Chapter 101: Visiting Mestalla
With the win over Manchester City, Liverpool seemed to start a new round of upswing, and in the Champions League group stage, Liverpool won 1-1 against Lazio from Italy, thanks to Heskey's header at the end of the first half.
In the league, George is a big wind, with four goals in two games, he slapped everyone who thinks George is a violent maniac and a popular message. With four goals, George was telling everyone that I was still a killer and that the ban and punishment had no effect on my competitive form.
As for the cup competition, after discussions between Liverpool's senior management and managers Lao Bei and George, it was finally decided to abandon the cup competition and focus all their attention on the league and the Champions League. George was already the captain of the Liverpool team at this time, and for this kind of decision, George was naturally qualified to participate, after all, whether it was the manager or the club's senior management, they had to consider the player's thoughts somewhat.
But fortunately, Liverpool fortunately decided to give up the FA Cup, and in the FA Cup game against Newcastle United, except for the goalkeeper, the Liverpool faction hid all the main players, and looked like a buddy did not play the FA Cup.
But fortunately, this is the way to save Liverpool from an embarrassing situation. Because of the FA Cup game, Liverpool was bloodied by the Magpies, and even George and others sitting on the bench couldn't help but feel numb in the scalp.
Why is this happening, it's simple, it's all because of one person's explosion, that is, Alan Shearer, the soul of the Magpie Legion. I don't know what kind of stimulus this guy was aroused, this game suddenly exploded, it seemed that he was ten years younger all of a sudden, and the ferocity of the game made George, who was sitting on the bench, feel sad for his substitute teammates on the field.
With a kick over his head, Shearer scored a hat-trick, and even Hyypia and Carragher on the field admitted that they couldn't stop Shearer after seeing Shearer's madness.
Seeing this game, Lao Bei couldn't help but feel a little lucky for deciding to give up the FA Cup, if he really didn't give up the FA Cup, and sent all the main players to play to the crazy Shearer at this time, Lao Bei didn't dare to admit that he could defeat the opponent.
Although the score is very embarrassing, Zhilaobei still has some fig leaf to justifiably say that he did not send all the main forces, otherwise, Newcastle United would never play such a score.
Either way, with the whistle blowing for the end of all the games, Liverpool are freed up in the FA Cup to focus on the league and the Champions League.
In the atmosphere. The whole Liverpool team boarded a flight to Spain. Because Liverpool is going to Spain at this time. The Champions League group opponent who will challenge him is Valencia.
As the European group stage continues. At this time, the situation of each group qualifying gradually began to become clear. Within the Liverpool home group, Valencia is in first place at this time. And Liverpool are not far behind.
Although Lazio and Chelsea are not weak in the same group, in general. Based on the results of the four teams in the group at this point, the chances of Ersey and Lazio qualifying are almost slim. Of course. If the two teams want to cause some problems for Valencia and Liverpool. Of course, it's not impossible. But on the whole, there is not much chance. After all, there is no hope of qualifying for the Champions League. There's no need to put all your energy into it. Go to the league and have a good time. Or maybe get a good grade.
It can be said that there are now two teams left, Liverpool and Valencia, who are struggling. Why. Of course, to be able to appear first in the group. This is a good way to avoid being in the knockout stages. Run into tough opponents.
Liverpool against Valencia. Both teams are among the most likely teams in Group G~. Plus both teams want to go to the knockout stage as group winners. It all takes note of the local match between Liverpool and Valencia. It's definitely a comet hitting the earth to the death. So for this game. It has attracted huge attention from the outside world.
No way. within other groups. That's a clear distinction between strength and weakness. At first only after the end of the group draw ceremony. In addition to the g~ group, the strength is comparable. All four teams are almost entirely likely to have a surprise. Other groups. The outside world doesn't even bother to pay attention to it. Because of those group teams. Strong is too strong. Weakly too weak. Pretty much other groups. There was not a hint of suspense about the appearance of those teams.
When it comes to Liverpool's G~ group, the four teams are of equal strength, and if they don't do their best, everyone can lose the game.
Compared with other groups where strong teams ravage weak teams, both fans and the media naturally like to watch a collision of comparable strength like Liverpool and Valencia.
