Boom~~~~

A huge cheer suddenly broke out at the Mestalia Stadium.

"Okay, we see that the players on both sides have appeared. Let's take a look at their starting lineup..."

With the commentator's words, the starting list of the two teams appeared on the TV broadcast screen...

Valencia's starting lineup (4-2-3-1):

Goalkeeper: Canisarez

Defenders: Caboni, Pellegrino, Ayala, Torres

Middleback: Baraja, De Ros Santos

Midfielder: Rufit, Aimal, Vicente

Forward: Karu

"We can see that Valencia also has a relatively regular lineup. Of course, this lineup is also different from the main lineup. First, due to Baraja's serious injury, he missed the second half of the season, and De Ross Santos replaced him. In addition, Benitez also sent the Norwegian air dominant Karu, who is 1.95 meters tall, in response to the poor air defense of Betis. From this point of view, Benitez's Valencia team does not seem to be ready to defend..."

Betis' starting lineup (4-4-2):

Goalkeeper: Van der Sar

Defenders: Barrera, Pablo Alfaro, Carvalho, Evera

Midfielder: Joaquin, Xavi Alonso, Kaka, Robben

Forward: Drogba, Adriano

"In terms of Betis, their lineup has also been changed. They gave up the most commonly used 4231 formation, but adopted the 442 midfield diamond-shaped formation. Today, the practice of sending only Xavi Alonso as a midfielder also shows Shenqi Tang's determination to attack with all his strength..."

...

After introducing the lineups of both sides, the camera was given to the coaching seats of both teams.

In front of the visiting team coach's seat, Tang Feng was still wearing an iconic casual suit with a confident smile on his face. He didn't look like a person carrying a lot of pressure at all.

However, Benitez, in front of the home team coach's seat, looked serious, as if his team was behind in points.

These two people should be considered the two best young coaches in the La Liga field at this stage.

The two were also very destined to be together. As early as last season's Segunda League, the two had a record of fighting. However, Benitez was Tenerife's coach at that time.

Luis Garcia, who was in Betis' team, was also a fierce player under Benitez last season.

This season, the two teams have already had a fight in La Liga.

However, that game happened to be in a turmoil at the senior management of Betis' club, and Betis was in poor form. Even so, Valencia failed to seize the opportunity to defeat Betis, but only got a zero-to-zero draw at Lopela Stadium.

I believe Benitez must regret it very much. At that time, at Lopela Stadium, why didn’t he play more proactively and defeat Betis when Betis was in poor form.

If he had defeated Betis at that time, then his team would have won the championship one round ahead of schedule. How could he have to face such a situation?

It’s a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world.

Benitez and his team had to do their best in this crucial battle to strive for at least one draw!

...

Beep~~~ With the referee's whistle, the game officially began!

The first serve was Valencia, who played at home!

After Karu and Aimal drove the ball out in the middle circle, they did not rush to attack, but patiently fell down in the backcourt.

Obviously, they don’t need to rush to attack with a three-point lead. If possible, they are even willing to keep falling like this until the end of the game.

It’s a pity that this is just their wishful thinking.

The Betis team won't allow them to calmly fall down there.

After the kickoff, several young men from Betis' midfield and frontcourt rushed to Valencia's half and started a full-game press.

This is the tactics arranged by Tang Feng after asking Andres Ricardo and understanding the players' physical fitness.

Andres Ricardo told Tang Feng that although most of the team's main players experienced a tough battle with Dortmund a week ago, the young players recovered quickly, and their physical fitness was enough to support them in the last and most important game of the season.

This also made Tang Feng boldly arrange the tactics of pressing in the frontcourt. Anyway, even if some players cannot support the full field, he still has three substitutions.

The Betis players' pressing throughout the game also made Valencia unable to feel comfortable falling down there.

Valencia can only pass the ball forward gradually.

After several passes, the ball reached Vicente's feet on the left!

After a season of training, Vicente has grown into one of the best left-backs in La Liga.

Especially his sharp breakthrough on the left is his ultimate move!

The one who defends Vicente is Betis' right-back Barrera. Although Barrera's defense has made great progress this season, he still struggled when facing a wide player with distinctive characteristics like Vicente.

Finally, after Vicente's continuous shaking, Barrera's defense still showed flaws.

Vicent seized this opportunity and suddenly accelerated to get rid of Barrera's defense. Then, before Barrera came back to his senses, he directly made a cross!

This should be Valencia's main offensive routine in this game, that is, through breakthroughs on the wing, to find opportunities for crosses to find the big man Karu in the middle.

