"Hmm, is it better to be 'Dick the Miracle' or is it better to be 'Dick the Magician' (I won't talk about this source, everyone should know)......"

Dick sat down in his place while thinking in his heart, and seeing him so welcome, Mourinho's eyes in the visiting team's dugout turned a little colder.

"It's not that simple...... It's a pity that Louis van Gaal doesn't listen to me......," Mourinho thought to himself.

In fact, it is not to blame Van Gaal for underestimating the enemy, his judgment is based on the psychology of a manager, but Dick is not a normal manager, probably only Mourinho, who has dealt with him, has some vague understanding of him, and it is normal to suffer such a loss, just like Cooper.

Now Van Gaal has a calm face - he hid two absolute main forces, but let Litmanen and Ronald De Boer, who have not performed very well this season, play, and Atletico Madrid is all the main players are sent to the field, he also watched the video of the last round of Atletico Madrid's game, Gamarara, Belleron, Juninho and Hasselbaink's initial establishment of the central axis is the key to the rise of Atletico Madrid's combat effectiveness, and now these four people are on the field, and Atletico's formation is the kind of formation in the second half of the last round of games, standard defensive counterattack!

Van Gaal, however, doesn't want to just throw in the towel.

Isn't it just that the two main forces are not on it? I don't believe that Atletico Madrid have become a top team now, and I don't believe that Barcelona will not be able to break through Atletico's strict defense without two main players - we are not Valencia! Valencia are not good at attacking because they lack a top centre-forward, and what about us? There are two such outstanding strikers on the field! Kluivert is the best center forward in the 433 tactics, and Dani is a standard point-grabbing striker who has been on a hot streak lately, with these two men on the field, plus the creativity of our midfield, are you afraid that you can't score the ball in Atletico Madrid?

Van Gaal was not a believer, but his confidence began to falter slightly as soon as the game started......

"Don't believe in evil, buddy, I really didn't give them any injections or medicines, but their fighting spirit is stronger than ever!" Dick crossed his legs and thought to himself in the coach's seat.

To the excitement of all Atletico Madrid fans, after two consecutive victories, the Atletico Madrid players not only did not lose their sharpness, but seemed to have a strong fighting spirit, and began to run back and forth in the midfield to block Barcelona's attack.

It stands to reason that Atletico Madrid should have more difficulties in defense in this game, although without Rivaldo and Figo, Barcelona's positional offensive ability is still quite good, but from the beginning of the game, Atletico Madrid's players showed high morale, starting from the midfield to block Barcelona's attack - even Juninho continued to press Guardiola in the front, making it impossible for him to organize the attack easily......

Barcelona's players looked a little uncomfortable with this kind of pressing from the midfield, and if Rivaldo and Figo were there, they would have been able to pass the ball directly to the feet of these two men to attack, but they are not there at the moment......

Pep Guardiola came on with a brilliant long ball, but Cocu, who burst into the box, heard the referee's whistle when he slotted the ball into the back of the net - the trailing Gamara moved forward in time to throw him out of an offside position, and Cocu's goal was disallowed.

Then Ronald De Boer's free-kick was saved by Molina, and Litemanen's two breakthroughs on the right were also blocked by Capdevilla, and after blocking Barcelona's attack after the opening, Atletico began to take advantage of the situation to counterattack!

Unlike the last game, which was basically a contraction defense, Atletico Madrid adopted a relatively active tactic in this game, although they still put a lot of effort into defense, but in the attack, they did not rely on one or two long passes to break through!

In the fifteenth minute, Belleron took the ball in the backfield and quickly handed it to Juninho in front and then stepped forward, Juninho gave it to Solari who was resolutely inserted on the left side, Solari took two steps forward with the ball and then distributed it to Hasselbaink, Hasselbaink took the ball and passed back, and the inserted Belleron quickly shot from a distance, and the ball was saved by Hesper.

"Yes, that's what you want." Dick nodded secretly, there are actually a lot of players with good skills in Atletico Madrid's frontcourt, but there are few players who are fast, and the counterattack tactics he set are this kind of small-scale cooperation of three or four people, and quickly complete the counterattack through passing, maybe the speed will be a little slower, but the success of the attack is greater, not to mention that Barcelona changed the usual four-three-three to four-four-two in this game, in fact, the midfield control ability is still weakened a lot, and Atletico Madrid also has a greater possibility to complete such an attack.

"If you just rely on that kind of luck to score on the counter-attack, even if you win the game, it won't be that big of a blow to Barcelona's confidence." Dick pondered in his mind.

The game on the pitch continued, and Atletico's counter-attack was a wake-up call for Barcelona, as their attack seemed to have slowed down a bit compared to before, and the two sides were entangled in midfield.

Dick is also happy to see this situation, the last round of Valencia was very recycled, because of the fear of López's speed and technique, and Barcelona has such a striker? No, Kluivert is a center forward, Dani is a pure goalscorer, even if the space in the back is a little bigger, it doesn't matter, but more in the midfield, to strengthen the defense, to have a better role.

