Chapter 272 What the Hell Is This Kicking!

Another questionable position is the striker. Falcao is still the starting center, and Diego Costa is sitting on the bench.

Before the start of the game, many media in Europe were reporting on Falcao's transfer. After all these public opinions, the media felt that it would be difficult for Falcao to play in the final. Atletico Madrid, or Wansheng, it is impossible not to consider the players. The mental state factor makes it more secure to let Diego Costa start.

But Wansheng still chose Falcao.

It is not difficult to make this choice. One is that Falcao's state is fine. In the player data of the football training master system, it can be clearly seen that Falcao's physical condition is very good, and the "Eye of Status Evaluation" is also It shows that Falcao's status has reached '98', a statistic that is higher than the player's ability estimate.

This means that Falcao has the potential to perform exceptionally well.

Considering that Falcao has always performed well in the Champions League, Wansheng has no reason to let him play.

Those media who actively reported on Falcao's transfer and analyzed the transfer's hope that it would affect the Atlético de Madrid dressing room probably would not have thought that it was precisely because of their reports that Falcao took the game more seriously and inspired their hearts. High fighting spirit and state.

Falcao is in excellent form, and Wansheng has no reason not to let him play.

No matter when, the most important thing is that the team can defeat the opponent as much as possible. As for Falcao's departure, that is the end of the season, and it has nothing to do with the current game.

After the game officially started, Wansheng found that Chelsea were playing very targeted.

They are very ready for the game.

European media all know that it is unrealistic to play against Atletico Madrid in a match. Even Barcelona cannot defeat Atletico Madrid in a frontal attack, and other teams have even less hope.

Chelsea too.

Their overall strength is good, they are definitely the top in Europe, but the style of the team determines that they cannot play head-to-head with Atletico Madrid.

Chelsea chose a steady defensive counterattack, and they made a lot of effort on defense.

This was expected by Wansheng.

Chelsea's playing style is almost 'rugby' style. From the first minute of the game, they have been constantly attacking the bodies of Atletico Madrid players, especially the frontcourt players, who have been given special care.

They hardly care about fouling or taking cards.

That doesn't seem to be playing football at all!

Wan Sheng frowned slightly when he saw this scene, but there was nothing to say about Chelsea's style of play. After all, fighting hard is also a kind of tactic, and teams that are good at defense will do it. Chelsea needs to strive for the greatest possible victory, and their choice is correct. .

Most Premier League teams will play this way when they encounter Spanish teams. Chelsea took out the set of playing Barcelona and put it directly on Atletico Madrid.

Fortunately, Wansheng had long expected the opponent to play like this, and made arrangements for Chelsea's play style. Atletico Madrid's response was to keep passing the ball to keep the football out of the players' feet.

Every player has to pass quickly.

As long as the individual's possession time is reduced, there is no room for the opponent who wants to make physical contact and go head-to-head defense.

Atlético de Madrid are prepared for this, naturally they will not panic too much, but in fact, they also have a lot of coping experience-in La Liga, many teams will play games with Atlético de Madrid like this, the team speeds up the pace of the game and adds a kick The number of passes is actually in line with the 'BT-F' system of play.

Chelsea has not only added a tough defense, but they have also arranged specific defensive areas. Each player defends in a certain area. They keep running and cooperate as a whole to defend.

This forced Atletico Madrid to continue to speed up the pass.

If you want to restrain Chelsea’s style of play, you must keep running and passing the ball. On the whole, the physical energy consumption of Atletico Madrid players is higher than that of Chelsea on the defensive side.

Wan Sheng was a little surprised.

Chelsea's head coach Di Matteo is not a famous guy, but he is definitely not incompetent when he can think of using this kind of defensive play to limit Atletico Madrid. Chelsea reach the Champions League final.

In another time and space in memory, Chelsea led by Di Matteo was very good. They defeated Bayern Munich in the final to win the Champions League, allowing Abramovich to "accidentally" complete his dream.

But now it's completely different.

Chelsea also entered the final, the opponent was replaced by Atlético de Madrid.

Chelsea's defensive play has many advantages, especially the one that consumes physical energy. It is very good and very targeted. You must know that Chelsea has plenty of time to prepare for the Champions League, while Atletico Madrid just finished the Copa del Rey a few days ago. In the finals, the preparation for the battle is naturally a little worse.

Perhaps in Di Matteo's view, the team's physical reserves are not as good as Chelsea's? But in terms of consuming physical energy, Wan Sheng is not worried at all.

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The game scene froze.

Both sides are working hard to play the game. Atletico Madrid showed smooth cooperation and superb skills. Chelsea only showed rough play, but this rough play gave them a slight upper hand on the scene.

The referee kept blowing the whistle to suspend the game.

The continuous suspension of the game also made the game much less enjoyable. Everyone knows that this is caused by Chelsea's style of play, but professional football is like this, and the outcome is the key. This is true for fans of both sides. Only Only neutral fans will talk about viewing.

To win, Chelsea don't care about viewing.

Atletico Madrid didn't care either.

If you can win directly, even if the game is ugly, Wansheng will definitely let the team stick to it.

Di Matteo is no exception.

Coaching Chelsea is an opportunity for him, as long as he can lead the team to beat Atletico Madrid to win the European championship, he has proved his coaching ability to everyone.

Winning the title is also very important for Chelsea.

It's not just historical honors, Chelsea's poor performance in the league this season is only fifth.

The fifth place in the Premier League can only participate in the Europa League next season.

The Champions League title can make up for the unsatisfactory performance of the Chelsea League. Since Liverpool won the championship in 2005 and participated in the UEFA Champions League qualifiers next season, the teams that won the Champions League can have the qualifications to participate in the Champions League qualifiers, as long as they win the Champions League, Chelsea will be able to participate in the Champions League next season.

