The veteran coach Fabio Capello and the rising young coach Dick had a vigorous war of words before the start of the League Cup semi-finals, and the war of words between them even attracted some of the eyes of the Champions Cup, while the other League Cup semi-final, although it was also a heavyweight game like Liverpool vs. Barcelona, seemed to be about to be forgotten. [No pop-ups. 】

Capello looked at Dick shouting coldly, he became more and more sure that Atletico Madrid was planning to use defensive counterattacks to deal with Roma, anyway, it was away from home, he didn't mind getting a draw, and Atletico Madrid's defensive counterattack level may not be so outstanding, as long as the attack is cautious, let Atletico Madrid's counterattack not come out, Rome's ability to break the dense defense is not bad, Montella's dexterous shè hand to seize an opportunity is an opportunity, Batistuta and Totti have extremely good long-range shè ability, The offensive ability of Cafu and Candela on the wings is also quite outstanding, and it is really not possible to send a center forward like Delvicchio to break the formation, Capello is not afraid of Atletico's defensive counterattack.

Dick continued to babble "Our attack is awesome, we're going to beat Roma to death at home", but when such words fell on Capello's ears, he felt more and more that this kid was bluffing!

Soon, the Champions Cup quarter-finals were over, and it was the turn of the League Cup to be played, and countless Atletico Madrid fans poured into the Calderón Stadium - Atletico's results in the League Cup this time have equaled Atletico's all-time best result in the League Cup, they have won the Champions Cup runner-up, won the Cup Winners' Cup, but the best result in the League Cup is only the semi-finals, which is one of the reasons why they value the League Cup more.

This is also a regret in the history of Atletico Madrid.

While Atletico Madrid fans were waiting for the upcoming match, Capello, who was originally confident, began to fall into confusion.

On the way to the Calderón Stadium, he was given a starting line-up for Atletico.

There was a change in Atletico's starting line-up, Baraja in midfield did not play, while Cruz, who started up front, partnered Jadel in the attack!

The original four-five-one-team formation has become the current four-four-two, although it is just a change, but to remove a midfielder with strong running ability and replace it with a strong center, Dick's intention is already obvious - that is, his previous words are *** true! Atletico intend to give Roma a good look with an attack at home!

The first few days of Capello arranged to stabilize the midfield, gradually advance the offensive line, invest a certain amount of strength in defense, prevent Atletico Madrid's rapid counterattack, try to be patient in the attack, and then look for more suitable opportunities - this tactical style of play pays attention to the midfield layer by layer, leaving no room for it, and is suitable for dealing with the kind of tactics that recycle the defense.

However, if Atletico Madrid presses up in one breath to fight for the attack, Roma's forward line does not have that kind of fast forward, it is difficult to find opportunities from the gap after Atletico Madrid presses, and if they are suppressed by Atletico Madrid, they are likely to be directly suppressed by Atletico Madrid until they collapse - the opponent's two center forwards are not vegetarian!

"This guy is really cunning!" Capello couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Dick seemed to know that he was familiar with La Liga's intelligence, and deliberately used this method to induce Capello to make a mistake in judgment, and then let Capello fall into passivity!

Capello was quite annoyed by this - this is also a year-round goose hunt but was pecked blind, and he thought he was fooled, but he turned out to be fake, and he was really fooled!

"Now, we're going to change our tactics."

Immediately after arriving in the dressing room, Capello told his Roma players: "It's clear that Atletico are trying to attack us at home...... You've seen the footage of their games, and when they start to press frantically in midfield, according to our tactics, they will suffer a lot...... So, let's fight them! Under the back and forth shock, we will definitely not lose to them! Offensively, they are not as perfect as us, and defensively they are not as good as us, so this kind of attack is good for us! Don't forget that we're away from home and if both sides score a lot of goals, it's still quite good for us! Do you understand! ”

Unlike Atletico Madrid, Roma is a fairly mature team, their recruitment this season is actually only Batistuta, and the other players have joined them for a short time, and they are relatively sè on the whole, so although it is a temporary change of tactics, there will not be much confusion, and after Capello explained in detail the reasons for the change of tactics, they did not have any resistance.

After explaining all this thoroughly, Capello found that it seemed that some warm-up time had been wasted, and immediately waved his hand to let the assistant coach take the players out to warm up - he didn't dare to let the team's warm-up go wrong, you must know that for professional players, in fact, they have consumed a lot of physical energy by this time, if the warm-up is not done sufficiently, it is easy to get injured in the game if they can't move well on the field, so the warm-up activities must be done well, In this way, the players will not be easily injured on the field.

It's just that the warm-up time has to be saved, and some time has been wasted before, so there is not much time left for other preparations before the game in Rome - which makes Capello a little irritable, and Dick's approach has also caused great trouble to his preparation.

