Although after the morning of recovery training, the tired look on the faces of many players has also faded a little. However, when the afternoon team practice began, the fitness of Felipe Luiz and Miranda, two absolute mainstays at the back, made manager Diego Simeone a little worried.

Even if the two Brazil internationals are available for the game two days later, it remains to be seen whether they will be able to play the full game and how they will be in the game.

So, to be on the safe side, Diego Simeone replaced the two Brazilian internationals with Javi Manquillo and José Jimenez on the last day of training before the start of the fourth round of the league.

Diego Costa, who returned to the team after missing two league games due to injury, was put aside by Diego Simeone in the main squad because he was not recruited by the Spanish national team. After all, Diego Costa's fitness is still quite good after last week's recovery training, and he has been in the team for many years, and he has already formed a tacit understanding with his teammates.

Due to the national team match day, the time really left for himself to prepare for the league, although it is only less than two days, but fortunately, the overall strength of the opponent Almeria in this round of the league is not very strong, so Diego Simeone believes that as long as there are no big surprises in the game, the probability of Atletico Madrid winning is still quite large.

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Despite only one point in the first three league games, the embarrassing situation of temporarily sitting in the penultimate table has left Almeria's head coach Francisco Rodriguez in a very likely situation. However, in the away game against Atletico Madrid, the Spanish coach did not choose to attack rashly, but chose a defensive-oriented tactical play very sensibly.

The reason why Francisco Rodriguez made this choice is not only because the team he coaches is obviously weaker than his opponents, but also because most of the main players of Atletico Madrid have just finished playing in their respective national teams, so they are slightly lacking in fitness.

In his opinion, as long as his team can withstand the opponent's attack in the first half of the game, and in the second half, when the fitness of the players on the field of Atletico Madrid has declined, then Almeria has a chance.

However, when the game actually started, Atletico Madrid, who had the advantage of being at home, did not leave any chance for Almeria to turn the tables.

Although the two Brazilian internationals in Atletico Madrid's backline did not start this game due to fitness problems. However, when Almeria chose to defend away from home, Atletico Madrid's backline was not greatly affected, even without two Brazilian internationals pressing the line-up.

At the same time, the return of Diego Simeone, a powerful centre-forward, has a very significant effect on the team's attacking power.

That's right, during Diego Costa's absence due to injury, Feng Quan, who replaced him in the "forward center" position, performed very well in the game, as evidenced by the statistics of 4 goals and 1 assist.

However, the lack of Fengquan's ability to grab points with a header makes Atletico Madrid's offensive system a little lacking in three-dimensionality. Moreover, after the position was pushed to the center position, Feng Quan's most threatening side breakthrough was also weakened to a certain extent.

Therefore, the return of Diego Costa from injury can not only make Atletico Madrid's attacking system more three-dimensional, but also allow Feng Quan to be "liberated" and return to his best left winger position.

Although, when Diego Costa returns from injury, there will inevitably be a player who started in the previous game who will be on the bench. However, with the Champions League set to kick off next week, Diego Simeone does not need to worry about how to balance the playing time of the main players up front, after all, Atletico Madrid still has a relatively limited number of players who can participate in the team's rotation.

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Due to Feng Quan's excellent performance in the first two rounds, and the Almeria team playing away from home, they also opted for a defensive-oriented tactic. As a result, Feng Quan became Atletico Madrid's first attacking option.

Although most of Almeria's players retreated to their 30-metre zone to defend, they still struggled to break through the windy wings.

In the 9th minute of the first half, right wing-back Juanfran received a hand-tossed ball from goalkeeper Courtois on the right side of the backfield and sent a precise long pass over the top directly to the left side of the field.

Although Suso, the Almeria player behind Feng Quan, used various small movements behind his back to interfere with the opponent's reception, Feng Quan, who was physically strong, still unloaded the ball with his chest steadily.

Immediately afterwards, Feng Quan didn't wait for the ball to land, and directly picked the ball over his head with his right foot, and then quickly completed the turn against Suso's body to bypass the opponent's marking, and then ran along the left side with the ball before.

The next moment, when Almeria right-back Hans Martínez quickly pounced on Feng Quan and tried to prevent him from continuing to break through, Feng Quan first made a gesture with his left foot to continue to break forward, and after seeing that the center of gravity of the opponent's body was also shifted, Feng Quan's left foot skipped directly above the football, and then used his left foot as a fulcrum, and then used the outside of his right foot to move the ball to the right side of his body to complete the inward cut to the middle.

Just when the defenders of the Almeria team thought that Feng Quan would continue to advance in the direction of the middle, so as to compress the whole formation towards the front of the penalty area, Feng Quan suddenly moved the ball directly to the undefended area on the right side of the front field near the corner of the big penalty area.

It wasn't until Juanfran cut forward at high speed that Almeria's left-back Fernandez couldn't get back into his defensive position.

With no team-mates of his own in the middle of the box, Juanfran didn't choose to cross into the box, but instead sent an inverted triangle pass to Diego Costa, who was standing on the right side of the box.

Although Diego Costa withstood the push of the opposing central defender Marco Torsiglieri and barely received a pass from Juanfrán, it was also very difficult for Diego Costa to finish the shot when facing the goal sideways.

At that moment, Juanfrán, who had just passed the ball to Diego Costa, suddenly shouted at him: "Diego pass back, the wind is behind you." ”

If Juanfran hadn't shouted the phrase "the wind is behind you", Diego Costa might have opted to pass back. But when he heard that the object of receiving the pass was actually his "direct competitor", he immediately "very decisively" chose to force his foot to shoot.

Although Diego Costa's shot was powerful, the ball eventually flew high over the crossbar thanks to the interference of the tall and muscular Trujillo.

After seeing this scene, there was a burst of sighs in the stands of Calderón Stadium.

Not only that, some Atletico Madrid fans who are more active-minded also have some "interesting" interpretations of this attack - is it because of the discord with the Chinese kid that Diego Costa chose to force the goal......