At half-time, there was a deathly silence in the visitors' dressing room.

Back last season, it was in this dressing room that they were jubilant at half-time to celebrate the team's goal.

But now, everyone is hanging their heads, like defeated roosters.

As the defending champion of La Liga, the first half was too bad!

"That damn Frenchman, he keeps scolding me all day long, I told him that my name is Victor, he just scolded me Juan Ma, and he was going to kill me all day long, didn't he understand Spanish?"

Victor Sánchez finally broke the silence.

Everyone could tell that he was making excuses for his poor performance in the first half.

Patrice Evra played like a madman in the first half, short but crazy defensively and offensively.

The point is, this guy is really physical.

Well, a bit like that Davis in Holland, like a wild boar on a rampage.

Victor Sánchez opened the conversation, and everyone's complaints came out.

De Jaminha accused Atletico Madrid's Gravison of playing dirty, acting fiercely, and the referee being too soft in law enforcement, taking care of the home team and the like; Mackay, on the other hand, complained that Lucio was simple-minded and had well-developed limbs......

"The midfield should give a little more support to the front, and I think the double back should come up and play a dozen to share the defensive pressure." Left winger Forlan proposed.

He felt that he was not getting much support on the left side.

Dejaminha has always been like this, burying his head in the front, straight up and down, and rarely caring about the sides.

This is actually a big problem.

It's like today, when Atletico's double midfielders pinched Dejaminha, Deportivo cut off two wings.

Mauro Silva listened to Fran's words and turned to look at Jokanovic, and both of them smiled wryly.

They really want their team-mates to come over and play in the back and see if they can limit Deco.

This Brazilian kid is really not simple.

The kick is inconspicuous, but every run is scary, and every time they get the ball, they are terrified.

And the range of activities is huge.

If the double back waist goes up to one, one-on-one, I'm afraid it will be difficult to suppress Deco.

But this kind of thing can't be said, and it's not easy to say.

Players like Deco understand everything they understand, and if they don't understand it, they still don't understand what they say, but it's more like they're making excuses.

"You say, this Atletico team is really weird, how can it be completely different in one summer? And their kind of high-level pressing and oppression, it's outrageous, how long can they last? ”

The locker room fell into a deathly silence again.

No one can give an answer because Atletico look quite physical.

But what matters is this set of tactics.

Deportivo La Coruna really didn't create any good chances throughout the first half, but it was Atletico Madrid, who counterattacked quickly again and again, and kept attacking the heart of the Deportivo penalty area.

Van der Sar was the most relaxed player in the entire first half.

"What does this look like a relegation team? The relegation teams in La Liga are all like Atletico Madrid tonight, let's not live! Victor Sanchez complained helplessly.

As one of the relegation favourites this season, Atletico Madrid are targeting relegation for the new season.

Of course, this is the media's statement, and Atletico Madrid did not officially disclose it.

But judging from the current performance, if this team is really relegated, it will be a hell of a life!

That kind of pressing, especially in the 28 to 37 minutes, really forced Deportivo almost to suffocate and it was difficult to even get the ball across the halfway line.

But it can also be seen that Atletico Madrid's players have not fully adapted to this tactical style of play, and the cooperation is not tacit enough.

But now it's so uncomfortable, when they further improve their playing style and cooperate tacitly, will they still let people live?

……

Irueta was in the coach's lounge next door, and listening to the players' discussions, he began to regret it.

I regret not bringing the three heroes of Atletico Madrid!

He was careless!

Originally, he thought that tonight's game would be easy to take on Atletico Madrid, but now it seems that Yang Hao's degree of integration is far beyond his expectations, and even the tactical prototype integrated by the team is amazing enough, and the players are also adapting very well.

Even Patrice Evra, who dropped back from the striker to play at left wing-back, was impressive.

It was 2-0 in the first half and Irueta was well aware that it was going to be a difficult game.

What's even more outrageous is that when Atletico Madrid left the game, they did not show obvious physical decline.

This also confirms what Iruetta had heard earlier.

Yang Hao hired two strength and conditioning coaches, one of whom was a Uruguayan and was said to have led a rugby team in the past.

Combined with Lucio's several physical confrontations that "crushed" Mackay, Irueta began to understand a little.

But he quickly calmed down and walked to the players' rest area.

Halfway through the game, I made the decision to finish it, even if I knew that it was bad and bad.

At least for the second round of the battle of Riazor, keep the spark of hope.

What's more, Atletico Madrid are not flawless, they also have a lot of weaknesses and loopholes, especially their players, who will make mistakes in the game.

……

"One of the biggest problems."

In the home team's dressing room, Yang Hao confronted his players and unceremoniously pointed out the worst mistake the team made in the first half of the pitch at the beginning.

