The second day after Atletico Madrid's training ended, Atletico Madrid's second round of the League Cup against Parma away was about to begin.

"Our task in this game is defense, and the main task is not to concede goals." Cooper also arranged the final tactics for all Atletico Madrid players.[]

In fact, this is a matter of course. After all, Atletico Madrid has already taken two goals at home, and Parma must have a try.

If Cooper did not use the defensive counterattack tactics under such circumstances, then Cooper would not have been in the coach position for such a long time.

Although some people questioned that Cooper's tactics were a bit outdated, sometimes some tactical things can be adapted and there is no so-called outdated or outdated. After all, Cooper was not the head coach in the 1950s and 1960s.

Therefore, Cooper's defensive counterattack tactics were very correct in this game. At least Atletico Madrid players also agree with Cooper's tactics very much.

Because the two forwards of Atletico Madrid, Mark and Torres, are players with strong individual combat capabilities. If they can give them enough space, these two people will easily be able to break through the opponent's goal.

Players on both sides soon appeared in the stadium. Mark looked up at Parma's stadium. Originally, Parma's stadium was not very large and could only accommodate more than 20,000 people, but it seemed that today's game was only half the attendance rate.

This may also be related to Parma's recent record, because Parma is already deeply involved in the relegation circle at this time. The worse the team's performance, the fewer fans will support them. This is of course a truth.

There may be some clubs that can change such rules, but it is obvious that such clubs do not exist in clubs like Parma.

Moreover, since the Italian stadiums belong to the municipal government, the stadium in Parma seems very empty and is not a professional football field at all. There is also a running track next to the stadium, which makes the distance between players and fans even bigger.

And there is also a barbed wire on the stands, and these fans watching the game have become birds in cages. After Mark saw these fans being isolated on the court, Mark really felt that the construction of the Serie A stadium was really not good.

However, this is not the time to consider these things. The game soon began, and Parma in this game also made changes in the lineup.

Parma's head coach Kamignani arranged a three-, four- and three-in-one attack formation in this game. It seems that Kamignani has also made up his mind. He must have wanted to go crazy at home.

In fact, this is really a helpless move by Camignani. Because he is already two goals behind Atletico Madrid, Parma has to score at least two goals. They also want to expect Atletico Madrid not to score any more goals, so that they can drag the game into overtime.

If Atletico Madrid scored even one goal at Parma's home court, even if Parma equalized the score, Parma would lose the game because of few goals in the away game.

Therefore, the task of the three central defenders of Parma in this game is also very serious, because they have to defend two forwards of Atletico Madrid, Mark and Torres.

But the most important thing is to look at the performance of Parma goalkeeper Frey, after all, an excellent goalkeeper is equivalent to half a line of defense.

The three players on the back of Parma are Cannavaro Jr., Ferrari and Bonella, and the goalkeeper or Frey.

Frey's golden retriever was also very conspicuous on the court, and Mark also planned to score a goal in this game, because Mark wanted to prove his ability to everyone, and Mark could not allow those who doubt his ability to make the speculation successful.

Mark wants to prove to those people that his condition is very good at this time and there is no problem at all. Mark also wants to lead Atletico Madrid to win the game and then directly lead Atletico Madrid to the semi-finals.

The three players on the forward line of Parma in this game are Gilardino, Marcioni and Bresciano.

This is head coach Kamignani directly moved the position of two midfielders of Parma and pushed them to the position of the winger, and Girardino was still the position of the single center.

However, in the last encounter with Atletico Madrid, Girardino had proved that he was more suitable to be a second striker and was not suitable to be a center in the front.

His body is still too thin, so there should be no advantage in competing for position with Atletico Madrid players in the penalty area.

But Camignani was actually a helpless move, because Parma has so many cards in his hands now, and Camignani is actually a clever woman. Even though Giladino's physical condition is not very good, his feeling in front of the goal is still great.

Camignani doesn't have a better player in Giladino to replace it. In fact, this is a normal thing. After all, after Parma's outstanding performance last season, they have also sold a lot of players. Originally, Parma was very confident in their youth training system. They felt that they could discover many good seedlings in the youth training system.

