Chapter 337: When the Arrow is in Crisis
After the first round of the Champions League group stage with Tottenham Hotspur, the team began to continue to Alican again.
The city of Alicante is the capital city of Alicante Province, and this province of Alicante actually belongs to the Autonomous Region of Valencia.
Here is a new team of newly promoted teams, Elcules.
They won the Spanish Second Division championship last season and were able to re-enter La Liga after thirteen years. They are Valencia's opponent in the third round of La Liga.
This team was once a team with a story. Thirteen years ago, in the 96-97 season, Elcules, who had been relegated early, played against Barcelona in the last round of the league. In that game, they tried their best to finally defeat the powerful Barcelona, and then pulled Barcelona from the top of the list in the last round and finally gave the championship to Real Madrid.
So, this is a team that once made Barcelona ruthless, and it is also a team that once brought good memories to Real Madrid.
At the same time, this is also a civil war between the two teams in the same district of Valencia.
Although Elcules is a team of promoted teams, there are actually many famous players in their team, and just looking at the lineup is still very intimidating.
For example, the former French international, Juventus' super forward Trezeguet is now playing for this team.
There is also the Paraguay international who once played for Werder Bremen and Dortmund, Nelson Valdes.
Dutch winger Drente, who also played for Real Madrid last season, and Portillo, who also played for Real Madrid.
These players are both powerful and famous. Therefore, even if the opponent is just a promoted team, Valencia must not underestimate them.
Josiligo Perez Stadium, Elcules' home court.
The two teams are ready to go, La Liga third round!
In this game, Elcules's team really ranked Valdes, Trezege, Drente and other famous players in the starting lineup.
These three people are also the biggest reliance of Elcules on the offensive end.
On the Valencia team's defense line is the configuration of Mathieu, Navarro, Maduro and Miguel.
Hernandez, Topal, midfielder in the middle.
The two wings are Huajin and Xu Qi, and Mata is still in the position of the shadow front, while Soldado is sent on the front line.
Aduris sat on the bench this time.
Emery did not make too many rotation adjustments. After all, this season has just begun, and the players' physical reserves are very good, so he doesn't have to make too many rotation adjustments.
At the beginning of the game, Valencia turned away and began to siege Elcules.
Although Elcules, who had just been upgraded, made a series of adjustments to the forward line and signed many famous players, their defense line is still the team in the Segunda Division. Therefore, Mata scored a goal at the beginning of the game!
Their resistance lasted only two minutes.
Mata played a wonderful cooperation with Joaquin on the right side, and then Joaquin made a wonderful pass for Mata. After Mata got the ball, he shot hard in the penalty area.
A very easy goal, Elcules was indeed much weaker than the powerful Valencia.
During the following period, Valencia also controlled the situation and kept putting pressure on the opponent's defense.
Although Xu Qi was on the left side of this game, he also began to frequently choose to cut in and then make goals for his teammates.
Now Xu Qi has decided on a new training direction. He hopes to make himself more creative, especially when facing some teams that like to defend and counterattack or those who are more dense in defense, Xu Qi hopes that he has the ability to see defensive loopholes that ordinary players cannot see, and then find opportunities to help the team create opportunities.
Xu Qi has tried several times to use his foot skills and observation skills to send the ball into the penalty area, but the effect is average. His straight passes were confiscated by the opponent's goalkeeper Karatayad's timely attack.
Then, Valencia relied on a set piece opportunity to score again, Hernandez scored and rewritten the score to 2-0.
Before the end of the first half, Valdes created a penalty kick and Trezeguet scored.
Elcules also used this penalty to tie the score one-to-two.
This goal also gave Elcules a chance to tie the score in the second half and hoped to score points.
In the first half, Valencia actually had some hidden dangers. It was after Trezege tied the score one-to-two that Elcules' morale was shocked and he once suppressed Valencia on the scene.
During this period, Valencia was also in a mess, and Navarro and Miguel Hernandez both received yellow cards.
In the first half, three players of Valencia received yellow cards, two of which were received after 42 minutes.
This is enough to show the embarrassment of Valencia.
After the halftime break, the situation suddenly changed. Navarro, who received a yellow card in the first half, was caught by the referee again because of a not-so-cold tackle and was sent off after receiving the second yellow card.
Valencia encountered a relatively big crisis.
The second half has just begun, and they have to fight one less person. This battle in the same district is a bit tragic.
Then, Mathieu also received a yellow card.
Valencia's defense is tight.
Emery immediately replaced Mata and replaced Dilbert to strengthen the defense.
In this way, Valencia finally got through this period of difficulties.
Subsequently, Soldado was also substituted and Domingos appeared.
In this way, Xu Qi was pushed to the front and became a single arrow.
Now Xu Qi can play guest roles in all positions in the frontcourt, and even a single arrow can be used.
Not to mention, Emery pushed Xu Qi to the front this time and became the team's single arrow to play defensive counterattack, which really worked.
While Elcules was controlling the ball, Drente dribbled the ball and tried to pass Dilbert on the left, but Topal directly intercepted it.
Then Hernandez made a long pass from the backcourt to Xu Qi.
A long pass directly from the backcourt to the frontcourt, while at this time, there was only Xu Qi in the frontcourt.
Valencia, who had played one less, lowered her figure and started to fight a defensive counterattack. This time, this counterattack was too simple. She directly passed the long pass to Xu Qi and completely treated Xu Qi as a powerful striker.
"Good ball!" Xu Qi saw the ball coming and rushed over immediately. At this time, it was time to test Xu Qi's single-handed combat ability.
The ability to fight individually is never Xu Qi's weakness.
Xu Qi removed the ball directly to his left, and then began to turn around quickly. Palmalot, who was still pressing against Xu Qi, was stopped by Xu Qi, and was squeezed behind him.
Chapter completed!