Chapter 242: A Dangerous Approach
Diego Costa is in control of the ball from outside the box. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
As the team's centre-forward, he didn't run into the box, but pulled out of his position and received a pass from outside the box.
This is also the 'rotation' run that Wansheng has been asking for.
Under the "BT-F" tactical system, the position of the players in the team is actually very vague, the defender can insert the penalty area to assist, the striker player can also retreat to the backfield to defend, even in the normal advancement, the midfielder inserts the forward, and the striker will automatically retreat a little, so as to make the overall formation of the team more dispersed, and there will be more gaps and opportunities.
Diego Costa stood outside the box and possessed the ball, and the opposing centre-back Maduro had to follow, staring at the ball at Costa's feet to prevent Costa from suddenly accelerating to break through.
Instead of choosing to break through on his own and not shoot straight at goal, Costa slipped the ball past the Valencia backline while Kevin De Bruyne on the other side stepped forward and appeared behind the Valencia defence before ......
Got the ball!
"Kevin De Bruyne! No offside! Calderón Stadium broadcasts Juan Andrés shouting with all his might.
The hearts of the Valencia fans in the stands were lifted.
Kevin De Bruyne will not be soft on his feet when faced with such opportunities, and he has stepped forward to help Atletico Madrid score more than once this season.
Although he is not a striker, but at Atletico Madrid, everyone has to shoot on goal, and Kevin De Bruyne is not the best shooter in the whole team, but compared to others, he is also at the top, and now facing Diego Alves, De Bruyne is surprisingly calm.
He glanced at the goal and made a split second.
He chose the near corner!
Normally, most of the shots will choose the far corner, but Diego Alves is experienced, and his save is biased towards the far corner, so if you choose to push the far corner, there is not much chance of scoring.
De Bruyne calmly fired a shot with the inside of his right foot, and the ball slid past the attacking Diego Alves with a small arc.
No matter how quick Alves reacted, he couldn't have reacted to a shot from such close range.
Alves can only pray that the football will cut out the goalkeeper.
Unfortunately, God didn't stand behind him, and the ball hit the post in the near corner and bounced straight into the goal.
“gooooooooooooooooooooooooal!!!!!!”
"Kevin! Kevin! Juan Andrés exclaimed excitedly, "Kevin! Kevin De Bruyne, the Belgian star receives a pass from Costa and sends the ball into the goal with precision! 1-0, home team Atletico Madrid took the lead! ”
"It was a brilliant combination and a great shot! Atletico have the lead over Valencia in the game! ”
"Before the start of the game, Valencia President Llorente also claimed that the team would definitely win at the Calderón Stadium, but I don't know what he will think now...... "Following Juan Andrés's words, the camera also pointed to the rostrum, and I saw Valencia President Llorente expressionless, and I didn't know what he was thinking.
The Valencia fans present were very disappointed, Llorente has a lot of prestige in Valencia, they still trust Llorente, Llorente said before the game that Valencia will win the game, and they also expect Valencia to really beat Atletico Madrid.
They originally thought that the game would at least be a fierce battle between you and me, just like the previous game against Barcelona, but the game was not like this, at the Calderón stadium, Atletico Madrid suppressed Valencia, Valencia attacked a lot, but did not play any threat, Atletico Madrid frequently played wonderful attacks.
Right now...... It's a goal!
Valencia fans were stunned, they didn't expect the game to be like this, and many regretted it a bit...... If they had known that, they wouldn't have come to the game.
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After scoring the goal, Kevin De Bruyne spread his arms and ran back excitedly, and when he reached the sidelines, he jumped up and waved his arms down hard to signal to the fans in the crowd, then he stood up straight, looked to the sky and raised his hands in the air.
It was like a general who had just won.
The other teammates rushed over and hugged him from behind one by one, and De Bruyne's image soon disappeared, he was pushed to the ground by his teammates, and then pressed up one by one, and when he stood up again, his hair was full of grass clippings, and when he looked embarrassed, he could only look at his teammates with complaining eyes.
But after the teammates celebrated, they saw De Bruyne's appearance and left one by one with their mouths covered.
De Bruyne grabbed his hair, determined to take revenge in the future.
Wan Sheng also got up from his seat as Atletico Madrid celebrated on the field, applauding the goal along with the others, but not as excited as others had imagined.
The goal was brilliant and the attack before the goal was brilliant, but the goal was expected.
Atletico Madrid continued to threaten Valencia's goal, and Valencia simply couldn't cope with it, just like other teams feel when dealing with Atletico Madrid's attack, they couldn't keep up with Atletico Madrid's passing and running speed.
