Chapter 484 When Scoring Becomes a Habit (1)

After the game with Arsenal, the Spanish media gave Wang Li high praise.

In this game, Wang Li scored four goals alone. Together with the three goals in the first round, in the two rounds of matches with Arsenal, Wang Li scored seven goals alone, while Real Madrid only scored eight goals in total. These two rounds of matches were almost a contest between Wang Li alone and the entire Arsenal team.

From this perspective, Henry's statement that 'we only lost to you, not to Real Madrid' does make some sense.

Under such circumstances, the Spanish media praised Wang Li. Even the Barcelona media who hated Wang Li had to admit that Wang Li was the key to Real Madrid's victory. Without Wang Li, Real Madrid would not have been able to advance so easily.

"Allen ignited Real Madrid's goal frenzy, scoring seven goals in two games and eclipsing the entire stadium!"

"There is only one Alan Wang. He is the king of football in Europe. Under Alan's brilliance, everyone else seems dull!"

"The top scorer of this season's European Champions League has been announced. Allen Wang won the award after just one round of competition!"

For a time, all kinds of reports were extremely exciting. Almost every newspaper and magazine became a supporter of Wang Li. They spared no effort to praise Wang Li, as if Wang Li had become a savior.

Under such circumstances, the UEFA Champions League round of 16 knockout matches were all over, and the results made the Spanish media cheer again.

In addition to Real Madrid, which has already advanced, Barcelona also performed well. They defeated Bayern Munich 2:1 at home, which means that they advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League with a one-goal advantage.

This result was not unexpected by the media. Barcelona has been very strong in the past two years. Many media commented that Barcelona's lineup is a level higher than Real Madrid's, because they not only have style, but their players are also at their peak and they also have a future.

The current Barcelona lineup can really be described as a dream team, and eliminating Bayern Munich is not big news.

In comparison, Real Madrid's lineup seems a bit bleak. Although almost every part of the Galacticos is made up of well-known big stars, the status of stars such as Ronaldo, Carlos, Zidane and even Beckham are on the decline. If the team had not introduced players such as Wang Li and Robinho last season, I am afraid that the result of the Spanish derby would be no suspense.

What surprised the media was that the dark horse that had always been underestimated, Villarreal, also advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League. In the second round, they drew 1:1 with Glasgow Rangers of the Scottish Premier League at home, and they scored two away goals away from home. In this way, they qualified for the round of 16 with a slight advantage of one away goal.

When Wang Li arrived in Madrid, this football city was filled with laughter and joy, not only because of Real Madrid's achievements, but also because of the achievements of Spain as a whole.

The quarterfinals of the Champions League is an honor for the giants, but for small clubs, it is something they dare not even think about. Now, three Spanish teams have entered the quarterfinals!

In other matches, Portuguese team Benfica defeated the Champions League dark horse Middlesbrough, ending the latter's dark horse career; French Ligue 1 giants Lyon easily defeated PSV Eindhoven 5:0 in two rounds, causing last season's Champions League semi-final team to be directly eliminated; Chelsea, led by the "Magic Bird" Mourinho, defeated AC Milan again 5:2 in two rounds, which made the AC Milan team, which had just been caught in the turmoil of Italian football, even worse; Juventus drew 4:4 with Werder Bremen, and the former advanced with the advantage of away goals; Inter Milan, another Serie A giant, eliminated Ajax 3:2 and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

In summary, the teams that advanced to the Champions League include Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Villarreal from La Liga; Juventus and Inter Milan from Serie A; Lyon from Ligue 1; Benfica from Portugal; and Chelsea from the Premier League.

This result is truly a great harvest for La Liga.

Last season, the Premier League achieved great success, with Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United all reaching the quarterfinals of Europe. This season, the situation has changed to La Liga, and Chelsea was the only Premier League team to make it through. This also shows the success of La Liga this season, which is why the Spanish media is happy.

However, among the three teams, the media are more optimistic about Barcelona.

Many professionals have analyzed that Barcelona's lineup is the most "scientific" and they think Barcelona is likely to win the Champions League. In this round, Real Madrid defeated Arsenal 7:2 to win the final victory, but it was not favored by others because many people pointed out that Real Madrid is a one-man team of Wang Li. When Wang Li can play, the team's performance is indeed very good, but what if there is a game where Wang Li cannot play?

Then Real Madrid might suffer a direct Waterloo.

