestalla Stadium, began the second leg of the 2006-2007 Copa del Rey quarter-finals, which did not go as the fans had expected - the home team beat Getafe.

Getafe showed a lot of tenacity in this game, this is the second season of the German Schuster in charge of Getafe, and the team has already integrated into his coaching style - tough and full of fighting spirit!

Despite playing away, they did not play conservatively, and from the first minute they played around the home team Valencia, if it weren't for the fact that they still knew the players on the pitch, they would have thought that the shirts of both sides were worn backwards.

Getafe played so strategically from the start, not only the fans in the stands did not expect it, but the players on the pitch did not expect it, they thought that after a narrow win over Getafe away from home, it should be easy to return to the home stadium, but they did not expect Getafe to care so much about this game.

Originally, according to the lineups of the two sides, even if the eleven of Valencia on the field is now the semi-main lineup, it is much better than the small club Getafe, but sometimes the team's lineup does not represent the result of the game.

Valencia, who are playing in the semi-main game, are 10 percentage points behind Getafe in the first 20 minutes, which means that Valencia at home has 40% possession, while the away team Getafe has reached a staggering 60%, which is a rather strange situation, considering that it has not happened in the face of Barcelona.

Under Getafe's high pressing and continuous high pressure, Valencia, with Ailo as the starting lineup, actually conceded two goals in a row in the 23rd and 32nd minutes, which means that if it ends according to this score, then it is Getafe who advances!

"Is this team really Getafe? The unified execution of tactics, the running without hesitation, and the efficient attack are exactly what a strong team should have, and if it weren't for the different jerseys, I suspect that the lead is Valencia......"

The commentator on Spanish national television looked at the second goal of the visiting team on the screen, and his face was full of incredulity.

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The German Schuster was in a good mood, with his hands in his trouser pockets and the expression on his face that had completely betrayed him, and this game was already within reach for him, because the team had already scored two away goals, and the home team had to score two goals in the next time to equalize the score if they wanted to advance to the quarter-finals.

Schuster has been preparing for this game for a long time and gave up on last weekend's league game.

The survival of small clubs is to take advantage of the negligence of strong teams, attack the cup championship, participate in European competitions, and try to earn as much money as possible to qualify for the competition.

You have the quality, but we have the belief that we have to win the game!!

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Iello was defended by Getafe during the game, and in addition to sending a full-time defender, there were other players who were responsible for cutting off the connection between him and his teammates, making him play very awkwardly in this game, and more often than not, he fell into one-man combat.

If it is a normal situation, Iroh can still handle it, but the away team's defense in this game is not only tight, but also the timing of the execution of defensive fouls is also very good, so the director Aelo can not play normally.

Moreover, Getafe's defenders also paid special attention to the location of fouls by their own players, and resolutely did not send fouls within the effective range of Aelo.

At the end of the first half, the home team was still two goals behind, and at the beginning of the second half, Flores made personnel adjustments, replacing the two cores of Ballack and Albelda, ready to raise the offensive situation and equalize the score.

As a result, what Flores didn't expect was that Schuster replaced two goal-scoring players and two defenders at the same time as he made a substitution, and the defensive intention was very obvious!

So with 70 minutes to play, Valencia still failed to break through Getafe's goal.

Hyde commented worriedly: "Valencia is in danger, if you want to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey, you have to score two goals in the remaining 20 minutes against Getafe, who are fully defending, but the visitors' table is quite tenacious... At this time, Ai, as the new World Footballer of the Year, must step up and open up the situation for the team......"

In the 75th minute, Iello received the ball from Albelda on the left side, and suddenly, right full-back Contra and defender Celestini were all around, and Casqueiro and Cotello stood on Iro's passing route, which means that he attracted the defensive attention of four people after taking the ball.

At the same time, it was also announced that he had a break and a passing space.

So Iroh could only take two steps back and saw that the gap on the right side was very large, and his short passing path was cut off, so he didn't hesitate to shift the ball to David Silva.

In the past two years of his career, Iroh has basically focused on short passes, and basically no long passes, so Getafe Schuster did not give a special explanation.

Moreover, the width of the Mestalla stadium is very large, and it is a bit impractical to control the attacking players of the transfer side at the same time as the person who holds the ball, after all, people cannot compare with the speed of football.

However, Getafe's players are quite good at adjusting on the spot, which is usually called game reading ability, which is very strong.

As a result, Getafe's defensive formation began to tilt towards the left side of the side, and David Silva, who had the ball, looked up and saw that there was no chance to pass the ball forward, so he simply slipped the ball back into the back line and reorganized the attack.

Getafe's defensive formation pressed forward quickly, and Iroh had to return to his own half to avoid falling into the opposition's offside trap.

When he returned to his own half near the halfway line, the ball on his side was also transferred to this side, so Getafe's defense line also subconsciously turned to this side, but because Ailo, who took the ball, was too far away from the goal and not too close, only the striker Guiiza routinely stepped forward to interfere, and Ellestini, Aillo's professional bodyguard, stood on the middle line to guard against Ailo's breakthrough.

A qiē and a qiē all show the tenacity of the away team.

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