Chapter 401: Striving to Ascension (Transitional Chapter)
Although Feng Quan's header ability value is only 70 points, but with his strong physical strength and bounce ability far beyond other teammates, Feng Quan still grabbed the first landing point many times in practice, but because of the slight deviation in the accuracy of his head, he was rarely able to break through the door guarded by the team's third goalkeeper Yassine Bounou.
In fact, Diego Simeone doesn't have much hope for Feng Quan's current ability to grab points with his headers. The reason why Feng Quan arranged the practice of outflanking and grabbing points in the middle after the side cross was mainly to hope that he could form a tacit understanding with his teammates as soon as possible, and at the same time further strengthen Feng Quan's awareness of rushing to the penalty area to grab points. Although Feng Quan played very well against Rayo Vallecano, his style of play was more akin to a "shadow striker" than the forward center forward that Diego Simeone had hoped for.
Although the afternoon tactical training lasted less than two hours, after Diego Simeone set Feng Quan as the tactical core of the wide cross, it was clear that Feng Quan and his teammates had a much better understanding than at the beginning. Moreover, his success rate in grabbing points in the middle of the penalty area has also improved a lot.
Not only that, when Feng Quan entered the system to query his "football career" attributes after the afternoon training, he was surprised to find that many of his attributes had been improved to a certain extent because of the training in the past week.
Feng Quan has improved his technical attributes by 1 point in [Stopping the Ball], [Shooting], [Heading], and [Passing Accuracy]. In terms of the two psychological attributes of [Prediction] and [Sense of Location], it has increased by 2 points. Of course, the most significant improvement effect is the proficiency in the [Forward Center] position.
Since Feng Quanzheng had never tried the position of [Forward Center] before joining Atletico Madrid, his "proficiency" in this position was defaulted to 40 points by the system.
However, after nearly a week of highly targeted practice, Feng Quan's proficiency in the [Sudden Center] position directly "skyrocketed" by 25 points. Even so, it was only barely passable, but it was still very exciting for Feng Quan to be able to improve so quickly in just one week.
In fact, it is not surprising that such a situation can occur, after all, with the strong physical fitness that Feng Quan has, he already has the necessary physical conditions for an excellent [forward center]. In addition, Feng Quan is not weak in football skills, but because he has become accustomed to the style of playing as a wide attacking player, he rarely moves around the penalty area.
Therefore, as long as Feng Quan can form enough tacit understanding with other teammates as soon as possible, and at the same time strengthen the awareness of grabbing points in the penalty area as soon as possible, he will definitely become a striker that can make any opponent feel fearful.
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After a day's rest, the players of the Atletico Madrid first team were all re-represented at the Espino training base in good spirits.
Although most of the players in the first team have basically recognized Feng Quan's strength through last week's training, his teammates still have some doubts about Feng Quan's strength without being tested in the official game. After all, in reality, there are still many newcomers who have recently joined the team, although they can kill all sides in the team's training, but when it comes to official games, they are not satisfactory.
However, after the battle with Rayo Vallecano, almost no one in Atletico Madrid has doubts about Feng Quan's strength anymore, and several veterans who have been in the team for many years are deeply impressed by Feng Quan's strong strength in the game.
Not only that, some radical fans even believe that if Feng Quan can continue the performance in the last round of the league for the whole season, then Feng Quan even has a chance to become the third "superstar" in La Liga after Messi and Ronaldo.
Although it is still a little too early to conclude that Feng Quan has the strength to challenge the "two kings" based on his performance in just one game, his personal 2 goals and 1 assist in the last round of the game, and directly participated in the perfect answer sheet of all the team's goals, is enough to prove that Feng Quan has at least the potential to challenge the "two kings".
Since the new season has only played two rounds of league games, the physical condition of the vast majority of players is still in a relatively ideal state, so in addition to the warm-up activities before the start of official training, Diego Simeone has hardly arranged physical training, but has focused on team cooperation and tactical training of the team. And the most important of these is to allow Feng Quan to improve the understanding between himself and his teammates as soon as possible, as well as his proficiency in the position of sudden center forward.
Although due to Diego Simeone's teamwork and tactical training as the focus of training, Feng Quan barely improved his technical and mental attributes in the second week of training. However, his proficiency in the [Forward Center] position has "skyrocketed" by 12 points again, and he has basically become a qualified Forward Center.
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In the first two rounds of the league, Atletico Madrid won two games with relative ease, and also beat several other teams that also won two consecutive games by virtue of goal difference to temporarily top the table.
Therefore, when the players of Atletico Madrid arrived at the Arnotta Stadium to take on Real Sociedad away, the vast majority of players thought that their side would easily win three consecutive league games.
In fact, for Atletico Madrid, which is good at "defending and counterattacking" tactics, Real Sociedad is not a good bone to gnaw on. Although Real Sociedad have only scored one goal after two league games, they have managed to get four points and temporarily sit in seventh place in the table thanks to a solid backline.
Sure enough, when the game actually started, the Atletico Madrid players gradually realized that it seemed that winning three consecutive league games was not as easy as they thought.
Unlike Atletico Madrid, who started to press ferociously in midfield, Real Sociedad simply abandoned pressing in the frontcourt, leaving only Antoine Griezmann, a speedy striker, to harass in the front, and then deployed most of the rest of the force to defend intensively around the 30-meter area of their side.
Without Diego Costa as the team's attacking bridgehead, Atletico Madrid really didn't have a good way to crack down on Real Sociedad's dense defence.
Although Feng Quan's sharp personal dribbling breakthrough is still unstoppable, under the dense defense of the opponent's successive fronts, it is not only difficult for Feng Quan to break into the penalty area to complete the fatal blow, but even the opportunity to send assists to his teammates is difficult to find.
As a result, even though the overall strength of the Atletico Madrid team firmly controlled the situation on the field, under the opponent's iron-clad and dense defense, not only could not knock on the opponent's door, but even in the 21st minute after the start of the game, Alda Turan completed a heavy bombardment from a position 30 away from the goal, which really threatened the opponent's goal for the first time.