Mourinho's judgment was correct. After the game started, Atletico Madrid put on a defensive and counterattack posture in the away game. Now Atletico Madrid's defense is actually quite good. Although they conceded a lot of goals in the previous rounds, However, most of the time Atletico Madrid adopts aggressive offensive tactics, which naturally concedes a lot of goals. After adopting a defensive and counterattack tactic, Barcelona once again felt the same discomfort as when facing Atletico Madrid last season. state!
Shrinking the defense, Atletico Madrid did not use man-to-man defense tactics. Two experienced central defenders, Gamarra and Thuram, were firmly guarding the penalty area. Makelele and Baraja created a line at the front of the penalty area. With the steel defense, coupled with the return defense of Belleron and Camoranesi, Atletico Madrid had eight people on the field defending, with only Jardel at the front and Vicente roaming on the wing.
It is actually not very difficult to use defensive counterattacks against Barcelona. The biggest problem for Barcelona now is their defense line. The center backs are not tall enough and the overall speed is slow. They do not have much ability to deal with high forwards and fast forwards. Help, last season they lost so miserably against Valencia, mainly because of Lopez, and Atletico now has such high center forwards and wingers. If Dick doesn't make good use of this, it will be in vain. I'm blinded by the good cards I have.
Barcelona has always been very stubborn in its own tactics. However, their style of play, which emphasizes midfield control and layer-by-layer advancement, has a natural flaw, which is their lack of defensive ability when facing defensive counterattacks. This The problem has never been solved well. It was not until Guardiola took over that Barcelona's natural shortcomings were minimized through a series of means such as compressing space and high-position pressing. However, there were also cases where Pato accelerated the pace. A situation emerged where the entire defense line was penetrated.
Mourinho's idea is not wrong. When Dick successfully made Barcelona fans more angry, Barcelona's players were undoubtedly affected. They want to defeat Atletico Madrid as soon as possible, preferably Being able to usher in a big victory can quickly calm the anger of the fans, but they have ignored one thing. Rushing for success in anything will often have worse consequences
Barcelona's offense is very fierce, but it lacks a bit of rationality. After Figo left, Guardiola was already a bit reluctant to be responsible for the ball alone. Now, instead of Cocu, the one protecting him has become Petit and Dela Pena, Dela Pena is another style of organizing midfielder. The players still have the strength, but they cannot be combined well. Facing Atletico Madrid, the fusion team Although the defense line of two top French defensive players played quite lively, it actually did not pose much of a threat.
Last season, Barcelona was able to create a lot of threats through Rivaldo's long-range shooting ability outside the penalty area. But this season, after Makelele joined, he was urged by Dick to join forces with Baraja. Sticking around Rivaldo, Makelele was concentrating on cutting off the connection between Rivaldo and his teammates, trying to prevent people from getting the ball as much as possible - this defensive method was not what Dick was injured. One year In the confrontation between Brazil and the Argentine national team, it was precisely because Redondo targeted Rivaldo that the Brazilian national team's offense suffered successive setbacks in the game, and eventually lost to the Argentine national team!
And Atletico Madrid¡¯s strength in counterattack is not small at all.
When the game reached the 23rd minute, Atletico Madrid, which had been suppressed by Barcelona, ??launched a beautiful counterattack. Alfonso tried to take the ball at the front of the penalty area and turned around, but Thuram kicked him immediately. After the tackle, the ball rolled out and was picked up by Makelele. He quickly transferred it to Beleron. Before the opponent's Dela Pena pressed forward, Beleron directly picked the outside of his foot and passed the ball!
The ball quickly passed through the entire half of Atletico Madrid's backcourt, and then fell directly to Jardel's feet at the top of the center circle. Before Cocu came forward, Jardel had already used his body to protect the ball, and then quickly As he turned around, he raised his foot and sent the ball to the left!
Vicente passed by from the left like lightning, and then rushed towards the ball quickly!
The entire stand was quiet for a moment, and then huge boos rang out from the stands - they no longer bothered to scold Dick, but shouted loudly at Vicente, trying to use their voices to make the young player's mentality There are fluctuations!
I have to say that their approach was very effective. Vicente himself was not experienced enough. When there were such overwhelming boos in the stands, his feet were confused. When he controlled the ball and moved forward again By the time, Reiziger, who had returned to defense in time, had already entangled him.
"Hell."
Vicente cursed in his heart. Originally, he had a chance??It's very good. With a little adjustment, you can directly face the goalkeeper diagonally to form a single-handed ball. Now that Reiziger is entangled, you probably won't be able to complete the attack by yourself
Just as he was about to speed up, what Dick said to him during the halftime break of the first game of the Spanish Super Cup suddenly rang in his mind.
