Chapter 543: Visiting the Love Song Stadium

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However, before facing the 11th round of the league, Manchester City first needs to travel to Villarreal, the autonomous region of Valencia, Spain, where Manchester City will usher in the fourth round of the group stage, which is also the most crucial game of the group stage, and this game is very likely to determine whether Manchester City can qualify from the group early.

The weather and air in England are not at all comparable to Spain, and a hundred and one people living in England will complain about the weather in England.

What's more, Villarreal is close to the beautiful Mediterranean Sea, the oldest sea in the world, from Villarreal, it only takes 10 minutes to reach the Mediterranean Sea.

Strictly speaking, this is Li Feng's first visit to Spain, although he went to Madrid in the 09-10 Champions League final, but at that time the opponent was Inter Milan and not the Spanish team.

Villarreal's rise to prominence is legendary, having been established since 1923, but for more than 70 years since its founding, Villarreal has been playing in the lower leagues until 1998, when it was promoted to La Liga.

After a brief period of adaptation, the Yellow Submarine began to gain a foothold in La Liga and slowly grew into an indispensable force in La Liga, even having the feat of pushing Barcelona down.

Last season, the Yellow Submarine broke into the Champions League again, but sadly, they were drawn to the Super Death Group, where Villarreal have not picked up points so far, finishing bottom of the group with 0 points.

Therefore, in this Champions Cup, unless there is a miracle, Villarreal has no possibility of qualifying from the group, and even participating in the League Cup cannot be done.

The roof leak happened to rain overnight, just before the Champions League, in the 10th round of La Liga against Real Madrid. Villarreal's dominant striker Rossi said goodbye to the season with a ruptured cruciate ligament, and then in the eleventh round, another striker, Ruben, also left the field injured.

It is worth mentioning that Rossi's injury not only affected Villarreal's results this season, but even affected Rossi's future career. The dream of the wealthy family was shattered, and finally disappeared from everyone, which is the consequence of Rossi's serious injury.

"Compared with Spain, the weather in England is ****" Coming to Villarreal, looking at the sunny sky and dry and fresh air, Balotelli said with a look of disgust and disgust.

In England, apart from the media, Balotelli can't stand the weather in England the most. In fact, Manchester City deeply agrees with this, and even manager Van Basten can't help but nod.

'It's a crucial game that can even affect our schedule for the next few months, and it could potentially affect us and the Premier League as a whole,' Van Basten said with a frown on his brow at the press conference.

This is not Van Basten's alarmist rhetoric, and in the next two months, Manchester City will have a devil's schedule. Champions Cup, League and Cup. Manchester City, who have been hungry for glory for too long, do not want to give up any competition, especially the Champions Cup and the league.

Among them, the league is the most, and in the next two months, Manchester City will face Newcastle United. Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal take turns to challenge, and the latter three traditional giants do not need to be described too much, and Newcastle United's performance this season is quite impressive, if it were not for Manchester City's performance, it would be too crazy. Newcastle United can definitely be the most surprising team in the Premier League this season.

Therefore, the game against Villarreal is related to Manchester City's situation in the Champions League, if this game wins against Villarreal, then Manchester City will get 10 points, as long as nothing else, group qualification is inevitable, then Manchester City can focus more on the league.

"Yes, this game is crucial for us, although we have had a difficult time lately, we will not give up because of this, we will fight until the last minute," said Villarreal coach Garrido in the face of the upcoming do-or-die match.

Garrido's life at Villarreal has not been easy, and rumors of a change of coach have long been rampant, but considering Villarreal's injury this season, it is also understandable that Villarreal's current results are also understood, after all, most of the main team is injured.

"Yes, we are at a critical moment and we know very much about the importance of this game, so we are ready for Spain to take away a win" The red card in the last round did not affect Kompany's mood, after all, the red card in the last game was not bad, so the FA did not impose additional penalties, Kompany only needs to be suspended for one round.

The captain stepped up and naturally waved his support as a team-mate, "It's going to be difficult to be a guest in Spain, but we're ready for it," Joe Hart said.

At 8 p.m. on November 2nd, Villarreal's home stadium Love Song Stadium, a very nice stadium name, this stadium was built in the same year as Villarreal, and has been used as Villarreal's home stadium, with a total capacity of 22,000 fans.

With half an hour to go, the players of both teams had already returned to the dressing room after the warm-up to listen to the manager's final arrangements.

Villarreal lineup: 442

Goalkeeper: López

Defenders: Katara, Gonzalo, Musacchio, Mario

Midfielders: Mubarak, Marchena, Borja, De Guzman

Forwards: Pérez, Joselu

Compared with the last game, Villarreal's lineup has actually changed quite a lot, especially the forward line, the sad Villarreal forward line all went to the team doctor, for this reason, Perez was pushed to the striker, and even Joselu was temporarily transferred from the second team.

Manchester City lineup: 433

Goalkeeper: Joe Hart

Defenders: Kolarov, Kompany, Boateng, Zabaleta

Midfielders: De Jong, Yaya Toure, Li Feng

Forwards: Silva, Balotelli, Aguero

Manchester City's lineup can definitely support Manchester City's multi-front operation, and even enough for Van Basten to put on two completely different line-ups, at the back, Klich, Richards, Lascott, Kolo Toure, Savic, midfield, Barry, Hargreaves, Minaar, Adam Johnson, and Dzeko has been thrown to the reserve Tevez in the front.

Van Basten chose Balotelli as the starter again, and as Balotelli's form got better and better, Van Basten began to rotate him with Dzeko.

In a blink of an eye, the time came to 8:40, and the players of both sides officially appeared under the leadership of the referee, and the referee in charge of officiating the game was Proenca, the golden whistle from Portugal. (To be continued.) )