Chapter 437 Law Enforcement Grand Slam

For the peak matchup between the Premier League champions and the La Liga champions, the media have been optimistic that Notts County can finally win the cup.

It's not that everyone doesn't recognize Valencia's strength. The main reason is that Valencia's offensive core clown, Aimar, is currently recovering from an injury. It is difficult to appear in the finals. How can he compete with Notts County? what!

Benitez is a recognized tactician. When facing various opponents, his team will make corresponding arrangements. Each game will have a different focus, and the starting lineup will not be the same.

On the other hand, Loew is on the contrary. Although he also understands his opponents, he is more often playing his own football, playing according to his own rhythm, and winning with a strong tactical system.

So even if Aimar the Clown can't play, Notts County won't make too many adjustments. A set of control tactics is enough for Notts County to face any formidable opponent.

In fact, whether a player can play or not is of little significance to the outcome of a game. Even if this player is the core of the attack in the frontcourt, whether Aimar can play has become the focus of everyone's attention, and even fully feel that The outcome of the UEFA Cup final.

Some people really want to make a fuss about Aimar. The Spanish media unanimously predicted that Aimar would appear in the finals. Their reason was that the Joker had recovered from his injury and was training with the team. He could not return to his best state in time, but it did not hinder him. Benitez put him in the starting list.

But Benitez has repeatedly declared in an interview that Aimar will not appear in the starting list. Although he has recovered from injury, he cannot reach the state of playing.

I don’t know who is setting off the smoke bombs, but the media in England unanimously speculated that Benitez did it. He wanted to confuse Notts County in this way. The original strategy was to target Aimar’s absence from the field. But when it came to the game, it was discovered that Aimar had started, which made Notts County's tactical design a failure!

But what Benitez didn't know was that Notts County didn't pay much attention to Aimar. Although his absence from the game had a great impact on Valencia, Notts County would not be concerned about it because of one. People and specially designed a set of coping tactics, so Benitez is destined to be useless.

Three years later, Valencia has not forgotten the pain of losing the Champions League final for two consecutive years. Among the 11 starting players in the 2001 San Siro final, in addition to Mendieta, Angoloma, Claudio Lopez leaving the team, and Carew on loan, the other 7 players are still in the team.

According to past experience, it is inevitable that there will be a war of words between the two sides before major competitions.

The final has a special meaning for Carbone, 39: he will play in 100 European club competitions.

If Valencia wins the title, he will become the oldest player to win the two European Cups.

"People say the 3rd is always lucky, but hopefully that's the truth," the veteran said with enthusiasm.

Baraja, who played the full game in the 2001 final, said: "I hope that the failure of the two finals will not affect us. After winning the league championship, we have no pressure to decide whether to live or die."

"Valencia has improved in recent years. Now we are better prepared and more experienced. This year has been historic for Valencia and we will do our best to win another trophy." Albelda came off the bench in the 2001 final , has now become Valencia's new captain.

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The Valencia generals just expressed their determination to win, without any words to belittle their opponent Notts County. This is the normal rhythm, which made Notts County a little uncomfortable.

On the way to the championship in Notts County, one team is accompanied by controversy, or contempt. Every time it encounters an opponent, no matter whether it has any meaning or not, come over and step on Honotts County first, as if not mocking a few words. Just like losing the game, even some giant teams are not immune to this problem, so that Notts County did not form friendships with many teams along the way, but it was enemies who made a lot of them.

There's no way, you've stepped on me, I can't be merciful!

Seeing that Valencia is so atmospheric, although it is a little uncomfortable, Notts County still repays its opponents. During the interview, they also expressed their determination to win. At the same time, they emphasized Valencia's strength. The team will dedicate a wonderful game, and it can be regarded as a little praise for Valencia.

The two teams have such a tacit understanding, and the reporters will not do it. There are contradictions before there are points of interest, and there will be no sales if there are no points of interest!

And this is the final of the UEFA Cup. If you don't stand up and belittle your opponent to show yourself, are you embarrassed to stand in the final?

So the reporters went all out and began to set up the two teams, even if there was no news production news.

But Valencia and Notts County were busy preparing for the war, and they didn't have the time to compete with reporters, so in the end they simply closed the training and refused to be interviewed.

The two teams have this right. UEFA does not stipulate that they must be interviewed anytime, anywhere. Want news? No problem, just wait for the pre-match press conference!

The two teams in front of them have not been able to hype up any big news for the time being. The reporters simply shifted their targets, and unexpectedly shifted their targets to the referee of the game.

After determining the law enforcement referee for this game, in fact, many people do not understand UEFA's approach.

Having enforced this game, it means that the referee will not be able to enforce the next Champions League final. The world's No. 1 referee does not go to enforce the UEFA Champions League final but instead comes to call the UEFA Cup final. Isn't this nonsense!

That's right, it was the world's No. 1 referee, the bald referee Collina, who enforced the game.

Collina's influence in the refereeing world is undeniable, and the world's number one referee is also well-deserved. Many people even think that his whistleblower is simply a work of art.

Olympic men's football finals, Champions Cup finals, World Cup finals, 92 international competitions... Each of these is a qualification that can be boasted for a lifetime, and all this appears in one person.

Although everyone didn't understand UEFA's approach at first, and UEFA would not explain it publicly, but slowly tracing the source, everyone still understands UEFA's good intentions.

Collina is about to turn 45 years old, and there are not many opportunities to appreciate his law enforcement art. This summer's European Championships will be his last major appearance.

Instead of adding a repeated record of whistling the Champions League final, it is better to enforce a UEFA Cup final, so that Collina can complete a Grand Slam! (To be continued.)