Jose didn't care much about this game. It's no longer a rare thing for Mallorca to lock in the first place in the group, but there are quite a few strong teams in the second group in the Champions League, Bayern, Arsenal, Real Madrid, Chelsea... This group stage is calm, and the strong teams have basically qualified. The only thing that is hard is Manchester United. They actually ranked last in the group stage. Since they failed to qualify in the group stage in the 94-95 season, they have reached at least the knockout stage of the Champions League for ten seasons. However, this year, in the eleventh season, they failed to enter the knockout stage, and they even failed to obtain the qualification for the League Cup...

Manchester United's opponents in this group are not particularly strong. Ajax, Benfica and Lille are not particularly strong opponents. However, Manchester United's performance in the group stage was quite bad. One win and two draws in the first three rounds were not bad, but they were defeated by Benfica and Lille in the second three rounds and tied by Ajax. They only scored three goals in six Champions League games - Manchester United is indeed time to make things right...

Jose doesn't have much to do with the next knockout round now. The draw ceremony of the knockout round will be held at the end of the year, so it will naturally be clear when the time comes. What he is paying attention to now is the league game.

Before the winter break, Mallorca still has three league games to play, and these three opponents are difficult to play. Osasuna is now ranked higher than them. They must win this game so that their next goal can only focus on Barcelona. Atletico Madrid and Valencia are not easy to deal with. Mallorca did not get anything good for these two teams last season.

This summer, Osasuna lost midfielder Pablo Garcia in the transfer market. After transferring from Mallorca, this midfielder immediately became Osasuna's main force and performed well. However, Osasuna also made good deals in the transfer market. Goalkeeper Ricardo transferred from Manchester United freely, and Hamburg's Argentine striker Romeo supplemented Osasuna's firepower. They have been surprisingly in good shape since the beginning of this season. Milosevic and Romeo's forward team are their main guarantee for points. Milosevic's performance is also quite outstanding. Milosevic scored six goals and Romeo scored four goals. Their tactics are very simple. They scored goals through intensive defense while scored by counterattack. They basically only win one goal in each game, and they win a lot.

But there are not many goals - they have won ten games in the 14-round league so far, and they are the teams that have won the most in La Liga. Barcelona and Mallorca have only won nine games, but their goals are only twenty-one, tied for fourth in La Liga, and are worse than Barcelona, ​​who scored 36 goals and Mallorca, who scored 34 goals, and have scored four fewer than Real Madrid. Their victory is basically one-to-zero, two-to-one, three-to-two, and only three-to-two wins, so although they are tied for first place now, the media do not value them too much, thinking that they can achieve such excellent results more because of their good luck. As time goes by, when their luck is gone, maybe it is when they start to fall behind...

The reality of losing to Barcelona by zero to three before and having no power to fight back also proves this. At the same time, their winnings were three final games...

"Maybe they can rank in this position because of some luck, but what we should see is that no team can live on luck. They have several final games, which proves that they will not give up until the last moment. They can always beat their opponents with one goal, which shows that this team has a very good control ability. Their goals and goals conced are both top-notch, at least it proves that this team is among the top in La Liga in its current state, and their ranking is higher than us. We have no reason to underestimate this team, do you understand?"

Jose never tires about asking the players to pay attention to this game. This game is very important to Mallorca. If they can defeat their opponents, they can surpass their opponents, leaving only one Barcelona to catch up with. Now other teams are not in a stable state, but Barcelona seems to be getting better and better. They have won seven consecutive games in the league, and in the Champions League game, they have already won ten consecutive victories, and the value of this ten consecutive victories is quite high. In the league, they have easily defeated their arch rival Real Madrid and the victim Villa last season.

Real, they scored 22 goals in seven league games and conceded only two goals, and the frontcourt was blossoming from all sides. Whether it was Ronaldo Etoo, rookie Messi, and midfielder Deco Xavi, they kept scoring a large number of goals. Larson and Juli were able to score goals while substituting. This state is quite commendable for a team. In this state, almost no team can defeat them. So although Barcelona's opponent in this round is excellent Sevilla, Jose does not think they can stop Barcelona's progress...

It is precisely because of this that Mallorca has to defeat the opponent in front of him and add insurance to his results. At this time, they have to bite the opponent hard and not be thrown too far away by the opponent. Otherwise, Mallorca will also be distracted after the start of the second half of the Champions League...

