Chapter 262: La Liga's First Pole (The First Update)
Rijcaldes thought about it and finally decided to give up the marking of Deco and let Edgar Davies go back to defend Ronaldinho.
When Chang Sheng saw this change, he laughed.
When Rijkaard decided to freeze Deco with Edgar Davis, the initiative in this game actually fell into the hands of Valencia.
He had nothing to fear.
He was quick to make adjustments.
He put Ronaldinho back in his left winger position as a qualified left winger.
And the command of the game was handed back to Deco.
Deco has recovered from his previous silence and is reactive.
Frequently ask for the ball, take the ball, and keep running.
Then send a pass.
His passing is not as impressive as Ronaldinho's, his movements are not fancy, and there is little to watch it in.
But it's very practical.
As he continued to pass and run, Valencia's attack became more and more fluid, and he was like a lubricant.
Coupled with the constant switching of the three forwards in the front, the Barcelona defenders were even more unguardable.
Davies is a midfielder, and he is now going to defend Ronaldinho, who plays left winger, and if he wants to squeeze the defender's position, it will also cause dangerous openings in front of the centre-back.
At this time, Deco resolutely stepped forward and appeared outside the opponent's big penalty area, either sending a through ball or taking a long shot himself!
Playing on the Barcelona backline.
Rijkaard can't play like this, maybe at the end of the first half. His own team has collapsed.
So taking advantage of a dead ball opportunity, he hurriedly made another adjustment.
Edgar Davis still went back to curb Deco's play. As for Ronaldinho, Rijkaard handed it over to Puyol.
Such an adjustment is to plug all the loopholes.
But Puyol is a centre-back, and Ronaldinho is now a midfielder, running out of the box with a lot of flexibility and a wide range of movement.
So that the central defender Puyol simply can't keep up.
If Puyol must keep up, there will be holes in Barcelona's backline.
To close this loophole. Everyone else has to move. As a result, more vulnerabilities appeared.
The so-called pulling a hair and moving the whole body, that's what it means.
This practice of tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall is obviously not a long-term solution.
The Barcelona players themselves felt awkward about the game.
So it was no surprise that they conceded another goal before the end of the first half.
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"David Villa! He's in the right place! And then everything is logical! Valencia took a two-goal lead in the 42nd minute! ”
There was only cheers from the Valencia fans in the Mestalla stadium, and the Barcelona fans had completely turned off the flames.
The duo of Real Madrid and Barcelona in two weeks gave Valencia fans a burst of confidence.
They shouted the slogan "We will be champions".
Listening to such shouts, the president of Barcelona, Laporta, who was sitting on the rostrum, had a bad face.
But there is a person with a worse face than him.
This person is none other than Juan Soler, president of the Valencia club, who is sitting next to him.
But Soler kept his head down. So no one can get to the hideous expression on his face.
He's the guy who wants to win this season for nothing......
How did things come to this?
Why was Valencia able to top the league table by beating Real Madrid and Barcelona?
Although he is the president of Valencia FC, now he does not want Valencia to win either title. Because he knows very well that these championships will not be counted as his own achievements, and ten of them will become a winning personal medal of honor. For each more championship, the difficulty of not renewing the contract with Chang Sheng increases by one point.
The so-called high merit shocks the master. That's how he is now, his popularity among fans, media and players is too great, downplaying the presence of the club's president. It's not normal in Spain, it's not England, where even a long-term manager shouldn't be more famous than the president of a club.
Over here. It's the president of the club who has the final say.
No matter how many championships you have as a head coach to help the team win, you only need to provoke the chairman. Fired you anyway.
The media reports that the focus of a team is also on the club president, not on the manager.
The head coach is more like a working boy, it is better to bury his head in obscurity and do his own thing, and he doesn't need to care about anything else.
In Valencia, however, this situation has been completely turned upside down. When people talk about Valencia, they talk more about winning permanently. As the new president of the club, his sense of presence is low and scary. In Valencia, it's not himself or the club manager Sanchez who has the final say, but the manager who wins. In terms of external image, people also mention Changsheng the most, not themselves.
