Football: Banned for life, forced to travel to Europe

After playing the Sunderland game, Chelsea only have three days to rest. Three days later, they will challenge Atletico Madrid at the Calderon Stadium.

Mourinho has rich experience. He rejected the logistics proposal to go directly to Madrid. Instead, he chose to stay in London for one night and then set off for Madrid the next morning. At the same time, he asked the logistics to prepare a lot of earplugs with better sound insulation quality. .

Facts proved that Mourinho's choice was right. When the Chelsea players were sleeping the next night, the singing of Atletico Madrid fans sounded outside the hotel.

Fortunately, the Chelsea players had a good night's sleep the night before, and today they had earplugs, so they weren't affected much. Otherwise, they didn't know how to play the game the next day.

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In the early morning of April 23, Beijing time, at the Calderon Stadium, both sides sent their main players to play.

Chelsea's side is still 4231, and the starting lineup has not changed much.

Gary Cahill returned to the starting lineup, Azpilicueta replaced Ivanovic who was injured in training to play at right back, and Ashley Cole, who had been absent for a long time, got a starting chance.

In addition, Mikel replaced Oscar in the first game, Mourinho is going to play a three-back midfielder, and Ramirez's official position is a front midfielder, but he will frequently retreat during the game.

Atletico Madrid's Simeone has a classic defensive counterattack formation of 4411.

The goalkeeper is Courtois.

The back four are Felipe Luis, Godin, Miranda and Juan Forlan.

The four midfielders are Cork, Mario Suarez, Gabi and Garcia.

Front midfielder Diego; the single arrow is Diego Costa who has returned from injury.

There are only two characteristics of this starting lineup. One is toughness. Every player has good physical fitness, and they are notoriously tough in La Liga, and their mental attributes are also strong enough.

The second is dirty. Including forward Diego Costa, Atletico Madrid players are characterized by biting. Starting from the forward, everyone will try their best to defend, and there are many small moves, sometimes completely directed at people. , no matter where the ball is.

This has a deep relationship with the head coach Simeone. He was a person who could do anything for victory in his player days.

Remember the red card of David Beckham in the 98 World Cup?At that time he played Simeone.

Of course, Beckham's action does not have to be washed, it is indeed a red card action, but Simeone's previous provocation of Beckham played a very important role.Not only did he put Beckham down fiercely several times, but he also made a lot of small moves. In the end, Beckham took the lead and ruined England's good game.

Now Atletico Madrid's players have also inherited Simeone's mantle. They are also unscrupulous when they play football. As long as they can win, they can do anything.

These Chelsea players are all prepared. Mourinho talked about the characteristics of Atletico Madrid players in the pre-match preparation meeting. With the video, everyone has an intuitive feeling.

But even so, many Chelsea players were still taken aback by the actions of Atletico Madrid players. Is this really here to play football?

Especially Atletico Madrid's striker Diego Costa, counting his biggest moves.

Diego Costa was born in a poor slum in Brazil, and grew up with a group of villains, playing violent street football.

There, Diego Costa had to face countless black feet and attacks. This football atmosphere made his physical confrontation extremely enhanced, and at the same time he developed his dirty style of play.

This style followed him to Portugal and now Spain, and it is the basis of his life.

Less than five minutes into the game, he had already clashed with Terry twice, both provoked by Diego Costa.

After losing the ball once, Diego Costa countered on the spot. This was nothing, but he still stretched out his foot fiercely when he obviously couldn't grab the ball, and kicked directly at Terry's ankle.

After the kick, he pushed Terry and complained to the referee about Terry diving...

Diego Costa is testing the scale of the referee. After the conflict between him and Terry, the referee Eriksson from Sweden did not play a card, but called both parties to give a warning. Diego Costa The movement started to get bigger.

Three minutes later, he grabbed Terry's jersey again while running, and both of them fell in the penalty area. When they fell, Diego Costa secretly gave Terry's stomach with his elbow... …

Terry is also a fiery temper, and immediately jumped up from the ground. The two pushed each other, and spat trash talk on their foreheads.

Fortunately, Eriksson was relatively close and seeing Diego Costa's actions, he gave the two of them a yellow card respectively, which made the two sides restrained a little.

Diego Costa secretly called it a pity, if only Terry was given a yellow card, then he would be sure to get Terry off before the end of the first half.

Diego Costa, who received a yellow card, calmed down a little. He knew that now that the referee was eyeing him, it would be very unwise to provoke him at this time.

After Diego Costa returned to normal, Atletico Madrid began to press the attack.

Simeone didn't want to attack at first, he wanted to wait for Chelsea to attack so that he could fight back.But Mourinho's strategy is very clear, that is, the main goal is to shrink, and it is just right that Atletico Madrid can't come out. Everyone is 0 to 0, and peace is the most important...

After all, this game is Atletico Madrid's home court. Simeone thought about it, and waved his hand, let's press it.

Simeone's Atletico Madrid is known for its defensive counterattacks, but in fact he still has offensive routines.

During the positional battle, Garcia's position will be advanced, and he will ambush behind Diego Costa with Diego. At the same time, Cork, Suarez and Gabi will move laterally to form a pseudo 433 formation, mainly attacking the ribs.

With Diego Costa as the fulcrum, there is still a set of offensive cooperation between several people.

However, this formation is okay in La Liga, but it will be blinded when it meets Mourinho who can defend.

Mourinho's strategy is similar to that of when he played Paris at home. He stationed troops in the middle to destroy Atletico Madrid's offense. At the same time, the two wingers retreated sharply to double-team Atletico Madrid's wide players at any time.

And wishing is to stand in the middle circle, attracting the defense of Atletico Madrid defenders, so that they dare not press hard, so that Chelsea can form a partial personnel advantage in defense.

Atletico Madrid attacked wildly for 10 minutes. It looked beautiful, but it was actually a lot of thunder and little rain.

They had five shots in 10 minutes and only one was on target, which was easily confiscated by Petr Cech.

Diego Costa rolled his eyes when he saw this, thinking about it.He whispered a few words to his team-mates and rushed into the Chelsea penalty area.

One minute later, Atletico Madrid launched an attack from the right. Juan Fran did not go down as before, but made a 1-degree cross from the edge of the penalty area. The cross landed very close to the small penalty area. He's within control.

Diego Costa charged towards Cech when Forlan passed the ball.

Cech did not doubt him, and after judging the landing point, he also jumped high, ready to hold the ball in his arms.

Just when Cech touched the football with both hands, Diego Costa also arrived. He directly hit Cech who was still in the air. Cech was caught off guard. Call.

After knocking Cech over, Diego Costa immediately jumped up from the ground and blasted the football that fell on the ground into the goal...