vs 189 Preparations for a decisive battle
(a)
Comparing the stats of the two seasons, Atletico Madrid has actually regressed this season, and Enrique Flores, who took over as manager of Atletico Madrid in October 2009, has not changed the brand that the Hill family have made on the club in 20 years at the helm.
Veteran Spanish commentator and staunch opponent of Atletico Madrid's Sills family has made a sharp comment, arguing that since the Sills family took control of Atletico Madrid, they can be described in two words: typical and atypical.
Giolo believes that the theme of Atletico Madrid in the past 20 years is "chaos", that is, the typical state of this club, which makes it difficult for the team to give full play to its best form in the chaos, and the atypical state is the sudden outburst without reason and precursor to win a cup.
In 1988, the first decision after the old Hill became the owner of Atletico Madrid was that he thought that if the club wanted to become a giant, it must buy popular stars in a large amount, and it was in vain to rely on youth training, and then he disbanded Atletico Madrid's youth training system, relying on high investment, and only smashed out the two Copa del Rey championships in the 1991 season and the 1992 season.
Going his own way against the objective laws of football will definitely not work! And in 1994, Real Madrid emerged a young star and soon became the "golden boy" of the whole of Spain, this is Gonzalez Raul, but after checking his background, Raul was one of the young players lost when the old Hill disbanded Atletico Madrid's youth training system in 1988......
It was then that the fans who supported and supported Atletico Madrid began to hate their club owners, and the protracted struggle continued until the death of the elder Hill in 2004, and even the elder Hill did not hesitate to use his blood to smash a "double" of La Liga and the Copa del Rey in the 1995/1996 season, and the fans of Atletico Madrid did not appreciate it!
It is no wonder that from 1988 when he took charge of the club to his death in 2004, there has only been one league title and three Copa del Rey in 16 years, which is indeed far from his big moves, big plans and big plans......
(b)
In October 2009, the board of directors of Atletico Madrid finally succeeded, the third largest shareholder Abasolo withdrew from the board of directors, the largest shareholder Hill Jr. announced that he would retire behind the scenes and no longer interfere in the daily management of the club, the two major interest groups were wiped out, the second largest shareholder, the owner of the film company, and Orezzo, who has been the puppet general manager, finally won, and Atletico Madrid also announced the end of the 21-year era of rule of the Hill family.
Flores took over as Atletico Madrid manager three days after the Jr. Hill curtain call, the first personnel appointment of the new head Orezzo, a season has passed, the ninth place in the league is much worse than the fourth place last season, the Copa del Rey is in the final, the Europa League is in the final, these two results barely allowed Orezzo to save some face.
But in terms of employing people, Flores is not particularly clever, the 2008/09 La Liga scorer king Uruguayan striker Diego Forlan scored 32 goals last season, the limelight overtook Eto'o, Messi, Villa, Higuain, Henry, Raul and other famous players, the second scorer Argentine Aguero also scored 17 goals, which is the 08/09 season Atletico Madrid with 80 goals to become the third strongest offensive team after Barcelona and Real Madrid, but the defense is slightly inferior, With 57 goals conceded, it ranks in the middle and lower reaches of the defensive ability, which is not a small gap compared to Barcelona's 35 goals conceded and Sevilla's 39 goals conceded.
Overall, last season's Atletico Madrid was strong in attack and weak in defense, and finally qualified for the Europa League as the fourth place, which was also due to the excellent performance of Forlan and Aguero, the South American duo.
This season, it seems that he has reached the finals in both the Copa del Rey and the Europa League, but Flores has indeed not solved the fundamental problem of Atletico Madrid, so to speak, not to mention the fundamental problem, that is, he has not solved the superficial problem of attacking and defending weakly!
In this season's league, before the first round of zuihou after the Europa League final, in the 37 rounds of the league, the number of goals scored by Atletico Madrid has plummeted to 57, and the number of goals conceded has caught up with last season, which has reached 58, and this season's South American double guns are also very powerful compared to last season, Forlan's goals are currently 18, Aguero is 12, and the two together have only 30 goals, which is not as many as last year's Fran alone.
In terms of defenders, given last season's poor backline, the introduction of Betis veteran captain Juanito and Uruguayan star Cabrera ended up as substitutes, and the latter was basically soy sauce.
Heitinga's departure made the team have no right-back for a while, and the return of Perea has not been reassuring, his defensive awareness is too poor, always let the opponent easily start the ball on the side, it is said that Dutch defender Heitinga was bought from Ajax for 8.8 million in 2008, and a year later in August 2009 he was sold to Everton in the Premier League for 7 million, which is also a stupid thing that Hill Jr. did in office.
