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Voices questioning Iro's declining form disappeared overnight after his senior win against Osasuna, as if they had never been there.

In addition to ridiculing Juan Carlos, a large number of Spanish newspapers on the second day of the match mentioned Barcelona, who had lost two crucial games in a row during the week.

Barcelona lost to Jose Mourinho's Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the third round of the Champions League group stage in midweek.

Originally, they thought they could go to the Bernabeu to regain their confidence, but what they didn't expect was that they lost a ruthless 2:0, so the mainstream media in Europe were surprised by this Barcelona team, they were the European champions last season!

This is too obvious a drop in grades, right?

Although they were pressed to death by Valencia in the league last season, there is still a Real Madrid to bully, but after the start of this season, not only can they not raise their heads in the face of Valencia, but even they can't find confidence in facing Real Madrid, which was subdued last season.

How will you play next season?

With only seven rounds to go, they are eight points behind Valencia at the top of the table.

Barcelona manager Rijkaard is under a lot of pressure and the president of the team, Joan Laporta, has given him an ultimatum that if the team's form continues to decline like this, then he can pack his bags and go back to the Netherlands.

It is worth mentioning that Cruyff, the godfather of Barcelona, who has always been very supportive of him, also lost his voice at this time, obviously dissatisfied with his failure to train Barcelona into a team full of fighting power in the new season.

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With seven consecutive league wins, good news for Valencia and Ballack, who played in the European Championship qualifiers, is already ready to start training, which means he can be ready to prepare for the team's preparations, which is a good psychological advantage for the fourth round of the Champions League group stage in cold Ukraine at the beginning of next month.

At the same time, it is also a good boost to the morale of the team.

Although the team has won 12 consecutive games in all competitions since the start of the new season.

Twelve wins in a row in all competitions?

The Spanish Super Cup defeated Barcelona twice, winning seven consecutive league games, three consecutive wins in the Champions League group stage, and just 12 consecutive wins.

So...... Here's the problem!

"From the first round of the league, Valencia has won seven consecutive league games, not only leading the league standings, but also setting the best start for Real Madrid in the 68-69 season - nine wins in a row and only two wins remaining, and their next opponents are Racing Santander, Espanyol and Athletic Bilbao. If this current form continues, it is likely to set a new best start to the league......"

This is really not to mention that I don't know, I was shocked when I mentioned it, the 68-69 season of La Liga has been a record of 37 years, and it has been turned out by the Spanish media again.

With the commercialization of professional football becoming more and more important, the records set in the last century have been labeled as unsurpassable, but it is surprising that it was expected to be brought out of the table again.

Therefore, it is interesting to see if Valencia can set a new record for their best start in the next league game.

At the same time, it also caused a lot of trouble for Valencia.

Because no team is willing to be someone else's green leaf!

So, as the news of Valencia's approach to the best start of the league flew over Spain, the three teams of Racing Santander, Espanyol and Athletic Bilbao had already made a harsh statement, and they were determined not to allow Valencia to set a new record on them.

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On the 29th, Valencia went to the Sardine Man Stadium to challenge Racing Santander.

Before the game, Racing Santander's head coach Miguel Angel and team captain Mnitise released cruel words, "This is the Sardine Man Stadium!" It's not the Mestalla Stadium!! ”

"If you want to win here, it's impossible!!"

However, after the start of the game, it turned out that they were nothing more than a bluff.

In the 23rd minute, Albelda took a corner kick and Ielo flicked it in front of him, and centre-back Ayala scored on the edge of the six-yard box, the first goal of the season for the aging Argentine centre-back.

With that goal, the deadlock was broken.

In the 39th minute, Iroh used his personal skills to burst into the penalty area, and Gareira, who was on loan from Real Madrid to Racing Santander, was brought to the ground, and the referee sentenced him to death, and Ballack made it in one fell swoop.

The score became 2:0

Because after the end of this round of the league, the entire Valencia team had to fly non-stop to Donetsk, Ukraine to participate in the fourth round of the UEFA Champions League, so with a two-goal lead, the pace of the attack was slowed down.

Compared to a league that has become irrelevant, it is the Champions League that is more important.

So at the start of the second half, Flores brought on David Villa, Iello and Ballack for Morientes, Joaquín and Viana.

