After defeating Valencia away, Betis surpassed the Bats in the standings and rose to fifth place.

Although it surpassed last season's competitors, the fifth place ranking obviously still couldn't satisfy Tang Feng.

One quarter of the league has passed, and Tang Feng reminded the team to get up and down, it is time to catch up!

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In order to ensure the state in the league, when the group was already locked in advance, Betis sent a substitute-based lineup to face Lyon in the last round of the Champions League group stage in the middle of the week.

Betis's approach really made the Inter Milanese feel a little cold.

Because currently in the group standings, Inter Milan and Lyon scored the same points.

So, if Betis loses to Lyon, Inter Milan will have to fight back in the last game and defeat Rosenberg to ensure the group qualifying.

As it turns out, Inter Milanese's worries are redundant.

Even though they were on the bench, Betis still played very strong combat power at home in Lyon!

At the beginning of the game, Milito's goal once helped Betis take the lead!

However, ten minutes later, Lyons stubbornly equalized the score.

In the first half, both sides brought the draw into the halftime break.

After the second half of the game changed sides, Betis took the lead early!

It's Diego Milito again!

After Maxi Rodriguez's low shot from the left side of the penalty area was saved by Lyon's goalkeeper, Diego Milito arrived like a ghost and shot in one shot.

Two to one!

In the following game, Betis played a defensive counterattack that he was good at.

And the Lyon team had to attack with all their might!

Although Lyon used Juninho's direct free kick to win the score before the end of the game, the 2-2 score remained until the whole game, and Lyon was on the verge of elimination.

In the next day's game, Inter Milan did not waste Betis' kindness.

They defeated Rosenberg 2-0 cleanly and entered the semi-finals as the second in the group.

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With the end of this match day, the quarterfinals of the Champions League this year were also successfully released.

This season's Champions League quarterfinals are not the knockout matches that are directly played in two rounds of home and away games like in the future, but another round of group matches.

This time, Betis' draw of lottery is pretty good.

They drew Newcastle in the Premier League, Dortmund in the Bundesliga and Locomotive in the Moscow.

These three teams are all teams with excellent strength in their respective leagues, but within Europe, they still cannot compare with the super boring like Inter Milan, AC Milan, Real Madrid and Barcelona and Manchester United.

After the draw results came out, the media said that Betis had already entered the Champions League quarter-finals with one foot!

Indeed, according to Betis' brave state in the group stage, it is absolutely no surprise that he can stand out in this mediocre group!

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After drawing, Tang Feng took back his mind to the league.

In the tenth round of the league, Betis faced the challenge of Celta at home.

Celta is not very famous. Not to mention the giant teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona Valen, their popularity is far less than that of La Coruna, Betis and even Atletico Madrid in Europe.

However, in recent seasons, Celta is definitely the most stable and impressive team in La Liga.

In the 1996-97 season, Celta was just a relegation team.

But since the 1997-98 season, they have been strong contenders for European qualifications every season, and even almost qualified for the Champions League several times.

Such teams often perform well and rarely make any mistakes.

It is precisely because of this that they are also difficult to deal with.

Faced with such a team, Tang Feng decisively sent all the main players to fight.

At the Sevilla Olympic Stadium, Betis was indeed subjected to tenacious resistance from Celta.

However, in the face of absolute strength advantages, Celta's tenacity failed to achieve the desired effect.

In the end, with three goals from Drogba, Kaka and Xavi Alonso, Betis won the game 3-1 at home and won two consecutive league wins.

After the game against Celta, Betis finally ushered in a midweek without a match.

Tang Feng also took the opportunity to give the players a break and himself. Continuous battles are prone to physical or psychological fatigue for both players and coaches.

In addition, Tang Feng is still preparing for two tough battles next week when he is giving the players a holiday.

In the weekend's league, Betis will usher in the league's strong rival, La Coruna, and in the mid-week, in the Champions League round of 16, Betis will usher in the first opponent, Newcastle United from the Premier League.

These two games within three days are undoubtedly a big test for Betis!

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A week passed quickly.

At 8:45 pm on November 25, Betis and La Coruna's starter walked out of the player passage at Riasso Stadium.

Tang Feng and Iruetta are old opponents, and both sides are well-known, so in this game, neither of them reserved and directly lined up the strongest lineup to play.

After the game began, the two sides began a direct confrontation without any temptation.

Compared with the slightly dull defensive counterattack battle between Betis and Valencia before the two rounds, this conversation between Betis and La Coruna is simpler and more direct!

Therefore, the game quickly scored its first goal!

In the 18th minute, in a counterattack battle, Kaka dribbled the ball at high speed and directly blasted the goal of La Coruna with a long shot that was nearly 30 meters away, helping Betis to gain a away lead!

However, La Cruña, who played at home, did not let the situation of falling behind enter the halftime break.

Before the end of the first half, Dutch striker Makai's low shot in the penalty area helped La Coruña equalize the score.

The two sides changed sides and fought again in the second half.

La Coruna, who plays at home, hopes to take the lead with the remaining power of equalizing the score.

But the first goal in the second half was still the Betis team who played away!

It's Kaka again!

However, this time Kaka's character has transformed from a Terminator to an Opportunity Maker!

After dribbling the ball in the middle and dribbled two people in a row, he suddenly poked the ball into the penalty area in secret. As a single arrow, Drogba used his strong body to knock away the player defending him, appeared on the ball at high speed, and then shot in anger against the ball!

This goal directly left the goalkeeper of La Coruna, who could only watch the ball enter the net.

Two to one, Betis took the lead again!

La Coruna, who was behind in the score, launched a crazy counterattack!

The forward line led by Makai and Tristan launched a bombardment around Betis' goal.

The La Coruna fans in the stands of the Riasso Stadium also spared no effort to cheer for their team.

La Coruna is united, but Van der Sar was a little "uncomfortable" in front of Betis' goal. She used her saves like a god-assisted help to reject La Coruna's consecutive chances of winning goals.

Also "unexplained" is Villa, who is the left winger of Betis!

In the 74th minute, he dribbled the ball into the penalty area in a counterattack game, almost completely killing the hope of La Coruna's counterattack.

In the last ten minutes, the Betis began to revive the familiar defensive counterattack.

Iruetta frantically replaced three attackers and gave it a try.

In the 88th minute, Ma Kai scored twice in front of the goal, and narrowed the score gap to one goal again.

Unfortunately, the ball came a little late.

Three minutes after stoppage time, the score was still 2-3, with La Coruna only winning one home game. Betis successfully ushered in the first three-game winning streak of the league this season.

After defeating two strong rivals, Valencia and La Coruña, and winning three consecutive victories, they quietly returned to the top four in the league.

When the league started to get on track, the Champions League began to disrupt the situation again.

In the middle of the week, Betis welcomed the Magpies Newcastle United at home!

Newcastle United's team honors are not much, but it is one of the most popular teams in England.

Newcastle United coach Robson and captain Alan Hiller are both highly prestigious figures in England.

Although this team did not perform well in the European arena, it is still a difficult team to deal with.

Therefore, although it had just three days since the last game, Tang Feng still arranged most of the main players to play at home.

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The performance of five wins and one draw in the first round of the group stage was the first in the group, which made Betis, the Champions League "Chu Ge" team, lose a lot of youth and more mature.

Therefore, even when facing a veteran team like Newcastle, Betis players are still full of confidence.

Their confidence was directly reflected in their performance after the start of the game.
To be continued...