Chapter 107: Aggrieved

ps, sorry, I forgot to set up automatic follow-up before going to bed last night......

In addition, today is still the fourth watch, asking for a monthly pass!

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The success of the winning habit provoked hatred from the Valencia players towards Barcelona.

Friendly relations between clubs and hostile relations between teams are often not necessarily linked.

Before the start of the game, when the president of the Barcelona club, Gaspart, and the president of the Valencia club, Otti, shook hands together, they were still smiling, and they whispered a few words with Otti from time to time, and it seemed that the relationship with Otti was really good.

It was a completely different situation from the previous match between Valencia and Real Madrid.

But the happy scene on the rostrum has nothing to do with the fierce competition on the field.

Motivated by constant wins, Valencia's players now have only one thought on their minds - revenge!

Last season's game left a deep impression on a number of Valencia players.

Especially after Rivalardo's stunner, the Camp Nou celebrated almost frantically, which seemed like a show off to the loser.

It's just that after the game is over, the season is over, everyone is leaving, and no one will always be obsessed with a game, after all, life has to go on, no matter how failed last season, the new season will always come.

So they deliberately forgot about this game......

They thought they could really forget about the game.

But when they were in the dark dressing room today, they revisited the highlights of that game and heard Chang Sheng's sonorous rhetorical question in the dark.

Are you willing?

They realized that they had never forgotten that game, because they were really unwilling. They were beaten by a player who played extraordinarily, but not to Barcelona. In their opinion, Rivaldo is eligible to go to the Champions League, but Barcelona is not.

Chang Sheng's move today awakened the sleeping demon in their hearts, and the fire of revenge drove them to fight on the pitch and against Barcelona.

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The Catalan media desperately touted their friendship with Valencia before the game, and whether there was any hope to confuse Valencia and prevent Valencia from giving it all during the game, no one knows, but even if it wasn't, it must have been thought of in this way.

But now it seems that they did not confuse Valencia, but they did......

Barcelona's players didn't seem too excited in the game, they were slow to get into the groove.

It wasn't too deadly, but when you run into a group of Valencia players bent on revenge, it's a different story.

It was Valencia's veterans who were always the winners, most of whom had been through last season's game – both on the pitch and on the bench – and they must have been impressed with that game.

Starting these players allows them to let out all their energy and not waste it on the bench.

The starting strikers are Angulo and Ibrahimovic, although Villa is back from injury, and there are assists in the first two rounds of the league, the performance is acceptable, but Angulo has been in better form recently, in the last round of the league away to Villarreal, Angulo had an assist, and in the last game against Servette, Angulo simply scored twice.

With such a performance, there is no reason for him to continue to sit on the bench, and Angulo is a player who participated in the last round of the league last season.

In midfield, although Aimar also returned from injury, he still did not start this game.

All four midfielders were players who played in last season's league game against Barcelona. The midfielders are Albelda and Baraja, with Mendieta on the right and Vicente on the left.

Baraja was the player who scored twice in the tournament last season. His performance was not able to bring victory to the team in the end, which has always been a regret in Baraha's heart.

Now in this game, he naturally wants to make up for this shortcoming.

At centre-back, Manuel Pellegrino partnered Carvalho, with Paolo Ferreira at right-back and Aurelio at left-back.

The goalkeeper picked up three goals in the goal last season for Canizares.

Such a line-up can be said to be a scarred line-up, with the exception of Ibrahimovic, Carvalho and Ferreira, all of whom played in the last round of the league last season, but some were the main players at the time, and some were substitutes.

The reason why they started the game was to turn their unwillingness to that game and all kinds of envy and jealousy for Barcelona into motivation for this game.

Now it seems that his strategy was quite successful. Because from the very beginning of the game, Valencia took advantage of the home advantage and launched a fierce attack on the Barcelona balls.

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After the 2008-2009 season in Barcelona, the teams that dared to attack them all died miserably.

But it's not the 2008-2009 season, and today's Barcelona is not the "Cosmos Team" led by Pep Guardiola.

So when Valencia launched an onslaught on their home turf, Barcelona, who were slower to enter, were a little overwhelmed......

In fact, Barcelona has always lacked a proper understanding of Valencian football.

When the two teams met in the first half of the season, it wasn't really Valencia because of Ibrahimovic's problems. And Barcelona played against such a Valencia team, and their personal experience of Valencia was naturally only that one game.

