Chapter 80 Intertoto Cup
Now after settled down, I went to Atletico Madrid's training ground to participate in the first team training. Since Atletico Madrid has introduced too many people this season, Atletico Madrid's head coach Ferlando asked the newly joined players and teams to conduct passing training, which is also the hope that the new players can better get familiar with their teammates.
In the first training class, Van der Fate demonstrated his excellent personal skills and footwork, and sent threatening balls to his teammates continuously. However, it may be because of participating in the European Cup. Van der Fate's physical fitness is still a problem. Van der Fate has not had a good rest for a season, so Van der Fate's current state is fluctuating greatly, especially after a few amazing performances after the start, his performance became ordinary due to physical fitness.
For this reason, all those who have played football know that this is naturally the Fifa virus, and it is not possible to blame Van der Fate. Stars who are more famous than Van der Fate are not good at playing in the season after the European Cup or World Cup. This is why.
But Mark had never participated in the European Cup at all. Although he also participated in the Toulon Cup in France, he only played two games in that game and was expelled by the national team. Therefore, Mark's ability to compete on the court made all the players feel frightened.
"Is that guy a monster?" Atletico Madrid players were shocked by Mark's excellent explosiveness and prediction ability.
Of course, what was most shocked was their head coach Ferlando. When Ferlando saw Mark playing the monkey game, he was also shocked.
"It's so terrifying interception ability." Ferrando thought in surprise, but more of it was ecstatic. He thought he had gotten a treasure.
Originally, Ferlando was not very satisfied with the team's large-scale blood exchange. He believed that a team should maintain the stability of the lineup. If a large-scale blood exchange was changed, it would inevitably disrupt the team's stability. There are two disadvantages to large-scale blood exchange. The first is that the team's running-in cannot be completed. When the players just got familiar with each other's cooperation in the first season, a large number of newcomers joined the team. The team had to continue to start running-in for the joining of these newcomers.
The second point is that it is not conducive to the stability of the team, which can easily cause panic to the team, and then makes the players feel no sense of belonging. Just imagine that after a large-scale blood exchange every year, a player performs well in the second season, he doesn't know where he will go, so if the players have concerns in their hearts, it will also affect the players' performance on the court.
But Ferlando is not a super coach after all, and his status as a head coach in La Liga is very low. The team's general manager is responsible for transfers. In addition to some super coaches who will obtain a certain transfer voice, most coaches still follow the personnel given by the club to perform their own tactics. That is to say, you use whatever people the club introduces. Perhaps some club head coaches will give the club their opinions on buying someone, but you can only buy it after the club's board of directors agrees.
This is different from the head coaches of the Premier League. The rights of the head coaches of the Premier League are the largest in the world, and they can directly make the decision to buy and sell people.
But Ferlando was surprised to find that the players the club forced to him were not all useless. For example, Van der Fate is a talented player, and Mark can be said to be a surprise. Now Mark is an enhanced version of Mark Lele, who played for Real Madrid.
"Maybe the results can be improved this season," Ferlando couldn't help but think of this.
After the day of training, Mark and Van der Fate's performance on the court won the respect of everyone. The football world is realistic. If you play well, someone will respect you. Even if you don't play well, no matter how famous you are, everyone will laugh at you in their hearts.
However, the International Toto Cup is about to begin soon. Atletico Madrid can directly participate in the third round of the competition because it is La Liga. Atletico Madrid's opponent is Vitra from Lithuania. This team's typical former Soviet team is a representative of power football. All the players in the game are more than 1.8 meters, and no player is less than 75 kilograms.
However, the current Lithuanian team was not very developed in the former Soviet Union, but their basketball can be regarded as the level of the Soviet national team listed.
Now that the Soviet Union has collapsed, Lithuanian football has declined. The players' bodies are indeed very important, but their skills are even more important. These Lithuanian players are simply like Siberian bears showing their strong side on the court.
However, although Atletico Madrid is not a giant now, it is a quasi-giant team, and the technical football unique to Spanish teams has been continued by Atletico Madrid.
This is the first game of Atletico Madrid this season. The attendance rate of Calderon Stadium is still very high. More than 40,000 home fans came to the stadium to cheer for the home team. Perhaps Spanish fans don’t know where the Lithuanian team comes from. Don’t doubt it, because the Spanish has a poor geographical education level and is basically not as good as China. If everyone goes to Spain one day, if the other party doesn’t know Kiev, Ukraine, you must not be surprised. Although it is Shevchenko’s hometown.
