"The giants' nemesis Valencia! After Real Madrid and La Coruna were defeated by Valencia, in the 12th round of La Liga, another giant Barcelona became another ghost of the Bats. In Mestalia, Valencia's frontcourt trident performed well, Tiger helped Valencia lead with two goals in the first half. Shortly after the start of the second half, four Dutchmen played beautifully, Ronald Debor, Cruyvit and Cocu passed consecutively tore open Valencia's defense line, and Cen drew in front of the goal to score a goal.

One point, but Valencia still has the advantage in the next game. Before the end of the game, Mendeta completed his second assist in the game. His pass in the middle helped Gerard in the penalty area to score the score in three-to-one. Valencia maintained a five-game winning streak against Barcelona at home, which is the biggest nemesis of Barcelona in recent years. Although Valencia's performance was not satisfactory this season, their performance in the game against strong teams was very outstanding, including in the Champions League game..."

After defeating Barcelona 3-1 at home, he gave the opponent a "consecutive hat-trick" as he wished, Valencia's ranking rose to 12th place, while Barcelona slipped to fourth place, with La Coruña, Celta and Vallecano ahead of them. Real Madrid's performance this season was also very bad, ranking only eighth in the league, only one point higher than Valencia.

After winning this game, the pressure in the league has been reduced a lot. Valencia can finally concentrate on facing the second stage of the Champions League group stage - this season is a season of the Champions League reorganization. After entering the quarterfinals, it does not directly enter the knockout stage, but divides into four groups to participate in the group stage again. The first two rounds of the group stage will be held this year, and the next four rounds will be held in March next year. This means that after playing the first two rounds of the group stage, Valencia will focus more on the league. After all, no matter how good the Champions League is, the league is also the foundation.

Valencia's first round of the group stage will face Bordeaux at home, while Manchester United will go to Italy to challenge Fiorentina. In the next two weeks, Valencia will go to challenge Manchester United away. This will be the first time Tiger has returned to Old Trafford after leaving Manchester United.

"I didn't expect it to be so soon."

Tiger had no time to think about the game before playing Barcelona. Now, as soon as he calmed down, he immediately remembered the game more than two weeks later. In less than twenty days, he would appear on the lawn of Old Trafford again, but this time he was not a Manchester United player, but a Valencia player, and appeared as a Manchester United enemy.

Valencia is his third team. What's interesting is that when he left his previous team, Preston, to join Manchester United, he quickly met his old club. That time, it can be said that both sides were Premier League teams, and meeting was inevitable. However, after leaving Manchester United and the Premier League, Tiger still met an old club again so quickly...

"Maybe this is my destiny." Tiger smiled slightly, kept leaving, and kept becoming a traitor... This may be the pressure and difficulties that must be faced in the process of pursuing ideals.

Roy Keane, the top three midfielder in the world, now on the back and front midfielder list in the main god space, he has met many top midfielders, Rivaldo, Effenberg, Zidane... However, among the top three players in the midfielder list, except for having one or two matches with Vieira and losing a lot of miserable losses, neither Keane nor Redondo, Tiger has ever competed on the court.

"This may be a good opportunity, captain... Roy Keane, will you attack me on the court? It's really something to be expected..."

Before playing against Manchester United, Valencia still had many opponents to deal with, and the first one was Bordeaux, the Ligue 1 champion last season!

Although he is the Ligue 1 champion, in this group with the treble champion Manchester United and Serie A third place in Fiorentina, Valencia has to get enough points from the weakest opponent in this group!

When the strength of four teams in a group is similar, getting enough points from the relatively weakest opponent can often determine the final result - Tiger felt this deeply at Manchester United last season - after being in the same group with strong opponents like Barcelona and Bayern, Manchester United finally won the first place in the group. In the four games against Bayern and Barcelona, ​​Manchester United actually did not get many points, and the three draws and one win rate is not high. However, because they scored six points and enough goal difference in the Brondby, they beat Bayern to win the first place in the group!

This time, Valencia's group can be called the Death group. If you want to qualify in the Death group, you have to get enough points from Bordeaux.

Of course, Bordeaux is not an ordinary person to win the French Ligue 1 championship last season. Under the leadership of young head coach Bop, they qualified with an unbeaten record in the first stage of the group stage this season. Although other opponents in this group are very average - Spartacus Moscow, Spartacus Prague and William II are not very strong teams, they also have an excellent trident, a forward line composed of Vertod and Laslander, and Miku is also behind them. In addition to the existence of Pezia, French national team substitute goalkeeper Lame and others, Bordeaux's strength is also really good.

