Chapter 363 Duel Real Madrid
After watching this national derby, Xu Qi suddenly felt that he was really lucky to be able to tie Barcelona.
The strength of this Barcelona team is still strong.
"Who are your opponents in the next round?" Xu Qi also watched the game in Valencia's villa, and she suddenly asked curiously.
"The next round, it seems to be Real Madrid! Oh my god, is it so magical? Are you going to play Real Madrid?" Xu Qi checked the schedule and found that it was against Real Madrid, and it was away, so he was going to Madrid to participate in the game.
"It's the team that lost five today? Are they very strong?" Dai Siqi pointed to the camera on the TV.
"This team is very strong, and this score does not explain any problem. It is a good match for the Bernabeu. Moreover, this team just lost 5-0 and wanted to vent their anger, so we bumped into it. But I hope they don't look down on us too much, and we are not incapable of giving them a two-game losing streak! Hehe." Xu Qi was excited at this time. Against Real Madrid, this is Xu Qi's dream match. Playing in La Liga, the game against Barcelona and Real Madrid is the most exciting thing. Barcelona has played twice, and it is the first time in the game against Real Madrid.
Of course, it is not the first time that Xu Qi and Mourinho have met. Last season, the Donetsk Miners were eliminated by Inter Milan led by Mourinho.
Xu Qi had to perform well in this game.
"Exercise! Exercise!" Xu Qi grinned, "The current schedule is not only for Real Madrid next week, but also for the Champions League with Inter Milan in the middle of next week. It's so difficult."
Xu Qi clearly felt that after coming to La Liga, there were so many more games that could make him feel fighting than before.
When he was in Ukraine, he had difficulty getting excited about many games, and his attention was obviously not enough.
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In the standings, Valencia is now six points behind Barcelona and seven points behind Real Madrid, and still ranks third in the standings.
If Valencia wants to chase points, he naturally wants to try not to lose to Real Madrid. If the gap in points widens to ten again, it will be difficult to chase.
Although Real Madrid lost the national derby, they still led the standings with one point advantage, but now the bookmakers are no longer optimistic about them.
Before the match against Barcelona, they were more optimistic about the odds of winning the championship, after all, they were four points ahead. However, after the national derby, Real Madrid was immediately abandoned by the bookmakers, and they gave Barcelona a lower odds of winning the championship. Obviously, this five-to-zero game made Real Madrid lose confidence.
As December approaches, Spain, located on the northern coast of the Mediterranean, is also a little cold, and Xu Qi also raises his long sleeves during normal training.
The battle between Valencia and Real Madrid has now begun to be hyped up by the media.
Many people even don’t look forward to Real Madrid before this game. Now Real Madrid seems to have entered a downward stage, and that game will affect their confidence in many people.
Even Mourinho, who has always been arrogant, did not say anything that he must win Valencia before this game. He abnormally stated that Valencia is a very strong team, and Valencia is even stronger than Barcelona this season.
Xu Qi was stunned by Mourinho's behavior of forcing Valencia to "poisonous milk" and "can he say such words? Which eye does he see Valencia better than Barcelona? What the hell is Mourinho doing? I always feel that this guy is not at ease."
Of course, the most unpleasant thing about Mourinho's remarks is of course the Barcelona fans. After all, as the strongest club in Europe, Mourinho is not as good as Valencia in his mouth, which really makes Barcelona fans very unhappy.
However, this time, Barcelona fans did not take Mourinho's remarks seriously. "Of course a coach who was stuffed five balls needs to vent, let him go. As long as he is not blind, everyone can see who the boss appears in the football world is."
Before the game, Mourinho not only praised Valencia, but also praised Xu Qi strongly.
"He is really an excellent guy. We had hope of bringing him to the Bernabeu this summer, but we made other choices. Now he is not my player, so I can't comment on him. But I am very satisfied with my player, Di Maria's performance has been very good so far." Mourinho also "breasted" Xu Qi when facing a reporter's question about Xu Qi.
It was not until Real Madrid's start that many people understood why Mourinho promoted Valencia so highly.
Because he had a starting lineup of three midfielders, after the midfielder configuration of Khedira and Xavi Alonso was blown up in the last game, Mourinho added another midfielder in this game, the black and hard Las Diarra.
In the last game, Real Madrid arranged an offensive line player in the midfield, which led to completely unable to control the situation in the midfield defense. At this time, the media who wanted to make Real Madrid play a better player also shut up. Now, the results are still the most important.
Under such circumstances, Mourinho naturally took out the configuration of Xavi Alonso, Ras Diarra and Khedira's three-middle midfielder.
Of course, Xavi Alonso may be more involved in some organizations and goals, while Diyala and Khdira naturally have to take on more of the defensive responsibility, especially Xu Qi, who may be targeted in this game.
Regarding Real Madrid's starting roster, goalkeeper Casillas.
The defenders are Albiol and Pepe, Marcelo on the left and Aberoa on the right.
Ramos applied for a red card at the last moment when he played against Barcelona in the last round, and this round was automatically suspended for one round.
In terms of midfield, Alonso, Diyala and Khdira have the configurations, and the frontcourts are Ozil and Di Maria respectively.
C Luo serves as a single arrow.
"Little Smoke Gun" Higuain continues to be absent due to injury, and Benzema cannot get Mourinho's trust and can only sit on the bench and wait for an opportunity.
Real Madrid is basically a 4-3-2-1 formation, obviously focusing on steady defense.
Valencia goalkeeper Guaita, defense lineman Bruno, Maduro, Stankovicus, Ricardo Costa, and Alba's five defenders.
Midfielders Alberda, Xu Qi, Joaquin, and Mata.
On the front line is Soldado.
Such a lineup configuration seems to be five defenders, but in fact Alba's position is not fixed, and he can also become a midfielder.
Moreover, Valencia's midfield configuration is relatively offensive. Emery led the team here, and his final goal is still three-pointers.
And Emery also knows that Real Madrid must score all three points at home. Even if Mourinho sends three defenders, he has to arrange players to complete the offensive character.
Chapter completed!