Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Great Opportunity
After the FIFA international break, many local clubs in European football were in mourning, and the injured top players could almost be matched with two star squads, and they were almost unavailable when the injured squad was full. But Real Sociedad don't have to worry about the physical condition of the players they have been called up to the national team – because they don't.
For the next round of matches against Atletico Madrid, Agusli has made a lot of careful considerations: how to defend against Atletico Madrid's top free-kick tactics? How to break through in the opponent's high pressing? How to limit their two wings?
Almost every day's training revolves around these. Given Real Sociedad's hard power and Simeone's likelihood of letting go of the attack, Agusli carefully created a defensive formation, allowing the faster Zaldo and Vela to deal with Griezmann and Correa on the left, and switching the right side of Qujing to the left, allowing Zaldo, Reyes, Qujing and Vela to form two triangles of cutting space, so as to resolutely block the right side of Atletico Madrid led by Griezmann. At the same time, after getting the ball, the two triangle interceptions were immediately transformed into offensive triangles, and then used the organization and long passes of the warp to quickly play a counterattack.
Agusli demanded that the space of the team's three lines be compressed and that the distance between the players be kept as close as possible, which required the players to run widely throughout the game to maintain the integrity of the established formation. Considering the fitness of his players, Agusli divided the game into three periods: the first half to take advantage of all available opportunities, to defend solidly around the 70 minutes, and to choose to defend or break the ice in the final stage, depending on the scoreline.
The game played in the early morning also attracted the attention of many domestic fans, who had their own opinions in the "football circle" comment area, but because of the relationship between the songs, it also caused many fans of the "Sheets" army to defect.
Real Sociedad, who have won two in a row, have rekindled the hopes of the fans, and the match has also filled out the Anoeta Stadium.
Line-ups:
Home team: Real Sociedad 4-2-3-1
Goalkeeper: 1 - Rulli
Defenders: 6-Martinez, 23-Reyes, 24-de la Bella, 20-Zaldo
Midfielders: 11-Bella, 16-Canales, 4-Ilya Ramendi, 30-Qujing, 17-Zurutusa
Forwards: 9 - Aguirreche
Subs: 22-Jonathan, 10-Prieto, 7-Bruma, 14-Pardo, 3, Bergara, 13-Oyer, 19-Berziche
Away: Atletico Madrid 4-4-2
Goalkeeper: 13 - Oblak
Defenders: 24-Gimenez, 2-Godin, 20-Juanfrán, 3-Felipe
Midfielders: 16-Correa, 5-Thiago, 6-Koke, 14-Gabi
Forwards: 7-Griezmann, 11-Martinez
Subs: 4 - Siqueeira, 21 - Carrasco, 1 - Moya, 10 - Oliver, 15 - Savic, 17 - Niguez, 9 - Torres
Before entering the field, there was a scene in the players' tunnel that touched Qu Jing: Griezmann waited in the tunnel early, hugging Real Sociedad's former teammates one by one, the French young man who entered the Real Sociedad youth team at the age of 14, has too deep feelings for this club. Although they are now their own masters, the friends who used to be together are still extremely relaxed when they meet. Martinez, in particular, punched Griezmann hard and joked: "If you dare to cut into the box, I'll break your leg", and Griezmann smiled back with a smile: "Okay Inigo, I'll just score from outside the box." ”
Griezmann also enthusiastically stretched out his hand to the Qu Jing and shook it heavily, the area where Griezmann was active in today's game was also the defense area of the Qu Jing, and the fight between them could be called a "spear and shield" dispute, the two looked at each other and smiled, no need to say too much, everything was in silence.
When Griezmann's name rang on the radio when the players came out, the fans gave the former star a standing ovation and said, "Anthony, welcome home" – the banners pulled out by the fans in the stands were very moving.
If there was harmony before the race, everything changed after the start of the race.
Atletico Madrid launched a "mad dog" attack. In particular, the right flank composed of Griezmann and Correa was extremely fast, and you sang and I came on the field, and tried 4 sneak attacks within the first 5 minutes.
The youthful Correa wasn't enough to pose much of a threat, but Griezmann was different, and he noticed that Griezmann, though not tall and strong, was not far behind in the actual confrontation.
Because he is "smart".
It should be said that the ball quotient determines the effect of a player's actions on the field. Griezmann is very good at using his position to seize the advantageous space, and then break through with the ball, his speed is very fast, especially what makes Qu Jing a headache is his cadence, even if Qu Jing has almost special instincts and judgment, he can not do 100% to cut the ball off the bottom of Griezmann's feet.
What's worse is his off-ball running. When his teammates got the ball, Griezmann didn't seem to be in a hurry to get into position, but waited to find out the position of the opposing player and suddenly accelerated to disrupt the defense, which was similar to Erwa's elusiveness, which made Zaldo, who was originally entrusted with a heavy task by Agusli, a little unguardable.
After Zaldo missed two consecutive crosses for Griezmann, Qu Jing moved the position up slightly, using the space of Gabi and Correa to increase their distance to Griezmann, and the adjustment had an immediate effect, allowing Zaldo to break or break the ball from behind Griezmann.
In the 14th minute of the game, after Zaldo broke the ball and handed it to Qu Jing, Qu Jing quickly launched a counterattack. He and Vela collided with the wall and advanced to the left side of the center circle, and after attracting Gabi, Correa and Juanfran who quickly returned to the defense, he handed the ball to Canales in the middle, Canales rubbed his right foot, Aguirrece made reasonable use of the gap left by Juanfran after the pounce, and immediately erased into the penalty area after receiving the ball - a one-shot ball!
A solo goal is a great opportunity for some, a nightmare for others: Robinho, for example, any striker for the national team, for example, for ...... Aguirreche.
Facing the goalkeeper one-on-one, everything Agureche did in front of him was extremely perfect, perfect for the fans and teammates to hold their breath and prepare to enter the critical point of cheering, but, Agureche who was possessed by the god of Ba instantly chose to "think about life", he both wanted to pass and wanted to shoot hesitantly gave goalkeeper Oblak enough time, and after Oblak held the ball in his arms from under his feet, Agureche seemed to wake up from a big dream.
The fans in the stands let out different exclamations of regret, regret, and happiness, and Aguirreche looked at the disappointed Canales, raised his hand to apologize to his teammates, and the song could not hide the regret in his heart, and a lyric suddenly appeared in his mind "There are thousands of kinds of not scoring goals in the world, I only ~ only ~ love your kind of ......"