Atletico played another good game, originally expected to lose Felix's Atletico attack, but Simeone's scheduling and adjustments were still awesome, barely giving the
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exploit an opportunity
Atletico Madrid played a 442 formation with Lemar starting directly, and Morata and Correa up front, but the focus was on the back line of midfielders and defenders. At the start of the game, Lemar stood further forward, while the three midfielders at the back moved to fill in the gaps, which evolved into the three backs, Thomas, Saul, and Koke, who maintained perfect defensive space with the back line. The three backs, Thomas, Saul and Koke, were in perfect defensive space with the back line.
Atletico's two wingbacks, Vrsaljko and Lodi, also played well in this game, focusing on the smart timing of their step-ups, as they were the ones keeping an eye on
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Robertson and Arnold, the only time the Atletico defenders would come forward in relation to each other was when they were out of their defensive positions.
this match
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The performance wasn't good, with almost the entire frontcourt caught up in Atletico's defensive formation, and the
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The character of the game was undermined by Simeone's targeted deployment of a defense that
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One big thing is that every player has certain abilities that are particularly high, but other parts are relatively low, and not everyone is all-rounded.
This game is actually the two side channels of the two sides, the midfield and the cooperation with the wingbacks and the fight with each other, Atletico Madrid's three backs obviously have a great understanding of each other, their cooperation with the two wingbacks is simply seamless, and their control with the wingbacks is exquisite.
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The mutual distance between the holding midfielder and the wing backs is not allowing the
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Playing across, two of Atletico's backs will push to the edge in a diagonal fashion in the middle of the field but not pressing, slowly compressing the
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The center holds the ball in space, and as long as they go up there a little faster.
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Both Henderson and Wijnaldum ran out of space to play the ball through the side in a very short time, and the wingbacks Arnold or Robertson knew they couldn't go forward because it was impossible to receive the pass, so the two sides had to freeze on the side.
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The wingers Mane and Salah had to pull back, but the two sides were deadlocked in this position, with the
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The sideline offense just disintegrated throughout the game
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In the whole game almost never under the bottom of a good pass, and Atletico's defense looks like four defenders and three backs, in fact, it is to let the midfield directly to the two sides of the spread, like a broom, so Atletico's two sides of the Vrsaljko, Koke, Saul, the other side of the Lodi, Lemar, Thomas, as for the attackers of the Correa and Morata is to assist in defense! As for the attackers Correa and Morata, they will defend both sides, and in principle, Atletico will leave one of them in the center back, Saul or Thomas, to stand in position.
Atletico's two defenders, Vrsaljko and Lodi, rather than being wingbacks or wingers, would have been more correctly positioned as midfielders in this match. They actually ran diagonally into the center of the field to help with stealing and transferring before going forward, and as long as they were in the right position, they were able to naturally open up space for their opponents, rather than trying to accelerate down the wing all the time. Especially Lodi is very outstanding, he is the one who put Salah and Arnold in the same position.
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The most skillful right side of the road is completely screwed up.
The fact that Atletico dared to be so bold as to commit their entire force directly to the two sides and separate them was Simeone's way of seeing that
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There is no power in the center, as well as no real rigid center in the
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Fabinho, in the center of the field, is a full-time defender, and his recent form has been rather ordinary, and he doesn't press as much as he did last season, plus Firmino, up front, isn't particularly tall or strong either.
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Firmino couldn't force a pass to him to get away from the Atletico defender, and even if he dropped back to receive the ball, Thomas and the center backs were on him at that moment, and Atletico's defense was very technical and physical, so Firmino wasn't able to hold the ball for too long, and naturally, he couldn't wait for his teammates to come up to him.
And as soon as Firmino pulls out.
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There's no one left in the center of the penalty box. Everyone saw it clearly before.
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In fact, it is the use of the side attack, then Mane is in front of the ball released and run into the penalty area instantly turned into a winger to grab the point, the same when Wijnaldum went up, these two are not tall but physically strong, has been the
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of plugging in for power, but this game they were both completely shut down.
With Atletico's offense and defense switching at the right pace and passing runs, and with almost all passes avoiding Fabinho in the first place, it allowed the
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The center of the defense must move position and become dangerous, as soon as they see their side is in danger of being counterattacked, Wijnaldum and Henderson are reduced to go forward, in order to maintain possession of the ball and even Mane back, as long as Mane and Wijnaldum back 5 to 10 yards, basically it is not possible to transform into a point-catching winger, so it is too late to rush into the penalty area, Simeone is calculating that That's what Simeone is calculating.
Klopp naturally knows the weakness of the team, but he has no choice, because Matip seems to have an injury and did not play, and now the partner is Van Dijk and Gomez, Gomez is too ineffective and make mistakes all the time, which must maintain at least the center of the dense number of people and the position, it is really difficult for him to make the Fabinho removed and replaced with Keita or other attacking midfield. It should be said that Simeone is betting on
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If you don't dare to replace the purely defensive back, you will lose one key person in the center, and can't hold the ball effectively in the middle, Atletico will be able to easily move their troops to the two flanks to lock them up.
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The side of the field, along with destroying the
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All the wave takedowns
