Although Diego Simeone himself recognizes Feng Quan's strength, for a player who has just joined the team and missed the team's entire summer preparation period, even with the halo of "Bundesliga Rookie of the Year", Diego Simeone will not be able to immediately put him in the team's starting lineup.

Especially when Alda Turan played extremely well against Sevilla, the time for Feng Quan to be in the team's starting lineup had to be postponed a little later.

It may not be a problem for Feng Quan to sit on the bench in a short period of time and slowly adapt to La Liga, but if it takes a long time, even if Feng Quan himself will not be dissatisfied with this, several bigwigs of the club's management will not agree, and the team can only sit on the bench to introduce players at a high price of 23 million euros.

And the best solution Diego Simeone can think of is to put Feng Quan in the role of the team's main "rotation player".

Due to the limited financial relationship, the depth of the team's squad is really not comparable to the "two best in the Spanish Super League", so in the case of third-tier battles (La Liga, Champions League, Copa del Rey), it is difficult to achieve good results with a set of main teams.

When the team's main players are injured or in poor form, whether the rotation players can successfully fill the gaps in the game is the key to whether they can create good results in the third line.

Therefore, even if Feng Quan is positioned as the team's main "rotation player" in Atletico Madrid this season, he can still get a lot of playing opportunities.

However, Diego Costa's unexpected injury made Diego Simeone determined to try his hand at a new position that had never been tried before.

In fact, even without Diego Costa's accidental injury, Diego Simeone had the intention of developing him as a striker when he decided to bring in Feng Quan.

On the one hand, in the current Atletico Madrid team, Diego Costa is the only striker with the ability to attack the fulcrum up front. If Diego Costa doesn't play well in the game, there really isn't any other striker in the squad who can replace him. And Feng Quan, whose physical fitness can be called against the sky, and his shooting skills are also very exquisite, is obviously very suitable for the innate conditions of becoming an excellent forward center.

On the other hand, if more "positional attributes" can be developed in the whole body, Atletico Madrid, which has limited recruitment funds, will also have more options in terms of arrangement.

In other words, Diego Simeone's unexpected injury only allowed Diego Simeone to "skip" the process of adapting to La Liga in advance, and directly entered the time to "develop" a new position.

So, from the third day of Feng Quan's arrival in Spain, Diego Simeone practiced the team's individual training position, and he practiced the position of the forward center forward.

Although Feng Quan's ability to grab points with his headers is obviously weaker than his other football skills, with only three days left in the second round of the league, Diego Simeone did not waste time in this regard, but focused more on guiding Feng Quan on how to run in attack.

If it had been a year ago, even with the team's coach giving him special guidance, it would have been impossible for Feng Quan to adapt to the sudden center forward position that he had never tried before in a short period of time. After most of the season's Bundesliga baptism, as well as the experience of "learning" Van der Vaart in the second half of last season, Fengquan's adaptability in all aspects has been greatly improved.

But even so, Diego Simeone himself knows very well that it is impossible for Feng Quan to fully adapt to the new position of a forward center forward in just three days.

As a result, Diego Simeone also appropriately reduced some difficulty when he was training Feng Quan's position.

First of all, in addition to asking Feng Quan to stand in the middle of the field as the team's offensive fulcrum when the team enters the positional offensive state, Diego Simeone can move in the front court at will at will according to his own judgment at other times.

Secondly, when the team successfully breaks the ball and is ready to launch a quick counterattack, Feng Quan must be ready to move closer to the middle at any time in order to take advantage of his unparalleled speed advantage. If you receive a pass from a teammate while moving on the wing, try to cut inside with the ball to the middle to play for other strikers, or look for an opportunity to threaten the opponent's goal with a long-range shot.

In fact, Diego Simeone's current positioning of Feng Quan is more like a combination of a forward and a shadow striker. The reason why Diego Simeone made such a decision, in addition to the tight time, is also fully considering the technical characteristics of Fengquan.

Feng Quan's biggest threat is his speed, and while he can play to his speed advantage in the middle, his speed advantage is significantly compromised when the defense is relatively dense.

Therefore, giving Feng Quan more free play will undoubtedly greatly increase his threat in attack.

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Originally, Atletico Madrid's first home game of the season was scheduled to start at 6 p.m. local time in Spain. However, due to the fact that a certain "super boss" in China is very concerned about the relationship between this game, the CCTV sports channel came forward and after obtaining the consent of the two clubs of Atletico Madrid and Rayo Vallecano, the start time of this game was changed to 3 pm.

The temperature in Madrid was still a bit hot in late August, and the temperature reached 31 degrees Celsius on the afternoon of the 25th. For this reason, many fans of Atletico Madrid are quite dissatisfied with the club's temporary change of game time. On the contrary, many fans who like La Liga in China are very happy, after all, the early time of this game means that they don't have to endure the pain of staying up late to watch the game.

Even though Atletico Madrid's supporters were unhappy, more than 50,000 fans poured into the Calderón stadium as it was the first home game of the season.

Before the start of this game, many domestic fans have learned the news that Diego Simeone is "making a small stove" for Fengquan in training through many channels. However, as for whether Feng Quan can start in this game, Diego Simeone did not give a positive answer in an interview with reporters before the game.

Although for Feng Quan, who has only joined Atletico Madrid for less than a week, even if he is placed on the bench by Diego Simeone, domestic fans should be satisfied. However, considering that Feng Quan landed in La Liga with the halo of "the best newcomer in the Bundesliga", everyone still hopes that Feng Quan's debut will be staged as soon as possible.

Finally, less than 60 minutes before the start of the game, a university student studying in Madrid announced the starting lists of the two teams at the largest football forum in the country.

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PS: Atletico Madrid's starting line-up

Goalkeeper: Thibaut Courtois

Defenders: Felipe, Godin, Miranda, Juanfrán;

Midfielders: Turan, Gabi, Mario Suarez, Koke;

Forward: Feng Quan, Villa