Chapter 867: Champions League Return to Stamford Bridge
Messi stole the headlines with a hat-trick in the first round of the Champions League group stage, and soon after that, Iroh and Cristiano Ronaldo quickly pulled one back with a brilliant performance in the following league games.
Valencia away to challenge promoted Mahcus in the league with two shots and one pass from Iello 3:1 to beat the home team, while Real Madrid relied on Cristiano Ronaldo to score two goals away from home, 2:0 against the home team Real Sociedad, fortunately, Messi's performance was not bad, contributing a goal and an assist, helping the team narrowly beat Atletico Madrid 2:1 and stubbornly bite the league points.
After three rounds of the league, the points ranking of the three teams of the Spanish Super League Group has not been opened, Valencia won all three games and topped the list with a goal difference, Real Madrid ranked second with a goal difference, and the third and fourth places are Sevilla and Villarreal, which have seven points from three games, two wins and one draw, and Barcelona ranked fifth in the league.
However, no one thinks that Barcelona will be easily left behind, they are just affected by the FIFA disease-virus, so they lost at home to promoted Mahecus, and as the league progresses, their competitive form will definitely adjust to the peak, and then they will form a three-legged standing, and if they want to win the final league title, they must try to win the game in the Spanish Super League.
As a result, the media's attention is on the three 2010-2011 Spanish Super League games in the 7th round of the league Barcelona home vs Valencia, the 13th round Barcelona home vs Real Madrid and the 14th round Real Madrid home vs Valencia.
At this time, the media narrowed the scope of the league championship to Valencia, Real Madrid and Barcelona in advance at the end of the third round of La Liga, which immediately caused dissatisfaction among Sevilla, Atletico Madrid, Villarreal and other teams with good strength......
They may be a grade or two worse than the Spanish Super League teams, but the biggest feature of football is uncertainty, and no one dares to pack tickets to ensure victory without a game, so the three teams are determined to give the Spanish Super Group a little color in the next league.
So Valencia was seriously hampered in the league against Atletico Madrid at home, with Aguero as the counter-attacking point, they quickly counterattacked and scored a goal in the middle of the first half, fortunately, Airello was in excellent form, and took more responsibility for the attack when David Villa and Juan Mata were both absent due to injury, and he turned the tide in the last ten minutes of the second half, with a shot and a pass to help Valencia beat Atletico Madrid 2-1, otherwise Valencia would have lost unnecessary points.
Because Real Madrid and Barcelona won the first game, it was a game that Valencia could not afford to lose, and it indirectly caused the tension of replacing David Villa, Cavani and James Rodriguez in the position of Mata, but Airo stepped up at the critical time.
In his post-match press conference, Carlo Ancelotti bluntly said that if Valencia had not brought in Ailo this season, they would have fallen behind at the beginning of the season......
The reporter on the scene thought about it, only four rounds of the league, Iroh scored an astonishing eight goals, an average of two goals per game, this goal efficiency has begun to catch up with the season when he led Valenciado to the treble in the 2006-2007 season, eight goals also made Iroh the top scorer in the league, second is Cristiano Ronaldo with five goals, Messi is fourth with four goals.
Many media found that the ranking of the league scorer list is closely related to the La Liga points ranking, and the best player Ailo helped Valencia to the top of the list, while the second-best Cristiano Ronaldo's Real Madrid ranking league leader, just this round of Sevilla draw, Messi's Barcelona rose to the third place in the league.
The top three in the league standings are completely replicating the top three scorers in the league!
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The fifth round of La Liga came quickly in the analysis of the Spanish mainstream media, with Valencia beating Sporting Gijón 2-0 away at the opener, with Airo not scoring but setting up David Villa and captain Albelda to score respectively.
The immediate cessation of Airo's goal allowed Cristiano Ronaldo to find an opportunity to equal, or even overtake, the scorers' charts, as Real Madrid faced Levante on the road, but ...... No one expected that this small club in Valencia would have a clean sheet at home against Real Madrid, who were bound to win.
The 0:0 score remained unchanged from the start to the end of the match.
Cristiano Ronaldo's sigh at the end of the match was the focus of attention for reporters on the spot, who knew it would be the headline tomorrow.
