There's a reason why Leon is so confident in his team's next win over Atletico.

As the best La Liga team in the Champions League in recent seasons, Atletico Madrid, who have reached the Champions League final twice, has naturally aroused the vigilance of many continental giants.

Chelsea have seen Bayern Munich as their biggest rivals in the Champions League this season, with Atletico Madrid causing them plenty of problems in last year's Champions League final.

As it turned out, Mourinho and his coaching staff were right about Atletico in advance.

Now that they are leading the team against Atletico Madrid again, the Chelsea coaching staff has at least a number of options in terms of tactical reserves and tactical targeting.

Mourinho doesn't dare to say that he is the coach who knows Atletico's tactical play best in Europe today other than Simeone, but when it comes to delving into Atletico's tactics, he thinks it's okay to be in the top three.

Without him, Atletico Madrid is a big enough threat to Chelsea in the Champions League, and he himself is very interested in Atletico's technical and tactical play.

After all, it is a tough team that is also based on defense and has a very sharp counter-attack, and now Atletico Madrid, who have a tough style, has too much appetite for Mourinho.

He can see many familiar styles in Simeone's tactical play, including his, Capello's, and many well-known managers in Serie A football.

There is no doubt that Simeone is a master learner, and his extensive experience in Serie A has provided a solid foundation for the coaching style he is today.

Jose Mourinho is very fond of the junior in the coaching world, and while recognising his qualities, he has also developed a great interest in cracking Simeone's tactical play.

It is precisely because of the thorough preparation of the Chelsea coaching staff that has given Leon and the rest of the Chelsea key players a great deal of confidence.

Regardless of whether Atletico anticipated their continued encounter with Chelsea this season, they started to prepare for the game in advance.

Anyway, on Chelsea's side, Mourinho had already used Atletico Madrid as an imaginary opponent at least two months ago, and had made a full tactical response and a breakthrough plan in the coaching meeting.

As a result, once the draw for the Champions League semi-final was over, Chelsea's preparation for Atletico Madrid quickly evolved from the tactical theory stage to the actual practice of the match.

It would be easier for the whole Chelsea squad to emulate Atletico's current style of play.

Who made them have too many similarities between the two teams?

Aggressive defensive pressing, stockpiling up defensive heavy forces in the middle of the midfield, counter-attacking from the flanks quickly, and a timely and decisive tactical foul strategy......

It wasn't difficult for Chelsea's substitutes to achieve such a tactical effect, the only troubling thing was that they had to play in a 442 formation several times against their main players.

This set of formation play is indeed a bit "outdated" for today's major European league teams.

Counting the teams that have reached the round of 16 of the Champions League this season, only one Atletico Madrid is still playing their best 442, and the rest of the teams are basically playing 433 or 4231.

But that's just the way the times were, and Atletico still used their excellent results in recent seasons to justify their tactical play.

They still broke into the last four of this season's Champions League with a "reverse version" of 442, which is already a symbol of success in itself.

Chelsea's coaching staff were able to overcome some difficulties and replicate Atletico's formation on the training pitch as much as possible.

Due to the tight schedule and limited time in the Premier League, Chelsea's preparation for Atletico ended up missing a few training matches to regain the effect.

However, compared to the quality of preparation for the Champions League semi-finals in the previous two seasons, Chelsea's preparation this year is very, very complete.

The whole team understands the logic of Atletico Madrid's style of play, and basically gets in touch with Atletico's tactical system, with empathy and competition practice on the training ground.

To this point, Chelsea's coaching staff has already played against the sky, and Leon doesn't believe that Simeone can lead the team to prepare for this point anyway.

The tactical drills were in place, the morale was high, there were no injury problems in the team, and Chelsea was still playing at home in the first leg.

No matter how you look at it, Leon feels that the advantage of this battle against Atletico Madrid is mine!

With a lot of confidence, he and his teammates successfully completed the final preparations.

On April 26, the day before the start of the battle between Chelsea and Atletico Madrid, the Champions League semi-finals officially kicked off, with Real Madrid and Juventus taking the lead!

Real Madrid, who challenged Juventus away, took the lead, changing the strategy of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger in the last round of the knockout match against Manchester City, and became very active in tactical play.

