Chapter 242 Dangerous Way

Diego Costa is in control of the ball from outside the box.

As the team's center, he didn't run into the penalty area, but pulled out his position and received a pass outside the penalty area.

This is also the ‘rotation’ movement that Wansheng has always asked for.

Under the "BT-F" tactical system, the positions of the players in the team are actually very vague. The defenders can insert into the penalty area to assist, and the forwards can also retreat to the backcourt for defense. The forwards will also automatically step back a bit, so that the overall formation of the team will be more dispersed, and there will be more space and opportunities.

Diego Costa stood outside the penalty area to control the ball, and the opponent's central defender Maduro had to follow, staring at the ball at Costa's feet to prevent Costa from suddenly accelerating and making a breakthrough.

Costa did not choose to break through by himself, nor did he shoot directly, but shoved the ball past the Valencia defense. At the same time, Kevin De Bruyne on the other side moved forward and appeared behind the Valencia defense. ,Then……

Got the ball!

"Kevin De Bruyne! No offside!" Calderon Stadium broadcast Juan Andres shouted.

Valencia fans in the stands all followed suit.

When faced with such an opportunity, Kevin De Bruyne will not be soft-footed, and he has helped Atletico Madrid score goals more than once this season.

Although he is not a striker, in Atlético de Madrid, everyone has to do shooting training. In the entire team, Kevin De Bruyne is not the best shooter, but compared with others, he is also in the forefront. Now facing the attacking Diego Alves, De Bruyne is surprisingly calm.

He glanced at the door and made a judgment in an instant.

He chose the close angle!

Generally, most of the shots of this kind of ball will choose the far corner, but Diego Alves is experienced, and his blocking range is too far. .

De Bruyne calmly pushed the shot from the inside of his right foot, and the ball passed the attacking Diego Alves with a small arc.

No matter how quick Alves was, it would be impossible to react to a shot from such close range.

Alves can only pray that the football is drawn out to the goalkeeper.

It's a pity that God didn't stand behind him, the football hit the post in the near corner and then bounced directly into the goal.

“Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!!!!!!”

"Kevin! Kevin!" Juan Andrees shouted excitedly, "Kevin! Kevin De Bruyne, the Belgian star received a pass from Costa and sent the ball into the goal accurately! 1 game 0, the home team Atletico took the lead!"

"It was a great match and a great shot! Atletico led Valencia in the game!"

"Before the game, Valencia president Llorente also claimed that the team will definitely win at the Calderon Stadium, but I don't know what he will think now..." Following Juan Andres' words, the camera also pointed to On the rostrum, I saw Valencia President Llorente expressionless, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

The Valencia fans present were very disappointed. Llorente has a lot of prestige in Valencia. They still trust Llorente. Before the game, Llorente said that Valencia would win the game, and they also expected Valencia West Asia can really beat Atletico Madrid.

They originally thought that the game would be at least a fierce battle between you and me, just like the previous game with Barcelona, ​​but the game is not like this. At the Calderon Stadium, Atletico Madrid suppressed Varen. In West Asia, Valencia attacked a lot, but they did not make any threats, while Atletico Madrid frequently played wonderful attacks.

Now...the goal has been completed!

Valencia fans were dumbfounded. They didn't expect the game to be like this. Many people regretted it... If they knew this, they would not watch the game.

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After completing the goal, Kevin De Bruyne opened his arms and ran back excitedly. When he came to the sidelines, he jumped up, slammed his arms down, and threw his arms at the fans in the audience. Gestured, then he stood up straight, looked up at the sky, and raised his hands.

It seemed like a general who had just won.

The other teammates rushed over and hugged him from behind one by one. De Bruyne's image soon disappeared. He was pushed to the ground by his teammates, and then pressed up one by one. When he stood up again , when his hair was full of grass clippings and he looked in a state of embarrassment, he could only look at his teammates with sad eyes.

But after the celebration, the teammates covered their mouths and left when they saw De Bruyne's appearance.

De Bruyne grabbed his hair, determined to take revenge in the future.

When Atlético de Madrid was celebrating on the field, Wan Sheng also stood up from his seat, and he and others applauded for the goal, but he did not show too much excitement as others imagined.

The goal was great, and the attack before the goal was great, but the goal was expected in Wansheng.

Atletico Madrid continued to threaten Valencia's goal, and Valencia couldn't handle it at all. It was just like the feeling of other teams dealing with Atletico Madrid's offensive. They couldn't keep up with Atletico Madrid's passing and running speed.

When their defensive focus is on the left, Atletico Madrid can easily focus their attack on the right by passing the ball quickly.

vice versa.

