Chapter 294: Adjustment and Not Adjustment
"Yan Min made a cross! Awesome opportunity! Aubameyang headed the ball... Courtois! He made a world-class save... Wait, the ball was not out yet, and there was chaos in front of the goal... Hey?! The ball was in! The ball was in!!!" He Ping shouted excitedly. "I don't know who made the first kick in the chaos, and the football flew into Atletico Madrid's goal! Dortmund took a 2-0 lead at his home court! This is amazing!"
He Ping was worried that wasting opportunities would be retribution, but now he has all these worries fallen out of the sky.
As the football flew into the goal, Klopp and his colleagues jumped out of the coach's seat again and celebrated wildly.
Their tactics succeeded!
He scored two goals in Atletico Madrid in the first fourteen minutes, which was simply amazing!
This is the best start they had imagined!
Meanwhile, next door to them, Atletico Madrid head coach Simeone looked even more ugly.
He conceded a goal in three minutes of the game, and two goals in fourteen minutes of the game... This situation was something he absolutely did not expect.
He had imagined that his team would concede away goals and might even lose away games, but he definitely did not expect the situation to be so bad.
The "Iron Army" he created himself is actually so vulnerable at Dortmund's home court!
It seems that both goals are not lucky enough, but Simeone dares not put all the problems to bad luck now. If he still thinks like this, he will not be able to lead Atletico Madrid to such a result.
He had a dark face and reviewed Dortmund's two goals just now and the attacks they did not score in his mind.
It didn't take much time, and before the Dortmund players finished their celebrations, he figured it out.
In response to his high-level pressing, Dortmund adopted a fast pass and cut tactic, using the fastest pass and running position to make Atletico Madrid’s press siege lose its effect. Because no matter how a person runs, he can never run football. As long as Dortmund keeps running, he can fully mobilize Atletico Madrid’s defense.
At the same time, Atletico Madrid players kept pressing forward, which also caused a lot of room to go behind them.
These two goals were actually caught by Dortmund because of the gap in defense...
He suddenly realized what the "secret weapon" that Klopp and Zhou Yi kept talking about before the game...
Isn’t this the secret weapon they specifically use to deal with Atletico Madrid?!
But this secret weapon was really too unexpected. Simeone knew that Dortmund could play this way. It was not the first time he had fought with Dortmund. Naturally, he had studied Dortmund and knew that Dortmund had used such a tactic.
But he felt that this style of play had high requirements for everyone on the team, and it was impossible to perform it without the situation in which the whole team was in a particularly good condition. Judging from the embarrassing situation of Dortmund this season, it was impossible for them to risk using this tactic, otherwise, they would probably have killed themselves before they succeed...
Unexpectedly, Klopp really did it like this, and he did it!
People say that Klopp is a crazy head coach, but now it seems that he is really worthy of his reputation...
Since you have figured out the crux of the problem, of course you have made adjustments.
The opponent's quick pass and cut tactic mainly plays the gap after Atletico Madrid pressing. It is easy to curb them. If you don't press on your own, you'll be finished.
If you have already lost two goals, if you continue to press, you are likely to continue to lose the ball. If you lose a big score and return to your home court in the second round, this game will be difficult...
Simeone has already started thinking about the second round.
Now we must first stabilize the defense and cannot continue to concede the ball. Then there is more than 75 minutes of game time left, and as long as we have enough patience, we still have a chance to score.
This game has been achieved, and Simeone doesn't consider winning. If there is a away goal and no longer concedes the goal, the 1:2 score is not unacceptable.
There was a away goal, and the total score was only one goal behind. After returning to his home court, Atletico Madrid would definitely be able to turn the tables with his strong home advantage.
The most important thing is that in the second round, Dortmund really has no secrets. They have already played out their biggest trump cards. In the next round, Atletico Madrid will definitely make corresponding arrangements. The same move cannot be used twice on the Saint Seiya, right?
So as long as the first leg is not losing a big score, Atletico Madrid can still gain the upper hand in the second leg.
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While Dortmund's players were still celebrating, Simeone stood on the sidelines and called Gabby to give him a face-to-face opportunity.
This move naturally did not escape the eyes of Dortmund coach Klopp.
When he saw this scene, he knew what Simeone would do.
No one is fool, you can guess such a simple thing accurately.
Although Simeone understood it in fourteen minutes and made corresponding adjustments.
But Klopp was already very satisfied.
After all, in these fourteen minutes, Dortmund scored two goals and led 2:0.
Next, when Atletico Madrid no longer insists on pressing at a high position, Dortmund can also slow down and deal with them slowly.
In fact, Simeone's adjustment can be regarded as a relief to Klopp.
With Dortmund's current personnel status and physical fitness, it is really impossible to stick to this tactic throughout the game, and it is difficult for most of the game.
So if Atletico Madrid does not adjust, he will not be able to keep playing like this. At most, after 30 minutes, he must slow down the pace and change it to normal tactics. Otherwise, if the physical fitness is overdrawn, the team will collapse. Even if he leads two goals, he will not be able to hold on.
Although he saw Simeone's adjustment, Klopp did not yell on the sidelines to remind his players to pay attention.
He believed that after Zhou Yi saw the changes in the other party, he would make adjustments accordingly. Let this kind of thing be left to Zhou Yi to handle.
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When Zhou Yi and his teammates finished their celebration and returned to their half, Atletico Madrid players stood in their positions.
Although they lost two goals, they received guidance from the head coach at the first time and were not panicked. Because they knew what to do next. In fact, many times, players in the game played badly and made mistakes after losing the goal. This is mostly because they didn't know what to do next and were unsure.
Although it is still two goals behind, there is still a lot of time for the game. The head coach has told them what to do next. Strong defense, then wait for an opportunity to counterattack, and be able to score a goal, it is considered completing the task.
After the game started again, Zhou Yi quickly noticed this change.
Although Atletico Madrid players are still pressing, the force is no longer as strong as before. Their previous pressing can be pushed to Dortmund's goalkeeper Weidenfeller all the way.
But now when the ball kicks off, Dortmund passes the football back and falls on the back line, Atletico Madrid players don't even come up.
Logically speaking, in this case, Dortmund should also slow down and deal with Atletico Madrid slowly.
Anyway, they are leading two goals now.
But Zhou Yi did not plan to do so.
Slow down the pace, this is what Atletico Madrid hopes. If Dortmund also slows down the pace, it will be exactly what Atletico Madrid wants.
The fast pass and cut tactic is indeed very physically consuming, but the game has only been more than ten minutes since the game started. Dortmund's physical fitness is far from the time of exhaustion. If he gave up the fast pass and cut tactic at this time, wouldn't he take the initiative to give up his advantage?
So Zhou Yi decided to continue to stick to his current style of playing.
He is not worried about Atletico Madrid's shrinking defense.
Not to mention Atletico Madrid does not really shrink defense. Even if it really shrinks defense, it still has the ability to break defense quickly.
So he did not repeatedly turn his feet in the backcourt and wait for Atletico Madrid players to force him up, but directly sent the football to the front.
It is still fast transmission and running connection.
He also kept waving his hands and asked his teammates to push up, especially the two full-backs on the side, to press up.
The teammates trusted Zhou Yi very much. Although they also saw the changes in Atletico Madrid, Zhou Yi asked them to push them up, so let's push them up.
Chapter completed!