Chapter 35 Serious Mistakes

When Ozil appeared in the penalty area, Valencia had no time to defend, perhaps saying that they did not expect that the other players would be able to keep up.

Atlético de Madrid's counter-attack is too fast!

From stealing the ball to the counterattack happened in just an instant, and then after a few simple passes, the football arrived at the feet of Diego Costa.

Just a Diego Costa who popped up in front was surprising enough.

But Diego Costa is understandable in front. After all, he can be regarded as the only striker of Atletico Madrid. Even if he retreats and participates in defense, his position is very high.

It's amazing to see Ozil show up.

Ozil launched Atletico Madrid's counterattack, and Valencia players remembered that he was in the backcourt, why did he suddenly appear in a key position in front of the penalty area?

The German boy appeared suddenly like a ghost, so that Valencia had no time to react. Even goalkeeper Cesar was very surprised when he made a save, "How did that guy appear? What?" The other Valencia players could only watch Ozil score.

In fact, this is because Valencia are not yet familiar with the rhythm of Atletico Madrid.

Atlético de Madrid's tactical style of play, but the three lines are pressed together. When the team counterattacks, the players who stay in the backcourt not only watch, but rush forward together with the formation.

After Özil handed the ball to Asuncang, he did nothing and kept running forward. In less than ten seconds, it was enough for Özil to come to the pitch from the backcourt.

When Ozil ran into position, Diego Costa just faced David Navarro, so Ozil had a chance.

Such is the fast pace of Atletico Madrid.

Valencia are only familiar with their own rhythm, and they don't know that Atletico Madrid will attack so fast. When Atletico Madrid completes the steal, many players in the frontcourt just run back slowly, and do not retreat in time to participate in the defense, so Atlético de Madrid are easy to play and find good opportunities.

All eyes were on Diego Costa, ignoring the other Atletico Madrid players.

Ozil is not the only one running forward, including Raul Garcia and Maurice are all rushing forward, and the team's back line is advancing with the formation.

Valencia only pays attention to the players in front of Atlético de Madrid and feels that it is difficult for the players in the back to threaten their goal, which is caused by the lack of understanding of Atlético de Madrid's tactical play.

Wansheng instilled the idea of ​​​​the team is not to run stingy on the field.

Running back and forth like this may often waste physical energy, but it is undoubtedly very helpful to defense and offense.

A football match does not require all the running of the court to be effective, and often only one or two successes are enough to decide the outcome of the game.

Therefore, between offense and defense transitions, it is still necessary to quickly run back and forth. Because of this, among the trainings arranged by Wansheng, physical training and recovery training are the most. Even so, the physical fitness of some players still cannot keep up Therefore, when Wansheng formulates the starting lineup, the most important thing is not ability, but physical fitness. At the same time, this style of play also has other advantages-the team does not need to worry about the opponent's understanding of tactics.

Atlético de Madrid tactics are very demanding on physical fitness, and Wansheng is very sure that it is impossible for any team to imitate the team's tactics, because they do not have the support of the football training master system, and their players do not have that much physical fitness.

If other teams play a game like this, it’s hard to say whether they can persevere. Their players’ physical fitness and state will definitely be greatly affected.

So no team can 'imitate' Atletico Madrid's tactical play.

Those opponents, even if they understand Atletico Madrid's style of play, it is difficult for them to find a way to solve it, because Atletico Madrid's tactical style of play, regardless of the player's technical ability, can be said to be an upright 'use of physical strength to play an advantage'.

So what about the opponents?

Anyway, Wansheng still can't think of how to crack the 'B-TF' system tactics.

Maybe some strong teams are no worse than Atletico Madrid, but that kind of performance is not at the tactical level, but at the player, state, and cooperation level.

Those don't need to be discussed.

In short, Valencia is in big trouble now. They can't keep up with Atletico Madrid's 'rhythm', so they scored a goal before they could react.

Ozil's goal left Valencia players feeling a little dazed.

Before, they thought that Valencia had an advantage, but then they were "advanced" and scored a goal by Atlético de Madrid?

How is this going?

At the same time, the Valencia fans at the scene were also very depressed. From the first minute of the game, they were cheering for the team, and the team seemed to be in good shape and advantage, but until now, the team has not achieved even one Great chance, and Atletico Madrid scored.

A media commentator sarcastically said, "Valencia is too careless!"

In response to Valencia being scored, some commentators analyzed that there was a problem with the tactical play arranged by Emery, "Valencia is a team that regards defensive counterattacks as a traditional team, but I don't know why, this game faced Atlético de Madrid, who had a strong attack, chose to attack..."

