Section 523 Substitutions
For Wolfsburg, the match with Atletico Madrid is a battle of life and death, and if they can get good enough results in this game, they may directly 'advance' to the Champions League final. The update is so fast. In the face of such a game, Wolfsburg naturally will not have any possible mercy, in this game, tactical fouls are not an optional means, when the defense is not solid enough, so once or twice, Wolfsburg players are not particularly opposed.
After all, over the course of a season, Wolfsburg's results have not been particularly outstanding. In the league, they have been defeated, the Champions League is their last hope, they are also full of fighting spirit, for this victory, a few yellow cards, it is really not a problem, if there is no such awareness, Wolfsburg will not be able to persist to this point.
And measures like Wolfsburg have also made Atletico suffer enough. For the first time, they realized how painful fouls can be. When Wolfsburg forged an iron wall on their own half, and while still insisting on making up for all deficiencies with fouls, Atletico Madrid's offensive methods seemed to have lost their original effect at this time.
In fact, perhaps for Atletico, a team like Wolfsburg is the opponent they hate the most. Atletico Madrid's usual moves have no effect on Wolfsburg. Against Wolfsburg headers, they struggled to dominate. With the ground ball cooperating, it is also difficult to succeed in the face of an enemy who cannot defend it. Atletico Madrid has always been 'outstanding' on set-pieces, but the goal efficiency of set-pieces is not very high, and Wolfsburg themselves are quite interested in set-pieces in this game, and they naturally refuse to give Atletico the slightest chance in the game.
This team has quite a good restraint against Atletico Madrid. It also made Atletico Madrid's players helpless. They haven't had such an embarrassing experience in a season, whether it's against Real Madrid or Barcelona. Their counter-attack, the header. Set pieces face the two giants of the Western Super League, and they both have the upper hand. However, such an advantage seems to have disappeared in the face of Wolfsburg. As the same dark horse team, it is too difficult for Atletico to gnaw Wolfsburg.
And these attacks are not working, and Atletico Madrid is naturally completely helpless. In the second half of the game, Ma Jing attacked again and again. However, their attacks were never able to break through the defenses of Wolfsburg. The score of 1-1 has not changed, as it was in the 50th minute, and in the 80th minute, the score has not changed. Fighting with all their might, Atletico Madrid also struggled to find a breakthrough opportunity to make this game more beneficial to themselves.
Match against Wolfsburg. Atletico were not able to grasp the situation after all, and the game developed according to Wolfsburg's ideas, and did not jump out of their expectations. Minutes and seconds passed. The physical strength of the Atletico players is also getting worse and worse, after 70 minutes, the Atletico players began to show some signs of contraction, and after 80 minutes, the Atletico players could no longer maintain a strong attack and had to slow down the pace of attack.
It's not so easy to play twice a week. Atletico's tactics require Atletico players to make a lot of runs and duels in every game, which makes them extremely physically demanding. Fighting on two fronts. On one side is the top of the league table, and on the other side is the Champions League semi-finals. This is also what Atletico Madrid has bought in exchange for the physical strength of their own players. And now this time, their physical strength. After all, I can't overdraw anymore. In 80 minutes of fierce away battles, no matter how good the players are, there will be a lot of physical exertion, and the overall age level of Atletico Madrid is not low, so they naturally can't play so smoothly anymore.
Looking at the state of the players, Si'moni is also helpless. He knew that Wolfsburg would not let go of any opportunity, and he had to make adjustments, otherwise he would be waiting to die. The clock dragged on to 80 minutes, and Atletico had to make adjustments and substitutions. Excessive physical exertion also made Atletico a little unable to hold on, within 80 minutes, they were able to hold on, but the passage of time made their players more and more unable to hold on, the players' running range declined, the confrontation ability declined, the counterattack speed could not keep up, and the 'fine' accuracy of the football no longer had the 'color' at the beginning, in all aspects, Atletico Madrid was not as good as the opening, and had to rely on substitutions to solve the problem.
At this time, Atletico Madrid also made two substitutions, one was the forward line, they replaced striker Villa, and replaced another substitute striker Adrian. The other substitution was the substitution of Juanfran and the substitution of Alderweireld.
These two substitutions can be said to be quite helpless choices: if there was a choice for Zhixi 'Monni', he would definitely not do it.