"Did I underestimate that guy? But it doesn't matter, even if we lose the game, as long as we can score enough goals away from home, we can have an advantage! I won't underestimate you again in the second round, and you won't have too many chances then! ”

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"What, Roma are warming up a little slower than usual?"

Dick smiled and said to Marina, "It seems that they are very frightened...... Guys, Roma is nothing big and we will beat them at home. I'd love to see what their faces look like when they start the game and find out that our tactics are still counter-attacking......"

The players who returned to the locker room laughed one after another, of course they knew that Dick was practicing defensive counterattack tactics during this time, and the difference was that he sent a defensive counterattack with two center forwards, which may make the defensive strength worse, but in terms of counterattack, the lethality of the high school forward combination of Cruise and Jadel is also quite huge.

Cruise and Jardel's foot skills are not bad, and the ability to cooperate is also very strong, such a pair of high strikers can be said to be the dream of all managers, but Dick is usually used to let Cruise be used as a substitute wonder, Cruise also accepts this position to make people unconsciously ignore the power of his starter, and now it seems that Roma will become the first victim.

"You can fight them at the beginning, and when they start attacking, we'll be ready to fight back...... Create more set-pieces, they have a big flaw in their defence from set-pieces, according to what we have trained during this time, stun them with set-pieces and high balls! The average height of their backline isn't great......"

In addition to Zebina's one-meter-free Jiu, the height of other Roma defenders is about one-meter-eight, which is of course enough under normal circumstances, but Dick sent two center forwards in this game, just to use set-pieces and height to deal with Roma's defense, what effect can be achieved, you have to observe from the field.

Dick fielded Marchena and Thuram in central defence for this game, and the rest of the positions remained unchanged, with Roma still in a 442 or 4312 formation, and when the players from both sides appeared in the stadium, the stands immediately erupted in cheers from Atletico Madrid fans.

Dick's previous performance did not deceive Atletico fans, but they also had the same idea when they saw Cruise and Jadel playing at the same time - Dick didn't use two centers before, as long as he used two centers, most of them were playing offensive football, and at this time, Atletico Madrid fans thought about the same as Capello - this guy turned out to be real!

Atletico Madrid, who took the lead in kick-off, launched an attack at the first time!

After receiving Cruise's return pass, Belleron began to organise the attack - Baraja was not on the pitch in this game, he would be a little further back, but this was not a problem for him, and he was used to attacking in such situations.

With the ball at his feet and seeing the opposing two strikers rushing towards him, Belleron did not choose to break through on his own, but distributed the ball to the wing - Roma has three midfielders in midfield, so naturally the defense on the wing will be slightly worse - it has little impact on the attack, with three back and forth in the back, Cafu and Candela can play their attacking characteristics with impunity.

Héctor took the ball on the right side, he began to move forward with the ball, Totti ran over from the middle to block him, but Héctor quickly passed the ball to Belleron who had run out of the gap in the middle, Belleron received the ball and turned around, and raised his foot at the first time when the opponent's three backs were about to form a pinch, and directly distributed the ball to the left side!

Vicente cut in from the left and the Atletico fans in the stands began to shout loudly - they have now fallen in love with this heroic teenager, although his skills are not flashy, but when he is speeding on the wing, he can make everyone feel a kind of blood rush and excitement!

Raising his foot to unload Belleron's pass, facing Cafu who came from the side to fill in the position, Vicente was full of pride in his heart - even if you are the captain of the Brazilian national team and the number one right-back in the world, I will not have any fear!

Besides, you're known for offense, not defense......

As the two sides approached, Vicente first sank his shoulder to the right, but quickly stabbed the ball near the baseline with his feet, and then suddenly accelerated and forced himself towards the bottom line!

Blind punch killed the master.

Cafu is such an experienced player, he was also more embarrassed by Vicente's rush, he didn't expect Vicente to directly use his speed to rush hard, when he turned around, he was already a step slower, and at the same time in this pure sprint situation, his speed may not be as fast as Vicente, although he chased closely behind him, but still couldn't stop Vicente from kicking and crossing at the first time!

When Vicente caught up with the ball and raised his foot to pass the ball into the penalty area, Atletico Madrid's two center forwards had already rushed into the Roma penalty area at the same time, and the first to grab the first drop point was still Jardel, he jumped high against the ball, used his physical advantage to beat Samuel, and then rushed to the top of the ball!

Antonioli struggled to jump but still couldn't touch the ball, and in the cheers that suddenly reached the high point, the ball hit the top edge of the crossbar and flew off the baseline!

A sigh from Atletico fans rang out from the stands.