The strongest winger

Chapter 275 "Catalyst"

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Anyone familiar with the UEFA Champions League knows that the three or four rounds of the UEFA Champions League group stage are equivalent to back-to-back NBA games in the United States. That is to say, the third round will be played at the Dragon Stadium in Porto, and the next fourth round will be played at the Mestalla Stadium in Valencia.

So this also shows the criticality and importance of these two rounds. If you want to stand out from the group stage, it is a very reliable choice to successfully win the opponent in back-to-back games.

Because in their other game in the same group, Inter Milan's back-to-back opponent was Bratislava of the big team, which means that Inter Milan's six points are basically appropriate.

In other words, after the end of the fourth round, Inter Milan's points will reach nine points. If there is no accident, this point will occupy a qualifying spot.

Then... Valencia and Porto will have to fight for another place.

So... the reporters provoke conflicts between the players on both sides of the game, which will also have a profound impact on the game.

why not?

However, what makes them regret is that Ai Luo was not fooled, but appeared very flat when facing the reporter, and his personal subjective emotions were insufficient.

Must score?
Although it sounds very powerful, but in fact, a football game is not a basketball game, so it is so easy to compare?

So these reporters continued to find another way, and they vowed not to give up before the game without causing conflicts between the players of both sides.

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After Valencia arrived in Porto, the news of the two teams' matches reached its peak. It has reached the point where you can read news about the two teams just by buying a newspaper on the street.

But during this time, Aiello and Quaresma did not continue to speak to reporters.

After all, the head coaches of the two teams are not fools. Flores knows that this is an away game and should not be too publicized, but if it is at home, there may be no restrictions, but the away game is different.

However, the descriptions of the distance between the two in the newspapers did not stop.

Although the two teams are currently the leaders of their respective leagues, but... Valencia has more gold content, because this ranking is based on the heads of world-class giants like Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Therefore, Porto is considered to be slightly inferior to Valencia in terms of strength.

But Porto fans and Portuguese reporters don't think so. They were the champions of the UEFA Champions League last year. What is Valencia?That is to say, it has won two consecutive UEFA Cup championships. Can it be compared with the Champions League champion?
If Porto is inferior to teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​that's all, but is it also inferior to Valencia?

Uncle can bear it, auntie can't bear it!
So... another fight.

Interestingly, Diego was polite in an interview with the Spanish newspaper "Valencia Sports" afterwards, "He (Aiello) is a great player. Although he has not played against him in the World Youth Championship in the Netherlands this summer, he knows how good he is. Otherwise, he would not have led the Chinese team all the way to the championship. So it doesn’t necessarily mean that we are inferior to Valencia, but in comparison... our players are more even in strength and have a stronger ability to control the game!”

Diego also has his confidence in saying this. Now he is no longer Diego, one of the "Santos double stars" in Brazil. Now that he has accepted the baptism of European football, he has become more calm and sophisticated. This is why he is only 20 years old now. The reason why he has become the core of Porto's midfielder.

Although Diego's answer is not so imaginative, but everyone should not forget the innate talent of journalists - creating something out of nothing!

On the day of the match, which is the second day after Valencia arrived in Porto, the Portuguese "Publica" football column wrote, "The third round of the UEFA Champions League group stage in the 05-06 season is about to begin. Porto in this round of home games is bound to win. Although Valencia has been very strong recently, it is not impeccable. After they defeated Real Madrid away, they also lost at home to the relegation team Mallorca, so..."

"...Diego once said in an interview with us that Valencia is not as scary as everyone thinks. They also have weaknesses. The midfielder who wants to be tougher than them, the strength of the defense is very weak. The two full-backs basically have no suitable substitutes, and the right-back is still played by central defender Moretti all the year round. I believe that the frontcourt combination of him and Quaresma can spark sparks by then, giving the arrogant Valencians a little color..."

To everyone's surprise, Valencia did not express his dissatisfaction when he was interviewed after stepping on the field. Instead, he praised the strength of the home team Porto.

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At noon, after having a group meal with the team at the hotel where he was staying, Quaresma went back to the room with his roommate Diego, who was two years younger, and was about to seize the time to rest. Just when he closed his eyes, his cell phone rang.

"Your sister's little koala actually uses such a disgusting bell?" Quaresma, who had just closed his eyes, said dissatisfied.

After hearing the ringtone, Diego muttered dissatisfiedly, "Ricardo, this is your phone ringing!!!"

"Uh..." Quaresma immediately opened his eyes and thought about it carefully. Isn't this the ringtone that he just changed last night?So he gave a dry laugh, lifted the quilt, got out of bed, walked into his Nike bag and took out his phone.

