Chapter 34 Counterattack
After watching a lot of reports and watching videos of Atletico Madrid and Barcelona several times, Valencia head coach Emery believes that Atletico Madrid's offense has been much stronger than last season, but their defense is also much worse, so if Valencia wants to win the game, he must not passively choose defense.
So Emery arranged a tactic for Valencia to attack - suppression offense, and let go of counter-suppression, and strive to play a counter-attack with Atletico Madrid.
There is nothing wrong with this tactical style of play, but Valencia is not a team that has always been good at offense, and their defense is better than offense.
In general, teams and Valencia have to have a headache about breaking through their defense.
The same is true for Atletico Madrid.
Before the game started, Wan Sheng studied Valencia's defense. He kept watching Valencia's game videos to understand the team's defense arrangement and the abilities of the defending players, etc.
Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win every battle!
After increasing his understanding of Valencia, Wan Sheng also passed this information to the players so that they can perform better when facing the opponent's solid defense in the field.
But Wansheng felt that he had done useless work.
Valencia did not have much tighter defense. Instead, she let go of Atletico Madrid from the first minute of the game.
What is the other party doing?
Do you want to score first with your home advantage?
Wan Sheng couldn't understand it any more.
At the beginning of the game, Atletico Madrid made a tentative attack.
After Valencia made the interception, she suddenly launched a quick counterattack, which caught Atletico Madrid off guard. Fortunately, the team did not press too much, so she did not give her a chance to the phone.
Valencia's specialty is defensive counterattack, so it's no surprise to see them fighting like this.
But the next thing is different.
In the front-end advance, Valencia's frontcourt, midfielder and two full-backs all stepped forward, which was quite imposing to suppress Atletico Madrid in the half.
Facing Valencia's strong attack, Atletico Madrid chose to retreat.
The same is true for Atletico Madrid's tactical style. When the team is on the defensive side, the three fronts are compressed completely backwards to squeeze the opponent's offensive space to ensure the safety of defense and goal.
Seeing Atletico Madrid retreat to his half, Valencia's players were immediately full of confidence.
Before the game started, head coach Emery analyzed Atletico Madrid to them. He said it in detail, and the general meaning was to try not to let Atletico Madrid attack and achieve a suppressed situation to ensure that the team always has an advantage.
Now Atletico Madrid retreated in the third line and just hit what Emery said.
"Atlancia Madrid's defense is not good! They can only retreat to defend together in three lines to maintain stability in the defense, so we can keep pressing them to fight, forcing them to defend passively..."
Thinking of this, Valencia players feel very happy.
Valencia is a strong team in La Liga, but in many games, they are still very depressed because their main style of play is defensive counterattack, while most La Liga teams play offensive football.
No player wants his team to focus on defense. In other words, who doesn’t want to play a good offensive football?
So when Emery proposed that the team should let go of their hands and feet to attack, every Valencia player felt very excited and looked forward to it.
Now the opponent's performance has come true as the coach said, Valencia players began to think that this game will be both fun and team games!
So the two teams fought against each other.
Valencia's strength is still very strong. When they launch an offensive, their overall and threat are also quite strong. They may not be as good as Barcelona, but they are still much stronger than ordinary La Liga mid-range teams.
Five minutes before the game, Atletico Madrid was very passive.
Wan Sheng looked at the game and felt very strange. In his opinion, Valencia's best way of playing is to counterattack defensively. However, after several offense and defense conversions, it was obvious that the opponent was fighting for the initiative in the midfield and trying to suppress his team.
One thing that is certain is that Valencia definitely did not focus on defense!
But what's the point of doing this?
Wan Sheng could not have thought that Valencia would play like this. It would be understandable if a team that is good at attacking, such as Villarreal, plays against Atletico Madrid, after all, they use the best tactical style.
Valencia?
When did this defensive counterattacking team play more openly?
Wan Sheng thought, turned his head and looked at the Valencia coach's seat. Emery swept over as if he was sensing.
After the two looked at each other, Emery showed a 'unfathomable' smile.
It's like 'everything is in control'.
"That's right?"
Wan Sheng couldn't figure out what advantages Valencia could have.
Fifteen minutes passed soon.
In the past time of the game, Valencia was the absolute protagonist.
They sat at the Mestalia Stadium and soon got into the state. Amid the shouts of fans, they suppressed Atletico Madrid to launch an offensive again and again.
Atletico Madrid seems a little passive, but he has not found any good opportunities on the offense and has always been very passive in defense. The only thing is that they have not allowed Valencia to find any good opportunities - their goal is relatively safe.
