Chapter 66: As long as you win
When Dick walked out of the tunnel, there was a round of applause from the stands, all from the Atletico fans.
In less than two months, Atletico Madrid's fans' attitude towards Dick has changed from hostility at the beginning, to hope later, and then to liking now......
It's a bit hard to say worship.
Dick gestured to the stands with his right hand raised as he walked to his seat, and before coming to his seat and taking a seat, he made a "V" gesture to the stands occupied by Atletico fans!
The stands erupted in loud cheers again.
"Good! It seems that Dick is full of confidence! I think we can now watch the intense competition and wait for the championship trophy to be lifted at the end of the race......" Bonnes laughs.
This is a bit of an overstatement, but Dick has cemented this confidence with his previous all-win results!
Paco Flores, who sat in the away dugout, was quiet, the nearly 50-year-old manager accepted the Spaniards halfway, and the situation of the Spaniards was also very bad at that time, after the dismissal of the former head coach Brindesi, he put out fires halfway, and it has to be said that he did a very successful job as a firefighter, not only allowing the Spaniards to be relegated early, but also leading the Spaniards to the Copa del Rey final for the first time in 42 years......
Without Dick's appearance, he would have been the most successful firefighting coach of the season, just like Aragonés, who also took over halfway but led Mallorca to a rapid turnaround, but Dick's appearance changed all that, Flores and Aragonés both took over shortly after the winter transfer, and they had enough time to adjust to the team's form, while Dick had nothing, but he created a complete victory as soon as he took over, making all the firefighting coaches bleak!
Flores didn't know what Aragonés was thinking, but as a person, he was quite unhappy about it, and since he met Atletico Madrid in the Copa del Rey final, it was a good opportunity to deal with them......
Flores knows that Atletico Madrid's overall strength is higher than that of the Spaniards, but football matches do not mean that the strong must win, and the Spaniards are not impossible to play a counterattack - they used such tactics in the two games against Real Madrid, but Atletico Madrid may not have the physical strength of Real Madrid, which is overdrawn in the third-line battle, and will not be easily killed by them, but they can recycle more, wear down Atletico's sharpness, make their back line flawed, and then use counterattacks to kill them - even if they can't do itIt was also more beneficial for the Spaniards to drag on to extra time and even penalties, and Flores took a day to practice penalties before the start of the game, which can be said to be fully prepared.
If you go on like this, it's definitely not the Spaniards who can't help it, but Atletico Madrid, who is more famous, has recently won all the games, and is eager to wash away the shame of the first half of the season with the championship, Flores can definitely afford it! And what about Dick? Can he afford it?
Flores knows that Dick makes the team play defensive counterattacks, but it also depends on who the opponent is, in the face of strong teams like Valencia and Barcelona, Atletico Madrid's players can willingly use defensive counterattacks to deal with each other, but in the face of the weaker Spaniards, Atletico Madrid's players can bear it? No kidding!
A sneer tuged at Flores' lips - now you declare victory, I'll see how you're slapped in the face after the match!
"Players from both sides have already played...... King Carlos I of Spain was present at the Copa del Rey final every year...... Espanyol and Atletico Madrid have dominated the two meetings in the league this season, they beat Atletico Madrid 3-1 at home, and the away game was also a 1-1 draw, and Hasselbaink has scored both goals for Atletico, and he will surely be preoccupied with the Spaniard's attention in this game, and Espanyol's young striker Tamudo also scored two goals in the game, the striker is the Spaniard's biggest discovery of the season! Atletico Madrid sent their usual four-five-one tactics recently, with Molina guarding the goal, Aguilera, Capdevilla, Gamarra and Chamote forming the backline, Serena, Belleron, Baraja, Solari and Juninho forming the midfield, and Hasselbaink coming forward alone, which is the absolute main lineup of Atletico Madrid in recent games, and Spain's starting XI is also their usual four-four-two......"
In the commentary of the commentator, the tedious ceremony before the start of all the games is finally over, and after Atletico Madrid won the right to kick off, the game is about to officially begin!
There were loud cheers from the stands, and Hasselbaink passed the ball to Juninho before running forward.
The two Spaniard strikers rushed towards Juninho, but instead of taking the ball forward, Juninho turned and handed the ball to Belleron, who was a little further back.
The Spaniard's two strikers kept rushing past Juninho and then continued to press for Belleron - he is the heart of Atletico's playmaking and playmaking, and how strong his pressing can have a huge impact on Atletico's attacking threat!
At the same time, the Spaniard's midfield has also pressed forward at the same time, faintly blocking Belleron's route to the side and forward, and they want to force Belleron to carry the ball forward, which is more likely to make mistakes.
Although it was intended to shrink the defense and let Atletico attack and then play their counter-attack, but in the early stage of the game, using this kind of forward pressing sometimes received miraculous results or made the opponent's judgment wrong.
In the face of the opponent's pressing, Belleron did not pass the ball forward, nor did he break through with the ball himself, but turned around and passed the ball backwards again!