Vicente's cross was of good quality, so he directly found the encirclement Kalu.

Carru is ten centimeters taller than Pablo Alfaro, and his physical fitness is also very good.

In this competition for the top, the old Pablo Alfaro also failed to stop Karu from pushing the ball towards the goal.

Fortunately, Karu's goal was relatively straight, and Van der Sar's position was also very good. In the end, the Dutch goalkeeper directly grabbed the ball into his arms.

After holding the ball, Van der Sar did not just focus on POSE, but rushed forward a few steps, and threw the ball near the midfield with a powerful hand.

Dali threw the ball and launched a counterattack... This is Lao Fan's specialty!

After the ball flew in the air for a while, it accurately landed under Robben's foot on the left side of the midfield.

After Robben removed the ball, he turned around and dribbled the ball at high speed and rushed to the frontcourt.

Soon, he faced Caboni, a veteran in Valencia team.

This Italian veteran left Serie A to Valencia after his thirty years old, under the call of his compatriot Ranieri.

I'm afraid even Ranieri himself would not have expected that the veteran's professional life would be so long. Caboni, who is now 37 years old, is still the absolute main player in Valencia's right-back position. Moreover, in history, he retired after playing forty years old.

The 37-year-old Caboni naturally cannot compare with a fast horse like Robben in terms of speed, but his advantage is his experience and solid defensive skills he has cultivated for more than a dozen years in Serie A.

No matter what fake move Robben made when he got the ball on the left, Caboni remained unmoved and kept a safe distance from Robben.

Faced with such an old demon-level defensive player, Robben did not act recklessly. After the breakthrough was fruitless, he directly passed the ball to Adriano, who was retreating to receive the ball.

Adriano leaned against Ayala behind him and acted as a gesture to catch the ball. In fact, he knocked the ball back and passed it to Kaka who was inserted!

Facing Adriano's extremely comfortable return pass, Kaka did not have any extra moves, and responded to the ball with an angry shot!

The quality of this shot is extremely high, and the ball flew straight to the left of the goal!

However, Canisales in front of the goal had already been prepared. He used a very relaxed pounce to lift Kaka's shot out of the bottom line!

The Valencia fans in the stands also gave their goalkeeper thunderous applause!

Canisales is currently Spain's number one national goal, but the young Casillas has put a lot of pressure on him. He must use his stable performance to determine the starting goalkeeper in the South Korean and Japanese World Cup!

After making a wonderful save, Canisales also waved his fist excitedly and then began to direct his teammates to defend Betis' corner kick.

Tang Feng shook his head helplessly. He knew very well that although Valencia's defense line was relatively old, he was in a stable position.

The 37-year-old Caboni, 33-year-old Canisarez, 31-year-old Pellegrino, and 29-year-old Ayala, except for the left-back Torres, the average age of the other four players in this defense line is astonishingly thirty-two and a half years old, which is comparable to the famous living fossil-level defense line in AC Milan in the future.

Of course, Tang Feng was not discouraged because of Valencia's outstanding defense performance. He has the benefits of rich experience and rich experience, while his players are young but also have the capital to be young.

With the retirement of the game time, the Betis team will spare no effort to hit the physical fitness and will definitely put huge pressure on the Valencians.

After each threatening attack in the opening stage, the game basically entered the Betis's large-scale attack, while Valencia was playing the defensive counterattack routine.

Benitez was very satisfied with the situation on the field.

Although Betis' offense seems to be very fierce, it does not bring too many substantial threats to Valencia's defense.

Moreover, the opponent attacks, and his team's way of fighting back is also Benitez's favorite.

The only thing that made him a little dissatisfied was the Norwegian big man Karu on the front line.

When this guy joined Valencia last season, he performed pretty well, scoring eleven goals in one season.

However, this season, after Benitez took over Valencia, the big man with a slightly rough technique was obviously not suitable for Benitez's tactical system.

After a season, the Norwegian scored only a poor goal.

In this game, facing Betis, who was not good at air defense, Benitez planned to give the Norwegian a chance to make contributions. However, now it seems that the Norwegian does not have the ability to seize this opportunity.

Although he performed very hard in the frontcourt, he didn't seem to be good at completing a fatal blow in front of the goal.

Benitez is also considering whether to replace Mista in the second half.

The first half of the game passed unknowingly for almost half an hour.

In Benitez's view, it was almost impeccable, but there were still some mistakes.
To be continued...