In this game, Van der Fate sat on the bench, which was entirely because Van der Fate's current physical condition was not very ideal. Mark appeared directly in the starting lineup in this game, and Mark's position was a bit special because Mark actually appeared in the front midfielder position.
The lineup that Ferlando's head coach is used to is 4231. Although he sometimes arranges a 442 lineup, his lineup is 4231 most of the time.
In this game, Mark showed people a different front midfielder in the position of the front midfielder. According to people's normal thinking, the front midfielders of Spanish clubs all have delicate and sharp passes, but Mark is different. Mark basically has no sharp footwork. He either inserts attack or shoots long-range shots, and does not pass threatening balls at all. This is not Mark's selfishness, but Mark believes that his characteristic is not to pass threatening balls, but to the ability to plug in front and back.
In this game, Mark could be said to have a full-scale explosion, scoring two goals on his head and kicking, and assisting forward Torres with two goals. Denmark international Glenshare, who just passed back from Chelsea this season, scored the icing goal on the cake after making a substitute in the second half.
Mark's two assists and goals were completed in the first half. In the second half, Mark returned to the backcourt and appeared in the midfield with Argentina's old captain Simeone. Then Mark showed all fans his defensive ability, intercepting the ball, intercepting the ball, intercepting the ball, and intercepting it.
Van der Fate also came on as a substitute after Mark returned to the midfielder. Now Van der Fate can only support him in playing a good half.
After Van der Fate's appearance, Atletico Madrid's midfield style immediately began to change again, and the number of breakthroughs and passes in the middle became more and more. Although forward Torres wasted a lot of opportunities, this cooperation has been played.
In the end, Atletico Madrid won the game five-to-zero at home, and one foot had already entered the next round.
In the second game, Atletico Madrid sent a large number of substitutes, and many of the main players did not go to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.
This game has become a teaching game for Atletico Madrid, and many new players are adapting to their teammates.
Villat's players returned to their home court and showed their unyielding momentum, directly passing the ball to their forwards and letting Atletico Madrid defenders fight.
It can be said that their strategy has also been effective, and they scored two goals. In the end, the score of the two teams was frozen in 2-2. Atletico Madrid won a draw in the game under the collision of the Lithuanians. In the end, Atletico Madrid advanced to the next round with seven-two.
In the semi-final Atletico Madrid's opponent is ofk Belgrade from Serbia. Since Atletico Madrid is the first away and then the host, Atletico Madrid can only take the lead in rushing to the home court of Belgrade, Karabmi Stadium to participate in the first game.
Serbian players have similar technical styles to Spain. They also follow the path of technical football. However, due to years of civil war, Serbia has lost the glory of Yugoslavia back then, especially professional football has become more and more utilitarian. How can a small team like ofk Belgrade, which makes a living by selling people, be the opponent of Atletico Madrid?
But ofk Belgrade also showed their tenacious side. The whole team returned to their half to defend. Atletico Madrid did not have many ways to break the iron barrel formation. In the end, Atletico Madrid only took advantage of the opportunity of centre-back Pablo's header to lock the score at 1-0.
Although he scored a goal away, he was already very satisfied with Atletico Madrid. After all, this was a two-leg game. Atletico Madrid had the advantage of having a goal and had a greater chance of winning when he returned to his home court.
"I did a good job, we must be the ones who won after returning to home court." Ferlando also inspired the morale of the team after the game.
Sure enough, after returning to home, Atletico Madrid also fought a defensive counterattack with ofk Belgrade amid the cheers of nearly 50,000 fans in the game. Now ofk Belgrade is one goal behind. If they don't attack, they will have to be eliminated until the end of the game.
If they attacked, their fragile defense line would not be able to withstand the impact of Atletico Madrid forwards, especially forward Torres was too depressed by the iron barrel formation of ofk Belgrade in the last game, so he had to prove to others the strength of Spain's No. 1 Golden Boy in this game.
After several games of investigation, Atletico Madrid's head coach Ferlando also had a framework for the main lineup in his heart. The central axis is naturally Torres Van der Fat Marc Pablo, and then some players are matched with these players to make a team with full combat effectiveness.
Ofk Belgrade now has no choice but to push out the attack, but doing so is risky. Sure enough, after Mark intercepted the ball in the backcourt in the 20th minute, he passed the ball directly to Van der Fate, and then ran towards the front himself.
After Van der Fate got the ball, he passed it to the left forward Glenshare. After Glenshare got the ball, he quickly got the ball and then made a cross.
Torres is now surrounded by two of Belgrade players who are in Belgrade to guard him, and it is difficult for Torres to make technical moves.
