Chapter 527: Pride?

Before the game, the Spanish media carried out a series of reports on the match between the two teams, the Spanish team and the English team often meet, and every time the two sides meet, it will become the focus of the battle, which may be related to the fact that the Spanish team is Real Madrid and Barcelona many times, Valencia is not comparable to the two, but it is also a giant, a strong team, and their match with Chelsea is still very concerned.

The Spanish media and the English media reported differently.

In the eyes of the English media, it is not a problem for Chelsea to win Valencia, Valencia has a good schedule this season, but it is really a bit whimsical for them to want to eliminate Chelsea, after all, Chelsea's results are more gorgeous, and the overall strength of the two teams is also about the same, Valencia is a team that has risen to prominence this season, not like Real Madrid and Barcelona, which can enter European competitions every season, so they will definitely lose to Chelsea.

The Spanish media don't see it that way, they think that although Valencia can't catch up with Chelsea recently, they still have a chance in this game, especially this season Valencia is quite good and their squad is also very strong.

This may be due to the lack of understanding between the two sides.

The English media don't pay much attention to the stars of the average Spanish team, only their own stars, or the stars of their own league, and the same is true for the Spanish media, even though Chelsea have a gorgeous squad and players like Zhang Tiehan, they also think Valencia have a chance to win.

In fact, Valencia's squad is really gorgeous, otherwise their results would not be as good as they are now.

Their most gorgeous position is still the midfield and the striker, their midfield has a number of stars such as Hua Jin, Albelda, Marchena, Silva, etc., and the forward line has outstanding stars such as Morientes, Villa, Del Vecchio, this lineup is undoubtedly gorgeous, it is worth mentioning Morientes. He also played for Liverpool last season, when he was not very good, but it turned out that he was not adapted to the atmosphere of the Premier League, and the Spanish players more or less had similar problems when they arrived in Valencia. Morientes have made 29 appearances for Valencia and scored 14 goals so far in the league, which is quite impressive for a 32-year-old goalscorer.

It is worth mentioning Valencia's leading goalscorer David Villa, the 26-year-old Spaniard star who has been excellent up front since he played in the professional league. But at the beginning of 2000, Spain's forward line was full of talent, Raul and other veterans occupied positions, and it was difficult to have a position for a talented person like Villa, and as a result, Villa is not very famous in world football, but his appearance is real.

Early in his career, he played for Sporting Gijón in La Liga in the Asturias region. And regard Sporting Gijón's 'palace' star Queenie as the object of study.

The 19-year-old was promoted to the Gijón Athletic B team and a year later he was promoted to the first team. In his three seasons at Sporting Gijón, Villa scored 38 goals in 80 appearances.

In the 2002-03 season, Villa set a personal record for the highest goals scored in Gijón, when he was still in the second division, and he scored 20 goals and earned the title of "lone hero".

A year later in the summer. He said goodbye to La Liga and joined Zaragoza, a mid-table side in La Liga. After moving to La Liga, which is at a higher level, Villa's goal rate is still extremely high.

The 2003-04 season was his first season in the Spanish Liga and he scored 17 goals for Zaragoza, averaging one goal per 2.28 games in two seasons while Zaragoza. Left for Zaragoza a figure of 38 goals in 92 games.

Villa assisted Zaragoza in reaching the final of the Spanish Cup. In the final against Real Madrid, which has stars such as Zidane, Figo, Beckham, Roberto Carlos, etc., Villa was violated by Goody at the beginning of the second half and won a penalty.

In the summer of 2005, Villa moved to Valencia, which was worth 12 million euros.

In their debut season at Valencia, Villa scored 25 goals in 37 league games, finishing just one goal behind Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o as the top scorer on home.

It is precisely because of this year's performance that the door of the Spanish national team is officially open to Villa.

Last summer, Chelsea also wanted to ask for Villa, and the transfer price was as high as 30 million euros, but Valencia still refused, after all, they also wanted to stay in this excellent goalscorer and work hard for this season, and now their options have paid off, Villa has not slipped at all in this season, even if he comes in with frequent injuries, but in the games, he still contributes goals to the team.