Atletico Madrid's main squad is quite good, but there are not too many 'outstanding' players in their rotation lineup. On the bench, Atletico Madrid's strongest players are Brazil's Diego, Uruguay's Rodriguez, and Spain's Mario. Suarez, along with the two players on the pitch, is pretty much all they have to use as a substitute. Among these people, several other people are midfielders, and in this game, Si'moni first needs to make adjustments, obviously not the midfielder.
His first adjustment was made for the backcourt. Juanfran was the first to be replaced by him during the game: this substitution looks a little unbelievable, but if you think about Atletico's physical strength, you know that it is a must.
The physical strength of the Atletico players is very expensive because of the two-front battle. Juanfran was one of the first players to have a physical problem this week. In the midweek game, Juanfran had already suffered from his own physical problems, which led to a lack of defense in the final stage of the game, and he had to rely on red card action to stop the opponent's attack. That defense was enough to see his physical problems, and such physical strength had to play twice a week, and Si'Monni naturally didn't dare to let him stay on the field until extra time.
As a result, Simonny had to replace him, although he was well aware that Alderweireld was unlikely to replace Juanfran in his on-field role. Although this player's fame is not small, and because he is very handsome, he has also received a lot of attention, but the strength on the football field has little to do with whether he is handsome or not, and the team that is willing to reuse Costa will naturally not understand this. Although this defender is good-looking, his strength is a little far behind, which is an important reason why he can only be a substitute.
Atletico Madrid's bench is still a little weaker after all. In fact, it's not just that he's a little weaker, it's another substitute Adrian, who is also a substitute that makes Si'mon not very satisfied.
Adrian has long been touted as a top striker for the future, having made a name for himself at Deportivo La Coruna before moving to Atletico Madrid, where he played in the striker's top training camp and once gave rise to the prospect of becoming the next world-class superstar. However, after a long time, he has never become the top striker that people want. Diego Costa, who used to work as a coolie at Atletico Madrid, has now turned into a superstar worth 40 million, and the star who is a year older than him has not yet achieved success, so I am afraid that it is not so easy to really want to become famous.
The overall strength of this player is indeed a bit average. In terms of physical condition, he is not particularly advantageous, and he is not at the top level in terms of technique, and he has no outstanding ability when he plays. Although it is said that the running position and passing control are first-class, the 'shooting' and 'goal' skills are a little unsuitable, which also makes this player's position a little embarrassing.
A player like him is actually a traditional player from Spain, and if it is said, he can be regarded as a weakened and shrunken version of Raul. However, such a player himself is very unsuitable to play 433, and the inability to be a single arrow makes him have to be a player under the two-striker strategy, and the average physical fitness, and the inability to fight against him make it impossible for him to do dirty work in the frontcourt. Such a player is to a large extent running and running, waiting to eat ready-made passes, and for such a thing, Atletico Madrid has Villa, who is extremely 'outstanding' in experience and strength, and naturally it is not his turn to be the main force.
However, Villa's age is a little old after all. Sticking to the whole game, even extra time, is not something a veteran striker can do. Simonny also knew that after 80 minutes, it didn't make much sense for the team to let him stick to the game up front, and instead of pinning all his hopes on him, it would be better to put Adrian on the pitch and try to see if he could find a chance to score through Costa's drop-back.
In fact, even in overtime, Si'Moni still didn't give up the idea of attacking, and in his heart, he still hoped to win this game. It is precisely because of this that he did not make the last substitution: how to make a substitution in midfield, he still wants to wait and see.
Is it to switch to Diego, who is the best from set-pieces, or to 'color' with a breakthrough level and fight for the positive Rodriguez? This substitution, after all, depends on the situation. Of course, it may be that the final result is that the Wolfsburg players are too strong in attack, and he has to use Mario. It is not impossible for Suarez to replace one of Atletico's two midfielders in their 30s to strengthen the defence and try to win a penalty shoot-out.
It's just that Si'Monny's psychology still doesn't believe much in this after all, after all, Wolfsburg's attack is not very strong, which has also been confirmed in the game. Even if Atletico's stamina is almost exhausted, will Wolfsburg be able to win easily? In this regard, Simonny still has some hope for luck, after all, 90 minutes have passed since the game, and the players in Wolfsburg are probably just as tired.
In his mind, the tired Wolf Castle might not have a strong attack - however, such a thought, with the attack of the Wolf Castle, immediately disappeared. q