Chapter 117: Playing three forwards

Real Madrid, which is one goal behind, naturally wants to attack, they are not willing to lose to Atletico Madrid at their home stadium, let alone their home stadium, even if they go to Calderón, facing their rivals in the same city, they will never be willing to lose.

And the players of Atletico Madrid, after receiving the latest instructions from Simeone, did not reserve when they had the opportunity to attack, and pressed the attack!

The two teams then went head-to-head!

This is a rare occurrence in the history of the two teams. Due to the weakness of the strength gap, Atletico Madrid chose to defend and counterattack more when facing Real Madrid in the past. But now, they are facing Real Madrid away from home, and they dare to press up and fight against Real Madrid!

In addition to Atletico Madrid's own squad has been improved and the gap between Real Madrid and Real Madrid has been narrowed, more confidence in Atletico Madrid is much stronger than before. Winning the Champions League has injected a "champion son" into Atletico Madrid, giving them a more kind of championship spirit.

Perhaps if this trend continues for a few years, Atletico Madrid will become a recognized giant in European football, just like Chelsea rose to prominence.

This kind of offensive battle is naturally the best to watch, and the two teams play offensive football, which makes the fans addicted.

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Atletico Madrid's attack quickly posed a threat, in the eighteenth minute, Atletico Madrid's midfield advanced, Raul Garcia dribbled all the way to the front, and then Li Qingshan pulled out to answer, Raul Garcia passed to Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan was rarely involved in these tasks last season, but now Simeone also requires Li Qingshan to participate in the offensive organization of the whole team, which is also a requirement for the tactical core.

Li Qingshan protected his feet after taking the ball, observing the running position of his teammates left and right.

He saw Antoine Griezmann running on the right side, and then he made a gesture to pass to the left, but Ramos, who had come up to defend and had his weight closed to the left, and there was a gap on the other right.

Give the dummy! Li Qingshan quickly seized this gap and stuffed the football over.

If you talk about the technique of picking up his feet, Li Qingshan may be the worst among the more than 20 players on the field, but he has one point, that is, his head is very flexible and spins very fast. Football is not out of the body, and players on both sides are fighting wits and courage all the time.

The ball slipped in the middle of Real Madrid's backline and fell to Antoine Griezmann, who cut inside from the wing.

He slammed his right foot and connected very quickly, and he was able to get past Pepe's defense with his speed alone.

He almost formed a single knife!!

Casillas has moved over and sealed the near corner!

Griezmann did not choose to shoot himself, but swept the ball in front of goal in the first place.

"Li Qingshan.............." In the roar of the commentator's lengthened voice, Li Qingshan, who followed up in the middle, withstood the pressure of Ramos next to him and shoveled the ball into the net!

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!! 2-0!!! Less than twenty minutes into the game, Atletico Madrid were 2-0 up!! ”

After the goal, Li Qingshan got up and found Griezmann to celebrate the goal.

In a one-on-one situation, Griezmann could have shot on his own, but he still crossed it to make it score, such a teammate is really a good guy.

Li Qingshan was grateful.

The arrogant Griezmann responded to Li Qingshan lightly.

Is there any doubt about this ball being passed in this position?

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Falling behind 2-0 made Ancelotti completely unsettled, Real Madrid's middle-class defense was almost useless, and Raul Garcia barely had any defensive blocks when he advanced to the front of the midfield, and the whole midfield was empty.

If you have an angle from the top view, you can see that Real Madrid's midfielders can draw a large circle along the sideline, with James Rodriguez on the left, Modric on the right, Kroos, who should have been in the middle, just hit the front and was not in position, and the entire Real Madrid is left with a thin four-man defense, to take care of a defense line that is more than 50 meters wide, and there is at least ten meters between each person.

Such an unstructured defense is useless, and Atletico Madrid will naturally not be polite.

As the Italian coach, Ancelotti certainly knew that his starting arrangement was problematic, but the team's president, Florentino, had already explained before the game that James Rodriguez must start at the Bernabeu!

As a superstar introduced by Real Madrid this season, James Rodriguez became famous in the World Cup, and those World Cup golden boots caused many giants to chase after them, and finally Real Madrid won the Colombian star.

But in Ancelotti's view, the presence of this player is not a good thing for Real Madrid's system, and he upsets the balance of Real Madrid's midfield - James Rodriguez is a pure attacking midfielder, he does not contribute to the defense, so the burden of defense falls on the shoulders of Modric and Kroos, but these two are not pure defensive players, and of course they will not take too much care of the defense.

In addition, Kroos has just joined the team, and there is no tacit understanding with other Real Madrid players, just like just now, when Kroos participated in the attack in the front, there was no Real Madrid player to fill his position, which led to Atletico Madrid's midfield advancing quite smoothly, and the remaining defensive system of Real Madrid, which had one back line, could not be organized.

It was only natural to be scored.

Fortunately, Real Madrid did not concede more goals in the first half, and the two sides entered the dressing room with a 2-0 scoreline.

At half-time, media pundits widely predicted that Atletico Madrid would retreat to the half, narrowing the two-goal advantage to counter-attack, but when both players returned to the pitch, Simeone made two substitutions at the start of the second half.

The Super Cup was just a warm-up trophy and not very important to Simeone, so he used the opportunity to experiment with more combinations.

He first brought on Academy graduate Saul, who had returned from loan, to replace Raul Garcia, who had a goal in the first half. Saul is a midfielder who can play as a central midfielder, a left and right midfielder, a central midfielder, and even a wing-back in a three-centre-back system on loan at Rayo Vallecano, and at Rayo Vallecano he also made a brief cameo appearance at centre-back with an injury to the centre-back.

Born in 1994, 181 cm tall and weighing 70 kilograms, this young Spanish midfielder can attack and defend, is very versatile, and has very good physical fitness, with a fairly large running range and a very wide coverage. It is a youth product of Atletico Madrid that Simeone is very optimistic about.

In this kind of game, Simeone is very good at giving young players a chance.

Then a substitution came as a surprise when Simeone brought on Mandzukic for Koke. Replacing a midfielder with a striker, Atletico Madrid played a three-striker formation!

This is so surprising that with a 2-0 lead, Simeone did not stop, and actually sent a striker!