As the president of the club, Otti may be able to bear with it. But Soler couldn't bear it.
Becoming the president of Valencia FC is his dream dream, and he is not going to be unknown behind the scenes, he wants to become the most successful one in the history of Valencia FC as the "President of Valencia Club"!
Santiago Bernabeu, Gamble, the most successful club presidents of these big clubs, which of them are unknown?
Soler dreams of one day naming a cup after himself, just as Real Madrid have the Santiago Bernabeu Cup and Barcelona have the Gamble Cup. One day, Valencia may have a "Soler Cup".
He didn't want the tournament to be called the "Winning Cup" in a few years' time.
So it's not that the more accolades a manager has at the club, the more secure his position becomes.
For those cautious club presidents, the better the ability of the manager under him, the better the results, the more uneasy he will be, and he will have to deal with it quickly.
Chang Sheng's coaching career at Valencia was nothing short of impressive, but it was the fundamental reason for him to leave Valencia.
But the contradiction comes out.
If Chang Sheng can still lead the team to the championship this season, then what reason does he have not to renew his contract and fulfill the remaining year of his contract?
Although his own reason is very good, this reason cannot be said to the outside world, and he needs an external excuse.
It is impossible for him to say to the outside world that he is jealous of Chang Sheng's achievements, and he is worried that the other party's prestige will overwhelm him, so he has to fire him, right?
Although everyone knows the reason, it is still not okay to say it yourself.
This will appear to be a cautious eye, which is not good for your own image.
A manager who can win the championship was inexplicably dismissed by himself, will those powerful managers dare to come to Valencia to coach in the future?
Soler couldn't think about that.
And the more he thought about it, the more headaches he felt.
He began to hope that Valencia would have a big four and nothing to gain this season, so that he would have a reason to fire Chang Win.
He doesn't care about the team, so there isn't a single title. Anyway, as long as you can qualify for next season's Champions League, you will be considered a success. He is the president of the club, he doesn't just stay in the club for a year or two, he has time, it doesn't matter if he doesn't win the championship in a season, as long as he can drive away the winning team and build the team according to his own ideas, he firmly believes that the championship is indispensable.
At that time, he will become the most successful and greatest president in the history of Valencia Club because of countless championships!
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Barcelona had a bit of a counter-attack in the second half, but they didn't have much to do against Valencia's tight tactics.
Offensively, they were unable to break down Valencia's goal, and defensively faced wave after wave of attacks from Valencia.
Barcelona have never played so helplessly.
They can't exert their strength.
After another goal was scored by Valencia in the second half, the suspense of the game was completely over.
Then Chang Sheng began to make substitutions, and replaced three people at the same time.
He's starting to save himself for the Champions League in midweek.
For a team like Barcelona, the practice of winning is **naked humiliation!
Because in the past, only they used it on other teams, and no one else ever used it on them......
Against Barcelona, who would dare to start playing before the game is over?
It seems that they can beat Barcelona just like that.
Even Real Madrid wouldn't dare!
But Chang Sheng did just that!
It looks like he doesn't take Barcelona up and down at all......
Barcelona can't even beat Stuttgart.
Since when has it degenerated to such a degree?
What made Barcelona fans even more dissatisfied was not Chang Sheng's move to change three people in advance, but Barcelona's reaction in the face of what kind of humiliation - they did not get angry and catch up, and teach the arrogant Valencia a lesson, but chose to remain silent!
Yes, just so silent, silently accepting the fate of defeat and the humiliation of the opponent.
When Laporta came to power, he promised to restore the glory of Barcelona, saying that he could not let the century-old giants continue to be disgraced and that he wanted to put an end to the days when anyone could laugh at Barcelona. But now for ...... He's probably still a long way to go......"
Morn finally said.
Then the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.
Valencia beat Barcelona 0 at their home stadium.
completed the double kill of another giant.
When Soler was still dreaming of making Valencia the third pole of La Liga, Valencia has truly become the third pole of La Liga under the leadership of Chang Sheng!
No...... It may already be the first pole, but not necessarily?