After this Champions League match ends, the two sides will not start the second match directly. There is still a league game to be played on the weekend between the two matches...
"There are three rounds left in the league, and we are six points ahead. That means we only need to win one of the next three league rounds, because in the two games between Valencia and us, we are away from home.
We played them one to one, and the home game was zero to zero. We had an advantage in the relationship between the wins and losses. Although our advantage has been reduced a lot, we still have a huge advantage! We worked so hard before and caught up.
Being so many points ahead of our opponents when they are in bad shape is what needs to work at this time! Winning ten rounds in advance is the same as winning in the last round, so we can still afford to give up in this game. This away team dispatched
All substitutes, Osasuna is not a particularly strong team, tell the players not to worry, even if we lose, it will be enough for us to win one game." Dick said to everyone about the team's tactical arrangements.
the coach said.
No one has any objection to his words. At this time, the Champions League is obviously more important, and with Atletico Madrid's strength, facing the next three opponents Osasuna, Tenerife and Real Sociedad, even if they send out in every game
The substitutes are also capable of scoring at least three points, allowing the main players to prepare well for the Champions League. This approach is understandable to everyone.
The main players can understand, because they have more important tasks to do, and the substitutes can also understand, because at this time, it is when they play a role!
Real Madrid and Valencia began to join forces to put pressure on Atletico Madrid, because their common enemy at this time was Atletico Madrid - Real Madrid had almost lost hope of winning the championship, because they were seven points behind Atletico Madrid and had almost no hope of winning the championship. At this time, they
Naturally, they don't mind Valencia causing enough trouble for Atletico Madrid, and Valencia also hopes that Atletico Madrid will give them hope of catching up when they are distracted by the Champions League match.
"I think Atletico Madrid can't be too confident, because they may not be able to win a victory in the last three rounds. You must know that their focus has completely shifted to the Champions League, otherwise we will not be able to narrow the seven-point gap with them. In the last three rounds
Our goal is to win every round of the league and then just wait for Atletico Madrid to make mistakes."
Benitez took the lead in launching an attack in the media, and Bosque soon followed up: "I think Atletico Madrid should give up the next league. Their advantage is too great, but they have no chance in the Champions League.
There is an advantage. We can hardly win the league championship, so we can put more energy into the Champions League."
Dick seemed very dissatisfied with the advance efforts of the other two head coaches: "I will try my best to play well in the Champions League. In the league, even if we send all the substitutes, it is not very difficult to win a game. Barron
The situation in West Asia is even worse than ours, because even if they win completely, as long as we win one game, the league championship will be ours. Maybe they didn’t expect this situation? Their destiny is in our hands, and we have two
We can give up the game. Even if we lose the next two rounds of the league because we are distracted by the Champions League, there is still four days of rest between the last round and the final, and we can definitely adjust our state. As for how to do it
, I don’t have to bother Benitez and Del Bosque to worry about me. I am now confident enough about two-front operations. I survived such a difficult situation in the middle of the season and led our players to achieve success.
I won the right to qualify for the Champions League group stage and expanded the lead to 13 points. Will this small situation still stump me? If you think this small situation can stump me, then you are too naive...
"
With Dick's understatement, many people thought that he was overconfident and was likely to fall into a big trap. However, Atletico Madrid fans trusted Dick immensely - the reason was very simple. He had accumulated so much experience before.
Advantages are used to squander it at the last moment! Just like making so much money when you were young, isn't it just so that you won't have to worry about life when you get older?
So it’s no big deal to give up one or two games now. Even if we lose the next two games in a row, we will definitely win in the last round!
From the beginning, Dick set the necessary condition for Valencia to win a complete victory, but emphasized that we only need to win one victory. This makes Atletico Madrid supporters want to see a performance from Atletico Madrid.
A victory, not a defeat for Valencia, so they don't care whether Valencia wins every game, as long as Atletico Madrid wins one game - is this very difficult?
? Atletico Madrid fans don’t think so...
In this mood, when Dick took most of the substitute lineup and some young players promoted from the youth team to the away game, no one was worried about them, even if Atletico Madrid lost to Osasu 2-3 away from home.
Na, Valencia defeated Espanyol 2-1 at home, narrowing the gap behind Atletico Madrid to three points. Atletico Madrid fans are still not worried - what do you have to struggle with? As long as we win one game, you will be
Dumbfounded!
Dick showed no sign of this defeat at all. After the loss, he immediately led Atletico Madrid players to fly back to Madrid to prepare for the next Champions League semi-finals!
In a game ahead of schedule, Leverkusen drew with Manchester United 1-1 at home. In addition to the achievement of drawing 2-2 away from Manchester United in the first round, they relied on the advantage of one more away goal to make people feel more comfortable.
