Many times, the head coach can see clearly how strong a team is.

It's like Valladolid, after a strong performance last season, this summer did not have the determination to maintain this competitiveness.

They sold their top scorer Victor Fernandez to promoted Villarreal for €9 million, and goalkeeper César Sanchez to Real Madrid for €6.25 million.

Reinforcements?

If you can, save as much as you can.

It cannot be said that Valladolid lack ambition, but as a small team, they lack such confidence.

This is a bit like starting a business, it is also a very potential entrepreneurial project, the rich second generation and the children from peasant families will make two completely different choices, not that they have no vision, nor that they are not capable.

It's about the risk tolerance of two different families, which is very different.

Coach Manzano was clearly not optimistic about Valladolid, so he preferred to coach Racing Santander rather than stay in his role.

So, Valladolid invited the 55-year-old Argentine coach Francisco Ferraro.

As a professional footballer, Ferraro played for Celta Vigo and coached in Argentina after retiring, with good results and a reputation for defending.

Yang Hao's biggest impression of Ferraro is that he led Argentina to win the World Youth Championship in the Netherlands in 05, and it was this buddy.

Speaking of which, I have to mention a very contradictory thing.

Offense and defense.

The whole world knows that Brazil is full of talent, but how did this star-studded Brazil win the championship in 2002?

Scolari's extremely conservative defence.

When many fans mention Brazil in 02, they must only remember the 3R in the front court and the double card on the side.

But few people remember that before Scolari won this World Cup, his conservatism caused huge controversy in Brazil, especially the double midfield of Gilberto Silva and Kleberson, which caused countless criticisms.

Ironically, Brazil won the title thanks to their excellent defence and performances from their frontcourt superstars.

Argentina at the '05 World Junior Championships was actually the same.

Ferraro always hoarded players in the midfield and backfield, and handed it to Messi in the front.

With such a conservative tactical style of play, Argentina once again won the World Youth Championship.

If Scolari's Brazil is relatively balanced in attack and defense, then Ferraro's Argentine national youth team is really conservative and dead Messi's wool.

From the pre-season warm-up matches to the first round of the season, the same is true of Ferraro's coaching at Valladolid.

The midfield and backfield are heavily stocked, and the frontcourt relies on the individual ability of the players to play quick counter-attacks.

……

Facing different teams, Yang Hao often adopts different tactical plays.

For example, this season, in the face of teams such as Deportivo La Coruna and Valencia, who are good at high pressing, Yang Hao's strategy is to complete the strangulation in the midfield, and after grabbing the ball, use the speed of the midfielder to impact the gap behind the opponent's defense.

After Atletico Madrid completed the renewal in the summer of this year, the players are much younger, but the speed and impact have been greatly improved, which makes Atletico's style of play very effective against high-level tactical teams.

Of course, the premise is that the backline can hold on.

The combination of Graveson and Baraja brings rigidity to Atletico's midfield without losing organisation and passing ability.

In the face of a relatively conservative team like Ferraro, Yang Hao's strategy is very simple and rude.

Don't think about it, just go up and do it!

By pressing from a high position, he directly suppressed the opponent, pressed Valladolid in the half, and beat him hard!

In this Valladolid team, there are three players that Yang Hao is concerned about.

One is Portuguese goalkeeper Ricardo.

Paul Futtre once recommended him to Yang Hao and wanted to sign him, but Yang Hao chose Van der Sar.

Left wing-back Gabriel Heinze is the same Argentine powerhouse who went on to play for Manchester United and Real Madrid.

Tonight he confronted Joaquín directly.

Then there is the midfielder José Luis Caminero, who is a Atletico legend and the future director of Atletico Madrid's football.

There was a saying in European football at that time that Sevilla's Monchi was the best at poaching players from 0 to 15 million euros, and Caminero was good at poaching players from 15 million to 30 million euros.

This is of course a joke, but in Yang Hao's previous life, Caminero made a huge contribution to the rise of Atletico Madrid.

But now, he's still a player.

……

The game was also as Yang Hao expected, from the beginning, Valladolid took the initiative to give up the ball, and didn't even want to grab, so he retreated directly, and put on a strict defensive posture near the big penalty area.

Atletico knew the other party's intentions, but Yang Hao still let the whole team press up.

He knew that Ferraro wanted to block Atletico's attack by defending, and then wait for the opportunity to counterattack.

It's a test for Atletico.

Yang Hao's coping strategy is to press and press in the front court, lose the ball, counter-rob on the spot, grab the ball, and immediately put into a counterattack.

When the game started just 4 minutes and 31 seconds, Yang Hao's strategy worked.

Valladolid's defenders are not used to this high-pressure tactic at Atletico.

A passing up front was blocked and Valladolid tried to counter-attack, but a vicious tackle from Gravison near the 30-metre area intercepted the ball.

After Baraha's win, he quickly moved to the right flank.