This view was unanimously affirmed by the media and fans. When Wang Li was on the field, he could score more than 2 or 3 goals by himself, and it would be very difficult for Real Madrid's opponents to win.

When Wang Li is not on the field, Real Madrid's performance is not much better than a strong team in La Liga. This is also the most important reason why the Spanish media holds such a view.

The Barcelona media is of course the most supportive of this view. They spared no effort to explain the reasons for Real Madrid's good performance and praised Wang Li to the sky. The reason is thought-provoking.

Perhaps, they want to create internal conflicts in Real Madrid.

When Wang Li returned to the team and finished training the next day, his teammates came to ask him about the process of meeting the Queen of England.

In fact, even for these world-class stars, meeting Queen Elizabeth II is a surprising thing. Although the royal power has been greatly weakened in the technological and civilized society, perhaps because of this, the royal family is more mysterious in the eyes of many people.

The halo of the Queen of England is so shining. You should know that the Queen of England is the nominal head of state of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and 15 member states, and is also the supreme leader of the Church of England.

In England, even the army is nominally directly under the Queen. Every soldier must swear allegiance to the Queen when he announces his joining the army. And many soldiers like to write letters to the Queen when they are fighting to prove that they know they are fighting for the Queen and Britain.

All of this makes Elizabeth II the most famous monarch in the world today, and these stars are of course interested in this.

However, Wang Li felt that there was nothing to talk about. The content of his conversation with the Queen did not involve other areas, and it only hovered between love and football.

After no results, teammates began to ask Wang Li about his marriage.

Wang Like has not thought about this yet, and it is not something he can decide on his own. What is more important is the advice of Angela and the British royal family.

Their wedding involves too many issues, and the date of the wedding may require many people to sit together and discuss it slowly. It feels even more grand than a large-scale negotiation.

Fortunately, Real Madrid's recent schedule is very busy. On the second day, the team entered the atmosphere of the game again, and Wang Li temporarily put these annoying things behind him.

After the second round match with Arsenal on the 9th, Real Madrid will play the 27th round of the league on the 13th. This time their opponent is Valencia, the third place in the La Liga.

Valencia, also known as the Bats by fans, is one of the best football clubs in Spain. The club was founded in 1919 and is located in Valencia, the third largest city in Spain.

Valencia is a long-established team with a long history. It has the third largest number of members in Spain, so many people think that this team is the third largest club in La Liga. In the early days, the team wore white shirts and white shorts, so it was called "White Ghost" in Spain. Valencia's rival in the same city is Levante, but this team cannot pose too much threat to Valencia. And the regional rival Villarreal is also only hovering in the Spanish Second Division. Therefore, Valencia has no much competitiveness in Valencia and is completely in a monopoly position. This may also be the reason why the team can never compete with Real Madrid and Barcelona.

However, Valencia has won many honors. They have won 6 La Liga titles, 7 Spanish King's Cup titles, 3 UEFA Cup titles, 1 European Cup Champions League title and 2 European Super Cups. This achievement has become the club's foundation, making Valencia one of the traditional top five in Spain. Similarly, they are also a member of the G-14 organization.

Valencia's home stadium is the Mestalla Stadium, which was built in 1923. The initial area was only 100x59, and the stadium could only accommodate 17,000 spectators. However, with the development of the team, the stadium has been continuously expanded to accommodate the increase in the number of fans. At present, the Mestalla Stadium can accommodate more than 40,000 fans.

But even so, for a team like Valencia, there is still some dissatisfaction. At the beginning of the season, many media reported that Valencia was preparing to start a new stadium plan.

On this day, Real Madrid players came to Valencia together by bus.

There are some ethnic customs in various parts of Spain, and Valencia is no exception. People's lives here are not as tense as in Madrid, but seem to be leisurely. Valencia is a beautiful place and also a leisurely region. But no matter where you go, loyal fans will never welcome outsiders. When the Real Madrid bus drove to the Mestalla Stadium, many fans surrounded the bus and used various slogans to ridicule and mock Real Madrid.

Valencia fans have reason to do so, because in the first half of the season, Valencia won 1:3 at the Bernabeu. If they can win at the Bernabeu, then now that they have come to the Mestalla Stadium, does Real Madrid still have hope of winning?

This question also haunts Valencia fans.

Because they think the answer will be - maybe! ! Just because Real Madrid has one more Alan Wang.