These are very important.

Now seeing the team's outstanding performance, Di Matteo also breathed a long sigh of relief. The players on the field faithfully implemented the formulated tactics and successfully restrained Atletico Madrid. Chances, but so what?

It's already the Champions League final!

It doesn't matter if a player gets a yellow card. Each player also has three substitutions. There are people on the Chelsea bench, and he can make substitution adjustments.

Di Matteo believes that substitutions are the most important.

When the scene becomes more and more popular, the chances of players taking cards in a row will increase. If two players are sent off, no tactics will work. He must use the substitution quota in his hand to make a fuss.

Seeing that a player is prone to take another card, he should immediately make a substitution.

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The game on the field was ugly, and the neutral fans were disappointed. What they were expecting was a wonderful match, but what they waited for was a drowsy scene. The only thing to look forward to is whether the two teams will meet Fight at some point.

But this is not a boxing match.

"The game has been suspended again! This is an unknown number of times. Chelsea midfielder Mikel fouled! Atletico Madrid played quite well in this wave of offensive just now, but it was stopped by Chelsea's foul. Under Chelsea's tough defense , Atletico Madrid can't play football that is pleasing to the eye!"

The Spanish commentator was complaining about Chelsea's rough defence.

In the eyes of the Spanish media, this style of play is simply the enemy of football. It should be blocked, suspended, or even sentenced to lose, because it is simply too 'dirty', and it also greatly reduces the technical content of the game. .

That time just now, it was Mikel's direct foul on Morris.

There are several players at Atletico Madrid who are under 'special care', Maurice is one of them, J-Rodriguez and Falcao are also 'harassed', Chelsea's defense focus is on the middle, they are targeting In the middle, in comparison, the defense of the two flanks is looser, so the best player so far is Ozil, who has been recovering from injury for four months.

Just like the media analyzed, Ozil is indeed a little uncomfortable with the game. After all, he has not participated in the official game for four months. Even if the original technology is good, it will take a period of time to recover and adapt, but Wansheng still sent him on the field. First of all, Ozil has experience in competitions, at least he is not as nervous as others. He is also a star player in the team. He has a deterrent effect on opponents when he plays. The most important thing is that Ozil will disrupt the opponent's arrangement when he plays.

Chelsea must have never thought that Ozil would be able to play. It is not easy for them to make targeted defensive adjustments temporarily. After all, there are only 11 players on the field. To increase the defense on the left, it is necessary to loosen the defense on the middle.

Ozil's specific performance depends on his performance.

So far, Ozil's performance has not been as bad as he imagined. He dribbled the ball three times and succeeded twice. There is no big problem with running. Chelsea defence is a threat.

Many media commentators have praised Ozil.

But on the whole, the game on the field is still not interesting, "This may be the most ugly Champions League final. In 2008, Wansheng led Manchester City and Chelsea to play against each other in the Champions League final, and the two teams played a wonderful battle against each other. , Chelsea focuses on defense, but they played well on the field, but this time, Chelsea led by Di Matteo is really disappointing..."

"On the field of play, what we see is the body and muscles, and what we see is people turning their backs. What tactics the two coaches have, and what skills the players show, we can't see it at all."

"This kind of competition is really boring..."

The neutral commentator was lamenting the game, while the Spanish commentator directly criticized Chelsea. "Atletico Madrid seems to have been trying to speed up the pace and play beautiful football, but under the constraints of Chelsea, it is completely impossible to really play it. From the current point of view, Chelsea It's all about utilitarianism." The meaning of the words is to say "Chelsea's entry into the Champions League final is a shame for the Champions League"!

UEFA President Platini was sitting on the podium, and the game in front of him made his expression very bad.

The Champions League was unexpected.

Platini has always supported disadvantaged countries in football. He hopes that the disadvantaged countries in Europe can develop and allow grassroots clubs to stand on the stage of competitions. Therefore, in many UEFA policies, they are more inclined to small European leagues. .

The Financial Fair Play Act is based on this principle.

The "Financial Fairness Act" claims to be "to ensure financial fairness" and "to make each club profitable", but in fact, the purpose is to limit the giant clubs.

Many giant clubs in Europe are not profitable and have always been in a state of loss, but they have enough capital to support them, and they can support the club to stand on the highest stage since they can lose money.

The implementation of the Financial Fair Play Act is different.

Under the conditions of the "Financial Fair Play Act", some clubs cannot spend a lot of money to buy the stars they need even if they have financial support. As soon as this bill came out, it was boycotted by almost all giant clubs, but due to the small league football Teams and small clubs in major leagues also have the right to vote. After all, giant clubs are in the minority, so the final bill was passed smoothly.

In the Champions League this season, Platini also hopes that the small league teams can stand out and stand on the highest stage of the Champions League.

It's a pity that the small league clubs are too weak!

Neither Greek Athletics nor Basel have been able to pass all the way to the semi-finals of the Champions League. On the contrary, the Champions League tends to be monopolized by Spanish football, which is not what Platini wants to see.

Compared with the Champions League final between two Spanish teams, it is better to play between the Premier League team and the Spanish team.

Seeing that Chelsea can beat Barcelona, ​​Platini is still quite satisfied, but the game in front of him makes him feel dissatisfied again.

In the big picture of European football, it is good for Chelsea to reach the final.

European football can't be monopolized by a team from a certain country, so the Champions League should be renamed the "Champions League of a certain country".

But the game played by Chelsea was really ugly, and Platini couldn't even help thinking that after watching this game, many non-European fans would lose interest in the Champions League.

"What the hell is this kicking!" Platini cursed inwardly.

UEFA has spared no effort in promoting the Champions League final, and the result is this game that has been turned upside down?