The moment the ball entered the Atletico Madrid goal, thunderous applause and cheers erupted in the stands at the Estadio de Sorilla.

Although this is the home stadium of Valladolid, it was a bit of a surprise for the home fans to be able to break through the door of their defensively strong rivals Atletico Madrid just five minutes after the game began.

That's why, when Valladolid took the lead by one goal, the excitement on the faces of the home fans filled the faces as if the team they were supporting had already won the Champions League.

In stark contrast, it is the players of Atletico Madrid who stand on the pitch. At this time, they could not be more appropriate to describe them with the word "dumbfounded".

In the eyes of the Atletico Madrid players, this game at the Stadio Sohrilla was nothing more than a game of going through the motions. However, what they could not have imagined was that Valladolid, who had failed to score a single goal after the first four rounds of the league, actually broke the goal drought on their own.

Valladolid's goal was a big surprise, but the most crucial factor in this situation was that all the members of Atletico Madrid, including manager Diego Simeone, failed to pay enough attention to the game.

The day after the match against Zenit St. Petersburg, Diego Simeone took a day off for the main players. At the same time, the two days of training before this match were mainly condition-adjusting training, rather than training for the technical characteristics of the Valladolid team.

As a result, when the team's coach Diego Simeone failed to pay enough attention to this game, the players on the pitch of Atletico Madrid will not take the opponent seriously. Because of this, when Valladolid's Omar won the second point and sent a through ball to the front, the Atletico Madrid players did not think that the opponent's counterattack could threaten their own goal, so they did not press forward in the first place.

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Although Atletico Madrid, who conceded a goal first, immediately launched a fierce attack on the opponent, but in the case of Valladolid team's immediate contraction defensive tactics, because of the rush to overtake the score, most of the Atletico Madrid players on the field played a little abnormally.

Although the Atletico Madrid players created 15 shots in the remaining minutes of the first half, they were all denied by Valladolid goalkeeper Diego Marino.

If it weren't for the limited individual ability of Valladolid's strikers, I am afraid that they would have seized the opportunity to extend their lead again.

In the end, until the end of the first half, the score on the field was still 1-0 for the home team Valladolid.

Visiting players' locker room at the Sohrilla Stadium.

Although Diego Simeone's face looked a little ugly after the temporary one-goal deficit, the Argentine, who was not very good-tempered, did not get angry at the poor performance of his players after the starting eleven returned to the dressing room.

'You were a bit bad in the first half, but a big part of that was due to my mistakes. After a pause, Diego Simeone continued: "So, first of all, I want to say sorry to everyone, it was I who didn't pay enough attention to Valladolid before the game to cause this temporary situation to come about. ”

Hearing this, whether it was the eleven starters of this game, or all the team staff, including assistant coach Herman Boggs, they all looked at Diego Simeone with a straight face with a surprised face.

In their impression, Diego Simeone should have been full of anger at the players at this time. But who would have thought that instead of getting angry at the poor performance of the jerseys, the Argentine coach at this moment took the blame on himself, and apologized to the players for his "mistakes......

Such an unexpected scene made everyone in the locker room have a thought in their hearts: Is this Diego Simeone in front of him still the iron-blooded Argentine we are familiar with? ”

After seeing the surprised expressions on the faces of the others, Diego Simeone immediately straightened his face and continued: "Well, I have just apologized to you for my mistake. So now, I'm going to make a new setup for the second half of the game. ”

'Yes, you did create 15 shots in the first half, and eight of those shots were on target. However, 11 of those 15 shots were taken from outside the Valladolid penalty area, and five of them were scrambled to shoot after entering the opposition's 30-metre zone. ”

Speaking of which, Diego Simeone, who was frowning, suddenly looked at the Turkish player Alda Turan, who was sitting in a chair drinking water.

"Alda, your long-range shooting ability is good, but which do you think you have more shooting power compared to Robert Carlos?"

Diego Simeone said this precisely because four of the five long-range shots that came from the ground in a hurry as soon as he entered the 30-metre zone came from Alda Turan.

In the face of Diego Simeone's questioning, the Turk, who knew that he was wrong, had to bow his head with guilt.

"Long-range shooting from the periphery is certainly an important means to break the opponent's dense defense, but isn't a blind long-range shot equivalent to returning the ball to the opponent in vain? Therefore, in the second half of the game, you must get close to the opponent's penalty area before you can shoot from a distance. Otherwise, even if you can't find a chance to shoot, you have to keep the ball under your feet. ”

After a pause, Diego Simeone continued: "Considering that none of the players in the opposition backline, except for Mitolovic, are more than 1.85m tall, so after the start of the second half, we have to increase the intensity of the attack on both wings. If you can't break through the opposition's dense defence and burst into the box to shoot, you can also cross directly into the box and use Diego's (Costa) header advantage to threaten the opponent's goal. ”

With that, Diego Costa turned his head to Mario Suarez, who was not far away.

"Mario, once the two wings have broken through, you have to cut into the opponent's box without hesitation, and also use your header advantage to help Diego relieve the pressure on the defence."

After a pause, Diego Simeone said to Miranda, who was sitting next to Mario Suarez: "Joao, in addition to the corner, I also ask you to take advantage of the moment to get into the opponent's box to grab the point. ”

"As long as they keep putting pressure on the Valladolid goal, it is impossible for them to withstand 45 minutes of continuous attack with their defensive quality."