Chapter 366: The Copa del Rey match

Winning the league against Deportivo La Coruna reassured Atletico Madrid fans who were a little worried.

The team's bench players are still quite strong, and the quality of the players introduced by Gao Bo this season is quite good.

And after this match, the time for the fifth round of the Copa del Rey has also been confirmed.

Atletico Madrid will travel to Barcelona on December 20 and then return to their home stadium on January 7 for the second leg against Barcelona.

In fact, when the draw results came out, there were voices of "revenge" on Barcelona's side.

In the league, Atletico Madrid won 4-2 at home to Barcelona, which clearly made the Catalan giants quite unconvinced.

They just hold their breath and wait for the league home to teach Atletico Madrid a good lesson.

After all, in the past two or three seasons, Barcelona's achievements have also made their mentality unprecedentedly inflated, the outside world calls Barcelona the Cosmos team, and Barcelona's players also think that their team is the strongest team in the world, and the rising Atletico Madrid this season may be far from seizing the scepter of Barcelona!

'We'll give it our all at home and Atletico Madrid have improved a lot this season, so we'll look at them squarely!' Alves said in an interview.

"We'll prove ourselves at home!" Pique is also a figure who likes to make a splash in the media.

The other Barcelona players didn't come out to speak, but the words of Pique and Alves basically represented the position of the Barcelona players.

Although it is not explicitly stated, everyone knows that Barcelona are waiting for revenge at home!

Will they be able to succeed in their revenge?

It would be more than a week before we got along.

And before that, La Liga has one more round of league play.

On December 19, in the sixteenth round of the league, Atletico Madrid challenged Malaga away.

The final result was 2-0 and Atletico Madrid won away.

Atletico Madrid used a 442 formation for this game, with Gobo partnering Diego Costa and Sadio Mane up front, with Mane at the front and Mane behind him, and Antoine Griezmann returning to midfield as an attacking player from behind.

Diego Costa, on the other hand, was the central striker, creating chances for Sadio Mane and Antoine Griezmann.

It was Gobo who tried more of the team's attacking methods, and in the end Mane and Griezmann also performed well, with Griezmann scoring a goal and Mane also dribbling the ball to near the bottom line after the ball in the box and setting up Modric's goal.

After this match, Atletico Madrid's next match is the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey!

If it were an ordinary opponent, maybe Gao Bo would still consider rotation or something, but the opponent of this game is Barcelona, and the Copa del Rey game is on December 22, after this game, the team will enter a short winter break, about thirteen days of rest and adjustment.

Therefore, whether it is the opponent of this game or the game time of this game, Atletico Madrid can be assured to boldly send the main lineup to play.

Aguero has not fully recovered from his injury in this game, and Gao Bo does not plan to let him play, so Aguero is not in the squad for this game.

Reyes is in the squad, but Gao Bo does not plan to start Reyes, who has just recovered from injury, after all, he has not played for almost two weeks, and his form is not too stable.

In this game, Gao Bo made a little change to the team's formation.

Antoine Griezmann and Diego Costa continued to start, with Antoine Griezmann moving to the middle, behind Diego Costa, as a number nine and a half.

In midfield, N'Golo Kante and Mario Suarez were stuck in the middle, while Luka Modric and Raul Garcia were on the wings.

Away to Barcelona, Gobo had to make some changes in midfield, and if he continued to follow the pattern of the previous game, Guardiola probably wouldn't have let Atletico Madrid get out of the way at Camp Nou so easily.

Football is a game that changes quickly, and so are the tactics of the game.

Due to the different composition of the personnel now, Mane is very talented, but he is still some distance away from the level of Reyes, and Diego Costa's characteristics are different from Aguero, so Gao Bo naturally has to make some changes to the game.

The tactics of the last game can be used as a reference, but the opponent is constantly changing, so Gao Bo is also looking for changes.

Luka Modric looks skinny, but he is also good defensive toughness, Raul Garcia can also provide enough defensive toughness, not to mention N'Golo Kante, Mario Suarea is also a player who can be used as a muscular midfielder.

In terms of technology, in the face of the trio of Barcelona Xavi, Iniesta, and Busquez, Atletico Madrid's midfielders may be at a disadvantage in terms of technology at their feet, so Gao Bo plans to use two defensive midfielders to deal with the technical midfield combination of Xavi and Iniesta.

Playing away, it is normal for Gao Bo to be cautious. Barcelona's weakness Gao Bo is clear, since Mourinho can use a muscular midfield against Xavi and Iniesta, why can't Gao Bo?

And Atletico Madrid's quick offensive and defensive transition is also very huge in terms of counter-attacking threat.

Atletico Madrid originally played pressing football, their pressing up front, their quick passing was all about pressing the opponent and creating space.

So Gao Bo is not worried at all that the team will not adapt due to tactical fine-tuning.

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Matchday was fast approaching, and when Guardiola pressed into the starting line-up for Atletico Madrid, Guardiola immediately frowned.

Previously, the Catalan media said that Gao Bo was a copycat of Tike-Taka, but now it looks like a complete joke.

This Gao Bo is not the same as Jose Mourinho.

Mourinho, despite his utilitarianism, has been consistent in his tactical thinking.

And this Gao Bo looks a bit of a bit of an impermanent situation.

Before this, Atletico Madrid has always played a good looking technical offensive football, Guardiola of course also summed up Barcelona's loss to Atletico Madrid in the league, Atletico Madrid of course also has weaknesses, Guardiola is very aware of this, and just when he was ready to face Atletico Madrid at home against the weaknesses exposed by Atletico Madrid, Atletico Madrid actually changed at this time.

And when Pep Guardiola saw N'Golo Kante and Mario Suarez on the pitch, he knew that Atletico Madrid would not be easy to play against in this game.

In the away dressing room at Camp Nou, Gao Bo also got a start for Barcelona.

Compared with Atletico Madrid, which has made a lot of changes, Barcelona is still a complete set of fixed main lineup.

Goalkeeper Valdés.

On the back line are Alves, Pique, Puyol, Maxwell.

Midfielders Busquez, Xavi, Iniesta.

Forwards Messi, Villa, Pedro.

Despite being the same lineup, Barcelona's tactics are actually quite flexible.

On the basis of overall possession, Barcelona will of course have a lot of changes.

They infiltrate the middle, break through on both sides, and even attack at full-back.

The means are very diverse.

Facing this team at Camp Nou is stressful for any team.