At the pre-game press conference, George came to the scene with Lao Bei and started the pre-game routine. Of course, it was not only Lao Bei and George, but also Valencia, manager Unai Emery and captain Albelda were also sitting on the scene at this time.
"Coach Emery, how are you going to watch the upcoming game?" After all, this is Valencia's territory, and Emery, the so-called self of the Spanish media, is naturally the first question to be asked by the journalists.
"Liverpool are a team with a long history and at the same time Liverpool are very strong, which is evident from Liverpool's position in the English league at this time. But we have a lot of quality in Valencia and I can't guarantee the outcome of the game, but at least I can assure you that it was a good game. ”
Emery replied with a smile in response to the Spanish question, with an official tone, a perfunctory or unqualified answer.
"Coach Benitez, you have coached the Valencia team before, what do you think is the difference between Valencia at this time and Valencia when you were coaching, and I don't know how you feel about coming back to Valencia again."
"Valencia is a very beautiful city and Valencia is a great team and I am very honoured to have been able to coach such a great team. I can still remember very clearly the moment when Valencia won the league, it was really beautiful. ”
Lao Bei seemed to be caught in memories at this time, and said with a look of recollection, and most of the Valencian media at the scene, after hearing Lao Bei's words, couldn't help but sigh. Indeed, Valencia was able to win La Liga at that time, although it was related to Barcelona and Real Madrid's stubbornness, but anyway, Valencia
Ji is indeed from the hands of the two traditional La Liga giants, snatching all the Valencian media associated with this, and I can't help but thank Lao Bei a little.
However, no one would have thought that the old Beljan would transfer the muzzle of the gun and not give Emery any face at all.
"Valencia is very strong at this time, much stronger than Valencia when I was coaching, and the players are very familiar with each other and have a good understanding of each other. As for the so-called tactics, Valencia has not always continued the short-pass tactics of my first coaching. I wondered why Valencia's strength had risen a lot at this time, and it was still unable to win the league title, was it Emery's coaching problem, or was the economic level of La Liga greatly improved, and the strength of La Liga teams has increased greatly? ”
Quiet, silent, everyone couldn't imagine that Lao Bei would suddenly say this. Why Valencia did not win the La Liga championship Of course, it cannot be that the level of La Liga has improved quickly, so high that the strength of all teams in La Liga has increased greatly, although the strength of all teams in La Liga has indeed increased, but Valencia definitely belongs to the strong teams in La Liga, except for Real Madrid and Barcelona, Valencia can be regarded as the third in comprehensive strength.
Since the overall strength is the third in La Liga, but it has not won the La Liga championship, this is of course Valencia's internal problem. However, there has been no recent disagreement in the Valencia dressing room, so there is only one reason, and that is that Unai Emery's coaching level is not enough to coach Valencia, at least not to lead Valencia to the league title.
Emery is not a son, and the sarcasm and attacks in Lao Bei's words are naturally heard, Emery couldn't have imagined that Lao Bei would be so polite, and he would openly satirize himself in front of so many media, how could Emery stand it.
Emery really wanted to stand up and fight with Lao Bei at this time, so that Lao Bei knew how powerful he was, but this kind of thinking was just Emery's inner thoughts, Emery was not a fool, so naturally he would not really fight with Lao Bei in front of so many memorizations.
At this time, Emery's anger is not to mention, Emery is really high-minded and said that it is not that Lao Tzu's ability is not good, but the time is not right. What are you Benitez, Lao Tzu still can't look down on. However, considering that Lao Bei led Valencia to win the La Liga championship and also won the English League title in his first season after taking office at Liverpool, Benitez's complete masterful results are absolutely embarrassing for Emery.
Thinking about it, Emery can't think of how to hit Lao Bei, round coaching level, Lao Bei has won two championships, but he has no results, on the strength of the team, the last time at Anfield, Valencia was also bloodied by Liverpool with a score of 1.
Now that he didn't have the qualifications to show off in front of Lao Bei, Emery suddenly felt that the press conference was like hell, uncomfortable, and wanted to leave here earlier.
