Chapter 427: Preparing for the Copa del Rey Final

The media is still buzzing about the unbeaten season, because there is no good news to broadcast in La Liga right now. With two weeks to go before the Copa del Rey final, no media eyes have been taken down yet.

However, for Atletico Madrid, preparations for the Copa del Rey final have already begun.

The final of Gua Nong's preparation was on April 22, and after finishing Real Sociedad's pizza, Atletico Madrid's entire focus was on this final.

In fact, before the final, the team has one more game, and that is the 32nd round of the league, where Atletico Madrid will challenge Espanyol away from home.

This game is intended to be a warm-up match for the Copa del Rey final - the league advantage is still quite large, even if something goes wrong in this game, it is not a big deal.

For the Copa del Rey final, it's worth giving up even a league game.

And during this time, the team has already begun to prepare for the final of the Copa del Rey. In Gao Bo's view, if they want to beat Jose Mourinho's team in the final, the key to Atletico Madrid is still attacking.

Real Madrid's defence must not be confident, otherwise several of their capable attackers could have a chance to counter-attack and send the ball into the Atletico Madrid goal at any time.

To be honest, the tactics against Mourinho are quite a headache for any team.

Real Madrid have such a strong squad and they also play defensive counter-attacks. This makes Gao Bo crazy about Mourinho, if this set of lineup is handed over to Gao Bo, I am afraid that there are not many teams that can resist the attack, why bother to play such an unpleasant tactic.

During this time, Atletico Madrid's main training was almost, and attacking routine training was carried out.

Generally speaking, the team will often update and arrange some offensive routines for special drills, and some goals can be clearly seen to be drilled.

Of course, the routines can only be used for a while, and the basis is the team's overall tactical thinking, and when the tactical thinking is clarified, many routines can be developed naturally.

However, for some specific games, the team still needs to arrange some new offensive routines.

The training of routines may seem complicated, but there is nothing new for the players.

The first is the running routine in the race.

For example, when Modric gets the ball at the edge of the box, how the other players move is something that needs to be designed first. Inspiration may be on the pitch right now, but a well-trained running routine can make the players look more comfortable on the pitch.

The passer, the attacker, the player who finishes the shot.

An offensive routine, from running, responding, to finally tearing open the gap to shoot, this series of actions requires special training and running-in.

In addition to the offensive running routines in positional battles, it is the free-kick attack that relies more on the routines.

Because the situation on the field of free kick attack is relatively simple, and the players have more time to prepare, this allows the attacking routine to be fully developed.

Therefore, the offensive routines of corner kicks and free kicks in the front court, the coaching staff has also studied several sets during this time, different players take penalties, and even different locations have several different sets of offensive routines to prepare, so that the players can act according to the plan when they are on the field.

This kind of offensive routine is linked to the previous copywriting and plan, which requires the cooperation of several coaches, considering all aspects, usually an offensive routine plan is several pages of dense text, which makes people dizzy to watch, but in fact, it is reflected in the game, what you see is just a flowing attack.

It may seem normal to the fans, but in fact it is the result of the joint efforts of the players and coaches on the training ground.

It's a lot of brains to devise an offensive routine, and to implement him on the training ground.

But for coaches, it's what they do every day.

On Espino's training ground, Gao Bo stood on the sidelines in sportswear, and assistant coach Moya's whistle sounded frequently.

The players are reviewing the attacking routines they have previously contacted.

In fact, in order to familiarize the players with the running position, the players use their hands in this kind of running training.

Whether it's passing or shooting, it's all with your hands. It looks like handball. The advantage of this is that it can be easy to difficult, and it saves training time by familiarizing the players with their running positions and reducing the mistakes that can result from passing the ball with their feet.

On the training ground, there's not so much time to waste.

When the players are familiar with the running routine, they will really start to improve with the ball at their feet.

After getting familiar with the routines, the players also need to use the routines in actual combat in the competition on the training ground.

That's what the team did ahead of the away game against Espanyol.

As for the away game against Espanyol?

Gao Bo is going to send in a substitute lineup.

Since the final is four days after this game, Gao Bo must of course consider the physical fitness of the main players at this time.

In particular, the relationship between Espanyol and Atletico Madrid is not very good, and when playing away from home, the opponent's action will inevitably be bigger.

Therefore, when the starting list for this game came out, almost everyone was taken by surprise.

Gao Bo fielded arguably the most rotated starter this season.

In addition to the goalkeeper and Keylor Navas, the centre-back is the team's centre-back pairs Perea and Oujfarusi last season, while the right-back is Andrea and the left wing-back is Antonio López.

In midfield, it is Mario Suarez, Koke and Thiago Cardoso, and up front is Mane, Diego Costa, and young Italian striker Immobile.

If such a lineup was last season, it actually looks pretty good, of course, there is still a gap compared to the main team of the team, but this lineup as a whole, putting down the entire La Liga league, it can be regarded as a team in the upper ranking.

This season's Atletico Madrid has been reorganized by Gao Bo and cleaned up redundancy, and even the bench has become much more lean.

And after seeing Atletico Madrid playing with such a lineup, the Spaniards thought that their chance to beat Atletico Madrid had come.

As a result, the Espanyol players playing at home were very excited, and they tried to press up at home to attack, giving Atletico Madrid a disadvantage first.

But they were soon doused with a basin of cold water.

In the fifteenth minute of the game, Mane gave a very impressive performance on the pitch.

He picked up the ball near midfield and used his pace from the outside to break through the Spaniard's midfield defence, then made a series of feints against the opposition defenders to break into the box and draw the attention of the defence before passing the ball to the back post.

What Immobile had to do at the back post was simple, he just had to keep the ball in the empty net!

It was a pleasure to watch from the side of the high wave field.

After the card upgrade, Mane's strength, especially his speed, has been increased by 15%, which makes him a sharp knife to break through on the wing, and Atletico Madrid also opened up the situation with the help of the wide breakthrough.

After this goal, the lagging Spaniards were also forced to attack, and as a result, Atletico Madrid's substitute lineup did a very good job of defense, and in the face of the Espanyol's attack, they were at ease, and even after the break, Atletico Madrid had several opportunities to counterattack.

So the second goal came early in the second half.

This time it was Diego Costa who scored the goal!

Koke's through ball from the middle of the pitch was played to Costa at the edge of the box, and Costa turned and fired a low shot from the edge of the box, the ball went through the crotch of the defender and into the net!

Two to zero!

After that, Gao Bo began to deploy troops, and he sent several main attackers to let the main players also go up to feel the atmosphere of the game.

At full-time, Espanyol lost 4-0 at home to Atletico Madrid.

Maybe against Atletico Madrid's main line-up, the Spaniards didn't lose so badly - because then their idea might be to keep a draw. As a result, they suffered such a defeat as soon as they thought too much at home.

After this match, the final of the Copa del Rey is also coming soon!