The ball fell to Gamarra's feet, and instead of passing the ball forward, the Paraguayan stopped the ball directly at his feet, as if waiting for the opponent to come up and press......
The Espanyol players were a little stunned - continue to press forward? That's a deeper place, so it's useless to just rely on one or two people to rush forward, and the back line can play you like a monkey, if there are more people, then the number of people in the midfield will be reduced a lot, and then it will not be the Spaniards who play Atletico Madrid's counterattack, but Atletico Madrid's counterattack!
Seeing that the Espanyol players looked like they wanted to go up but didn't dare to go up, the Atletico Madrid fans in the stands laughed, while the Espanyol fans were depressed - they wanted to force the other party violently, but as soon as the opponent passed back, they were all stunned, which was too embarrassing......
Seeing that the opponent did not come up to press, Gamara also smiled in his heart, and then passed the ball to Chamot, who passed the ball to Aguilera, and Atletico Madrid as a whole began to move forward slowly.
Passing back and forth, passing constantly, gradually pushing the front forward, this is Atletico's tactic.
THIS TACTIC DICK PLAGIARIZED THE TACTICS OF THE LATER BARCELONA DREAM THREE TEAM, WHICH IS THE SO-CALLED TIKI-TAKA TACTIC, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE THREE LINES IS EXTREMELY CLOSE, THROUGH CONTINUOUS BACK AND FORTH TO TEAR APART THE OPPONENT'S BACKLINE, AND THEN TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SCORE - OF COURSE, THE TACTICS USED BY DICK JUST TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF LESS MISTAKES IN PASSING BACK AND FORTH AND THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A COMPACT FORMATION, AND THERE IS STILL A BIG DIFFERENCE IN OTHER ASPECTS, THE MAIN DIFFERENCE IS THE GOAL - THE PURPOSE OF THE TIKI-TAKA TACTIC IS TO PASS BACK AND FORTH IN ORDER TO SCORE A GOAL, AND THE PURPOSE OF DICK TO ADOPT THIS TACTIC IS NOT TO CONCEDE A GOAL, AS FOR SCORING GOALS? Leave it to those two goal cards......
In the face of Atletico Madrid's seemingly unusually cautious advance tactics, the Spaniards feel that they are in the middle, although the pressing and pressing just now did not have any effect, but the opponent played so carefully, but it coincided with the tactics they had set before to delay the time to make the opponent anxious, as long as the opponent dragged on like this, the Spaniards felt that it was definitely not them who could not bear it first, but the "giant" Atletico Madrid!
Sometimes the word big is not only glory, but also represents pressure, Atletico Madrid now belongs to the kind of hat that still has a big family, but it no longer has the strength to match the big family, at this time the status of the big family is even more embarrassing, because in many times they can't pull down their faces to do some shameful but very effective way of playing - this season Atletico Madrid played so badly inevitably there is such a mentality, Ranieri, the Italian coach who trained Valencia's solid backline, actually played a four-three-three adventure lineup after coming to Atletico Madrid - not so much four-three-three as a crazy four-two-four, because Solari appeared in the winger position many times, and Antich also emphasized using gorgeous offense to win after taking office, but he didn't know that Atletico Madrid now has already been completely clean in addition to a fairly glamorous coat, and there is still a giant shelf is looking for death!
Dick didn't care about this after he took over, his sense of crisis was stronger than that of all managers, and missing this opportunity meant that he would not have too many opportunities in the next few years, so he used hand-to-hand attacking tactics against Malaga, and against Valencia and Barcelona, he used ugly iron bucket defensive tactics - people must first survive, and then they can pay attention to face......
So now Atletico Madrid, there may be players who can't help it, but Dick absolutely can't bear it.
So in the next game, everyone began to yawn, because Atletico Madrid passed back and forth, and the Spaniard's back and forth running so that the back line had no flaws in the style of play was too boring, Atletico Madrid was passing back and forth, there was no chance to definitely not pass the threat, and the Spaniards did not top out to attack, but kept changing the center of gravity of the defense, not to give Atletico a chance......
Now it's like a fight between two people, one person is going in circles around the other outside, and the other is where the other person is turning, and neither of them is shooting......
"You're coming out!"
"Come here and fight!"
"I don't believe you've been changing the defensive focus all the time, and there won't be any problems!"
"I don't believe you keep passing around without making mistakes!"
For the players on both sides, such a game is of course very tense, and they have no time to observe other things, and for the fans in the stands it seems very boring, the supporters of both sides may not feel anything, but those neutrals are basically Real Madrid fans, Real Madrid does not play well and they dare to boo, let alone these two teams - so after 20 minutes of the game, one after another boos came from the neutral stands, they were both booing Atletico and Espanyol......
"Damn, what does it have to do with you, shhhhhh Dick glanced at the stands, then pouted.
If you want to boo, you can boo, anyway, all I want is victory, not anything else......