Chapter 226 The Injured Magician
"It turns out that you are really familiar with the players of Porto."
In a corner of the Dragon Stadium, Messi, who had just met his family, finally met Su Dong.
At that time, Su Dong was chatting and laughing with the Porto players, and they looked very familiar.
"I have a good friend called Pepe, who is Deco's junior and the midfielder who just provided two assists."
Messi nodded. "I know him. Our team wanted to buy him this summer, but we didn't."
Strictly speaking, Barcelona had already been trying to poach Deco during the winter break of 2002, but Deco was later forced to stay for a year by the president of Porto. Otherwise, he would have become Messi's teammate long ago.
However, people in European football are now almost certain that Deco will transfer to Barcelona next summer.
"You performed very well just now, but your health is not good." Su Dong said with a smile.
Messi nodded again. "Rijkaard told me the same thing. He believed I would become a promising professional player, but he still didn't make any promises to me."
At the end of his speech, Messi's eyes dimmed.
It's just a few words of praise, and it doesn't cost any money. Anyone can do it. The key is to promise the future.
When it comes to young talents like Messi, what they value most is the opportunity to play in games.
"You know, my best friend Cesc has played in the League Cup since he moved to Arsenal and performed very well. Wenger attaches great importance to him and is also cultivating him carefully. Wenger originally wanted to take me away as well."
Messi chose to stay in Barcelona for various reasons, but the turmoil in this team is indeed disturbing.
Apart from anything else, Rijkaard himself is in trouble, so how can he promise Messi a future?
If Barcelona's performance had not improved in recent times, the Dutch legend would have been sacked long ago.
"If a tree is not moved, it will die; if a person is moved, he will live. When the time comes, renting the property out proactively is also a solution," Su Dong suggested.
Aimar has quite a few connections and is said to have communicated with the coaching staff before. Valencia's right side is indeed a problem.
Judging from tonight's game, Messi is a left-footed player. He can play in three positions: left winger, attacking midfielder and right winger. It is said that he can also play as a center forward in the youth team. In 2003, he played 31 games and scored 38 goals. His performance was quite eye-catching. Only in a team like Barcelona would he not get such a chance.
"That's right!" Messi sighed. "If I really go to Valencia on loan, it will be a good choice. At least I can be teammates with you and Pablo. Even if the sky falls, there will be tall people like you to hold it up."
At the end, Messi laughed in a bittersweet way.
Su Dong really couldn't say anything, Aimar himself was preparing to transfer and leave the team.
Of course, the situations of Aimar and Messi are completely different.
Today's Messi is just talented, not even a rookie. He is just acting like a bully in the youth team. But Aimar is different. He is a talented attacking midfielder who has been famous for many years and is the core of the Argentine national team's midfield. The two are completely incomparable.
For Aimar today, Valencia is a small temple, which limits his development, but for Messi, precisely because Valencia is a small temple, it is easier for him to get the opportunity to stand out.
As for Valencia's flanks, there are indeed problems.
First of all, Sudong, Aimar and Vicente are the mainstays of Valencia's frontcourt offense, but Vicente and Aimar are both very prone to injury. Once one of Aimar and Vicente is absent, the pressure on Sudong will double. If both of them are absent, Sudong will be under even greater pressure.
Therefore, the Valencia coaching staff has always been interested in introducing a winger. For example, they were paying attention to Cristiano Ronaldo and Quaresma last summer. As a result, one went to Manchester United and the other went to Barcelona.
Now, Mendes is also preparing to bring Quaresma to Valencia, because the Portuguese winger has no chance at all in Barcelona and is just wasting his time.
There is no need to say much about Quaresma's ability and potential, otherwise, Barcelona would not have paid for him. The key lies in how the head coach trains and uses him.
Professional players will inevitably go through such a process, such as Cristiano Ronaldo at Manchester United.
Su Dong is also going through the same thing, but his playing style makes him more core.
If both Messi and Quaresma come to Valencia, the Bats will basically have nothing to worry about on the right side.
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The two-week national team matches have a huge impact on teams with many national team players, especially those with many South American players.
After the La Liga resumed, the performance of the strong teams was rather sluggish.
In the first day's match, Deportivo La Coruna drew 0-0 with Real Betis away from home.
Irueta's team's performance in recent times has indeed been somewhat unsatisfactory, especially in some unnecessary games, they have frequently lost points, which makes people very worried about the situation of this team.
Two hours later, in Valencia, Barcelona suffered a last-gasp defeat at the hands of Villarreal away from home.
Jose Mari opened the scoring for the Yellow Submarine in the 40th minute of the first half. After the second half, Kluivert equalized the score for Barcelona, but in stoppage time, Anderson scored the winning goal for Villarreal.
