Chapter 886 - The high-level of Real Madrid

Although Busquets' ticket appears to be a six-match ban, the ban is not limited to the league, including the two Copa del Rey 1/16 finals played in late October and mid-November, which means that Barcelona's fears have been resolved, so they did not continue to appeal, anyway, Busquets can return in the 13th round of the league national derby, that is enough......

Real Madrid was very unhappy with this, and according to Mourinho's idea, Busquets was suspended until the national derby before returning from the ban.

Even though he is very dissatisfied, Mourinho has nothing to do, after all, this is the final fine given by the Disciplinary Committee of the Spanish Football Federation, and there must be a lot of basis, and it cannot rely on public opinion to put pressure on the Spanish Football Federation.

At the same time, Jose Mourinho needs to prepare for the third round of the Champions League group stage away to Manchester United, and the issue of Sergio Busquets' ban can only be put behind him, after all, the opponent he will face is the most important thing.

The two key matches in the third round of the Champions League, Manchester United vs Real Madrid and Inter Milan vs Tottenham, were both played on Tuesday night, and these two key battles attracted the attention of the whole of Europe, the most eye-catching of which was undoubtedly Manchester United's home match against Real Madrid, the second generation of the Galaxy Battleship.

Of course, this focus battle is not only the game itself, such as Cristiano Ronaldo's return to Old Trafford as an enemy can cause huge public opinion, and Mourinho after switching to Real Madrid again with the old coach Ferguson has also become the focus of everyone's attention, whether it is the two-time Champions League champion Ferguson sitting at home to lead the team to victory, or the three-time Champions League champion madman Mourinho defeated the Champions League defending champion Manchester United, are all worth paying attention to the game to explore.

Valencia's opponent in this round is the little-known Žilina, and the attention it can attract is limited, so apart from the local Valencian media and the Chinese media, almost no one cares, and the huge contrast is really elusive.

Fortunately, Valencia's attention is on the schedule, they have won two games in the past two games and are at the top of the table with six points, as long as they beat Zhilina in the next home and away games, then they can basically determine a place in the group, which will have a huge decompression effect on Valencia's trip to Spartak Moscow in the distant Moscow in November, and can also relieve the pressure on Real Madrid's away league game in early December......

So the third round of the Champions League group stage at home to Gillina is crucial for Valencia!

On the first match day of the third round of the Champions League, the much-anticipated Manchester United lost 2:3 at home to Real Madrid, and Cristiano Ronaldo scored one goal in the first and second halves and was the biggest contributor to Real Madrid's away victory.

It is worth mentioning that when Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Old Trafford at the Theatre of Dreams, he was greeted with the same applause and cheers from the home fans as Arlo returned to Stamford Bridge, who did not forget that it was the Portuguese's persistence that helped United reach the Champions League final for three consecutive seasons, and finally won the Champions League in 2009-2010, fulfilling a wish of Ferguson and Manchester United fans.

Another game can be described as a high-rise match, with the away side Tottenham conceding a goal two minutes into the game, and then in the eighth minute the goalkeeper came out to knock down Inter Milan winger Biabiani, the referee awarded a penalty and a red card, and then Inter scored three more goals in the first half.

But in the second half, the situation changed abruptly......

Tottenham winger Gareth Bale scored a hat-trick in the second half to level the score at 4-3 with one man less, and it would have been possible for Tottenham to turn the game back on the road had it not been for the lack of game time.

So the headlines of the next day were either Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored two goals at Old Trafford, or Gareth Bale, who scored a hat-trick.

Aside from local and Chinese media reports in Valencia, it's really hard to find a news outlet with Ailo as the headline.

However, there are still some brushstrokes.

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Valencia hosted the little-known Gillina at 8.45pm local time in Spain and won 5-1 at home thanks to a hat-trick from Iello and goals from David Villa and Benatia.

In the past three rounds of the Champions League group stage, Valencia won all three games and accumulated nine points to rank first in Group F, Chelsea ranked second in the group with six points from three games, two wins and one loss, and Sparta Moscow scored one point with three games, one draw and two losses, and the fourth ranked was Zhilina who had just played against Valencia, and they finished at the bottom with a goal difference disadvantage of one point with three games, one draw and two losses.

In other words, Valencia only need to beat Gillina away in the next round to qualify for the group two rounds early.

Even so, Valencia didn't dare to relax too much, as they had a rather dense schedule.