In the end, the match at the Sardine Man Stadium ended with Valencia beating the home team Racing Santander by two away goals, giving the home team three consecutive defeats and the best start to eight consecutive wins in the team's history.

They are just one game away from winning their best game of the 68-69 season with Real Madrid winning streak.

****

There are no direct flights to Donetsk in Santander, so the entire Valencia team needs to transfer from Madrid to Donetsk, but in this way, it will be very physically taxing for them.

Because I just finished playing a league game, and now I have to take a half-day flight to Donetsk, which is tantamount to playing two games in a row, which naturally has a great impact on the team.

Coupled with the fact that the temperature in Ukraine has dropped significantly on the last day of October, the weather in Donetsk is much worse than the warm weather in Valencia.

Adaptation is also a serious issue.

Vicente and Albertadda, who had just returned from injury, contracted the flu the day after arriving in Donetsk, leaving a cloud of shadow ahead of the team's preparations for the fourth round of the Champions League group stage.

At the same time, Flores also felt lucky, fortunately Iroh did not catch the flu, otherwise, the game would really be in suspense......

"Valencia had a difficult journey to Donetsk, with two of the team's big players Vicente and Albelda both contracting the flu, leaving them with non-fighting casualties, and after the third round of the Champions League group stage, everyone expected Valencia to be bloodless in the fourth round, but it turned out that the weather in Ukraine did not allow for ......"

From the report of Ukrainian state television.

Next, there is the daily routine weather forecast, "cold air suddenly appeared in the north of Russia, and from tomorrow the whole of Ukraine will drop by more than 10 degrees, and some areas may also experience rain and snow......"

Flores turned off the TV, his face was very ugly, and he cursed secretly, "This-mother's weather!" ”

The next morning.

Iroh habitually opened the hotel window, and a gust of cold wind blew in, and he subconsciously sneezed continuously.

Ah~~ Cut!

Ahhh~~ Cut!!

Ahhh!!h

The staff in Valencia did not expect that the weather in Ukraine could change, and they had done some research on the local weather before they came, but what they did not expect was that there were unforeseen circumstances.

As a result, the team's morning recovery training was cancelled and strength training was carried out at the hotel instead.

The Valencia staff can only curl up and brave the cold wind to buy down jackets in Ukraine's second largest city, otherwise it would be strange to have adaptive training in this weather and not catch a cold.

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When the Valencia staff finally bought down jackets and came to the venue provided by the Donetsk Shakhtar team to start adapting to the field training, it actually started to rain and snow......

Less than 10 minutes after the start of training, sleet felt colder than direct snow, so Flores changed his plan and changed his training from acclimatization to weather adaptation.

But the weather-based training lasted less than 20 minutes, and was forced to stop under the sneezing of the players, and Flores was afraid that if it continued, the team would catch a cold en masse, and there would be no need to play tomorrow night's game.

After returning to the hotel, they felt a little warmth after enjoying the hotel's heating.

Back in the room, Iroh didn't know what was going on, he only felt very cold, and he gasped a few times and had a runny nose, so he instinctively wrapped the down jacket on his body tighter, but this did not make him feel a trace of warmth, but a little tired.

Soon, something was wrong with him and his friend David Silva noticed it.

"Huh? Ai, what's wrong? David Silva saw that Iroh was completely different from his cousin, as if it was very cold, so he subconsciously put his hand on Iroh's forehead, which was very hot.

Before Iroh could stop David Silva, he left the room.

……

……

Five minutes later, Hernandez, the team doctor, whispered two words in Flores' ear.

After hearing this, Flores subconsciously scolded, "Damn! ”

It wasn't loud, but it was loud enough for everyone to hear.

Although everyone is a professional player, the five big and the three are coarse, but they are still very thoughtful, and they soon think of the wrong thing about Iro, they all know that the team can have such good results, and a large part of the reason is because of Iro's excellent performance.

If Elo is absent due to illness in this game, then there will be suspense in this game that will not be suspenseful.

"Will Ai's situation get better when tomorrow night's game comes?" As soon as he finished scolding, Flores realized his gaffe and hurriedly asked Hernandez.

"It's a little difficult."

After hearing this answer, Flores's heart seemed to fall into an ice kiln.

But at this moment, Iroh suddenly said weakly: "I don't want to miss tomorrow's game!" ”

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