Different beards, different scissors to deal with, and if Van Gaal thought Atletico would still use the same shrinking defense as last game, then he was mistaken!

Seeing that the two sides are constantly entangled in the midfield, Barcelona's midfield has not yet gained the upper hand, Van Gaal's brows are furrowed even tighter, Atletico Madrid's midfield is still quite good, but Barcelona's midfield is weakened than usual, so entangled, it is not easy for Barcelona to score goals......

'They're strengthening the midfield.' Mourinho whispered to Louis van Gaal.

"Looks like I'm really underestimating this guy, all he wants is to fight us in the Copa del Rey! This bastard, is he so sure of relegation? Van Gaal whispered to Mourinho through gritted teeth.

"Maybe he's a guy who values personal grievances more than the team's interests...... Mourinho said with a wry smile.

Van Gaal was stunned for a moment, and then reacted - yes, maybe Dick is such a person, after all, he is only twenty-one years old, and he is still at the age when he likes to be self-willed, maybe he didn't think about the impact on the relegation cause in this game, just to prevent Barcelona from winning a championship chance, and reduce the possibility of running naked!

Coupled with the fact that Van Gaal knew that Dick had been kicked out by Cruyff, Van Gaal, who was originally angry, couldn't help but smile bitterly - did he really want to be angry with such a stunned person?

To be honest, although Van Gaal's slogan is to win the Treble like Manchester United last season, but he himself knows very well that to win the Treble, it is not by strength, but also by luck, in fact, last season's Manchester United did not have an overwhelming advantage on all fronts, but their luck was very good, so it created a miracle, Barcelona has played so far Although there is still a chance to win the championship on three lines, it has been dragged almost away, This is the real reason why he hid Figo and Rivaldo in the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey - the treble is just a gimmick, what he really wants to do is to make a breakthrough in the Champions Cup, he has already won two domestic doubles, all he lacks is a Champions Cup, if he can win the Champions Cup, he will be able to compare with Cruyff in the history of Barcelona, you must know that Cruyff's dream team has only one Champions Cup title!

This time led Barcelona to the semi-finals of the Champions Cup, which is already the best result for Barcelona after winning the championship for the only time in history, and now for Van Gaal, what he has to do is to win the Champions Cup in one go, then his position will be extremely stable!

You must know that now Barcelona has signs of civil unrest, there are internal strife within the team and outside, Barcelona fans are dissatisfied with Van Gaal's reuse of the Dutch gang and the Portuguese gang, despising local players, and in the team, Rivaldo and Figo are dissatisfied with Van Gaal's value of their old Ajax department - both of them only have an annual salary of three million US dollars, but Litermanen, who joined freely in the summer, as a player who can't play the main team, has an annual salary of five million US dollars!

Now in the big goal of impacting the Champions Cup, the team is relatively stable, Van Gaal now just wants to win the Champions Cup, and then set things right!

"Let's go on like this first, we still have a home stadium after all, so we don't need to be in a hurry." Van Gaal calmed his mind and said to Mourinho.

Mourinho nodded, the current scene is just a stalemate, there is no need to be too anxious, even if there is a small defeat away? Back at home, plus there is still a confrontation with Atletico Madrid in the league, after three consecutive games, how much fitness and form can Atletico Madrid, which is already at the end of the strong crossbow, have?

After all, Barcelona's two main players were hidden in this game......

Just as Van Gaal was about to continue watching calmly, an unexpected situation on the field made him angry again......

In the thirtieth minute of the game, an attack from Barcelona failed and Atletico launched a counter-attack.

After taking the ball, Juninho saw that there was no chance, turned and passed the ball to Belleron, who received the ball and turned around, suddenly raised his foot to distribute the ball to the right, and Aguilera rushed up from this side.

In the face of Sergi's defense, Aguilera first made a feint to pass the ball to the middle, and then suddenly flicked the ball near the sideline and forced a breakthrough!

Aguilera, who is already thirty years old, is as agile as a young man in this breakthrough!

In the face of this former national team teammate, Sergi obviously didn't expect Aguilera to suddenly return to his peak, and he was accidentally rushed by Aguilera from his side!

After breaking through Sergi, Aguilera had nothing to defend in front of him, and he broke all the way to the edge of the line, before spotting Hasselbaink, who was picking up in the middle, to pass the ball out.

Originally, Abelardo was pestering Hasselbaink, but when Hasselbaink rushed forward to receive Aguilera's pass, Abelardo ran two steps, but suddenly slipped and fell to the ground!

"I wiped it, I don't seem to use the fall card, this guy actually fell......" Dick thought dumbfounded.

The defender who defended himself fell inexplicably, and Hasselbaink was naturally not polite, he took a step across, received a pass from Aguilera and shot with his compatriot Hesp raised his foot, and the ball went into the net!