Naturally, they lack more awareness of Valencia. Although you can understand Valencia's tactics in the media and watching the game video, it is always separated by a layer of window paper......

Under the constant onslaught of Valencia, Barcelona's backline began to have problems.

Due to Valencia's front-court pressing tactics, Barcelona's side couldn't even get past the midfield.

When Chang Sheng saw this scene off the field, he was quite embarrassed.

Six years later, he watched a lot of Barcelona games, and after a group of small men in Barcelona lost the goal, they frantically surrounded them, so that the opponent couldn't even pass the football at all, and their defense caused the opponent a lot of trouble.

I really didn't expect them to be dealt with by this tactic one day......

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Instead of watching the game at home, Pep Guardiola came to the stadium and in the stands of the Mestalla, he witnessed first-hand how his former team-mate was forced by Valencia to beat him at half-time.

His face is not very good-looking, after all, he has been in the Barcelona first team for ten years, and his feelings are extraordinary.

Now watching Barcelona perform poorly, he also feels the same way.

Barcelona's problems are no longer football-level problems, but problems within the team and at the club's top. There was nothing he could do about these problems, so he eventually chose to run away. Unexpectedly, his departure did not bring Barcelona back on track, and the civil strife continued......

He sighed, it's a miracle that Barcelona can still rank third like this!

Take a look at the completely different performances of Valencia and Barcelona in this game, and this is the gap between third and first in the league.

Speaking of which, this set of tactics was designed by him and Chang Sheng together, but he didn't expect it to be used on his own team. Although he could not play in the game against Barcelona, it seems that this is no different from helping Valencia beat Barcelona by himself......

He felt like he had to get to that point...... Meet his old club on the pitch.

Because he was involved in the development of Valencia's offensive tactics, he knew very well that Barcelona with this kind of performance would have little chance of beating Valencia away from home.

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Pep Guardiola had a good idea, and in the 21st minute of the first half, Valencia made a steal in front of the court, cut off the ball at Xavi's feet, and then quickly launched an attack. Balaja went straight, Ibrahimovic took the ball with his back, but he didn't make much adjustments, but the outside of the instep flicked, very light, not very inconspicuous pass, the football penetrated Barcelona's defense, and then Vicente cut in from the side, ran to the open position, and met the ball with an angry kick!

Vicente !!

With the roar of the commentator Morn, Vicente slammed the door hard!

The football was kicked hard by him towards the Barcelona goal.

Although Barcelona's goalkeeper Bonano guarded the near corner, he could only defend the bottom, because the center of gravity was lowered too low, and when the football flew overhead, Bonano only had time to wave his hand, but did not touch the football at all......

“goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool！！！ Vicente! Vicente! Valencia leads Barcelona 1-0 at home!! In the face of Valencia's forward pressing, Barcelona looked very uncomfortable, and for a while, their attack couldn't even pass a half! ”

"This Valencia looks almost invincible! They beat Real Madrid home and away, so could Barcelona repeat the same mistake? ”

Vicente looked excited after the goal, he turned to point to Ibrahimovic, who passed the ball to him, Ibrahimovic laughed and pounced, and the other Valencia players also rushed up, hugged the two and celebrated the goal together.

"In the last round of the league last season, Valencia lost 2:3 away to Barcelona, and now it seems that Valencia has revenge! They never forgot that game...... Rivaldo is still on the pitch, will he be able to save the team in this game? At least from the first twenty minutes of the game, it was difficult to see such signs......"

While the Valencia players celebrated, the Barcelona players stood on the pitch and watched their opponents blankly.

They've played a lot of games this season, but none of them have been like those 20 minutes...... Aggrieved!

Yes, if you had to find an adjective for their feelings, many people would choose to use "aggrieved". They feel very aggrieved, they can't kick the ball, their style of football can't play at all, they are chased by Valencia like a mad dog, they have completely lost the ability to think, they can only mechanically pass the ball, pass the ball, pass and transfer, until they finally lose the ball......

They couldn't figure out why Valencia's football seemed to be similar to theirs, but why it was completely different?

What exactly is so remarkable about Valencia's tactics?

Many people are puzzled.

If they continue to play like this, these Barcelona players will not see the light of day at all......

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