Chapter 243: The task is even more arduous
Diego Costa's header gave Blanco a hint of danger as he rushed to the sidelines and waved his hands vigorously to signal the lads to concentrate and hold on to the final minutes of the first half. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
If he can get into the dressing room with a one-goal advantage, he believes he has a better chance of winning this game.
However, the views of the Paris Saint-Germain players are not unanimous. Some people think it's good to go into half-time with a score of 1-0, and some think it would be nice if they could score another goal. Maxwell and Shi Hao, the left-sided pairing, are those who have this in mind.
They took advantage of Atletico Madrid's eagerness to attack, played a counterattack, the two cooperated with the ball to advance, and finally found Ibrahimovic through Maxwell's cross from the bottom line, but unfortunately the ball was cleared by Miranda.
Atletico Madrid's pass was very fast, and it was not long enough for Thiago to receive the ball and smash it towards the left side of the Paris Saint-Germain penalty area.
At this time, Maxwell and Shi Hao did not return to the defense, but Juan Fran had rushed there to catch the ball at some point!
Juanfran stopped the ball and crossed quickly for a half-high ball. The speed of the football was fast, there was a bit of an arc, Costa in front of the point did not grab the point, and Paris Saint-Germain defender Thiago. Silva, Marquinhos and Van der Wiel all slipped the ball in an incredible way.
The unmarked Adrian appeared on the edge of the small penalty area, met the ball and swept the ball with ease!
In the 44th minute of the first half, the Sheets equalized the score.
Shi Hao had already returned to the penalty area at this time, but he could only watch powerlessly as Sirigu picked up the ball from the goal.
It's a bad feeling, it's not a ball problem, it's a question that makes him and his teammates start to doubt life. If Atletico Madrid are tenacious enough to this extent, even if they can take the lead again in the second half, will the opponent be able to catch up? It's scary to think about.
And Blanco on the sidelines is going crazy! The goal not only put PSG behind again on aggregate, but also allowed Atletico Madrid to score an away goal. Now that PSG have to score two more goals to knock out their opponents, the task has become even more difficult!
Before the game, he had warned the boys to pay attention to the attacking style of Atletico Madrid's full-backs, but he didn't expect that such a small hole would allow the opponent to seize the opportunity.
This attacking method of directly diagonally playing long passes in the midfield near the bottom line was not used by Atletico Madrid in the last leg. It seems that this is the new thing that Simeone has prepared for him. Blanco quickly suppressed his anger and began to think about how to break the game.
By the time the Atletico Madrid players finished their celebrations, the referee gave another minute of stoppage time when the first half's regular time had come to an end.
At this point, both sides did not want to make any more trouble, and ended the first half of the game with a backward foot in a more tacit situation.
After walking into the locker room, Blanco's expression was completely calm. The lads didn't play badly and it doesn't help to criticize them at this time. So after praising Ibrahimovic's goal and Shi Hao's series of wonderful performances, he directly began to lay out defensive tactics, explaining in detail how to contain Atletico Madrid's wide attack.
As for your own offensive tactics? He didn't feel the need to adjust, just play the way he played in the first half.
Regardless of how many new tricks Simeone still has, he is determined to stick to PSG's own way of thinking and play, and he believes Ibrahimovic, Shi Hao and Edinson Cavani can cause enough problems for Atletico Madrid in attack.
As a result, after the rematch, it was Atletico Madrid who came first.
In the 46th minute, Verratti was fouled for handball, and Atletico Madrid won a set-piece opportunity in front.
Koke took the penalty and hoisted the ball into the box. Silva pushes the ball out. Mario. Suarez couldn't get up and hit the ball immediately after Cabaye's interference, so he went out to the wing, and Felipe stepped in to take the ball and went down the bottom with a straight pass.
His pass was very precise and flew just right in front of Turan, who rushed up and fired a left-footed volley without stopping.
Seeing his close-range shot, everyone thought the ball was going to go in, but Sirigu subconsciously reached out and hit the ball out of the bottom line, not allowing Atletico Madrid to take the lead at the beginning of the second half.
But the crisis is not over. Koke's corner kick was cleared by Matuidi's header, but the ball did not fly far, Suarez unloaded the ball on his thigh outside the box and fired a direct shot, scaring Blanco into a heart attack. Luckily, the ball grazed the upright and flew off the line.
After the end of the previous leg, Blanco realized that Paris Saint-Germain had two big problems in defense: one was that when pressing high in the front court, the players did not have enough sense of cooperation and the efficiency of the tackle was not high. The attacking players used a lot of physical energy in the pressing, but they didn't get enough gains, and the gains outweighed the losses. Shi Hao is responsible for most of this, and his defensive awareness is really poor.
But it was impossible for Blanco to take Shi Hao down. After all, in the attack, Shi Hao played a much bigger role than Ravitch, Mene, Pastore and others.
The second major problem is that the protection of the second landing point of the ball is not enough. That's what almost conceded just now.
But it has to do with the team's overall defensive system, and although Blanco is aware of the problem and has repeatedly stressed to the boys, the improvement has been limited.
Atletico Madrid's players were very good runners and were able to make the most of this weakness of PSG, grabbing the second spot and threatening the PSG goal on several occasions in the following games.
Blanco felt he had to make a change. In the 55th minute, he replaced Cabaye with Ravitch and made a bold change. This was the removal of a defensive midfielder, pushing Shi Hao into the middle, while Ravic still played his familiar left winger.
Cabaye was not happy to be substituted early, but he has not been in the team for long and has not yet established himself, so Blanco does not think much about his feelings.
This is not the first time Shi Hao has appeared in the middle, and there is an Ibrahimovic in front, and his performance in the middle is even better than the previous two times, and he has just changed positions and made continuous kills.
He first got Courtois out of his hands with a powerful long-range shot, and Ravic came close to hitting the ball with a follow-up shot.
He then broke through the middle of the pitch and forced Thiago to foul him, not only winning a free-kick in front of him, but also giving Thiago a yellow card.
Because it was far away from the goal, Shi Hao, who took the ball, did not choose to shoot by himself, but hoisted into the penalty area. His pass found Thiago accurately. Above Silva's head, the Parisian captain's header almost opened the scoring, but Courtois made a brilliant save to knock the ball out.