Chapter 252: War of Atrition

"What if I lose?"

Dick didn't think about this problem at all, because he never thought he would lose, even if he was equalized by Leverkusen at this time, and the opponent's morale would definitely be even higher, but Dick still didn't think he would lose this game!

In addition to stubbornly believing that Bayer Leverkusen is an unlucky team that will not win the championship, more comes from his confidence in himself, and he firmly believes that he can win the Champions Cup!

At this time, it may be a good way to change to a striker to strengthen the attack, but Dick does not want to do this, and changing to a striker means that the strength of the midfield will be reduced, and Atletico's ability to control the midfield will be weakened, so I am afraid it will be even more disadvantageous.

He made his first substitution, with Jorgensen coming on for Vicente, who opened the scoring for the team.

Quick counter-attacks didn't have much effect, Leverkusen's defense was fast, and Jorgensen's ability to better help Atletico Madrid control the midfield with his foot skills and flexible running characteristics after coming on the field, and then attacking to take the lead after controlling the midfield, Dick's thinking is like this.

He is not in a hurry to strengthen the attack, the more this time, the more can not be in a hurry, what methods and tactics to use, mainly to see what the final result is, if you send three or four strikers to attack frantically, winning is "strong nerves and fighting spirit to achieve the final victory", losing is "after the rush to the crazy move is just a dying struggle", if you are not in a hurry to change the striker but try to control the midfield to complete the counterattack, winning is "not arrogant and impatient to achieve the final victory", losing is" What is the intention of being indifferent in the face of backwardness"......

In Dick's view, what is needed at this time is to better control the midfield, after this period of impact, Leverkusen's physical fitness has actually decreased a lot, at this time to be able to control the midfield, Leverkusen's players must consume more physical energy if they want to attack, and if they recycle the defense, at least Atletico Madrid's current crisis can be lifted, and the most important thing is that the score is only a draw now, and it has not yet reached the point where it can only attack regardless of defense!

Jorgensen rushed onto the pitch with his stride, and for Jorgensen, he is now fully convinced that a move to Atletico Madrid is the right choice, although he does not seem to be a main player at Atletico right now, but the opportunities to play are definitely not small, and more importantly, he has won a league title, and now he is playing in the Champions League final!

This feeling made Jorgensen quite excited.

Jorgensen's arrival has raised Atletico's midfield control to a very high level.

Originally, Atletico Madrid's midfield control ability is quite good, the only weaker ball control ability may be Vicente, he is good at fast assault rather than holding the ball on the spot, and now he has replaced Jorgensen, his impact is worse than Vicente, but the foot technique is quite good, both left and right feet can control the ball, after he came on the field, Atletico Madrid began to choose to control the ball more in the midfield, and the rhythm of the whole game became slow.

"This kind of rhythm change is what I want to see in the future of Manchester United." Ferguson thought silently in his mind in the stands.

"This is a good choice, Dick, a young man, is indeed very accurate." Capello, who was sitting next to him, thought so.

However, they also see the disadvantages of this approach, the midfield control rhythm is good, does not mean that Atletico's attack can become better, after all, there is only one Jardel, the attacking ability is not particularly good, especially in the face of two top central defenders who are not much worse than him, in this case, if you can't score, even if you control the midfield, I'm afraid you will be forced to go into extra time, for the German team, the longer the game drags on, the better it will be for them.

If it is dragged to the penalty shootout, then it will be more beneficial to Bayer Leverkusen, their goalkeeper Bout is nicknamed "penalty goalkeeper", not only to say that he can score through penalties, but also to show that he is very good at saving penalties, an excellent penalty taker is very good at pondering the psychology of the penalty taker, to the penalty shootout, Leverkusen's advantage will be more obvious!

Dick also knows this, but now is the time to control the game, there are still more than 20 minutes before the end of the 90-minute game, and there are 30 minutes of extra time, it is unlikely to drag on to the penalty shootout, now control the situation and strive to take the lead through an attack before the end of the 90-minute game!

Take control and score before you score – there's still a lot of time to go, so there's no need to rush now.

Dick is very sure of his tactical arrangement, which comes from the previous consumption, although Bayer Leverkusen stubbornly equalized twice, but their fighting spirit and physical strength have been almost exhausted, but Atletico Madrid is constantly attacking through possession, although it consumes a lot of physical energy in defense, but it also maintains an excellent physical level!

Before the start of the Champions Cup final, Atletico Madrid's main players rested for a full ten days, while Bayer Leverkusen played a full game in the league five days before the start of the Champions Cup final!

