Verse 521 Rhythm
After 45 minutes of the game, Wolfsburg finally scored a goal. After a half-time attempt, a header on goal, Wolfsburg unexpectedly broke the Atletico goal with a ground ball from a set-piece. The sudden attack and the strange and unpredictable way made this ball still unbelievable until after the goal was scored. Looking at the Wolfsburg players running wildly on the field and celebrating, whether it is a Wolfsburg fan or a Atletico Madrid fan, they all feel that these guys are really incredible.
A long-distance cross from a ground ball where the striker deliberately leaks the ball to support a teammate. The defenders do the axis in the front court, and the back waist inserts a long-range shot to break through the Wolfsburg attack, even if you look at it after the past, it makes people feel that the aftertaste is endless, such a shot condenses too much effort of the players. In the Champions League semi-finals, it was really exciting to see such a beautiful goal, and this goal made the whole stadium restless at halftime.
On the one hand, Wolfsburg fans were cheering for the goal of football. His team's attack in this half of the ball has not been smooth, and the fans naturally rejoiced when they finally scored a beautiful goal. On the other hand, they are also excited about the situation of the game. Anyone can see that after scoring a goal, Wolfsburg's advantage has expanded too much.
'After that goal, Atletico are a lot more dangerous. Atletico are stronger than Wolfsburg, and it stands to reason that even if they play extra time, they will not suffer. But Atletico Madrid's physical strength is worse than that of Wolfsburg, and they may not be able to hold on to the extra-time matchup. If Atletico had been a little more aggressive since the start of the game, maybe they would have looked a lot better now. ”
Looking at the scene of the game, the commentator is also doing analysis. After scoring from Wolfsburg, he also understood that this game, Atletico Madrid's situation is also dangerous. At the start of the second half, Atletico was afraid that it was not so easy to play. As a commentator, he couldn't help but start criticizing Atletico's conservative tactics. But he himself knows that his opinion is actually just an afterthought.
His comment looked a lot like that. But in fact, there are many problems. Sometimes, theory and reality can't be separated and looked at, and it has to be said that Atletico Madrid is not aggressive enough if he doesn't attack, which is really too wrong for Simeone.
Away goals are one in the top two. Everyone knows this, in the case of Atletico Madrid, as long as they can score goals away from home, they can win safely, and they are not unclear. However, given the quality of both sides, even if Atletico want to score away from home, they will have to consider whether they have the ability.
Atletico Madrid's home game has proven that Wolfsburg and Atletico Madrid are in the showdown. Atletico's advantage is not too big. Even if they were playing at home and the whistle was in their favor, they were not able to achieve a big victory over Wolfsburg. Atletico's squad lacks top players after all, and their attack is reliant on the whole, which makes it difficult for them to face opponents who are extremely tight defensively. If they attack with all their might, they will have to put in a lot of manpower, and although they are likely to get chances, if they do that, they will also have flaws in the back. And these flaws can be exploited.
Wolfsburg showed their ability to attack from the wings from the very beginning. Although in the game, they did not manage to pose a threat with this ability. But if Simeone's team really dares to press up, who knows if Wolfsburg will catch them off guard and, even if Atletico Madrid presses up, how can they ensure that they score goals If they don't score, they consume a lot of physical strength, so what should they do
If Wolfsburg's attack is rotten like Chelsea. Atletico will not hesitate to attack. And if Wolfsburg's defense is as bad as Arsenal's, Simeone will not hesitate. However, Wolfsburg is not one of those teams after all, and their strength is still very strong, which makes Simeone have to choose his own approach.
The defense may be a little more conservative, but it is the best way to deal with attacks that are a bit rushed by both sides. Even if Wolfsburg made a lot of tricks and successfully overshadowed Atletico Madrid's defense, this is an undoubted fact. At least, even if Atletico Madrid is overshadowed now, but the defense in the half, they did not consume too much physical strength, which also allowed them to save the possibility of attacking.
As long as they still have the stamina, they have hope of turning the tables around.
Sometimes, it's easy to comment on a game as a critic after the fact, but the players and coaches who actually compete on the pitch have different ideas. Just like this game, the commentator can certainly say that Atletico Madrid's conservatism led to Wolfsburg's counterattack, but if Atletico Madrid held on and did not concede a goal for 90 minutes, then Simeone's tactical arrangement is simply a very smart and lack of physical strength, and he can use a reasonable death defense to defeat the enemy, which is naturally very remarkable. And if Simeone really let his team attack, maybe Atletico Madrid will be abused even worse by Wolfsburg, and they don't even have the power to fight back, but the commentator didn't consider that kind of consequence.
