Guardiola's approach to Atletico Madrid's play, appropriately adjusted the layout of the middle lane, increasing the thickness of the midfield, which is very beneficial to both offense and defense.

But in fact, anyone can think of such a layout!

If the thickness of the midfield can be limited by only increasing the thickness of Atletico Madrid, then Atletico Madrid will not be the first in the league!

In this game, Wan Sheng did not intend to win the game "by luck". He just wanted to play against Barcelona and compete with Barcelona for efficiency in the frontcourt.

Atletico Madrid went to play against Barcelona at the beginning of the season, it would not be a good choice. Atletico Madrid was not mature at that time, and some players were not familiar with tactics, but now it is different. The "b-tf" tactical system designed by Wansheng for Atletico Madrid originally focused on the overall and speed. In other words, Atletico Madrid's tactics focus on offense.

It is simply increasing the thickness of the midfield, which is impossible to limit Atletico Madrid's offense. Instead, it is likely to be penetrated by Atletico Madrid's rapid offensive, and the shortcoming exposes the flaws of weak defense. At that time, Atletico Madrid's chance!

Guardiola thought he had a response, but he didn't realize that it was completely wrong to face Atletico Madrid with this method!

As the season goes on, Atletico Madrid has become more mature.

Wan Sheng doesn't mind letting Guardiola see what Atletico Madrid's offense looks like!

The above is a tactical analysis. In fact, Barcelona did a good job in the game.

Increasing the thickness of the midfield is just a matter of position and running, and few teams will do as targeted as Barcelona.

Their constant pressing near the midfield, and the oppression made it difficult for Atletico Madrid's offense to break through the midfield defense. When Barcelona attacked, their continuous transmission also made Atletico Madrid have to choose to passively retreat in many cases, otherwise it would be equivalent to giving Barcelona a chance to hit the ball behind him.

Barcelona's full attack and defense are not as thorough as Atletico Madrid, but in fact, their tactics can also be ranked among the ranks of full attack and defense.

When defending, the three forwards Pedro, Messi and Villa all retreated to increase the defense thickness of the midfield and kept running to press, forming the first line of Barcelona's defense.

In the midfield, Xavi, Busquets and Iniesta are three midfielders in defense, and when attacking, they will break forward and become avant-garde. Barcelona's offensive ability is inseparable from the '3' in the middle of the 433 formation. These three are the core driving force supporting Barcelona's overall performance.

Alves, Puyol, Pique and the young Adriano are all excellent defenders. Their main job is defense, but when attacking, the two full-backs will insert support their teammates, and Pique will often intervene forward to look for opportunities. Only Puyol will serve as the pillar of the stable defense.

This is Barcelona's overall lineup.

In Guardiola's arrangement, defense against the middle is the top priority. Atletico Madrid has Reyes and Aguero on the wing, but in fact, both of them are not so outstanding on the wing. Reyes relies more on forward-studying in the penalty area, and Ozil is mostly cut inward to create a threat. They are not very supportive in the middle, so at the appropriate time, they can choose to give up on the wing.

The middle is the most important!

Atletico Madrid has Aguero in the middle, which is a team that must be restricted. Morris, Raul Garcia, and Ozil on the side often go to the front of the penalty area to create threats. After watching many Atletico Madrid game videos, Guardiola knew very well that Atletico Madrid was the most active in the middle.

So while increasing the thickness of the midfield, Barcelona also added a blockade of the middle lane.

At the appropriate time, even Messi and Villa can retreat to the front of the penalty area to participate in defense. At that time, the formation will be recycled, the midfield and backcourt will gather together, and Barcelona can also form an iron barrel formation.

Of course, that is rare.

Generally speaking, Barcelona won’t play that way, and they just pay more attention to the defense in the middle. Guardiola specifically told Xavi, Iniesta and Pedro to pay attention to the middle when defending.

This will maximize the limit of Atletico Madrid's offense.

Barcelona's defense is always secondary. They will not use defense to win, which is a humiliation for them. Even head coach Guardiola thinks so, so Barcelona's arrangements are actually on offense.

Barcelona's offense is to advance, and what they are best at is finding opportunities to hit the back. Needless to say, Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, Villa and others on the court have the personal abilities and cooperation, they are all top players.

In terms of the arrangement against Atletico Madrid, Guardiola emphasized the position on the left side of the middle, which is the defensive space of young player Rafael Varane.

A season is almost over, and everyone knows what weaknesses there are in Atletico Madrid's lineup.

Needless to say, Atletico Madrid has done a pretty good job in the frontcourt, but Atletico Madrid has problems with its defense. They only have one midfielder - Godin. Gore has excellent personal abilities and has always performed very stably, but Atletico Madrid has only one Godin and no second. In the other position, neither Uyfalusi nor Domingos, they cannot guarantee stable performance.

After Christmas, Wansheng began to activate young player Raphael Varane.

Rafael Varane, who just turned 18 and had only signed with As-hellemms club, has no reputation, but this season, Rafael Varane has also played a little famous because when he was under 18, he played for Atletico Madrid and performed stably, which means that his future prospects are bright.

So far, Rafael Varane has played 17 times for Atletico Madrid, 8 of which have played the whole game and 6 of which have come on as a substitute.

This is Raphael Varane's entire resume.

Although the resume is empty, in fact, any club knows that Raphael Varane will definitely become an excellent central defender in the future, because he can now stand on the stage of the top league.

Many people are jealous of Atletico Madrid's skills as a central defender genius, but Guardiola saw an opportunity in Rafael Varane.

Rafael Varane's performance is undoubtedly excellent, but that's just a comparison with an 18-year-old young player. In terms of performance, Varane can only be regarded as a "qualified central defender". That's all, passing does not mean being excellent. Among the teams with the ability of Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, Varane's performance and ability are a bit poor.