But Torres attracted enough players from the opponent but left Mark no one around him defending him. Mark now ran directly to the penalty area and jumped up and headed the ball.
"gooooooooooooooooal!!! Mark headed the ball, this is his third goal since joining Atletico Madrid." The commentator on the scene shouted excitedly: "Is he really a midfielder? Such high efficiency is simply a striker. It seems that Atletico Madrid has found treasures this season, and this is the strength of the Eredivisie rookie king."
After Mark scored the goal, he ran directly to the stands at Calderon Stadium, and he received cheers from all the fans to celebrate.
“vence
emo!vence
emo!vence
emo!" The fans shouted to cheer up
Atletico Madrid players also ran to Mark and congratulated Mark. Mark felt confused when he listened to the foreign languages of various countries mentioned by some players. Now Mark felt that there were obstacles in his language now, and even if others scolded him, he would not be able to hear clearly.
Now Atletico Madrid's total score is 2-0, and the players of ofk Belgrade also feel regretful about the goal they conceded just now. They are gradually losing confidence in the game.
Because Atletico Madrid's defensive counterattack was too sharp, Torres ran around in the frontcourt, and a player could not guard him at all. Mark's back row was simply an unsolvable tactic. Because Mark's speed was extremely fast, no one could withstand him if Mark rushed.
After the game restarted, Mark and Simeone were still in the back and sweeping the midfielder of Belgrade in a crazy way.
"That's it, it's done well." Ferlando not only applauded when she saw Mark's outstanding performance as usual, but also as the head coach, Ferlando knows how important an excellent midfielder is. It is simply an indispensable championship cornerstone for the team. Any team in La Liga now has an excellent midfielder.
Valencia's main midfielder last season was former Atletico Madrid player Ruben Baraja. The midfielder when Real Madrid won the championship was Marklele, and the midfielder before Barcelona's midfielder was Guardiola.
So if Atletico Madrid wants to make a difference this season, he must have a top midfielder, and Mark
It is precisely such a player. The most important thing now is that Mark has such strength when he is only nineteen years old. Joining Mark can improve. Then no one in international football is Mark's opponent.
In the 40th minute of the first half, Mark once again made a steal in the backcourt and drove directly to the left side. Left winger Glenshare made a cross from the bottom, and Torres directly scored a goal at the front point.
"gooooooooooooooooooal!! Fernando Torres, a wonderful goal." The narrator's passionate shouts rang out again: "This Atletico Madrid has basically been won, and they can prepare for the next round of the game."
Atletico Madrid is now leading the opponent with a big score of three to zero. Unless ofk Belgrade can score more than three goals in a row, they can eliminate Atletico Madrid with the advantage of having many away goals. But is this possible?
The answer is obviously impossible. After being led by Atletico Madrid three goals, ofk Belgrade suddenly lost the hope of a little bit of equalization. Now ofk Belgrade's team does not believe that they can win the game in the end.
What Belgrade has to do now is to score at least one goal to save face, at least not let Atletico Madrid shave his head.
However, it seems that it is not easy for them to score. Under the midfield of K Belgrade under Mark and Simeone's control, it is difficult to even organize the attack normally.
Moreover, since Atletico Madrid is now leading the score, head coach Ferlando told the players during the break to control the time of the football delaying the game, and at the same time, the defense line is properly recovered and protected, and try not to lose the ball. Anyway, it doesn't matter whether you can score a goal, but the important thing is that you cannot lose the ball.
Ferlando, the defense line of Atletico Madrid, is still quite worried, because all three players on this defense line are new players introduced this season, which is definitely a hidden danger for defenders who need stability.
Ferlando now has no more ways. He can only let the players on the defensive line play more games now to be able to be familiar with their teammates as much as possible and increase the tacit understanding on the defense line.
In the last game against Lithuania's Vitra team, Atletico Madrid's defense made two mistakes. When the opponent seized two opportunities, he scored. Although Vitra's team also had a certain advantage in its physical advantage, Ferlando still needs to consider it.
To increase the tacit understanding of players, naturally, we have to play football together frequently, so Atletico’s defense has not made substitutions, and Ferlando wants to make the defenders familiar with the opponent as much as possible. Fortunately, the defenders consume relatively little physical energy, and the physical fitness of the defenders is still good now.
In the end, the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game. Atletico Madrid did not give ofk Belgrade any chance. He defeated his opponent 2-0 at home, and advanced to the final with a total score of 3-0. He only had two games away from the qualification of the League Cup. As long as he could get rid of the Dortmund team from Germany in the final, he could directly advance to the first round of the League Cup.
Chapter completed!