Chapter 230 Football in the Nineteenth Century

All Atletico Madrid fans know what this game means for the team.

When the game began, the fans in the stands created an even more enthusiastic atmosphere, and the whole stadium shook.

The Barcelona fans who came to the away stadium had no presence at all.

In fact, there aren't too many Barcelona fans coming to Madrid. This is certainly not because Barcelona fans are reluctant to follow the team to Madrid. Instead, the local police in Madrid asked for as few tickets as possible for the away team due to security concerns.

The match gave Barça's away fans just over a thousand tickets. More than 1,000 Barcelona fans, surrounded by dozens of security personnel, sat quietly in the stands of the visiting team, out of place with the hot Atletico Madrid fans.

This is definitely not a fuss on the part of the local security services in Madrid. The hatred between Barcelona and Real Madrid is well known, but there is definitely no friendship between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona either.

In fact, no one likes Barcelona, just as the Catalans would never like a team in Madrid.

For Atletico Madrid fans, if someone asks which team they hate the most, it is expected that Barcelona and Real Madrid will be evenly matched. Real Madrid is a "class enemy" for Atletico Madrid fans, an internal enemy. And Barcelona is a foreign enemy, a team that Madridians hate.

This, coupled with the all-out competition between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona this season, has made the hostility between the two sides even more elevated. As a result, Madrid's security services simply cut it all.

Of course, the Barcelona club officials protested against this, but in the end the protest was ineffective.

This is also considered by the Catalan side as ironclad evidence that the Madridians use public power to oppress Catalonia.

None of that aside. In short, the voices of Barcelona fans in this game can be ignored.

In such an atmosphere, Enrique looked committed.

He has absolute confidence in his team, this is a very mature team! And the match was also quite favorable for Barcelona, so Enrique was not too worried from the start of the game.

He also opted for a safe tactical approach before the game, but of course, Barcelona's safety didn't mean they had to go back and hit the bus – that's not what Barcelona are good at.

Barcelona's best thing is, of course, possession. Starting with their goalkeeper Bravo, the two central defenders Pique and Mascherano, Iniesta, Busquets, and Rakitic in the midfield, not to mention Messi, Suarez, and Neymar in the front. These players all have a good ability to pass the ball with their feet. If these people are allowed to set up buses, they will undoubtedly attack the enemy's strengths with their own shortcomings.

Barcelona's possession tactics are actually offensive and defensible. When Enrique needs to defend defensively, Barcelona are also looking for possession, passing safely at the back, avoiding risky passes and keeping the ball at their feet. When football is in Barcelona's control most of the time, there is no way to attack without the ball.

Of course, the quest for safety does not mean that Barcelona have given up on attacking.

Although Barcelona only need a draw to essentially secure the title – as long as they don't tumble in the gutter in the final round. But in the design of the game, there is definitely no goal of a draw.

Take the law from the top, and only get it; Take the law in the middle, only get the following.

If a person sets a high goal, it is still possible to end up at a medium level, and if a person sets a medium goal, it is possible to end up at an inferior level.

Enrique, of course, had never read the I Ching, but he understood it. The team aims to win and may not be able to make it in the end, but the probability of a draw is still very high.

In Enrique's view, Atletico Madrid will definitely press out in this game - only by winning can Atletico Madrid have any hope of turning the tables around in the final round.

And if you want to attack, Atletico Madrid's overall formation must be pressed, so that Atletico Madrid's backfield will give Barcelona the space to play in the front three.

As MSN gets more and more connected, the three superstar players have become more and more tacit. Therefore, Enrique is not afraid of Atletico Madrid pressing up.

Just a few minutes after the start of the game, the situation was not quite what Enrique expected.

Atletico Madrid didn't press on the whole at all!!

Or maybe they pressed it, but they didn't press it either....... So on.

When Atletico Madrid attacked, there were generally only three people who would enter the penalty area, Li Qingshan and Griezmann certainly needless to say, while Koke and Raul Garcia would try to enter the box when the opponent's side held the ball.

Judging by the number of people in the box, Atletico Madrid can be regarded as having no desire to attack.

But judging from the situation of the game, Atletico Madrid's offensive is wave after wave, continuous. It's not that Atletico Madrid's attack is much of a threat, but their attack looks very lively.

From the very beginning of the game, the football was flying around in the air and never managed to get two good passes on the ground.

Atletico Madrid played a high ball into the Barcelona penalty area from the midfield. Such a direct and undisguised style of play, which did not seem to have the slightest technical content, even made Enrique wonder if he had returned to the nineteenth century.

Is this football in the nineteenth century?

Enrique shook his head, banishing the jumbled thoughts from his head.

Regardless of whether Atletico Madrid played 19th-century football again, the threat to Barcelona's goal was impossible to ignore with their direct style of play.

Although Atletico Madrid has not had any good chances so far, Enrique has already smelled danger. Especially their center Li Qingshan, who is very good at aerial operations.

In the eighth minute, Koke played a pass from the right and sent the ball high into the box.

It's just that Li Qingshan didn't reach the football. Bravo rushed out early, jumped high, and was able to knock the ball out of the penalty area from the top of Li Qingshan's head.

This image just now made Enrique's heart chuckle. Bravo is only one hundred and eighty-four centimeters tall, which is very short in the goalkeeper position, and he can see Bravo's "petite" when he stands with Li Qingshan, who is tall.

The thrilling ball flew out of the box by Bravo and was then taken down by Mario Suarez, who then had a long pass directly into the box.

Atletico Madrid is as if there is no midfield organization at all,