"Obviously, even the Valencia players are not very comfortable with the attacking style. Atletico Madrid's defense is very tight. They did not play any advantage in attack, but Atletico Madrid used the counterattack to score a goal!"

"If Valencia loses this game, then the biggest responsibility is undoubtedly the tactical choice of coach Emery!"

The media who said these words have probably selectively forgotten that they kept reporting before the war that "Atlético de Madrid's defense is a big problem" and so on, and now they say, "Atlético de Madrid's defense is solid", this contradiction That is, only the thick-skinned media can say it.

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Valencia coaching bench.

Emery was not in the mood to understand what the media said. He watched the game seriously and his expression became very serious.

Now Emery has realized that he has made a serious error in his judgment of Atletico Madrid.

Emery's coaching ability is still good. He comes from a family of goalkeepers. His grandfather and father are both goalkeepers, but his own career performance is not outstanding, and he has been rolling in the lower leagues for a long time.

In 2004, Emery decided to retire and become a coach.

In just 4 years, Emery has become the most promising coach in Spain. 3 years ago, he successfully led Almeria Football Club to land in La Liga for the first time, and had an amazing performance in the 2007-2008 season. Amelia was predicted to be the 20th-placed relegator. As a result, by April, the club had basically been relegated, and finally finished the season in 8th place.

Emilia was able to achieve success in her first La Liga match. Emery really took a lot of credit. More than 40% of the team's goals came from set-pieces, which shows that its set-piece tactics are quite good.

In 2008, after the La Liga season, Emery was appreciated by Valencia and began to coach Valencia.

In two years, Emery has led the team to the Champions League twice. By leading the team to second only to Barcelona and Real Madrid, Emery's coaching ability has been recognized by the club, the media and fans.

This season, the league has gone through three rounds, and Valencia has topped the league table with three consecutive victories. Emery has led the team to a very good start.

The game has been surprising so far, but Emery has faced up to his mistakes, his expression has turned serious, and he has begun to watch the game carefully.

After the restart of the game, the situation has also changed. Valencia has become more passive when it is difficult to play the previous suppression.

The mentality of Valencia players has changed.

Before the start of the game, every Valencia player was full of confidence, they believed that the team would be able to beat this 'new Atletico Madrid' at home.

But now the game is different from what the coach Emery said. Judging from the previous games, Atletico Madrid's defense is quite good. They attacked for more than 20 minutes, but they failed to get a good chance, and several shots failed to all. Instead, Atletico Madrid used a counterattack to score the first goal of both sides of the game.

Valencia players have some doubts, at the same time, they are a lot more careful in both attack and defense.

But this kind of caution is still hampered by 'tactics', and it does not play much role, because Emery's tactical style of play is to counter suppress Atletico Madrid, and Valencia can't play an advantage, so it naturally becomes a little anxious.

After several waves of offense and defense on both sides, the threat created by Atletico Madrid was significantly greater.

At 31 minutes, Atletico Madrid used a fast break and almost broke the Valencia gate. If it wasn't for the quick response of the goalkeeper Cesar, Maurice's shot would have rewritten the score.

At this time, Valencia coach Emery also saw something.

In normal offense and defense, as long as you observe carefully, Atletico Madrid's tactical play is actually very clear. Emery found that whether Atletico Madrid attacked or defended, the three fronts would 'advance and retreat together', so Atletico Madrid attacked heavily. , and will retreat across the board when defending.

The key to supporting them to complete the "joint advance and retreat" of offense and defense is actually the transition of offense and defense - Atletico Madrid's offense and defense transition is too fast!

More than just fast!

If the speed of offense and defense is only fast, it is obviously impossible for the entire team to move forward or backward as a whole in the third line. The key is that Atletico Madrid's players, especially the midfielders, are almost constantly running back and forth.

If you look closely at the Atletico Madrid players in one position, you can find that before the two teams attack and defend a few times, the player's running distance is at least one-third more than that of the players in the same position in Valencia.

One third, but a considerable gap!

This also means that in the same time, Atletico Madrid players consume a third more energy than Valencia players.

So does a 90-minute game at Atletico Madrid equal a 120-minute game at Valencia?

Emery finally knows why many media say that Atletico Madrid is fully prepared for the summer.

In terms of physical fitness alone, Valencia is completely incomparable to Atletico Madrid!

In Emery's thinking, Atletico Madrid launched another tough offensive.

Facing the frontal advance of Atletico Madrid, Valencia chose to retreat to the backcourt. They are good at defense. It is not easy for Atletico Madrid to get a chance with a frontal attack.

But this time, there is a young teenager who has entered the eyes of all the media and fans with his outstanding performance.

He is Isco.

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