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Chapter 55 Heroes and Sinners(1/2)

After the 13th round of the league, the hatred between Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid rose slowly. They had just experienced the pain of the Madrid derby failure and had to face the pain of the Spanish derby losing a big score.

No matter how much Mourinho hates Wansheng and Guardiola, for a while, Real Madrid can only lick their wounds in a mess.

The teams that have attracted much attention in La Liga have undoubtedly become Atletico Madrid and Barcelona.

In the past November, the league has been held in a total of five rounds, with Atletico Madrid winning all matches.

In these five games, Atletico Madrid scored 16 goals, conceded only two goals, and had a 7-0 victory. The results were undoubtedly very brilliant, but in the La Liga in November, Atletico Madrid was not the best performance.

Barcelona undoubtedly performed better.

Not to mention Barcelona's face to face Real Madrid, at the end of the 13th round of the league, Barcelona had already won the 10-game winning streak.

In the past five rounds of matches, Barcelona has been a crushing victory in every game, defeating Sevilla 5-0 at home, defeating Getafe 1-3 away, defeating Villarreal 3-0 at home, defeating Real Madrid 5-0. There is another game in the 12th round of the league, Barcelona defeated Almeria 8-0 away.

Barcelona scored a total of 24 goals in November and conceded only 1 goal. The biggest victory was one more goal than Atletico Madrid's 7-0 Espanyol.

Wan Sheng even felt that Guardiola had a bigger cheat than himself!

Among the five league games, there are opponents like Real Madrid. Barcelona averaged nearly 5 goals and conceded 0.2 goals. What is this not a plug-in?

In my past memory, Barcelona is indeed very strong in the past two seasons, but after he really came to the La Liga, Wan Sheng realized that Barcelona was so strong.

Too fake...

No wonder the Spanish team built by Barcelona players can win the championship without much suspense in the World Cup.

This Barcelona is really too strong!

Wan Sheng was somewhat glad that the team encountered a "careless" Barcelona in the third round. If Barcelona really played, maybe the one who was fed five goals would be Atletico Madrid.

The only good news is that the team is improving day by day.

The team is not as strong as Barcelona now, but if they really want to fight for the last game, it is not easy for Barcelona to win. The team is improving day by day and its speed is still quite fast. Barcelona has reached its peak, and they can only retreat but not improve. Then in the future competition, and even this season's competition, the team will not be at a disadvantage.

———

The fourteenth round of the league will arrive soon.

Barcelona's match was prematurely played, and they defeated Osasuna 0-3 without any suspense on the away game.

Since they only had two more points than Barcelona, ​​Atletico Madrid's first position in the league was not stable, so they were still very concerned about the results of Barcelona's match.

Wan Sheng did not let the players know about Barcelona's game, but he still couldn't help but pay attention. He sighed at Barcelona's strength, and at the same time, he also told the players to play seriously.

Fortunately, Atletico Madrid's opponent is only Levante.

Levante is the newly promoted team this season. In the 2007-2008 season, Levante was trapped by the club's financial crisis and the players could not pay their wages. In the end, the disintegration of people's hearts led to the team's lack of intention to fight and was relegated early. However, it took only two years for this club from the Valencia region to return to La Liga.

Last season in the Spanish Second Division, Levante scored 19 wins, 14 draws and 9 losses. With the same score, he overwhelmed Betis to return to La Liga by relying on the win-loss relationship, and the team successfully upgraded one round ahead of schedule.

Although I hope to stay in La Liga, Levante's finances are a problem, so in the summer they mainly recruit players with La Liga experience, and all the introductions are almost free players.

The team's main lineup was not damaged. Most of the players who left the team were marginal people with contract expiration. It can be said that Levante's strength has been improved to a higher level.

But it is difficult for such a team to compete with Atletico Madrid with a strong lineup. Even though they face Atletico Madrid at home, they still lost the game with two goals without any suspense.

For Atletico Madrid, winning is good news, but the team also encountered trouble in this round, and Klose and Godin were injured in the game.

Klose's injury was better, but he had a sprained ankle. Two weeks of rest were enough to recover. Godin was different. This defensive pillar, worth 1,800 euros, unfortunately fell while competing with the opponent's forward, causing a moderate muscle strain.

After the game, Wan Sheng was not in the mood to attend the press conference and went directly to the hospital to visit Goding.

After a period of examination, the doctor concluded that Godin would have to recuperate in the hospital for at least two months before he could get out of bed, and it would take at least 3 to 4 months to fully recover.

Wan Sheng estimated the time and smiled bitterly in his heart.

If there is a choice, Wan Sheng would rather let Klose and Godin change the situation... Of course, Klose would definitely not agree, but Godin is the team's defense pillar, and the team's defense is much worse than the frontcourt.

Wan Sheng has already regretted not introducing strong defenders anymore, so that the team can only rely on a few strong main players to deal with the game, and Godin is one of the main players.

In the substitute lineup, Uyfalusi is quite outstanding.

The 32-year-old veteran still has a gap in strength with the main player. His only advantage is his rich experience. With the current Atletico Madrid championship situation, it is dangerous for Uyfalusi to use it as the main player.

The next is the young Raphael Varane.

Raphael Varane is not bad at all, but after all, he is only 17 years old, and the 17-year-old defender... It is not reliable no matter how you think about it. The reason why Kopeller Ferreira performed well when he joined Manchester City was because he was 22 years old and the age of 17 was too young, especially the position of the defender, which requires more stable experience and mentality. Raphael Varane is the future of the team's defense, but it is definitely not the present.