Mestalia was packed on November 23. After thirty years, she entered the second stage of the group stage after entering the Champions League for the first time and was extremely excited by Valencia's fans. Her outstanding results in the Champions League are also one of the important factors that they don't care about the team's ranking below tenth place in the league. Of course, Valencia's outstanding results against strong teams in the league are also a good factor.

Valencia's management is already very satisfied with Cooper, as the head coach. Although the league's results are a little worse, the Champions League group stage can bring Valencia another income of nearly 10 million US dollars, and the club's investment in the transfer market can be greatly compensated.

What's more, with Valencia's recent form, it seems to be an easy thing to get rid of the predicament in the league.

In this game, Cooper used the tactic of defending the backcourt and free attacking in the frontcourt - Hrad will not intervene to a large extent in this game. His main task is to focus on the opponent's core organization Miku - Miku is a relatively traditional front midfielder with low speed, excellent skills, good passes, and not large range of motion - taking a lot of balls in the middle and then passing through the ball to lead the attack is his habitual offensive tactic, and it is also the characteristic of the so-called classical front midfielder.

A few years later, classical front midfielders almost disappeared in the European continent and even the whole world. Effenberg, Zidane, Rui Costa, Haji, Shifu, Boban, Leonardo, Ortega, Michelle Lauderup, Barakov and others shined around the 1998 World Cup and became the last glory of classical front midfielders. After that, few other classical front midfielders of this type could gain a foothold in the top league, leaving only a controversial Riquelme to support the last banner of classical front midfielders. The reason is very simple. This type of front midfielder is too easy to stare at. A player with excellent physical and excellent defense can completely freeze an offensive core. Defensive is easy, but it is so difficult to form a team that attacks around classical front midfielders. When professionalization becomes more and more realistic, no team is willing to do such a thing that is not worth the loss.

This game is obvious evidence.

Miku is undoubtedly a top midfielder. He was born at the wrong time in the national team just because he met a midfield master like Zidane who could only produce one for twenty years. Bordeaux, who attacked him, won another league championship twelve years later. Unfortunately, this tactic that took a long time to form instantly collapsed under the pressing of Hrad and Farinos.

Because of the unfast speed, it is difficult for Miku to get rid of the opponent's two tireless midfielders' defense, which significantly reduces the number of times he receives. As the initiator of the midfield offense, he takes fewer times, which has an impact on Bordeaux's offense, which is simply fatal!

Without Miku's pass, two speed-impact strikers, Virtod and Laslund, can only run in the frontcourt one by one. They are forwards who can seize opportunities, but cannot create opportunities.

The trident in the frontcourt was silenced, causing Bordeaux to be in chaos, while Valencia launched a fierce attack without mercy!

After the increase in speed and explosive power, Tiger has broken away from the category of classical midfielders and has begun to become a truly "modern midfielder". He is not afraid of confrontation and has a strong impact. In addition to organization, he can also score goals by himself...

The first ball came from Tiger. In the 22nd minute of the first half, Tiger broke through the opponent's defense in the middle and passed the ball to Lopez. Lopez understood it and sent another diagonal pass. A beautiful two-pass one, Tiger scored a single shot!

The next thing was simple. Tiger's first shot was saved by Rame, but Tiger quickly caught up with the ball again and successfully shot the ball as soon as possible, one to zero!

"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!" The huge cheers of Valencia fans sounded in the stands, and Tiger raised his arms to signal in the stands that it was really good to be the number one star of a team...

Of course, if Tiger hadn't always used goals and dispatch to complete a beautiful attack, his status wouldn't have been determined so quickly.

Two minutes after the second half, Valencia's frontcourt offense worked again. Lopez and Kili scored two consecutive passes and one match, and then divided the ball to the side. The goal on the right side was Dietta, who was inserted into the right foot, made a cross, and Tiger, who followed up at the back point, flew into the scoring twice!

After transferring to Valencia, Tiger's goals were much less than at Manchester United. That's because he doesn't need to use goals to establish his main position. On the contrary, it is the most important to improve Valencia's overall strength through passing and organization. However, in this game, he had a big explosion!

It is obvious that in the Champions League game, Tiger's fighting spirit can be more inspired, and the upcoming challenge to Manchester United away also makes Tiger want to prove to Manchester United in his best condition that it is a mistake to let me go. I have the ability to play as the core of Manchester United. Now my achievements in Valencia can prove this!

