The strongest winger

Chapter 273 Candidates for the European Golden Boy Award

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The next day, almost all Spanish football newspapers used Aiello as the headline, especially the photo in the background - standing in the corner area and stretching out three fingers, a sense of domineering spontaneously emerged.

Interestingly, the clapping gestures of the home team fans, which are weakened at the far end of the lens, also appear in the photo.

Therefore, these football newspapers have tacitly reported the latest La Liga news with the theme of "Conquering the Bernabéu Stadium".

It has to be said that after the hat-tricks at the Nou Camp and the Bernabeu, Aiello's reputation has grown, especially when he signed a contract as Versace's global spokesperson on the international match day.

All of a sudden, it was very popular throughout Europe!
And the negative news about Ai Luo before this game seemed to disappear overnight, even "World Sports Daily", a "black Ai special user", praised Ai Luo.

What's interesting is that Juan Carlos originally wrote an article about Aiello, but was rejected by the editor-in-chief during the final review process, because he wanted to continue to sing against the mainstream at this time.

However, Ai Luo has been recognized by the editor-in-chief as the current development momentum is very strong, and it is not ruled out that this excellent state will continue.

If this state continues, it is not ruled out that Ai Luo will really become a first-line star or a top superstar, because now anyone with a discerning eye can see his potential.

Just kidding, can it be a coincidence that the successive hat-tricks against Real Madrid and Barcelona?So in other words, Ai Luo's potential is unlimited. If you can't interview Ai Luo because of such a trivial matter, it will really be a loss of watermelon.

Finally, Juan Carlos slammed the door out.

Another focus of this round of competition was Deportivo's 6-[-] draw with Barcelona at home. The latter continued to rank No.[-] in the league, and the ranking did not match the status of the league champion last season.

So after the seventh round of the league, in addition to praising Valencia for counterattacking the traditional giants Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​they also did not forget to step on these two giants.

After all, Spain's economy has not been very good in recent years, and the two giants Real Madrid and Barcelona have occupied most of Spain's resources. It can be said that they have been envied by many people, so at this time, many people can step on it.

Valencia continued to top the list with [-] points and [-] wins and [-] tie in seven rounds.

I don't know if it's because of pride. In the home game against Malaga in the middle of the week, they lost 1:2 to Mallorca, which was hovering in the relegation zone.

Although Aiello was active in this game, the performance of his teammates was indeed very poor. One of his goals once gave the team an 85-minute lead, but the next game made him desperate. Malaga scored two consecutive goals in 5 minutes and reaped the first defeat of the new season.

In fact, it is no wonder that everyone has not adjusted their mentality. Being able to beat Barcelona and Real Madrid in the away game is a great achievement for the players themselves. In this world, there are very few teams that can defeat Real Madrid at the Bernabeu after defeating Barcelona at Camp Nou, so pride is inevitable.

Of course, from another point of view, that is, the new coach Flores has not enough control over this team, and he cannot enlighten the players at the first time when they lose their way.

Four days later, Valencia ushered in their opponents in the ninth round of the league at home. They faced Sevilla at home. Although Valencia played at home and had the advantage most of the time, they won the game and failed to score. At one time, they fell behind the visiting team Sevilla 10:0 in the first 2 minutes, which made many people lose their eyes.

But... In the last 10 minutes, the situation changed suddenly, and Aiello became the biggest contributor to Valencia's turnaround. He first used his personal ability to create a penalty kick, and then scored two goals in the last 10 minutes, helping the team avoid a two-game losing streak in the league at home.

He also scored twelve goals in nine rounds of the league and continued to be the top scorer in La Liga.

At the same time, he is also the only player in the top five European leagues with double-digit goals.

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Originally, Flores was going to discuss the team's mentality change since the victory over Real Madrid, but... the second round of the UEFA Champions League in the next week had to make him change his mind.

This time their opponent is Bratislava from Slovakia. For many people, this team from Slovakia is a very strange team. They more often appear in the UEFA Cup and the European Intertoto Cup, and rarely appear in the Champions League.

But this team is a traditional strong team in Slovakia. Basically, this team won the Slovak League One championship. At the same time...they also contributed the largest number of international players to the Slovak national team.

Digressed, back to the topic.

In Group H, Bratislava basically plays the role of accompanying the prince to study. There is no opponent in this group that they can afford, so they lost a [-]-[-] away game to the European black shop Porto in the first round of the Champions League group stage.

