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Chapter 199 Atletico Madrid Counterattack
Atletico Madrid's home stadium, the second round of the UEFA Champions League Group A in the 2014-2015 season, at the Calderon Stadium, Atletico Madrid's home game against Juventus is already in the second half of the first half. 10 minutes.The score was still the same as at the beginning, 0 to 0.
Although Juventus wanted to take advantage of the number of midfielders within these 10 minutes, in fact, after the opening.Juventus sent a 3-5-2 formation in this game, while Atletico Madrid used a 4-4-2 formation.Therefore, Juventus also felt a little "anti-customer-oriented" and launched some offensives.

Although there was also a shot, Marchisio did not stop the ball after receiving Victor's return pass and shot directly from a long distance. This time he attacked the goal.It looked like Marchisio was stretched out and without Atletico Madrid's defenders around him.In the previous leagues, Marchisio seemed to have a lot of confidence in his long-range shots because of that long-range shot in the World Cup.Therefore, he also contributed goals to Juventus through long shots.

However, this shot went wide of the goal and flew directly out of the baseline.Atlético de Madrid's goalkeeper Baia saw that the ball was flying in a direction other than the goal he was guarding. He didn't even jump and watched the ball fly out of the baseline.

It is impossible for Juventus to maintain its offensive all the time, and it is impossible for Atletico Madrid, which is playing at home, to "give up the stadium." The head coach of Atletico Madrid has a big back, a beard, and a black suit. Simeone wearing a narrow black tie.This look does not look like a good person, and he immediately walked quickly from the bench to the command area.Then, he stepped on the white boundary line of the command area, and put his hands around his mouth in the shape of a trumpet.Shouted loudly into the stadium:
"Press! Press in the frontcourt! Run for me, damn it!"

It seems that Simeone is a little displeased with giving Juventus too much possession of the ball after the opening, and judging from the 10 minutes of the game, Juventus is far ahead of Atletico Madrid in terms of possession time.But most of this possession by Juventus was useless possession.

There is very little time to enter the dangerous area of ​​the opponent's half, and there are not many passes and receptions that can penetrate the football into the opponent's penalty area. Most of the ball possession and passes and receptions are in the own half. Finished near the middle circle line.Therefore, just looking at the time of possession of the ball gives people a feeling that Juventus is taking the initiative on the court.However, this is not the case.

Even so, Atletico Madrid's head coach Simeone, and even the young men led by him who broke the monopoly of Barcelona's "Dream Three" on the La Liga championship last season, are not reconciled to letting Juventus The players passed the football at will.But before the opening, Simeone's tactics were to stabilize his defense during the opening period.After all, there is no need to consider Juventus' tactics. Allegri will definitely continue to use the 3-5-2 position and tactical coordination that has been "handed down" from the Conte period.

After all, this set of tactics helped Juventus complete the three consecutive Serie A championships, and in the first few games of this season, Juventus also won the game.

And now, under the shouts of Simeone, Atletico Madrid will start to change this "passive beating" situation, and start to adopt the "absolute" that they were able to help them win the La Liga championship last season in La Liga. arms".The frontcourt press, or the high press.

The tactic of high position pressing is logically no stranger to a team of Juventus' level.After all, this is a tactical arrangement that has been widely popular in European football and adopted by many teams in recent seasons.For example, under Mourinho's coaching, the Chelsea team that turned the Premier League from a "two-person transfer" to a "three-nation arena".The defense starting from the forward also made the teams that were not used to the high press suffer a lot.

And this tactical setting of high position pressing is not only suitable for some teams that do not have any super big stars and lack super forwards.Including even in the last two seasons, the Barcelona team that swept all opponents and reproduced the glory of the "Dream Team" under Guardiola.This tactical setting is also adopted.

Constantly passing and catching the ball patiently controlled the game, looking for loopholes in the opponent's defense, and then quickly passed the football to the teammate with the best chance to shoot, and then made a fatal blow.Under the premise of this scoring mode, it is those world-class famous stars in the frontcourt, such as Villa, Pedro, even Xavi, Iniesta, and the best players in the world. Messi, one of the two stars of theWhen the opponent's player, even a defender, is in possession of the ball, he immediately "jumps" up and presses the opponent's player with the ball.And forcing the opponent's defenders to dare not pass the football to their own midfielder easily, they can only rush towards the opposite half.But under such circumstances, the football was still obtained by Barcelona's backcourt players, and then attacked again.

