Updated: 2013-04-11

Of course, no one knew what had happened on this night, but after a day off, Dick began to take it more seriously when he was on the sidelines of the training pitch, and he began to watch the players more closely in training, and then confirmed it in the game - this kind of work is very important now, otherwise the consequences will be serious......

After the Madrid derby, Dick was obviously much more relaxed, after all, with the excellent results of this period, even if there were any ups and downs in the future, it would not affect the morale of the team. [No pop-ups. 】

The next midweek was the second leg of the second round of the UEFA Cup – Atletico Madrid swept 4-0 at home in the first leg to make the rest of the game a formality, and Dick was not going to miss such a good opportunity to rest his main players - he only flew to the away stadium with only 18 players, including three players brought in by the second team, and let all the main players stay in Madrid to rest - ready for the next away game against Mallorca.

Dick has to pay more attention to the game against Mallorca, and the advantage in the League Cup is too great, and if you don't let the main team take a good rest, you will be sorry for the advantage they created in the first leg!

So the full set of substitutes played 90 minutes away from home, this lineup is not bad, Cruz and Correa partner in the front, Bonovic and Beybur with two young midfielders of the second team, plus that set of experience is definitely not bad backline, although Atletico Madrid finally lost away from home, but it was only 1-2, Cruz scored a crucial goal in the game, Atletico Madrid entered the third round of the League Cup with an aggregate score of 5-2.

Of course, in the third round of the UEFA Cup, it was not so good - Atletico finally met a big enough opponent - Porto from Portugal!

The two matches against Porto, which will be played on November 22 and December 7, will be a huge test for Atletico Madrid, who will play home first and then away.

For Dick, it was a huge test - the previous two rounds of the UEFA Cup were not considered a real test in Europe, and now they are facing Porto, a top team in Portugal, and they meet in Europe, which can be regarded as a real test, the debut in Europe!

However, after the restart of the league, Atletico's ups and downs began to be exposed again, and although the players had plenty of rest in midweek, after two consecutive top performances, the Atletico players were relatively weak in this game.

Despite Jardel scoring his seventh league goal of the season in the 68th minute, Atletico were unable to secure even a single draw on the road. George and homegrown striker Albert? Luke scored twice in a row in the game, but Jardel's goal only turned the score back by one, and then despite Dick's successive substitutions of Cruise and Torres, it still couldn't save Atletico Madrid's away defeat to Mallorca.

After losing this round of the league, Atletico Madrid fell to the third place, Deportivo La Coruna won and overtook Atletico Madrid by one point, although Valencia and Rayo Vallecano drew 2-2 in this round, but still ranked first in the standings with a one-point advantage, and Real Madrid, Mallorca and Alaves behind them are also close to Atletico Madrid, they are all 17 points, only two points away from Atletico Madrid.

Even Celta has 16 points, Barcelona and Villarreal also have 15 points, this season's La Liga is indeed showing a group of heroes, a loss of a game, there may be drastic changes in the ranking - the league only started ten rounds, the top two Valencia and Deportivo La Coruna have lost two league games, Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid, Mallorca, Alaves and other teams have also lost three league games, now La Liga competition is quite fierce, definitely not like the future, It's the two-man turn of Real Madrid and Barcelona......

Dick didn't show much disappointment with the result, and in his post-match press conference he once again stressed that Atletico Madrid are a newly formed team and it's normal for form to have ups and downs, but! Back-to-back wins over Barcelona and Real Madrid have shown that Atletico are capable of challenging for the league title, as long as they can maintain a high level of performance.

And that's where Dick's job lies.

In the next week, the Atletico players were tired, lost the game, and naturally there would be no vacation, Dick ordered Marriner to strengthen the tactical aspects of training and the number of training matches, almost every day the Atletico players were so tired that they left the training ground like dead dogs, and when they went home, they wanted to fall asleep, let alone go to nightclubs, even if they wanted to make out with their girlfriends, they felt tired to death......

But Dick is not the kind of manager who only uses high pressure to deal with players, Magath is an iron fist, right? After coaching Bayern, he took the players to run every day, and then took the lead in running, although the results were good, but once the results dropped, the players rebelled en masse and drove him away, Dick didn't want to suffer such a fate - although he didn't intend to make all the players feel like a saint, but at the very least, it would not cause a strong backlash from the players because of this practice.

To put it bluntly, the players are part-time workers, you have no reason to let them do more extra things, training is to ensure their condition, not to force the players to run with you just because they can run, people don't do their part, you can punish him, but you can't force the other party to do anything extra- Magath made this mistake.

