Chapter 33: Oolong
Good job!
At half-time, the first thing Linson said when he walked into the dressing room was to praise the players' tactical execution ability. Atletico Madrid's first half was indeed commendable, and they were evenly matched in the first half, but they were far higher than Deportivo La Coruna in terms of the most crucial tackles, which was not easy for Atletico Madrid to do given that they were a defensive team.
The reaction in the dressing room was good for Linson's outright affirmation, especially from David De Gea, who apparently never dreamed that he would become the starting goalkeeper for Atletico Madrid, although this game may not be significant.
Seeing De Gea's reaction, Lin Sen smiled slightly in his heart, and then, he said another sentence, a sentence that he never expected to make the atmosphere in the locker room suddenly change.
The color on the top of the heads of the five players changed instantly, and the original almost all green was suddenly varied: yellow in disappointment, orange in doubt......
So, Lin Sen realized that something was wrong.
In the locker room, all the expressions of the people looked calm, and no one had the slightest objection to Lin Sen's words, not even the slightest slight change, on the surface, the situation seemed to be really as Lin Sen wanted: everyone calmly accepted their instructions. However, the color change on the top of the head clearly told Sù Linsen: This is just the surface!
Lin Sen subconsciously recalled whether there was anything wrong with what he had just said, and soon, he understood that he was still too taken for granted or too naïve after all.
The second half continued.
That's what Lin Sen said.
As the name suggests, Linson wants the team to continue the first-half strategy and continue to play defensive counter-attacks. According to his thinking, if the deadlock was not broken in the first half, then perhaps Atletico Madrid needed some changes. But now that Atletico Madrid has taken the lead in the first half, Deportivo La Coruna is bound to strengthen the offensive in the second half, so that Atletico Madrid does not need to make any changes at all, and a defensive counterattack will be the best strategy.
But now it seems that the players don't think so, at least nearly half of them don't. Although they didn't express their thoughts.
"Diego, you think I'm too conservative?"
Among the five players with the biggest emotional changes, there is one person who can be said to be completely unexpected by Linsen, and that person is Uruguayan star Diego Forlan.
In Linsen's impression, the Uruguayan has always been a very low-key star, and after he took over Atletico Madrid, Forlan's table was also in line with Linsen's judgment, and because of this, Linsen did not look for other people, he believed that Forlan's ideas could represent other people's ideas, so he directly raised his own questions to Forlan.
Perhaps he didn't expect Lin Sen to suddenly ask such a question, let alone that Lin Sen would actually notice his psychological changes, Fran was silent for a moment before answering: "No." Mr. Coach, I agree with you, defensive counter-attacking is the right strategy. ”
Hearing Fran's affirmative answer, Lin Sen frowned: Correct? Correct, what are you so disappointed to do?
"So, can you tell me that you will gladly accept this arrangement?" Lin Sen asked deliberately.
"I'll take it." There was silence again, and Fran finally replied very honestly, "But, frankly, I can't say I like it." ”
Lin Sen nodded, did not continue to ask, Fran's answer was already very clear, there was no need to be too straightforward, he patted Fran on the shoulder, smiled, and walked out of the locker room.
Accept, but not happy.
This may seem like a paradox, but in reality it is not a contradiction.
To put it simply, Forlan didn't like the way Atletico played in the first half, but he was a professional and he would hide his emotions and then faithfully follow the coach's demands. At the beginning, he didn't think too much about Linsen's arrangement, but throughout the first half, if it wasn't for that free kick, Forlan's number of shots would even be frozen at an embarrassing zero, plus the boos from time to time in the stands, Fran's mentality has changed, which is reasonable.
Of the five players who have changed the most, all but Perea, the other four are from midfield. The answer is already on the horizon: no offensive player would like to be involved in defense, let alone the entire game.
After confirming this, Lin Sen was tempted to say something in the locker room, but he chose to remain silent after all. He originally thought that the lead of the score could at least suppress the birth of this kind of emotion, but now it seems that this has nothing to do with the score at all.
Ugly victories and beautiful defeats, the end is sometimes the same, which is more important, this is always an unsolvable proposition in football. Lin Sen doesn't plan to try to solve this proposition, whoever likes to do it, anyway, for him, this proposition will always be a multiple-choice question, not a discussion question.
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When she saw Lin Sen return to the coach's seat with a dead face, Dina didn't know what the situation was for a while, she was originally worried that Lin Sen would be too risky to send three young people at once, but the first half proved that her worries were unnecessary, I thought that Lin Sen should be very proud in the second half, but I didn't expect that her face seemed to be a little uglier than at the beginning.