For this game, Villa was also in the starting line-up for Valencia.

Spain are already looking forward to Villa and Morientes coming together to break down the door for Chelsea

In fact, Valencia also believes that the team has a good chance, and they may be more confident than the Spanish media, which has to do with their current results, they are ahead of Barcelona in the league, and Real Madrid are out of sight.

This result naturally made the whole Valencia team very confident, and in the Champions League, their performance was also extremely good, and although they finally qualified as the second in the group and met a strong Chelsea, Valencia was united and felt that it would be a good opponent to meet a 'falling apart' Chelsea at this time.

"I think we have a good chance." Valencia boss Flores said before the game that he was emphasizing one point: "We have a stronger forward line than Chelsea! ”

This is where Valencia prides itself.

They have Spain's top scorer Villa and Spain's 'former top scorer' Morientes in the front line, and the new and old top scorers will naturally be extremely sharp in the forward line.

The English media were dismissive of this.

Not to mention the others, just one Zhang Tiehan Valencia's forward line is stronger than Chelsea? The joke was really funny.

But in fact, Zhang Tiehan's deterrence has not been transmitted to Spain, or not to Valencia, Valencia only sees Zhang Tiehan's number of goals, as well as his various awards, but what it really is, they don't know, to say that the deterrent power of players with more goals is still there, but they only think that Zhang Tiehan is an excellent goalscorer, but how good it is, they don't know.

The same goes for Valencia fans, who all know Zhang Tiehan, but they don't think the team can't have Zhang Tiehan's Chelsea, which may be the result of Valencia this season that has given them confidence.

As soon as the game started, Valencia fans cheered in the stands.

This is also related to the situation in the opening game, in which Valencia relied on home advantage and launched a suppressive attack on Chelsea, in this case, Chelsea appeared to be a little passive, and Valencia fans saw this situation and had more confidence in the team.

That's what Spanish fans think.

Spanish football is much more technical than English football, and many teams are attack-oriented, Valencia is actually one of the special ones, their tradition is to defend and counterattack, but at the beginning of this game, Valencia has an advantage in attack, so the team's natural advantage is very obvious, this is the opinion of Valencia fans.

However, the Chelsea fans did not react at all, and if they knew that Valencia fans would think so, they would surely laugh at Chelsea for being passive and losing? I think about it too much.

Chelsea have been passive a lot this season, and there are often many reasons for this passivity, such as away reasons, the team's poor opening performance, the team's tactics are defensive counter-attacks, etc., in short, there are many reasons, but Chelsea have not really lost a few games this season.

Valencia doesn't see it that way.

Valencia's head coach Flores also felt that there was nothing unusual about the game, Valencia was able to suppress the opponent, that was an advantage, and he smiled with satisfaction when he saw the opening scene.

As for Zhang Tiehan, who was reported by many English media before the game?

It's just one player, football is always a team sport, the whole team is at a disadvantage, how can one player do anything? Perhaps, the opponent can score three goals against Barcelona, but they are Valencia, not Barcelona, they still suppress Barcelona in league points, and they are better at defense in comparison, in short, no matter how you think about it, Valencia's advantage is obvious.

That's what Flores had in mind.

What confirmed his thoughts was that Zhang Tiehan didn't get the ball much in the front court at this time, and he really didn't have much to show in the first ten minutes.

So Flores became more confident.

Valencia fans are also talking about Zhang Tiehan, Zhang Tiehan is already a world-famous player, almost all fans around the world will know his name, before the game, Valencia fans are also worried that Zhang Tiehan broke out in this game, but seeing the team's table in the first ten minutes, and Zhang Tiehan did not watch in the first ten minutes, the two correspond, they all feel that the team is guarding against Zhang Tiehan.

They are proud of it.

Which team in the world can say they can defend against Chelsea's No.9 Zhang Tiehan? Now, Valencia has done it, or at least it shows that Valencia's defence is absolutely world-class, so they are all proud.

But when the Valencia fans talked, they didn't notice that the football had appeared at the feet of Zhang Tiehan, and his position was only 30 meters away from the goal (to be continued......