When their defensive focus is on the left, Atletico Madrid can easily focus on the right with quick passes.
Vice versa.
In the constant passing of Atletico Madrid, the Valencia players also became numb when defending, and they lowered their vigilance, and Atletico Madrid caught the gap to score the ball.
In fact, Atletico Madrid had already made more than a dozen passes before Diego Costa got the ball, and the kind of fast, fluid and precise passing combination made Valencia simply unable to defend.
It was a goal that seemed to be a logical fit.
So Wan Sheng thinks that there is nothing to celebrate when he scores a goal, it is natural to be able to score, and it is a bit surprising that he can't score.
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With only 18 minutes played, Atletico Madrid scored the goal.
In the last less than 20 minutes of the game, he saw that Valencia's tactics were completely restrained, the players could not play at all on the field, and Atletico Madrid's exquisite coordination also made it difficult for the team to defend tightly.
That kind of offense...... Unless all the players are brought back to defend, it is almost impossible to hold the goal!
This begs the question: should Valencia attack or not?
In fact, when Valencia are behind the scoreline, they have no choice and if they want to win the game, as the club president Llorente said, Valencia will have to attack.
But Valencia is not really good at attacking, and defending and counter-attacking is the team's tradition.
At the Calderón Stadium, playing against Atletico Madrid, one of the best attacking teams in La Liga, Emery felt like his team was a moth to a fire, no matter how he thought about it.
But is there a choice?
Emery glanced over at the podium, where Llorente was sitting, but it was too far away to see Llorente's expression.
Now he doesn't even know what to do.
In world football, Unai Emery is actually a young coach at the top level, he is only 41 years old this year, he comes from a family of goalkeepers, his grandfather and father were both goalkeepers, but his own career performance is not outstanding, and he has been rolling in the lower league for a long time.
Seven years ago, Unai Emery decided to retire and move to football coaching.
In just four years, Unai Emery has been considered the most promising coach in Spain. Now, at the age of 36, he managed to lead Almeria to La Liga for the first time and put on an impressive performance in the 2007-2008 season, when the media predicted that Almeria would be relegated in 20th place, only to finish the season in 8th place in April.
Almeria's success in La Liga for the first time is inseparable from Emery's ability.
After the turmoil, Valencia invited Unai Emery to coach, and in the past three seasons, Emery has led Valencia to Champions League qualification, and the team's results have been quite consistent.
Valencia's results this season are still stable, there are not much ups and downs in the league, still ranked fourth in the league, and the Copa del Rey has also reached the semi-finals and Barcelona competition, the only regret is that the Champions League group was eliminated, and Valencia can only participate in the Europa League as the third in the group.
But in any case, Emery's ability to lead the team is worthy of recognition.
The affirmation from the outside world has had a great impact on Unai Emery, who has always been very confident in his coaching ability, but now Emery suddenly began to doubt: can he really lead the team well?
Look at the current game, you can't help it!
On the other side, Atletico Madrid played too well, playing quite well in attack and playing very tenaciously defensively, while Valencia was the opposite, full of holes in defense and unable to find opportunities in attack.
Now that Valencia is one goal behind, how will the game be played?
Emery didn't know.
The only thing he knows is that if he wants to win a chance, he has to fight against Atletico Madrid like a 'moth to a fire'.
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Atletico Madrid started the game with a press and scored the leading goal, which was somewhat surprising.
Before the game, Llorente's words gave Valencia media and fans a lot of confidence, and they believed that Valencia was more likely to win this game, but the game seemed to be no different from the first half of the schedule.
Many Valencian media outlets were taken aback.
Maybe the lead is still a small problem, in professional football, it is not a big deal to be scored a goal, the key is that Atletico Madrid plays very smoothly, and their continuous exquisite cooperation allows everyone to see their strength and condition, and also allows the media to see a very good Atletico Madrid.
Since Atletico Madrid is playing very well and playing at the Calderón Stadium, how can Valencia win?
Some Valencian media outlets became skeptical.
The Valencia players on the pitch were also suspicious, while some were thinking about the goal they had just scored.
Goalkeeper Diego Alves was thinking about scoring a goal.
Diego Alves spent his youth career in Brazil with Botafogo and Atletico Mineiro, where he was promoted to the first team in 2004.
On July 24, 2007, Diego Alves moved to La Liga promoted side Almeria.
He started out as a reserve player but became an undisputed regular during the season, helping the team to an eighth-place finish in their first all-time La Liga season.
Last March, Diego Alves saved a penalty in the league between Almeria and Racing Santander, the 17th penalty he has ever encountered in La Liga, in which the opponent scored only five and missed 12 penalties, thus setting a new record in La Liga.