Dina was tempted to lean in and ask, but by the time she was about to get up, the players had already begun to walk out of the aisle, and she had to give up for the time being.
As Lin Sen expected, A Coruña was the first to make the change.
Remove a centre-back, Lopo, and replace it with a midfielder, DeGuzman.
541 becomes 451, anti-turn offense! Lotina finally had to treat Atletico Madrid as a "weak team".
At the beginning of the second half, Deportivo La Coruna reversed the caution of the first half, with the two wing-backs beginning to step forward frequently to assist, and the midfielder relied on numbers to quickly establish an advantage and further pressure Atletico Madrid, while Atletico Madrid continued the strategy of the first half and continued to choose to defend and counterattack. In this way, although Atletico Madrid, who are ahead, have a better chance of winning, however, the field is more ugly for Atletico Madrid fans than in the first half.
Originally, the first half of the game was ugly, but at least Atletico Madrid did not fall below, and now, it is obvious that Deportivo La Coruna is pressing Atletico Madrid. This is unacceptable in any way.
Calderón's boos rang out.
"Camacho breaks the ball! He gave the ball to Raul Garcia, who drove the ball forward...... Atletico had so few people up front that Raul Garcia couldn't find a suitable point of contact, and sure enough, his pass was cut off again, let's take a look at the possession, in the first half, Atletico had 48% to 52% possession, and in the last ten minutes of the second half, Atletico had 31% possession. ”
"I can't believe that Atletico Madrid is still so conservative after taking the lead, it looks like Lin has settled for a 1-0 scoreline, but the home fans obviously don't think so, and after a bad season, they are entitled to demand a better performance from the team, rather than blindly defending."
At this time, the camera once again gave a meaningful look to Recino in the stands, Recino with a stern face just watched the game quietly, and soon, the camera was switched to Cerezo's body, at this time, Cerezo was rubbing his glasses unhurriedly, and Xiao Ciel on the side had a gloomy face.
On the side of the court, Lin Sen didn't know that there were such spectators in the stands, let alone that the commentator had ridiculed him for most of the game, he only focused his eyes on the court.
The color on the top of Fran's head finally turned green, and the change in the locker room only lasted for a few minutes before the Uruguayan adjusted, however, the other four still brought their feelings to the field.
In the seventy-third minute, Koke's pass to Raul Garcia was cut off by Belleron, and Raul Garcia, who should have made a counter-attack at the first time, chose to watch, and Koke had to step forward to force it by himself.
In the first half, Belleron, who was dumpled by Atletico Madrid with three people, where could be the immature rookie Coke who could deal with it alone, plus Koke was not a defensive player in the first place, Belleron was just a light two-over-one, and what Koke faced became Belleron's back, and the backline without midfield protection became a girl wearing only a bikini.
Seeing that the situation was wrong, Koke immediately grabbed Belleron's jersey from behind, but Belleron was actually waiting for him, and before Koke let go of his hand, he fell to the ground decisively.
The color on the top of Cork's head suddenly turned an angry blue indigo.
Seeing that he wanted to complain to the referee, the experienced Antonio Lopes immediately pulled him away, pulling the jersey This kind of small action, basically all defenders can, but how to pull without fouling, but there is a set of skills, Cork happened to be seen by the referee this time, at this time it is better not to apply for a gem card by yourself.
Kick.
In fact, for free kicks, Lin Sen is not so worried, set-piece practice offense is equivalent to practicing defense, although Koke's foul was pitted, but it is not worthless, if Belleron is allowed to drive straight in, the consequences may be a little worse. Of course, this qiē is only possible.
A minute later.
Belleron's free-kick goes straight to the back post!
Barragán, who gave Atletico Madrid a penalty in the first half, jumped high at the back post to head the goal, half a meter around him, and no Atletico team even interfered!
David De Gea made one of his best saves of the game and the ball was struck back in the pitch!
Between the lightning and flint, a figure rushing up was standing on the rebound route of the ball.
Is it too late to dodge? Or is it just right?
The rebounding ball smashed into the body of the figure and flew into the goal without any suspense!
It's an own goal!
There was a dead silence throughout Calderón, leaving only a small number of Deportivo fans cheering indulgently.
At the same time, the TV broadcast footage directly gave Lin Sen a huge close-up of his face.
Expressionless!