Cristiano?

Quaresma was puzzled for a moment, but he didn't slow down, and pressed the answer button, "Dear diving prince, don't you know that I have a competition tonight?"

The other end of the phone immediately said: "How many times have I told you not to call me the diving prince, your uncle!! By the way... I read the newspaper today and heard that you are going to compare goals with Igo?"

"Brother Ai?" Quaresma was taken aback, and asked subconsciously, "Who is it?"

"It's that Ai (Lo) from Valencia!"

"Oh? There is such a thing, why?"

Quaresma said while lying on the bed with the phone in his left hand.

"Then... I can only tell you, ask yourself to be blessed!"

Cristiano Ronaldo on the other end of the phone hung up the phone without waiting for Quaresma to respond.

"Bless yourself? What do you mean?" Quaresma kept thinking about this question after hearing the busy voice over there.

Could it be advice?

But it's not right!Apart from his fast speed and strong breakthrough ability, this kid also has only so-so scoring ability. What advice do you have?Could it be... an incentive?
But... that's not right either!Could it be that his good friend Cristiano Ronaldo called here just to remind him?
This... is not scientific!

Afterwards, the more I thought about it, the more irritable I became, so in the end I just didn't think about it.

But he couldn't sleep, so he simply walked out of the room and went to the hotel's gym to practice strength.

What Quaresma didn't know was that Cristiano Ronaldo called Aiello as soon as he hung up the phone, and the content of his speech was similar.

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"Cristiano, is this not good?"

Rooney looked at Ronaldo sitting in the room and frowning and said.

"Hey...you don't understand this! My name is a catalyst!!"

Ronaldo touched his chin and continued to fuck.

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At [-] o'clock in the evening, the entire Dragon Stadium was surrounded by the home team's microphones in blue and white striped shirts. There were countless slogans and flags. In addition, the translucence of the Dragon Stadium made it more close to the color of the home team's home jersey of the home team Porto at night, making it look even more scary.

The visiting team's touch of orange only occupies a small part of the entire pitch, which is extremely inconspicuous.

If Joe Winnie hadn't waved the flag with the Valencia team logo on it vigorously, no one would have noticed that it was the visiting team stand.

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Ai Luo habitually stood at the back, and David Villa in front of him was holding a string of rosary beads from the Virgin of Covadonga, his eyes were tightly closed, and his mouth was probably praying to God.

The curious Aiello also asked about David Villa's pre-match habits.

4-year-old David Villa broke his right leg while playing on a construction site. After his parents learned that the operation might cause David Villa to be permanently disabled, they chose conservative treatment.

During the treatment of David Villa, the family insisted on praying to God every day. Later...David Villa miraculously recovered, so he later became a Catholic.

So usually he always wears a string of rosary beads of the Virgin of Covadonga, and enters the field wearing rosary beads during the game, and then gives the rosary beads to the team leader for safekeeping before the whistle blows.

Seeing David Villa praying, Ai Luo didn't bother him, and other teammates were doing their own things, like Aurelio and Diego, who is also a fellow Brazilian, chatting about homework and so on.

Brazil used to be a colony of Portugal, so Porto also has many players from Brazil. It is normal for the so-called fellows to meet fellows with tears in their eyes.

Just when Ai Luo was in a daze, someone came over.

"Ai?"

Ai Luo raised his head subconsciously, and then lowered his head instinctively, because... the person in front of him was half a head shorter than him.

Looking at the person in front of him, he frowned.

"Hello, my name is Ricardo Quaresma!"

Quaresma smiled and held out his right hand.

Aiello was very puzzled, isn't this the Quaresma who wanted to compare goals with him before?Why did you come to say hello all of a sudden?
Although he was quite puzzled, he could not lose his manners, so he extended his right hand and shook it lightly, but quickly released it, "My name is Ai (Luo)..."

Quaresma looked at the puzzled Ailuo, and suddenly changed his voice, raising his voice twice, "Boy, I must have scored more goals than you in this game!" Then he returned to his team without waiting for Ailuo's reaction.

I don't know if Quaresma's voice interrupted David Villa's prayer just now, and the latter looked at Ai Luo.

Ai Luo pouted and shrugged his shoulders, "David, do you think...is this a challenge?"

"Hmm!" David Villa nodded repeatedly.

Ai Luo rolled his eyes and was very speechless.

At this moment, the referee greeted the players of the two teams to enter the court.

PS: Thank you Brother Gui for the reward, we will continue to guarantee two updates tonight, and the third update will start next Monday.

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