"Okay, I understand your situation a little. I can assure you that as long as you are in good condition during training, I will guarantee your starting position." Cooper said the topic that Mark is most concerned about.

"Don't worry, coach, I will definitely perform well in the training ground." Mark also said confidently, patting his xiong's chest.

For Mark, who has been holding on for several games but has not played, he has been waiting for too long, and Mark is waiting for Cooper's promise.

Mark's chance to play does not require the gift of others at all. Mark hopes to win the chance of playing through his own performance. Mark does not need any promises from the main position, and Cooper's words are enough for Mark.

Mark will soon have an opportunity. Although it is only a Cup of Kings, it is also a rare opportunity for Mark, who has not played for two consecutive games for one minute.

Atletico Madrid welcomed their opponent in the first round of the Copa del Rey match, Las Palmas, a team that has always been in the Spanish Second Division.

Atletico Madrid players boarded the bus and rushed to Las Palmas.

Las Palmas is located in Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, 210 kilometers from the coast of Africa. It is also the capital of the province of Las Palmas and the capital of the Canary Islands Autonomous Region.

The city has a population of 377,600 (in 2003), making it the largest city in the Canary Islands. The metropolitan area has a population of 609,628, ranking 10th in Spain. (There are 789,908 people in Gran Canaria).

The city was founded on June 24, 1478 after the defeat of local indigenous guanches by the army of juanrejón and Castilian. In 1492, Columbus stayed in the city prior on his first trip to the Americas, and was moored here on his return to Spain. Today, a museum in the city is named after him - casacolon.

Las Palmas is now an international city. It has popular beaches (lascanteras and lasalcaravaneras) and busy ports (puertodelaluzharbor) - one of the busiest ports in the world from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Therefore, many people come to Las Palmas from all over the world to live and work. Businessmen from Africa, China, Russia and the Middle East are integrated into every street near the port. The Korean and Indian communities are the largest foreign community on the island, although most have become Spanish citizens many years ago. Las Palmas' main industry is tourism.

The city's main festival (fiestas desanjuan) celebrates the creation of the city in June.

The Carnival in Las Palmas is the city's most classic and famous festival, not only in Spain but also in the world.

There is also a nice drama and dance festival and an international film festival. There is also a beautiful Alfredokraus auditorium named after an unforgettable tenor from Gran Canaria, close to the beach of Lascanteras.

However, what makes Mark have an impression of Las Palmas is not because of their city, but because of a person, who is now the Spanish international Belleron who plays for La Coruña. Belleron's career began with Las Palmas.

However, Belleron's home was not in the city of Las Palmas, but on an island in the suburbs. Mark didn't know what the island was named.

I really don’t know much about Las Palmas’s Mark, because this team basically shuttles between the second and first leagues.

Even if they are promoted to the First Division, they are aiming to relegate, and there are no big names or stars with great potential in the team. As a Chinese, Mark naturally would not pay too much attention to such a team.

Moreover, this season, Las Palmas has deep in the second division. They should be upgraded and relegated without worries. The Cup is a good opportunity for them to seek breakthroughs.

They met Atletico Madrid, who had just changed their coach. To be familiar, changing coaches is like changing their swords. It is because if a team changes coaches, the previous problems of this team will be taken away by the former head coach. In order to prove their strength to the trusted head coaches, the players will often work harder on the court to work harder.

Cooper sent out most of the main teams in this game, because Cooper just took over the team not long ago, and he still didn't know what kind of technical habits the team's players were familiar with.

Cooper also needs time to run in. After Atletico Madrid started this season, Ferlando conveyed his tactical stuff to Atletico Madrid players.

The players of Atletico Madrid have almost been transformed by Ferlando. At this time, Ferlando has been dismissed, and the players need to adapt to the coach's tactical arrangement again.

This also takes a long time. If you adapt all of them, it will take at least two to three months. It depends on whether Atletico Madrid can bite the score within this period of time.

Fortunately, Ferlando is a head coach who attaches great importance to defense. The defensive tactics he set up are very similar to Cooper's defensive tactics.

In this regard, Atletico Madrid's defense players do not need to make much changes. In Cooper's idea, if it is mid-December, new players will join the team.

Atletico Madrid's formation can be perfect, and Mark can be completely released to the frontcourt as an offensive player to help the team siege and siege.

