Feng Quan, who was standing near the penalty spot, looked at the football that fell into the goal after hitting the net with complicated eyes.

In Feng Quan's view, as a striker, he must take on the responsibility of helping the team destroy the city. Even though he is the arrowhead of the team, he doesn't need to take much responsibility for the goal conceded, but as a member of the team, Feng Quan still feels guilty because the team is behind the score.

Yes, defenders do bear the lion's share of the blame for conceding goals, but if the strikers have scored before they concede, they can at least keep the team in a better position.

Judging from the player's individual performance on the field, Feng Quan's performance is still relatively qualified.

Feng Quan not only played a good role as a fulcrum in the positional attack, but also broke through with the ball after winning the ball on the wing a few times, which also made the Real Sociedad defenders feel very tricky.

If it weren't for the impatience of other Atletico Madrid players in the game, who were able to tear apart Real Sociedad's defense more through the cooperation of players, rather than relying on relatively simple side kicks to threaten the opponent's goal, Feng Quan's threat in attack would have been greater.

Although Feng Quan can rely on his strong physical fitness to play the role of the fulcrum in the front court, but because he is not good at headers, when Real Sociedad has a large number of defensive forces in the 30-meter area of his side, even if Feng Quan can fight for the first landing point with excellent bounces, it is difficult to form a real threat to the goal.

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Faced with the unfavorable situation of falling behind the score, Diego Simeone did not immediately let the players of his team increase the attack, but asked the players on the field to stabilize their emotions first, continue to control the initiative on the field, and then patiently look for flaws in the opponent's defense.

Even after finishing the first half with a goal down, Diego Simeone didn't want to see Real Sociedad threaten his own goal with a quick counter-attack.

Just as Diego Simeone gave his latest instructions for the final 15 minutes of the first half, Feng Quan was reflecting on his performance in the first 30 minutes.

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Before the start of this game, Diego Simeone was tasked with playing the role of an attacking fulcrum in the middle of the front, while using his dribbling to attract the attention of the opposition's defense, so as to create space for other teammates to attack.

Despite replacing Diego Costa as a central striker, Feng Quan basically completed the task of the fulcrum in the front court in the first 30 minutes of the game. However, with most of the Real Sociedad players shrunk within 30 metres of their own side, it was difficult for Feng Quan to create more space for his teammates to attack.

It is precisely because of this that the players of Atletico Madrid will gradually become impatient as the game time goes by, and then choose more simple ways to take the ball from the side to threaten the door of Real Sociedad.

In fact, even if it is just an ordinary fan, as long as you have watched the last round of Atletico Madrid and Rayo Vallecano, it will be clear that Feng Quan's biggest threat still comes from the breakthrough inside after winning the ball on the side.

As long as Feng Quan successfully completes the inside cut, whether it is to complete the goal directly by himself, or to attract the attention of the opponent's defense and make the ball for other teammates, he can pose a great threat to the opponent's goal.

However, with Diego Costa missing out due to injury, Feng Quan had to take on the role of central striker in his place. In this way, it also weakened Feng Quan's offensive threat to a certain extent.

Although Feng Quan occasionally switches positions with Alda Turan or David Villa to the wing, due to Atletico Madrid's strikers who are not good at heading the ball, Feng Quan will hardly choose to cross into the box after getting rid of the entanglement of defenders.

As a result, Real Sociedad's defenders focused most of their attention on preventing Feng Quan's breakthrough in-cut cut. Moreover, even if Feng Quan can force an inside cut with his superior speed advantage, it will be difficult to find space to play for his teammates in a dense defensive situation.

Therefore, Feng Quan felt that if he continued to play according to Diego Simeone's pre-match arrangement, it would be difficult for Atletico Madrid to turn the situation around.

So, after a short period of thought, Feng Quan decided to try to change.

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After kick-off with David Villa, instead of going straight to the 30-metre area of Real Sociedad as in the previous match, Feng Quan cruined around the center circle of the opposition half.

Since most of the Real Sociedad's forces are concentrated in the vicinity of the 30-metre zone of their own side, it is Javi Prieto who will be "symbolic" when the wind is cruising near the centre circle.

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Although Diego Simeone's latest instructions were to be steady, Coke, who was picking up the ball in his own half, did not hesitate to pass the ball after seeing the wind cruising near the centre circle reaching out to him for the ball.

With his back to the attack, Feng Quan did not choose to stop the ball directly, but first passed the football to Alda Turan who was not far away, and then quickly turned around Xavi Prieto's marking.

The next moment, before Xavi Prieto could finish turning and chasing back, Alda Turan had already passed the ball back to Fengquan's feet in the first place.

Feng Quan, who regained possession of the ball, did not push forward directly, but dribbled diagonally towards the left side of the front court.

After seeing the wind dribbling to the left, Alda Turan moved closer to the middle. And David Villa, who was placed on the right side of the front field by Diego Simeone in the previous game, quickly killed in the direction of the opponent's penalty area.

At the same time, Atletico Madrid's three central midfielders also overwhelmed the halfway line and were ready to pick up their team-mates up front.

At first, the Real Sociedad defenders thought that Feng Quan would move some distance down the left flank as he had done before cutting inside the middle. As a result, their overall formation also converged towards the edge of the penalty area.

However, Feng Quan did not cut inside to the middle as the opposing player expected, but rushed directly along the left sideline towards the bottom line.

Although Real Sociedad's Dani Estrada has been following Feng Quan closely, how can he alone stop Feng Quan's progress?

In fact, Real Sociedad did not expect Estrada to be able to stop Feng Quan's breakthrough. In their view, Atletico Madrid's forward line lacks players who are adept at heading the ball, so even if the wind tears through the wide defence, it is difficult to pose a real threat to cross into the box. After all, no matter how accurate Feng Quan's cross is, it won't help if his teammates can't grab the landing spot.

Although Real Sociedad's defensive strategy was very targeted, they still made the mistake of forming a wrong inertial thinking about Feng Quan's "breakthrough in-cut".

Under normal circumstances, after winning the ball on the wing, Feng Quan will choose to cut inside on the edge of the opponent's big penalty area. In this way, once Feng Quan has successfully completed the inside cut, he can choose to shoot directly from distance, or attract the attention of the opponent's defense and then create opportunities for other teammates.

However, when the opponent gathered heavy troops in the front of the penalty area, and the two players on both sides in the penalty area were relatively dense and it was difficult to find passing space, Feng Quan naturally had to make some changes.

So, Feng Quan kept dribbling the ball to near the bottom line, and then stopped moving forward and moved towards the penalty area.

In the face of Estrada's defense, Feng Quan only shook his upper body slightly, and after deceiving the opponent's center of gravity to move slightly, he easily entered the penalty area.

The defenders of the Real Sociedad team didn't expect Feng Quan to choose to cut inside near the left baseline, so that Feng Quan, who was in the penalty area, actually had time to observe the position in the penalty area.