In this game, Jose sent the main players who were resting in Mallorca this week. Jose gave them such good treatment, so naturally hopes that they can come out in a better state!

For Osasuna's head coach Aguirre, his performance this season is quite outstanding, so he is under a lot of pressure. It is better to win against Mallorca, but even if he loses, no one will blame him. So Aguirre can treat this game with a normal mind.

On December 11, the La Liga first match, and the opponents between the two sides were Mallorca and Osasuna.

At the Al Sadar Stadium in Osasuna, more than 10,000 fans occupied the entire stadium - Osasuna is not a big club. They are located in the small city of Pamplona in Navarra. This is not a big city, even worse than Mallorca before, so their home capacity is only 19,800 people - less than 20,000. Although they are one of the four member-based teams, the membership system was not because they were so rich, but because they were a comprehensive sports club.

, not only football, but also other teams including swimming and hockey teams. At the same time, they are the only professional club in Navarra. The healthy finance has allowed them to retain the membership system, and they never spend much money every year. They basically rely on local training and introduce players from lower-level clubs. There are no superstars. Among the first team members of the club this season, except for three foreign forwards and three foreign midfielders, all nineteen other players are Spanish local players. They are also one of the most local clubs in Spain.

Mallorca played quite difficult in this game. There are both advantages and disadvantages in playing before Barcelona. They cannot fail to win, otherwise they may watch Barcelona widen the distance. If they win, they will temporarily return to first place, which will also put huge pressure on Barcelona...

In this case, Jose allowed the main players to stay in Mallorca to rest and play a big role. At least facing Osasuna, who was not involved in European games, the main players who played in Mallorca did not lose any physical strength and could engage in entanglement with the opponent in the midfield without any worries.

When there is no problem with physical fitness, there are not many teams in the world that want to have the upper hand in the midfield against Mallorca. Barcelona, ​​a technical combination, is one, Chelsea, a muscle strangle, and other strong teams are difficult to gain any advantage when facing Mallorca's midfield.

Osasuna naturally didn't do it either. After relying on running to resist Mallorca's attack for a while, they were quickly oppressed and crouched within halftime. Osasuna's fans were not discouraged. They were still cheering for the team loudly, because Osasuna's winnings this season were basically won by counterattacks...

Unfortunately, they are facing Mallorca now. If they want to defend and counterattack, there is a prerequisite that they must be able to defend first. Osasuna will be beaten by Barcelona with 3-0 without any resistance, because Barcelona's offense has exceeded their defensive limits, and now, Mallorca's offense will also exceed their defensive limits...

At the 21st minute of the game, after Mallorca was dispatched back and forth, Iniesta pretended to pass the ball into the penalty area, but directly passed the ball to Kaka at the front of the penalty area. Kaka aimed slightly at the opponent's goal, and then immediately raised his foot to shoot. This time his shot was not a powerful shot, but a beautiful arc ball shot directly, flying over the head of goalkeeper Ricardo, and then flew into the goal!

After passing a beautiful scooter first record, the next game was easy to play. Mallorca began to control the midfield, forcing Osasuna to push up, and then one, two...

Before the end of the first half, Mallorca initiated a counterattack, Alonso made a long pass in the middle, and Torres, who successfully countered offside, received the ball and directly pushed the ball against the goalkeeper.

In the 73rd minute, Kaka passed the ball to the side, and Maikon shot the ball angrily. The ball flew directly from the air and then flew into the upper left corner of the goal!

Like Barcelona, ​​Mallorca also played Osasuna with a three-to-zero - the gap between the top team and the dark horse is here!

Defeated Osasuna, Mallorca also won seven consecutive league wins and temporarily ranked first in the group. However, one day later, Barcelona took back the first place. Sevilla once surprised Barcelona fans on the away game. They played against Barcelona in the first half with excellent defense and sharp offense. When the whole game was 63 minutes old, Canute's lightning strike made the entire Camp Nou silent!

But soon, after just three minutes, Etoo stood up and scored with a header in the penalty area to tie the score immediately - it was Ronaldo who assisted him.

In the 78th minute of the game, Ronaldo made the entire Camp Nou excited. After receiving a pass from Larson, he broke through Sevilla's defense in the middle, and then quickly pushed the ball near the penalty point to overtake the score. This was his tenth league goal of the season! Barcelona became the first team this season to have two double-digit players, while Torres and Klose of Mallorca scored nine goals, and a large number of goals were one of the important factors that these two teams can win consecutive victories!

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