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Chapter 354 The difficulty of the double line

As November begins, the temperature drops significantly, and November in Spain also makes people feel a little cold.

Mestalia Stadium has once again ushered in a focus battle in the Champions League.

In the fourth round of group stage, this was a back-to-back battle with Twente.

In the last game, Valencia failed to defeat Twente away, which is definitely not something that should have happened.

In this game, Valencia still played all the main players. In this game, Joaquin was finally able to start and it seems that he has recovered.

In this case, Xu Qi returned to the left and Hua Jin was still on the right.

The front line arrow is Soldado.

At the beginning of the game, Valencia began a fierce offensive. They were obviously dissatisfied with the result of the game that failed to defeat Twente, although Twente is now the leader of the Eredivisie.

At thirty minutes into the game, Valencia scored the first goal, Soldado scored, and Mata gave him an assist.

After scoring the first goal, Valencia's offensive became even more relaxed. Soon they organized the attack again. Xu Qi made an oblique pass on the left and assisted Soldado to score again!

Soldado completed the best show of scoring twice.

Valencia leads 2-0, and it seems that a big victory is coming as scheduled.

However, as the leader of the Eredivisie, Twente is definitely not a weak team. After falling behind two goals, they completely let go and fought fiercely with Valencia.

Before the end of the first half, Luc de Jong helped the team win a goal, and the score was rewritten to two-to-one.

Neither side wanted to restrain themselves in the second half, and Twente seemed more fierce. Nasser Shadley helped Twente equalize the score in 60 minutes.

Twente once again announced to Valencia that they are not soft persimmons and it is not that easy to win them.

In this game, Valencia did encounter great difficulties.

It was not until Xu Qi performed a breakthrough performance again, and after passing three Twente players in a row, he was dragged to the ground by Benteson.

The referee took out the second yellow card to Bencent, allowing Twente to play one less player.

In fact, the reason why Valencia defeated Zaragoza in the last game was because Xu Qi created two yellow cards for Herrera in the first and second half, which led to Herrera's fate and made Valencia's control stronger in the midfield.

In the end, Xu Qi calmly assisted Soldado to defeat his opponent.

In this game, Twente team played one less player again, and this person was defeated by Xu Qi's breakthrough again.

This is enough to show the deterrent power shown by Xu Qi's personal breakthrough ability. The opponent can never prevent him, so he can only use fouls to block Xu Qi, which leads to Xu Qi often throwing him as the opponent gets the card.

After playing one more person, Valencia got another chance, but this also made Twente's team determined to defend.

However, can you defend yourself if you hold on?

Valencia, who has Xu Qi, has the ability to find the opponent's defense loopholes after the opponent is in formation.

Now Xu Qi is definitely an expert in breaking intensive defense!

In the 76th minute, it was Xu Qi who took the ball at the front of the penalty area in the middle and swayed continuously, which completely attracted the attention of Twente's entire defense line. Then he forced a straight pass from the crack, and the ball was passed to Hernandez who was in front!

Hernandez scored alone!

Xu Qi assisted twice, and Valencia surpassed the game three-to-two again!

In the end, Valencia won the game 3-2 at home, with four rounds of group stages, two wins and two draws, with eight points and remained unbeaten.

In another game in the same group, Tottenham Hotspur returned to the White Hart Lane Stadium to become a home dragon, showing super combat effectiveness. He once again defeated Inter Milan with Bale's super performance at home, with three goals from Van der Fate, Crouch and Pavlyuchenko.

Moreover, Modric's return from injury also gave Tottenham a stronger delivery ability in the midfield.

The defending champion Inter Milan finally suffered its first defeat in the Champions League group stage.

The only highlight of their game was that Etoo scored another goal and continued to lead the Champions League scorer list.

After four rounds, Valencia scored eight points and ranked first in the group.

Tottenham Hotspurs surpassed Inter Milan in the standings, with two wins and two losses, and six points temporarily ranked second in the group.

Inter Milan won one win, two draws and one loss, with five points, and can only rank third in the group.

But Twente still finds a victory, with only two points, which seems to be the team that is already destined to be the bottom.

Eight points, six points, five points.

The points gap between the three teams is actually not big. They all have the initiative to qualify in the group, so the specific final group situation depends on the situation in the last two rounds.

Of course, Valencia has no time to consider the situation in the Champions League. Now they need to consider how to deal with the next strong opponents in La Liga.

Because returning to La Liga, Valencia will challenge the strong opponent again, and the opponent is Sevilla.

In the last round, although Sevilla was massacred by Barcelona and now ranked ninth in the standings, their strength should not be underestimated.

Valencia beat Athletic Bilbao in La Liga, but did not win against Atletico Madrid and Barcelona. In fact, this record is pretty good, but the team's recent schedule has indeed been a little difficult.

This is the away game against Pisjuan Stadium, and this is not the first time Xu Qi has been to Pisjuan Stadium.

Emery has some conflicts. After all, Xu Qi and many other main players have just participated in the Champions League. The matchup with Sevilla in this game has very high physical requirements. What kind of troops should he arrange to make the team win at the lowest cost.

In the end, Emery chose to let Xu Qi start.

Facing a home dragon team like Sevilla, Valencia seemed very awkward to start, and Xu Qi's condition did not seem to be particularly good, and the fatigue caused by continuous combat has now been highlighted.

Although Sevilla has lost a wing champion like Adriano this season, and Navas was also absent due to injury in this game, their strength has not been greatly affected. After all, this is their home court.

It is really difficult to defeat Sevilla at Pisjuan Stadium.

Xu Qi is indeed not very active in this game. Although he is running very hard, his feet are always slower. Compared with the Sevilla players who are more fierce in this game, Xu Qi is indeed a bit slower.

This is actually not a problem for Xu Qi alone, it is a problem for the entire Valencia team, and the whole team's condition seems to have fluctuated.

Especially, in the twenty-five minutes, Valencia suffered a major blow.

In the previous two hard wins, the opponent received red cards and played one less player. In this game, the Valencia team played one less player.

The team's midfielder Topal was directly sent out for a red card and sent off the court by the referee for an extremely dangerous foul.

Therefore, Valencia needs to play one less player from twenty-five minutes, which is even more difficult for Valencia to fight on both sides.
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