Chapter Seventy-Seven: Confrontation

"Did you see that, Juan?"

Simeone sat calmly in the dugout, not showing any regret that his shot was saved.

His assistant Juan Bistano sat next to him, nodded and said, "I see, Lee's physical advantage is obvious!" ”

Simeone shook his head and said, "I'm not just talking about this, you carefully recall the way Lee just shot the goal!" ”

Juan Bistano thought about it and reacted: "You mean..."

'Yes, he's shown a new way of shooting, but that's not the point. Simeone said, "Don't you think the rate of his progress is really terrifying? ”

Juan Bistano said: "Indeed, it may have something to do with the fact that he did not have much professional football training before, if he could have trained professionally since he was a child......

"Then Lee will be the greatest star on the planet!" Simeone said in a moment's time.

"Even now, he doesn't have to be the top handful." Juan Bistano said, turning his head to look at Simeone.

Then he looked at each other and smiled. This season, it is really a big bargain to be able to buy a plug-and-play strong combat power like Li Qingshan with eight million at the most difficult time in the middle of the season!

This attack did not succeed, and Atletico Madrid was not annoyed, after all, there were dates and no dates at the beginning of the game, and it was best to have gains, and it was also within psychological expectations that there would be no gains.

Before Cech could send the ball, Atletico's players were already in defensive positions. Li Qingshan and Diego Costa are two strikers who are stuck in the possibility of Chelsea getting the ball. In desperation, Cech had no choice but to wave his hand to let the Chelsea formation press up, and he was ready to kick off!

It's just that it is no longer the previous Chelsea monster Drogba who is competing for the high point in the front court, but Torres, in the scramble for high-altitude balls, Torres is at a disadvantage, and Cech's big foot ball is pushed back to the Chelsea side by Godin, causing a battle between players on both sides, and finally being touched out of the sideline by David Luiz.

Atletico's players strictly followed Simeone's pre-match plan - try to keep the football on Chelsea's side in the half and shoot more when they have the chance!

In a rainy day, there are many accidental balls, and more shots may cause more surprises.

Juanfran sent a sideline ball, Li Qingshan pulled to the right to answer, he swung his header and swung the ball to the middle, and the follow-up Koke directly picked up his thigh and shot at the goal, but unfortunately this shot was high above the crossbar and rushed directly to the second layer of stands.

Despite the shot high, Mourinho smelled danger, waving his arms on the sidelines and using rich and exaggerated body language to get the Chelsea players into the groove as quickly as possible and stabilize the situation!

In just a minute or two, Atletico Madrid had two shots on goal and a corner, while only goalkeeper Petr Cech had touched the ball on Chelsea's side. It's no wonder Jose Mourinho is nervous.

"Atletico Madrid played quite aggressively in the opening period, and in just over a minute, they had already completed their second shot on goal!" Duan Xuan told the TV audience about the situation on the field.

"Especially Li Qingshan, he was in quite good shape from the opening stage of this game, in fact, Atletico Madrid's first shot came from Li Qingshan stopping the ball and turning around to shoot after receiving a long pass from the backfield, the action was coherent, in one go, and he almost broke through Cech's ten fingers!"

When Cech once again put the ball on the goalline to serve, Atletico Madrid still pressed the two forwards very high, so that Chelsea's centre-backs and full-backs did not dare to come back to get the ball easily.

Cech had a decent footwork, and this time he learned his lesson and instead of sending it straight up front for Torres to fight for the high spot, he changed his strategy and found the head of midfielder David Luiz. David Luiz, who plays for the central defender in the midfield, still easily dominated the high altitude advantage against the tall Alda Turan, and he successfully took down Cech's long ball!

It was Chelsea's home stadium and those who had possession were not going to miss the chance to attack, with David Luiz giving the ball to Ramiles behind him, who dodged Thiago to get past Thiago and dribble the ball past the centre circle and pass it to Willian in front.

Willian was placed in a central midfield position by Jose Mourinho, flanking Eden Hazard and Cesar Azpilicueta. Azpilicueta, who was born at full-back, is of course inferior to Hazard's attacking ability, and Mourinho's main reason for putting Azpilicueta in that position is for defensive considerations, and Chelsea's attacking focus is still on the left side of Hazard's side.

Willian flew the ball to Eden Hazard on the left and he ran forward.

Hazard stopped the ball and faced Juanfran head-on. In the face of the Belgians, who have become famous in the past two years and are considered to be a strong contender for the Ballon d'Or after Messi and Ronaldo, Juanfran did not dare to be careless, and he lowered his center of gravity and pasted it.

Hazard had a very good rhythm with the ball, and he took the ball to the baseline defense through the change of tempo, and after dodging the gap, he crossed the ball low and found Willian in the box!

Brazilian Willian won the ball in the box, leaving Atletico Madrid's defenders afraid to make a move easily.

Willian was very good at his feet, he suddenly changed direction in the Atletico penalty area to open up space for a shot and completed a right-footed volley in the box!

Thankfully, Courtois reacted and saved the ball.

After the opening economic meeting at Atletico Madrid, Chelsea were also quick to return the color!

'The opening of the two teams was unexpected, and it is generally considered that they are two defensive teams, whether it is Atletico Madrid or Chelsea, they are good teams on the counter-attack. But in the first few minutes, both teams had very dangerous shots on goal! And the goalkeepers of both teams also performed steadily, defusing the danger with wonderful saves! Andy Gray said as Willian finished the shot.

The commentary in England is still relatively "calm" compared to the Spanish side, and it will not yell in shock at every turn.........

Juan!!! Keep an eye on that Belgian!!! Damn it!! ”

Simeone is very dissatisfied with Atletico's defense this time! He's starting to go crazy on the field!!

Juanfran was easily shaken off by Eden Hazard, allowing the opposition to complete a high-quality inverted triangle pass!

Good thing the goal didn't go in!!

Juan Fran secretly breathed a sigh of relief!

………

The heavy rain made both teams who are good at defending and counter-attacking dare not be conservative - if you hand over the ball and let the opponent attack, in such a majestic rain, just one accident can be fatal.

In this way, both sides have the same idea - to burn the fire of war to the other half!

For a while, the two defensive teams actually fought against each other!