When referee Mendes blew the final whistle, Jose Mourinho in the away dugout looked at the pitch in disbelief, looking at the shocking scoreline, and wondering if he was dreaming.

4 to 1!

In international practice, the home team is in front and the away team is in the back.

Atletico Madrid, which is deep in the relegation zone, defeated Barcelona in second place in the league 4-1 at their home stadium, who would dare to believe that this was placed before the game?

But the Sheets Corps did.

With the crisp whistle, the entire Calderón stadium was filled with the cheers of Atletico Madrid fans.

They were enjoying the big win they've been waiting for for a long, long time.

When was the last time Atletico Madrid won such a hearty victory?

I'm afraid everyone has forgotten about it.

Mourinho also forgot that when was the last time Barcelona lost so badly?

Van Gaal still has a blue face, he is not very old, and there are not many wrinkles, but he always gives people a very cold feeling, which makes people very difficult to approach.

But only Mourinho, who knows him well, knows that Van Gaal is actually good.

It's just that now, he's under too much pressure.

Especially after tonight's game.

"It's okay, we have a second round." Mourinho exhorted bitterly.

Van Gaal came back to his senses for a long time, shook his head with a wry smile, "No." ”

"Nothing?"

"There's no second round."

Mourinho is tempted to say, is it too pessimistic?

"You can't give up so early, don't you say it? There are always miracles on the football pitch, maybe we can go back and prepare and get revenge at the Camp Nou in the second leg......."

'If we can score a goal in the last 30 minutes, then what you say is true, but we can't do it.'

Louis van Gaal interrupted Jose Mourinho and he now feels that the assistant coach is not under pressure, so a lot of ideas, a lot of ideas, are different from his own.

Of course, this is normal, he doesn't have to take responsibility.

Perhaps, when he has the opportunity to coach alone in the future, his thoughts will be different.

"Jose, there may be many miracles on the football field, but some miracles are not destined to happen, like do you believe that you can be three goals behind in the Champions League final and still come back? Do you think there is a player who can score sixty or seventy goals in a season? ”

Mourinho speaks.

None of what Van Gaal said was impossible.

That's not something that people can do.

But it is not so difficult for Barcelona to reverse Atletico at home.

It's not a Champions League final, it's a Copa del Rey semi-final.

But he really can't argue with it because Louis van Gaal is the manager.

The Dutchman's frustration came from the team's morale being shattered.

That's what makes him desperate the most.

Especially in the final stages of the game, it was clear that the Barcelona players had lost their fighting spirit, and some players were on the pitch hoping for the game to end quickly, rather than trying to create goals.

Then there's the league, and then there's the Champions League......

Being knocked out of the Copa del Rey may not be a bad thing for Barca.

The bad thing is that with such a score, in such a way, it is eliminated.

"Remember this kid, Jose, he's not easy!" Van Gaal pointed to Yang Hao in front of the home team's coach's seat and said in a deep voice.

……

At the moment of the whistle, Yang Hao was excited on the sidelines.

Several players on the bench were also eager to try, and as soon as the whistle blew, they all rushed onto the pitch and celebrated the rare victory with the players on the pitch.

For Atletico, this victory can be described as a long drought.

They have been holding back for months, and finally having such a victory has given them all a hearty vent and greatly relieved the pressure on the team at the moment.

Of course, the league's relegation situation is still very grim, and there is no room for slackness.

The 48,000 fans in the stadium also gave the most enthusiastic applause and cheers for the team's performance tonight.

Yang Hao, under the reminder of Mendiodo, first walked to the coach's seat of the visiting team and shook hands with Van Gaal.

It can be seen that the Dutch are not very interested, and they didn't say anything to Yang Hao.

Later, he shook hands with Mourinho and found that the grape man was not affected much.

It's not surprising, assistant coach, it's Van Gaal who lost, what's the matter with Mourinho?

As he walked back, he hugged his players one by one and greeted them off the field.

Aguilera then took the players around the stadium to thank all the fans who came to the stadium.

It's also a kind of routine of the game.

Fans come to the stadium and create a home advantage for the team, which makes the players on the pitch more motivated and motivated.

"You guys did a really good job tonight."

Just as Yang Hao watched the players pass, an unfamiliar voice came from behind him.

He hurriedly turned around, just in time to see the sweaty Guardiola standing behind him, this sudden attack hit him a little surprised, blurted out: "Melon bald!" ”

Fortunately, he spoke Chinese.

Guardiola was also stunned for a moment, not understanding what Yang Hao was talking about.

"Sorry, Spanish isn't very standard, I mean, Pep." Yang Hao hurriedly explained.

People are not bald yet, call him bald, and eighty percent will be beaten.

"Hello, nice to meet you." Guardiola looked at Yang Hao with interest and stretched out his hand.