Real Madrid has performed surprisingly well in recent games. They have won 11 consecutive games in the league, and Wang Li has already topped the scorer list. It will not be easy for Valencia to beat Real Madrid again.

Valencia fans are of course well aware of all this, which is why they spared no effort in mocking Real Madrid, creating trouble for them, and trying to make their performance unstable.

And when the players of both teams came on the field, the fans seemed to have succeeded because they did not see the black-haired boy in Real Madrid's starting lineup.

Of course, Carlo did not choose to start Wang Li because of the fans' harassment.

Before the game, Carlo had thought about this question a long time ago. Perhaps influenced by media reports, Carlo felt that he should try to see how Real Madrid would perform without Wang Li.

Therefore, although Wang Li was included in the roster for this competition, he failed to qualify as a starter.

However, Carlo sent out most of the other main players, and only Ronaldo failed to make the starting lineup due to a minor injury. This new La Liga coach seemed to have completely regarded this game as a place to train his troops.

Valencia didn't know this, and when they saw that Wang Li did not play, all the players breathed a sigh of relief.

Before the game, Valencia's head coach Florence was worried about how to limit Wang Li's performance. He reminded the players one by one to pay attention to defense. But now, this black-haired boy did not play, which seemed to make everything Florence did in vain.

However, Valencia players are still happy to see this, because they don't have to pay special attention to any particular player in the game, and the game will be easier.

Yes, they played very easily.

So, in the 11th minute of the game, Valencia scored easily. Spanish striker Villa, who joined Valencia for 12 million euros this year, scored the first goal for the team.

Last season, Villa played for Zaragoza in the La Liga and scored 15 goals in 35 games. This efficiency is one of the best among small clubs. Last summer, Valencia won the battle for Villa and introduced the Spanish native striker.

Now, Villa has proved his worth with his performance. So far in the league, Villa has scored 18 goals, ranking in the top five of the La Liga scorer list.

And now, he scored another goal for Real Madrid, which is really amazing. All the Valencia fans cheered for this goal.

However, after Villa scored this goal, Real Madrid began to counterattack. In the 37th minute of the first half, young player Robinho scored an offside goal to equalize the score for Real Madrid.

During the half-time break, head coach Carlo was a little hesitant. He wanted to replace Wang Li to stabilize the morale of the team, but the team's performance was still okay. If he directly replaced Wang Li, it would cause disharmony within the team.

Under such circumstances, Wang Li still sat on the bench in the second half.

However, Real Madrid's performance did not disappoint Carlo. The Real Madrid players were in really good shape today. In the 56th minute of the game, with a free kick opportunity, David Beckham's "Crescent Moon Scimitar" scored a goal for Real Madrid to overtake the game!

This goal made Carlo stand up happily and hug Wang Li.

Under the bombardment of the media, Carlo was under too much pressure, but the current game proved that Real Madrid is not Wang Li's one-man team. The other players of Real Madrid also performed very well when Wang Li was not on the court.

However, Wang Li curled his lips in disdain.

In his opinion, the new coach's approach is indeed a bit naive. If it were him, he would not care about the media's comments at all. As long as Real Madrid wins, who cares what the media says? Anyway, we won. As for how we won and how we won, it doesn't matter at all.

As long as they win, the media will have good comments, 'Wang Li's one-man team', so what? At least it's still Real Madrid.

And isn't Barcelona also 'Ronaldinho's one-man team'?

Obviously in that team, Ronaldinho's level is the highest. They are also a one-man team. Without Ronaldinho's playing, Barcelona's performance will be correspondingly worse.

However, now that Real Madrid has taken the lead, Carlo's mentality has calmed down, so he immediately replaced Wang Li to ensure victory.

Now Real Madrid and Barcelona are tied on points, the competition between the two teams is very fierce, and it is extremely important to ensure victory.

Under the helpless gazes of Valencia players and fans, Wang Li finally came on the court.

As it turned out, Valencia's helplessness was well-founded. In the 67th and 81st minutes of the game, Wang Li received passes from his teammates twice and made powerful long shots, scoring the third and fourth goals for Real Madrid.

This performance was truly eye-opening, yet it also made Valencia feel deeply desperate.

They didn't see any hope of winning. The final result of the game was 4:1, and Real Madrid won a big victory away from home. Facing Valencia, they still performed very strongly.

However, what made the players happiest was that they did not have to play any games in the next week, which made everyone in the team feel relieved.

Wang Li was of course very happy too, as it meant he had some time to relax.

(To be continued)