The heavy training lasted four days, and from Friday, Dick began to reduce the amount of exercise, allowing the players to rest and recover for the next league - he increased the training volume just to show an attitude, not to train the players one by one, that is, he would do this when there was no game in the middle of the week.

Sometimes things need to be compared, after the first few days of heavy training, the next two days of training made the players feel extremely relaxed, and when they took to the pitch, they began to feel that playing a formal game seemed to be more relaxed than training......

Bottom-ranked Real Sociedad is in bad luck - this team is also a traditional team in Spain, Atletico Madrid lost to Mallorca in the last round, so that Real Sociedad, who have not had a good record since the start of the new season, also want to beat Atletico Madrid at home, to achieve a victory that is enough to turn the tide of the whole season - after all, although Atletico Madrid has performed eye-catching this season, but their ups and downs are still relatively large, and at the same time, in order to prepare for the midweek UEFA Cup game, Atletico Madrid rotated a lot of main players in this game, For example, the core of the midfield, Belleron, did not play, and many main players in the back line were also absent.

But this is such a set of semi-main lineup, Atletico Madrid played a beautiful game away from home, the tacit cooperation of the two centers of Jadel and Cruise made Atletico Madrid perform quite well on the road, Jadel and Cruz scored two goals each in the game, Atletico Madrid defeated Real Sociedad 4-1, with Valencia and Deportivo both suffering a draw, Atletico Madrid once again climbed to the top of the standings with a one-point advantage!

Heading into the UEFA Cup with a win and top spot in the table is undoubtedly quite good news for Atletico.

Dick has been preparing for the game against Porto since returning from the away game – in fact, he has been quietly gathering information about Porto last week while he was training his players hard.

Dick won't let up on this team – it's the team that will miraculously win the Champions Cup in four years' time! This is also the only team outside the four major leagues to have won the Champions Cup since Ajax won the title in 1995! Such a team cannot be as relaxed as it is against Slovenia and Austria.

It's just that Dick also knows that the current Porto is not the Porto team that won the Champions Cup four years later - their manager is not the personality of Mourinho, but a local coach Pedro that Dick has not heard of? Dorrivar, such as Ferreira, Carvalho, Valente, Costinha, Maniche, McCarthy, Delrey and other Champions League winners have not yet joined Porto, such as Valente and Delrey are now playing for the team is Leiria, they can join Porto more because they played under Mourinho when they were in Leiria - Mourinho is also a manager who likes to take the old team to the new team, came to Porto he brought Valente and Delrey, When he went to Chelsea in the future, he brought Carvalho and Ferreira, and when he went to Inter Milan and Real Madrid, he didn't take the old department with him - that is related to the tradition of Serie A and La Liga, they often buy people not through the head coach but through the transfer manager and technical director, Dick can get the transfer power at Atletico Madrid, there is a big factor because Atletico Madrid does not have a technical director who can get his hands on it, and the little Hill used to be in this position, but the transfer was the old Hill's idea - so when the old Hill gave Dick this power, Little Ciel didn't have much to say, after all, he used to sit in this position as if he didn't sit at all.

In fact, it can be seen how chaotic Atletico Madrid's management is, the old Hill's rule over Atletico Madrid has never formed an efficient and professional team, and he doesn't seem to want to do so, which is why the old Hill spends a lot of money, but the results are average, but his luck is still much better than Moratti's, because his Atletico Madrid has won the league championship, and the money is not as exaggerated as Moratti......

Although none of these people are in Porto yet, their backbone is still there - goalkeeper Baia is a Portuguese international, and the core of the defense is hot? Costa is Porto's old man, Russian midfielder Alanichev is their main midfielder, and Brazilian Deco is now the heart of Porto's midfield, but some of the things that are not good have to belong to their forward line, because the Brazilian center Jadel, who they have relied on for the past four years, is now playing for their opponents Atletico Madrid......

The departure of a powerful centre-forward like Jadel, who has scored 20 to 30 goals in the past season, is an irreparable loss, whether it is young winger Paul? Costa, or Argentine centre-forward Juan who used to perform well at Atletico Madrid? Esneider couldn't fill the void left by Jardel's departure. The strength of this Porto team in the midfield is not bad, but what it lacks is the ability to score.

It was precisely because of this lack that they were eliminated from the Champions Cup qualifiers and had to come to compete in the League Cup......