(c)
The number of goals scored by the South American duo Forlan and Aguero has plummeted this season because the two of them have received too little support, and Atletico Madrid's assist data for the whole season is only 34, of which Forlan contributed 7 assists, Aguero contributed 5 assists, Jos Jurado contributed 4, and the three players accounted for nearly half of the 16, and then counting the returning rotation Reyes contributed 5 in 19 games, and the three main players and one substitute accounted for 61.7% of the entire assists.
It was the four players, Forlan, Sergio Aguero, Jurado and Reyes, who scored 18, 12, seven and two respectively, with 39 goals accounting for 68.4 per cent of all 57 goals.
In other words, as long as these four points of attack are contained on the field, Atletico Madrid will already fall into a dumb fire 60% to 70%!
Poor assists, strikers do not get enough shell delivery, naturally there is a problem in the midfield, Jurado and Reyes are "back" this season, last season the two were loaned to Real Mallorca and Benfica respectively, after this season's recall, it has not fundamentally solved the problem of Atletico Madrid's "brainless midfield".
"Midfield brainless", it is indeed still Cholo's angry criticism, although the words are not listening, careful analysis is also the image, Atletico Madrid's midfielders, although Reyes has the title of golden boy but is riddled with injuries, it is difficult to be the core and pillar, the 24-year-old Jurado was recruited by Hill Jr. in 2006, before he was recruited by Hill Jr., he only played three games in the Real Madrid first team, most of the time in the second team of Real Madrid, Jurado is still growing, and he is not the core and brain of the midfield for the time being.
Originally, in Flores's thoughts, as the core of the midfield, it should be Portuguese midfielder Pedro Simao, 31 years old, a member of the Portuguese national team, fast and strong breakthrough ability, and relatively mature in terms of experience, but ...... With only two assists in 108 successful breakaways throughout the season, this kind of playmaking efficiency is indeed weak.
As for the defender Paulo Asunsan, he has at least one sapper-type midfielder, Simao, Reyes, and Jurado are all midfielders who are strong in attack and weak in defense, and Paulo Assunção is more to fill in for them, and the data of 81 fouls and 11 yellow and 1 red throughout the season also shows that the Brazilian midfielder is more responsible for stabilizing the defense.
Another midfielder, Thiago, is a Portuguese midfielder on loan from Juventus, as a midfielder who rotates with Reyes, Thiago's offensive and defensive balance is more focused on defense, with 39 fouls and 7 yellow cards at the back, and 14 breakthroughs in attack, 15 shots, 2 goals and 1 assist, which also shows that he is a "box-to-box" midfielder type rather than a playmaker.
Salvio, a post-90s player known as "Little Messi", is not the core of the organization, and has only played less than 10 games in the league and cup in total, and they are all inconsequential games.
It is true that there is no central playmaker, in fact, put Forlan's position behind, put Salvio or other players up front, and leave Forlan more space to run and dribble the ball, just like last season, in the Uruguayan national team, Fran was used like this!
Hehe, it doesn't seem that Atletico Madrid's "midfield is brainless", but the problem of coach Flores, there is such a core but he abandons it, then, no wonder others!
(iv)
Oh, and there's also a midfielder, another Uruguayan who complemented Forlan well last season, 24-year-old Raul Garcia, who played full-time under Coach Aguirre in the 08/09 season, and has played more in the Copa del Rey and Europa League this season, playing less than a third of his league games.
Chen Zhuo wrote the name of "Raul Garcia" on the paper at hand, not only calculating, but also combing it carefully, the personal ability of Atletico Madrid's personnel is not weak, and being able to reach the finals of the Copa del Rey and the Europa League also shows this, and it slipped to ninth place in the league, purely because the coach did not use the personnel well.
Especially this Raul Garcia, the starter in the Copa del Rey and Europa League, the rotation in the league, is he the reason why Atletico Madrid's results in the cup and league this season are so different? Could his high attendance rate last season and this season's high absenteeism rate be the reason for Forlan and Aguero's sharp drop in goals?
Thinking about it, I couldn't help but pick up the phone and dial Moniz's number, asking him to send Raul Garcia the detailed information.
"You lunatic! It's three o'clock in the morning, you're not just the coach, you're still playing! After tossing for a day, aren't you tired? Moniz grumbled on the phone.
Oh, that's the case, it's time to rest, just like Moniz said, I'm still a player, and enough sleep is a guarantee of physical strength.
However, although it was a little late, it was not without gain!