However, it is not bad to use youth training players. However, because Parma's coach is not suitable for exploring young players, and Parma's youth training system does not provide any good and excellent players, so the results of Parma's team at this time will be like this.

In fact, the youth training system is not wheat, and there are no rest-free young players to send to the front-line team. Moreover, due to the previous star tactics of Parma, their youth training system is actually almost half-waste.

Therefore, there are no good talents in Parma's youth training system. In Parma's main lineup, the so-called youth training players are more transferred from other clubs, rather than players trained by the club itself.

So at this time, Parma's team was still in a pain period, which was the transition from a strong team to a relegation team. Parma was obviously not very adaptable.

Parma's midfielder Mofeo, back midfielder Simpristio, Grera and Borano are a formation with three back midfielders.

Such a formation of course allows the midfielders to protect Mofio more, because Mofio is the core of Parma's offense. Once Mofio concedes the ball, the three midfielders can tackle the spot immediately, and then delay the speed of Atletico Madrid's counterattack.

Such a lineup should be a formation that Kamignani thought about. It seems that he has spent a lot of time studying Atletico Madrid's formation, and then did a lot of homework for this game.

Although Parma has a super defensive midfielder with three back midfielders, each of these three back midfielders has a certain ability to take the ball and attack, so it is not entirely the midfielder of the meat grinder.

Because in Kamignani's opinion, if all of them were sent to the meat grinder midfielder, the number of people invested in the offense would not be enough, so these three midfielders would also help the offensive players attack.

Because Kamignani knew that Cooper was a defensive master, it would not be very easy to score goals in the teams coached by Cooper, so he still had to focus on offense.

After the opening, the Parma players set up a formation and launched a strong attack on Atletico Madrid. Their players all opened their positions. Bresciano and Marcioni continued to use their personal skills to break through Atletico Madrid's defense and then strive for the opportunity to cross the ball.

The tactics of Atletico Madrid's wing defensive players are also very clear. They just must not allow Parma players to successfully break through. Passing the ball can be done, but breaking through cannot be done.

Whether it is Lopez or Velasco, they are determined to use fouls to block the breakthrough of Parma players. If Parma players cannot break through on the wing, it is obvious that there will be no good opportunity.

However, the Atletico Madrid defensive players were very determined to defend, and also gave Parma several free kicks. Although the position was not very good, at this time, Parma's Mofio was able to pass a free kick with a bad position and then pass the ball to let his teammates threaten Atletico Madrid's goal.

Fortunately, Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Franco was very focused and did not let Parma players score the goal.

But Atletico Madrid is not just a defense, Atletico Madrid still counterattacked. In the 20th minute, Parma's side attack, and Marcioni's side breakthrough was cut off by Lopez, and then Lopez passed the football to the frontcourt with his big foot.

Behind Mark in the frontcourt was Bonella defending. At this time, the football was flying on the court. Mark and Bonella were also fighting for the football position while running.

Mark also made a judgment at this time. Mark still has a lot of experience in the landing point of football. Although Mark was entangled at this time, Mark had already judged the landing point of football, and Mark was also preparing to get rid of Bonella's defense in the future.

However, Bonella is obviously not a general one. Bonella's judgment on the landing point of football is also very accurate. Mark even feels that this successor, who was appointed by Nesta, should be better than the captain of their team, Ferrari.

But at this time, Mark used his body to push Bonella behind him, and then kept leaning against him. Mark hoped that he could win some opportunities for himself in the confrontation of his body.

However, even when the body is confronting, Mark clearly felt that Bonera's body is also very strong, and Mark cannot directly push Bonera with his body.

At this time, Bonella kept pushing Mark with her elbow behind him, but Bonella couldn't push Mark, and the strength of these two people should be almost the same.

At this time, the football had already flew over. Because Mark leaned against Bonella with his body, the position occupied by Mark was in a powerful aspect. After Mark saw the football coming, he jumped up directly.