Head coach Portuguese Jose Mourinho was furious at the post-match press conference: "Levante's football is simply an insult, they completely stopped a bus 7.32 meters long and 2.44 meters high in front of the goal!" "This shows how much pressure this draw has put on Mourinho.
This was followed by Barcelona's away league game against Athletic Bilbao, with Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho and Valencia coach Carlo Ancelotti both paying close attention to the current round of the league.
Athletic Bilbao's home stadium, Stadio San Mames, is famously the home of hell in European football, and with the Champions League group stage set to resume next week, Barcelona will be on hold when they fly to distant Kazan, Russia, to take on the Kazan Ruins, so they will be hoping to see Barcelona lose away from home in the league to widen the gap between them.
However, the result was always a surprise, and Barcelona did not drop points away from home, beating home team Athletic Bilbao 3-1 on the road thanks to goals from Andres Iniesta, Bojan and Lionel Messi.
In this way, Valencia is at the top of the table with 15 points from five wins, Real Madrid is second with 13 points from 5 games, 4 wins and 1 draw, Barcelona is third with 12 points from 5 games, 4 wins and 1 loss, and Sevilla is in fourth place, with 11 points from five games, three wins and two draws......
After five rounds of the league, the league points gap has not been widened, so the media believes that the only time to open the points is to wait for the previously predicted 7th, 13th and 14th rounds of the league.
Indeed, Carlo Ancelotti, Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola are all focused on future league encounters......
Before that, though, they need to be distracted from the second round of the Champions League group stage.
Valencia will face Chelsea in the second round of the Champions League.
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With the European leagues coming to an end, the media spotlight has shifted from their home leagues to Europe, with Chelsea hosting Valencia in the second group stage of Group F in the spotlight, with Arlo set to return to Stamford Bridge as Chelsea's opponents after a month and a half.
The European media are talking about whether Chelsea fans miss Aiello so much at this time.
Indeed, despite Chelsea's impressive pre-season performances and impressive performances in the first few rounds of the league, as the league progressed and the Carabao Cup kicked off, Scolari, who was manager of a Premier League side for the first time, had a slight problem with hiring and managing the dressing room.
Before this Champions League group stage, they had already won two league games and could not win.
As a result, Frank Lampard, John Terry, Ashley Cole and others were not in a good mood when it came to reporters, especially when it came to Arrow, who always remembered how happy it was to have Arrow.
Because Iroh is there, then there is not much problem in winning the match, and the victory of the match can cover up a lot of problems.
The biggest reason why Chelsea collapsed last season after Iello was seriously injured was that the team could not win the game, which eventually led to the openness of various contradictions, and the team's overall combat effectiveness has dropped again and again, so as to win the Champions League with a thrilling victory over the second place in the league by more than ten points, otherwise Chelsea will only be able to participate in the Europa League this season.
Valencia did not return to Valencia after a league trip away to Sporting Gijón, instead taking an international flight to London.
Just like a month and a half ago on the eve of Valencia's warm-up match against Chelsea, there were plenty of Blues fans who came to London Heathrow International Airport to greet Elloh.
Valencia are currently on a five-game winning streak in the league and are the most eye-catching team in Europe's top five leagues, so most of the media are optimistic about Valencia's prospects, especially on the premise that Chelsea have not been able to win two consecutive league games, and with the away team Iello as a super killer, Valencia's away trip must be perfect.
However, there is good evidence from the pro-Chelsea media, who believe that Iroh is doing well in the league at the moment, but it does not mean that he is also good in the Champions League, and that only one goal in the first round of the Champions League is the best proof of this, and they believe that there are not a few players in the Chelsea team who know the characteristics of Ello, and it is even very likely that I will completely limit Iro's performance when it comes to the actual game......
It's just that this possibility can only be endorsed by the hardcore pro-Chelsea media, after all, countless facts have proven that Ailo is unlimited.
That was why the spirits of Chelsea head coach Scolari in his pre-match press conference were particularly important, saying: 'I know Chelsea are in a very difficult situation right now, with no way to win two league games, but that doesn't mean it's going to haunt us forever and we all believe tomorrow night's Champions League group stage at Stamford Bridge will change all that'......'
Scolari's words were naturally intended to motivate the players, but what he didn't know was that the Chelsea players' fear of Iello had reached the depths of their hearts.
In other words, there are people who cannot be enemies......