The same is true for Atletico Madrid. Even compared to Barcelona's players, their frontcourt players look more dangerous.After all, the height, strength, and physical confrontation of Barcelona's players are compared to Atletico Madrid's players led by Simeone.He is simply a good student and a little hooligan.Not to mention Simeone, who looks like a "talker".

Therefore, in the journey of La Liga last season, even in the face of Barcelona, ​​Simeone and his Atletico Madrid team were pressing in the frontcourt. Barcelona's players with ball-handling skills were miserable.Moreover, Atletico Madrid's players press more than just with their feet.Pulling the jersey with your hands can only be said to be gentle, and it is also common to push you with your elbows or knees.

Therefore, after hearing the instructions from their "boss," Simeone, these Atletico Madrid players immediately rushed to the Juventus players who were holding the ball in the backcourt.For a while, these Juventus players really felt that the opponent's defensive strength had suddenly increased by more than one level.

And Atletico Madrid's frontcourt press has also received results.Juventus, after finally dismantling an Atletico Madrid attack, passed the ball to Vidal in the middle of the midfield.And Vidal's personal dribbling forward is also a common counterattack method for Juventus in these two seasons.After all, Vidal's ability to carry the ball forward can be said to be one of the best in Juventus' midfield.And Vidal's physical fitness and explosive power can guarantee him such a role.

However, Vidal just received the football passed by his teammates, and before he adjusted his angle, he felt his jersey being pulled by a player.Vidal quickly turned around and resisted the player with his body. Vidal also knew very well that the one who could reach out and grab his jersey must be an Atletico Madrid player, and they must have used the method of counter-grab on the spot.And the Juventus teammates next to Vidal also saw very clearly who this Atletico Madrid player is, No. 17 Niguez.

Vidal considered that there was no problem. He also planned to be able to resist the Atletico Madrid player, and immediately use the Atletico Madrid player as the axis, and then turned around.However, just after Vidal resisted the Atletico Madrid player, the other two Atletico Madrid players, No. 6 Koke and No. 10 Arda Turan, immediately went up.

This is not a "three heroes fighting Lu Bu." Vidal is not Lu Bu, and the three players of Atletico Madrid are not "three heroes." To put it bluntly, it is more like a unilateral "group fight in which many people bully few people. "Koke then used his body to squeeze Vidal who was protecting the ball, and Arda Turan not only blocked Vidal's possible way out of the ball, but also took advantage of the two sides of Niggs and Cork. When someone hit Vidal with his body and made his center of gravity a little unstable.Stretching out to snatch the ball away from vidal's grip while also passing it swiftly up front, the croatian striker signed by atlético madrid this summer from bayern munich in place of diego costa's move to chelsea , Mario Mandzukic.

The Juventus players haven't reacted yet. It seems that they just blocked an attack from Atletico Madrid, and then passed the football to Vidal as usual. Surrounded up.Then how did football come to Atletico Madrid's feet again.It seemed that the defense he had just done was useless all of a sudden?

These Juventus players naturally felt that something was wrong, but no matter what happened to him, it was likely that Atletico Madrid players fouled.Therefore, with this in mind, many Juventus players raised their arms and wanted to signal to the referee and assistant referee, meaning, "Hey, the Atletico Madrid guys must have fouled, otherwise it would be impossible. Football is at their feet again."

But the referee ignored these Juventus players, and the assistant referee hurriedly ran closer to Juventus' bottom line.And Atletico Madrid's Mandzukic, now in control of the ball, glanced ahead of him.

Well, Juventus' defensive players are relatively experienced. Although Bonucci and Chiellini also raised their arms, they are not slow on their feet. These two have cooperated several times together. The "iron gate" on the Juventus defense line in the season is not far away, and the front and back seem to block the direction of Mandzukic's advancement.

Therefore, Mandzukic can only choose the last option, which is to shoot directly.So Mandzukic swung his foot and shot.But shooting in this state is not a big threat to Juventus goalkeeper Buffon.Although Mandzukic hit the ground, he still rushed to the far corner.However, the experienced "teenager" Buffon was just like on the training ground, and he saved the football out of the goal frame steadily, and then followed up with Bonucci to make a clearance.

Of course, Buffon, who got up from the lawn, immediately reprimanded the midfielder on his side.By the way, he gave Bonucci two hard high fives.

(End of this chapter)