402 Engage in mentality
"Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the second leg of the 2013-2014 UEFA Champions League semi-finals, where Atletico Madrid hosts Borussia Dortmund!
In the first leg a week ago, Borussia Dortmund lost 1-0 to Atletico Madrid at their home stadium at the West** Stadium.
If you look at the situation and the stats, Dortmund's defeat will be a big surprise, as they bombarded 19 shots but failed to find the back of the net, while Atletico Madrid took home a win with just six shots on goal.
Atletico Madrid has a head start for the team to qualify for the final thanks to Diego Costa's goal!
It is worth mentioning that Dortmund lacked the team's scoring champion Tang Hong in the first leg, according to some media reports, Tang Hong missed the first leg of the game and last weekend's Bundesliga due to family reasons, but today Tang Hong returned to Dortmund's starting line-up, I think Dortmund's attack power will be stronger away today than at home!
Atletico Madrid have been outstanding this season, with they on track to end Barcelona and Real Madrid's long-standing monopoly on the title in the league, with Simeone's side winning La Liga and the Champions League with a tough, pragmatic, ferocious, simple and efficient counter-attack.
They have become the most representative team in European football right now good at defending against counter-attacks.
It may not be easy for Dortmund to turn the tables at Calderon Stadium.
Today, Atletico Madrid sat at home and lined up 442 formations.
Goalkeeper: Thibaut Courtois.
Defenders: Juanfran A, Godin, Miranda, Felipe Luiz.
Midfielders: Raul Garcia, Gabi, Thiago, Koke.
Forwards: Villa, Diego Costa.
Borussia Dortmund started today with 433.
Goalkeeper: Weidenfeller.
Defenders: Piszczek, Hummels, Subotic, Schmelzer.
Midfielders: Sven Bender, Mkhitaryan, Gundogan.
Forwards: Reuss, Lewandowski, Tang Hong.
The main forces of the two teams are exhausted, and this life-and-death battle will inevitably have a dragon and tiger fight! ”
When the referee blew the whistle for the start of the first half, Atletico Madrid's first wave of attack burst forward from the left side of the centre, and Koke's pass found Villa, who changed direction and continued to dribble forward, but Sven Bender stretched out his leg to break the ball in front of the box.
Borussia Dortmund took control of the ball and began to launch a fast attack.
Atletico Madrid's formation retreated, and the originally conservative formation put on a bucket formation even at home.
Simeone crossed his hands on the sidelines with a confident gesture, and Klopp watched the game develop with a serious expression.
Reus received the ball on the flank up front, retreated, and after passing the ball to the middle for adjustment, Gundogan tapped the ball across the left wing.
Schmelzer stepped forward to deliver a through ball.
Tang Hong was closely marked by Juanfran on the side of the front court, he directly dialed the ball to the bottom line of the side with his back, and at the same time turned around when Juanfran followed the defense, Tang Hong accelerated the football when there was still one meter away from the sideline and turned forward to pull the ball, when he stepped on the area outside the sideline, Juanfran grabbed it, but the football that rolled to the sideline position was picked by Tang Hong with his right foot to the bottom line, and Juanfran forced the ball to fall short.
Tang Hong sprinted forward from outside the bounds, completely getting rid of Juanfran before changing direction and returning to control the ball in bounds.
Dortmund fans have become accustomed to Tang Hong's commotion, and Atletico Madrid fans have a new understanding of Tang Hong's coquettish ball control skills.
Coming to the edge of the box, Tang Hong saw Atletico Madrid's midfielder quickly retreat to fill the direction of the penalty area, and Godin cautiously defended him head-on.
Tang Hong smashed the ball in the direction of the bottom line, directly supported his body with his left foot, and crossed the ball with his right foot around the back of his left leg.
It's not that he has to show off the other party's face.
Instead, he has to get his rhythm to cross, otherwise Godin will block his angle, and Raul Garcia has already come at him, and Atletico Madrid are the masters of the zone defense.
Tang Hong's cross from Tang Hong's flower foot was punched away by Courtois in front of the goal, and Lewandowski followed up with a flanking and no chance to attack.
Dortmund failed to produce a shot in the first wave, but Sven Bender controlled the ball in midfield, and when he had already passed the ball, Diego Costa pushed him from the flank, which sent Sven Bender straight to the ground.
The referee signals the game to continue according to the principle of attacking advantage.
Although Sven Bender hated Diego Costa's additional move, he kept his head calm and did not bother with the opponent, and immediately got up and continued to play.
When Mkhitaryan collided with Gundogan in the middle of the front, Tang Hong ran back to the front of the penalty area, and when he received Gundogan's pass, he met the ball on the left side in front of the penalty area and shot directly from a distance!
Don't give Thiago a chance to block the looting at all!
The football flew through an inner arc to the far corner of the goal, Courtois hurriedly moved to make a save, and after the body took off to save, he had a premonition that the football would fly out of the bottom line, but he didn't dare to be careless, and his eyes were staring at the trajectory of the football's flight.