"We didn't play our own rhythm at all, we were just fast, fast, fast!"

"I said that the transition between attack and defense should be fast, and the purpose of fast is to play the time difference, to get ahead of the opponent's defense, and to give a quick fatal blow, but ......"

When Yang Hao said this, he deliberately accentuated his tone.

"If we find that we can't play this time difference and can't form a threat after switching between offense and defense, then we should decisively choose to slow down, control first, reorganize, and then look for opportunities, instead of continuing to make a hammer deal!"

Speaking of which, Yang Haoluo listed a very simple statistic, that is, Atletico Madrid's possession rate in the first half was only a little over 30%.

There is no such thing as a data company in European football, and OPTA was not founded until around 2004.

Atletico's current data is completely collected and counted by themselves, and some are even directly manual, which makes it very rough.

But the benefit of data is clear: it allows everyone to see the problem more intuitively.

For example, Yang Hao said that Atletico Madrid's possession rate in the first half was only more than 30%, which is somewhat ominous.

But regardless of the situation or the opportunities created, Atletico have an overwhelming advantage.

So what is the reason for this situation?

is what Yang Hao said, whether Atletico Madrid has a chance or not, after grabbing the ball, they will directly launch a fast attack.

"It's stupid, it's low-level, it's all in vain, it's a drain on the opponent, but it's also a drain on our own physical strength, and we haven't been able to achieve our tactical goals."

"We have to play smart, don't just play brute, think with thought, keep watching, guess what our opponents are thinking, what they want to do, and then not as they want, if they want to be fast, we will be slow, if they want to be slow, we will be fast, always let the opponent play at an awkward pace, we can win!"

Yang Hao also reminded Deco, Gravison and Baraha.

These three players in the middle of the midfield are like the waist of the team, controlling the overall tempo and direction of the attack.

"As I told you before, once the opponent's defensive formation is formed, don't be brute, but transfer, pull the opponent's defense line by constantly shifting, forcing them to run, as long as the defense line moves, it will inevitably show flaws."

"Also, whether it's a striker, or two wings, or in the middle of the midfield, try to play more in the ribs."

After talking about the shortcomings, Yang Hao praised the players again, especially for the performance in the first half, Yang Hao said that he was very, very satisfied with them, but also hoped that they could make persistent efforts in the second half.

'Last season, we were in this stadium and Deportivo scored three goals.

Yang Hao said this, smiling and encouraging his players.

"Tonight, again in this stadium, we tried to get them three goals back."

"Come on!"

After hearing this, the players were also in high spirits.

Especially after the first half, everyone began to play with confidence and fighting spirit.

It wasn't until the referee rang the bell and signaled that the players were ready to enter the stadium that Yang Hao sent his players away one by one.

When it was Evra's turn, the French kid secretly looked at Juanmar Lillo, and he was not afraid of being heard by Lillo, so he said directly to Yang Hao: "Boss, the trick you taught me is really effective." ”

Yang Hao coughed twice in a row, looked at Llillo in embarrassment, and really wanted to kick Evra's guy out in his heart.

Are you deliberately sowing discord?

But as he passed by Lillo, Evra reminded Lillo again, "I'm a striker, a striker!" ”

Leo looks at the nose with his eyes, looks at the heart with his nose, and ignores it.

……

"It turns out that Evra scolded me for the bad tricks, and you taught me?"

Back in the stadium, in front of the home team's coach's box, Juanma Lillo sat next to Yang Hao, very unintentionally tentative.

"Nonsense, am I that kind of person?"

Of course, Yang Hao flatly denied it, there were two people present at the time, empty mouths and white teeth, why should they slander people's innocence?

"I just told Evra to find a way to deflect his hatred and vent his emotions, who knew that this guy would use this kind of trick, it's just ......"

Speaking of this, Yang Hao changed his words, "But seriously, Juanma, this kid performed really well in the first half, you look at this tackle, digging grooves, it's really fierce, if it's Victor Sanchez, I'll be anxious with him on the spot." ”

"The ball was grabbed, though."

Yang Hao couldn't help but laugh after speaking.

"That's what he said, but he scolded me every time he scrambled, and I ......" Lillo said he was very aggrieved.

I'm an assistant coach and I'm greeted dozens of times a game, is it easy for me?

"I'm used to scolding and scolding, and half of the salary of this assistant coach is the money from being scolded."

Liluo looked at Yang Hao helplessly, he was very suspicious, it was Yang Hao's badness.

Soon, though, as soon as the second half began, the game was intense.

Juanma Lillo was also quickly immersed in the intense competition, where can he bother with the rest?

Until the 58th minute.