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Having reached the semi-finals of the Champions Cup for the first time since its inception and eliminated many strong teams including Manchester United and Juventus on the way to qualification, Villarreal has really surprised people this season. Moreover, the Yellow Submarine's artistic tactical play and extremely smooth offensive coordination have also brought huge popularity to this small club. Many people believe that this season's Villarreal is very likely to replicate the trajectory of the two dark horses of Chelsea and Monaco in the 03-04 season, and become another non-giant club to successfully reach the Champions League final.

Villarreal have been able to pull off an upset all the way to where they are today without many fanfares, and the biggest contributor is undoubtedly their on-field core, Argentine star Juan Roman Riquelme, who is known as the "last classical striker". The Argentine midfielder, who spent a nightmare season in Barcelona, was scolded by Barcelona fans as a parallel commodity and was even asserted by many experts and celebrities as destined to not be able to gain a foothold in European football, burst out with amazing energy after arriving at the Love Song Stadium (home of Villarreal)!

In his first season with Villarreal, Riquelme led the Yellow Submarine out of the shadow of fighting for relegation every year, led a group of giants (Jose Mari, Sonny Anderson, etc.) to eighth place in La Liga, and also achieved a good result in the quarterfinals of the UEFA Cup. Last season, he led the Yellow Submarine all the way to victory, squeezing out strong opponents such as Deportivo La Coruna and Valencia, and won the third place in La Liga that season after Barcelona and Real Madrid.

The second contributor to Villarreal's rise is Chilean coach Manuel Pellegrini, who joined in the summer of '04 and is nicknamed "The Engineer". After learning that the club had signed Riquelme from Barcelona, Pellegrini, who knew Riquelme's ability, immediately determined the team building policy of taking the Argentine as the core and building the team around Riquelme!

As a result, under the strategy of Pellegrini, Juan Sorin and Diego Forlan, who have not been happy in the giants due to injuries or adaptation, have joined Villarreal and united around Riquelme, the midfield master, to form a united and energetic team!

In this way, thanks to the joint efforts of Riquelme and Manuel Pellegrini, the Yellow Submarine went to the next level in the 04-05 season, becoming a La Liga powerhouse from the middle club, and squeezed out the two strong rivals Super Laco and Valencia, and successfully won the third place in La Liga that season - which is also the highest place won by Villarreal in La Liga since the establishment of the team. At the same time, this season, Riquelme also led Villarreal to a 3-0 home victory over Barcelona, taking perfect revenge on the old club who brought him to European football but refused to bother to build a team around him!

This season, while Villarreal have slipped down the league table from last season due to distractions in Europe, they are still firmly in the European league and will have little problem securing a UEFA Cup place at the end of the season. In the Champions Cup, Villarreal has beaten Juventus, Glasgow Rangers, Benfica, Manchester United and other strong opponents to reach the semi-finals, becoming the biggest dark horse in the Champions League this season!

With Juventus knocked out of the quarter-finals by the Yellow Submarine due to a lack of away goals, most people are quite cautious about the clash between Fiorentina and Villarreal. After all, in the previous quarter-finals, Villarreal proved their ability with practical actions, and the faces of these people who were optimistic about Juventus qualifying were swollen.

Although the outside world is extremely cautious about the outcome of this matchup between the two teams, Mourinho does not think so. After analysing the footage of Villarreal's matches this season, the Portuguese found that this team can be said to be completely Riquelme's team alone!

In other words, as long as Riquelme is stared at and he can't string the whole team together with the pass as usual, then Fiorentina has already qualified for the final!

However, Mourinho also knows that it will not be easy to keep an eye on Riquelme. If nothing else, with the skills of Trapattoni and Ferguson, they must have seen that Riquelme was Villarreal's goal, but why didn't they keep an eye on the Argentine?

The reason lies with Villarreal's manager, Manuel Pellegrini. Riquelme's ability to perform so well in Villarreal is inseparable from the tactics and line-up that the Chilean coach has carefully crafted for him. The likes of Forlan and Sorin were all excellent runners, and the team's original likes of Marcos Senna and Arua Barrena meant that Riquelme had more than three team-mates around him wherever he was, allowing him to pass the ball smoothly.

With such a set-up that can maximize Riquelme's technical characteristics, coupled with the Argentine's top-notch ability to get rid of, it is only Juventus who are showing signs of aging at the back and Manchester United who are in the process of changing blood that they will suffer from Villarreal. Because both teams' ability to run is their weakness, this gives Villarreal an opportunity to take advantage of.

However, although Fiorentina's defensive system is not afraid of Villarreal's style of play, which relies on a lot of running to pull out attacking space, and has made many top midfield playmakers, including Zinedine Zidane, useless, this does not mean that the Purple Lily's defense is flawless. In fact, when Fiorentina are facing the likes of Rui Costa, Miku and Riquelme, who are good at delivering precise passes in tight spaces, the pressure on the Purple Lily is often much greater than against midfielders like Zinedine Zidane, who are better at seizing fleeting opportunities and tearing apart Fiorentina's defence with precise passes.

The reason why the final winner will be Fiorentina is because the overall strength of the purple lily is stronger and creates more threats in the game, while Miku and their teammates are often inferior in ability, and it is difficult to grasp the opportunities they create; On the other hand, it is because the physical strength of this kind of classical forward is generally not very good, and he often loses his strength when he kicks and kicks under the high-intensity defense of Fiorentina......

Therefore, in the first leg of the away meeting against Villarreal, Mourinho was still very careful to send all his main players. As against Arsenal, Mourinho opted to defend the counter-attack, as well as block the middle and open the wings, and defend by compressing the opponent's attacking space.

After all, if Riquelme had opened the opening kick and Villarreal's players had seized the opportunity, Fiorentina would have been passive in the semi-final.