Juventus also showed weakness in a rare preemptive performance at home, decisively handing over control of the midfield, and the whole team concentrated on shrinking the defense first.

Li Ang and his teammates gathered in the training base restaurant that night to watch the game between the two teams, and when he saw this scene, he sighed that if Pirlo was still at Juventus, Uncle Yi would definitely fight with Real Madrid in the midfield today.

Master Pi can actually play high-intensity games, but he retired bravely in the summer window last year, and went directly to the MLS to enjoy football despite the retention of Juventus management and Uncle Yu.

Now that Vidal has been poached by Barcelona and has not had Pirlo's Juventus, the control and intensity of the midfield have decreased a lot.

Fortunately, Khedira, who they brought in from Paris last summer, had a second career start, and the duo of the back two with Marchisio once again propped up Juve's midfield system.

Coupled with Pogba, who played a career-high performance on the left side of the midfield, Juventus can now be regarded as playing a squatting counterattack.

Allegri is also a master of tactical adaptability, and with two key players in the midfield, he changed the formation to create another midfield system.

This year, he led the team to the last four of the Champions League again, and the European media who had questioned his coaching ability were also silent, and now who dares to say that he is not successful?

In the face of Real Madrid, who took the initiative today, Uncle Yu was very decisive and practically adopted the obscene squatting tactic, which is very suitable for his tactical style of play, and it is also very suitable for Juve's starting configuration.

Originally, the other Chelsea players thought that Leon would continue to support Real Madrid decisively.

As a result, in the 20th minute of the first half of the game, Leon shook his head and asserted that Real Madrid would be very uncomfortable in the second half.

The rest of the Chelsea players will be skeptical, after all, Real Madrid are still in control of the game on TV, playing well in attack and creating danger.

Doesn't this look like a heavy stance?

As a result, Juventus relied on the team's united contraction defense to withstand Real Madrid's ferocious impact in the first half and dragged the score 0-0 into the halftime period.

At the beginning of the second half, Uncle Yi replaced Mandzukic, one of the starting double center forwards, with Dybala, who had only returned from injury in the last Serie A, and let Dybala partner with another starting center Morata.

Juve's starting formation has not changed at first glance, and it is still the 442 that Uncle Yu unexpectedly arranged today.

But with Dybala on the field, Juve's counter-attacking strategy is no longer the simple and direct long pass rushing to find Mandzukic in the first half.

Pogba's positioning follows the premise, and the passing link between him and Dybala is more delicate and frequent.

And the energy saved by the whole Juventus team in the first half played a huge role in the second half.

The pressing force of the central midfield made Juve push the battle line back to near the halfway line.

At this time, if Real Madrid still wants to invade the heart of Juve's defense and create an attacking threat as they did in the first half, then they must further press forward the formation.

Carlo Ancelotti didn't hesitate much, Real Madrid had already played an attacking touch in the first half, and he couldn't afford to give up halfway at this time.

And with Real Madrid covering, exposing more and more defensive gaps in the backfield, Juventus directly played a lethal quick counterattack in the 63rd minute of the second half!

Khedira took advantage of his body advantage in the face of his former teammate Modric to cut off the ball, and then he quickly transferred the ball to Pogba, who also found Morata with a diagonal mid-range pass to the ground!

The former Real Madrid striker made the most of his speed and skill at the moment.

After eating Casemiro with speed first, in the face of Ramos, who attacked boldly, Morata broke out again to speed up, and successfully passed the former big brother with a simple smash to change direction!

In the end, facing Pepe, who was pressing on the momentum, Morata unselfishly distributed the football to Dybala who raised his hand forward on the other side before the opponent fell to the ground to tackle.

Morata made a slightly awkward jump to avoid Pepe's tackle and fell to the turf.

But his eyes are fixed on him at the moment, and he has already taken the ball to face Navas's Dybala!

The Argentine striker dribbled the ball into the left side of the Real Madrid penalty area, and the striker who gets such an opportunity usually chooses to hit the far corner.

But Dybala was very confident in hitting a close-corner shot!

This was a huge surprise to Navas, and Dybala also hit a wonderful shot with his own foot, and successfully sent the football into the goal of Real Madrid!