It can be seen that Guardiola is not interested in football tactics and concepts until he decided to become a manager, but he has been thinking about it all his career.

And this time, he is more concerned about this wholeness of Atletico.

"You play very tightly from front to back, which is different from the current team, and the other thing is that your rib attack is very lively, and we didn't barely block it until Cocu came up later, and I was the only one who couldn't stop it."

Pep Guardiola is very honest.

In fact, he doesn't need to say much about this, and it can be seen clearly in the game.

Since there is still a second leg of the game, Yang Hao did not reveal too many details to Guardiola, but the two chatted on the sidelines for a while, but he was very interested in Guardiola's words.

"I have a friend who I think has a similar philosophy, and he has always admired 4231, and even the Spanish coach's [Football Training] magazine believes that he is the first manager in Spain and even Europe to adopt this formation."

When Yang Hao heard Guardiola say this, a name immediately came to his mind.

"You're talking about, Juan Manuel Lillo?"

"Yes, you know Juanma?"

"No, but I've heard of him." Yang Hao said with a smile.

In his previous life, in order to write a novel, he carefully studied Guardiola's biography and consulted a lot of information, Guardiola had a very close relationship with Juanma Lillo, and even later, before Guardiola retired, he went to Mexico to play football for half a year, which was to play in Juanmar Lillo's team.

His aim is to experience Juanmar Lillo's tactics and learn his unique way of training.

The earliest entanglement between the two should be in 1996, when Juanma Lillo was able to coach Real Oviedo because of his good performance in leading promoted Masalamanca, but he encountered Barcelona in the first game and was bloodied by Barcelona 2-4.

Although it was a heavy defeat, the two teams fought to the death, and Real Oviedo's courage to attack and the threat to Barcelona in the game made Guardiola refreshed.

So, after the game, Guardiola ran to meet Juanma Lillo.

Many, many years later, after Pep Guardiola's success, the three managers who were recognized as having had the greatest influence on his tactics were Bielsa, Juanma Lillo, and even above the former.

The last one, of course, is Cruyff.

But interestingly, Juanma Lillo's coaching career has been anything but average.

"He's a very thoughtful person." Pep Guardiola gave a good review.

"But whether it was in Salamanca, or later Real Oviedo and Tenerife, his results were controversial."

During Lillo's tenure at Real Orvieto, the team was relegated from La Liga and later put out the fire on Tenerife in the middle of the game, helping Tenerife to relegation in the first season, but the team collapsed again in the second season.

How so?

Lillo has the ability to coach and the level is quite good, but as a manager, that's not enough.

'If I had to give a score, I think at the football level, as a manager, he is a perfect score because he has been coaching the team since he was 16 years old, and now he is only 34 years old and has been coaching for more than ten years.

'But apart from being a manager, I think he still needs to improve. Guardiola smiled wryly.

Yang Hao understood what Guardiola meant.

The environment faced by the head coach and the assistant coach is completely different.

In terms of pressure, the assistant coach can't catch up with the head coach, and in terms of specific work content, it depends on the division of labor.

For example, Ferguson and Queiroz, the former basically gave all power to Queiroz, even the tactical arrangements and preparation plans; Then there's Klinsmann and Loew, just like the previous pair.

Van Gaal and Jose Mourinho are a bit different, the latter is more of a communication channel between the manager and the players, playing the role of a microphone, and the specific work is handled by Van Gaal and his team.

"Pep, leave a contact information, and you can give me Juanma Lillo's phone number when you come back." Yang Hao said temporarily.

In fact, he wants to take the opportunity to take Guardiola's private contact information.

"Okay." Saying that, Guardiola directly reported his private mobile phone number.

Juan Mar Lillo has been out of work for almost two years since his departure from Tenerife and left his second season at Tenerife without surviving the winter break.

So much so that not many teams trusted the young manager.

As many people have said, a head coach in professional football is in great need of experience and qualifications.

After saying goodbye to Guardiola, Yang Hao was secretly happy in his heart.

The Juanmar Lillo manager is really average, but as an assistant, he is a real talent.

He also remembers vividly that Lillo was in charge of the Central League in 2019, leaving in 2020 for personal reasons and running to Manchester City to work as an assistant for Pep Guardiola, and the Manchester City title in the next two seasons was soft.

Later, this guy went to the Middle East to coach, Manchester City and Pep Guardiola specially invited him to work as a temporary worker before the key game of Real Madrid in the Champions League, and as a result, Manchester City really reached the final and finally won the championship.

It really can't all be attributed to Juanma Lillo, but at the very least, he made a difference.

"Go back and ask him if he's interested in coming to Atletico." Yang Hao thought to himself.

But now, he has an even more important, pressing matter to deal with.