At this time, Bonella also jumped up, and the two of them stretched their heads toward the football, but Mark occupied a powerful position and his bounce ability was better than Bonella, so Mark also had an advantage over Bonella when competing for the header.

At this time, Mark did not directly push the football out, but directly removed the football in the air with his chest. After Mark landed, the football was still on Mark's chest.

Although Bonella did not reach the football, he did not lose his defensive position. He was still defending behind Mark. At this time, Bonella was also ready. He knew that if Mark turned around and passed him, he would adopt a foul tactic.

If Mark cannot pass him, he will cut off the football under Mark's feet and hand it over to his teammates, so that his teammates can attack again.

So Bonetra's thoughts were very clear at this time, but at this time Mark chose to pass the ball, and Mark passed the football to Luxin on the right side.

In this game, Atletico Madrid is a four-four-two formation, with four midfielders in the midfield, except for the fixed partners of Lusin and Mascherano.

There are two other players, Colsa and Marcelo, who are also the only four midfielders of Atletico Madrid. Cooper also used any means to win, and these four midfielders were placed in the midfield.

I believe that even any team will definitely feel a headache, let alone a team like Parma, which is not very strong.

At this time, Lusing also ran over to the right side of Atletico Madrid to pick up Mark. After Mark passed the football to Lusing, Mark ran directly to the bottom line.

At this time, when Bonella saw Mark turn around and start running, he hurriedly followed Mark. At this time, although there were Parma players around Luxin, Luxin still passed the football out, and the football was passed in front of Mark at this time.

Once Mark sprints at speed, there should be few people who can stop him. It should be said that there are few people who can stop him except for fouls.

So Bonella cannot stop Mark, but Bonella also wants to make a foul, but Bonella also hesitated because football is about to go out of the baseline at this time.

Bonella will judge whether Mark can get football before the football goes out of the baseline. If Mark cannot get football before the football goes out of the baseline, wouldn’t Bonella’s foul be of no use, and would give Atletico Madrid a chance to have a free kick.

It would be very difficult for an ordinary player to catch up with football that was about to go out of the baseline at a distance of five or six meters, but Mark was obviously not an ordinary player. At this time, Mark also exploded with his fastest speed.

Then, the moment the football was about to leave the boundary, and then before the football, Mark also made an action that amazes everyone, that is, when running at high speed, turn around and hook the football into the penalty area.

Although this action is very simple, you should know that when a person tells him to run, he usually cannot turn, at least he cannot turn too big.

This time, Mark not only made a turn, but also swept the football into the penalty area, which was very surprising. The fans of Parma in the stands are also some people who often do sports.

They were also very surprised that Mark could do such a move. It was so difficult, so at this time, there were sparse applause from the stands.

Most of these applauses come from fans who often run, but it is not easy because it is not Calderon after all, this is Taltini Stadium and the home court of Parma.

Although there are some Atletico Madrid fans, the number should not be large, so it is rare for Mark to win applause from Parma fans at the Taltini Stadium.

At this time, Mark swept the ball into the penalty area, and Mark fell to the ground, because the movements he had just made were too high on his body's balance ability. Mark did not sweep casually when passing the ball. Mark also observed Torres's position before making such a pass.

So Torres also received the football under the interference of Cannavaro. Since Torres faced the goal head-on, he did not choose to stop the ball at this time.

Instead, he shot with a volley. The power of Torres was mastered very well, and the goalkeeper Frey had already moved to the other side at this time.

Under normal circumstances, Frey should not be able to snatch the football, and he would watch the football fly directly into the net.

But Frey immediately adjusted his body, then rushed directly to the football. Frey's fingertips gently touched the football, and Torres's shot also bounced on the crossbar of the goal, and then flew into the court.

At this time, Ferrari, who was responsible for protecting the ball in the penalty area, directly removed the football big foot.

"Damn, this goalkeeper is in such a good condition." Torres cursed after seeing his wonderful shot and did not enter the net, but Torres still gave Mark a thumbs up.

That means expressing gratitude to Mark for his pass. This time, the responsibility for football did not enter the net was all due to his own reasons. Mark's pass was very good.


Chapter completed!