Perhaps, the last point is important!
In Wan Sheng's opinion, the team did not make any mistakes in the previous game, the defense was relatively stable, and there was no performance in offense. The main reason was that the game had just started and many players had just entered the state.
From a rational analysis, Atletico Madrid players are gradually adapting to the game, their performance is gradually improving, and the ball control time and offensive frequency are gradually increasing.
These are what Wansheng saw.
But Valencia's supporters certainly don't think so. Valencia's local radio commentator "analyzes", "The game is very beneficial to Valencia, and the team has an overall advantage in terms of ball possession and attacks!"
"We can expect that this will be an easy victory!"
"Although Atletico Madrid beat Barcelona with a big score at home, they can only wait for failure at the Stadium Mestalia..."
This is obviously a blind faith in Valencia.
At this time, even Valencia coach Emery saw the problem. It was very obvious that in the past, Valencia had not even got a good chance.
"If Atletico Madrid's defense is not good, why did Valencia attack for fifteen minutes without even a good chance in front of the goal?"
Emery was a little confused.
But Emery didn't want to think deeply about it. No matter how you explain it, it didn't seem to be beneficial to the team, so he simply "hope". This is just that the team's luck was not very good in the previous time.
"It must be that I'm not very lucky!"
Emery gritted her teeth.
Emery is not God, and his ideas cannot affect the ongoing game.
After nearly 20 minutes of the game, most players have found their form. Atletico Madrid adapted to Valencia's offense and the tactics began to be played.
When Valencia's attack ended, the football was controlled by Atletico Madrid.
Valencia was unwilling to be stolen. They wanted to continue to suppress Atletico Madrid to play, so both frontcourt players wanted to counterattack on the spot, and several midfielders did not retreat immediately. Instead, they looked at their teammates' steals, and seemed to have the intention of continuing to insert assists.
At this moment, Ozil suddenly pushed the ball straight to Asson's feet.
Asongsang joined Atletico Madrid two years ago. He played for Porto before, and his performance has only been "pretty".
During the summer transfer, Wan Sheng originally wanted to "clean up" A Songsang, but the player really couldn't sell it for the price, so he still left A Songsang with the team to supplement the depth of the bench.
No one expected that Assongsang would perform so well this time!
After receiving Ozil's pass, Asson quickly turned around and hooked the ball forward with his right leg. This action happened to let the football pass by Soldado who was pressing forward.
"pretty!"
Even the live commentator couldn't help but exclaim.
Asongsang may not have expected that he could achieve such a beautiful extraordinary. He took a step forward, he hesitated for a while before handing the ball to Morris in front.
Morris gave the ball to Raul Garcia, Raul Garcia made another prequel and the football went to Diego Costa's feet.
Atletico Madrid used several passes to pass the ball from the backcourt to the frontcourt.
At this time, Valencia even had midfielders before they could retreat to their half, and they were all a little panicked.
"Atletico Madrid counterattack! Their attack speed is too fast!"
The commentator of the Mestalia Stadium was a little surprised.
Less than ten seconds ago, Valencia was still attacking, but after Atletico Madrid completed the interception, the football reached the front of Valencia's penalty area with a few passes.
This... is too fast!
"It is said that Valencia is good at defensive counterattacks, but Atletico Madrid seems to be faster..."
Before, Valencia was attacking, and they even wanted to fight back on the spot, but they didn't realize the danger at all, so now they didn't have time to return to defense.
So when Diego Costa got the ball, he had to face only David Navarro.
David Navarro is a veteran player in Valencia. From 2001 to now, except for being loaned to Mallorca for one and a half years, he has been playing for Valencia and is also the main defensive force that Valencia cannot beat.
David Navarro is very experienced in defending against one-on-one. He stared at the ball at Diego Costa's feet and slowly moved backwards. There is no doubt that as long as Diego Costa makes a small mistake, Navarro will be able to intercept the ball immediately.
"This is a personal ability confrontation!"
The commentator of the Mestalia Stadium saw this, perhaps David Navarro hoped that too, but unfortunately Diego Costa was not alone. He made the move to break through, but the next moment he pushed the ball to the left.
A figure followed!
Ozil!
The German boy waved his left foot towards the football in a running rhythm!
"Bang!"
With a dull sound, the football rushed straight towards the goal.
Valencia goalkeeper Cesar tried his best to save, but the ball was too fast. By the time he reached the position, the football had already flew into the goal.
ps: The computer is broken, I used my phone to call a chapter and upload it~ I am so worried~ I am sorry for the update late, Mengmeng asked for forgiveness. (~^~)
Chapter completed!