When the main scene was about to ask Emery what his opinion was on Lao Bei's words, Emery really couldn't stand the atmosphere of the scene, and the most important thing was that he didn't want to see Lao Bei's arrogant face. With a blue face, he left the scene of the press conference without standing up. Left a stunned memory, and an embarrassed Albelda.
Look at ~ the gap between the two, this is the gap, this is the distance.
In the eyes of the media, Emery was ungraceful and left in anger. Throwing away the on-site notes here and leaving without saying a word is obviously not giving face to the on-site reporters. Originally, because Emery was the head coach of Valencia, the Spanish media couldn't help but feel contempt for Emery.
Seeing such embarrassment at the scene, after being maintained by the staff, Lao Bei, Albelda and George, after answering a few questions raised by the scene notes, left the press conference site when the staff announced the end.
"Coach, what's wrong with you today?" George and Lao Bei walked towards the locker room, George looked at Lao Bei, thought about it and asked cautiously. After all, in George's usual impression, although Lao Bei is sometimes rude, he is indeed a gentleman overall. Today's huge changes in Lao Bei suddenly made George think that Lao Bei was affected by something in the outside world, or that his private life had been seriously hit.
"Hehe, it's really nothing to know what you want to ask, I did it on purpose." Lao Bei looked at George and said with a smile.
Ya, even if you kid still have a conscience, care about me. Of course, when Lao Bei was secretly thinking about it, George's words almost made Lao Bei vomit blood, and he even wanted to kill George.
"So that's the case, let's just say, you haven't encountered any major disasters in normal times, you are all like a sissy fake woman, and you have always worked hard and stubbornly to maintain your so-called gentlemanly demeanor. I originally thought that you finally had a handful of gentlemen today, you just did it on purpose, hey~" After speaking, George still looked very sorry, sighed helplessly, and shook his head.
"Damn, you know why a fart is not enough for you, when Lao Tzu came out to mix up, many people called me Tiger!" Men, as long as they are a normal man, always attach great importance to the issue of face. Seeing that George actually said that he was like a girl, and he didn't look like a man at all, Bei couldn't help but roar angrily.
Not to mention, Lao Bei's roar like this is really a bit of the tiger title that Lao Bei said, at least the people who passed by George and Lao Bei were also taken aback by Lao Bei's sudden roar.
"ok~ok~~ You're a man, it's all right." George didn't expect Lao Bei's reaction to be so big, and after being stunned for a while, he suddenly nodded and said. But the expression on George's face is not very good, an expression that I can't mess with you, I'll follow you.
"It's all right, that's how it is." Seeing George's perfunctory look, Lao Bei yelled.
"Forget it, I told you that you won't understand either." Seeing that George still looked unconvinced, Lao Bei looked very pity, shook his head, sighed and walked towards the locker room. Lao Bei's reaction confused George.
"Damn Benitez, isn't it the one or two champions, what's so great about being there and laughing at me, damn Benitez, damn Liverpool."
Unai Emery walked back to the locker room angrily, roaring angrily, making the Valencia dressing room, which was originally very lively, suddenly change
Quietly, everyone looked at the angry head coach in surprise, no~ something.
One or two championships, it's not a big deal, you know, whether it's a player or a manager, the main purpose is to go for that championship. Albelda, who was following Emery, shook his head helplessly after hearing Emery's words, and thought to himself. At the same time, he glanced at his teammates and told his teammates that the manager was very angry at this time, and everyone should not talk nonsense and hit the muzzle of the gun.
The Valencia players, who originally wanted to ask the manager what was going on, suddenly chose to remain silent after getting the eyes of captain Albelda.
Finally, Emery continued to roar in the locker room a few times, only to think that the game was about to start, thinking of this, Emery just needed to calm down, called Valencia's teammates over and began to command.
1 Guys, think about it, what a disparity it is, I never thought that we would be at Liverpool's home stadium and be played like this by Liverpool. But at this moment, this matter is over, and I don't want to say anything, but I want to say that this time it's on our own home stadium, tens of thousands of fans are watching, and this time we have to work hard to not let Liverpool continue to be arrogant. I'll start with the front, if anyone doesn't have the momentum to play in the Champions League final, don't say I'm not welcome. There's still a lot of bench space left anyway, and I don't mind finding a host for these chairs. ”
Unai Emery's beginning suddenly startled the Valencia players, looking at Emery with a serious face, knowing that Emery was not joking, they immediately shouted that they must teach Liverpool a lesson.