After all, critics are not the coaches of the team either, they only need to think about how to win, they don't need to think about how they can lose. But this kind of thing, as the coach of the team, has to think about it.
In fact, on the pitch, it wasn't just Simeone who thought, after scoring a goal, the Wolfsburg players also began to fully shrink their defense and retreated into their own half. At the start of the second half, the Wolfsburg players no longer pressed, but quickly retreated back and built up a defence in their own half.
The game seemed to return to the situation of the last game, Wolfsburg once again chose to defend, and Atletico Madrid were about to attack again. Like Atletico Madrid in the first half, after seeing the situation turn into an advantage for themselves, the Wolfsburg players stopped thinking about attacking. They know very well that if they continue to attack, then Atletico will fight back, and they will also be very unbearable. Therefore, after the score turned into a draw, Atletico had to press out, while Wolfsburg quickly retracted and built up a defence at the back.
The score between the two sides is 11 draws, and in this case, Wolfsburg also chose to delay time. However, unlike Atletico Madrid, the reason why Atletico Madrid defended comprehensively was because they lacked physical strength and did not have sufficient physical strength, which made them have to defend to fight for longer persistence. The physical strength of Wolf Castle is very sufficient, and they want to rely on their physical strength advantage to fight for the advantage in the final stage, and at the last moment, they will strike at the enemy again.
Wolfsburg's own tactics of choice are also risky to say. After all, they are playing at home, and if Atletico do score a goal before they run out of energy, Wolfsburg will be in a very dangerous position.
However, for Wolfsburg, this is also their safest tactic: Wolfsburg, like Atletico, is not the kind of team that is strong enough to play both offense and defense at the same time, and play a top-level threat at both ends. If they want to take care of one end, they have to let go of the other, and if they continue to attack, it will be difficult for them to maintain their defense at the back, so they will have to retreat.
They also know that if Atletico suddenly scores a goal at this time, then this game, they will definitely lose. However, if they don't, they will only lose faster.
Everyone likes to watch the offense, but while attacking, the team's defensive problems are often exposed, and in the big game, in order to win more securely, sometimes you have to give up the offense appropriately.
The first half of Atletico Madrid and the second half of Wolfsburg were all like this. On both sides of the game, whoever has the advantage will become conservative. However, the only difference between Wolfsburg and Atletico Madrid is that Atletico's idea is to hold on for 90 minutes and thus win outright, and for them, the further the game goes, the more dangerous their situation becomes. For Wolfsburg, the idea is to wait until Atletico is exhausted before attacking, so the longer the game, the better it will be for them.
Atletico's stamina is constantly being lost, and with this attrition, they will play worse and worse. Maybe after 70 minutes, their attack won't be sharper anymore. After 80 minutes, they couldn't play well anymore, and after 90 minutes, when it came to extra time, it was hard to say whether they would be able to hold on to their defense.
Wolfsburg is not afraid of delaying time, after all, a set of lineups to play on three fronts, and it is also a high-confrontation style of play like Atletico Madrid, their physical strength is not available. And if Atletico Madrid's players are really tired and can't stand it, then it's time for Wolfsburg to counterattack.
In contrast, Atletico's chances are only a final attempt to score away goals. They are now also the ones who need to gamble.
Compared to them, Wolfsburg played more consistently. All they have to do now is wait, wait for their moment to attack. For the pace of the game, Magath controlled it steadily.
In this game, if there was anything where Magath really had the upper hand, it was that he used his experience to bring the pace of the game under his control, except for the surprise of the attack. The opening pressure made Atletico give up the idea of trying to attack, Simeone felt that there was a goal advantage in hand, and it was not enough to play a big attack again, Magath took advantage of Atletico's luck mentality. Compared with Simeone, Magath does not have too many advantages, and the honors and praises he has received at his age are not as good as Simeone, and the team he brought out is not as strong as Simeone, which already shows that he is not as good as the young coach opposite in terms of level.
However, compared to Simeone, he may not be as good as all other abilities, but in terms of experience, he still has to win. After being a coach for a few more years, after all, he didn't do it for nothing, even if he couldn't beat the opponent in terms of tactics, but he still had some ways to fight psychological warfare.
And relying on this advantage and his players, in the game, Wolfsburg grabbed the upper hand.
And now, their advantages have also begun to ferment continuously. To be continued.