Chapter 117: The Opponent in the Final (The 2nd Update, Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Just a day after the match between Borussia Dortmund and Chelsea, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid also welcomed the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals.
The match was played at the Calderón Stadium, home of Atletico Madrid, and in the first leg between the two sides, Atletico Madrid played a 1-1 draw between the Bernabeu and Real Madrid, with Godin and Cristiano Ronaldo scoring goals for each team.
Looking at the results of the first leg, Atletico Madrid had a slight advantage, drawing with local rivals Real Madrid and picking up an away goal.
The media is generally favoured on Real Madrid to progress, as they only need a 1-0 score away from home to knock out Atletico Madrid.
However, before this match, Castillo, a reporter for the Spanish newspaper ABC, expressed a different opinion, believing that it was Atletico Madrid who would eventually advance to the final, and he was optimistic about Atletico Madrid for the simple reason that this team is too strong defensively.
However, Castillo's article did not attract attention and did not resonate.
Although Atletico Madrid are now the leaders of La Liga, in the Champions League, people are generally optimistic about the Galacticos, which has stood on the top of Europe nine times before.
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At the end of the 90-minute game, the entire Calderón Stadium was transformed into a sea of joy.
Real Madrid fans hid their faces with their hands and looked at the fans of their rivals celebrating wildly, and the joy of Atletico Madrid was built on their pain.
The Real Madrid players walked up to the players with painful expressions, they didn't want to see the Atletico Madrid people celebrate.
"The game is over, Atletico Madrid 0-0 at home, 1-1 on aggregate, they advanced by a narrow advantage of an away goal, Real Madrid had a whopping 25 shots on goal and 11 shots on target throughout the game, but they couldn't get a single goal, Simeone's team built a steel wall in front of the penalty area......"
Cristiano Ronaldo stopped at the crossing, he turned his head to look at the Atletico Madrid people, listened to their cheers, felt their excitement, and these things translated into deep pain in his heart.
Pain turns into motivation.
The Portuguese clenched their fists:
Next year, we'll make a comeback!
Such failures, he hates, he hates failures.
Remember every defeat, remember the pain, this will be the source of his strength!
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Real Madrid shocked the world by besieging Atletico Madrid away for 90 minutes, but did not score a single goal and were eventually eliminated from the competition.
At this time, the Spanish domestic media remembered the report of the ABC newspaper reporter Castillo, and after carefully reading and researching, they had to admit that Castillo was right, and the analysis was quite thorough.
"At present, La Liga has been played for 35 rounds, Atletico Madrid is at the top of the table with 88 points, behind the Sheets Army is Barcelona with 84 points, Real Madrid with 83 points, with 3 rounds left in the league, Atletico Madrid has a great chance of winning the La Liga championship this season!
At the end of 35 rounds, Atletico Madrid has scored 75 goals, less than Real Madrid's 99 goals and Barcelona's 97 goals, ranking third in La Liga.
However, in terms of goals conceded, Atletico Madrid only conceded 22 goals, which is the fewest goals conceded by any team in the entire La Liga, with Real Madrid and Barcelona conceding 33 and 30 goals respectively.
Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid and Barcelona have played each other in La Liga this season, but the total number of goals conceded is only 2 goals, in the Champions League against Barcelona two legs, Real Madrid's first leg actually conceded a total of only two goals, Atletico Madrid's defense has reached the point of perfection, the second leg back to the home of Atletico Madrid, once fully defended, Real Madrid wants to score a difficult goal, the most likely result of the game is 0:0, Atletico Madrid with an away goal to advance to the ......"
Castillo is on fire, the reporter of the "ABC" newspaper, who was only an unknown person before, but this time he took advantage of the popularity and accurate analysis and prediction of the Madrid derby in the semi-finals of the Champions League, and suddenly became popular, and the Madrid media "Marca" announced the day after the game that Castillo was poached from the "ABC" newspaper as a columnist.
It is even said that a Spanish third division team is considering bringing Castillo to coach.
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"Atletico Madrid have a strong defense." Klopp said.
On his desk, there is a thick stack of papers, all about the analysis of data about Atletico Madrid.
Among them, the data of Atletico Madrid's goals conceded, as well as the analysis of the game, are very eye-catching.
He certainly didn't see the Spanish report, which was the result of Klopp's coaching team, Kravitz, who is a data analyst on the coaching team who analyses the opposition's intelligence.
In addition, Jurgen Klopp, the coaching staff and the players caused the match to be watched live from Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid, and then the entire coaching team watched and analysed the clips of the game several times.
In the end, Klopp and the coaching staff were surprised to find that Atletico Madrid's opponent was far more difficult to deal with than they imagined, or rather, this opponent was the type they had never encountered before: when facing a weak team, Atletico Madrid's attack was flooding, and they could play dazzling games and win by a big score, but in the face of strong league opponents and in the Champions League knockout round, Atletico Madrid showed their tough defensive side, and their defensive counter-attacking tactics were perfect. When counterattacking, he relies on players such as Antoine Griezmann to be very sharp, and when he defends, he is solid.
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Facing Barcelona in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, Atletico Madrid played 1-1 Barcelona away, 0-0 at home, and eliminated Barcelona with Messi by a narrow margin of away goals.
The Champions League semi-finals against Real Madrid were another familiar formula, with a narrow margin of away goals to eliminate Real Madrid, and in the second leg, Real Madrid attacked 25 shots on goal, but none of them broke through Atletico Madrid's goal.
When counterattacking, it is like an assassin in the night, and one blow is fatal.
When defending, the three armies are life-threatening, impregnable.
Such an opponent gave Klopp and the coaching team a bit of a headache.
"Anyway, it's better than running into Real Madrid." Assistant Coach Zelico. "We also want to thank Atletico Madrid for knocking out Real Madrid. ”
Bwach is right, there is nothing wrong with that, but no one is smiling, Atletico Madrid is like a hedgehog, people have nowhere to put their mouths, and they will stab you all over the body if they are cold.
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Klopp was deep in thought, suddenly laughing and shaking his head.
"What's wrong, Jurgen?" Kravitz asked.
"I suddenly remembered just now that if Jiang was in Atletico Madrid, it would be terrifying, but fortunately Jiang is ours." Klopp said with a smile.
The members of the coaching staff showed a frightened expression, Atletico Madrid's tactics are defensive counterattacks, sharp counterattacks, assassin tactics, who is the best assassin in football now? It's Jiang Chenxi! The situation that Klopp was talking about was simply terrifying.
Klopp's heart suddenly moved, he had an idea, although it was not very mature, but vaguely captured: In the Champions League final with Atletico Madrid, Dortmund wants to reach the top of Europe, and it will revolve around Jiang Chenxi......
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