However, the good news is that apart from Sevilla FC in the 10th round and Real Madrid in the 14th round, the other opponents are difficult to threaten Valencia.

Of course, this is based on the premise that Valencia does not underestimate their opponents.

Under Elo's leadership, Valencia won Mallorca 3-0 at home and Zaragoza 4-1 in their three games at the end of October, and the Copa del Rey 1/16 final was also comfortably beaten 7-0 away from Spain's third-tier side Logrannes.

Heading into November, Valencia have a sparse schedule, with four league games, two Champions League group games and a Copa del Rey 1/16 final second leg.

If nothing else, Valencia will have a pretty good run in November.

In fact, Airo's Valencia won all five of their games in the past November, drawing away at Sevilla and Spartak Moscow.

Therefore, Valencia has won four wins and one draw in the five group stages of the Champions League, accumulating 13 points and winning the group ahead of schedule.

In second place is Chelsea with eight points from two wins, two draws and one defeat, while Spartak Moscow in third place has only accumulated four points, and second-placed Chelsea have also qualified early.

At the same time, Valencia's performance in the league is also quite impressive, with 12 wins and 1 draw and 37 points at the top of the league table, five points ahead of Real Madrid and Barcelona with one game less, and nine points respectively.

However, coach Carlo Ancelotti is not happy, the league has just passed 12 rounds, 1/3 of the schedule is less, and the next round will be a visit to the Bernabeu to challenge Real Madrid, which will win or lose is still an unknown, so Ancelotti after the home win over Almeria in the league is invested in next weekend's national derby preparations.

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But at this time, the most interesting thing is not Real Madrid's home match against Valencia in the next round, but the national derby at Camp Nou in this round - Barcelona vs Real Madrid.

Barcelona have lost to promoted Magicus in the second and seventh rounds of the league at home to promoted Mahcus and league leaders Valencia, who are already seven points behind the top Valencia with one game in hand, and the pressure is huge for them, and if they cannot beat Real Madrid at home in this round, then the gap between them and Valencia will become even larger, which is likely to affect their ability to defend the league title.

Therefore, before the game, FC Barcelona expressed full confidence in this home league game, and the Catalan media also used the results of the two sides at Camp Nou in recent seasons as a basis to cheer for the team.

Similarly, Real Madrid, who visit Camp Nou, have shown plenty of confidence from the manager to the players, believing that Barcelona's home record this season has been very poor, losing at home to Hekus and Valencia, and the same is true of the national derby at Camp Nou, where Real Madrid will take all three points when they play away.

In fact, a few rounds ago, Mourinho's focus was on this round of away to Barcelona and the next round of the home league against Valencia, in his mind other La Liga teams have been unable to shake the status of the Spanish Super League, to win the league title must be the most points in the 2010-2011 La Liga four national derby.

Now that Valencia have beaten Barcelona in the seventh round to take all three points, Real Madrid will have to take all three points when they visit Camp Nou.

Mourinho is ready to use a back three in the league at Camp Nou to break Barcelona with a counter-attack, based on the Tiki-Taka tactics used to restrain Barcelona in the past when he coached Chelsea in the past.

After all, the speed of young players such as Di Maria, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Benzema is outstanding, and with the aura of Mesut Ozil in midfield, it is not difficult to score goals on the counter-attack, and these tactics have been practiced countless times in training.

But as the saying goes, if you are not afraid of a god-like enemy, you are afraid of a pig-like teammate.

Just a week before the national derby, Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola held a press conference, insinuating that Real Madrid will definitely put a bus in front of the goal when he challenges Barcelona at Camp Nou, and he is 100% afraid to play against the great Barcelona away from home.

When Mourinho found out, he mocked Guardiola's naivety on Twitter, his social networking site.

But what he didn't expect was that the next day Mourinho was under pressure from Real Madrid's top management, according to Florentino's meaning, Valencia can defeat Barcelona away from home, so the noble Real Madrid can also win beautifully, he doesn't think that this expensive Galaxy Battleship will be inferior to the upstart Valencia.

Florentino, however, forgets that he is only a successful businessman, and that money cannot be used on the playing field......

Under pressure, Mourinho had to choose to compromise and play against Barcelona away from home, according to the wishes of the Real Madrid hierarchy.

But at the same time, he also threw a cruel sentence to Florentino: "If the attack against Barcelona at Camp Nou does not work, then you are not allowed to interfere with my deployment in the future!" ”