Villarreal is not yet the yellow submarine that was rampant later, although they have brought in an important player Senna, but important players such as Sorin, Riquelme, Jose Mari, Forlan and other important players have not been able to join, and the current Villarreal is just a mid-table team in La Liga, promoted two seasons ago.

Their current top scorer is the Argentine "madman" Palermo, a bit interestingly, in the summer of 99, Atletico almost signed Palermo at that time, but because of some of his eccentric style, Atletico Madrid did not buy him in the end, and Dick also lost the opportunity to coach this eccentric striker, of course, with Dick's character and Palermo's style, the two of them are expected to have a very unpleasant quarrel together......

Palermo is an excellent center forward, but his problem is not small, that is, as a center forward, although he is brave enough, but his physical fitness is not very rebellious, and his sense of smell in front of the goal is not particularly good, after Dick sent Marchena to press him closely, Palermo is difficult to have any chances, not to mention Thuram's fill-in, Atletico Madrid's two central defenders performed quite well, and blocked Palermo's play in the game, And Cruise, who competed with Palermo for the third center forward position of the Argentine national team, performed quite well in the second half.

He first received a pass from Camoranesi and took the lead for the team to score, and then selflessly assisted Jadel to score, Villarreal's center forward was targeted by Atletico Madrid, but Atletico Madrid's two center forwards scored one after another, which made Atletico Madrid win this game away from home, to Atletico Madrid's great joy is that Deportivo unexpectedly capsized away from home, they lost to promoted Matnerife and gave up the first place in the standings!

The win gives Atletico a week's rest as they take on Barcelona the following weekend before heading into the first game of the second group stage of the Champions League away to Liverpool.

For Barcelona, this is a good opportunity for their revenge, as they play in the UEFA Cup this season without taking too much of their energy, while Atletico Madrid will surely be distracted in the Champions League and will be looking to beat Atletico away to lay a good foundation for this season's league title.

They are not bad at the moment, although they lost to Real Madrid in the derby of the century, but they still have a fairly high winning percentage in other competitions, and they are now in third place, just one point behind Deportivo La Coruna and three points below Atletico Madrid.

Dick naturally knows that if he consumes too much in this game, it will definitely have a certain impact on Atletico's performance in the Champions Cup, after all, Liverpool is not an easy opponent to deal with, not to mention that this game is also a revenge battle for Liverpool - but Dick is determined to kill Barcelona in this game and reduce one opponent to win the championship!

There are still four games to play in the Champions Cup after the year, and Atletico Madrid can not be interfered with too much by the Champions Cup before the year, but concentrate more energy in the league, take advantage of the chaos in the world to earn more points, and focus on the Champions Cup before, that is because Atletico Madrid is participating in the Champions Cup for the first time, and must pay attention to some, and now that some experience has been accumulated, it is time to focus on the league.

Winning the La Liga title in his first full season in charge made Dick start to take league titles more seriously.

Why is Mourinho so awesome? It's not because he led two different teams to win the Champions Cup, you must know that although this kind of thing is awesome, but it's not that no one has done it, at least Heathfield has led Dortmund and Bayern to win the Champions Cup, and there is also such a existence in history, and there is even a strong coach like Bosque who has won two Champions Cups, two leagues, and two World Cups and two European Cups, but in people's subconscious, they still admit that Mourinho is the best manager of that era.

It is because he is the first coach in history to win the three major leagues - the Premier League, Serie A and La Liga, not to mention the Portuguese league, one person has four leagues, three of which are recognized as the best league champions, such an achievement is unprecedented!

This has also created Mourinho's status, the Champions Cup is brilliant, but winning the Champions Cup also depends on some luck, only the league championship is the best proof of a manager's strength.

What's more, with the grudge between Dick and Barcelona, Barcelona's results at the beginning of the season this season seem to be very good, and Dick is also a little worried about whether history will change, whether Barcelona will turn over and win a league title this season without the involvement of the Champions Cup, if so, Dick's previous prediction that "Barcelona will not have a chance to win any weighty championship at least three or four years" may be in vain......

"Kill Barcelona, defeat a threatening opponent, and report a personal grudge by the way, I won't let go of this kind of thing."

