Soccer Card System

Chapter 484 A Good Start (Fourth Change)
Chapter 485 A Good Start

The UEFA Champions League draw has become a topic of media discussion in recent times.

In terms of La Liga, other teams participating in the Champions League include Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, and Valencia, which entered the main match through qualifying.

Compared with Atletico Madrid's death group, the draw of other La Liga teams is better.

Real Madrid are assigned to Group D, and they are assigned to a group with Lyon, Ajax and Dinamo Zagreb.

Barcelona is in Group H with AC Milan, Borisov, and Purzen.

Valencia is going to be a little bit harder. As a second-tier team, they are in a group with Chelsea, Leverkusen, and Genk.

When analyzing the prospects of the La Liga teams in the Champions League, the Spanish media generally believed that Barcelona and Real Madrid are still very easy to qualify from the group stage, especially Real Madrid, they can almost lock a group first, and the opponents in the group stage are not too strong for Real Madrid.As for Barcelona, ​​their main challenger is AC Milan. These two teams will be the teams that have secured the right to qualify in Group H. Of course, what they need to compete for is the first place in the group.

Compared with the ease of Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​the situation facing Atletico Madrid and Valencia is much more severe.

Valencia is okay. If Chelsea has secured the right to qualify in their group, then Valencia needs to compete with the No.2 Leverkusen in the Bundesliga last season for another place to qualify.Valencia and Leverkusen are still [-]-[-].

As for Atletico Madrid in Group A, the Spanish media is not very optimistic about it.

Although Gao Bo said that they would qualify from the group, after the result of the draw, the general manager of Atlético de Madrid could see that it was very difficult for Atletico Madrid to break through in such a group of death.

"Experience! What Atlético Madrid lacks most is experience!! In their main lineup, only Modric and Reyes have the experience of playing in the Champions League. Of course, Lucio introduced this season has a lot of experience in the Champions League, but it seems that Gao Bo intends to use Lucio as a substitute. Overall, Atletico Madrid is a very young team. From top to bottom, including their coach Gao Bo, they are actually very young and have no experience in the Champions League. In fact, the last time Atletico Madrid played in the Champions League, It has to be traced back more than ten years ago, in the distant 96/97 season"

"Splitting together with Bayern Munich, Manchester City and Naples is really a bad time for Atletico Madrid"

The Spanish media are full of negative voices about Atletico Madrid's Champions League trip this season, and some media have kindly suggested that Atletico Madrid give up the Champions League directly and just play well in the league wholeheartedly.

Maybe Atletico Madrid can really defend a league title this season. As for the Champions League, that's something only the real super giants dare to think about.

As for Atlético de Madrid, they are now immersed in La Liga for a few more years. As long as their lineup is not hollowed out by other big clubs, after they grow up, no matter how good their signing luck in the Champions League is, they are absolutely hopeful to achieve results in the Champions League.

When Gao Bo returned to Madrid, he didn't pay attention to what the Spanish media would say now.

In fact, he can also guess.

The Champions League is not easy to play, this is the consensus of everyone.

Especially in the away games when playing in the Champions League, it is a long-distance expedition, and there are also league games in the middle of the week and weekends, which is a test of the team's physical fitness and will.

Of course. There is also the so-called experience.

Gao Bo has never led a team to play in the Champions League, this is his first season to lead a team to play in the Champions League.

This reminded him of when he led Luton to the Europa League the year before last, when he had no experience at all.

However, the attention received by the Champions League is obviously different, and the expectations of the players are also different.

Atletico Madrid's first Champions League match was on September [-], against Bayern Munich at home! !
The first match was such a powerful opponent, which inevitably made it difficult for many media to be optimistic about Atletico Madrid.

The three games before the start of this season are the second round of the league against Osasuna at home, the third round of the league away against Valencia, and the first round of the Champions League group stage against Bayern Munich at home.

Someone has to ask, what about the first round of the league?

Spain can always do something weird on the schedule, because in the process of labor negotiations, the negotiations between the Spanish Players Association and the professional league were not smooth.

Due to the union's request to guarantee the minimum wage, the professional league has different views on this. The union will go on strike in the first round of the league to force the professional league to agree to the union's request.

Since the two sides have been unable to reach an agreement, the first round of La Liga can only be postponed indefinitely.

After the first round of the La Liga match really did not get a response from the players, the professional league was a little panicked. They finally made some concessions, allowing the second round of the league to be held as scheduled.

So the first round of the league was postponed to the middle of the season, and the actual first game of La Liga this season started from the second round
Atletico Madrid was supposed to play Real Sociedad away in the first round of the league. As a result, this game was scheduled after the winter break. As for the specific time, it depends on the schedule of La Liga and the Champions League.

Now facing the first three opponents after the start of the season, Osasuna is okay, and it is not a problem for Atletico Madrid to win Osasuna at home.

The next game will be against Valencia and Bayern Munich in a row.

Valencia is definitely a strong team in La Liga. No matter which team it is, it will not be easy to face Valencia at the Mestalla Stadium.

And the next first round of the Champions League group stage, the home game against Bayern Munich, this is also a big test for the team!

This is Atletico Madrid's first Champions League game in more than ten years. It is also very unlucky to meet an opponent like Bayern Munich. This game must be a fierce battle!
At the beginning of the season, they encountered strong enemies continuously and intensively, which of course made Atletico Madrid fans a little worried.

If the performance is not good in the away game against Valencia and the home game against Bayern Munich, and the poor results at the beginning of the season, I am afraid it will have an impact on the entire season.

What to do next depends on the level of the head coach.

The league has encountered such a test from the very beginning. The head coach needs to stimulate the players' state as soon as possible to avoid a slow start, and most importantly, to avoid successive defeats when facing strong teams, otherwise it will deal a very serious blow to the team's confidence!
After returning to Madrid from Monaco, Gao Bo took these three games as a phased task for the team.

The game against Osasuna can be a little easier, mainly because of the targeted deployment training for the two opponents, Valencia and Bayern Munich.

The team needs to get off to a good start in the new season.

(End of this chapter)