Physically, Atletico have an advantage – and it's this bit of an advantage that makes Dick confident that they can definitely win – and in fact, the longer the game, the better it is not for Bayer Leverkusen, but for Atletico!

Now the Atletico Madrid players are still running very strongly, and the Leverkusen players are not showing fatigue, but Dick can see that the Leverkusen players are actually starting to feel tired, but first dodge a conceded goal, and then equalize, this stimulation is enough to make them forget fatigue, but in fact, their bodies are already very tired, and when this excitement gradually disappears, fatigue will gradually return to them!

Bayer Leverkusen's bench thickness is still not as strong as Atletico's! And over the course of the season, they have played far less than Atletico Madrid, but their main players have played almost all of their games, which is different from Dick's rotation – if not quite different, which has led to the fact that the fitness of the Leverkusen players is not actually that good.

It's just one thing is the same, both sides are not absolutely sure that they will be able to enter the finals before, so in the process of entering the finals, they can win one game, and they try their best to fight in almost every game, Topmuller didn't think that his team would perform so well in the Champions Cup this season, Dick thought about it, but their first time playing the Champions Cup, Dick had to tremble in the group stage and couldn't make a mistake, Because any mistake could have left an inexperienced Atletico Madrid in the group stage, it is actually a great thing to qualify from the second group stage, after all, only eight teams in the whole of Europe can do this!

It is precisely because of this that neither side has any secrets in the eyes of each other, they both know that they are better than each other, and worse than each other, this situation is actually unfavorable to Dick, because a very important part of his tactical changes, that is, the familiarity with the opponent through the memory of later generations, does not play much role in this situation, and can only make a focused mark, and cannot take advantage of certain loopholes to find opportunities.

At this time, he can only control the midfield, give full play to his physical advantages, suppress Leverkusen in this aspect, and then wait for the opportunity to attack and score!

When Atletico Madrid began to control the midfield, it was difficult for Leverkusen's players to grab the ball from the opponent's feet and launch a fast attack, one is that they now have too many strikers on the field, and the pressing ability of the midfield has decreased, and the other is that their fitness has indeed begun to decline.

So Bayer Leverkusen's players began to recycle under the command of Topmüller, take a break, and then try to counterattack after this breath, anyway, it is a draw now, as long as you don't concede goals, then there will be no big problem.

Leverkusen's retreat, their defensive strength is not bad, although there are only three defenders left, but Schneider and Ze Roberto's defensive ability is also good, Schneider has played right back after he is older, Ze Roberto has played a good back in the Brazilian national team for a period of time, as soon as they retreat, Leverkusen's wing defense seems to have no problem, plus Ballack and Ramilao's retreat, their defensive strength is not bad at all.

Atletico Madrid is constantly controlling the ball in the midfield, but it is difficult to find opportunities, they are not discouraged, but are constantly back and forth, hoping to find opportunities through continuous transfer, and Bayer Leverkusen did not give them this opportunity, their defense is still constantly moving back and forth,-for-tat defense, not giving Atletico any opportunity to take advantage of!

"Bayer Leverkusen's defense is also quite good! It wasn't a fluke that they were able to reach the final of the Champions Cup! Being able to show a top level when attacking, and being able to block everything when defending, Leverkusen's overall strength is indeed quite good! Although Atletico Madrid is now in control of the situation on the field, there is no good way to score goals! ”

Atletico Madrid fans are a little anxious, because although their team is now constantly attacking with possession, but Bayer Leverkusen's players are almost leakless defensive, and if this continues, they will not be able to attack for a long time, in case they are counterattacked by the opponent......

Dick showed a smile on the corner of his mouth, he was not afraid that Leverkusen would move the defense back and forth and not give Atletico a chance, if they just contracted the defense, Atletico would not be able to consume their physical strength no matter how they fell back and forth, and now Leverkusen is running back and forth with such a defense, their physical strength is also rapidly depleting!

To achieve such a goal, Dick is already very satisfied, such a final can not use a blitzkrieg to kill the opponent, to fight only a war of attrition, and now Leverkusen is like the German army in World War II, domineering but the stamina has declined, Atletico Madrid is like the US military in World War II, relying on strong national strength to expand the advantage step by step, such a war of attrition down, Atletico Madrid's advantage will only be further expanded!

"I don't believe you don't get tired! Hell if you can outlast us in such a war of attrition! Dick thought viciously to himself.

Then he looked at his watch, and the game was already in the seventy-fifth minute, and there were still fifteen minutes to go before the end of the game.