Cooper's habit of tactics is a formation of 442 and 451, and even the 451 formation in Valencia before, it also allows the right forward to play a position as the forward when attacking.

So Cooper also prefers a tactic of 442, which can make Atletico Madrid's offense more powerful.

Las Palmas is a test piece of Atletico Madrid's new formation.

Cooper put Torres on the bench in this game, but this was not hidden, but Cooper and Torres discussed it. He believed that Torres was very tired in the recent game and should have a rest for a while.

Torres is not the kind of unreasonable person. He also said a lot from the bureau Cooper, and Cooper personally solicited Torres' opinions, which made Torres feel very proud.

In fact, Cooper is not a head coach who is good at communicating with players. The reason why he is so kind to the players at Atletico Madrid is because Cooper is also summing up his shortcomings.

Cooper doesn't want to live a life of a thousand-year-old second-year-old man. As a professional head coach, everyone should want to win the championship.

All Cooper has to do is lead Atletico Madrid forward. As an Argentina head coach, he naturally hopes to use some of Argentina's offensive cores.

So he proposed to the club that he would introduce Tevez and Mascherano in the winter transfer to strengthen his strength. As for how the club signs, that is something Cooper doesn't need to know.

Now Cooper can only use these original players to help stabilize his performance, as long as he can stay within the top six.

Therefore, based on the above considerations, Cooper did not dare to take Las Palmas lightly at all, and made sufficient preparations before the game.

Mark was pushed to the forward line by Cooper in this game, and Mark and Salva appeared on the forward line, which is also because the condition of the rest of Atletico Madrid's forward team did not satisfy Cooper. Moreover, Mark is an all-round player and is also the winner of the Silver Boot in the Eredivisie.

So there is no strange thing about Mark appearing at the forward position.

The left forward is Nano. The previous main left forward Musampa has been listed for sale by Atletico Madrid Club, because Musampa's performance against the home balls has made the club lose patience. Musampa is not favored by Atletico Madrid's senior management.

If head coach Ferlando hadn't let Musangpa serve as the main position, Musangpa would have been a substitute, and Musangpa himself would have made transfer requirements for the club.

Atletico Madrid's double front-line team is Van der Fate and Lucsin. Cooper seems to dislike the front-middle formation. There seems to be no professional front-middle player among all the teams he coaches. Almost all are parallel midfielders, or double midfielders.

There were no four players on the defense line, but the younger left-back Antonio Lopez appeared in the starting position of the left-back.

But Sergi is not without a chance, and the left-back should still need a rotation lineup.

The right-back is still Velasco starting. Atletico Madrid has a 35-year-old veteran, Carlos Aguilera. Although Velasco's ability is not the best, he is still better than Aguilera.

Cooper also has no more cards to rotate, and he can only choose some players from the existing players to serve as the starter.

The starting lineup of the centre-back is still a combination of Perea and Baboro, and this combination of the centre-back is also the most stable combination of Atletico Madrid.

Cooper is the head coach who started out as defense, so he naturally cannot break up the golden partner of this pair.

The guardian is still Franco.

In addition to Torres not playing, this lineup should also be the strongest lineup among Atletico Madrid who can play. It should be enough for the second-tier team Las Palmas.

"Young guys, although the opponent in this game is a Class B team, we should not take it lightly. Just play what you did on the training ground and you can kill the opponent." Cooper also cheered the players in the team's locker room. The previous tactical arrangement has been mentioned. What Cooper needs to do now is to encourage the team's morale and let the players perform better.

"No problem, we will definitely win the opponent," said Atletico Madrid players, as if the atmosphere in the locker room became much more active after Ferlando left the team.

"Okay, come on, let's see you now." Cooper nodded with satisfaction as he looked at the players' spirit status.

Torres was unable to play in this game, and the captain's armband was brought to Antonio Lopez's shoulders. Because Lopez is a player trained by Madrid's youth training, his identity in the team will also be valued.

Local players are always a tradition of European clubs as captains, because local players can unite the players more, but there are also foreign players who serve as captains, which is still a minority after all.

"This game is Mark's first starter in three consecutive games, let's see how Mark's condition is. I doubt whether Mark can maintain an efficient state. After all, there is more than a week." The commentator expressed doubts about Mark's condition.

