Most of the Atletico Madrid players were happy to win their first win in 10 rounds, after all...... However, among them, there are still many frustrated people.

After Dick took office, he quickly pulled out the tiger skin of Old Hill and made a big banner, suppressed the entire team with an iron fist, promoted Belleron as the offensive core, and promoted Baraja into the main lineup, and there are only eleven players who play in each game......

For the 29-year-old Carlos Gamarra, joining Atletico Madrid a year ago was his second European trip from South America – the last time he came to Europe was two years ago, when he joined Benfica, one of Portugal's top three, and that trip was not a pleasant memory for Gamarra, as he only played half a season at Benfica, made 11 mediocre appearances, and then returned to South America – where he regained his form. He was selected for the best defensive team in the Brazilian league, and it was because of this performance that he was favored by Atletico Madrid and joined Atletico again......

It's just that after joining Atletico Madrid, although he has always been the main player, his performance is not particularly good, because of his relatively tall stature and excellent heading ability, he is often used as a marking central defender, which makes his slightly slower speed become the favorite point of those strikers in La Liga who are not slow and technically excellent, and the previous game against Deportivo La Coruna is a good proof - Dutch striker Mackay almost destroyed him with his lightning speed and excellent technique, That hat-trick was an exemplary example of a speedy striker beating a slower-paced centre-back.

Then the young manager came in and he became a substitute himself.

After watching the game for 90 minutes off the field, Gamarra began to think seriously - Dick strengthened the midfield and turned the single back into a double back he appreciated, Ranie used the risky attacking four-three-three formation, the midfield only Serena one midfield, the protection of the back line is not enough, so that Gamara always directly face the opponent's most threatening strikers - Mackay, Raul, Kluivert......

Gamarra sighed as he watched from the sidelines, if he was a scavenger, whether it was Rufite or Catania, he wouldn't be able to score so easily, right? It's a pity that he was on the bench......

After a day of rest, Gamarra's mood did not improve, and when he came to the training pitch a little listlessly, the newly promoted assistant coach Marriner told him that the interim head coach, Mr. Dick, was waiting for him in the office and wanted to talk to him first.

"Talk to me?" Gamarra was a little stunned, but he was also a little happy in his heart, because Belleron had also talked to Dick separately before, and then he immediately went from a half-main and half-substitute (Belleron is considered a half-substitute at Atletico Madrid, because he used to play as a striker to share playing time with Juninho, because Juninho has more injuries, he has played more games) to the core of the team......

It seems that there is a turnaround. Gamarra ringed in his heart.

After knocking on the door of the manager's office and hearing the shout of "come in", Gamara pushed the door open and walked in, only to see Dick not sitting at his desk, but standing in front of the tactical board in the office, thinking about something.

"Carlos, you're here." Dick greeted Gamarra and beckoned as if he was familiar with him, "Carlos, come here, I have something to discuss with you." ”

Gamarra walked over with some curiosity, and the manager and players discussed...... What is there to discuss?

After walking over, he saw that the positions of the players drawn on the tactical board were still in a four-five-one formation, with the names of ten players already pasted on them, goalkeeper Molina, central defender Chamot, two full-backs Aguilera and Capdevilla, midfielder Serena dragged behind to protect Belleron a little ahead, Baraja's name was marked with "Run", Solari and Leal on the wings, and Hasselbaink rushed forward......

"In the next game, I plan to play defensive counter-attacking at home in Valencia...... What they're good at is counter-attacking, but they're not good at attacking and they need to play well for the top four now, so they're going to be in a hurry to attack in this game and we're going to be a little bit more likely to get points on the counter-attack. ”

Listening to Dick's explanation, Gamarra was a little strange, because in the last game, Dick kept emphasizing how to attack, but now he said that he would play defensive counterattacks - does this coach still have any score?

"The first goal now is to stay in the legion zone, not to come up with something inexplicable about the overall style...... As long as you can win, it's a good tactic, whether it's offensive or defensive. ”

Dick seemed to see what he was thinking, and said lightly.

"Yes, it's a good tactic to win." As an experienced veteran defender, Gamarra knows this.

Dick smiled slightly, then turned around: "Although offense is the guarantee of scoring points, defense is equally important. We conceded so many goals that we were able to win in the last round and it was better for us to score two goals with a bit of luck to win...... If it weren't for those two goals of a bit of luck, maybe we would have been able to get a draw at most in the last round...... That's not a great result...... We're not new to defending problems either, and we've conceded a lot of goals throughout the season...... Carlos, what do you think could be the reason? ”

"Defenders don't play well?" Gamara said with a wry smile, he knew that his performance after transferring to Atletico Madrid had not been very good, but he didn't need to ask himself, wasn't this a slap in the face......