Wansheng began to worry.

The time has entered December, and the winter transfer window will be open. It is not a problem to introduce a defender at that time, but the problem is that it is difficult to find a capable defender in the winter transfer. In addition, the players in the team have prepared for the hard summer. It will definitely take a long time to adapt to a new defender. With this time, Godin has been able to recover.

It is definitely not possible to start from the transfer.

So...inside the team?

The only genius is Raphael Varane. Raphael Varane is too young and doesn't have to think about it at all. So let Uyfalusi take the place temporarily?

This is also a solution.

But Uyfalusi is old after all, and it will definitely not work in the long run. The other substitute guard Domingos is less powerful. However, several midfielders, Assonsan, Suarez and Raul Garcia, have good defense, but it is better to let Uyfalusi play as a defender than to let them play as a defender.

Wan Sheng shook his head and rejected the messy thoughts.

"Start from the formation?"

This is a new idea.

The formations that the team has been using frequently before were 442 and 4231, and other formations have been practiced, but they have not been used in real games. But Wan Sheng has discovered a problem - under all attacks and defenses, the back line did not play the desired role in the offense.

In the past fourteen rounds, the team's defenders only scored two goals, one was in the fifth round of the league against Zaragoza, Uyfalusi scored one goal, and the other was Luis Perea. In the 11th round of the game against Osasuna, Luis Perea found an opportunity.

The main offensive of the back line is still defense, but with the full efforts of the ‘b-tf’ system, two goals in 14 rounds are far from enough.

In other words, the back line actually does not play a role in the offense.

In terms of the team's defense, it is also a three-line retreat to defend together. The midfield line plays no less defensive role than the back line. In other words, the four players on the back line actually do not play the role that they should have in tactics.

This may be related to the team's midfield being too strong.

Although the team's back line includes stars such as Felipe Louis and Godin with a net worth of more than 10 million euros, the gap with the team's gorgeous midfield and frontcourt is still quite large.

There is no need to compare this at all.

Aguero, Fran, Diego Costa are all top-notch in the frontcourt, and Morris, Ozil, Raul Garcia and others are all top-notch in the world. The team's back line can only be considered as the mid-range of La Liga. Not to mention Barcelona and Real Madrid, even compared with Valencia, it is a lot worse than Valencia.

So...reduce one defender?

Wan Sheng was moved.

Reducing the formation by one defender means one more midfielder. The 352 formation is actually worth looking forward to, especially the team plays all-off and defense football. The defense of the 352 formation may not be worse than that of 442, and it is more flexible. For example, changing to a 3232 formation, or simply 3331, 3241. Wan Sheng is not unavailable to try the six midfielders, which will make the team's midfield control extremely strong.

After some consideration, Wansheng decided to give it a try.

In the next two days, Atletico Madrid began to test the formation of the three defenders. Each player was added to the drill formation. The effect in two days would definitely not be very good, but with the basis of the ‘b-tf’ system, Wan Sheng believed that the game would not be bad.

Soon the 15th round of the league came, and Wan Sheng decided to let the team test the new formation in the game.

———

A Coruna.

The chairman of this club, Rondo Iro, is a famous figure, but the "famous" is not positive, but negative. He is a famous "miser" among the 20 La Liga presidents, so La Coruna fans can only sigh that they are unlucky.

In the summer, La Coruña did not add any strong support, but instead released the core left-back Philippe to Atletico Madrid.

La Coruna's strength is still worthy of recognition. Last season, Felipe was injured and hardly played several times. Under such circumstances, La Coruna still won the 10th place in the league, which the Spanish media believes is successful.

Therefore, this season's media predicts that La Coruna's results will also be in the middle.

It would be a headache if Atletico Madrid met La Coruna last season, but it would be different now. Atletico Madrid's strength has greatly improved and is already the top of the La Liga, so when it comes to this team, club, players, and fans, the mentality of the team, club, and fans has become completely different.

But Atletico Madrid's home court was not satisfactory.

Wansheng adopted a 3241 formation, which once suppressed La Coruna, but the team's frontcourt players may not have shot boots, and after halftime offense and defense, they were unable to score.

At the halftime break, the wins boosted the team's morale.

In the second half, Wan Sheng replaced the young player Isco. On the one hand, he trained the players, and on the other hand, he also hoped that he could be helpful in the team's offense.

Isco didn't play much, but Atletico Madrid still scored.

In the 67th minute of the game, Ozil assisted Diego Costa to score the first goal of the game.

Diego Costa was very excited after scoring the goal!

This was the first goal in the game and his first goal after 11 rounds. In fact, since the 7th round of the league, Diego Costa's playing time has been affected with Aguero's comeback. Coupled with his own condition, he has been not performing well. Except for one goal in the 11th round, there have been no other goals.

Many media believe that Diego Costa is in a goal drought.

Diego Costa is undoubtedly under pressure. He is eager to use his performance to consolidate his position, at least not completely squeezed out by Aguero.

Diego Costa started in this game and has helped the team score the first goal in the game.

With this ending of the game, Diego Costa will undoubtedly become the biggest contributor.

But the game did not develop in the direction it wanted, and La Coruna is still very powerful, and their offense also poses a threat to Atletico Madrid's defense.

In the 81st minute of the game, La Coruna's forward Belleron made a mistake in dribbling and was intercepted by Morris. Guardado next to him wanted to counterattack, Morris handed the ball to Isco first.

Paboro Alvarez was next to Isco, and Isco was pressed very tightly after getting the ball.

At this moment, Isco made a mistake!
To be continued...
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