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Chapter 135 Defeat
After a small victory over Manchester United at home, Rangnick did not have much time to be happy.

One problem after another was placed in front of him, which needed to be solved urgently.

It is still a double match a week. Three days later, Barcelona is about to usher in the 24th round of La Liga.

This time, they need to visit the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium to challenge the defending league champion away——

Atletico Madrid!

Although Barcelona won the Spaniard in the last game, Atletico Madrid did not lose points.

In the La Liga standings, Barcelona is still 8 points behind the top Atletico Madrid.

This means for Barcelona, ​​if they still have extravagant hopes for the league title this season, then this game must be won.

If they can't beat Atletico Madrid in the away game and narrow the gap with the top of the list, Barcelona's hope of winning the championship will become very slim.

This strong dialogue will play a decisive factor in Barcelona's league journey!

For any club, the league is the foundation of life!
If it were at another time, Rangnick would not hesitate to fight Atletico Madrid to the death.

But the current situation of the team does not allow him to do so.

In the just-concluded Champions League match, Barcelona players experienced a high-intensity match.

If in the next league game, after Barcelona travels a long distance to Madrid, Rangnick chooses the head-to-head and continues to head-to-head with Atletico Madrid, the consequences will be difficult to predict.

After all, in the Champions League series, Barcelona did not have much lead over Manchester United.

If because of such a league game, all the remaining physical fitness and state of the players are drained, then Barcelona is likely to send Manchester United to the next round of the Champions League.

What's more, Atletico Madrid has introduced strong support such as DePaul this season, and it is clear that they are aiming for consecutive championships.

At their home court, Barcelona may not even have a [-]% chance of winning a victory.

Taking these factors into consideration, Rangnick already had his own calculations in mind.

Goalkeeper: Ter Stegen
Defenders: Baldé, Lenglet, Araujo, Roberto
Midfield: Dembele, Nico, De Jong, Pedri
Forwards: DeMille, Braithwaite
Before the start of Barcelona's away game against Atletico Madrid, when the commentators got Barcelona's starting list, they all took a breath.

hiss!
How courageous this German is!
Everyone can understand Rangnick's choice of lineup rotation in this game.

However, the range of this rotation is too big!

Of Barcelona's 11 starters right now, perhaps less than half of them can be counted as the main players!

The most outrageous thing is that a name that I haven't seen for a long time appeared in the striker list——

DeMille! !

This insignificant Austrian teenager is only 18 years old this year.

At the beginning of the season, Aguero, Dembele and Fati were injured. In order to make up for the loopholes in the front line, Barcelona rented the Austrian teenager from Vienna Express.

The lease fee is 50 euros, and the buyout clause is 1000 million euros!
As a backup option for the team, Koeman also gave him many opportunities when no one was available on the front line.

But unfortunately, he did not contribute any outstanding performance.

As Aguero and Dembele gradually recovered from their injuries, he also lost his chance to play.

Everyone has not seen Demir for at least 4 months. Today, Barcelona challenged the league supremacy away, but he became the team's starting striker.

How can people not be surprised by this?
When seeing this player's name appear in the starting list, everyone's first reaction was that Rangnick must have lost his mind!
Don't the Germans worry about tragedy?

Rich clubs can accept defeat, but it is often difficult to accept a fiasco.

Wouldn't he be worried about a tragedy and send him back to Germany?

Just when everyone was full of doubts, Barcelona's tactical arrangement on the field directly expressed Rangnick's thoughts.

As soon as the game started, Barcelona chose to recover across the board.

Balder and Roberto held tight to the two wings, without any desire to get in.

At the same time, Barcelona's double midfielders Nico and De Jong have shown a high level of tactical discipline and have been cruising at the front of their penalty area.

Atletico Madrid's two penalty kicks after many attacks were included in the bag by these two midfielders.

As for Barcelona's striker, Braithwaite is originally a defensive striker.

With his diligent and active return to defense, Barcelona's formation basically has no omissions.

Faced with such a low-profile Barcelona team, even though Atletico Madrid sent many excellent attackers, they did not find any good solutions for a while.

In addition to ball control, it is indiscriminate bombing.

In this rhythm dominated by Atletico Madrid, the game lasted until the end of the first half, when Atletico Madrid scored a goal by Lemar.

Seeing that Barcelona fell behind, everyone thought that Rangnick would make adjustments as soon as possible to regroup and recover the lost ground.

Unexpectedly, after coming out of the locker room in the second half, he still looked as stable as Mount Tai.

Although Simeone, like the commentators, did not understand Rangnick's thoughts.

But this is definitely good news for Atletico Madrid.

The same routine, the same tricks!
In the 52nd minute of the game, Suarez scored another goal and Atletico Madrid led 2:0!

Two goals behind, Rangnick is still leisurely, without panic.

This score lasted until the 75th minute when he seemed to wake up from a dream.

Qin Ming replaced Pedri, Phuket replaced De Jong, and Depay replaced Braithwaite.

In one breath, Rangnick made three personnel adjustments on the offensive end.

"Everyone, there are still 15 minutes left in the game!"

"After you play, what you need to pay attention to is to use this short period of time to maintain your body's sensitivity to the rhythm of the game. As for the result of this game, everyone just do their best!"

"Be careful, don't get hurt!!"

Rangnick emphasized the pronunciation of the word "don't do it". Listening to his instructions, Qin Ming and the others also nodded.

In fact, they also knew in their hearts that the reason why they did not start this game was to challenge Manchester United in a better competitive state in the second round of the Champions League.

For this game, the outcome is not that important.

Making sure you don't get hurt is the most important thing!
With this in mind, Qin Ming did not choose an overly aggressive attacking method when facing the strong Trippier.

It's just that the current Qin Ming is no longer the Qin Ming when the two sides met for the first time.

With the addition of various skills in the system, he has already completed the rebirth.

Before the end of the game, Qin Ming relied on the skills under his feet to shake away the careless Trippier and assisted Depay to get back a goal!
1: 2!

At Atletico Madrid's home court, Barcelona finally reaped a game, which was a reasonable defeat on the scene.

(End of this chapter)