Dick still remembers that last season, Barcelona used an all-out defensive game to make Atletico Madrid only win a draw at home, so Dick will have to use humiliating defensive tactics to draw Real Madrid next to ensure the advantage in the league.

Although Dick used harsh words after that game to make Barcelona a little unable to get off the stage, but this breath, Dick will not swallow easily, he wants to beat Barcelona at home, so that Barcelona's hope of turning around is even smaller!

'Barcelona have had a good start to the season, not because they have recovered, but because several of their key players are in good shape.

Dick told the tactical meeting: "Kluivert has now scored five goals in the league, Saviola is not unsuitable for new players in La Liga, six goals in 12 league games is already a good statistic, and Rivaldo also has three...... The three of them are the guarantee that Barcelona will get points, and Luis Enrique has also performed quite well during this time, although Barcelona is not many good players now, but one by one they are starting to perform well, perhaps because the World Cup is approaching, their performance is very stable, and it is very different from before. ”

Speaking of this, Dick laughed: "But as I said before, Barcelona are doing well because of the good performance of these stars, not because they have no problems as a whole...... There are too many players who can score, the midfield lacks good organization, Guardiola has left, Xavi has not been able to take over well, so Barcelona's attack is more organized by Rivaldo in the front, but he is an attacking midfielder with strong scoring ability than organizational ability, or he is a striker at all! With a striker at the heart of the attack...... Hehe, anyway, I personally despise this approach, because no matter how good the striker is, his position is relatively forward, and he can't observe the situation around him, but Rivaldo's role is too important, and Rexach has no other midfielders available, so he can only be used, and it is much easier to deal with this situation. ”

Dick has never denied that Rivaldo is a top superstar, and he is in the best form now, and he performed surprisingly well in the next World Cup, although he was terminated by Barcelona after the World Cup, it is not a matter of his strength, but that Barcelona wants to rebuild, this idea is not wrong, and it has nothing to do with his strength.

However, in such an environment, Rivaldo can only rely on his own strength to play his ability, but he can't make the team rise to a higher level, and Dick has a good way to deal with such a Barcelona.

"Reuben, you have only one task in this game, to stay with Rivaldo, I don't expect you to be able to completely target him, just reduce the number of times he has the ball. Claude, your mission is to sweep the edge of the penalty area and protect the entire edge of the penalty area! Do you understand? That's your mission! As for the rest, the cooperation between Kluivert and Saviola needs to be paid attention to, but don't worry too much, their performance is not very stable. ”

"The next step is to attack...... Defense has always been Barcelona's weakness, and now this weakness still exists, Frank De Boer is steady, but his height is a hard injury, Patrick Anderson has a good head-on confrontation, but he is slow to turn, plus Sergi is old, Gabri's strength is limited, not to mention that they have never had a goalkeeper who can perform well, Reina is still young, Bonano has too many problems, as long as we continue to put pressure on their backline while controlling Rivaldo, then the victory must be ours! ”

Dick is full of confidence, and Atletico Madrid's players are also full of confidence, because before the game against Barcelona, Atletico Madrid's players had enough rest, and the previous games did not consume too much of their energy, and they recuperated for this game.

After all, after last year's outstanding performance, Atletico Madrid has enough confidence in the league, you must know that as soon as Dick took office, Barcelona suffered several times in the season of firefighting, and Atletico Madrid killed Barcelona away from home last season, and now Atletico Madrid's psychological advantage over Barcelona is not small at all.

"We're in a good situation right now, but it's not something we're proud of. We have to keep going. We lost in Madrid two weeks ago? That game has nothing to do with this game, we will try to win this game. ”

Before the start of the game, Barcelona manager Rexach said something in a low tone.

"As long as Barcelona don't stick to the Stadio Calderón like they did last season...... Now that we're number one again, we're not going to give it up easily. Champions Cup? After all, it's the group stage, and our focus now is on the league, the Champions Cup or something, and we'll talk about it when this game is over. ”

Dick told the truth this time, but many media and reporters felt that this kid was lying again - now only care about the league? No kidding, at the beginning of the season, in the face of the relatively easy environment of the first stage of the group stage, Dick instead stayed in the league for the championship cup a lot of the time, and now the second stage of the group stage is much more difficult than the previous group stage, you would actually give up the Champions Cup? Fool whom!

PS: Sorry I forgot to update it......