When the ball grazed the outside of the right post and flew off the line, Courtois was relieved.
Tang Hong's shot sent a sigh from the Dortmund fans.
But soon everyone cheered the team with applause to keep cheering.
Dortmund adopted a counter-attacking tactic high up front, knowing that the opponent was playing defensive counterattacks when they were behind on aggregate, but they had to do it head-on.
When Atletico Madrid organized an offensive, the backfield quickly played the ball, when Diego Costa controlled the ball in the front court, Sven Bender immediately stepped forward to press, Diego Costa's arm obviously moved when protecting the ball, it looked like a subconscious natural action, but in fact, it was obviously deliberately touching the opponent's neck, face, or hitting the opponent with dark energy.
Or "accidentally" step on the opponent and kick the opponent when the body is entangled.
Over the years, everyone has been familiar with Koster's dirty style of play.
It can even be said that the whole team of Atletico Madrid has such characteristics.
It can't be said that Atletico Madrid's style of play is wrong, after all, they did not set a precedent.
It can only be said that in the top teams, such a style is very rare.
Just like the Italian team is conservative, they are sublimating defense to art.
And Atletico Madrid also comes with a lot of small actions in defense on a conservative basis, unnecessary actions, in fact, there is only one purpose: to break the opponent's mentality!
It will make the opponent always fall into a kind of psychological activity like "suffering" and "being sneak attacked".
If the mentality is not well controlled, the opponent who cannot keep his mind calm will be easily fooled, so that the combat effectiveness will decline significantly, especially the integrity of the team will be destroyed, especially once the core players fall into the trap The mentality is unbalanced, and the blow to the team can be imagined.
After the first leg, Jurgen Klopp slammed Atletico Madrid's dirty little action on the pitch.
But as the losing side, such an accusation sounds like the groan of the weak, and no one cares, let alone stands up for justice.
The hardest truth on the football field is to win!
If you can't win the game, even if you talk about it off the field, you will only lose the reality.
Therefore, before the second leg, Klopp did not mention Atletico Madrid's style of play.
However, Klopp's pre-match advice to the team repeatedly reiterated not to be affected by Atletico Madrid's superfluous actions.
Sven Bender suffered a lot in front of Diego Costa, and was hit by the opponent from time to time, but he still kept calm, when Diego Costa pulled the ball and turned forward, Sven Bender even though he couldn't break the ball directly, but he also entangled the opponent when he turned, Subotic stepped forward to clear the ball out, Diego Costa rushed forward and knocked over the opponent without slowing down!
This is clearly intentional.
But because Dortmund's attack was advantageous and the action was not enough to play the cards, the referee could only signal the game to continue.
Subotic also immediately got up, then rubbed his ribs, relieved the pain, and after his eyes focused on the situation on the court to adjust his position.
Gundogan knocked the ball diagonally back in midfield, and Schmelzer continued to play the ball on the flank to find Tang Hong on the flank.
Tang Hong led the ball forward and dribbled, and after taking a step towards the ball, he encountered Juanfran immediately, he immediately stopped and pulled the ball in front of him, and Juanfran also slowed down and prepared to steal.
But Tang Hong pulled the ball in front of him, and at the same time, he quickly started to vigorously move the ball forward.
This change of pace caught Juanfran off guard, and Tang Hong once again completed a breakthrough against him.
In the offensive danger zone, the ball changed direction, and as soon as Tang Hong cut into the inside line, he was blocked by Raul Garcia, who was chasing back, and fell to the ground.
Raul Garcia took the initiative to reach out and try to pull Tang Hong up to express friendship, so that at least he could get a certain reduction in the eyes of the referee.
But Tang Hong ignored the other party's outstretched hand, he didn't scold the other party, his expression was very calm, he didn't even look at the other party, turned around and stood up by himself, and then prepared to take the set-piece.
If Atletico Madrid is trying to destroy the opponent's mentality with brutal and brutal or even ugly and indiscriminate means, then then Borussia Dortmund is using traditional tactical crushing methods to destroy Atletico Madrid.
After the opening, he frequently played Tang Hong, whether it was the running and tearing of his teammates, or the display of his personal ball control ability, it was obvious that Juan Foran had an advantage in front of him.
This is Klopp's tactical requirement, as soon as he comes up, he will focus on bombarding the opponent's local defense!
A set-piece near the side outside the penalty area, Tang Hong ran and then shot with his right foot to hoist the ball into the back of the penalty area!
The powerful in-rotation of the football misled the judgment of the defenders, and Piszczek stretched out his leg to shoot at the back of the penalty area!
The ball was shot with his right foot, but the ball hit the net on the side of the goal!
The angle is too small!
The Atletico Madrid crowd was shocked and relieved.
Almost scored by Borussia Dortmund!