Almeria were relegated from La Liga at the end of the 2011 season and Diego Alves opted to move to Valencia to follow in the footsteps of former boss Unai Emery.
Although he has only just joined Valencia, Diego Alves has undoubtedly occupied the main position, and with his excellent performances, he has left all his rivals and team-mates speechless.
After Kevin De Bruyne's goal, Diego Alves kept thinking about the goal, and he couldn't understand how the otherwise solid defence could have come into such an opening.
Standing in front of goal, he was able to observe the situation carefully, the football has always been passed outside the penalty area, he always felt that the goal was safe, although it was difficult for his teammates to chase the ball, but the stable position effectively protected the goal.
But Diego Alves didn't expect football to suddenly appear in front of his eyes!
Whose mistake was this?
Diego Alves thought about it for a long time, and felt that it was the mistakes of central defender Rami and full-back Bruno, who did not effectively defend the right side of the penalty area, and easily let the opposing full-back move into the box, but Alves was not familiar with many of his teammates, and he was not good at complaining about his teammates.
Valencia centre-back Nicolas Maduro is also reflecting.
Just now he was defending Diego Costa, he only paid attention to Diego Costa not to break through, but he didn't expect the opponent to pass the ball out.
That was a surprise to him.
Diego Costa is also one of Atletico Madrid's most efficient goalscorers, and normally a player like this should find a shot on his own instead of handing it over to his team-mates when he gets the ball on the edge of the box.
Is this Atletico Madrid's tactical style of play?
Maduro was a little confused.
Valencia coach Unai Emery thought very clearly, before the game, he studied the style of play of Atletico Madrid in depth, and found that many times, the opponent's midfielders would insert very forward.
All their runs are aimed at 'creating opportunities', not 'creating opportunities for anyone'.
In Atletico Madrid's tactical play, the players from the front line to the back line are treated equally, and their players pass the ball and cooperate only by looking at the position and not at the person.
Therefore, Atletico Madrid's striker is not surprised to play a wonderful pass, because he just passes according to tactics, rather than excellent individual play on the field, in other words, unlike other teams, Atletico Madrid has higher requirements for the whole, but the role of individual ability of players is greatly reduced, because of this, as long as every player is familiar with tactics, Atletico Madrid's bench can also play quite threatening.
Unai Emery admires Wansheng for that.
In many people's voice, focusing on the overall style of play and tactics does not seem to be nothing, but in fact, it is very difficult to apply this tactic to practice, and the effect is generally not too good, even if it is Barcelona, every game performance is affected by the state of the core star Messi, and Real Madrid is affected by the state of C-Ronaldo, can it be said that the tactical play of Barcelona and Real Madrid does not focus on the whole?
Of course not.
As a big team, they are very strict in their tactics, but even so, their performance will be affected by the form of individual players.
Atletico Madrid is more focused on the whole.
Whether a single player can play well on the field or not, the impact on the overall is not as big as imagined, Atletico Madrid's tactical system, the player's sense of position is very weak, their striker is not a shot, in the tactics is only one of them, it is not strange to pass the ball to teammates in front of the penalty area, but it is a normal thing,
That's what Emery admires about Wansheng.
The young Chinese had a way to bring his ideas to the team, and he really wanted to know how the other side did it.
Of course, it's a game, not a coaching exchange.
Unai Emery must think about how to deal with Atletico Madrid, the current Valencia and Atletico Madrid attack, not only the attack is worrying, the defense is even more worrying, you know, even if Valencia shrinks the defense of the formation, there is no effective interception of Atletico Madrid's attack, and when the team goes up in a big way, will the goal always be in danger?
Unbeknownst to Unai Emery, he could only minimize the threat from the other side.
What to do?
Unai Emery came up with a solution, but it was very risky, and that was to create an offside position.
The risk of creating offside tactics is very great, a mistake or carelessness will give the opponent a very good opportunity, Valencia itself is good at defending, but it has trained offside tactics, but it is rarely used in the game, because the offside tactics test the team's tacit understanding too much.
Now Emery has nothing to do, he can only trust the team to do well, after all, it is a very good defence.
Emery called Maduro.
Maduro saw the coach waving at him, he was a little weak, after all, Atletico Madrid's goal just now had a lot to do with his defensive mistakes, but he still trotted to the coach.
Unai Emery instructed Maduro to defence by creating an offside position.
"But...... Too dangerous, right? Maduro has a lot of experience and knows what the coach is going to do if he thinks about it, but he still thinks it's too risky, and Unai Emery affirms, "Of course I know there is a risk, but we have to score." (To be continued.) )