Surprisingly eliminated Manchester United and reached the Champions League finals historically!
Leverkusen can be called the biggest dark horse in this Champions League - of course, if Atletico Madrid also enters the final, then it will still have to be a fight to see who is the biggest dark horse...
After everyone praised Leverkusen's outstanding performance this season, they quickly turned their attention to the second Champions League semi-final. In the majestic Bernabeu, the two teams from Madrid will start a desperate battle.
Fight and strive for the last place to enter the Champions League finals!
For most Spanish fans, their idea is very simple - the champion of this Champions League will belong to a La Liga team, just Leverkusen, whether it encounters Atletico Madrid or Real Madrid,
It's impossible for them to win. The La Liga civil war is a civil war, but when playing against the outside world, they are equally good!
But in fact, this will also cause trouble for the team participating in the Champions League final. If they lose the final, they will be regarded as an expert in civil war and an outsider in a civil war... Of course, no one will do it now.
Thinking about this, all they want is to defeat this rival in the same city and then enter the Champions League final!
"There are some changes in Real Madrid's starting lineup for this game... Pavon did not play, and Helguera returned to the central defender position to partner with Hierro. It is obvious that Del Bosque wants to change the fragile problem of the central defender position. Can
Biasso plays as a defensive midfielder, Solari on the left and Figo on the right, Zidane goes forward, Morientes and Raul partner up front... Well, a very standard 442 diamond midfielder, this midfielder
Defensively and Manchester United's center
It may be a little worse compared to the field, but it is much better in terms of offense and control. We must be fully energetic in this game. Do you understand? Juan, like the last game, the position can be
Push forward and bully their only defensive midfielder. We can still attack their midfield, because their defensive strength in the middle of the midfield is much weaker now than in the last game."
Withdrawing a defensive midfielder and sending in a wide attacker, it is obvious that Bosque is going to strengthen the attack. At the same time, he sent in Atletico Madrid's old player Solari, which is also to let Solari, who is more familiar with Atletico Madrid players,
to become a surprise player. However, Del Bosque may have miscalculated this point, because Solari is in
The Atletico Madrid team at that time basically had few main players on the field now. Belleron and Baraja, who he was familiar with, were in the middle, and Capdevila was a left back who would not face him.
The right back Hector and right midfielder Camoranesi he faced were actually unfamiliar to Solari at all...
However, Dick will not underestimate Solari. This wide player is actually quite good. However, in Real Madrid, he can only appear on the court as a substitute player. Although he has many wonderful performances, it is difficult to truly win.
Become the main force of Real Madrid.
But Solari is a player with excellent skills and imagination, and his scoring ability is also very good. Dick knows this very well. Although he has only coached Solari for six games, in normal training,
The small skills and imagination shown by Solari are not even much worse than Belleron, but he does not have the overall view of Belleron and cannot become the core of the midfielder like Belleron.
"We may run into some trouble defensively in this game, but we don't need to not concede a goal throughout the game. Even if it's just for a draw, we don't need to defend in exchange for a zero-to-zero draw.
That's not our style. Let's work hard to attack and score goals. If we score one, we don't have to be afraid of anything. If we score two, what we have to be afraid of is Real Madrid! Do you understand?"
"Understood!" Atletico Madrid players responded in unison.
Dick did not make any personnel adjustments in this game. So far in the season, the room for adjustment is actually very small. Bosque's adjustments in this game are actually more forced to make.
The shortage of personnel at the central defender position meant that he could only let the more reliable Helguera play as central defender. After he played Helguera as central defender,
Cambiasso is the only one who can be used in the defensive midfield position. In order to reduce the defensive pressure in the midfield, Solari became the starter and strengthened the offense to reduce the pressure on the defense. Compared with Real Madrid's lineup, Atletico Madrid
The lineup should be more balanced. He will not change the formation because of Del Bosque, because he does not have the need.
In this game, there were more than 70,000 Real Madrid fans at the Bernabeu Stadium, and only 4,000 Atletico Madrid fans. They occupied a square and cheered hard to support their team. This game can be called the best match of the season so far.
The most important game, whoever can win the final will be able to reach the Champions League final!
Atletico Madrid fans are going crazy thinking about the chance to participate in the Champions League final, because although they are far inferior to Real Madrid in terms of the number of league championships, they still have double digits, but what about the Champions League? Real Madrid already has eight
They have won the Champions League twice, but Atletico Madrid have never won it once. As the weaker side among their rivals in the same city, Atletico Madrid fans are really embarrassed.
Even if they can only get it once, it will make Atletico Madrid a real opponent that Real Madrid values, and it will also allow them to establish their status as a giant! They are extremely eager to win the Champions League this season!