Although they are playing against Valencia at home in this round of the game, no one is optimistic about Bratislava. After all, the strength lies there, and this game is as everyone expected. Valencia beat the home team Bratislava with two goals away.

Therefore, Valencia also achieved two consecutive victories in the Champions League group stage, laying the foundation for the team to advance to the Champions League knockout round.

In another game in the same group, Inter Milan beat Porto with a goal at home. Adriano, who performed poorly in the first round of the Champions League, seemed to have found his form in this game. In the last 5 minutes, he won or lost with one kick.

Therefore, after the second round, Valencia ranked first with 6 points in two games, and Porto, although they lost this game, also ranked second because of the advantage of goal difference. Inter Milan also ranked third with three points, and Bratislava ranked bottom with two losses.

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The victory in the second round of the Champions League group stage also made the team temporarily forget the unhappiness of losing in the eighth round of the league. Flores didn't think about it here, because the next November will be a test for the team.

This month is not only three UEFA Champions League games, but also two international breaks, and finally there is a domestic league.

Of course... there is still good news for Valencia, because they do not have the task of the King's Cup for the time being, but this is not only good for Valencia, but also for other teams with European competition tasks.

Because the Copa del Rey was reformed before the start of this season, the low-level teams had to go through several knockout rounds before meeting the first-tier teams, which reduced the number of games for La Liga teams and reduced the possibility of upsets in the game.

改革后的国王杯赛制也是十分复杂：首轮比赛是丙级球队和有资格参赛的丁级球队先进行一轮淘汰赛，决出18支参赛队伍；第二轮比赛则在西乙内进行，上赛季西乙前20名的球队决出10支参赛队；第三轮，第二轮胜出的10支球队与第一轮的18支球队以及4支西乙降级球队、2支指定西丙球队共34支球队混合抽签，决出17支球队；第四和五轮，17支球队加上11支不用参加欧洲赛事的西甲球队经过两轮淘汰赛决出7支球队。

In the sixth round, the above-mentioned 7 teams plus 9 La Liga teams participating in European competitions will form 16 teams. From here, there will be two rounds of home and away games until the championship is decided.

In other words, Valencia will not have the task of the King's Cup until January next year, which also avoids the physical consumption of the team's personnel. You must know that although Valencia has made many signings this season, there are very few who are actually used by Flores.

And two of the match days are a desperate rhythm, because these two rounds are the play-offs of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, which are full of gold content, and at that time will also increase the risk of injury to players belonging to the clubs who have the task of the World Cup play-offs.

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On October 10th, a notice from the "Turin Sports News" made the media from Spain and China excited, because the new list of 29 people for the European Golden Boy Awards came out.

Among them, Spain occupies nine places, which is the league with the largest number of places in the five major European leagues. That's why the Spanish media are happy. The reason why the Chinese media are happy is that Aiello was also selected for the 40-man squad for the European Golden Boy Award. According to his performance this year, there is a 90.00% chance that he will be the winner.

Aiello's performance this year can be called phenomenal, helping the team win the UEFA Cup, and then helping the Chinese team win the World Youth Championship in the No.15 Dutch World Youth Championship, and he himself became the top scorer and best player in this tournament.

It is worth mentioning that Padovan, the editor-in-chief of this issue of "Turin Sports Daily", gave the list of 40 European Golden Boy Awards this year, and at the same time, he was a bit suspicious of the spoiler. "The list of this year's European Golden Boy Awards is actually equivalent to making up the numbers. Why? Because this year is a big year for young players. I believe that when I give this list, there must be many people who can guess the winner's name this time, but...According to the rules of the game, I cannot directly name this person. If you want to know the final result, please pay attention to Christmas The previous announcement..."

That night, not long after "Turin Sports News" was published, Chinese students studying in Turin posted this report on Ai Luo's personal fan website "Ai Shen's World".

The staff on the website also reacted quickly, and immediately refined this post.

In just half a day, this post has been viewed tens of millions of times, and there are also millions of replies. For a website with two new servers, it seems that it is still not enough.

Although the website is a bit stuck, it also hinders the passion of these netizens.

Although many people don't know what the European Golden Boy Award is, there is something called Baidu and Google in this world, so they soon know that the European Golden Boy Award is the best player of the year for players under the age of 21 who play for European clubs.

So... this is terrible!

There is another hype in China.

PS: There are only two guaranteed updates tonight, SORRY!

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