Mark played the game amid many people's doubts. After the opening, Mark did feel a little uncomfortable with the game. Although Mark did not stop in training, training and competition are two different things.

Even the game against xìng is different from the live game, so Mark still needs time to adapt to the rhythm of the game.

"It seems that Mark is really not adapting to the rhythm of the game. He should be preparing to find the feeling of the game." The commentator couldn't help laughing at Mark after seeing that Mark had not been in the form for a long time after seeing that the first twenty minutes of the game.

This is also what the media is most willing to do. The media likes to take advantage of the situation. For foreign players like Mark, the Spanish media commented with a picky look.

Moreover, Atletico Madrid where Mark is located is not as famous as Real Madrid. This time the commentator happened to be Real Madrid's ball. His mortal enemy, Atletico Madrid players naturally tried their best to make a spoil.

"Damn, my body is still a little tight, and there is some rhythm of the game at the roots," Mark couldn't help but shouted depressedly after an offside.

Mark was in poor condition during the 20 minutes of the game and had been offside three times. This condition also gave Mark a headache.

In fact, this is not a big deal, because Atletico Madrid has replaced a new head coach, and all players, including Mark, have to adapt to the tactical style brought by Cooper.

This is not something that can be accomplished overnight. Some players have appeared in their current positions for the first time. For example, Van der Fate has appeared in the double-forward position for the first time. Van der Fate also needs to adapt to this new position, so his pass to Mark is not very good.

Moreover, Las Palmas' tactics also limit Atletico Madrid, because Las Palmas' relatively conservative tactics also limit Mark's impact and speed performance. There are often two teams interfering with Mark.

Mark didn't have a good chance to get rid of it, but in these twenty minutes, Atletico Madrid won two direct free kick opportunities, all of which were taken by Mark. Mark spent all these two opportunities, so Mark was a little depressed.

In the 25th minute, Van der Fate got the ball in the midfield and shook away the player who stepped forward and rushed directly to the front. This was an over-top pass, and the route of the pass was Mark's position.

After seeing Van der Fate's turn, Mark told the start directly, and then passed the ball to Salva before the opponent's defender attacked. However, Salva did not adjust his rhythm. He stopped the ball and was directly intercepted by the players of Las Palmas.

The home court of Las Palmas, De Gran Canaria, heard a burst of applause, probably because the home team's ball was happy for the performance of its own team.

"Mark, it was my mistake just now," Salva said to Mark apologetically.

Because Mark's pass just now was very good, if Salva could move more consistently, he would have a chance to break the Mén score. If Atletico Madrid scored the first goal, it would be much easier to play in the future.

"It's nothing. We will cooperate next time and we will definitely score a goal." Mark said after patting Salva on the shoulder.

However, although Mark said it was not very concerned, Mark was still a little anxious. Mark wanted to get back his form in this game, and at the same time he had to get back the time he had not been able to play in the previous games.

Especially Mark's unique skill in free kicks. In Mark's opinion, if he could play before, he could at least score a free kick. Mark's goal is to take advantage of the opportunity to get a free kick in this game.

But the more this happens, Mark will be less effective, because if he wants to get a free kick, the player's skills must be very good. Mark's personal skills are not very good. Mark can only use his speed to force his opponent and then wait for his opponent to foul.

Such opportunities to obtain fouls are essentially different from using fake actions to commit fouls.

"It seems that Mark is really not good, and his condition needs to be restored a little bit. After all, Mark is just a young player. Although he was in good shape before, his condition level will immediately begin to decline once he has no choice but to play." The commentator seemed to have seen Mark's performance on the court and also verified what he said happily.

"Mark, come on, you are the most bāng" There were many Atletico Madrid's balls coming to cheer for the team away, and they also shouted loudly.

But their voices were very weak, because with Atletico Madrid, many Las Palmas players also came to the stadium to cheer for their team.

More importantly, they want to see these big-name stars of Atletico Madrid. Although they are the balls of Las Palmas, these balls are not real irons. Their greater interest is to watch the stars they like.

In fact, many clubs have such balls, especially small clubs, which are more. Although they like their own teams, their teams' performance is not very good, so they also like those big clubs.

"Someone used to compare Mark to an Eastern dragon, but in my opinion, Mark, the Eastern dragon, seemed to be asleep." The commentator rang out again with a sarcastic voice.
Chapter completed!