So Guardiola asked Barcelona to attack against Rafael Varane's point.

"He is Atletico Madrid's weakness!"

Guardiola told all players.

So he realized that in the game, Messi, Villa and other players kept playing from the left side while attacking, making Rafael Varane busy in defense, while Godin's side was a little idle. Many times, the players he defended were just standing there, as if the opponent's task was to attract his attention, but undoubtedly any player on the field of Barcelona was excellent. Godin knew that as long as he made a running mistake, it would probably bring opportunities to the opponent. He could only watch Rafael Varane's defense in secret.

"This group of sluts raised by those whores!"

Godin gritted his teeth!

On weekdays, Godin and Rafael Varane get along well. He knows that Varane is an excellent junior and has a bright future, but it is definitely not now. If his opponent is just an ordinary La Liga team, Godin would not be in a hurry, but his opponent is Barcelona, ​​the team with the strongest offensive capabilities in Europe and even the world, and there is even no one. The pressure Varane has to face can be imagined.

So... can he survive?

Godin was a little worried.

Guardiola, who was sitting in the coach's seat, was very pleased to see this scene. In terms of football matches, his ideas were similar to Wan Sheng. Tactics and other things were all for victory. He would not show mercy just because the other party was a young player.

This is how professional competitions are. If the opponent has weaknesses, you have to fight against the weaknesses.

This will give you a better chance to win the game.

Rafael Varane is a promising central defender, and may still belong to Barcelona in the future?

Who knows?

But now he is a member of Atletico Madrid and the opponent of Barcelona to win the Copa del Rey.

If you are an opponent, you will not be young, but you will be old!

As long as Barcelona have more hope of winning, what is it to play against a young player?

Wan Sheng also saw Barcelona's targeted play style when he was off the court.

I have to say... it's very despicable.

But Wan Sheng was not as worried as Gore, and no one knew his players more than him.

Raphael Varane is still very young. In fact, in another 10 days, he has just turned 18. This is really a bit too young. There is no need to talk about experience or something. It is definitely not comparable to other players. In terms of ability, Varane still has a lot of room for improvement, but in fact, Varane's best is not his potential and strength, but... mentality!

If anyone wants to say that a player who is just about to turn 18 has a good mentality, anyone will feel a little surprised, but that's the case, Varane's mental attributes are extremely high.

In the entire Atletico Madrid team, the player with the best mental attributes is Morris, followed by Aguero, and then Varane. Because of this, Morris has always been able to perform stably, while Aguero is a 'match-type player'. Whenever there is a formal game, Aguero can always perform well.

Varane's mental attributes are also very high, at least higher than Raul Garcia, Ozil and others. The mental attributes are a comprehensive thing, not only representing mentality, but also having high comprehensive abilities and mentality will not be too bad.

Although Varane is young and has little experience, there has never been any major problems in the past games.

So Wan Sheng was not worried about Barcelona's fight against Varane. If they hoped to make Varane panic and make any mistakes in the near future, they would really make a mistake. Instead, they were worried that they would use their technology to impact Varane's ability and experience were not enough to take on major responsibilities.

Fortunately, Barcelona didn't seem to think so, or rather, they didn't attack Varane's point openly.

They felt that Varane was young and went to "bully" him, and did not play technical cooperation, so that Varane completed his defense well for three consecutive times, so Barcelona returned in vain.

"Stay doing this."

Wan Sheng smiled.

Barcelona's offense is not good, but it does not mean that Atletico Madrid's offense is not good. In fact, Atletico Madrid has begun to threaten.

After a wave of offensives from Barcelona, ​​Atletico Madrid quickly took the ball and started a fast break.

Godin passed Raul Garcia directly, and the latter passed through to Ozil. Ozil quickly dribbled the ball from the side and directly broke through Xavi's interception. Then Ozil passed the ball into the middle with one kick.

Morris caught the ball and shot directly!

Goalkeeper Valdes reacted quite quickly, and he successfully saved the ball and took it out of the baseline.

Atletico Madrid's corner kick failed to threaten, and they quickly retreated to the backcourt to defend, which made people feel that Atletico Madrid seemed to have fought a counterattack and went back without a chance.

The same goes for subsequent games.

Whenever you get the ball, Atletico Madrid will launch a very fast offensive, often from the backcourt to the frontcourt, it takes no more than half a minute at most, and the speed is very fast near the penalty area, especially the passing in the frontcourt, and the speed is even faster. Often, Barcelona players have not yet reacted, and Atletico Madrid players have completed the pass and receiving cooperation.

In this rapid cooperation, mistakes are inevitable.

However, Atletico Madrid did not slow down. Every time they took the ball, they deliberately increased the passing speed, which made Barcelona a little confused. But if they wanted to defend well, they had to keep up with Atletico Madrid's speed, so their speed increased unknowingly.

Guardiola frowned slightly off the court.

He felt something was wrong.

On the court, Atletico Madrid seemed to play a defensive counterattack. Every attack was very fast, without intention to control the ball, and there was no direct and orderly advancement. However, this counterattack felt different from the last game.

The last time the two teams fought, Atletico Madrid was the real counterattack.

At that time, As soon as Atletico Madrid got the ball, he directly kicked his feet to the frontcourt, or quickly handed the ball to the frontcourt players through the pass, and then relied on the frontcourt players' personal abilities to attack.

This is different.

After a few times, Atletico Madrid's rapid offensive did not rely on a player Aguero. Instead, Ozil, Reyes and the midfielder cooperated a lot. Morris, Raul Garcia and Aguero also cooperated very closely, and it seemed like... to accelerate the progress!?

Guardiola was puzzled, and he watched the game more carefully. (~^~)
Chapter completed!