"Well, Atletico Madrid is really an honest child......" Dick sighed in his heart, if he had changed to a grumpy defender, I am afraid that he would have quarreled with himself a long time ago, including winning Kiko as soon as he came, and changing other players may also have to blow up, but Kiko chose to wait and see, which also made his tactical implementation have the greatest effect.

"If it weren't for that, it would be really difficult." Dick also knows that these players in Atletico Madrid basically don't have too many individual players, so they will show toughness as soon as they come to power, otherwise it will only make things worse and worse.

In the face of Gamarra's wry smile, Dick shook his head: "The defender's poor performance is only one aspect...... Carlos, modern football does not rely on a defender to form an impregnable backline, a team's defense must be good, not to say that four top defenders can be done, there must be excellent defensive organization and tacit understanding. Our defenders should have no problem in terms of tacit understanding, and so far in the season, no matter how much they will run in the tacit understanding, but the defense is not good, why is this? ”

"Because we can't do it as a whole?" Gamarra heard something.

"That's right, not overall." Dick clapped his palms: "In terms of individual ability, our defenders are not the top in La Liga, but also the top in La Liga...... Aguilera and Chamote are both experienced defenders, Capdevilla has a lot of potential, and you. He looked up at Gamarra: "There aren't many scavengers in La Liga who can be better than you, Real Madrid's Hierro, Mallorca's Nadal, Valencia's Djukic, Barcelona's Frank de Boer...... Well, Deportivo Donato may be one, but he's too old to be better than you. But is Ranieri really an Italian coach? Let you play the marking centre-back, what does he think! ”

Gamarra watched in a bit of a daze as the young head coach complained about his former head coach, and then he heard something......

"Carlos, how about the idea of letting you go and scavenge? The next league game is the time of trial, and if we are doing well, then we will be more sure of what to do against Barcelona. ”

Dick didn't let Gamarra continue to guess, but said it bluntly.

"Scavengers?" Gamarra was stunned again, he is very familiar with this position, he is in this position in the Paraguayan national team, it was he who swept in front of Chilavert in the 98 World Cup, which made Paraguay's impregnable defense, if it were not for the golden goal of the French national team captain Blanco, the French national team wanted to enter the semi-finals? That's still hard...... And Corinthians, he also played the same position, and it only took one season for him to enter the best defensive team in the Brazilian league, and in this position, he has absolute confidence!

"No problem, boss, in this position of scavenger, I will definitely use all my ability to come out!" Gamarra replied loudly, Ranieri pays attention to what two central defenders can mark, can play scavengers, the result is that he and Chamot both did not perform well, now it is obvious that Dick intends to let him drag him directly behind, and let Chamot fight in the front, this arrangement is in line with the characteristics of the two of them - Chamot is fierce in the grab, and he is steady and sophisticated, with him in the back to fill the position, Chamot has less worries about grabbing, and with Chamot in front of the rush, he does not have to directly face the rapid assault of the opposing striker......

"Well, that's it! The next game against Valencia is just a warm-up, so let Claudio López and Angulo put you to the test, and if you don't show too many flaws in the face of their onslaught, you will have a lot more certainty against Kluivert, Figo and Rivaldo! ”

Dick slapped his face and laughed, and then he winked at Gamarra: "It's too boring if it's just relegation, let's work harder and come back with a King's Cup?" That's a championship too! ”

Gamarra was surprised again, he didn't expect this young manager to have such big ambitions - you must know that everyone is thinking about how Atletico Madrid can succeed in relegation, and simply ignore the Copa del Rey - although Atletico Madrid reached the semi-finals, everyone knows that Atletico Madrid has not encountered a real strong team in the previous knockout rounds, and what are the other three teams in the final four this time? Barcelona and Real Madrid also have a not weak Spaniard, Atletico Madrid faced Barcelona in the semifinals, and if you want to win the Copa del Rey, you can almost know that you will have to meet Barcelona and Real Madrid, two giant teams......

To say that Atletico Madrid was able to wrestle with these two teams before, but now Atletico Madrid......

Looking at the startled Gamarra, Dick laughed again: "Don't leak it, whether you can go crazy at the last moment depends largely on whether you can be the playmaker of the back line in my mind...... If you can play well, we might be able to do it! ”