Seeing the reaction of the players, Aime couldn't help but nodded, and the resentment she got from Lao Bei disappeared a little. However, when Emery saw that Aimar was still sitting in his chair, his eyes closed as if he was asleep, and seeing this, Emery also shook his head helplessly and sighed.
For Emmar, Merry is completely helpless, although Emery wants to teach Emmar a good lesson, or yell, but Emery is not a fool, naturally he will not do such a thing.
Benitez used to win the league title for Valenci and Aimar had no way to leave Valencia as his counterattack, and he was a coach who had not received any honors for Valencia, so he was naturally not qualified to say anything about Aimar.
While Emery was still clamoring in the locker room about how to teach Liverpool a lesson and asking the players to attack with all their might, the Liverpool players also gathered around Lao Bei, quietly listening to Lao Bei's tactical arrangements.
"Hi ~ Zhi!" George and the players stood quietly in the players' tunnel, waiting for the game to officially start, and suddenly shouted from the side, turned their heads to look, and the players who were now Valencia also came to the players' tunnel at this time, and the person who shouted for themselves was Valencia's captain Albelda.
"Hehe~David!" Although the relationship between the two sides is hostile and not a feud, at least before the game starts, the relationship between the players on both sides is still very harmonious. For Valencia's soul captain, George is no stranger, smiling and shaking Albelda's outstretched hand in response.
"Hehe, Coach Rafael was really good just now, you don't know how our head coach Unai Emery thundered in the locker room after leaving the press conference." Albelda looked at his teammates behind him and whispered to George.
"Uh~Wei, why did you suddenly say that your own coach should not be on your manager's side?" George was stunned, George never thought that Albelda did not speak for his head coach, but praised Lao Bei.
"Hehe~ What, I don't have a good impression of Emery's kind of person who has no level, but he wants to save face, if I have the right to choose the head coach of the team, I will definitely not choose him." Albelda smiled at George's doubts and said as a matter of course.
Uh~ It seems that this Valencia locker room is just like what Lao Bei said, and it's really messed up, don't talk about the gangs, just the relationship between Albelda, the captain and the head coach Emery, I'm afraid it's not very friendly.
"Hehe~ I hope to be able to see your wonderful performance, but I will not be polite in this game, the victory will ultimately belong to us Valencia."
Albelda said this, what else can George say, it is obvious that Albelda has no intention of continuing to talk to him at this time, since this is the case, George still can't help but refute.
"Hehe, this is a maybe, maybe we Liverpool will take three points back from your territory." Chat is chat, but when it comes to winning or losing on both teams, George naturally doesn't want to let go.
Albelda only smiled at George's answer and didn't say anything, as if Albelda had known that George would answer like this.
"Dear fans and friends on the scene, the highlight of the Champions League G~ group is about to be staged, that is, Valencia, which is at home, will welcome Liverpool, a powerhouse from England. It's going to be a good game, so let's wait and see what the outcome will be. Well, now that the fighters from both sides have entered, let's welcome the fighters from both sides with the warmest applause. ”
Although Chelsea and Lazio, who are in the same g~ group, are not weak, but whoever calls these two teams not to compete is almost a clear-eyed person now, and it can be seen that the appearance of the g~ group will only be Liverpool and Valencia. At this time, as the Champions League group is almost to the end, Lazio and Chelsea have been ignored at this time, and in the eyes of fans and media from all walks of life, the match between the G~ group is the contest between Liverpool and Valencia.
Under the commentary of the commentator, in the huge cheers of tens of thousands of fans at the Mestalla Stadium, Giorgio and Albelda both led their players with serious faces and walked into the stadium with their chests held high.
Shake hands, exchange flags, pick sides, stand, whistle blows. The huge cheers of tens of thousands of fans also rang out at the same time, George flicked the ball to Heskey on the side, and he rushed towards the Valencia penalty area, and the game officially began.