"Vicente, you are running a little too fast I know you are very fast, but unless it is a direct opportunity to stand alone, in other cases it is useless for you to run fast alone. Your teammates can't keep up. Come up, you can't score a goal by yourself, sometimes it's better to go slower."
Thinking of this, Vicente slowed down his speed slightly, and was entangled with Reizig to advance on the wing. At this time, Jardel, who assisted him, had already turned around and rushed over, followed by the right winger. It was Camoranesi, and behind Jardel, Bellelon and Baraja also followed quickly one after another!
Atletico Madrid¡¯s counterattack is also not slow!
Kankan dribbled the ball to a place parallel to the front of the penalty area. Vicente suddenly stopped, and Reiziger also stopped - he was very confident because he noticed Vicente's speed in the previous struggle. Not particularly fast, the Dutch full-back is also a player known for his speed and agility, and he is confident of keeping up with Vicente's speed.
This is the difference between fighting in person and only seeing it on video - if Reiziger had fought against Vicente before, you would know that Vicente could probably control his speed before
It's a pity that he doesn't know.
After an emergency stop, Vicente moved the ball to his right foot, and then made a cross-cutting motion. This attracted part of Reizig's attention, but soon, there was a lightning-like movement under Vicente's feet. After a moment, the ball returned to his left foot again, and then Vicente quickly moved toward the baseline with his left foot without any pretense, and then accelerated the breakthrough!
At this time, Reizig immediately realized that he had been fooled - but Vicente's speed was so fast that he had no time to react physically - compared with when he was entangled with him just now, Vicente was Special's speed has been completely improved to a new level!
Almost instantly, Vicente broke through Reiziger's defense, and then he had time to look up and observe the situation in the penalty area. Because he had deliberately suppressed his speed before, at this time, he caught a glimpse of A tall figure is rushing towards the penalty area from outside the penalty area!
A trace of joy flashed through Vicente's heart, and then he raised his left foot and continued to take a step forward. Then he raised his foot and passed the ball into the penalty area!
This is a high-altitude ball! The ball drew a beautiful arc in the air, and then started to fall when it flew close to the center. Vicente's pass was quite well grasped. Although it seemed a little too high, it was just right. He forced out all the disadvantages of the two Barcelona central defenders who were about 1.8 meters tall!
Jardel, who had already rushed into the penalty area, ignored the flanking attacks from Frank DeBoer and Cocu and jumped high towards the ball. Both of them were very experienced central defenders, but Jardel was not afraid at all. Because he is ten centimeters taller than his opponent, and with the help of his sprinting speed, he can reach a jumping height that completely allows him to ignore the opponent's defense!
Frank DeBoer and Cocu were suppressed by Jardel at the same time! It's not that they don't work hard, but it's because of their height disadvantage and the fact that they took off from the same place, but Jardel took off during the sprint!
This difference is huge, and even Barcelona fans know what this difference means, so that when Vicente passed the ball and Jardel took off, countless Barcelona fans howled at that moment.
"don't want!"
However, their shouts could not prevent the goal from happening. When Jader jumped to the highest point, Vicente's cross had already reached him in time. The next thing he had to do was to smoothly Follow the trajectory of your jump, and then comfortably hit the ball on your forehead!
He didn't need to exert any force on his waist and abdomen. He only needed to let the momentum of his jump turn into strength, and then cooperate with the power of Vicente's cross, and immediately let the header fly horizontally, rushing towards the gate of Barcelona at high speed. !
The young Arnault jumped up hard, but was still a step too slow. In the desperate eyes of the Barcelona fans, the ball flew past Arnault's hands, then hit the goal line heavily, then bounced upwards and flew in. Open the door!
"The ball went in! Beautiful quick counterattack! Vicente's speed and Jardel's header! Atletico Madrid's counterattacks this season are getting sharper"
The commentator is right. After having Vicente as a winger and Jardel as a powerful center, Atletico Madrid hasThe counterattack in this season can be made simpler and more powerful!
After the entire Camp Nou fell silent, Dick stood up from his seat, then slowly turned around to face the excited Atletico Madrid fans in the stands behind him, then raised his right hand high and gestured again Made the "v" sign!
This action undoubtedly added fuel to the already excited hearts of Barcelona fans!
Countless roars rang out from all directions in the Camp Nou stands!
In addition to the visiting team fans¡¯ stand closest to the visiting team¡¯s coaching bench, the Barcelona fans in several nearby stands, including the Barcelona fans above the stand occupied by Atletico Madrid fans, roared and threw everything in their hands!
Suddenly, coins, lighters and other random things flew towards Dick like a downpour - of course many of these things were inaccurate, but there were also many that came directly towards Dick
At this time, Dick quickly bent down and took out a black umbrella from his bag. Then with a "pop" sound, the black umbrella opened, covering Dick's eyes and the sky.
The next moment, many coin lighters began to crackle on the umbrella surface, but they were all ejected by this strong black umbrella