Villarreal defeated Barcelona 2-1 at home.
The best player of the match was former Barcelona midfielder Riquelme.
The Argentine magician performed brilliantly in the match, completely dominating Villarreal's victory over Barcelona.
What’s more interesting is that Riquelme was loaned to Villarreal by Barcelona.
So much so that after the game, when the media asked Barcelona vice president Rosell, he said that the team would recall Riquelme from Villarreal after the end of this season.
But Riquelme's response was, "I love everyone in Villarreal deeply. I still need to think about whether to return to Camp Nou!"
It is clear that the experience at Barcelona has hurt the Argentine magician.
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Deportivo La Coruna's draw gave both Valencia and Real Madrid a sigh of relief, but they also saw opportunities.
Valencia wants to further widen the gap and create a more relaxed environment for its two-front battle; Real Madrid is eager to reverse Deportivo La Coruna and return to second place in the league. Queiroz needs results to secure his position as coach.
Under such circumstances, both teams tried their best the day after the game.
Real Madrid beat Athletic Bilbao 2-1 at home, with Beckham and Zidane scoring goals, but the game was very dangerous and Real Madrid was almost knocked down by the opponent at one point.
Two hours after Real Madrid took all three points, Valencia challenged Murcia away.
Argentine internationals who had traveled a long distance, such as Aimar and Ayala, were all rested. Benítez deployed a 4-4-2 formation, with Sudon and Mista forming the forward partnership, Vicente and Rufete on the wings, and the double defensive midfielders still being Albelda and Baraja.
But the game once again proved that Ayala's absence had a great impact on Valencia's defense.
Just twelve minutes into the first half, after Aimar was absent, Su Dong, who took the initiative to take on the heavy responsibility of being the core of the frontcourt offense, used a wonderful personal dribbling breakthrough to attract the attention of the defense, and sent a straight pass to help Mista shoot near the penalty spot, scoring the first goal for the team.
But in the 38th minute, Murcia took advantage of a free kick opportunity and Ritchie scored with a header to equalize the score.
After the second half, Murcia launched a quick counterattack. Freddy made a cross from the left, and Mitchell made a shot in front of the goal, helping Murcia to overtake the score.
Just six minutes later, Carboni made a long pass from the backcourt, Sudong turned his back to the direction of attack, headed the ball, and rubbed the ball behind the defense line, creating a great opportunity for Mista, who easily headed the ball into the goal.
2-2! Su Dong assisted and scored twice!
After tying the score again, the game fell into a difficult situation again.
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The game time is passing by little by little.
Especially after entering the 80th minute, Valencia began to press forward in a big way, even pushing the defense line across half the court.
When Carboni made another long pass from the left, trying to send the ball to the outside of the penalty area and give it to Sudong, Murcia's local central defender Mikel Roteta quickly moved forward and headed the ball back before Sudong.
This Spanish veteran, nicknamed Carrot, has extensive defensive experience.
The header clearance sent the ball flying over the midfield and into the back line.
Marchena also rushed forward at the first moment, jumped high before Richie, and headed Rotta's clearance ball forward again.
The ball flew in the air and landed behind Murcia's defense.
Rottta stretched out his hand to block Su Dong on the right side, originally wanting to cut off Su Dong's connection with the midfield, but unexpectedly, Marchena's header landed behind the defense line.
This is dangerous!
Su Dong had already judged the landing point when Marchena headed the ball and turned around before everyone else.
By the time Rotta realized the danger, Su Dong had already started and rushed to the top of the penalty area at the fastest speed.
Goalkeeper Juanmi saw it most clearly. He made the decision to abandon the goal and attack early on. But before he could attack, he found Su Dong rushing towards him at an extremely fast speed, which shocked Juanmi.
The ball slowly fell to the ground, and Juanmi and Su Dong both chased after it.
The Murcia goalkeeper realized that he was behind Su Dong, so he made a quick decision and fell to the ground to save the ball, trying to block the ball first. He no longer cared whether it would be a foul.
But Su Dong was tall and had long legs, so he took the lead and kicked the ball lightly before the ball hit the ground.
This lob directly caused Juanmi's fall to the ground to miss! After the ball was lifted up by Su Dong, it quickly fell down, and Su Dong had avoided Juanmi's save, chased after him and easily pushed the ball into the empty goal with his left foot, sending the ball into the empty Murcia goal.
3 to 2! After scoring the goal, Su Dong rushed to the sidelines without slowing down, waving his arms non-stop.
Valencia players also rushed forward and surrounded him to celebrate the goal.
This is another goal worth three points!
There will still be three updates today, and the times are still 12:00 and 18:00.
(End of this chapter)
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