In the constant passing of Atletico Madrid, Valencia players also became numb when defending. They lowered their vigilance and were caught by Atletico Madrid and scored the ball.

In fact, before Diego Costa got the ball, Atletico Madrid had already made a dozen passes, the kind of fast, smooth and precise pass coordination that Valencia couldn't defend at all.

The goal also seemed logical.

Therefore, Wansheng felt that scoring goals was nothing to celebrate. It was a matter of course to score goals, but it was a little surprising that they could not score goals.

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Only 18 minutes into the game, Atletico Madrid scored.

The one who felt most helpless about the game was Valencia coach Emery. He stood on the sidelines and frowned. In the past 20 minutes of the game, what he saw was that Valencia's tactics were completely restrained, and the players It is impossible to play at all on the field, and Atletico Madrid's exquisite cooperation also makes it difficult for the team to defend closely.

That kind of attack...it's almost impossible to keep the goal unless you bring all the players back to defend!

This leads to a question: Should Valencia still attack?

In fact, when Valencia was behind the score, they had no choice. If they wanted to win the game as the club president Llorente said, Valencia had to attack.

But Valencia is actually not good at attacking, and defensive counterattack is the team's tradition.

Just at the Calderon Stadium, playing against Atletico Madrid, which is one of the best offensive players in La Liga, no matter how much Emery thinks about it, he feels that his team is a moth to the flame.

But are there any other options?

Emery turned his head and glanced at the podium, where Llorente was sitting, but he was too far away to see Llorente's expression.

Now he doesn't know what to do.

In world football, Emery is actually a young coach at the top level. He is only 41 years old this year. He comes from a family of goalkeepers. His grandfather and father are both goalkeepers, but his own career performance is not outstanding , have been rolling in the lower leagues for a long time.

Seven years ago, Emery decided to retire to become football coach.

In just four years, Emery has been considered Spain's most promising coach. Now, when he was only 36 years old, he successfully led Almeria to La Liga for the first time, and made an amazing performance in the 2007-2008 season. During the season, the media predicted that Almeria would be the 20th relegation. The result was 4 At the end of the month, the club had basically been relegated successfully, and finally finished the entire season in 8th place.

The success of Almeria's first participation in La Liga is inseparable from Emery's ability.

After that, the turbulent Valencia invited Emery to coach. In the past three seasons, Emery has led Valencia to qualify for the Champions League, and the team's performance has been quite stable.

This season, Valencia's performance has remained stable. There is not much ups and downs in the league, and it still ranks fourth in the league. The Copa del Rey also entered the semi-finals and compete with Barcelona. The only regret is that the Champions League group was eliminated. Valencia can only participate in the Europa League as third in the group.

But in any case, Emery's ability to lead the team is worthy of recognition.

The affirmation of the outside world has a great influence on Emery. He has always been very confident in his coaching ability, but now Emery suddenly begins to doubt: Is his ability to lead the team really good?

Look at the current game, I can't help it!

Opposite Atlético de Madrid, they played really well, their offense was very subtle, and their defense was very tenacious.

Now that Valencia is one goal behind, how will the game be played?

Emery doesn't know.

The only thing he knows is that if he wants to win a chance, he must fight against Atletico Madrid like a moth to a flame.

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It was somewhat surprising that Atlético de Madrid were suppressed from the start and scored the lead goal.

Before the game, Llorente's words gave Valencia's media and fans a lot of confidence. They believed that Valencia was more likely to win this game, but the game seemed to be no different from the first half of the schedule.

Many Valencian media were surprised.

Perhaps leading is still a small problem. In a professional football game, it is not a big deal to score a goal. The key is that Atletico Madrid played very smoothly. Their constant and subtle cooperation allowed everyone to see their strength and state, and also let the media watch. To a very good Atletico Madrid.

Since Atlético de Madrid is doing very well and playing at the Calderon Stadium, why can Valencia win?

Some Valencian media were skeptical.

The Valencia players on the field also had doubts, and some were thinking about the goal just now.

Goalkeeper Diego Alves is thinking about scoring.

Diego Alves' academy career was completed in Brazil at Botafogo and Atlético Mineiro. In 2004, Diego Alves was promoted to the first team of Atlético Mineiro.

On July 24, 2007, Diego Alves moved to join the newly-promoted La Liga Almeria.

He only served as a reserve player at the beginning of the team, but he became the team's main force undisputedly during the season, and his outstanding performance helped the team to get the eighth place in the first La Liga season in history.

Diego Alves saved his opponent's penalty in the league between Almeria and Atlético Santander last March, his 17th in La Liga. He made 5 penalties and missed 12, thus creating a new record in La Liga.