Watching the goal, the Chelsea players in the training base were really speechless to be convinced.

However, Li Ang did not show a smug or happy expression at the moment, on the contrary, his eyes were a little helpless.

Compared to Juventus, he certainly hopes that Real Madrid can have the upper hand in this round of competition and finally successfully reach the Champions League final.

But now it seems that Real Madrid, who took the lead, is destined to make a big mistake at Juventus' home stadium and lose the initiative to advance to the final......

Sure enough, after the team took the lead, Uncle Yu once again commanded the Juventus players on the field to retreat with all their might.

The 1-0 Serie A old lady reappeared, and Juventus, who played squatting to defend football, not only tortured their own fans, but also tortured countless neutral fans who watched the big game tonight.

In the end, Juventus also won by a small goal, winning the first game against Real Madrid.

In the second leg, they only need to score one goal at the Bernabeu, and Real Madrid will have to score three goals to knock them out.

Juventus can be said to have taken a huge advantage in the promotion!

This is naturally welcome for Juventus fans, but for more neutral fans, watching such a Champions League semi-final can be a disaster.

They are more worried about whether tomorrow's match between Chelsea and Atletico Madrid will be another iron-clad defensive battle.

With 30% of the expectation and 70% of the anxiety, fans around the world finally waited for another match of this season's Champions League in the early morning of April 27 or 28.

Chelsea, who are at Stamford Bridge, also welcome the challenge of Atletico Madrid!

Compared with last season's loss before the Champions League final, Atletico's squad health this season is much better.

Before the game, Leon also saw Antoine Griezmann, who was once familiar but now a little rusty, in the players' tunnel.

The two hadn't been in touch for a long time, so a polite smile and a nod was a way of greeting each other.

It's true that the two used to know each other, and it's true that they don't know each other now, after all, not all friendly relationships can be maintained forever.

For Leon, this is not a pity, and it is a good result to meet Antoine Griezmann as an opponent in the field now.

Of course, he will continue to teach Griezmann a lesson on the pitch, as he did against Griezmann in La Liga.

Griezmann has evolved a lot, and now he is very strong, but there is only one winner today, and that is him Leang!

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After the pre-match ceremony, Li Ang, who wore the captain's armband, beckoned his teammates to make the final pre-battle mobilization in his own half.

And as the referee's whistle sounded, the Stamford Bridge scene also broke out into strong cheers!

The game started on time, and Chelsea, who were the first to kick off, also launched a long pass directly from the back to make an offensive attempt.

Suarez ran to the receiving position early, but Jimenez, a national team teammate behind him and now Atletico Madrid's centre-back, unceremoniously pushed the ball back into midfield ahead of him.

Gabi ran to the first drop of the ball, but this time it was Ang's turn to jump first and push the ball to the side.

Chelsea and Atletico Madrid completed the first round of attacking and defensive testing in the first minute.

De Bruyne, who regained control of the ball from Chelsea, simply passed the ball back, and Kroos took the ball and directed his team-mates around him to open up the distance.

Seeing that Chelsea wanted to calmly comb the ball and organize the attack, Atletico Madrid also hurriedly launched the high press they are good at.

However, Chelsea seemed to have anticipated that Atletico would play the whole team high-pressure pressing tactics in the opening stages, and decisively adopted a tactical plan of possession at the back.

And watching the scene of Hazard and De Bruyne following the retreat position to participate in the transfer of the ball, the corners of Simeone's mouth on the sidelines subconsciously twitched.

Jose Mourinho sat firmly in the coach's box, watching the game that did not get out of control.

The media, who predicted before the game that Chelsea and Atletico Madrid would fight for both sides in defence today, were doomed to disappointment.

Chelsea and Atletico Madrid are indeed very typical 'reckless' teams in this era of football.

They pay more attention to running, pressing, pressing and counter-attacking efficiency, and many times they do not pursue flashy and beautiful attacks in the game field.

Even if they are capable of playing smooth and good-looking attacking football, fans still habitually label them as a defensive team.

But it doesn't matter what these Chelsea stereotypes fans think of today's game.

Chelsea have responded with a subtle tactical twist from the opening game:

In these years, if you want to become the strongest "reckless" team, you must have some wisdom!

(End of chapter)