After gaining the advantage of two goals, Valencia played more and more easily on the court. In the 73rd minute, Kili's goal completely secured the victory, 3-0, and in the first round of the second stage group stage, Valencia won a complete victory!

When the huge cheers sounded at the Mestalia Stadium, the Manchester United fans who were expeditioning to Italy looked disappointed!

Two Argentine strikers Batistuta and Balbo scored one goal in the first and second half to help Fiorentina defeat Manchester United two goals at home. Last season, eliminating two Serie A teams in a row to enter the Champions League final seemed to make Manchester United fans think they don’t need to be afraid of Serie A team anymore, but this game really taught them a lesson. After the game, an Italian reporter asked Ferguson teasingly, "Is the pasta delicious?" Ferguson, who was never afraid of a war of words, could only shake his head with frustration...

At this time, Manchester United fans couldn't help but think of Tiger who scored four goals in three games against two Serie A teams last season. What made them even more mixed is that in two weeks, they will see Tiger again at home, just Tiger wearing a white Valencia jersey!

"Marenia United lost?" Tiger, who was far away in Valencia, was surrounded by reporters: "I don't know why Manchester United lost... But now I only think of Valencia. If Valencia and Manchester United are not in the same group, I will wish Manchester United all the best in the next game, but now, I can only say that in the next game, we will also strive to win, because I am a Valencia player now."

Although he said this, Valencia's players found that Tiger was not in a good mood in the next few days and became more diligent in training. It is obvious that Manchester United still has an important position in Tiger's mind.

Tiger was in a bad mood and began to become a nightmare for all Spanish teams who encountered Valencia in the next two weeks.

On November 28, in the 13th round of La Liga, Valencia challenged the weak team Ovito away. In this game, Valencia swept the previous weak state and gave the opponent a humiliating five-0 away game. Tiger only scored one goal in the game, but gave three assists, helping Mendeta, Farinos and Romanian striker Ilier who came on the bench scored. Before the end of the game, he passed the assist to Ilier. The Romanian striker created a penalty kick, and Mendeta scored twice.

On December 1st, in the second round of the Spanish Cup of Rey, Valencia challenged Ellicant of the Spanish Second Division away. Tiger played only 30 minutes before leaving the court to rest. However, in these 30 minutes, Tiger scored a hat trick, including an amazing direct free kick, which helped Valencia lead the weak opponent five to zero. After he got out, Valencia also slowed down the offense, but Mendeta still scored three goals with a group of substitutes. In the end, Valencia swept his opponent 8 to zero and advanced to the quarterfinals!

On December 4, in the 14th round of La Liga, Valencia welcomed Sevilla at home in his last game before away against Manchester United.

Sevilla is still an ordinary weak team. They are completely unable to withstand Valencia's attack away. Tiger once again scored a record for Valencia. He once again copied a classic - when the two opponents' defenders were about to close the ball, Tiger rushed through the two, then caught up with the ball, and scored with a powerful shot!

In the second half, Tiger used a pick-up shot from the front of the penalty area without fireworks to create a one-on-one opportunity for Mündeta. Captain Valencia pushed the ball into the far corner in the penalty area, scoring 2-0, Valencia easily won at home, winning five consecutive victories in all competitions and three consecutive victories in the league!

In these five games, Tiger scored an astonishing eight goals and six assists. Although three goals were scored in the Copa del Rey against a weak team, his performance in the other four top games is still jaw-dropping!

"This is the best Tiger!"

"Before facing Manchester United, Tiger showed his best form!"

"Manchester United must be careful!"

The media began to use various sensational titles as a preview before Valencia's away challenge to Manchester United, and Tiger's performance is indeed enough to be a topic of conversation.

Although Tiger's performance at Manchester United was not the best person in fact, various data proved how outstanding he performed at Manchester United - being able to enter the World Footballer's roster through his performance in the first season of participating in the top league, itself proved how outstanding his performance was. In the summer, he left Manchester United and countless people speculated that what prompted Tiger to transfer and leave after spending a season at Manchester United? Tiger himself and Manchester United do not argue about this, and the most acceptable reason is that Tiger feels that he cannot guarantee the best position he is in Manchester United and chooses to leave - the conflict between the national team and Keegan proves Tiger's idea. Of course, the real reason is that Tiger himself and Ferguson knows.

Now this player who has left Manchester United is going to return to Old Trafford, and when Manchester United just lost a crucial Champions League game, it is a speculation that this is actually Tiger demonstrating to Ferguson and Manchester United.

***: Oh yeah! Get it done! Keep asking for tickets~~~
Chapter completed!