Almeria was relegated from La Liga at the end of the 2011 season and Diego Alves opted to move to Valencia to follow former boss Unai Emery.

Although he has just joined Valencia, Diego Alves has undoubtedly occupied the main position. With his outstanding performance, he also made all competitors and teammates speechless.

After Kevin De Bruyne scored, Diego Alves kept thinking about the ball. He didn't understand how the originally solid defensive line had such a gap.

Standing in front of the goal, he can carefully observe the situation. Originally, football has always been passed outside the penalty area. He always felt that the goal was very safe. Although it was difficult for his teammates to catch the ball, the stable position effectively protected the goal.

But Diego Alves did not expect that football suddenly appeared in front of his eyes!

Whose fault is this?

Diego Alves thought about it for a long time and felt that it was still the fault of the center back Rami and the full back Bruno. They did not effectively defend the right-sided penalty area, and they easily let the opponent's midfielder move forward - into the penalty area, but Alves and a lot of The teammates are not familiar with him, and he is not good at complaining about his teammates.

Valencia centre-back Maduro is also reflecting.

Just now, he was defending Diego Costa. He only paid attention to Diego Costa not to break through, but he didn't expect the opponent to pass the ball.

That surprised him.

Diego Costa is also one of Atletico Madrid's most efficient players. Normally, players like this, who get the ball on the penalty area line, should find opportunities to shoot on their own instead of handing the ball to a teammate.

Could this be Atlético de Madrid's tactics?

Maduro is a little confused.

Valencia coach Unai Emery thought very clearly. Before the game, he thoroughly studied Atletico Madrid's style of play and found that many times the opponent's midfielders would intervene very forward.

All their movements are aimed at 'creating opportunities', not 'creating opportunities for whom'.

In Atlético de Madrid's tactical play, players from the front line to the back line are treated equally. Their players pass the ball and cooperate only by position and not by people.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the striker of Atlético de Madrid played a wonderful pass, because he just passed the ball according to the tactics, not the outstanding individual performance on the spot. In other words, unlike other teams, Atletico Madrid has higher requirements for the whole, but the role of players' individual abilities is greatly reduced. Because of this, as long as every player is familiar with tactics, Atletico Madrid's bench lineup can still be quite threatening.

Emery admires Wansheng for that.

To many people, it seems that it is not a big deal to focus on the overall play and tactics, but in fact, it is very difficult to apply this kind of tactics to practice, and the effect is generally not very good. Even in Barcelona, ​​every The performance of a game is affected by the state of the core star Messi, and Real Madrid is affected by the state of C-Ronaldo. Can it be said that the tactical play of Barcelona and Real Madrid does not focus on the whole?

Of course not.

As a giant team, their tactics are very rigorous, but even so, their performance will be affected by the state of individual players.

Atlético de Madrid is more focused on the whole.

Whether a single player can perform well on the field does not have as much impact on the whole as imagined. In Atletico Madrid's tactical system, players have a very weak sense of position. Their forwards are not shooting, and they are only one of them in the tactics. , it is not strange at all to pass the ball to a teammate before going to the penalty area, but it is quite normal,

That's what Emery admires about Wansheng.

This young Chinese has a way to bring his ideas to the team, and he really wants to know how the other side does it.

Of course, this is a game, not a coaching exchange.

Emery has to figure out how to deal with Atletico Madrid. Currently, Valencia is going to play against Atletico Madrid. Not only is the offense worrying, but the defense is even more worrying. You know, even if Valencia greatly shrinks the defense of the formation, None of them have effectively blocked Atletico Madrid's offense. When the team attacks aggressively, will the goal be in danger all the time?

Unai Emery did not know, he could only minimize the threat of the opponent.

How to do it?

Emery thought of a way, but this way is very risky, that is to go offside.

Offside tactics are very risky. A mistake or carelessness will give the opponent a very good chance. Valencia itself is good at defending, but they have practiced offside tactics, but they are rarely used in games because they are good at defending. Offside tactics too test the team's tacit understanding.

Now Emery has no choice, he can only believe that the team can do well, after all, this is a very good defensive line.

Emery called Maduro.

Maduro saw the coach wave at him, and he felt a little guilty. After all, the goal of Atletico Madrid just now had a lot to do with his defensive mistakes, but he still trotted to the coach.

Emery instructed Maduro to defend offside.

"But... is it too dangerous?" Maduro has a lot of experience, and he knew the coach's plan after a little thought, but he still felt that the risk was too great, Emery said with certainty, "Of course I know there is a risk. , but we have to score." (To be continued~^~)