After Joaquín stopped the ball on the right touchline, he faced the goal diagonally and formed a one-on-one with Heinze.

The Spaniard was very bold and kept getting close to Heinze with the ball, forcing the Argentine defender to retreat again and again.

Seeing that Valladolid's midfielder Caminero was about to run over to form a pinch attack, Joaquin suddenly burst to his left with the ball, and he was about to grab the support of the two-man sandwich and break through the encirclement horizontally.

This made Heinze follow suit.

Joaquín is a right-footed player, but he can also perform some simple technical movements with his left foot during the game.

For example, this time, when he was about to break through, his left foot suddenly stabbed the ball to the bottom line, and the whole person also quickly stopped and started, quickly rushed to the bottom line, and immediately threw off Heinze's position.

By the time the Argentine defender turned to catch up, Joaquín had already crossed from the right side of the penalty area.

In the middle of the box, Adriano jumped high after a run, beat Bolivian centre-back Pena, and headed home from close range to send Joaquin's cross from the right into Ricardo's goal.

“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL！！！！！！”

"In less than five minutes, Atletico scored first!"

"It's still an 18-year-old Brazilian youngster, Adriano!"

'Oh my God, the youngster is unstoppable, scoring a brace in the last round and opening again tonight, scoring three goals in two games.

"Adriano is not only big and strong, but he is also very good at his feet and very fast."

"A lot of media and professionals think that Atletico Madrid has picked up a gem!"

……

With Adriano's goal, the game didn't change.

Yang Hao did not accept it when he saw it, but motioned for everyone to continue to press.

Even, with the help of the sharpness of scoring a goal shortly after the opening period, Atletico showed more aggressiveness.

When the game reached the 13th minute, it was Atletico Madrid's crazy pressing at the front of the penalty area, forcing Valladolid's defender to make a mistake in passing, Baraja calmly sent a through pass, Deco stepped forward, stopped the ball and burst into the right side of the penalty area, calmly low shot to break the goal, and scored another goal for Atletico Madrid.

2 to 0!

Yang Hao smiled on the sidelines and applauded the team, Deco, and the players' performance.

So far, 13 minutes, 4 shots on goal, 2 goals, the efficiency is very high.

But Yang Hao still did not change his tactics, and still signaled the team to continue to press.

After playing the second round of the league, Atletico Madrid will have a week of rest, so in this game, Atletico Madrid can output full firepower.

……

The game was completely in the rhythm of Atletico.

The Sheets are like crazy kicks, constantly bombarding Valladolid in an indiscriminate mode.

Whether it was Adriano and Deco in the middle, Vicente and Joaquin on the wing, Graveson and Baraja also came up to shoot from distance.

Even Patrice Evra, who was active on the left, dared to burst into the box with the ball and show off the footwork and shooting skills of a wave of forwards.

The most threatening of these came in the 28th minute, when Patrice Evra made a beautiful break down the left and raced all the way up to the front of the pitch and crossed to Vicente, who then crossed to the penalty spot.

Adriano pressed the defender with his body, then stopped the ball with his left foot with his back, and the whole process was very beautiful, and he saw that he was about to score again.

The Brazilian did not make the best choice at the time in order to stop the ball with his left foot, and after turning around, he had to pull the ball again with his right foot and hit it with his left foot, and as a result, he missed the best chance to shoot from the feet.

But towards the end of the first half, it was Atletico's tackle in the 30-metre area, Deco quickly distributed the ball to the left wing, Evra cut in all the way along the left touchline, stopped the ball and sent a cross.

Adriano in the middle drew the attention of the defence, and Baraja stepped in unguarded at the back post and hit the goal with a header from close range.

3 to 0!

The entire Soria Stadium was stunned by Atletico Madrid's wave of attack!

In Valladolid's memory, Atletico Madrid have not won in this stadium in the past three years.

But now?

In just one summer, the Sheet Corps was literally reborn.

Ferocious pressing and sharp and efficient lightning attacks made Valladolid a little overwhelmed.

……

In the second half, although Atletico slowed down the offensive and the pace of the game, they still firmly suppressed Valladolid.

Especially in the 61st minute, it was the cooperation of Evra and Vicente on the left side, Vicente received Evra's return pass from the left side of the penalty area, dribbled into the left side of the penalty area, and rushed to the small penalty area with speed.

Adriano fell to the ground and fired a tackle under the entanglement of two central defenders, but the ball hit goalkeeper Ricardo and bounced off the right.

The unguarded Joaquín followed up and easily slotted the ball into Valladolid's goal.

4 to 0!

It was also the last goal of the game.

In the last half hour, Yang Hao successively replaced three substitutes, including Xavi Alonso, Reyes and Carvalho, to familiarize them with the rhythm of La Liga and also give them some opportunities to practice.

In the end, Atletico beat Valladolid 4-0 away.

After the game, the whole Spanish football exploded!

Brothers, support the first order, thank you!!

(End of chapter)