Chapter 424: Easy Reversal

Atletico Madrid, after a half-time adjustment, has made a noticeable change since the start of the second half. Coupled with Diego Simeone's lack of height in the Valladolid defensive line, the tactical guidance of strengthening the wing attack was firmly occupied.

Although Valladolid, playing at home, started the second half by "setting up a bus" in front of their own penalty area to try to hold on to a one-goal lead. However, due to the limited ability of the defensive players, coupled with the lack of height of the defenders. Therefore, just seven minutes into the second half, Atletico Madrid's top scorer Diego Costa seized the opportunity to equalize.

At that time, after getting rid of Antonio Rukavina's marking on the left side of the front, Feng Quan immediately completed the inward cut to the middle.

Just when the Valladolid defenders thought that Feng Quan, who cut inside to the middle, would choose to shoot from a distance, so as to compress the whole formation to the front of the penalty area, Feng Quan suddenly buckled the ball with his right foot, and then rubbed the ball to the left side with the outside of his right foot.

Then, Felipe Luiz, who was plugged in at high speed, observed the position of the players on both sides in the box during the run, and then immediately sent a cross with his left foot towards the back of the goal.

As Diego Simeone asked Mario Suarez, who was playing as a central midfielder, to step up forward in the second half of the game, as Diego Simeone asked at half-time. Therefore, when the wind re-distributed the ball to the left wing, Mario Suarez did not hesitate to cut in to the front of the goal.

Mario Suarez, who cut forward at the front post, couldn't get the ball on the ball, but his forward cut brought Valladolid to the top of the pitch, and Mitolovic successfully attracted it.

So, under the "cover" of Mario Suarez, Diego Costa, who was ambushed at the back post, grabbed ahead of the opposing central defender Mark Variente and easily pushed the ball into the top right corner of the goal.

One might wonder why the Valladolid goal, which was solid in the first half, was broken by Atletico Madrid after the second half with a very simple cross from the wing, without any personnel changes on either side?

Actually, it is not difficult to answer this question.

After a frustrating first half, the Atletico Madrid players have paid enough attention to Valladolid's seemingly "weak" opponent.

The main reason why Atletico Madrid was temporarily behind in the first half of the game was the huge psychological gap. From the "contempt" of the opponent at the beginning of the game, to the unexpected goal conceded five minutes later, the players became more and more impatient under the psychological effect of rushing to overtake the score. As a result, although Atletico Madrid had a lot of shots on goal, most of them were really threatening the opponent's goal because they were far from the goal.

It is precisely because of this that Valladolid's goal, which has been breached 10 times by opponents in the first four rounds of the league, will give people the illusion of "impregnable".

Due to the obvious gap between the overall strength of the two teams, it was only after the Atletico Madrid players began to really value them, and under the guidance of Diego Simeone's targeted tactical arrangement at halftime, the overall strength of Atletico Madrid was truly reflected.

In other words, the team must have top defensive players in place to really play the defensive power of the "swing bus" tactic. Otherwise, if the "bus" tactic is really tried, the Chinese team will not have missed the top 10 matches in the Asian region of the World Cup qualifiers for more than ten consecutive years after participating in the 2002 World Cup.

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If Atletico Madrid's equaliser had been a "world wave", the morale of Valladolid's players might not have taken too much of a hit. However, the opponent only relied on a simple cross from the side to crack the result of their own "swing bus" tactic, but it was a huge blow to the morale of the Valladolid players.

Thus, with the morale of the Valladolid players seriously frustrated, Atletico Madrid once again began their own goalscoring show in the following matches.

In the 13th minute of the second half, Juanfran dribbled into the opponent's 30-meter area and sent a cross to the penalty spot.

Under Mitolovic's close interference, Diego Costa, who could not attack the goal directly, headed the ball to Fengquan, who was ambushed near the top of the penalty area.

Feng Quan unloaded the ball with his chest and then took a long-range shot, and when the Valladolid defender pounced on him to try to block the shot, he pushed the ball across to the unguarded Alda Turan.

Although Diego Simeone admonished Alda Turan at half-time to minimise the number of long-range shots, the Turkish star did not hesitate to lift his foot to the back of the net with little interference himself.

Immediately afterward, the ball flew into the top right corner of the Valladolid goal like a cannonball.

Five minutes later, after Gabi made a successful steal at the edge of the penalty area, he sent a long pass over the top directly to the middle of the field.

Immediately afterwards, Diego Costa, who jumped high, beat Mitolovic and headed the ball to Feng Quan, who switched to the right side of the frontcourt.

In the high-speed running, Feng Quan first pushed the ball forward, and then shook off the pursuit of the defender with his superior speed advantage, and went directly into the penalty area.

In the face of the goalkeeper who abandoned the goal, Feng Quan once again used the signature action of his idol Ronaldo - after the pendulum pass shook it down, he easily sent the ball into the unguarded gate, 3-1.

After another 10 minutes, with a corner won by Feng Quan on the left flank, central defender Miranda, who often scores from set-pieces, beat the opposing central defender Mark Variant to help Atletico Madrid go to the next goal.

Since the sixth round of La Liga will be played in three days, when Miranda scored his team's fourth goal, Diego Simeone once again replaced Feng Quan and Diego Costa with Adrian Lopes and David Villa as "customary".

Just when everyone thought that the game would end with a score of 4-1, David Villa, who had just appeared for less than five minutes, assisted the core of the midfield, Koke, to complete a wonderful volley to score.

At that time, after receiving a pass from Juanfran on the edge of the penalty area on the right side, David Villa immediately dribbled the ball to the bottom line. Then the defender suddenly slammed the ball behind him as he pounced on him, then turned around and passed the ball to the top of the box.

Koke, who was already lying in ambush, first picked up the ball with his right foot, then quickly adjusted his body posture to ensure balance, then quickly swung his right leg back, and then his right foot hit the middle and back of the ball fiercely.

The next moment, the ball drew a high parabola in the air and went straight into the top left corner of the Valladolid goal.

In the end, Atletico Madrid, who were playing away, won five consecutive wins at the beginning of the league.